STRIPTYQUE-Panorama 14

This video installation is a tribute to the painter Francis Bacon.
It invites the spectators to revisit the painter’s universe through the prism of my own imagination as an artist familiar with the practice of contemporary circus.
My aim is to awaken the curiosity of the spectator by provoking specific visual and physical sensations.
And to share the unease and vertigo I myself feel in front of the paintings of Bacon or when I am performing.
To achieve this I have imagined a particular treatment of the space, sound and image.
The exhibition set up is composed of a triangle contained in a parallelepiped. The public is able to circulate around the work or penetrate inside it in order to interact with three objects and discover three video works.
_ Netty Radvanyi

Up!………...Sit! …………Lie down!
Sit! ………..Lie down! …………Up!
Lie down! ……….Up! …………Sit!
Three orders, three spaces, three positions of the body that set the tone
for the interactive installation by Netty Radvanyi.
Which space shall one choose to enter?
The bedroom?
The cold room?
Or the toilets?

UP
This triptych plays with the precarious equilibrium of the body. The
cadaverous bodies of acrobats are hung like butchers’ meat carcases,
dumb witnesses of death and resurrection of the little horse, skinned
alive.

SITTING
A triptych of portraits, painting and sculpture face each other in a
Darwinian questioning of the future of Mankind since the origins:
face of a monkey, face of an angel, face to be lifted.

LYING DOWN
A body in disguise offers itself to the desire and pleasure of the
spectators in a kaleidoscopic and hypnotic fashion.
Two masculine bodies struggle in an endless fight.
The turning bed absorbs everything in its path and drags us into a
sensation of vertigo until the fall.
_ Bernard Michel, artist-set designer