WILL YOU PLAY WITH ME?

Between artistic and playful objects

This project gathers objects, drawings, installations, and a visual essay. Together, they question the formal resonances between the esthetics of playful objects and the history of visual arts. In the edition the affinities between shapes and colors are presented as couples; on the large prints hanging on the walls, they are gathered as a vast map of visual references, borrowing from the Mnemosyne Atlas of Aby Warburg.

Objects are elaborated in parallel to this theoretical research. They descend directly from this curious affiliation: on one hand, they encompass a certain playfulness, as they draw the observer to manipulate them, on the other hand, they recall the preciousness and of artworks. It is this very impulse towards the object -spontaneous though inexplicably refrained- that these productions try to arouse.

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Claire Ebendinger
A Playful Handbook of Art History, 2019, Edition (180 pages), 24 x 20 cm

Claire Ebendinger A Playful Handbook of Art History, 2019, Prints, 168 x 238 cm
A Playful Handbook of Art History, 2019, Prints, 168 x 238 cm
CLAIRE EBENDINGER, MR.B, WOODEN BOX, MIRRORS, WOODEN CUBES, VINTAGE CHECKERS BOARD, 36 X 36 X 36 CM
Mr. B, 2019, Wooden box, mirrors, wooden cubes, vintage checkers board, 36 x 36 x 36 cm
CLAIRE EBENDINGER, ”PIÈCES MONTÉES - DÉMONTÉES” [STACKING CAKES], PIGMENTED PLASTER, PINE TREE STICKS, VARIABLE DIMENSIONS
‘Pièces montées – démontées’, [stacking cakes], 2019, Pigmented plaster, wooden sticks, variable dimensions
Claire Ebendinger
‘Pièces montées – démontées’, [stacking cakes], 2019, Pigmented plaster, wooden sticks, variable dimensions
CLAIRE EBENDINGER, GAME TABLE, WOOD, PLASTER, MODELING CLAY, VARIABLE DIMENSIONS
Game table, 2019, Wood, plaster, modeling clay, Variable dimensions
Claire Ebendinger
Invisible Cities, 2019, Turned wood, sand, wooden sandbox, 2,50 x 2,50 cm
CLAIRE EBENDINGER, INVISIBLE CITIES, TURNED WOOD, SAND, WOODEN SANDBOX, 2,50 X 2,50 CM
Invisible Cities, 2019, Turned wood, sand, wooden sandbox, 2,50 x 2,50 cm