At the invitation of Stéphane Blanquet, Yves Hanggi presents a series of large-scale drawings as part of the exhibition TRANCHÉE RACINE.
TRANCHÉE RACINE is an artistic manifesto initiated by Stéphane Blanquet. Originally an edition of graphic images federating an international group of artists, it became an exhibition, to accompany the monograph DANS LES TÊTES DE STÉPHANE BLANQUET.
Visceral, generous, hypnotic, obsessive, the artists taking part in this exhibition come from all currents and counter-currents. As rebellious, noisy, cruel, generous, non-conformist agitators, they embody the archetype of the divine rascal, which Michel Maffesoli evokes in La Part du Diable: "He favors punctual rebellion, generates liberating heresy, energizes artistic creation, allows founding marginality... Excess, demonism, multiple effervescences of various orders are there, which affirm that Dionysus is indeed the ‘clandestine king’ of that time. [1]".
This rebellious and libertarian spirit is the link between all these artists, a multiplied root, which questions our relationship to sexuality, death, nature, animals, plants, politics, images .... Their creations are as many possibilities and futures which weave their relationship in an open imaginary.
The publication La Tranchée Racine presents, over the course of its 42 issues, more than 500 works and artists from all over the world, including well-known personalities such as Sophie Calle, Raymond Pettibon, Tanaami Keiichi, Andres Serrano and the brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman.
[1] Michel Maffesoli, La Part du Diable, précis de subversion postmoderne, Flammarion, 2002
— Martine Lusardy
Yves Hänggi (Switzerland) is in residency at the Cité internationale des arts as part of the Republic and Canton of Jura program.