Two Exhibitions
dal 17/2/2015 al 9/5/2015
Segnalato da
Jerome Zonder
Francis Alÿs
Grégory et Cyril Chapuisat
Sophie Dejode
Bertrand Lacombe
Jacin Giordano
Thomas Hirschhorn
Koo Jeong-A
Pierre Huyghe
Gabriel Kuri
Prue Lang
Richard Siegal
Juan Pablo Macias
Mike Nelson
Damian Ortega
Rudy Riccioti
Yvan Salomone
Gilles Mahe
Mathieu Briand
17/2/2015
Two Exhibitions
La Maison Rouge, Paris
For the exhibition Mathieu Briand presents his project 'Et In Libertalia' A story which takes place on a tiny island in Madagascar, located in the Channel of Mozambique. Jerome Zonder presents a body of work of great virtuosity, centered on drawings.
Et In Libertalia Ego
a project by Mathieu Briand
tarting in 2008, Mathieu Briand set up a temporary
studio on a small island in the Channel of
Mozambique (Madagascar). This is a sacred place,
inhabited for generations by a Malgache family that
agreed to allow Mathieu Briand to invite a number
of artists* to create works in situ or send instructions
for others to do so.
The project is called Et in Libertalia Ego, an allusion
to the famous inscription in Nicolas Poussin’s
painting Et in Arcadia Ego. The idea is to recreate
Libertalia, the pirate’s utopia described in A General
History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most
Notorious Pyrates (1724), whose origins are
an ambiguous mix of fiction and reality.
The author’s name, Captain Johnson, may have
been a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, the author
of Robinson Crusoe.
Since 2012, la maison rouge has supported
Mathieu Briand’s initiative and will present it
in an exhibition running from February 19
to May 10, 2015. The show will then travel to
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
in September 2015.
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Jérôme Zonder: Fatum
La maison rouge is proud to present the first
monographic exhibition featuring Jérôme Zonder’s
work to be held in Paris. The show will run from
February 19 to May 10, 2015.
For more than ten years, Jérôme Zonder (b. 1974
in Paris) has been developing a body of work
of great virtuosity, centered on drawings. Primarily
executed in lead pencil and charcoal, often in large
formats, his works elicit admiration yet contain
elements of fright.
References to Albrecht Dürer, Robert Crumb,
Rembrandt, Charles Burns, Otto Dix and Walt
Disney appear cheek by jowl in narrative
compositions that are often cruel: «Narrative
draws us into a drawing – the only thing holding
us back is our physicality. When I draw, I am poised
between distance and proximity, figuration
and abstraction, attraction and repulsion.»
uncertainties. Poetic and dark, the scenes
in this series highlight the violence and tragedy
erupting in individual lives and on the grand scale
of history. They also have the stylistic immediacy
of a child’s drawing and demonstrate the prowess
of his technique. Many questions arise: How should
we interpret these images? What is our relationship
with the everyday violence around us and what
kind of witnesses do we make?
A chain of events deemed to be inevitable
Jérôme Zonder has conceived his exhibition
at la maison rouge as a perambulation, inviting
visitors to step inside a world of drawings.
They cover the floors and walls, creating a spatial
and mental pathway that reflects the artist’s
preoccupations.
«In 2009, I thought I’d detected a palpable increase
in violence. I began a series featuring invented
millennial nine-year-olds. I explored the theme
of the birthday party and had my children play
out recent news events marked by violence,
childhood, cruelty and love.» Today, his millennials
are teens. After childhood, with its terrors and
nightmares, comes adolescence, an age of internal
upheaval, metamorphosis, realizations and
uncertainties. Poetic and dark, the scenes
in this series highlight the violence and tragedy
erupting in individual lives and on the grand scale
of history. They also have the stylistic immediacy
of a child’s drawing and demonstrate the prowess
of his technique. Many questions arise: How should
we interpret these images? What is our relationship
with the everyday violence around us and what
kind of witnesses do we make?
Image: Jérôme Zonder, Jeu d’enfants #1, 2010 Mine de plomb sur papier — 160 × 160 © Collection privée, France
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