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Hoël Duret
 
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low, 2020


The exhibition low presented at the Villa Merkel (Esslingen am Neckar, Germany) is about chaos, parallel worlds, futuristic technologies and absurd hopes. Through a monumental installation (NFT ph<7 logique (2019)), a film (Drop out (2020)), strange luminous artifacts and glyphs left by an extinct branch of humanity, Hoël Duret investigates the relationship between nature and technology. In the particular context of the pandemic, the artist develops a critical and alternative image of the digital age as a coherent phase of human history and humorously shows that such a concept can only be affirmed by concealing the diversity and precarity of our world.

01/14 - NFT ph<7 logique (2019)
Mixed media, variables dimensions.
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

02/14 - NFT ph<7 logique (2019)
Mixed media, variables dimensions.
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

03/14 - Fantôme #17 (2020), Easy to say (2019) & Cast your words (2020)
Sandblasted black PMMA, velcro strap, aluminum ruler. 190 x 290 x 0,3 cm
Acrylic paint, phosphorescent pigment, oil paint, black resin, aluminum frame. 140 x 100 x 2,5 cm
Casted glass, silicone, phosphorescent pigment, shell, chrome paint. Approx. 40 x 60 x 40 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

04/14 - Easy to get (2019) & Cast your words (2020)
Acrylic paint, phosphorescent pigment, oil paint, black resin, aluminum frame. 140 x 100 x 2,5 cm
Casted glass, silicone, phosphorescent pigment, shell, chrome paint. Approx. 40 x 60 x 40 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

05/14 - low (2020) & Long gone (2019)
Serigraph on paper. Made with Jean Marc Ballée. 120 x 168 cm
Shell, chrome paint, silicone, phosphorescent pigment, copper tube. Approx. 100 x 20 x 20 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

06/14 - Long gone (2019)
Shell, chrome paint, silicone, phosphorescent pigment, copper tube. Approx. 100 x 20 x 20 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

07/14 - low, vue d’exposition (2020)
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

08/14 - NFT pH<7 Mirror (2020)
42’’ flatscreen, blown glass, brass, plant, HD 1080p video without sound 4’46’’. Approx. 100 x 60 x 50 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

09/14 - Innocent times (2020)
Blown glass, phosphorescent glass, demineralized water, light bases, computer programs. Variables dimensions
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

10/14 - Innocent times (2020)
Blown glass, phosphorescent glass, demineralized water, light base, computer program. Approx. 50 x 35 x 35 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

11/14 - Innocent times (2020)
Blown glass, phosphorescent glass, demineralized water, light base, computer program. Approx. 40 x 45 x 45 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

12/14 - Quantum (2020)
Brass structure, black PMMA, plants, blown glass, polished steel, electronic board, LED controller, fiber optic, amplifier, speaker, various materials. Approx. 300 x 100 x 100 cm
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

13/14 - Spin #1 (2020)
Blown glass, silver foil, silicone, phosphorescent pigment, natural sponge, chrome paint. Approx. 50 x 100 x 60 cm.
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020

14/14 - low, exhibition view (2020)
Image Villa Merkel / Frank Kleinbach, 2020 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2020