Pascale Marthine Tayou
dal 18/10/2015 al 9/1/2016
Segnalato da
18/10/2015
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Galerie Aveline Antiquaire, Paris
Paradis(e). Taking over the 650 m2 of the galerie, he snakes freely among pedestal tables, arm chairs, commodes, and objects that are over 300 years old to represent his intimate memory there, his vision of the world, his own paradise.
The exhibition will continue until 10 January
2016, Monday-Saturday, 10a.m. to 7p.m. and by
appointment. Also open on Sunday 25th October.
How can you not halt before the work of
the Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou?
His trees covered with multicoloured
plastic bags were a sensation at Art Basel
2015, like a poetic punch at the future of
our planet.
The antique dealers Jean-Marie Rossi
and Marella Rossi Mosseri, passionate
supporters of the dialogue between
past and present, are convinced by
the extraordinary meetings that can
arise between contemporary art and
masterpieces of 18th century decorative
arts, which they have supported for over
60 years.
In 2014, the galerie Aveline and Galleria
Continua created an event with the
exhibition Réflexion(s) by Michelangelo
Pistoletto.
On the occasion of FIAC 2015, they are
delighted to host together, at the Galerie
Aveline, the exhibition Paradis(e) by Pascale
Marthine Tayou from 20 October 2015 to 10
January 2016.
His work has been exhibited in the most
prestigious venues for contemporary art
(Biennales of Venice, Johannesburg, Lyon,
San Paolo, Kwangju, Berlin, Tapei, Istanbul,
Havana, Sidney, Documenta (Kassel); and the
Pompidou Centre (Paris), Serpentine Gallery
(London), Macro (Rome), the Fowler (Los
Angeles), the Malmö Konsthall (Sweden) and
the Bozar (Brussels) to mention only a few),
Pascale Marthine Tayou is also the artist in
residence of the Musée de l’Homme (Paris)
for its highly anticipated reopening this
autumn.
Taking over the 650 m2 of the galerie Aveline,
he snakes freely among pedestal tables, arm
chairs, commodes, paintings and objects
that are over three hundred years old to
represent his intimate memory there, his
vision of the world, his own paradise, created
especially for the exhibition.
A unique and eclectic paradise where dolls,
masks, sculptures, paintings, installations
and charms intersect.
Born in 1966, this self-taught artist, who
divides his time between Ghent and Yaoundé,
always creates at the intersection of Africa
and the West, to better challenge frontiers,
just as he enjoys mixing the most unexpected
materials found on his way. Combining wood,
earth, crystal, nails, plastic, horn met
elastic... each piece is profoundly unique,
disconcerting, inexplicable and mysterious,
like the artist’s name which plays hide
and seek with the real, allowing a woman’s
sensitivit to be inferred behind the face
of a man.
What if basically this were what paradise is?
A place where all the periods from the 18th
century to today, and even well before, are
gathered together.
A place which unites all the arts and all
aspects of the human, from its smallness to
its greatness. A place which diverts objects
and leaves us without explanation. A place
where a large cloud of cotton, multicoloured
alabaster eggs, figures in crystal and colons
nailed together naturally find their place
close to a pair of Celadon vases, an Empire
chandelier or a pair of Louis XV bergère
chairs.
This is surely what paradise is.
Not a great white kingdom, cosy and silent,
where everything looks like everything else,
like a place without any soul or variety.
Why not imagine it rather like life, made
of happiness and sadness, of beauty and
coarseness, of poetry and lucidity?
For that, a contemporary Arcimboldo is
needed, visionary and profoundly sensitive,
an artist who goes beyond the context, a
man of all colours to better open our eyes.
His name is Pascale Marthine Tayou and we
are very proud of this association.
Opening Monday 19 October 5pm to 9pm
Galerie Aveline Antiquaire
94, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris
Monday–Saturday, 10am–7pm and by appointment