AMZ is a “world work” with three mobile parts featuring more than 100 participants. This is the scenario:
A is the matrix of the work, consisting of one hundred bare canvases stretched on a frame, in different sizes, rectangular, round or oval, and standard formats.” Part A is in the collection of the Frac Pays de la Loire in Carquefou.
Part M is currently being taken in charge. To take charge of painting M means choosing one from the hundred paintings of A and actualizing it in the same color as the wall on which it is hung, in a reduced format and with great freedom. The rule is that the surface of canvas M is reduced in relation to canvas A according to two parameters: the distance between M and A – the further away, the greater the reduction – and the time at which it is taken in charge – the later you enter the process, the greater the reduction ratio.
Z, the third part, has not yet been taken in charge. It includes 100 papers whose dimensions will show the surface difference between each replica M and its model A.
“the three parts are in constant interaction. (…) AMZ is an optimistic work that does not simply affirm that painting is dead but projects itself into the future, into the era's horizon, asking as many people as possible to do the same. asking the question: under what conditions is painting still possible? (…) it is a question of confronting the present time, of asking: what is painting today and where can it find its place? we will only be able to ask these questions by taking painting to the extreme in its return to the real. (…) the heart of AMZ, part A, will therefore briefly stabilize when the hundred paintings have been taken in charge." claude rutault