{"id":5963,"date":"2018-02-22T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/?page_id=5963\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:40:19","slug":"players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationguidomolinari.org\/en\/players\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition – Residency: Players<\/em> by Serge Murphy and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lauda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the one hand, Serge Murphy is a resolutely multidisciplinary artist, as firmly established (2) as he is restlessly dexterous, unclassifiable and yet almost universally recognized for over forty years, moreover a poet (like Guido), a generous teacher, and a versatile actor in the art milieu. On the other hand, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lauda is a young abstract painter, unassuming but often considered to be one of the most promising of his generation, a noise musician in his spare time, decidedly self-taught (like Guido) but also a painter\u2019s son, grandson and great-grandson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When discussing the decades-long, unwavering continuity of his \u201ccobbled-together inventions\u201d, Murphy replies with a smile: \u201cIt\u2019s as though I\u2019ve only ever had one material idea in my \u2018career\u2019 for manifesting my relationship to art, for inscribing what touches me and what resembles me in its history, for speaking about time and sculpture\u2026\u201d I remember that at the opening for his most recent exhibition at the MMFA, the artist read an excerpt from a poem by Roland Gigu\u00e8re: \u201cOn a thin and fragile stage stands the sum of our constructions, all convoluted and lofty, finely chiseled lifelines, scaffolding for impossible tomorrows, castles of quicksand, etc.\u201d It is well known that the old surrealist painter, indifferent to any trend or countertrend, had ploughed his own furrow for over half a century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Gilles Daigneault<\/p>\n\n\n