exhibition Palermo

CORPO GEO LOGICO CRESCENS DUPUIS EXH IBITI O N C ATA LOG UE M U S EO G E O LO G I CO G .G . G E MME L L ARO OF PA LERMO, 10- 19/ 05/ 2019

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Over the years the artist collects and catalogs stones choosing them based on a purely personal and unconscious call. The origin of these objects and the new place hosting them trace interconnections repeated over time, revealing the artist’s origins and his personal history.

The artist then performs an operation to displace the stone by inserting it into an alien environment and observing its interactions and alterations with the surrounding landscape as the movement of energy from one place to another.

The increasingly important accumulation of this mineral material leads to a broader reflection on temporality, which seems to also affect the so-called “inanimate life”, motionless and apparently impermutable.

Corpo Geologico is a still open project that deals with the theme of migration, identity, border and trespassing. It is an experiential archive that takes shape and grows over time.

The notion of frontier has always been linked to the idea of ​​identity and it is inevitable that it will be transposed with people and their being willing or unwilling subjects to travel, migration, and exodus.

The photographic documentation present in the exhibition is a collection of each of these “actions” which were geolocated with the relative GPS coordinates captured at the time of shooting. Object in transition small stone has an intrinsic ability to be moved or removed and the placement of objects is also ephemeral and subject to further movements. The mapping operation therefore loses its positioning intent to fix, opening up different horizons, labile and without boundaries.

The term “pietra” (from the Latin petra rock) does not constitute a proper geological terminology as it is a residual object coming from large rocky conformations, which originated with the cooling of the earth forming a substratum that allowed the appearance of the vegetable, animal and later human life. The stone in its static nature in fact receives in itself the scans of the time of the earth and the stones in question thus coming from these great conformations trace the characteristics of a specific environment.

The artist’s story is an indirect story: the great global migration phenomena carry deep identity crises that, if compared in scale, accentuate the aspect of the individual’s condition as part of a macro process that involves everyone. Globalization and immigration are interdependent phenomena: the former is often the cause of the second due to a greater facilitation of the movement of people.

Text by Federica Glauso

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Death Va lley (USA) in Roma 27 aprile 2016 alle 15:00:31 N41°53’21.018 E12°29’27.647

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Provenza in Dolomiti

5 Feb 2017 at 11:44:28 N 46°23'34.517 E 11°47'02.411

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Provenza in Venezia

12 Jan 2016 at 13:21:19 N 45°25'26.010 E 12°20'21.162

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Messina in Normandia

20 Nov 2015 at 14:17:58 N 48°45'48.678 W 1°34'19.422

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Venezia in Monument Valley 5 Apr 2016 at 03:24:28 N 36°59'50.262 W 110°06'53.640

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Ve rsailles in Death Va lley

31 Mar 2016 at 23:4 4 N 36°25'12.419 W 116°48'46.589

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Costa dʼA vorio in Lisbona 07 Mar 2019 at 13:16:47 N 38°43'06.180 W 9°08'54.079

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Death Valley sullʼ Etna

16 Sep 2018 at 14:12:36 N 37°42'09.192 E 15°00'05.740

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Despar Mestre in Villa Pisani, VE

18 Sep 2016 at 15:43:59 N 45°24'36.839 E 12°00'40.860

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Etna in Versailles

03 oct 2018 at 17:12:08 N 48°48'48.599 E 2°05'16.939

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Grand Canyon in Dolomiti

23 sep 2018 at 15:23:30 N 46°03'35.350 E 12°24'45.858

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Croazia in Parigi

12 Nov 2016 at 12:58:54 N 48°51'49.938 E 2°19'24.42 0

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Liguria in Palerm o

15 Aug 2016 at 15:24:14 N 38°07'34.879 E 13°21'52.758

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Normandia in Parig i

23 Nov 2015 at 12:53:06 N 48°51'14.922 E 2°20'00.071

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Zion National Park in Provenza 1 Sep 2016 at 18:48:17 N 43°47'19.752 E 6°23'48.948

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Zion National Park in Gole dell'Alcantara 23 Aug 2016 at 10:37:48 N 37°53'20.148 E 15°06'54.840

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Ve rsailles in Valley of the Gods

