Robert Barry, Samuel Bianchini, On Kawara, Allan McCollum, Mathieu Mercier, Annette Messager - Multiple Art Days - MAD - Art fairmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels -

MULTIPLE ART DAYS - MAD 2015
May 22-24, 2015
Paris, France

We were happy to take part in the first edition of MAD - Multiple Art Days, held at la Maison Rouge / Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris. New yearly event centred on the figure of the publisher, MAD offered during three days a panorama of contemporary publishing practices.

mfc-michèle didier proposed for MAD a series of very heterogeneous artworks; Many seemed to be focused on completely opposed questions, yet all were the result of «severe obsessions». We can clearly distinguish two monomaniac families. The first one gathers individuals showing signs of madness of a serial and repetitive nature, the other one madmen who are more inclined to the carnal, even erotic aspects of the work.

Certain obsessions tend to remain hidden, because of their intimate character:
- Photographs of nude women gathered in the Journal by Mathieu Mercier;
- Erotic drawings in the album entitled Mes dessins secrets by Annette Messager.

While other obsessions are more conceptual, yet as mad as the ones above, turn out to be conventionally easier to reveal:
- Time passed or yet to come by On Kawara in his famous One Million Years;
- Statements by Robert Barry in Something in a Box;
- The vanishing point with Claude Closky in Inside a Triangle;
- The look of Samuel Bianchini on his public in Audience Works;
- 31 billion shapes made by Allan McCollum in The Book of Shapes.