Jean-Michel Othoniel / Farhad Moshiri
dal 21/10/2009 al 22/12/2009
Segnalato da
21/10/2009
Jean-Michel Othoniel / Farhad Moshiri
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Double exhibition
Farhad Moshiri: Silly you, Silly me. The dazzling colors and hybrid materials of Moshiri's recent works - paintings and installations - immediately capture the eye. Alternating between minimalism and mannerism, they are part to an Iranian artistic tradition of calligraphy and miniature, as well as Western pop imagery. Moshiri plays with the codes of modernism while developing a flamboyant iconography. Beyond these seemingly attractive works lies a more painful and more complex reality, visible showing just beneath the surface, that is imbued with nostalgia and irony. The artwork entitled "Life is beatiful" is emblematic, this joyful leitmotiv is written with an accumulation of knives stuck in the wall of the Gallery. Janus' Claude: Sculptures, works on paper (10 Impasse Saint-Claude). After exploring the transformative qualities of sulfur in 1993 Othoniel the ancestral art of glass and its metamorphoses in Murano. Since then, he has been creating a world of poetic and baroque (a term that originally referred to an irregularly shaped bead) works. Like the vanitas, or the decor of antique sepulchers, the shimmering colors and materials of the necklaces, crowns, mandorlas and outsized baldachin beds of shimmering colors and materials illustrate the presence/absence of beings. His art displays a fragile beauty of tangible wounds. Othoniel is now working to move beyond the hieratic character of his works, and to depict or capture movement while moving toward greater abstraction.