Group Exhibition
17 Jan - 07 Mar 2009
The exhibition “le songe d’ une nuit d’ hiver” presents a selection of works, for most of them recent,by artists from the gallery. It creates a suspended time between the imaginary and reality, just beforedawn. Chimerical, romantic, utopian, or politic dreams mix together to form a final and collective one.
“Naufragé sur un lit de moquette” by Florence Doléac is a device for collective rest that has multipleposition possibilities, it is constituted of an assembly of balls filled of air of different dimensionsmaintained by a cover of woven wool; the scotish pixelized motifs evoke a numerical allegory ofthe beautiful and tormented blue sea. The souple contours of the giant “tielle” (culunary specialityfrom Sete, an octipous torta with tomatoes and spices) can save a douzen shipwrecked people.In the video “les Dormeurs” by Louidgi Beltrame, twelve young individuals are invited to sleep inthe safes of hiroshimas former bank of Japan, one of the rare buildings that resisted the deflegrationsof the atomic bomb. In this underground space, as silent as a sensory isolation box, individualdreams convert into collective thoughts that symbolically deplace the building. Are thesleepers dreaming or are they dreamt by the concret structure that waits under the tropical rain?In the paradox between their familiar appearences and their inadequacy to are lifes experience,the “misfits” by Thomas Grunfeld found a dialectic of the real and the imaginary. They are capableof shaking our assured and comforting certainties of an unspecified determination of reality.Maybe are they the materialized thoughts of this young sleeping girl that has photograft the dutchartist Arno Nollen? A multitude of interrogations appear before this young women dressed in blue photograftby Frank Perrin that emerges from darkness towards something other even more uncertain andmysterious. When it comes to the japanese artist Kishin Shinoyama, he has been sharpening his eye,insuflating his fundamentales and overcoming the evolution of time and this since four decades. Hereare presented two portraits of the very famous kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando, of which he is theofficial photograf since thirty years. The two drawings « Mystère » and « Dès Que Je Parle » by JulienPrévieux appear to us as suspended signs, black on a white background. These anonymous annotationshave been carefully picked out of books having themselves been studied in length. The artisthas reproduced the many pathes left behind by strangers, the deplaced lines and words changeand evolve opening on all new perspectives. Out of their context such indications seem to becomeothers Finally the Atelier Van Lieshout proposes a giant bed with food, alcohol, weapons, televisionand a library conceived for six people. It is illustrated by the utopian drawing “Commune Bed” from1999, realized just before the creation of the independent state of AVL city in the Rotterdam port.
“Naufragé sur un lit de moquette” by Florence Doléac is a device for collective rest that has multipleposition possibilities, it is constituted of an assembly of balls filled of air of different dimensionsmaintained by a cover of woven wool; the scotish pixelized motifs evoke a numerical allegory ofthe beautiful and tormented blue sea. The souple contours of the giant “tielle” (culunary specialityfrom Sete, an octipous torta with tomatoes and spices) can save a douzen shipwrecked people.In the video “les Dormeurs” by Louidgi Beltrame, twelve young individuals are invited to sleep inthe safes of hiroshimas former bank of Japan, one of the rare buildings that resisted the deflegrationsof the atomic bomb. In this underground space, as silent as a sensory isolation box, individualdreams convert into collective thoughts that symbolically deplace the building. Are thesleepers dreaming or are they dreamt by the concret structure that waits under the tropical rain?In the paradox between their familiar appearences and their inadequacy to are lifes experience,the “misfits” by Thomas Grunfeld found a dialectic of the real and the imaginary. They are capableof shaking our assured and comforting certainties of an unspecified determination of reality.Maybe are they the materialized thoughts of this young sleeping girl that has photograft the dutchartist Arno Nollen? A multitude of interrogations appear before this young women dressed in blue photograftby Frank Perrin that emerges from darkness towards something other even more uncertain andmysterious. When it comes to the japanese artist Kishin Shinoyama, he has been sharpening his eye,insuflating his fundamentales and overcoming the evolution of time and this since four decades. Hereare presented two portraits of the very famous kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando, of which he is theofficial photograf since thirty years. The two drawings « Mystère » and « Dès Que Je Parle » by JulienPrévieux appear to us as suspended signs, black on a white background. These anonymous annotationshave been carefully picked out of books having themselves been studied in length. The artisthas reproduced the many pathes left behind by strangers, the deplaced lines and words changeand evolve opening on all new perspectives. Out of their context such indications seem to becomeothers Finally the Atelier Van Lieshout proposes a giant bed with food, alcohol, weapons, televisionand a library conceived for six people. It is illustrated by the utopian drawing “Commune Bed” from1999, realized just before the creation of the independent state of AVL city in the Rotterdam port.