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- Titre
- Robert Barta | Ceci n'est pas un Casino
- Intervenant
- Bruno Flash
- Durée
- 9:40
- Evénement
- Ceci n'est pas un casino
- Lieu
- Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain
- Affiche
- Mission687
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- *1975 PRAGUE / PRAG (CZ)VIT ET TRAVAILLE À / LEBT UND ARBEITET IN / LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN (DE)WWW.ROBERTBARTA.DEMOVE IT!, 2010 BOÎTE DE VITESSES, MOTEUR, CERCEAU, CACTUS, POT, DISPOSITIF ÉLECTRONIQUE / GANGSCHALTUNGSGETRIEBE, MOTOR, HULA-HOOP-REIFEN, KAKTUS, TOPF, ELEKTRONISCHER REGULATOR / GEARBOX, MOTOR, HULA HOOP, CACTUS, POT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE250 x 250 x 200 CMCOURTESY L’ ARTISTE / DER KÜNSTLER / THE ARTISTPRODUCTION / PRODUKTION / PRODUCTION CASINO LUXEMBOURG – FORUM D’ART CONTEMPORAIN............... Robert Barta’s sculpture interrogates—not without humor—methods of display and the role of the beholder. With his piece Move it! Barta confronts the beholder with an unlikely if play-ful scene: a cactus in a pot sways its “hips” in order to keep a Hula Hoop spinning. For anyone who knows how hard it is for a human being to do so for more than a few seconds, seeing an indoor plant perform this exercise—the point of which is usually playful, ath-letic (gymnastics, acrobatics) or seduc-tive (a type of belly dancing)—seems all the more improbable and bizarre. Science has nevertheless demonstrated that mimicry is typical of the vegeta-ble kingdom. Here mimicry reaches a pinnacle thanks to a cactus that breaks every known Hula-Hoop record despite its unpromising morphology.Ultimately, the real question is whether we are more amazed by the sight of a plant performing a human activity or by the physical prowess it displays in keeping the hoop spinning.
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