Work from the Collection

Keep Illusion for the End

Artist: Bojan Šarčević
Date of creation: 2005
Medium: Mixed
Materials: Oak, Brass, Copper, Concrete
Collection: Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition: 2013
Bojan Šarčević, Keep Illusion for the End, 2005, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR
Keep Illusion for the End is a freestanding structure consisting of an irregular wooden polygon on which brass, copper, concrete, and wood frames are hung. By playing with perspective and angles, Bojan Šarčević offers the viewer a true experience of the sculpture and the space in which it is situated. The forms and lines overlap, intermingle, and are juxtaposed, generating multiple points of view. The silhouette of the main frame is repeated and extended through the structures it supports, which act as afterimages. The whole is thus presented as a succession of framings evoking an architectural device, an ornamental framework imbued with the art deco style. Through a process of abstraction, Bojan Šarčević extracts the ornament from the building it covers in order to recontextualise it within his work and deploy its full poetic potential. Following the same principle, the artist has also created Everything makes sense in the reverse, a more rounded double of Keep Illusion for the End.

Text written by Suzana Danilovic as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.

Exhibition

Éventuellement
Le Grand Café - Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire (France)
from 10 Apr to 06 Jun 2010

À propos de l'artiste

Bojan Šarčević

Born in 1974 in Belgrade, Serbie

Bojan Šarčević adopte une pratique protéiforme (sculpture, installation vidéo, photographie, collage) qui se concentre sur les volumes et l’architecture. Il construit ses œuvres autour de la juxtaposition de lignes et de formes dessinant des structures géométriques en équilibre imprégnées du vocabulaire de l’architecture moderniste et Art déco. À travers un processus d’abstraction formelle et conceptuelle, il se réapproprie ces langages historiques tout en questionnant l’implication poétique et politique des matériaux et styles qu’il emploie.

Né en 1974 à Belgrade (Serbie), Bojan Šarčević a été formé à l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris et à la Rijksakademie d’Amsterdam (Pays-Bas). Son travail a été exposé dans le monde entier, notamment lors de la biennale Manifesta 2 à Luxembourg (1998), à la Tate Modern de Londres, à la Biennale de Berlin et à la Biennale de Venise (2003). Bojan Šarčević vit et travaille à Bâle (Suisse).


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