About The Work
This book was born out of the desire to talk about love, to speak about every people and culture, meaning almost 408 languages and dialects. Marégramme de l’amour is the plastic rendering of this desire. Four different plates, four big roll prints on which the artist has spread out the book with photographs to punctuate the stream of love words. While the first one, made in 2008 with black and white images, follows the invocation of a lost love, the second one, made with X-ray images in 2007, is a passionate and exhilarated answer to the opening of a dreadful exhibition on war weapons. The third one in shades of blue and the fourth one in shades of red were specifically made for Hady Sy’s Beirut project in 2017.
Through this edition of 12, Hady Sy builds a complex installation in which words answer images and the meaning of a simple sentence, “I love you”, dialogue with extremely simple pieces of nature: a leaf, a flower. The incompatibility between the cult of oneself and the urging questions asked by social life are here solved, as if the sovereign energy of love still had the power to transcend the barriers and frontiers than men nowadays put so much effort into building.
Courtesy of Galerie 8+4 / Bernard Chauveau
About Hady Sy
Casket / Inkjet printing on INBE Thin White paper 70 g
Marigram 495 x 35 cm
This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. This work is signed by the artist.
About The Work
This book was born out of the desire to talk about love, to speak about every people and culture, meaning almost 408 languages and dialects. Marégramme de l’amour is the plastic rendering of this desire. Four different plates, four big roll prints on which the artist has spread out the book with photographs to punctuate the stream of love words. While the first one, made in 2008 with black and white images, follows the invocation of a lost love, the second one, made with X-ray images in 2007, is a passionate and exhilarated answer to the opening of a dreadful exhibition on war weapons. The third one in shades of blue and the fourth one in shades of red were specifically made for Hady Sy’s Beirut project in 2017.
Through this edition of 12, Hady Sy builds a complex installation in which words answer images and the meaning of a simple sentence, “I love you”, dialogue with extremely simple pieces of nature: a leaf, a flower. The incompatibility between the cult of oneself and the urging questions asked by social life are here solved, as if the sovereign energy of love still had the power to transcend the barriers and frontiers than men nowadays put so much effort into building.
Courtesy of Galerie 8+4 / Bernard Chauveau
About Hady Sy
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