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Do It Yourself, a set containing a plank, a spatula, a small plate, a box and instructions for use. One step, remove the material, keep it and observe it. Another approach to painting …

Discovering the work of Antoine Stahli Cardaci is above all wanting to understand and to enter in a conscious process.

Varied and multi-facetted items, paintings, objects, installations, performances, Antoine Stahli Cardaci nevertheless adheres to the spirit of the main theme, using a gesture that erases in order to highlight the material, creating a paradox.

Industrial materials, economic means and a physical rapport, creating a gesture that gives a physical presence to the material.

Art magazines put through a mixer to transform paper ready to receive a new work of art which then becomes part of the strictly elitist content of these publications.

He decides to appropriate the object which speaks of art to impose his work and thus to link it to the contents of the magazine … And in so doing to impose it on the world of art.

Paint which is applied and then removed to evoke and highlight the shadow thrown by a stand which is then kept on a plate placed on the stand with the object supporting its own image.

Playful, critical, it is pleasing to look at and moreover scrambles up our traditional view of painting. Apart from this approach to the special process of recycling, his work represents a novel access to the authenticity and truth of the pictorial presentation.

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