Sarah Morris

Biot

The gloss-painted post-Pop surfaces of the Sarah Morris’s invariably square-shaped paintings invite us to stop and reflect. They break up architectural facades into multi-coloured grids and turn everyday objects into graphic signs.

The artist uses a matrix built up from a wide range of sources such as politics, architecture, sociology and economics to look below the surface of the visual signs and examine the codes that structure the perception of our era. In choosing to evoke Fernand Léger’s experimental film (Le Ballet mécanique, 1924) in the title of her exhibition Mechanical Ballet, she also pays tribute to the French painter whose conceptual realism she pursues.

Sarah Morris

Fernand Léger National Museum

November 17, 2012 – March 4, 2013
Chemin du Val de Pome
06410 Biot
France

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