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Gimpel Fils: Guy de Lussigny | Robert Currie - 24 Nov 2011 to 14 Jan 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Guy de Lussigny
Lussigny : squares � black, white, blue & red 24 November 2011 - 14 January 2012, Gimpel Fils |
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Guy de Lussigny Lussigny : squares – black, white, blue & red 24 November 2011 - 14 January 2012 Private View: Thursday 24th November, 6-8pm Guy de Lussigny was born in 1929 in Cambrai, in northern France. He started painting in 1950, working with the idiom of Mondrian, Malevitch and Auguste Herbin, deconstructing colour and shape in a formalist manner. His points of reference were the painted line and the use of a square format. Lussigny's work is concise, sober and meticulously executed. In 1955, Lussigny met the Italian Futurist Gino Severini and the following year August Herbin, both of whom gave impetus to his work. In later years, a further bond was created through his friendship with the Italian painter Antonio Calderara. His first individual exhibition took place in 1960 at Galerie Colette Allendy in Paris. This was followed by exhibitions in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan. In 1967, Lussigny settled in Paris and took part in many salons: Grands et Jeunes d'aujourd'hui, Réalités Nouvelles, Comparaisons. His work is in public and private collections, including museums in Valenciennes, Montbéliard, Fondation Calderara, FNAC, FRAC Ile de France, Macon, Mondriaanhuis, Musée Tavet-Delacour de Pontoise, Musée Matisse du Cateau-Cambrésis and the LAAC de Dunkerque. Guy de Lussigny died in 2001. This year, the 10th anniversary of the artist's death, the museum in his home town of Cambrai mounted a major retrospective, which included an important donation of works by the artist's friend and executor André le Bozec to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai. In Paris, Galerie gimpel & muller has been exhibiting Lussigny for the last four years, steadily reinforcing the artist's reputation of being in the forefront of geometric abstraction. Robert Currie Latest Works 24 November 2011 - 14 January 2012 Private View: Thursday 24th November, 6-8pm Robert Currie creates sculptures that are disorientating, weightless and elusive. For his exhibition at Gimpel Fils, Currie presents a new series of work that explore motion, rhythm and volume through the use of line and geometric structure. Currie’s sculptures and installations, meticulously constructed in strands of nylon and videotape, visualise unseen forces. Engaging with the legacies of artists such as Naum Gabo and Sol Lewitt, Currie’s linear works convey complex systems of order and the power of tensile forces. Currie constructs each of his artworks by hand, precisely placing, wrapping, threading and twisting the material to create reciprocally static and fluid structures. As Gabo identified, any material might be suitable for the creation of sculpture, as long as the artist is attuned to its specific emotional qualities. Rational and irrational, negative and positive, order and disorder, filled and unfilled, Robert Currie continually develops contrasts in his work. Volume is created within apparent emptiness. Light emerges out of intricate systems of intersecting lines and spaces, creating artworks which dance and ripple despite being stationary creations. Currie actively engages with the properties of his chosen materials and their propensity to reflect, diffract, and absorb light in order to articulate the contrast of solidity and lightness. Through woven lines, voids materialise to give a hint and perception of nothing as a result of ‘something’. Robert Currie was born in 1976 in London. He achieved a BA (Hons) in Design and Art Direction at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1998 and then, in 2000 completed a Masters in Communication in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2000 Currie was selected by Sarah Kent, Gavin Turk and Jeremy Millar for ‘New Contemporaries’. In 2006 he completed a year-long residency at the Florence Trust, London. He has exhibited internationally with shows in Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Miami, New York and Paris, where he is represented by galerie gimpel & muller who have also exhibited him in Germany. Currie’s work is held in numerous well-known international public and private collections. This is his first exhibition at Gimpel Fils. |
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