Photo Officielle par Matteo Losurdo

"CONCORDANCE UNIVERSELLE"

- Exposition Patrick Laumond

- 59ème Biennale de Venise 2022

- Centre Culturel Européen d'Italie

Le MétaHisme

Propos : Portrait of Patrick Laumond Media : Brive Magazine Publication date : April 2022

Thanks to Julien Allain for the double page spread in BriveMag (April 2022)

Founder of metaHism, whose prefix META denotes the Whole, ISM its own artistic trend and H, the eighth letter of the alphabet, an infinite movement symbolised by the lemniscate ∞, Laumond does not seek to formalise an art deprived of sentiment which would flirt, as was the case in the last century, with the totalitarian overtones and masculine values of modernity. Rather, in this almost tautological paradigm, we find the desire to inscribe an irresistible flaw, thus elevating contingency, accident and tilting to the rank of indispensable partners. MetaHism is an attempt to reconcile the dichotomies laid down by modernity, and to include the various modes of existence that populate the world. As a result, it is no longer time and space that are the framework of phenomena, but bodies and the imperceptible interactions that influence them, as Einstein foresaw in general relativity. To grasp metaHism, we will therefore have to put on the glasses of a Möbius strip and accept that there is no longer linear or causal time, top or bottom, interiority or exteriority, order or disorder, but an intermingling of all possibilities, of which contingency is the name.

Patrick Laumond / MétaHisme

"Concordance Universelle" - Biennale de Venise 2022 - Centre Culturel Européen d'Italie - Palais Bembo du 23 Avril au 27 Novembre 2022 Crédit Photo : Luna Le Ray Copyright : Association MétaHisme

Founder of metaHism, whose prefix META denotes the Whole, ISM its own artistic trend and H, the eighth letter of the alphabet, an infinite movement symbolised by the lemniscate ∞, Laumond does not seek to formalise an art deprived of sentiment which would flirt, as was the case in the last century, with the totalitarian overtones and masculine values of modernity. Rather, in this almost tautological paradigm, we find the desire to inscribe an irresistible flaw, thus elevating contingency, accident and tilting to the rank of indispensable partners. MetaHism is an attempt to reconcile the dichotomies laid down by modernity, and to include the various modes of existence that populate the world. As a result, it is no longer time and space that are the framework of phenomena, but bodies and the imperceptible interactions that influence them, as Einstein foresaw in general relativity. To grasp metaHism, we will therefore have to put on the glasses of a Möbius strip and accept that there is no longer linear or causal time, top or bottom, interiority or exteriority, order or disorder, but an intermingling of all possibilities, of which contingency is the name.