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Michel Rein: BERLIN-PARIS Carlier | Gebauer @ galerie Michel Rein - 29 Jan 2010 to 27 Feb 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Santu Mofokeng, Ishmael: Eyes Wide Shut - Motouleng Cave
2004, courtesy the artist and Carlier | Gebauer |
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BERLIN-PARIS Un �change de galeries : Carlier | Gebauer @ galerie Michel Rein with: Michel Fran�ois, Santu Mofokeng, Rosa Barba, Elisa P�ne, Sa�dane Afif, Mathew Hale 29.01 - 27.02.10 BERLIN-PARIS Un �change de galeries La galerie Michel Rein est heureuse d�accueillir la galerie Carlier | Gebauer (Berlin) pour cette deuxi�me �dition de BERLIN-PARIS, un �change de galeries. L�exposition collective pr�sent�e du 29 janvier au 27 f�vrier 2010 est construite autour d�un projet commun entre les deux galeries, et r�unit les �uvres de Sa�dane Afif, Rosa Barba, Mathew Hale, Michel Fran�ois, Santu Mofokeng et Elisa P�ne. SAADANE AFIF N� en 1970 � Vend�me, France. Vit et travaille � Berlin. Artiste aux multiples pratiques, Sa�dane Afif n�a n�anmoins pas de m�dium privil�gi�, travaillant sur l�exposition m�me et les conditions de r�ception de l��uvre. Il pr�sente ici deux �uvres "sculpturales", dont il s�amuse � ne figer ni le sens, ni les interpr�tations possibles : Untitled (Suspense) et le ready made Essence, qui s�inspire d�une enseigne de station service parisienne. S�adane Afif est laur�at du Prix Marcel Duchamp 2009 et b�n�ficiera d�une exposition personnelle au Centre Pompidou en 2010. ROSA BARBA N�e en 1972 en Sicile, Italie. Vit et travaille � Cologne et Amsterdam. Les films de Rosa Barba construisent des utopies ou du moins des mondes possibles. Ses vid�os t�moignent d�une envie de transformer par l�action les vides et d�placements de nos vies quotidiennes. Ces �carts constituent souvent les points de d�part des films de Barba. Leurs caract�ristiques et valeurs propres la m�nent � des entrelacements filmiques du r�el et de ses potentialit�s. De par son utilisation des formats cin�matographiques, Barba produit une installation dans laquelle la mati�re filmique sert � enregistrer les asynchrones et effractions dans le pass� et le pr�sent. MICHEL FRAN�OIS N� en 1956 � Saint-Trond, Belgique. Vit et travaille � Bruxelles. Parall�lement � la photographie, Michel Fran�ois d�veloppe une pratique particuli�re de la sculpture et de l'installation. Il d�ploie une �uvre vaste et complexe, dont l�organisation en rhizomes lui permet de proc�der � des d�coupes th�matiques et formelles. Ses sculptures ont de multiples � significations �, cette variabilit�/versatilit� r�sulte des confrontations avec d�autres sculptures, ainsi que l�espace d�exposition et du rapport de l��uvre au lieu. Michel Fran�ois a b�n�fici� r�cemment d�une exposition personnelle au SMAK de Gent. MATHEW HALE N� en 1962 � Swindon, Angleterre. Vit et travaille � Berlin. Mathew Hale d�finit lui-m�me ses collages et ses dessins comme les r�sultats d�� improvisations associatives �, affirmant ainsi le hasard comme outil s�lectif et mode d��laboration de ses �uvres. Son esth�tique du d�tournement op�re des raccords inattendus entre des images h�t�rog�nes et produit tour � tour un langage politique et/ou humoristique. SANTU MOFOKENG N� en 1956 � Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud. Vit et travaille � � Johannesburg. Santu Mofokeng d�couvre la photographie comme reporter dans les rues de Soweto. Politique et po�tique, son �uvre s�attache � la repr�sentation des Noirs en Afrique du Sud et � la duret� de leur condition de vie. Prises comme des instantan�s, ses photographies sont fugaces, travers�es par des fulgurances plastiques et atmosph�riques, m�langeant vapeurs, bruits, odeurs et brutalit�. La galerie Michel Rein a pr�sent� Santu Mofokeng dans l�exposition collective Self-Portrait I & II en 2004. ELISA P�NE N�e en 1979 Pontoise, France. Vit et travaille � Paris. Dipl�m�e de l�Ecole d�Arts de