MUSEO D`ARTE CONTEMPORANEA VILLA CROCE

MUSEO D’ARTE
CONTEMPORANEA
VILLA CROCE
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Cristof Yvoré
Untitled
Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa
In collaboration with FRAC PACA Marsiglia
September 25 — October 31 2013
Press preview: Wednesday September 25th, 11.30 am
Opening: Wednesday September 25th, 6 pm
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Villa Croce is the first contemporary art museum to host a survey exhibition of the works by Cristof Yvoré (Tours, 1967),
in collaboration with the FRAC PACA Marseilles (France). Balanced between coherence and obsession, Yvoré’s work
emerges from an in-depth research on the status of painting. Starting from the memory of ordinary and mundane things,
the artist creates an opaque universe of still lifes, an airtight world with no vanishing point made of vases, bowls, jugs,
room corners and ceilings. The spectator’s gaze becomes entangled in the thick impasto of paint laid on the canvas layer
after layer, the brush drenched with color to such an extent that the figure-ground distinction turns unstable and the
whole image vibrates with a life of its own. This understanding of color as plastic material descends from the artist’s will
to go “as far as the boundary beyond which everything flips over into a complete mess.”
Yvoré’s paintings form a sequence of nondescript forms and spaces. Their somber hues and the absence of depth remind
Giorgio Morandi’s paintings yet they appear rather parched, drained from the existential glow that characterizes the
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Bolognese master’s style. Yvoré’s work is also remarkable for the apparent absence of a direct relationship to the
present: from the selection of the subjects represented – impossible to place in time – to the medium used – painting on a
reduced, non-spectacular scale -, with the latter undergoing several up and downs in the developments of contemporary
art.
In the artist’s words: “getting rid of elements eliminates the clues that indicate the nature of the painted figures, and my
broader gesture produces more immediate figures without details or stories. What interests me is the concrete unity of
the painting, rather than the representation of an image”.
The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue Cristof Yvoré published by Roma Publications, (Antwerp), produced in
collaboration with the FRAC PACA Marseilles thanks to the support of ZENO X Gallery (Antwerp).
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