"Bouton Poussoir" (pushbutton) From 13 october to saturday 19 november 2011 Gallery Lot 10 welcomes Bouton Poussoir, an exhibition conceived by Romain Del Furia, director of the RDF Gallery (Nice, France). will be presented the works of David Raffini, Florian Pugnaire and Philip Vormwald, three figures in the European art scene who submit material to the laws of mechanics.

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Program

Using, among other things, hydraulic processes for constraining different objects, Florian Pugnaire and David Raffini (FR) never stop pushing the enveloppe of matter, whether strongly or delicately, such as in the case of their choreography or a ballet of machine-tools. With Sans titre 2011, the two artists inscribe their work into the continuity of Manœuvre, a video produced in 2009 in a roof structure factory in Upper Corsica. This new video is a reiteration of the principle where machines are simultaneously used as a point of view and as agents of labour. As such, Sans titre 2011 gives birth to a film set up in disjunction to a raw element of industry. This complex follow-up to Manœuvre is featured in the programming of La Fabrique Sonore which is currently taking place at the Domaine Pommery (Reims-FR) in the context of the eighth « Pommery experience."
Last year, Florian Pugnaire and David Raffini exhibited their work twice at the Pälais de Tokyo, Fine and Dynasty, also presented at Paris' Musée d’Art Moderne. This year, they exhibited Glissements at Dojo (Nice) and Berlin-Paris at the Carlier-Gebauer Gallery (Berlin) and presented their film Casse-Pipe at the cinephemere of the 2011 FIAC.

The works of Philip Vormwald represent a succession of spontaneous visions which he establishes, without restriction, on diverse supports. To create his drawings, Philip Vormwald employs his own unique technique: the drawing is organized into successive stratas of graphite, into fragile, sometimes blurred plans, which he applies progressively to compose an organized whole. The Permis de Construire series is composed of a free arrangements of modular forms. The lighting is uniform, shadowless, produced by pale lights. Each view presents fixed elements, at rest. These visions show imaginary activities, mechanical or natural, automated or spontaneous which take place around infrastructures - buildings, houses, temples – - and whose function escapes us. These drawings are works in themselves as well as being utopian construction projects, models, sets, volumes. Each series of drawings can be seen as a storyboard for a future film.

Bouton Poussoir temporarily opens up the electrical contact between these three artists.

Romain Del Furia - Gallery RDF