Art Of The Day Weekly
#373 - from 29 January 2015 to 4 February 2015
Guy Limone, Horizon Chromatique, Washington Plaza, Paris 2015 Photo © Grégory Copitet
Guy Limone: long live statistics!
“3% of the occupants of Washington Plaza come to work on their bicycles”: the data is shown in colorful neon letters in the hallway of the stately Art deco building, near the Etoile. “Statistics are the geometry of today”, Guy Limone explained during the inauguration of his installation in the Parisian offices of the Société foncière lyonnaise. The artist remains loyal to his practice: reconcile, as the ancient Greeks recommended, order and color. In his art order is precisely this merciless statistic that accompanies us daily (unemployment rate, growth rate, non-sold items, occupancy rate, success at the exams, flight punctuality rate, urban population rate), which he puts into statistics, cuts out, classifies, hierarchises, interprets, in architectures, in suspensions, in reflections, in collages. In his sometimes monumental installations (recently at the Tri postal in Lille or at the FRAC Alsace), we also see an attempt to bring poetry to our materialistic world… A huge mission!
• Horizon chromatique, inaugurated on 27 January 2015, can be seen at Washington Plaza, 42, rue de Washington, 75008 Paris. Guided visit every Tuesday during February from 1:30 to 2:30 PM.