Direction Madagascar where until Sunday, the town hall of the urban commune of Antananarivo exhibits about fifteen completely new works by the visual artist Temandrota, originally from the Great South. The exhibition open until May 14th offers the public sculptures and compositions resulting from the recovery and recycling in the series of events outside the walls of the H.
The artist, a great fan of recovery and recycling, offers public sculptures and compositions of great sensitivity, borrowed from poetry and metaphors on the current world. The exhibition entitled “Sorabe sy sary key” (or “Great writings, small figures”, in French) is part of the series of events outside the walls organized on the occasion of the recent inauguration of the H Foundation, the contemporary art center located in the heart of the Malagasy capital.
The installation was baptized “Ambinambe”, named after a lobster fishing village in Anosy from which his father’s family came. Suspended from the ceiling, about thirty wooden paddles. Above them, colorful mats were woven like traps, and strangely sparkling.
Use of Sorbs with founding myths
Further on, in his Maroanake panels (inspired by funerary panels), we find the usual remains of telephone keyboards and shoe soles. The visual artist decided to include Sorbians there. These Malagasy texts in Arabic script recount – among other things – certain founding myths and rites.
“It is a premise of a long work. I have always been attracted to Sorbian since my adolescence. And curious about these ancient manuscripts. I was curious to be able to transpose them today, in this contemporary world of perpetual evolution. I work by trial and error, on the unexpected. That is to say, I work in fragments. I rarely compose my paintings or my sculptures. And at some point, when I put everything together, that’s when I make the piece. “Sorabe sy Sary Kely” also talks about this work process with small pieces that manage to shape large ones. »
The artist always carries an idea of confronting the size between small things and large writings. The exhibition invites you to travel and to question yourself, especially since seeing so many works by Temandrota in Madagascar is rare.