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This project follows an earlier project the artist developed around a road sign featuring a full black square indicting dangerous materials (skol, Montreal, 1999). There again, according to a revelatory schism, it was the functional sign that appeared abstract and conceptual while its artistic counterpart, referencing the pure and empty forms of abstraction in art, took on suddenly an ironic, concrete, functional and pathetic incarnation. Today, largely thanks to his double and paradoxical competence, both pragmatic and conceptual, Michel De Broin becomes engineer, and suggests another machine for producing concepts. The machine works on a system of suction and expiration through which a form turns inside out like a glove. It transforms the inside into outside in one immanent movement, according to a solid dialectic, and allows us thus to see in the work concepts as essential to the logic of thought as those of the ensemble, inclusion, exclusion, limits, inside, outside.
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