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7/9/2012

Sophie Calle / Klara Kristalova

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

Sophie Calle

Pour la derniere et pour la premiere fois

A set of 14 recent films entitled “Voir la mer” (2011) and a new series La Dernière Image (The Last Image) shot in 2010 in Istanbul are displayed, alongside with older photographs, Aveugles (Blind), 1986.

“I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.”

“The Last Image”, realised in 2010 in Istanbul, once named the “city of the blind”, gives voice to men and women who have lost their sight and asks them to describe the last image they remember, their last memory of the visible world.

“I went to Istanbul, a city surrounded by water, I met people who had never seen the sea. I filmed their first time.”

In Voir la mer Sophie Calle has invited people from Istanbul, most of whom coming from the interior of Turkey, to see the sea for the first time, through the lens of Caroline Champetier’s camera.
For more than three decades, Sophie Calle, has made of her life — especially the most intimate moments — her works, using all forms of media (books, videos, photographs, performances…). She is now considered as one of the most important artists of our time.

Blind has been published recently by Actes Sud and Moi Aussi has been launched by Éditions 591 on the series Rituel d’Anniversaire. The book issued by Xavier Barral extends the exhibition Rachel, Monique, presented at the Palais de Tokyo in 2010 and at the Festival d’Avignon in 2012 at Eglise des Célestins

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Klara Kristalova

Wild Thought

Galerie Perrotin, Paris is pleased to present Klara Kristalova’s solo show “Wild Thought”, from September 8th to October 27th , 2012.
New ceramic works in small and medium sized formats as well as two sculptures in bronze patina (“Deer”, 2012 and “Girl with flower”, 2011) will be exhibited.

She will also have a solo show at the Gothenburg Museum of Art in Sweden from September 1st, 2012 to February 3rd, 2013.
The artist, who was born in 1967 in ex-Czechoslovakia, grew up in Stockholm.

After studying painting at the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden, she dedicated herself to ceramics among others. Its characteristics, along with the concrete possibilities of being able to work this material rapidly while combining it with astonishing colours and three-dimensional shapes, fascinate Klara Kristalova who uses ceramics to create a fantastic and sometimes disturbing universe. As the artist explains: “I needed to find my own language to share with others. An obvious and simple language that in some way could be universal.”

Kristalova’s universe, inspired by the popular imagination of Northern Europe, the tradition of fairy tales and the observation and direct contact with nature, is peopled with solitary figures, often young girls and animals (hares, donkeys, birds, peppered moths) and chimera that are half way between the Animal and Plant Kingdoms. These characters, who are at once pure and disruptive, evolve in an oneiric world between dream and nightmare.

Rather than featuring myths or relying on an immediate symbolism, the artist plays upon the ambiguity and ambivalence of her figures, suspended between innocence and danger, beauty and repulsion, attraction and fear. The gracious and striking aspect of her sculptures, covered with a bright varnish in fact recall the world of childhood, haloed with an aura of mystery and strangeness.

Her icons (a man with a donkey’s head, tree-women, young girls with faces covered with butterflies and birds or drowning in black puddles) emerge from her unconscious, translate her emotions and thus possess a fascinating and impenetrable power.

Image: Sophie Calle
Voir la mer, 2011 (détail / detail) © Adagp, Paris 2012, Courtesy Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong & Paris

Opening Saturday, September 8, h 16

Galerie Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris
Hours: tue -sat 11-19
Admission free

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