11/12/10 - 22/01/11
Pierre Bismuth
Le Versant de l'Analyse
Pierre Bismuth, Le Versant de l’Analyse, 2010, installation, video projection (black and white, sound, 13 min. 38 sec., looped), photo (black and white print, framed, 24 x 24 cm), desk, lamp, ashtray, cigar, dimensions variable, unique, installation view at Jan Mot, 2010
Pierre Bismuth, Le Versant de l’Analyse, 2010, installation, video projection (black and white, sound, 13 min. 38 sec., looped), photo (black and white print, framed, 24 x 24 cm), desk, lamp, ashtray, cigar, dimensions variable, unique, installation view at Jan Mot, 2010
Pierre Bismuth, Erased de Kooning drawing Robert Rauschenberg 1953 by Xu Yang Pierre Bismuth 2010, 2010, mixed media on paper, image: 43 x 36 cm; framed: 64 x 55 cm, unique
Pierre Bismuth, Something Less, Something More, 2007, oil on canvas, cut out canvas: 30 x 24 cm; frame: 58,2 x 49,2 cm, 4 holes, diameter 9 cm each, unique
Pierre Bismuth, Le Versant de l’Analyse, installation view at Jan Mot, 2010 (from left to right: Pierre Bismuth, Erased de Kooning drawing Robert Rauschenberg 1953 by Xu Yang Pierre Bismuth 2010, 2010, mixed media on paper, image: 43 x 36 cm; framed: 64 x 55 cm, unique; Pierre Bismuth, En suivant la main gauche de Jacques Lacan – L’âme et l’inconscient, 2010, inkjet print on paper, signed, framed, 69 x 93.5 cm; framed: 88.5 x 111.5 cm, unique)
Pierre Bismuth’s series En suivant la main gauche de Jacques Lacan starts from the TV-program “Psychoanalyse” broadcasted by the French public TV in the 70’s. The program shows the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answering to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller. The program and the text which stemmed from it became famous as the only real televisual practice by Lacan. The way he (hardly) tries to adapt himself to TV's prosody provides a video-object just as strange as singular.
For the three video works from the En suivant la main gauche de Jacques Lacan series (L'âme et l'inconscient,Psychothérapie et rapports sexuels, La sexualité) Pierre Bismuth took three clippings from the program and erased the actual imagery. Instead the videos show a line that is following the gestures of Lacan on the white screen creating an idiosyncratic drawing going along with the original soundtrack. Through this method the artist translates the original imagery from a rather predetermined to a more suggestive level and evokes the unconscious of the distinguished thinker Jaques Lacan.
In the exhibition Pierre Bismuth, Le versant de l’analyse, 11/12 – 22/1, at Jan Mot the three video works as well as three prints of the final drawing of each video will be shown.