{"id":2023,"date":"2022-05-29T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/?page_id=2023"},"modified":"2023-04-01T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T10:10:35","slug":"jorge-molder-09-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/jorge-molder-09-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"JORGE MOLDER 09.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2023\" class=\"elementor elementor-2023\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4d266d7 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"4d266d7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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elementor-element-313929e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"313929e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><br \/>Bernard Bouche is pleased to present an exhibition of Jorge Molder from Saturday, September 14. We will present his new series called Malgr\u00e9 Lui.<\/p><p>Jorge Molder was born in Lisbon in 1947. A numerous number of personal exhibitions in Portugal and abroad have been dedicated to him.<br \/>Jorge Molder's work has a close connection with philosophy and literature. His work draws a taste of the dark sides of the soul, for a fine handling of ambiguities. It is the metaphysical side of human being's daily life that interests interested Molder. He amplifies the subject though his own image, and not without irony, seems to be confronting with himself as with a stranger. Beyond the self-representation or introspection, out of his own image, or his metaphorical images, creates a work material on which he tries to bring a reflection on the being and on time.<\/p><p>As the critic by Nuno Lucas da Costa explains on this series Malgr\u00e9 lui which was recently presented at the Institute Cam\u00f5es in Luxembourg:\n\"The succession of symmetrically aligned portraits appears to us as a film redrawing a lifetime. Jorge Molder studied philosophy and worked in the penitentiary services of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice as a psychologist, before taking his real momentum as a photographer. All of the fifteen photos have different facial expressions, as the reactions to different memories. To the famous oscillating pendulum of Schopenhauer - between boredom and misfortune, Molder's portraits bring other non-binary variations, going from astonishment to denial and fear. The inventory is not presented as a final one, but more of an unfinished search in the desire to find his own person. Molder answers to himself and to no one else. \"<\/p><p>The text below was written by this artist. He delivers his thoughts through it :<\/p><p>Hit him hard on his head! Harder! You'll see that it stops moving. It's always like that.<br \/>Visibly disturbing and \/ or almost at breaking point, this sentence semms to me to be a good gateway to this collection of images that I decided to call Malgr\u00e9 lui (In spite of himself), without yet knowing all the implications of this choice.<br \/>A few days ago, I was talking to a friend about some of the photos I took a little over 30 years ago in a caf\u00e9 in Lisbon, perhaps the oldest. I had spent a few days observing the waiters, how they moved, when they took a break, their gestures when serving and, above all, their idle moments. In those days, Lisbon was a more peaceful city, and it was natural to wait for customers. Then the waiter, always a patient man, was waiting for the customer with his metal tray placed like a briefcase under his arm, dressed in his funeral tuxedo.<br \/>Being a friend of the caf\u00e9 owners, I was allowed to take photographs in the cafe when closed, taking advantage of the friendly collaboration of the waiters who obviously did not expect any order from any customer. It must be said in passing that they found some of my whims very strange. The one with the tray serves as the perfect exemple: I have made countless images of this situation, images I always questioned with great attention, constantly asking myself which of my shots best described the attitude. I concluded that the readability I was looking for was in one of the images where time was stretched and the sharpness less.<\/p><p>Memory of this episode led me to the series that I am now exhibiting, where life mixes with death. Like the waiters - the English word defines much better this pausing and anticipation - Malgr\u00e9 Lui is also characterized by mouvement towards something and waiting for something final which will happen one day.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, we can anticipate an infinity of masks showing a great variety of characteristics including those where movement has come to its ultimate stop, if there has ever been movement.<br \/>But when I think about time, I realize that I have always worked for its innumerable ploys, its aways and means that astonish us when we become aware of them, the aspects of change and so many other minor and great accidents impossible to enumerate.<\/p><p>That is why I think it is inevitable to strike, to strike hard, to strike with conviction, even if it is only one of those desires that pass, that end up disappearing like everything else.