Hans-Jörg Georgi’s “Noah’s Planes” Presented at Christian Berst art brut
On Thursday, the art world was introduced to a pretty remarkable artist, as is often the case at Christian Berst. The gallery that specialises in art brut presented the work of German artist Hans-Jörg Georgi through a large-scale installation made up of pieces of cardboard, and entitled “Noah’s Planes”. Born in 1949, the artist, who lost the use of his legs due to polio, longs for travelling. He quickly began to produce mock-ups, which he was at first reluctant to call art. And his creations indeed remained uncollected until 2001, when Christiane Cuticchio discovered his work and invited him to join the Goldstein studio. Since then, the artist has continued to develop a sensitive work that would take the form of a utopian project in which man and machine would be in osmosis; a project where mock-up spaceships would allow humanity to escape to a better world. His large installation, located at the centre of the gallery, presents some twenty of his real and dreamed-up models of aircraft of all shapes and sizes. A beautiful exhibition to be discovered until 15 January, in parallel with another one held at the Bridge and called “Trésors bruts”.
Text: Pauline Marie Malier
Photos : Marilù Parisi
