Conceived in four parts, the solo show of Yanne Kintgen invites the observer to follow the personal path of the artist, within existential questions and their artistic expression
1. DIALOGUES OF SOLITUDES
Since ancient times, the concept of “I”, linked and at the same time untied from the masses, has occupied a great place among thinkers and artists. Man, understood as being singular, is confronted with a reality full of his fellows, in which he is reflected and seeks to define himself. Some sink into the crowd, others struggle to emerge from it, refusing to be part of a multitude that seems comforting by its aspect of unity. Man is confronted with his solitude because he is unique, surrounded by those who resemble him but who are never identical, and with whom he finds it impossible to communicate. These ideas underlie the works in the series “Dialogues de solitudes” by Yanne Kintgen. Whether the man is channeled in a tail of a body which he wants to get rid of, or whether he is alone struggling with his yin and yang, or whether he is approaching the other in the hope of finding in a slightly more comfortable resemblance, the end point always remains an infinite dialogue of solitude with our “I”.
2. STRANGE APPENDIX
Suspended in this terrestrial reality, victim of time which flows inexorably, the substance of being is modified in an infinite becoming. She is different every moment from what she was and what she will be. In Yanne Kintgen’s work, titled «Suspended Time», the body of individuals rises above landscapes. Nothing retains them, neither nature nor the urban world, they are isolated from other existences. Time seems to have lost its capacity for movement. The subjects are also at a standstill, half the body taken in an envelope, which allows them to hear only their echo. In this dynamic, man, subject of these works, does not struggle to free himself from temporality but to register in it, as if he wanted to become aware of his own existence, once again by confronting himself with the only interlocutor who can understand it: himself.
3. COCOON
The oldest philosophers called it pneuma, the pre-Socrats called it arche, the Stoics began to call it soul. All these different concepts have in common the idea of something that preexists and persists in floating in us before our birth, and above us until the moment of death. It is the origin, which gives life to things and beings on Earth. In the “Cocoon” series, Yanne Kintgen works on a microscopic vision of this eternal wavering. The artist builds a mini choreography of what happens in the seconds of suspension that precede the extreme moments of our life: the origin and the end, reflecting the metamorphosis that surrounds these events.
4. INTRANQUILLITY
A limpid sky covered by black clouds, a desert plunged in fog, a futuristic nebula and an expanse of sea. These are the landscapes represented in the series of mini-videos, created by Yanne Kintgen. The projections take place in mirror boxes that widen the perception of the image, rotate it, enlarge it, overturn it, creating games of space and reflections that transform reality. Apparently calm, these sequences reveal just the opposite: an incredible form of worry. To escape the chaos of the metropolis, all the situations that fill our daily lives, and the inner whispers, these small universes, with repetitive movements, seem soothing realities in which we can take refuge. However, once arrived in the deep space buried in our heads, the feeling seems to reverse: the spaces in which we immerse ourselves are too calm, there is nobody, except ourselves. However, the dreamlike character of the mini-videos seems to be an invitation from the artist to tame our worries to a form of tranquility, while leaving this part of chaos in us, conceived as a force of movement, of creation.