<\/p><p>Jorge Molder<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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Jorge Molder est n\u00e9 \u00e0 Lisbonne en 1947. De nombreuses expositions personnelles au Portugal et en Europe lui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 consacr\u00e9es.L\u2019\u0153uvre de Jorge Molder entretient un lien \u00e9troit avec la philosophie et la litt\u00e9rature. Son travail y puise un go\u00fbt pour les lieux d&rsquo;ombre de l&rsquo;\u00e2me, pour une m\u00e9t\u00e9orologie fine des ambigu\u00eft\u00e9s. Et c&rsquo;est bien le c\u00f4t\u00e9 m\u00e9taphysique qui traverse le quotidien de tout \u00eatre humain qui int\u00e9resse Molder. Il amplifie le sujet par le biais de sa propre image et l&rsquo;artiste, non sans ironie, semble se confronter \u00e0 lui-m\u00eame en tant qu&rsquo;\u00e9tranger. Se situant au-del\u00e0 de l&rsquo;auto-repr\u00e9sentation ou de l&rsquo;introspection, Jorge Molder fait de son image, ou de ses images m\u00e9taphoriques, un mat\u00e9riau \u00e0 travers lequel il tente une r\u00e9flexion sur l&rsquo;\u00eatre au monde et sur le temps. Comme l&rsquo;explique le critique Nuno Lucas da Costa, sur cette s\u00e9rie Malgr\u00e9 lui qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e \u00e0 l&rsquo;institut Cam\u00f5es au Luxembourg: \u00ab\u00a0La succession de portraits sym\u00e9triquement align\u00e9s nous appara\u00eet telle la pellicule d\u2019un film qui retrace toute une vie. Pendant cette m\u00eame vie, Jorge Molder a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 la philosophie et travaill\u00e9 dans les services p\u00e9nitentiaires du minist\u00e8re de la Justice portugais en tant que psychologue, avant de prendre son v\u00e9ritable \u00e9lan en tant que photographe. Les quinze photos pr\u00e9sentent toutes des expressions faciales diff\u00e9rentes, comme des r\u00e9actions \u00e0 diff\u00e9rents souvenirs. Au fameux pendule de Schopenhauer oscillant entre l\u2019ennui et le malheur, les portraits de Molder apportent d\u2019autres d\u00e9clinaisons non binaires, qui vont de l\u2019\u00e9tonnement au reniement en passant par l\u2019effroi. L\u2019inventaire se pr\u00e9sente comme non d\u00e9finitif et une recherche inachev\u00e9e de sa personne se poursuit. Molder doit rendre des comptes \u00e0 lui-m\u00eame et \u00e0 personne d\u2019autre.\u00a0\u00bb Ci-dessous, un texte de l&rsquo;artiste lui-m\u00eame, une r\u00e9flexion autour de ses travaux r\u00e9cents. Tape-le fort sur la t\u00eate! Encore plus fort! Tu vas voir que \u00e7a s&rsquo;arr\u00eate de bouger. C&rsquo;est toujours comme \u00e7a.Apparemment d\u00e9concertante et\/ou presque en \u00e9tat de rupture, cette phrase me semble \u00eatre une bonne porte d&rsquo;entr\u00e9e \u00e0 ce recueil d&rsquo;images que j&rsquo;ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d&rsquo;appeler\u00a0Malgr\u00e9 lui,\u00a0sans bien encore conna\u00eetre tous les tenants de ce choix.Il y a quelques jours, je parlais \u00e0 une personne amie de certaines photos que j&rsquo;ai prises il y a un peu plus de trente ans dans un caf\u00e9 de Lisbonne, peut-\u00eatre le plus ancien. J&rsquo;avais pass\u00e9 quelques jours \u00e0 observer les serveurs, leurs mouvements, leurs pauses, leurs gestes de pr\u00e9paration et, surtout, leur attente. \u00c0 cette \u00e9poque, Lisbonne \u00e9tait une ville plus paisible, et il \u00e9tait naturel d&rsquo;attendre les clients. Alors le serveur, cet homme patient, attendait le client avec le plateau m\u00e9tallique plac\u00e9 comme un porte-documents sous le bras de son smoking fun\u00e8bre.Etant ami des patrons du caf\u00e9, j&rsquo;ai \u00e9t\u00e9 autoris\u00e9 \u00e0 prendre les photographies dans le caf\u00e9 ferm\u00e9, en b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiant de la collaboration des serveurs qui n&rsquo;attendaient \u00e9videmment aucune commande d&rsquo;aucun client. Il faut dire au passage qu&rsquo;ils ont trouv\u00e9 certains de mes caprices tr\u00e8s \u00e9tranges. Celui du plateau est exemplaire : j&rsquo;ai fait d&rsquo;innombrables images de cette situation, des images que j&rsquo;ai fr\u00e9quent\u00e9es assid\u00fbment avec une attention tr\u00e8s grande, me demandant sans cesse lequel de mes clich\u00e9s rendait le geste le plus \u00e9vident. J&rsquo;en ai conclu que la visibilit\u00e9 que je cherchais se trouvait dans l&rsquo;une des images o\u00f9 le temps avait l\u00e9g\u00e8rement tra\u00een\u00e9 et o\u00f9 la nettet\u00e9 \u00e9tait moindre. Cette rem\u00e9moration m&rsquo;a conduit \u00e0 la s\u00e9rie que j&rsquo;expose maintenant, o\u00f9 la vie se m\u00eale tant \u00e0 la mort. Comme les serveurs que j&rsquo;ai appel\u00e9s \u00ab\u00a0Waiters\u00a0\u00bb &#8211; vu que le mot anglais permet de mieux voir cette pause et cette anticipation &#8211; ici, dans\u00a0Malgr\u00e9 lui,\u00a0il y a aussi un mouvement d&rsquo;approche et d&rsquo;attente de quelque chose d&rsquo;ultime qui se produira un jour. Jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 ce point, nous pouvons anticiper une infinit\u00e9 de masques auxquels nous pouvons attribuer les caract\u00e9ristiques les plus diverses dont celle o\u00f9 ils cessent un jour de bouger, si tant est qu&rsquo;ils aient jamais boug\u00e9.Mais en r\u00e9fl\u00e9chissant au temps, je me rends compte que finalement j&rsquo;ai toujours travaill\u00e9 en fonction de ses innombrables stratag\u00e8mes, ses fa\u00e7ons qui nous surprennent lorsque nous percevons ses marques, ses transformations et tant d&rsquo;autres petits et grands accidents impossibles \u00e0 \u00e9num\u00e9rer. Et aussi le temps qui r\u00e9unit, qui fait grandir et qui parvient \u00e0 l&rsquo;effonterie de donner du sens \u00e0 tout ce qui t\u00f4t ou tard dispara\u00eetra. C&rsquo;est pourquoi je pense qu&rsquo;il est in\u00e9vitable de frapper, de frapper fort, de frapper avec conviction, m\u00eame s&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit seulement d&rsquo;un de ces d\u00e9sirs qui passent, qui finissent par dispara\u00eetre comme tout le reste. Jorge Molder \u00a92022 All rights reserved Galerie Bernard BoucheMentions l\u00e9gales &#8211; Politique de confidentialit\u00e9<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}