Clemence Wolff - Gallery Magda Danysz
An exhibition, about painting, feelings and breaking limits. Some young trendy painters decide to face each other, their masters or their devils. Chase the Dragon gives us the opportunity to see on the one hand the works of several young painters: Kosta Kulundzic, Axel Pahlavi and Jerome Zonder. And on the other hand, the already stars of the profession: Larry Clark, Dado or the filmmaker Gaspard Noe'.
The gallery Magda Danysz hosts from January 8th to February
26th a chic and rock exhibition, about painting, feelings and
breaking limits. Some young trendy painters decide to face each
other, their masters or their devils. Chase the Dragon gives us
the opportunity to see on the one hand the works of several
young painters, fixated on surpassing themselves: Kosta
Kulundzic, Axel Pahlavi and Jérôme Zonder. And on the other
hand, the already stars of the profession: Larry Clark, Dado or
the filmmaker Gaspard Noé.
Chase the Dragon refers to the “high” you get the first time you
try a drug. The drug will slowly become an obsession and will
lead you into a never ending quest for that shiver you got the
first time. Painting becomes a drug, the sensations it gives are
so intense but at the same time hardly distrainable. Each artist
inhales the world to spit it back out like one does with opium
and creates works that are drug shots for him, intense.
These artists build an eccentric world; they paint their
own world, but without following classic conventions.
Their works shout at us, we can’t just ignore them. Some
are quite extreme like the dark and tortuous world of
Jérôme Zonder, others are mystical like Axel Pahlavi’s or
funnily gore as Kosta Kulundzic’s dragons. From the
frontal impact of Larry Clark’s photographs, to the
disconcerting experiments in Gaspard Noé’s films or the
Dado’s powerful works, all these artists are looking for
the creative shiver, as intense as the first time.
Press contact: Clémence Wolff, +33 (0)1 43 57 79 78, clemence@mnacommunication.com
Opening on Saturday, January 8th, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm.
Gallery Magda Danysz
78 Rue Amelot, Paris 11
free admission