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18/10/2009

Antidote 5

Galeries Lafayette, Paris

Running from 20 October 2009 to 9 January 2010 at the Galerie des Galeries, the fifth Antidote show will feature works by ten French artists: Dove Allouche, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Étienne Chambaud, Isabelle Cornaro, Aurélien Froment, Mark Geffriaud, Laurent Montaron, Jimmy Robert and Clément Rodzielski.

Antidote 5 will be offering a renewal in its selection, emphasizing its original vocation to highlight and support the young contemporary French art scene. This year the show gives voice to a group of young artists, all of the same generation, whose work is shot through with similar reflections on time, memory and absence, the image and the conditions of its manifestation and perception.

Dove Allouche’s photographs question the representation the Galeries of a subject and its obliteration over time. The same idea comprises of absence can be seen in Jimmy Robert’s installations, which contain traces of past performances. On the other hand, the reception of images lies at the heart of Pierre-Olivier Arnaud’s work. Arnaud is interested in their mode of production and dissemination, and in their future, in what they become. In Étienne Chambaud’s installations, the making of a work of art over time, what goes before and comes after it, is more important than the final object. This link between the pieces figures in the works of Aurélien Froment, who questions the semantic power of images through inspirations that are bound up with collective memory and film. The connection between images and their sources is likewise central to the works of Clément Rodzielski. Employing subtle gestures, the artist transforms an image or object into an abstract form. Mark Geffriaud also locates the image at the heart of his approach through his installations, which deal with the circulation and perception of forms. Isabelle Cornaro’s minimal compositions are produced from pre-existing, deconstructed images to which she occasionally adds various intimate objects, the traces of a sensory memory that the artist reappropriates to other ends. Sophie Bueno-Boutellier’s installations, which are linked with different scientific and theosophical sources, examine perception and consciousness. Finally Laurent Montaron’s images lie somewhere between reality and the imaginary in order to sow confusion in the viewer’s mind.

Brought together in this show, the artists and the pieces appear to trace out lines of thought that the viewer can choose to follow, cross or go around. All of these singular approaches can be grasped in their entirety, as if, for only a moment, a dialogue had sprung up among the featured works.

The official partner of the 2009 FIAC, the Galeries Lafayette group confirms its support of the young contemporary French art scene. This year, the two partners are inaugurating a program of assistance for emerging galleries. The program will make it possible to extend significant financial support to a group of fourteen French and international galleries that have been selected by an independent jury.(2) Supporting galleries amounts to supporting artists. Galleries are like an essential link in a production and distribution chain of contemporary art.

A catalog presenting all five Antidote shows will be published in 2010

The Galeries Lafayette group has always been an eager supporter of contemporary art. The department store on Boulevard Haussmann has played host time and again to prestigious events showcasing the major designers of the day and revealing to the broader public artists who have gone on to become true references of their age. All too aware of the visibility and the support that department stores can offer, the Galeries Lafayette group decided to make such efforts a permanent part of its mission and opened, in 2001, the Galerie des Galeries, a 300 m2 non-commercial exhibition space in the heart of the Galeries Lafayette department store, on Boulevard Haussmann. Throughout the year this venue presents exhibitions devoted to art, fashion and design. And since 2005, the Galerie des Galeries has mounted each autumn Antidote, an annual exhibition that brings together works by ten emerging or well- established French artists. These works are part of the private collection of Ginette Moulin, the president of the Supervisory Board of the Galeries Lafayette group, and her grandson Guillaume Houzé.

Media contact:
Philippe Boulet Tel : +33 (0)6 82280047 boulet@tgcdn.com

Opening reception, Monday 19 October 2009

Galeries Lafayette
40, boulevard Haussmann 29 bis rue de la Chaussée d’Antin 75009, Paris
From Monday to Saturday / 11a.m. – 7p.m.
until 9p.m. on Thursday
Free admission

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