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Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot

June 12, 2022 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views.

The greenhouses are shown as autonomous realms sporting a striking contrast between the geometric form of the transparent skin and the organic nature of its content, the plants.
The greenhouses are never represented in their larger context, nor as symbols of contemporary industrialized agriculture. They rather appear as slightly decadent, isolated cathedrals whose interior order is provided by regular metallic structures.

Peinture, 1979

Intérieur de serre, 1979

Les semis, 1976

Serre n°5, 1975

Châssis n°1, 1975

Entrelacs n°4, 1977

Entrelacs n°2, 1976

Entrelacs, 1976

Serre n°2, 1975

Quartz, 1977-79

Culture n°1, 1977

Intérieur de serre, 1978

Serre, 1977

All images © Bernard Moninot.

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