Des mondes à soi

In order to fulfill the conditions of this dialogue, a long documentation work was carried out on the extra-western objects present in the collection of Daniel Cordier. This study, both historical and anthropological, aims to break away from the Western point of view of a reality in crisis. On the first floor, the Cube shows how cultures from East Africa, Oceania and South America have manifested their relationship to the world. The room also hosts works of the Figuration Libre, where the paintings of Hervé Di Rosa and Robert Combas rub shoulders with the tapestry of artists Nikita Kravtsov and Camille Kravtsov Sagnes. The plastic freedom shown by these artists provides a singular experience, with bright colors and abundant details that sometimes tend towards the absurd.

In the Black Box adjacent to the Cube, and then upstairs in The Tube, the exhibition presents works that are placed under the sign of escape, imagination and poetry, leaving all room for introspection. The Day Before System by Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, which marks the end of the exhibition, offers a pixelated recreation of starry skies on the eve of historical bombings (Guernica, Caen, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Baghdad, Sarajevo). This creation refers to the absurd world depicted by the artists at the beginning of the exhibition.

The title Des mondes à soi (Worlds of our own) marks the bias of this exhibition: in the manner of Daniel Cordier, we have freed ourselves from any pre-established framework in order to explore ways of being in the world. Thus, like the enlightened amateur that Daniel Cordier was, the exhibition brings together works of all temporalities and all artistic practices. Between the observation of a world in crisis and the exploration of other types of realities, it proposes itself as a source of questioning.

For several years now, the Abattoirs have been supporting and accompanying the training of young professionals in the Masters 2 Métiers de l'art program as part of its agreement with the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès.