Guillaume Lachapelle
29 Jul - 21 Aug 2011
GUILLAUME LACHAPELLE
entre-temps
29 July - 21 August 2011
Guillaume Lachapelle's artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful universes which combine objects of undetermined purpose; in this way, he opens the conventions of our reality to fresh disposition. The architecture of his models - which Lachapelle has recently begun to make with the help of the latest 3-D printing technology - shows motifs originating from the everyday, certainly, but seeming strange, alienating or even uncanny when combined as the artist chooses. A kind of transition between two worlds often appears in Lachapelle's work - for example when the model of a library filled with books curves inwards and reveals a mysterious opening pointing into darkness - these are the artist's references to spaces and occurrences which may be concealed below the surface of outward semblance.
The centrepiece of the exhibition in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a large pedestal with a model that only seems like a miniature abandoned car park initially, with the sparse light of a few arc lamps hardly penetrating the surrounding darkness and rising fog, but when viewed carefully, a surprising spatial and stylistic complexity is revealed. Guillaume Lachapelle is also showing a series of further objects/models and a series of software-generated drawings.
Guillaume Lachapelle holds a fellowship from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec and is a guest at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. More info: http://www.guillaumelachapelle.com
entre-temps
29 July - 21 August 2011
Guillaume Lachapelle's artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful universes which combine objects of undetermined purpose; in this way, he opens the conventions of our reality to fresh disposition. The architecture of his models - which Lachapelle has recently begun to make with the help of the latest 3-D printing technology - shows motifs originating from the everyday, certainly, but seeming strange, alienating or even uncanny when combined as the artist chooses. A kind of transition between two worlds often appears in Lachapelle's work - for example when the model of a library filled with books curves inwards and reveals a mysterious opening pointing into darkness - these are the artist's references to spaces and occurrences which may be concealed below the surface of outward semblance.
The centrepiece of the exhibition in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a large pedestal with a model that only seems like a miniature abandoned car park initially, with the sparse light of a few arc lamps hardly penetrating the surrounding darkness and rising fog, but when viewed carefully, a surprising spatial and stylistic complexity is revealed. Guillaume Lachapelle is also showing a series of further objects/models and a series of software-generated drawings.
Guillaume Lachapelle holds a fellowship from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec and is a guest at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. More info: http://www.guillaumelachapelle.com