Choreography of pictorial fetishes

"...by organizing the choreography of his own pictorial production and gives them a new status: the dancing body of the painted image becomes a photograph in his own original genre".

Manuel Geerinck’s work evolves from his own artistic path: compositions on paper, paintings, and photographs. Although visually dissimilar the images share theirs source in evanescent and nameless forms,  which set the image up to questioning. Should one speak of objects when referring to the  interjacence of shapes, or when debating the continuum drawing/ painting/ photography? As the photographic support contracts and hardens, the resulting image gains strength through the radicalization of the process which progresses from manual drawing to mechanical reproduction. Indeed, these images are realized, from cuts off selected drawings, through a purely analogical  method without any software interference. The process along with its results stands at the limit of this most contemporary field and challenges it from its very edge. The setting of motion are at the basis of these constructed photographs. It leads us to re-examine the image, and its attempts to convey it on a giant format on which the ratio to space is so intense that it obliterates the image from its inception.” The object tends to disappear by melting into space, and the image is that of its trajectory. We see the object in the act of displacement, defined by a gesture of substitution. Time caught on a surface.The object whether it is “objective” or manipulated, is in fact always manipulated so that it always appears in the form of a fetish.”

Text.- Christian Gattinoni, English version Françoise Beniston.

Dates.- From June 7 to July 15, 2013.
Venue.- C/ San Lucas 9, 28004. Madrid. Spain. Tel. +34 91 308 2325.