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20/3/2013

Fabrice Hyber

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

Fabrice Hyber (born Luçon, France in 1961) is one of the most inventive and influential artists of his generation. Working across painting, drawing and installation, each work he makes is developed in response to another, becoming part of an interconnected non- hierarchical series. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents the artist’s first large-scale solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition brings together more than thirty works spanning the last twenty-five years, from the iconic early self-portrait Sans titre (autoportrait) 1989, to several new commissions such as Trans parent 2012, a painting visitors experience by walking through layers of the pictorial plane.

Since the 1980s Hyber has created works using an extraordinary array of materials based on a network of unexpected sources and associations. He is perhaps best known for his Prototypes d’objects en Fonctionnment (Prototypes of Working Objects, or POFs).

Begun in the 1990s, they playfully shift the function of everyday objects. Visitors to Hyber’s exhibitions are invited to experience these works directly by interacting with them. For Hyber ‘a work of art is a beginning of a sentence that is not completed’ without the audience.

Hyber’s work is characterised by experiment and exploration. At BALTIC the artist composes a new universe through his drawings and prototypes - his ‘raw materials’. The exhibition includes both old and new works brought together in new configurations. Exploring the intricate and typically playful processes of transforming materials, it is constructed as a landscape evocative of a spa or salt marsh. Organised around a number of modules, pools and sheds contain raw materials including foodstuffs, money and natural elements which are all subject to transformation. Visitors are invited to this ‘mental spa’ to interact with the works directly, opening huts such as a wind house to liberate the elements within. When activated, the exhibition is designed as a living organism that takes over, altering traditional behavioural responses within a gallery environment. Hyber uses the occasion to question Gilles Deleuze definition of an exhibition: ‘An escape into the imagination or art means producing reality, creating life’.

The exhibition was originated by and first shown at Palais de Tokyo, Paris where it was curated by Akiko Miki.

BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England. BALTIC presents a constantly changing, distinctive and ambitious programme of exhibitions and events, and is a world leader in the presentation, commissioning and communication of contemporary visual art. BALTIC has welcomed over 4.5 million visitors, since opening to the public in July 2002.

FABRICE HYBER born 1961 in Luçon (France) lives in Paris
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Matières Premières, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2012; Essential (Peintures Homéopathiques 2012), La Fondation Maeght 2013; Prototypes d’Objets en Fonctionnement 2012, Mac-Val; Inventions, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris 2011; Immortality, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk 2010; Pasteur 'Spirit', Institut Pasteur, Paris 2010; Seed and Grow, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Tokyo 2009; Pure Hyber, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris 2008; Power plants, power plants, Space FA Ducros, Grignan 2008; Seed and Grow, I love each other, Watari-Um, Tokyo 2008; The Scream, writing work sustainable, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris 2007; Food for thought / Food for thought, Laboratoire, Paris 2007; The meeting this Hyber Rally, Reunion 2007; The Artery, garden designs, work perennial 1er.12 inauguration, Parc de la Villette, Paris 2006; The Shards, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv 2006; Offshore Oil, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris 2006; Voice + water, Art House Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent sur Marne 2006; The Artery, garden designs, Parc de la Villette, Paris 2005; Weather, Villa Arson, Nice 2005; The Winter Workshop of Hyber, Domaine Pommery, Reims 2005; North - South, Franc Pays de la Loire, Nantes 2005; Fairy House, The Brickyard, Ciry-le-Noble, Le Creusot 2005; The 4 seasons ...» Ballet Preljocaj, opening Montpellier Danse, touring nationally and International 2005.

Image: Fabrice Hyber Installation view, Palais De Tokyo, Paris 2012 Photo: André Morin

For further information, interview requests and images please contact:
Chloë Barker, Media Relations Executive T: 0191 440 4915 E: chloeb@balticmill.com

MEDIA PREVIEW: THURSDAY 21 MARCH

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road - Gateshead NE8 3BA
Opening hours:
Monday - Sunday 10.00 - 18.00
Except Tuesdays 10.30 – 18.00
Admission: FREE

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