Mrzyk & Moriceau
27 Jan - 03 Mar 2012
MRZYK & MORICEAU
Poppies are also Flowers 1/4
27 January - 3 March, 2012
«Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd»: among Deleuze and Guattari’s most–quoted quips this one could be applied not only to MRZYK & MORICEAU’s drawings, but also – and more specifically – to the first sculpture in Poppies are Also Flowers, the four–part series being showcased at Air de Paris until the summer of 2012. Why ? Because these are works positively seething with characters and situations. Because the
proliferation of ideas in each builds up detail and jumbles associations. And because beneath those black lines are shapes generating situations which in turn generate more situations, defying all our efforts to raise the curtain that keeps the process hidden.
Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau have been collaborating since 1998. During these last years they have had many individual exhibitions (Ratio 3, Los Angeles ; La Caixa, Barcelone ; Villa Arson, Nice...) as well as group shows (Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier ; le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine ; Loftprojekt ETAGI, Saint-Petersbourg ; Bétonsalon, Paris...). The works of Mrzyk et Moriceau are in many French and American collections, both public and private, such as FNAC, les FRAC Poitou Charentes, Pays de la Loire, Ile-de-France, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, du MoMA, New-York et du LACMA, Los Angeles. They have also made music videos for Air and Sébastien Tellier. Their new website 1000dessins.com is now on line.
Poppies are also Flowers 1/4
27 January - 3 March, 2012
«Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd»: among Deleuze and Guattari’s most–quoted quips this one could be applied not only to MRZYK & MORICEAU’s drawings, but also – and more specifically – to the first sculpture in Poppies are Also Flowers, the four–part series being showcased at Air de Paris until the summer of 2012. Why ? Because these are works positively seething with characters and situations. Because the
proliferation of ideas in each builds up detail and jumbles associations. And because beneath those black lines are shapes generating situations which in turn generate more situations, defying all our efforts to raise the curtain that keeps the process hidden.
Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau have been collaborating since 1998. During these last years they have had many individual exhibitions (Ratio 3, Los Angeles ; La Caixa, Barcelone ; Villa Arson, Nice...) as well as group shows (Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier ; le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine ; Loftprojekt ETAGI, Saint-Petersbourg ; Bétonsalon, Paris...). The works of Mrzyk et Moriceau are in many French and American collections, both public and private, such as FNAC, les FRAC Poitou Charentes, Pays de la Loire, Ile-de-France, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, du MoMA, New-York et du LACMA, Los Angeles. They have also made music videos for Air and Sébastien Tellier. Their new website 1000dessins.com is now on line.