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GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN PARIS: Duane HANSON "Illusions Perdues" Mariko MORI "White Hole" STAGES - 23 May 2009 to 11 July 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Duane HANSON
Image � the artist. Courtesy GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN PARIS |
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Duane HANSON "Illusions Perdues" 76 rue de Turenne : 23 mai - 11 juillet 2009 "People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration... It�s all about human activity, it�s truth, and we all get there." This is how Duane Hanson, leading artist of the "Hyperrealist" Movement, qualifies his work. In the 60s, he tackled timely social subjects in a brutally realist manner. These works elevated social and political issues to an iconic level. Shortly thereafter, in 1970, Hanson evolved both in terms of his style and his subject matter. He depicts the everyday people he encountered. People that nobody notices, people at a loose and desperate. He represents the human condition and pursues the fragility and distress. He treats universal themes, like poverty, bad treatment, racism, homeless or loneliness. Duane Hanson created lifesize characters in his studio. He casts them directly from his models. He prefers to use fiberglass and resin, which allow him to reproduce, often in a little flattering way, slight details and sharpness of the human body. He gives life to his characters with a new credibility. He sometimes manages to create the illusion of the reality. By representing the "American Way of Life", Duane Hanson transports scenes of the commonplaces to museums, to immortalize them. "Le peuple, les ouvriers, les personnes �g�es, tous ces gens que je vois avec de la sympathie et de l'affection. Ce sont ces gens qui se sont battus avec les affres de la vie et qui laissent appara�tre la frustration et le dur labeur. Il s'agit de l'activit� humaine, la v�rit� et nous en arrivons tous l�." Voici comment Duane Hanson, artiste phare du mouvement "hyperr�aliste", qualifie son travail. D�s les ann�es 60, il aborde des sujets sociaux de mani�re brutalement r�aliste. Ces oeuvres �l�vent les probl�matiques politiques et sociales � un niveau iconique. En 1970, il �volue � la fois dans son style et dans le choix de ses personnages. Il repr�sente des personnages de la vie de tous les jours: des personnages que personne ne remarque, d�soeuvr�s et d�sesp�r�s. Il d�peint la condition humaine et traque la fragilit� et la d�tresse. Il traite des th�matiques universelles comme la pauvret�, la maltraitance, le racisme, les sans-domicile-fixe ou la solitude. Duane Hanson cr�e ses personnages grandeur nature dans son atelier en effectuant directement des moulages sur ses mod�les vivants. Il privil�gie la fibre de verre et la r�sine qui permet de reproduire, souvent de mani�re peu flatteuse, les moindres d�tails et finesses du corps humain. Il donne vie � ses personnages avec une cr�dibilit� nouvelle. Il r�ussit parfois � cr�er l'illusion de la r�alit�. En repr�sentant l"American Way of Life", Duane Hanson transporte des sc�nes de la vie quotidienne banale ou provocante dans des institutions et des mus�es, afin de les immortaliser. Duane Hanson was born in 1925 and passed away in 1996 (USA). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Unesco Weltkulturerbe V�lklinger H�tte, V�lklingen, Germany; The Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA; Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Kunsthaus Z�rich, Switzerland; Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort, Germany; Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Daimaru Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Kunstverein, Hambourg, Germany. Mariko MORI "White Hole" 10 impasse Saint Claude : 23 mai - 23 juillet 2009 "Enveloped by the luminous gas, the galactic center emits tremendous light. This light in reality signifies the death of stars that are pulled and torn apart by the gravity of black holes. Just as living beings face their certain deaths, the universe will eventually come to an end in its life cycle. Contemporary physics hypothesizes that at the end of the universe, all the stars will be swallowed by black holes and all that exist will be dissolved, with only photons, neutrinos, and electrons left behind forlornly floating in a vast, overexpanded space. Does this mean that after the demise of the vast universe, there will only be an infinite space, the world of nothingness representing the end? Is this death? I imagine that after stars are fed on by