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Michel Rein: MARK RAIDPERE - I'll co me back later DAVIDE BALLIANO, PANOS TSAGARIS - PICATRIX - 9 Feb 2013 to 30 Mar 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Mark Raidpere, Workout In Progress, 2012
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February 9 - March 30, 2013 opening reception Saturday February 9, 6-9pm MARK RAIDPERE I'll co me back later cur. Eugenio Viola Galerie Michel Rein is proud to present I’ll come back later, the third solo exhibition by Mark Raidpere at the gallery after International in 2008 and Vidéos in 2006. Mark Raidpere’s work explores with a great sensitivity and efficacy the dilemmas and anxieties of the human soul, its incoercible loneliness, its tragic fate. His research often takes its cue from his own family’s universe but sometimes it takes on social connotations, focusing on marginalized people, urban violence and street life. The works on display are a clear evidence of the complexity of Mark Raidpere’s work, showing similarities and differences in his past and present research. Over the years the artist has developed a unique style, suspended between the public and private sphere, objectively documentary but at the same time oneiric and visionary. Mark Raidpere deliberately lends introspection to his autobiographical works, raising a pitiless curtain on his private life. 09/12/07 - 05/04/09 (2009), is a video narrating with hypnotic and obsessive simplicity the lack of communication with his father, a topic that can also be found in his earlier works, such as Dedication (2008), which is about the relationship between his father and his mother, or the evocative Father (2001), depicting Raidpere’s father in the melancholic loneliness of his home. On this occasion Raidpere also presents new photographs, all taken in Naples last summer, a medium that characterized his early work, including the renowned self-portraits of the “Io” series (1997), in which he shows his naked body, tormented by his restless posture, communicating pain and alienation. For the first time after several years Raidpere also exhibits Damage (2012), a new series of self-portraits, less dramatic and more selfironic. Raidpere’s lens captures in the cityscapes of Naples unexpected revealing moments, gets lost in the meanders of alleys, recording impressions and nuances of a microcosm of unlikely events, which might seem ironic at a first sight but at a closer look yield to mixed feelings, suspended between decadence and loneliness, fear and regret, beauty and suffering, vulnerability and isolation, marginalization and decay, separation and detachment. These images outline an intimate journey into the poetics of the artist, they become emblems of a complex aesthetic strategy that offers a model of investigation Raidpere previously applied to the microcosm of Naples, and which becomes more universal in Paris, highlighting the misery, discomforts, disturbances and contradictions typical of our uncertain times. Eugenio Viola, 2013 1ST__ FLOOR DAVIDE BALLIANO, PANOS TSAGARIS PICATRIX cur. Eugenio Viola The title of this exhibition that juxtaposes the works of two artists, Davide Balliano and Panos Tsagaris, is taken from the Ghâyat al-Hakîm , or The Picatrix. The Aim of the Sage , as it is known in the West. It is perhaps the largest and most comprehensive of the grimoires , or handbooks of magic, attributed to the Andalusian mathematician al-Majrit. It is a composite work that synthesizes older works on Hermeticism, Sabianism, Ismailism, astrology, and alchemy produced in the Near East in the ninth and tenth centuries A.D. This book had a major influence on later West European magical thinking from Marsilio Ficino’s Corpus Hermeticum in the 1400s, to Cornelius Agrippa, Thomas Campanella, Dr John Dee and Paracelsus in addition to the anonymous authors of magical grammars such as The Key of Solomon . It is indispensable for understanding a conspicuous part of the production of the Renaissance, including the figurative arts. Since the dawn of time, there is an intrinsic connection between art and alchemy. Both seek to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, attributing ideological and spiritual meaning to the materials themselves. Both art and alchemy, the latter of which has often been termed the “Secret” or the “Hermetic Art”, represent specific modes of the human effort to refine nature. More so, alchemy has been using art to transmit its ideas: in alchemical manuscripts and printed publications images and emblems frequently occur. Likewise alchemical allusions might be contained in works of art. For modern art - which is often devoid of apparent alchemical symbolism - this approach is of special relevance. In the twentieth century a number of artists were fascinated by this topic, amongst all Marcel Duchamp and Yves Klein. Today a small minority of artists remains interested in alchemical meanings and substances. The practice of Davide Balliano and Panos Tsagaris, through a wide range of media, is influenced by a lot of different references: from the history of art and culture to the alchemical and esoteric influences, including symbols of the Rosicrucian and the Freemasons. By orchestrating with a perfect balance the polysemy of their sources in a sort of initiation rite, they introduce the public in their arcane hemisphere made of heterogeneous symbols and immerse them in a puzzling and alienating atmosphere. Balliano and Tsagaris dwell in an intermediary utopia, the mirage-world of revelation where they officiate over the meeting of contraries, bizarre syncretism of forms, ideologies and different times. They indicate the ways of transmutation, of the eternal return of the same reality in the mutability of forms. They cross knowledge, genres, and chronologies in an illuminating, scandalous, pulsating poïesis . In their research the work of art explodes and recomposes itself in the mixed fabric of the past and the future; it vibrates with the contrary, like elastic stretched between knowing and prophecy, between tradition and dissolution. Galerie Michel Rein 42 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France Phone : +33 (0)1 42 72 68 13 - Fax : +33 (0)1 42 72 81 94 [email protected] www.michelrein.com Saâdane Afif, Maria Thereza Alves, Maja Bajevic, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Jordi Colomer, Jimmie Durham, Didier Faustino LaToya Ruby Frazier , Dora Garcia, Mathew Hale, Christian Hidaka, Jean-Charles Hue, Armand Jalut, Yuri Leiderman, Didier Marcel Stefan Nikolaev, ORLAN, Dan Perjovschi, Elisa Pône, Mark Raidpere, Michael Riedel, Franck Scurti, Allan Sekula, Raphaël Zarka |
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