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15/1/2015

Two exhibitions

CCS Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

With his sculptures, installations that are almost architectural at times, and entire environments, Pierre Vadi (born in 1966, lives and works in Geneva) creates fictional spaces. For CCS, Vadi has put together an exhibition that stretches from the center's inner courtyard to the large gallery, with on-site interventions as well as several new pieces of sculpture. Altered spaces, colored walls, plays of transparency and light, Vadi's works trouble our perception of a place. The interactions between the sculptures-some of which play with the utilitarian look of the center's furniture-create a sensory visit that is complex and esthetically alien, while the titles of the pieces invoke multiple linguistic and literary references, emphasizing the openness of meaning to other fields that are clearly delineated yet open. The esthetic of the compositions created by Nicolas Party (born in 1980, lives and works in Brussels) is both effective and singular. It blends a contemporary visual culture, originating in graffiti in particular, with classic subjects, still lifes and portraits painted by masters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For the courtyard gallery, Party has reinterpreted in charcoal Felix Vallotton's Four Torsos (1916), but has done so as repeated deconstructed motifs. Colored and framed landscapes are superimposed on large nudes depicted from behind. The artist has also worked with the large door that leads to the CCS courtyard, creating a composition that combines the same picture by Vallotton and a face that is characteristic of his own style of painting. (Image: Pierre Vadi, photo Andre Morin) Both exhibitions have been curated by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser. Opening: Friday, 16 January, 6-9pm.

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