Three exhibitions
dal 26/1/2012 al 2/3/2012
Segnalato da
26/1/2012
Three exhibitions
Air de Paris, Paris
Torbjorn Rodland's show consists of fully analogue black and white darkroom prints. Adriana Lara's work steps in before the very appearance of the picture, at the screen level. Pure structures in which the content must, more than ever, be kept inside, the artist litterally making use of their projective dimension. Petra Mrzyk and Jean-Francois Moriceau take over the window of Air de Paris for a continuous exhibition in four chapters, right up to summer 2012.
Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau
Poppies Are Also Flowers 1/4
Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau take over the window of Air de Paris for a continuous exhibition in four chapters, right up to summer 2012.
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.
MRZYK & MORICEAU — Poppys are also Flowers 1/4
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Torbjørn Rødland
Before Behind Above Below
Torbjørn Rødland’s fourth show at Air de Paris consists of fully analogue black and white darkroom prints. The title of the exhibition refers to the complication and violation of the optical space in these photographs — the results of a multiple exposure procedure that does not require any kind of digital intervention.
Far from only challenging the inherent realism of the medium, Rødland’s application of this technique also bears a certain mystical dimension — a recurring inclination in the artist’s work for the past ten years. A feeling of strangeness may be the first effect of these fresh pictures, but they proceed to evoke a sense of disappearance, a paradoxical hollowness. These photographs are indeed before, behind, above and below any conceivable image-making possibilities.
Of Norwegian nationality, Torbjørn RØDLAND lives in Los Angeles. His works have been shown in many personal and group shows : Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Sørlandets KunstMuseum, Kristiansand, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, MAC, Lyon… His works are in many private and public collections (MAC Strasbourg, National Museum of Art and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art Oslo, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, FNAC…)
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Adriana Lara
Scryyns and Interesting Theories
Adriana Lara’s work steps in before the very appearance of the picture, at the screen level. Pure structures in which the content must, more than ever, be kept inside, the artist litterally making use of their projective dimension. She assumes the materiality of the screen as the ground of the work: without any message, in a process of deformation, the medium becomes another medium. The screen is presented as an image, but it is also stretched from its confusion with the flatness of the wall to it becoming a sculpture. The screen’s function as a window to any possible time, public or personal space is in this work conceived as a curtain. Although transparent, it belongs to the foreground, in between us and an infinity of information- the world.
At the other end of the field of existence of the medium, the artist shows « plasma paintings » picking up graphs made according to « interesting theories » : groundless representations, signs without referents, pure messages.
Adriana Lara ( born in 1978) lives and works in Mexico City. Her works have been on show at Gaga Fine Arts in Mexico, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake, the Basel Kunsthalle, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Galeria Comercial Puerto Rico… She founded Perros Negros, a curatorial project with Fernando Mesta as well as Lasser Moderna, a musical project with Emilio Acevedo.
Image: Mrzyk & Moriceau, Sans titre, 2012 Ink on paper — Unique
Opening Friday, January 27 6 PM
Air de Paris
32 rue Louise Weiss - Paris
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