Hell'O Monsters
dal 15/6/2011 al 31/7/2011
Segnalato da
Sylvia Beder Communication Culture
15/6/2011
Hell'O Monsters
JAS Gallery, Paris
Jerome Meynen, Antoine Detaille, and Francois Dieltens are the three members of the group. They draw on paper as well as on walls, mixing their unhinged imaginary worlds over the past decade in order to create a very graphic universe, populated by strange characters. The 'Might Fall' exhibition shows previously unseen pieces, large works on paper and installations combining drawing and wood.
With the mission of offering a French
showcase for artists already known abroad,
the JAS Gallery, a small newcomer to the
Paris Left Bank, will present the Belgian
group Hell’O Monsters, with the exhibition
"Might Fall", to be discovered from 17 June
to 1 August 2011.
Born in the early 1980s, Jérôme Meynen,
Antoine Detaille, and François Dieltens are the
three members of the group. Using all six
hands, they draw on paper as well as on
walls, mixing their unhinged imaginary worlds
over the past decade in order to create a very
graphic universe, populated by strange
characters whose silhouettes draw us into a
world of questioning filled with allegories about
the various facets of human nature.
Often in black and white, the falsely naive
characters turn out in reality to be individuals
who, beneath their hoods, engage in
dangerous games in the company of hairy monsters, Cyclopses, mutant animals, skeletons, eviscerated and
hung beings, and other candidates for suicide. The
architecture, when it takes part, bewilders us in a tangle of
staircases reminiscent of M.C. Escher's impossible
constructions, and becomes the theatre for a genuine danse
macabre where humour flirts with death, with scenes that can
border on the obscene.
Through the workings of these bizarre India ink characters,
Hell’O Monsters provides a mocking look tinged with affection
for the caricature of human nature caught in the midst of its
contradictions. These "monsters" ultimately reflect back on
ourselves, on what is most trivial in us... which brings them all
the closer and ultimately makes them dearer to us, like Tim
Burton's monsters.
Might Fall
The "Might Fall" exhibition will show previously unseen pieces,
large works on half-tone paper and installations combining
drawing and wood. In this series, the Hell’O Monsters group
questions the notion of equilibrium through characters on a
tightrope denoting the tension between opposites: serious and
ridiculous, play and danger, life and death, humanity and
inhumanity...
Press contacts: Sylvia Beder Communication Culture
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Preview on June 16, from 7 pm
JAS Gallery
17 rue des Saints-Peres - Paris
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2 pm to 7 pm
free admission