"Finissage Marc Rossignol - Salon de Dames on Sunday afternoon 20.07 with performance by the artist.

Viewed in its totality, the work of Marc Rossignol can be quite bewildering. It assumes so many different forms and deploys so many different material techniques and conceptual methods; from traditional painting, sculpted objects, and assemblage work to actions and performance pieces. Despite these manifest differences, at a deeper level it operates according to precise and thoroughly consistent criteria. Most crucial of these is the axis he strikes between difference and singularity as philosophical concepts, which leads to a rejection of individualism, on the one hand, and of the collective subject with pretensions towards universalization on the other. For Rossignol, the work of art is produced socially. It is made out of the complex stuff of social exchange. Art is a material practice that figures in the domain of Language and languages in its absolute diversity. In this respect, the artist is just one category of social being amongst many: one who happens to adhere to the value system that we call art as a matter of choice. He is first and foremost a ‘risk-taker’ and an ‘experimenter’ who is always pushing towards the limits of his own knowledge and experience out of social engagement and a sense of shared responsibility. In Rossignol’s case this shows itself as endless playfulness and this is the point at which the unifying force of ‘singularity’ comes to the surface despite its material diversity." excerpt text by Jon Thompson "Marc Rossignol: The Singular and The Various." 2006

Artists: Marc Rossignol