Precarious shelters
by Annick Mischler
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
"I think of those lamentable clamors which in primitive civilizations accompanied the dying of the light every evening, and they suddenly seem so well-founded that I prepare to hear the whole city burst into sobs behind me."
Nicolas Bouvier - The Use of the World
In her series Precarious Shelters, Annick Mischler examines the human community through shelter and housing, sensitive places of exchange, from the inside to the outside, from oneself to the other, from here to elsewhere. The shelters, whether collective or mobile, could have been abandoned, an idea corroborated by the absence of any human figure.
Where are we? In the city? In the countryside? At the side of a road? At a dead end?
By attracting them first with the false simplicity of the forms, by disorienting them with unexpected plays of colors, Annick Mischler leaves the spectators the care - the freedom - to read and tell their own stories.
What is immediately striking about Annick Mischler's painting is the expression of her touch, minimal and direct, readable and intriguing. It is about painting what she sees, about rendering all the intensity of her gaze. The colors vibrate, and the drips of her paint material testify to her gesture, deeply poetic and controlled, powerful.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
Annick Mischler
Annick Mischler, born in 1978, trained at the Ecole supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, the city where she lives and works.
In his painting, color and the trace-gesture are the dynamics of exploration and experimentation which open up fields of research (commonly called series).
