June 14, 2003
Florent Pinzuti
"Le Presbytere"
Installation runs Mon – Fri 18th August – 29th Aug 2003 12pm- 6pm
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit...
the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."
Igor Stravinsky
The Chamber Of Pop Culture and The Horse Hospital are proud to present "Le Presbytere", an installation by Florent Pinzuti.
Exploring issues of habit, time and space, Pinzuti’s work utilises light, shadow, sand and a miniature model house. In mapping the recurring path of the projected shadow of a man, who appears and re-appears within the house, Pinzuti creates a study of the internal logic of recurring behaviour.
Pinzuti has produced a master work of restraint, invoking the unease of film noir and German expressionism, as influenced by the writing of George Perec, member of the French structuralist movement OULIPO, the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature.
A group of writers and mathematicians formed in 1960, Oulipo’s primary objective was the systematic and formal innovation of constraints in the production and adaptation of literature, defining themselves as rats who themselves build the labyrinth from which they will try to escape.
Following obsessive compulsion as an impulse to freedom, Pinzuti creates a hermetically sealed self-imposed world; the artist and society.
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