March 25, 2022 - July 24, 2022
Anita Molinero : Extrudia
Type
Exposition personnelle
Exhibition curator
Olivia Gauthier-Jeanroy
Scientific advisor: Paul Bernard
Exhibition views
List of works
Press release
The Museum of Modern Art in Paris presents the first retrospective dedicated to Anita Molinero in a Parisian institution. This exhibition traces the different phases of his artistic evolution: from the first
works from the end of the 1980s — some, which have disappeared, will be reproduced in photography — until his latest achievements, in particular several productions made for the occasion.
The title of the exhibition, whose sounds evoke science fiction, refers both to one of the artist's sculptural practices (“to extrude” means “to give shape to a material by constraining it”) and to one of the preferred materials she uses: extruded polystyrene.
Born in 1953 in Floirac (France), Anita Molinero graduated in 1977 from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. His work was exhibited at the end of the 1990s in several major institutions (such as MAMCO, Geneva or Le Consortium, Dijon). She has also completed public commissions, in particular for the City of Paris and the Ile de France region, with the tram stop at Porte de la Villette in 2012. Throughout her career, she has not stopped teaching in various fine arts schools in France.
Anita Molinero is one of the few French artists of her generation to express herself exclusively through sculpture. Often monumental and chaotic, his works disfigure everyday objects and trivial materials: trash cans, exhaust pipes, concrete irons, extruded polystyrene and other scraps from consumer society. She transforms the material in which she manages to deploy all the brutality and instability.
The itinerary of the exhibition, which is mainly chronological, is designed in two parts. The first, retrospective, focuses on the gestures characteristic of Anita Molinero's work. The second is, for its part, dedicated to new works, which anchor her work in a futuristic universe.
Echoing the forty works presented in the exhibition rooms, other spaces in the museum - in particular the esplanade basin between the Palais de Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art - will be invested with monumental installations. In addition, the screening of an experimental film shot in 3D, entitled Extrudia 3D and directed by José Eon, presents the studio work of Anita Molinero in the form of a fiction.
A richly illustrated French catalog brings together several complementary points of view, theorists and actors from the art world. It repositions the artist's work in the history of art and in the world of current art, through the essays of Anne Giffon-Selle (director of CRAC 19 Montbeliard) and Paul Bernard, (scientific advisor to the exhibition and curator at MAMCO Genève). In addition, an interview between the artist and Olivia Gaultier-Jeanroy (curator of the exhibition) addresses the problem of the future of sculpture. The specific aspect of Anita Molinero's practice is also addressed through the text by Stéphanie Cherpin (artist), and her strong cinematographic influences are reported by Eugénie Filho (film critic). Finally, the essays are punctuated by the eyes of three personalities on a work by Anita Molinero: the artist Nina Childress, the collector Natalie Seroussi, and the author Alain Damasio.