Cergy-Pontoise, Elisa P�ne a b�n�fici� d�une exposition monographique � la galerie Michel Rein en 2008. Les oeuvres Indeterminate activity and resultant masses (2009) associent des images d�incendies � des reproductions imprim�es de collages de papiers d�emballages de fus�es d�artifices, traces des performances pyrotechniques de l�artiste. ------------------------------------- BERLIN-PARIS A gallery exchange The galerie Michel Rein is pleased to welcome Carlier | Gebauer (Berlin) for the second edition of Berlin-Paris, a gallery exchange. Open from the 29th January to 27th February 2010, the group show is built around a common project between the two galleries and presents the works of Sa�dane Afif, Rosa Barba, Michel Fran�ois, Mathew Hale, Santu Mofokeng and Elisa P�ne. SAADANE AFIF Born in 1972 in Vend�me, France. Lives and works in Berlin. Experimenting with multiple art practises, and with no predetermined media, Sa�dane Afif works on the exhibitions themselves and the receiving conditions of his oeuvre. He presents here two �sculptural� works, while allowing their meaning and possible interpretations to remain flexible : Untitled (Suspense) and the ready-made Essence, which draws its inspiration from a Parisian gas station sign. Sa�dane Afif is laureate of the Marcel Duchamp price 2009 and will have a solo show at Centre Pompidou in 2010. ROSA BARBA Born in 1972 in Sicilia, Italy. Lives and works in Cologne and Amsterdam. Rosa Barba�s films construct utopias, possible worlds, which evolve from a craving to take action, which is produced by the voids and displacements of our everyday reality. Those displacements are what Barba�s films often start from; their characteristics lead her to filmic interweavings of realities and potentialities. In her use of film formats, celluloid and projectors, Barba is assembling an installative set up for an artistic production in which film is employed to register asynchronicities and breachings in past and present. MICHEL FRANCOIS Born in 1956 in Saint-Trond, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels. Alongside his photography practise, Michel Fran�ois develops a particular use of sculpture and installation. Michel Fran�ois unfolds a vast and complex oeuvre organised in rhizomes allowing him to proceed in thematic and formal cutout. His sculptures have multiple �meanings�; this variability/versatility results from confrontations with other sculptures, as well as the exhibition space and the artwork/space relationship. Michel Fran�ois recently had an extensive solo exhibiton at the SMAK in Gent. MATHEW HALE Born in 1962 in Swindon, UK. Lives and works in Berlin Mathew Hale describes his collages and drawings as the results of � associative improvisations �, thus elevating chance as the selective tool and development agent of his works. His taste for diversion produces some unexpected links between heterogenous images and in turns creates a political and/or humorous language. SANTU MOFOKENG Born in 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg. Santu Mofokeng discovered photography as a reporter in the streets of Soweto. Both political and poetical, his work is tied with Black representation in South Africa and to the hardship of their life conditions. With a snapshot quality, his photographs are imbued with some piercing plastic and atmospheric traits mixing steams, sounds, smells and brutality. The galerie Michel Rein has presented Santu Mofokeng in the group show Self-portrait I & II in 2004 ELISA PONE Born in 1979 in Pontoise, France. Lives and works in Paris. Graduating from the Art School of Cergy-Pontoise, Elisa P�ne was offered a solo show at the galerie Michel Rein in 2008. Indeterminate activity and resultant masses, 2009 associate images of live fires to printed reproductions of collages made from firework rockets wrapping papers; the remains of past pyrotechnical performances by the artist. |
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