Past The Point of Logic
Group exhibition presenting works by:Lawrence Weiner, Keith Sonnier, François Morellet,Sol LeWitt, Charles de Meaux et Philippe Decrauzat“The thing is that an artist everyday takes the chance of going mad, because you find yourself in
situations that are past the point of logic you understand. You have to readapt your own logic just to be able to communicate with somebody else.
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Art is not about telling it is about showing. If you can place a piece of stone and a piece of wood,
and you can put them in relation to the flow of Life, there is quiet a bit there for people to use to be able to find their own relation to the world and their own place in the Sun.”
—Interview of Lawrence Weiner by Jesper Bundgaard for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
The artists gathered in this exhibition have in common an ability to disturb our landmarks, to encourage us to question the traditional boundaries of logic and perception that we use to ask questions and understand the world. Through forms that appear both familiar and elusive, they push us to reinvent the way we see. Their works, although anchored in tangible materials — steel, video, light, lines, surfaces — elude any stable definition. They are in constant motion, not physically, but through the multiple layers of interpretation they allow.
It is precisely in this tension between the concrete and the indefinite that their strength lies. They don’t tell us what to think: they open breaches. They force us to rewire our mental circuits, to step out of habit and move beyond our usual logic, beyond our familiar ways of relating to the world. In these works, ambiguity is not a defect, but a fertile ground where germinate new questions.
Lawrence Weiner, Keith Sonnier, François Morellet, Sol LeWitt, Charles de Meaux, and Philippe Decrauzat share this ambition: to shake our certainties in order to reveal other ways of existing and perceiving. Their works are not answers, but conceptual instruments — philosophical, poetic, intellectual — that accompany and challenge the viewer in an exploration of their own thinking. Through this play with logic, these artists remind us of the necessity of questioning and of the meaning that constitutes an object, a space, a situation.
In this perspective, the logic at work in these practices is not one of rational demonstration, but of a plastic, speculative thinking that uses ambiguity as a vehicle for knowledge. What these artists offer the viewer are not certainties, but tools — formal, conceptual, philosophical — to find ways to rethink how we relate to reality. Thus, the works no longer present themselves as objects to be interpreted, but as devices for thought: they invite a continual rereading of the visible, of language, and of space.
It is in this ability to shift our gaze, to bring forth another logic of things, that the critical and poetic power of this exhibition lies, bringing together some of the greatest names in this art. Through deliberately open forms, the artists urge us to reconsider our reference points, to reconfigure our understanding of the world, and perhaps to glimpse, as Weiner once suggested, a unique way of finding one’s place in the sun.