may-july 01
Pierrick Sorin @ Fondation Cartier, 261 bd Raspail, Paris, 15 mars-7 june, more at www.fondation.cartier.fr
Twenty video works of Pierrick Sorin's mockery and almost sarcastic aesthetic are shown at the Fondation Cartier. It is a body of work that spans from the early video installation "Une vie bien remplie" (1994) -where repetitiveness, anxiety and idiocy are dominant-, up to the" projects d'artistes" (2001), where the artist-transvestite impersonates different artists, in order to comment on public art and the banality of art documentaries. From 15/5-7/6.
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"Les Annees Pop" is a large exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, covering any discipline related to popular culture from the period 1956 to 1968. A glamorous show sponsored by Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. The exhibition ends on 18th June.
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Jean-Olivier Hucleux @ Hall of the Palais des Congres, Paris, 09/04 - 08/06
Philippe Richard, "variables atmospheriques" @ Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 06/04 - 03/06
Niele Toroni, "Histoires de Peinture"@Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 06/04 - 16/09, www.paris-france.org
Krzysztof Wodiczko, "Projection a Tijuana" @ gabrielle maubrie, 12 may- july,www.od-arts.com/maubrie
Dario Urzay,
@ Galerie Xippas, 2 june-28 july, www.xippas.com
Emmanuelle
Mafille, "Magic Castel" @ Art:concept, 31 may-4 august
www.galerieartconcept.com
Brice Dellsperger @ Air de Paris, 12-18 june(foire de bale)
www.airdeparis.com
Paul Seawright, "the map et sectarian muder",@ Galerie du Jour Agnes B., until 30 june.
Annelies Strba,"New
Works",@ Almine Rech, 31 may-28 july
www.galeriealminerech.com
Le Corbusier, Jouve, Mategot, Mouille, Noll, Perriand, Prouve, Royere @ Galerie Patrick Seguin,www.patrickseguin.com
Sinceres felicitations @ Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 04/05 - 01/07
Horror Vacui
Horror Vacui
is a group show organized by INIT Foundation presenting four young
artists in Germany :Michaela Eichwald, Kiron Kosla, Kalin Lindela, Markus
Selg.
The term "Horror vacui" was conceived by Aristotle to express
how nature disdains emptiness and thus, is trying to fill up the empty
space. Horror vacui associates to the artist's fear of the white canvas,
yet fits a generation of young artists as well, who expose themselves
to a constant stimulus satiation which opposes and integrates the skepticism
and the critical reservations of the generations before. These artists
respond to the media horror and its flood of images by operating on many
different levels in form and content.
Markus Selg was a member of the Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. His paintings seem to be nourished by a mixture of expressionistic art and computer generated images. His overload canvases show figures, reminiscent of "Jedi" knights in bright colors and an unclear intermingling of patterns . "Kitsch" is so exaggerated that the eye gets lost in the net of ingenious details.
Kalin Lindena comes from the graffiti scene of Braunschweig and she is currently studying at the Academy of the same town. She combines landscape studies with graffiti writings on big wall drawings, while some of them very detailed, become extremely large. In these drawings, a playful mood is expressed with the interference of manmade images within a landscape, as it has been attributed in art through the ages. Apart from her wall drawings she also works on paper and experiments on textile pieces.
Kiron Khosla has an Indian family background and lives in Cologne for the past ten years. His detailed, colorful and figurative paintings make a clear reference to the Asian medieval masterpieces. They Also remind one of fantasy movies, in which the viewer, wandering through these associations gets into the role of the artist.
Michaela Eichwald started her career as a writer and always had close ties with the Cologne Art scene. She started making art in the mid 1990's. Her paintings show female portraits painted in multiple layers, reminiscent of cubist masks, while their specific features seem to be buried under the thickness of color. Her work on silk tends to be lighter, where the irregular stains of colour on the fabric restrain it of any clear definition.
The exhibition runs until 16/06
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