Skopia presents Tragedy or Position a large charcoal drawings by Alain Huck at Art Basel Unlimited.
Tragedy or Position
Tragedy or Position proposes a set of four monumental drawings. Their spatial disposition facing each other, the swaying viewpoints from one image to another and the veil that vertically obscures the images, all take the spectator’s sensations towards a physical dimension.
The four works call into question geographically, historically and culturally shifted points of reference. They were conceived as scenographies, pulling the body towards an organic imaginary world, which is further intensified by the materiality of the drawings themselves. The ashes of the charcoal, with all their symbolic weight wield an effect of dilution-construction on the perception of the drawn surface.
Nebula
The Black hole of the Crab Nebula, residue of a supernova, obliterates the celestial perspective of the glorification of the pope who participated in the condemning of Galileo and his theories that questioned the position of man at the center of the universe.
Tragedy
The oversized pages of Euripides’ poignant tragedy The Bacchae are dilated in the shadow of a central stain (somewhere between Rorschach and the Bomb), where man, facing his destiny, confronts forces, which exceed his capacities, reveal his impotence and ultimately destroy him.
Position
On territories subject to the control and commanded violence of the drones, the almighty power of destiny has been shifted over to that of technology.
Edenblock
In the orderly nature of an interior garden, the concentration of vegetable matter seeks the dispersion of the body, of the carbon of the body, and engulfs our most primeval, most savage and most dominating instincts.
And finally, in Tragedy or Position, there is the depositing of the author’s body itself: confronted with the drawing’s surface, the body removes and deposits material, thereby depositing at the same time its own imprint onto the image.
