LMNO are presenting a new personal exhibition by the Detanico/Lain duo.
Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have collaborated with LMNO since its inception 6 years ago.
Detanico/Lain’s works interpret our knowledge in fields such as the sciences and mathematics, and also literary references, thereby obtaining intensely varied aesthetic registers. Since 2001 their works have tackled themes linked to time, space, memory, language and history. In this, their third personal exhibition with LMNO, the artists address questions linked to landscape, whether natural or cultural. This new series of works on paper entitled ‘Clouds’ is based on the principle of illusion. The works proposed play on perception between word and image and suggest a two-pronged reading, between form and meaning. Born out of a public commission for the Tour du Fanal at the MUCEM in Marseille, this
work has been turned by the artists into a less monumental, but equally powerful domestic scale version. Like a pattern not unlike a voice’s range in Persévérance music, those works on blue-ground paper unveil a raft of white letters creating both the shape of a cloud, but also a word.
The force of the work resides in the dynamic interaction between language and image. The relationship between what you see, what you read and the interpretation you give it.
Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have worked together for almost twenty years. They quickly imposed themselves on the international art scene thanks to a subtle reflection on the conventional modes of representation that surround us. thus pursuing a reflection on the role of language and its symbolic and physical place within our societies.
Oscillating between rudimentary technique and advanced technology, their pieces take forms as diverse as the letter, the word, the still image, the animation, the sound and the [removed] respectively in 1974 and 1973 in Brazil, they live and work in Paris.
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