La Vague

Roque Carmona (Jaén, Spain, 1947), Aldo Guarnera (Geneva, 1937), Heinrich Richard Reimann (Bern, 1938)
Collection : Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC)

La Vague is a sculpture consisting of several monumental elements spread over various locations within a rental estate in the Pâquis district. A product of a collaboration between sculptors Roque Carmona, Aldo Guarnera and Heinrich Richard Reimann, the installation develops as a fluid form that appears and disappears, on the ground, on the walls, outside and inside the buildings of this complex. Like sea foam or telluric eddies, the form undulates on the surface of the architectural features, then burrows into the depths of the walls. Its discontinuous volume of stainless steel sheets contrasts with the light, granular surfaces of the architecture. La Vague combines the organic and the geological, its convulsions emphasizing and accompanying a sober architecture made of geometric lines. Its sinuous curves particularly punctuate the striated ground of the terrace, which was also designed by the three artists. Originally from Spain, Roque Carmona first studied architecture in Geneva before becoming interested in how humans relate to their environment through art. Aldo Guarnera has developed an abstract pictorial practice revolving around geometry and the elementary graphics of the line. Heinrich Richard Reimann has also devoted himself to geometric abstraction, and having created several interventions in public space, he now focuses on watercolor painting.
Article commissioned by P3Art
Notice: Séverine Fromaigeat, translation: Matthew Cunningham

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