Vincent Beaurin at MAAB Gallery / Milan

Vincent Beaurin / NUN


Curated by Domenico de Chirico


October 5 – 16 November, 2018


MAAB Gallery 
via Nerino 3 
20123 Milano 

The MAAB Gallery is pleased to present Nun, a solo show by the French artist Vincent Beaurin
(1960; he lives and works in Paris).

In Egyptian mythology, Nun was one of the Ogdoad, the eight divinities that formed the
primordial forces descended from the essence of Chaos: Nun, an entity of the primordial
waters, was an ether without volume or form; it was inert from the very beginning and
extended throughout the cosmos. In the same way, the statues by Beaurin, made specifically
for this exhibition in Milan, are solids with ancestral forms representing possible entities; they
gain their strength from the unstable profiles that are made and unmade during the
production process.

An inquiry into form is joined to a great interest in colour vibrations and light in the works
titled
Ocelles, polystyrene tondi covered with small fragments of glass and that are like the
round, pigmented marks that adorn the coats of various animals. In these works the tonal
changes determine an overcoming of the formal seriality of the object, and the treatment of
the material questions its boundaries.

The show is backed by a bilingual catalogue (Italian and English) with a critical essay by
Domenico de Chirico.