Mankind, creator of the great global park of abstractions
In 2014, Gérard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault represented France in China under the aegis of the French Ministry of Foreign affairs.
In a 3,000m2 space, they displayed their best known trilogy, The Trilogy of the Moderns.
This project, which has been hosted by major museums the world over is inscribed in the continuity of the history of art in that it represents, from a contemporary perspective, humanity’s great themes and quests: migrations, freedom and oppression. (Part I – Metamorphosis).
It speaks to the current tendency to the museification of the living, to the incapacity to face up to the ineluctable disappearance of languages and cultures, and the voluntary effacement of a collective memory. (Part II – Hypothesis).
The last part of the trilogy shows modern man with his new Hollywood iconographies and comic books, his desires for eternal youth, his frenetic consumerism. A world of absolute, excessive happiness. (Part III – Wonderful World).
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