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For L.F.D.A. 02.Shattered, broken walls, three polystyrene beams left hanging, the remains of a chimneypiece. It’s a bedroom, as the title suggests, a child’s bedroom as we can see from the drawings sweets, chocolates, cakes etc. decorating its walls ; but a bedroom which is shown ruined and destroyed with incredible violence, reminder of the bombed-out buildings of two World Wars, silent witnesses of past horrors. La chambre de Schulz is above all a place of commemoration. Painter, draughtsman and writer Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jew born at the end of the 19th century. During the Second World War he became the protégé, in spite of himself, of Felix Landau, a Nazi officer who commissioned him to paint a fairytale mural on his son’s bedroom wall, in exchange for his life. Since 1988, when Stéphane Calais discovered Schulz’s work at an exhibition, he has constantly sought to find new ways to pay tribute to the Polish-born artist’s extraordinary, tragic story. In La chambre de Schulz, Stéphane Calais continues his exploration of the limits of representation. [M.A.] Stéphane CalaisVarying shapes, styles, themes and references, the work of Stéphane Calais is difficult to close into precise and defined aesthetic coherence. With his putting art history into question as his only constant, his sculptures, paintings, installations and wall drawings result from a continually renewed exploration of each media's properties. In perpetual change, his hybrid and heterogeneous words develops organically, seeming each time to redefine the conditions of its existence. [M. A.] Stéphance Calais was born in Arras in 1967.
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