Sacha Rappo
Sacha Rappo

La main-pleur/Das Hand-Bluten proposes an encounter with the recent works of ten artists. With no constraints as to form or theme, the exhibition nevertheless carries with it the vague consistency of contemporaneity, offering different approaches to reshaping the distribution of the symbolic and the concrete.

The artists often employ a manual approach, using natural, found, simple or poor materials. They leave aside accepted codes, instead starting out again from where they find themselves, seeking personal, collective, felt stories. The time of progress and overall perspectives is no more. Possible accounts fill an abstract void of alternatives and niche works fill the art space, spitting, overflowing, ritualizing and soothing the intertwining of living things and places.

A concern for ecology is present in the modesty of means. This inhabits the craft aesthetic, the spontaneous, found, hijacked forms, like so many appeals from elsewhere, appeals for other, less certain, less valid visions. Stranger, daring, honest, kitsch forms capture emotions to touch us. The works affirm that something else can be affirmed. And not without contradictions or ecstasy but with no compass, La main-pleur now gives itself up to this.

Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
17.12 – 19.2.2023
with the works of
Chiara Bertin - Guillaume Dénervaud Julie Folly - Margaux Huber - JEREMY - Jordan Selophane - Sacha Rappo - Rebecca Solari - Remy Ugarte Vallejos - René Walker

Photos: Guillaume Python

Sacha Rappo is an artist living and working in Fribourg. Embracing a real economy of means and material insecurity, he highlights accidents specific to the conservation of works, isolating fragments and reversing phenomena of scale. Any travel he undertakes is sustainable, modest and yet meaningful, like the footnote to a scholarly publication.

fracture-croissant 9, 2022, 127 × 68.5 × 142 cm, Saint-Triphon limestone, glass, steel, wood, carpet anti-vibration
fracture-croissant 10, 2022, 100 × 44 × 16 cm, Saint-Triphon limestone, part of the bench

La main-pleur/Das Hand-Bluten proposes an encounter with the recent works of ten artists. With no constraints as to form or theme, the exhibition nevertheless carries with it the vague consistency of contemporaneity, offering different approaches to reshaping the distribution of the symbolic and the concrete.

The artists often employ a manual approach, using natural, found, simple or poor materials. They leave aside accepted codes, instead starting out again from where they find themselves, seeking personal, collective, felt stories. The time of progress and overall perspectives is no more. Possible accounts fill an abstract void of alternatives and niche works fill the art space, spitting, overflowing, ritualizing and soothing the intertwining of living things and places.

A concern for ecology is present in the modesty of means. This inhabits the craft aesthetic, the spontaneous, found, hijacked forms, like so many appeals from elsewhere, appeals for other, less certain, less valid visions. Stranger, daring, honest, kitsch forms capture emotions to touch us. The works affirm that something else can be affirmed. And not without contradictions or ecstasy but with no compass, La main-pleur now gives itself up to this.

Sacha Rappo is an artist living and working in Fribourg. Embracing a real economy of means and material insecurity, he highlights accidents specific to the conservation of works, isolating fragments and reversing phenomena of scale. Any travel he undertakes is sustainable, modest and yet meaningful, like the footnote to a scholarly publication.

fracture-croissant 9, 2022, 127 × 68.5 × 142 cm
Saint-Triphon limestone, glass, steel, wood, carpet anti-vibration
fracture-croissant 10, 2022, 100 × 44 × 16 cm
Saint-Triphon limestone, part of the bench

Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
17.12 – 19.2.2023
with the works of
Chiara Bertin - Guillaume Dénervaud Julie Folly - Margaux Huber - JEREMY - Jordan Selophane - Sacha Rappo - Rebecca Solari - Remy Ugarte Vallejos - René Walker

Photos: Guillaume Python