resolute_ly
2019 Montpellier
Installation, 200 painted supermarket shopping bags
Video on this installation :
RESOLUMENT from Stephan BARRON on Vimeo.
An article about Greenwatching In Paul Ardenne’s book Un art écologique, création plasticienne et anthropocène.
Edition La Muette, Bruxelles, 2018, Pages 236 & 245
» 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 way 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… »
Greenwatching, Green dyed communist flag, Size 190×50 cm
Please also watch Greenwatching video-performance and other artworks related to the Greenwatching Art Project