Royal Book Lodge, Montreuil, Grand Paris

Kai Althoff, Abel Auer, Véronique Bourgoin, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Andy Hope 1930, Dorota Jurczac, Armin Krämer, Jonathan Meese, Ralph Rumney, Juli Susin, Claudia Washington

Gold transcends its own materiality. Born of the violence of stellar collapse, it carries within its atoms the distant memory of exploding stars. A celestial matter that has traversed the cosmos to rest today in the palm of a hand. It represents an absolute paradox between the venal and the divine. The densest of substances, gold is at once remedy and poison, altar and tomb of a civilisation blinded by its blazing greed.

 

“Golden Horizons” explores the alchemical dimension where gold becomes the driving force of a world’s transformation, creating the passage from the ineffable to the tangible. The invited artists seize upon its material depth as a conductor of energy and a conceptual source. Gold takes form through fusion, in the fragility of a leaf or the volatility of pigment. It is surface and threshold, hypnosis and promise.

 

At the heart of this proposal, a selection of artists’ books — intimate recesses of thought and touch — enters into dialogue with other works: prints, ceramics, and drawings.

 

Royal Book Lodge invites the public to discover gold as a vector of memory, transformation, and resonance.

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