The Nine Fingers of Malakoff

Philia, Chapitre 1 – The Nine Fingers of Malakoff
exposition de Zin Taylor

18 septembre 2010 – 10 octobre 2010
Vernissage de l’exposition le samedi 18 septembre à partir de 19h

Enroute from Paris to the Art Centre of Malakoff I saw and thought about many things. Arriving, I was impressed with the garden within which the Art Centre is built. The architecture of this public space was inviting and private, its hospitality signaled by a series of benches flanking a tear shaped pond. Within the pond are nine fingers of pink marble that survey the park from the shallow water.

These nine forms organized what I had been thinking about into a proposal: units of sculpture producing units of thought. Their existence offered a structure in which to place arguments about anthropic measurement, Auguste Rodin, how something exists when out of site, and the metaphor of a sleeping giant embodying a discussion of psychedelic naturalism.

This text I’ve written, this minor narrative, is presented as an irrelevant photocopied handout having been stored within a discrete and dusty piece of storage architecture, a wooden shack on the edge of the garden property. A degree of choreography is suggested by the placement of this shack: visitors enter the garden of the art centre, see the fountain with the marble fingers, travel to the rear of the property (either by accident or purposefully), discover the text, and re-enter the garden under the auspices of a suggestive theme. A theme, whose logic, while nestled deep beneath the ground, emerges into daylight as The Nine Fingers of Malakoff.

Zin Taylor

Pour le premier chapitre de Philia, 23 45 23 invite, sans conditions, Pavilion Projects à définir la programmation, qui, à son tour, invite l’artiste canadien Zin Taylor d’investir le module Philia.

Philia est un programme d’expositions organisé par 23 45 23 à La Maison des Arts de Malakoff – du 18 septembre 2010 au 5 juin 2011 –, construit sur les notions de confiance, de don et d’amitié.
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La Maison des Arts
105, avenue du 12 février 1934
92240 Malakoff

Du lundi au vendredi de 12h00 à 18h00, samedi et dimanche de 14h00 à 19h00.
Entrée libre.

Métro ligne 13 station
Malakoff-Plateau de Vanves ;
Bus 194 ou 295 (arrêt 12
février 1934).