SELLE FRANCAIS (Voltige du Vivier)
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SELLE FRANCAIS (Voltige du Vivier)
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This horse is one of twelve life-size paintings from Lara Nickel's monumetal installation, 12 Horses – Homage to Jannis Kounellis. Presented in a non-traditional way (positioned on the ground and installed perpendicularly to the wall), the images of the horses appear to be standing in the room, making the architecture itself the setting of the paintings. Nickel’s 12 Horses – Homage to Jannis Kounellis uses painting as a sculptural intervention, inviting the audience to physically engage with the artwork. Using Kounellis’ original piece as an art historical reference, Nickel’s paintings are not only portraits of horses but painting-as-illusion, painting-as-object, and painting-as-situation.
Voltige du Vivier is a Selle Français mare in the Garge Républicaine (part of the French National Gendarmerie), which is responsible for special security duties in the Paris area and for providing guards of honour at official ceremonies of the French Republic.
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