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13/1/2006

Carnets du Sous-Sol

Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

with Jimmie Durham, Dora Garcia, Claude Le'veque, Mark Raidpere, Allan Sekula, Franz West

For our first exhibition of 2006 (a group show), I have chosen the title of a text by Dostoyevsky (Notes from underground) staging a character who disparages the human soul to assert his right to freedom, while sheltering in a basement. Beyond the imprecatory tone of this text (recently read by Patrick Che'reau at the Bouffes du Nord Theater in Paris), I would like to gather some artists who seem to tackle the daily reality of the world while inviting us to look into the future (most often optimistically) in total freedom.

Some artists of the gallery will take part to this project: Allan Sekula, with an image of the photographic series Black Tide/ Marea Negra made in 2002, in the aftermath of the Prestige shipwreck on the Galician coasts; Jimmie Durham with two works made from a performance at the gallery in 2004 (Jimmie Durham will be participating to the next Whitney Biennial, opening March 2.)
Dora Garcia will present one of her “golden sentences", wall installation between the aphorism, the artistic statement and the moral command. Many important exhibitions disclosed Dora Garcia’s works in the recent years: Manifesta Luxembourg (1998) and Istanbul biennale (2003), as well as her solo shows: The Kingdom, MACBA (2003), Vibraciones, MUSAC, Leon (2005) and Des messages, des instructions, des questions, Frac Bourgogne (2005). A few days ago, it was still possible to see a comprehensive survey of her performances and videos at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid. In an intimate or distant relationship to the beholder, Dora Garcia pushes him/her into the interpretation or the questioning of reality.

Claude Le'veque, a guest of the gallery, will present an original work: a sentence made of industrial neon tubes and hung in space. These fragments of a personal story, written with a certain familiarity, draw on the world rumour. The artist expresses it in the following fashion: “I am trying to put into sentences what the leisure universe and the almost total amnesia that characterizes us can produce."
A sculpture by Franz West in this exhibition (Passstuck, 1978) testifies to the artist’s anti-utopian and anti-idealistic attitude.

Ten Men by Mark Raidpere will be a meaningful complement to this exhibition. Discovering the artist in the Estonian pavilion was to me the most important moment of the last Venice Biennale. From then on, I have wished to show this Tallinn-based 30-year-old artist in Paris. “Ten Men, a videowork made during a photo shoot with some inmates, unveils the artist’s interest for prison as a space of social refusal." (Hanno Soans, press release, 51st Venice Biennale)

Michel Rein

Image: Allan Sekula, Disposal Pit (Lendo, 12/23/02). Black Tide/ Marea Negra, 2002-20032002 Cibachrome mounted on aluminum, framed, diptych, 51,9 x 125,7 cm

Opening reception on January 14th, 4-9pm

Galerie Michel Rein
42 rue de Turenne F-75003 Paris
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 7pm

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