Any Where Out of the World
dal 6/12/2002 al 28/12/2002
Segnalato da
6/12/2002
Any Where Out of the World
Raid Projects, Los Angeles
A flying scape made with a world map, a French flag made with trash clothes, kitsch canvas becoming alive and crazy, a science fiction video made in the streets of Paris.. all these pieces will bring the viewer of this show to a parallel world.
Raid Projects and Triangle-France are very pleased to
announce the opening of :
Any Where Out of the World
Featuring Saâdane Afif, Lina Jabbour, Nicolas Moulin,
Olivier Nottellet, Samuel Rousseau
Opening Reception, Saturday December 7th from 7-10 p.m
Exhibition dates: December 8th-28, 2002
Opening Hours, Friday and Saturday 12 noon to 5 pm
A flying scape made with a world map, a French flag
made with trash clothes, kitsch canvas becoming alive
and crazy, a science fiction video made in the streets
of Paris.. all these pieces will bring the viewer of
this show to a parallel world.
The artists in this exhibition are all resident in
France, but the real link between them is the
particularity of their respective perceptions of
reality. Indeed, each of them has a clear
preoccupation with, (and propensity for), viewing his
or her own environment with the freshness of an
outsider's gaze. By reassessing selected fragments of
the world, as if newly discovered, unknown languages
seem to appear.
In borrowing Baudelaire's English line Any Where Out
of the World, the exhibition title directly evokes the
displacement of context(s), a significant tool for all
of these artists.
As in Baudelaire's use of English, Saadâne Afif,has a
special interest in displacement through language or
languages, creating objects and situations which might
allow him to organize the unclassifiable. In the case
of Lebanese-born Lina Jabbour, her work sustains the
nomadic momentum of peoples displaced by politics and
conflict. The result is often a shantytown esthetic
rendered in purified style- cars made from shopping
bags, for example. In the meantime, Samuel Rousseau
(one of the founders of the famous Brise Glace
artists' squat in alpine Grenoble) has recently been
as likely
to be spotted in Spain or Peru, elaborating his
(mostly video-based) technological primitivism. Mad
dogs inside armchairs, goldfish inside eggs, giants in
houses...this is really video as a means to sculptural
ends. While Messrs Moulin and Nottellet, both more
attached to Paris than the others, seem to rely on its
stately weight to counterbalance a springboard for
fantasy- (rather like Jules Verne, inventing fabulous
voyages from the safety of his Parisian armchair).
In this way, Nicolas Moulin's careful selection of
urban details, make his photographs look like science
fiction, while Olivier Nottellet's drawings examine
and
stretch the strangeness of banal detail first
discovered right under our noses, or in the daily life
at our fingertips.
This exhibition has been made possible with generous
support from: Ville de Marseille, Conseil Régional
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Conseil Général des
Bouches du Rhône, Direction Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Association
Française d'Action Artistique, and the cultural
services of the French Embassy.
We will present the work of London based artists
George Doneo and Peter Lamb who are presently engaged
with our International Artist In Residence Programme
in the Project Space. This project was made possible
by the generous support of the British Consulate in
Los Angeles.
Also showing will be Philippe Jacq with his filmic
exploration of the Mona Lisa/Mona Vanna, in the North
Gallery.
Triangle-France is an international artists' residency
program contactable at:
Friche Belle de Mai, 13331 Marseille cedex 03, France,
triangle@lafriche.org
http://www.lafriche.org/triangle
Raid Projects
602 Moulton Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90031
tel: 323 441 9593