Superfluous

“And it’s a border of a circus ring. The direction of the circulation in the gallery was disrupted, the spectators enter by the one of  the windows, they can circulate in both directions. But they are also restricted, impossible to step down; they cannot touch either the ground, or the walls, they become tightrope walkers, statues in movement, or  PLAYMOBIL characters, on an unusual base. They  float  60 cms above ground level by walking on the narrow multicolored band 60cms wide. ///////// The spectator becomes an actor of an unexpected performance, a remote or even insane unusual wandering. Aimlessly walking lightly on  the  colored band. The space of the  Octave / Alice lounge/gallery, and the spectator make the thing possible. From the street, nobody can scold or criticize, ” it will be very funny “. Mocking the bourgeois space, a place of games of appearance, but linked with the lightness of somewhere else, on the other side of the mirror of Alice’s lounge, on the other side of the window of the Gallery Octave Cowbell: ” finally separated from himself (the spectator) can laugh at his own physical presence in the massive coherence of the established order “. […] //////// The tightrope walker of the moment will then rediscover the emotions of his performance on all the edges of pavements, on all the white, blue or red lines, searching for a moment of disconcerting freedom, stolen lightness, for being unable to settle down definitively on a tree to escape the gravity of the world in the style of the young baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò imagined by Italo Calvino. “

Extract from the text of Ivonne Manfrini ” portrait of the spectator as a tightrope walker “

extrait du texte d’Ivonne Manfrini «portrait du spectateur en funambule»

Wood, painting. 500x60x60 cm