black holes, their metaphysical beings would be regenerated, reborn, and continue to live in a different dimension. While their physical energies would be absorbed by black holes, with their physical bodies thus lost, their souls would be transferred to white holes through wormholes which form the gates to another dimension as time-space portals. Death is not the end, but a new beginning. It leads to rebirth. (...) If the dramas of death and rebirth, as well as new birth, unfold across many parallel dimensions, there exists an eternal time and space that has no beginning and no end. My work Black Hole/White Hole is conceived as a pair linked by a conceptual wormhole. I hope this work serves as a simulacrum of death and rebirth, prompting us to rethink the multidimensional universe that defies our imagination." Mariko Mori "Envelopp� dans un gaz lumineux, le centre de notre galaxie �met une intense lumi�re. Celle-ci correspond en r�alit� � la mort des �toiles qui sont d�chir�es et d�truites par l'attraction gravitationnelle des trous noirs. De la m�me facon que les �tres vivants font face � leur fin in�luctable, l'univers finira son cycle de vie. La physique contemporaine formule l'hypoth�se qu'� la mort de l'univers, toutes les �toiles seront litt�ralement aval�es par les trous noirs et que toute chose existante disparaitra, laissant photons, neutrinos et �lectrons flotter dans un espace infini en expansion. Est ce que cette hypoth�se signifie que la mort de l'univers laissera place � un espace vide et infini? J'imagine qu'apr�s que les �toiles seront absorb�es par les trous noirs, leur �tre m�taphysique se r�g�n�rera et rena�tra en se r�incarnant dans une autre dimension. Tandis que les �nergies mat�rielles seront d�truites par les trous noirs et les enveloppes physiques ext�rieures perdues, les �mes seront transf�r�es dans des trous blancs au travers de galeries formant les portes d'une autre dimension, comme des portails spaciaux-temporels. La mort n'est pas la fin, c'est un renouveau. Une nouvelle naissance. (...) Si la trag�die de la vie, la mort et la r�incarnation se d�veloppent dans des dimensions parall�les, il existe un temps et un univers �ternel qui n'a ni d�but ni fin. Mon oeuvre Black Hole/White Hole est con�ue comme un couple li� par un lien conceptuel. J'esp�re que cette oeuvre repr�sentant le simulacre de la mort et la vie, nous am�ne � repenser cet univers multidimensionnel qui d�fit l'imagination." Mariko Mori Mariko Mori is born in 1967 in Tokyo, Japan. She lives and works in New York, USA and in Tokyo, Japan. Solo Exhibitions: MACRO, Roma (upcoming); Sao Paulo, Brazil; Pinchuck Art Centre, Kiev, Ukrain; BALTIC, Gateshead, UK; Aarhus Museum, Denmark; Groninger Museum, Holland; Albion Gallery, London, UK; Kyodo Museum, Chino, Japan; SCAI/Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Inc., Tokyo; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris; Hiromi Yoshii + gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan; Deitch Projects, New York; Public Art Fund, New York & Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Centemporanea, Turin, Italie; Centre National de la Photographie, Paris; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malm�, Sweden; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; Serpentine Gallery, Londres, GB; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo; Dallas Museum of Art, USA; Centre National d'art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; American Fine Arts Co., New York; Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland; Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo. STAGES Vernissage jeudi 16 juillet 2009 76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris 16h - 21h Lance Armstrong launches a global art exhibition and sale that provides a new way to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation and its LIVERSTRONG Global Cancer Campaign. Lance Armstrong organise une grande exposition d'art contemporain qui permet de soutenir la Foundation Lance Armstrong et la campagne internationale LIVESTRONG contre le cancer. Participating artists : Yoshitomo Nara, Christopher Wool, Jules de Balincourt, Tom Sachs, Richard Prince, Aaron Young, Cai Guo-Qiang, Andreas Gursky, Shepard Fairey, Dzine, Eric White, Geoff McFetridge, Jr, Kaws, Jos� Parla, Raymond Pettibon, Kenny Scharf, Lari Pitman, Rosson Crow, Ed Rusha, Catherine Opie, ... During the Tour de France 2009, Lance Armstrong will ride on bikes made especially for this occasion, by the following artists: Damien Hist, Kaws and Marc Newson. |
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