Gilles Balmet
dal 13/1/2006 al 2/4/2006
Segnalato da
13/1/2006
Gilles Balmet
Nuke Gallery, Paris
One Shot by
One Shot by
Gilles Balmet is a young French artist who graduated from the Ecole
Superieure d'art in Grenoble in 2003. The works he presents for his
solo show One Shot by at Nuke gallery make an echo with his
contribution to Nuke magazine, and therefore plays with the double
function of the space (both a gallery and an office for the
magazine).
The works were inspired by the test of Rorschach,
throughout a research on its shape, leading to new potentialities. The
artist has chosen to cover the gallery's window with an
exclusive work entitled Window, which was cut out of a sticker
designed out of the pattern of a picture published in the magazine's
second issue (out on October 20th 2005). Inside the gallery, an
installation called Archives is set inside the blocks of a bookshelf.
The sculptures, cut out from plastic binders, are more than a
variation on the Rorschach theme; they question the concepts of the
filing and the classification of works of art. Finally, the painting,
which is part of the series, Untitled (Rorschach 2005) proposes a
reflection on how the repeating symmetrical order of a visual pattern
acts as the organizing principle of chaotic elements.
Born in 1979, Gilles Balmet comes from Grenoble. After spending a year
at the Cite Internationale des Arts, he decided to settle in Paris. His
works (videos, paintings, sculptures and drawings) have already been
shown in many cultural institutions, such as the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Lyon in 2004 for the Rendez-vous exhibition, at the Frac
Champagne Ardenne in 2005 for the Jeunisme exhibition, and at the
gallery of l'Ecole Superieure d'Art et de Design in Amiens for his
solo show Digital Garden. More recently, the young artist showed a video
Aikido at the FID in Marseille which was also part of the video program
at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in December 2005. Gilles Balmet
was also invited to the international video art festival (FIAV) in 2005
in Barcelona, and will show his work at the Kunsthalle in Halle, Germany
in February 2006.
Art Direction: Verane Pina
Preview 12/01/06 from 6pm to 9 pm
Opening 14/01/06 from 6pm to 9 pm
Nuke
11 rue Saint Anastase - Paris
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday from 2pm to 7pm