5 Apr 2016 at 00:33:46 N 37°17'30.432 W 109°51'11.057

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Ve rsailles sul Gooseneck Canyon 4 Apr 2016 at 23:31:32 N 37°10'28.068 W 109°55'39.401

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Venezia in Versailles

27 May 2016 at 12:25:53 N 48#48'28.769 E 2°06'25.600

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Venezia in Lisbona

07 Mar 2019 at 12:40:41 N 38°42'43.698 W 9°08'25.540

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Venezia in Costa dʼAvorio 25 feb 2019 at 15:25:54 N 4°39'03.468 W 6°55'13.571

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Thonon on Etna

16 Sep 2018 at 13:14:54 N 37°41'01.487 E 14°59'22.662

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Val Cenis in Londra

12 Jan 2019 at 12:58:28 N 51°30’11.952 W 0°12'10.667

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Ustica in Palermo

21 Aug 2016 at 10:16:15 N 38°07'02.839 E 13°22'33.911

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Tecopa Hot Springs in Costa dʼA vorio 25 Feb 2019 at 14:57:56 N 5°10'08.418 W 5°34'38.460

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Libano in Provenza

4 Jan 2017 at 10:13:02 N 43°50'06.372 E 6°19'13.188

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Messina in Versailles

27 Sep 2016 at 18:33:07 N 48°48'51.288 E 2°06'18.880

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Scaletta in Libano

29 Nov 2016 at 13:03:56 N 33°53'00.900 E 35°28'38.59

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Roma a New Yor k

23 Mar 2016 at 21:43:5 3 N 49°46'06.179 W 73°58'33.761

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Roma in Venezia

20 Jan 2016 at 15:06:46 N 45°26'25.200 E 12°19'40.589

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Croazia on Etna

16 Sep 2018 at 14:46:35 N 37°42'06.857 E 15°00'19.930

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Provenza in Beirut

11 Dec 2016 at 13:56:36 N 33°52'10.427 E 35°30'37.332

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Provenza in Montello

30 Apr 2017 at 16:03:58 N 45°49'14.388 E 12°08'52.450

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Orto Botanico, Palermo in Catania

17 Sep 2018 at 15:04:55 N 37°30'57.941 E 15°04'58.930

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Zion National Park in Byblos 4 Dec 2016 at 14:53:46 N 34°11'34.757 E 35°37'58.451

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French interior designer and artist, Crescens Dupuis lives in Venice since 2005. Graduated in 2004 from ESAG Penninghen School of Art Direction and Interior Architecture in Paris, he has collaborated with various studios of architecture, including the Atelier Christian de Portzamparc in Paris and Pbinterior Design in Venice. He actively collaborated with Atelier Gilles Dupuis in Versailles making use of a rich and refined knowledge of techniques belonging to the tradition of decorative arts.

He makes graphic design and concept design for formats also in the retail sector.

He curated exhibitions at the Alliance Française in Venice for the Biennale Arte 2011 and at the Milan Triennale for the Michele De Lucchi studio.

He also collaborated at the IUAV (Institute University of Architecture of Venice) as tutor and assistant of designers as Paolo Orlandini, Micheal Burke or Michele De Lucchi.

He was production assistant for archeological documentaries.

His work led him to Ryad, London, Milan, Aman, Jerusalem Beirut, Geneva, Paris, Abidjan and New York.

His artistic research is related to the concept of anthroposcene : a project called SèME deals with the impact of great monoculture cultivations and a work in progress ARTS PLASTIQUES is about the problematics of pollution of plastics in the seas.

For years he has been working on a great photographic project, still a work in progress, which in may 2019 has resulted in an exhibition at the G.G Gemmellaro geological museum in Palermo entitled CORPO GEOLOGICO which deals with the issues of migration and borders with a reflection on identity.

More than 500 stones have been placed since 2015.

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Je viens poser une pierre comme un sceau pour une trêve, il n’y aura pas d’intifada ce soir.

Ce soir on s’assoit autour du feu et on parle.

On rêve les yeux plongés vers les étoiles de la voûte indigo, infinie, éternelle.

Tous habitants du même caillou.

Et je dessine des constellations de pierre sur cette terre, trajectoires précaires, instables et vagabondes, pour créer des ponts entre les hommes.

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