Marfret presents the inaugural exhibition of its gallery at 13 Quai de la Joliette (13002 Marseille).
42 jours, Yvan Salomone, from 25 June to 6 September 2024
Free entry from Monday to Friday, 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Reservations required for groups at 04 91 56 91 00
42 jours is the result of artist Yvan Salomone’s residency, which began in Le Havre in November 2019 aboard the container ship Marfret Guyane. A double crossing of the Atlantic in 42 days with 11 stops, destined for Brazil, during which he shared the daily life of the 22 crew members and witnessed a unique ballet between men and machines.
« From this several-week journey, Salomone did not bring back any documentary account, no reportage on the life of sailors, the fortunes and misfortunes at sea, no fantastic story nor any frightening or comic anecdote: [but] twelve watercolors and a captivating film of just over an hour and forty minutes […] The watercolors were not painted on board but upon return, based on photographs or film stills, in accordance with the method employed by the artist since 1991: nothing fundamentally distinguishes them from the rest of his work. » Didier Semin
Discover Yvan Salomone’s work : https://ddabretagne.org/fr/artistes/yvan-salomone/oeuvres
A Parallèle production for Marfret.