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Michel Rein: ORLAN, Self-Hybridations Indienne-Am�ricaines - 12 Apr 2008 to 17 May 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Refiguration Self-hybridation, s�rie indienne-am�ricaine n�1. Portrait peint de No-No-Mun-Ya,
Celui qui ne pr�te pas attention, avec un portrait photographique d�ORLAN 2005 digital photograph, 124,4 x 152,4 cm, edition of 5 |
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ORLAN Self-Hybridations Indienne-am�ricaines vernissage samedi 12 avril, 16h-21h exposition du 12 avril au 17 mai 2008/ exhibition dates: April 12-May 17 La galerie Michel Rein pr�sente la nouvelle s�rie de self-hybridations d�ORLAN. Ces photographies digitales r�alis�es � partir de portraits d�Indiens d�Am�rique du Nord peints par George Catlin, ont �t� con�ues pendant son s�jour aux Etats-Unis, � New York ainsi qu�au Getty Research Institute � Los Angeles. ORLAN continue ses recherches sur les modifications corporelles et faciales � travers des images puissantes tant par leur format (152,4 x 124,4 cm) que par leur richesse chromatique. Ces nouvelles images montrent un travail sur la picturalit� photographique rendu possible par la retouche num�rique. La pr�sence de l�artiste est redoubl�e � travers les figures hi�ratiques et sacr�es des premiers natifs am�ricains. ORLAN convoque dans ses nouvelles oeuvres tant l�histoire de l�Am�rique que l�histoire de l�art am�ricain. Les self-hybridations r�alis�es depuis 1998 poursuivent la dynamique d�une d�marche commenc�e depuis la fin des ann�es 60 sur les th�matiques du corps, du sacr�, de la f�minit�, de la beaut�, de l�hybridation. Explorant les possibilit�s de transformations que permettent les nouvelles technologies (vid�o, t�l�matique, palette graphique, retouche num�rique), ORLAN a d�j� r�alis� deux s�ries de self-hybridations o� se fondent portraits de l�artiste et figures primitives, sculptures pr�colombiennes et photos �thnographiques africaines. Dans la s�rie am�rindienne, ORLAN change de support r�f�rent en s�int�ressant aux possibilit�s de num�risation de la mati�re picturale. Les Self-Hybridations Indienne-am�ricaines cr��es par ORLAN t�moignent d�une hybridation des sexes, des cultures, des �poques, des pratiques artistiques et donnent � sa d�marche une dimension fortement politique, f�ministe et ouverte au monde. L�artiste maintient constants les liens qu�elle tisse depuis le d�but de sa carri�re avec l�histoire de l�art. Dans sa s�rie Tableaux vivants, elle a incarn� la Maya de Goya et l�Odalisque d�Ingres, elle a aussi r�alis� des morphings entre son visage modifi� par la chirurgie et des ic�nes f�minines de la Renaissance. Apr�s avoir associ� ses cr�ations � l�art occidental et la religion chr�tienne, ORLAN a pris la d�cision depuis 1998, d��largir ses sources aux cultures non occidentales. Au tournant du XXIe si�cle, les self-hybridations d�ORLAN apparaissent comme une pr�monition, celle d�une esp�ce humaine mutante n�e d�un brassage culturel grandissant et des d�couvertes biotechnologiques renouvel�es. Les oeuvres de la s�rie des Self-Hybridations Indienne-am�ricaines pr�sent�es � la galerie, ont �t� expos�es en 2007 dans la r�trospective � ORLAN : Le R�cit � au Mus�e d�Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne M�tropole (commissaire: L�r�nd Hegyi) et reproduites dans le livre publi� � l�occasion de cette exposition. Cette r�trospective est pr�sent�e du 16 avril au 18 mai 2008 au Tallinn Art Hall, Estonie. *ORLAN : Le r�cit �, Charta, 350 p, 59� (diponible � la galerie) Textes de : L�r�nd Hegyi, Eugenio Viola, Joerg Bader, Marcela Iacub, Donald Kuspit, Peggy Phelan Prochaines expositions : Rapha�l Zarka 24 mai - 21 juin / Armand Jalut 28 juin - 26 juillet Foires : ART BRUSSELS 17-21 avril, stand 1C14 / VIENNAFAIR 24-27 avril, stand A0402 Galerie Michel Rein is showing the new series of ORLAN�s self-hybridizations. These digital photographs, made from portraits of North American Indians painted by George Catlin, resulted from her stay in the United States, in New York and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. ORLAN is carrying on her research into bodily and facial modifications by way of images that are powerful both by their format (152.4 x 124.4 cm) and by their wealth of colour. These new images show us an undertaking to do with photographic pictoriality made possible by digital retouching. The artist�s presence is heightened through the sacred, hieratic figures of the first Native Americans. In her new works ORLAN conjures up both the history of America and the history of American art. The self-hybridizations produced since 1998 pursue the dynamics of an approach introduced in the late 1960s involving themes focusing on the body, sacredness, femininity, beauty, and hybridization. In exploring the possibilities of transformations made possible by the new technologies (video, data communications, graphic palettes, digital retouching) ORLAN has already created two series of self-hybridizations in which there is a merger of portraits of the artist and primitive figures, pre-Columbian sculptures and African ethnographic photos. In the Native-American series, ORLAN changes referent media by developing an interest in the digitalization possibilities of pictorial subjects. The Native-American Self-Hybridizations created by ORLAN illustrate a hybridization of sexes, cultures, periods and artistic praxes, and lend her method a markedly political dimension that is feminist and open to the world. The artist keeps the links that she has been forging since the early days of her career with art history constant. In the Tableaux vivants series, she incarnated Goya�s Maya and Ingres� Odalisque; she has also produced morphings between her surgery-altered face and female icons of the Renaissance. After associating her works with western art and the christian religion, ORLAN decided, in 1998, to broaden her sources to non-western cultures. At the turn of the 21st century, ORLAN�s self-hybridizations appear like a hunch, a premonition about a mutant human species issuing from an ever-growing cultural intermingling and renewed bio-technological discoveries. The works in the Native-American Self-Hybridizations series which will be on view at the gallery were exhibited in 2007 in the retrospective �ORLAN: The Narrative� at the Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Etienne M�tropole (curated by L�r�nd Hegyi) and reproduced in the book published to accompany the show. This retrospective is being held from 16 April to 18 May 2008 at the Tallinn Art Hall, in Estonia. *ORLAN : The narrative �, Charta, 350 p, 59� (available at the gallery) Texts by : L�r�nd Hegyi, Eugenio Viola, Joerg Bader, Marcela Iacub, Donald Kuspit, Peggy Phelan Next exhibitions: Rapha�l Zarka May 24 - June 21/ Armand Jalut June 28 - July 26 Fairs : ART BRUSSELS April 17-21, stand 1C14 / VIENNAFAIR April 24-27, stand A0402 |
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