Saâdane Afif

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Saâdane Afif (* 1970 in Vendôme , Loir-et-Cher department ) is a French object and installation artist .

Life

Saâdane Afif studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bourges until 1995 and in Nantes until 1998 . In 1996 he took part in a group exhibition at the Michel Rein Gallery in Tours , where his first solo exhibition was held in 1998. Further solo exhibitions followed in 2004 at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and in 2005 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris ; In 2007 he took part in documenta 12 . Saâdane Afif lives and works in Berlin.

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Afif's works are mostly interdisciplinary and incorporate elements from art history and from music and poetry, which are implemented in installations and objects over a lengthy process. The transfer of a work between different authors and media often plays a major role, with the work being given new interpretations and forms. An exemplary work is Melancholic Beat , for which Afif initially asked the curator and artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar for four poetic texts for an exhibition, each of which should have the same title as four of the works he exhibited and which were shown together as wall pieces. In a next step, he asked musicians like Portradium (Ludovic Puolet) and Tujiko Noriko to set the lyrics to music, which was finally released on CD in 2005 as part of a further exhibition. Afif not only takes up ideas from Conceptual Art and Appropriation Art , but sometimes even includes historical models directly in his own work, as in Black Spirit , a “remake” of the Barre de Bois by André Cadere .

In other works, the objects and their own reference to time come to the fore. In Blue Time , Saâdane mounted a clockwork in round, lacquered sound boxes and connected them to guitar amplifiers so that the ticking was amplified and clearly audible. A related work is Black Chords Plays Lyrics (2007), in which the strings of electric guitars connected to amplifiers are automatically struck according to a specific scheme. Black Chords Plays Lyrics is in turn related to an earlier work by Afifs - Power Chords (2005) - in which the sequence of strikes was developed from the Caderes color scheme.

In 2009, when Afif received the Marcel Duchamp Prize , he began working on Fountain Archive , which, continuously updated, now consists of around 300 images of Marcel Duchamp's urinal . Each of these pictures was taken from all possible publications - from books to porno magazines - whereby the artist integrated the individual cut-out pages into specially adapted picture frames, some with colored back walls, whereby the frame becomes an integral part of the entire picture. The installation then takes place in accordance with the architectural ambience.

literature

  • Eva Huttenlauch: “Everything must be scandalous”, in: Saâdane Afif. Another Anthology of Black Humor , ed. by Susanne Gaensheimer and Eva Huttenlauch, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012
  • Eva Huttenlauch: "Saâdane Afif", in: Art and the City , JRP Ringier, Zurich 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Morton: “Saâdane Afif. Gleaming the white cube ” , in: Bidoun , No. 13, winter 2008. Accessed January 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Daniel Baumann: “Saâdane Afif. Repetition, duplication and time ”, in: Spike Art Magazine , No. 11 / Spring 2007
  3. ↑ André Caderes (* 1934; † 1978) œuvre consisted of wooden sticks divided into colored segments, which he smuggled into exhibitions without being asked. Compare the text on the Cadere exhibition ( memento of October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden (accessed on November 27, 2012)
  4. ^ Nicolas Trembley: "Flower Power" , in: Artforum Diary , May 19, 2005
  5. ↑ Valentina Vlasic : Saâdane Afif , in: The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future , Series Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré Collection No. 62, Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve eV (ed.), July 14 to September 15, 2013, p. 47
personal data
SURNAME Afif, Saâdane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French object and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vendôme