ON/green
Montpellier, January - 13 March 2020
Light Installation 2 x 120 x 5 m fluorescent green
ON/green Installation lumineuse de 1000 m2 en vert fluorescent (french version)
ONgreen Podcast for an imaginary visit.
Instagram twitter @technoromanticism
#greenwatching
Day and night installation. Enlighted with black light at night.
ON/GREEN – Shortcut from Wölf Production on Vimeo. Teaser by Léo Brandazzi
This work is part of Stéphan Barron’s Greenwatching series.
Completion of the work with Stéphan Barron : Léo Brandazzi, Marie Cherruel, Océane Laperse…
Everything must be repainted green! That’s the general motto, it’s the trend! After whiter than white, now it’s greener than green!
The phenomenon of greenwashing, already prevalent in economics and marketing, has spread to political parties, the man on the street, and now the art world.
Close your eyes, everything is green!
To play with this manipulation and turn it on its head, Stéphan Barron has created a series of actions and works under the title Greenwatching: smoke Green, see Green, wash Green…
Greenwatching is a series of works. Video, installation, paintings, performances…
This work is in the book by Paul Ardenne Un art écologique, création plasticienne et anthoropocène.
» In 2016, French artist Stéphan Barron, creator of the concept of “Technoromanticism,” echoed a widely shared sentiment when he vehemently condemned the greenwashing that is gradually invading the world of contemporary art. More and more “green,” Barron observes. More and more works are focusing on the environmental state of the world. It’s not yet hegemonic (as we’ve said time and again in these pages, ecological art is slow to establish itself), but it’s an undeniable symptom, a consensual one, of the artistic need to “go green,” to cram ecology into everything, into every work, at every turn, greening museum spaces and other exhibition venues as much as possible. “Everything must be repainted green! That’s the general slogan! It’s the fashion!” protests Barron. He soon responds to this injunction in a childish and visceral manner with Enfumer vert (Smoke Green), one of the plastic creations in his Greenwatching series (in addition to Voir vert (See Green) and Laver vert (Wash Green), without refinement. Enfumer vert: this short video shows a masked man (the artist himself?) armed with a powerful smoke bomb, pacing back and forth and filling the inner courtyard of the La Panacée art center with smoke until it is completely filled… »
Other works related to the project GREENWATCHING :
Juin 2019 – Résolu_ment Installation lumineuse
Transition, performance et film, Biennale de Venise 2019
Prochaines oeuvres de la série.
We would like to thank the patrons who made this work possible:
