Jean Gaudaire-Thor
dal 23/1/2002 al 18/3/2002
Segnalato da
23/1/2002
Jean Gaudaire-Thor
Istituto Italiano Cultura, Washington
Avant-garde French artist Jean Gaudaire-Thor will exhibit his paintings, ceramics, collages and drawings for the first time in the U.S. at three shows in Washington. His works are included in museums, foundations and private collections throughout Europe.
Three concurrent shows will begin on the dates below
Alliance Française, January 24 to March 18
Tracking Down this Split Memory
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, January 29 to March 15
Columbus: The Impossible Gaze
Maison Française - French Embassy, February 7 to 28
The Shore
Avant-garde French artist Jean Gaudaire-Thor will exhibit his paintings, ceramics, collages and drawings for the first time in the U.S. at three shows in Washington. His works are included in museums, foundations and private collections throughout Europe.
Gaudaire-Thor, born in 1947 in Sens, France, studied at l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Art in Paris, has also longstanding and strong artistic and personal ties to Italy. Since 1972 he has had 60 solo exhibitions and has been presented in more than 150 group shows in Europe. This first exhibit in the U.S. provides an opportunity for art lovers and other experts to see what European art critics, poets and other writers have praised.
This American show is the result of 30 years' of reflection. Gaudaire-Thor explained, "My job lies in analyzing the world at play: places, landscape, objects, science, history, feelings, in trying to forget all benchmarks, all levels of worth, in erasing the links that hold together all manners of sequences. My job as an artist consists in tracking down this split memory, in revealing and putting back together these fragments of history."
Each of the shows will present different art pieces and videos. The enclosed provides additional information on the artist for the January and February shows.
"Columbus: the impossible gaze."
paintings - drawings
In collaboration with L'Alliance Française de Washington and La Maison Française, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is hosting at its gallery, 2025 M Street NW Suite 610, Washington, D.C. 20036, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Jean Gaudaire-Thor.
The title of the exhibit "Columbus: the impossible gaze" refers to the eternal human problem of transcending cultural barriers and be able to actually see a foreign and unknown reality. The effort done by Gaudaire-Thor has been to represent this (im)possibility in its works, collectively inspired by the famous Italian navigator.
"His work is an exploration, indifferent to time and place. It borrows from the whole history of forms, knowledge and techniques to bring dynamic images into our lacking reality" (J.C. Montel - 1992).
Jean Gaudaire-Thor is a French painter who has longstanding and strong artistic and personal ties with Italy. See www.gaudairethor.com
Opening reception Tuesday January 29, 2002. 6:30 - 8:00 pm - RSVP 202-223 1128
The exhibit will be open until Friday March 15, 2002 - From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.
Opening Reception hours are:
Alliance Française: January 24, 6.30 p.m
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Istituto Italiano di Cultura: January 29, 6.30 p.m.
Maison Française: February 7, 6.30 p.m.
Press luncheon organized by the Maison Française on February 4th, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Please feel free to address additional questions to:
Press Contact: Catherine Gillet
2909 P Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
Tel: (202)-333-3249
CatherineGillet@aol.com
istituto italiano di cultura
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