Jean-Baptiste Maitre

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Camera Movements and Midday
Duo exhibition " Post-Sculpture" with Bruce McLean curated by Clement Dirié at 1m3 art space, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013

Bruce McLean et Jean-Baptiste Maître
Post-Sculpture

Une exposition proposé par Clément Dirié
Vernissage le 24 janvier de 18h à 21h
Exposition du 25 janvier au 16 mars 2013
Ouvert mardi, vendredi et samedi de 15h à 19h

Galerie 1m3
Avenue de la Harpe 45
CH-1007 Lausanne

VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF CAMERA MOVEMENTS USING DOLLY TRACKS FOLLOWING 'CIRCLES AND ARCS FROM THE MIDPOINTS OF FOUR SIDES', 2012
- Installation of soft camera tracks on the floor,
- 18 ink drawings on print, 20x28cm, framed (ink intervention on reprinted Sol Lewitt drawing on architectural map),
- site specific video.

ENG – In this protocole, camera movements are created with dolly tracks, following a geometrical drawing based on Sol Lewitt's print entitled CIRCLES AND ARCS FROM THE MIDPOINTS OF FOUR SIDES . This drawing is printed on top of the architectural plan of the exhibition space. The film created through this process should be realised and exhibited in the same space, making it a site specific film.

FR – Dans la série de dessins: Camera movements following Circles and Arcs, l'artiste propose le plan de plusieurs mouvements de caméra possibles dans l'espace de la galerie, à partir d'un dessin de Sol LeWitt appliqué virtuellement au sol. Ces plans proposent d'employer la structure du dessin de Sol LeWitt comme un guide pour de possibles séquences vidéo évoluant dans l'espace de la galerie et montrant ce qui pourrait y être exposé.

Camera Movements Following Circles And Arcs

https://vimeo.com/58617836

Site specific film produced in the occasion of the exhibition Post-Sculpture: Bruce MCLean, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, at Galerie 1M3, LAusanne, January 2013

MIDDAY
41 pieces of yellow painted steel arranged on the floor, 450 cm x 250 cm aproximatively, 2011

ENG – I have reconstructed Anthony Caro’s 1960 steel sculpture ‘Midday’ (without knowing its original shape) by following the description of a museum audio-guide (MoMA NY). The soundtrack provides a description of the sculpture given by a curator of the collection. This results to 41 pieces of yellow painted steel arranged on the floor, on a surface of approximately 450 x 250 cm. The idea of this work is to measure how shape is transformed when mediated and communicated.