Michel Aubry’s La Loge des Fratellini occupies the first area of the current exhibition at FRAC Basse-Normandie, on view until January 7, 2016. It is a vast reconstruction that originated from an anecdotal encounter between the artist Alexander Rodchenko and the Fratellini brothers in Paris in the 1920s’ . This work has been evolving since 2005, and has often served as an aid accompanying Michel Aubry’s films. It contains the elements of an artist’s dressing room (a makeup table, lighting), as well as costumes emblematic in Aubry’s work: Rodchenko’s overalls, Joseph Beuys’s flight suit set to music, etc. The figure of the actor Erich von Stroheim, omnipresent in Michel Aubry’s films, has found its way into the exhibition as the Erich Puppet, a work belonging to the FRAC Basse-Normandie Collection.
In this revival, La Loge des Fratellini appears with some variants, and is accompanied by new works shown in the second exhibition area. The giant costume of a shaman, associated here with the magical figure of Joseph Beuys—another recurring presence in Michel Aubry’s work—and the development of a new piece created on the basis of Mise en musique de la combinaison de vol de Beuys avant le crash 1942 [Musical setting for Beuys’s flight suit before the crash 1942], represent multiple incursions into personal mythologies of artists who have continuously enriched the history of art.
EXHIBITION
La loge des Fratellini
From november 28th, 2015 to February 7th, 2016
Frac Basse Normandie
9 rue Vaubenard
14000 Caen
France
http://www.frac-bn.org
