Roman Signer. (exhibit at Anne de Villepoix, Paris)(Reviews)

A garden table's four legs fly away with a bang, while the top crashes, distressingly, to the floor. The flight of a stick of furniture, carried joyously aloft by three orange balloons into the blue sky, then violently stopped in its course by rifle bullets. The absurd efforts of a table mounted on four tin cans to slide over water. The useless resistance of a suitcase, bloated by the pressure of a white balloon swelling inside it like the seed of a nightmare.... These are some of the fifty conflagrations, collapses, flights, imbalances, ruptures, dispersions, and implosions that take place in this video, which is a kind of mid-career retrospective of Roman Signer's work--work …