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carlier | gebauer: MICHEL FRAN�OIS - 12 Dec 2010 to 29 Jan 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Michel Fran�ois Saturday 11th December - 29th January 2011 Opening: Friday 10th December 18:00 - 20:00 carlier | gebauer is glad to announce its 8th solo exhibition with Belgian artist Michel Fran�ois. The show will open on December 10th, 2010 at 6pm on Markgrafenstra�e 67, and will be on view until February, 2011. Questioning the formal rhetoric of the classical genre of sculpture, Michel Fran�ois�s work presents both industrial strengh and sublime fragility, as to consistently explore the potential offered by each material in terms of space, volume and balance. This oscillation between extremes - inside/outside, humble/luxurious, intimate/public - presents its beholder�s art with an elegantly obsolescent taste, which, observed more closely, brings to light a series of strong bonds between the pieces, and a poetic dialog with the space they are placed in. Over the last three decades, Michel Fran�ois realized numerous institutional exhibitions and took part in major large-scale events such as the 48th Venice Biennial, Documenta IX in Kassel, or the S�o Paulo Biennial XXI. Michel Fran�ois�s show at carlier | gebauer will stage a fundamental meditation of the artist on his own recent spatial strategies. The exhibition presents a threefold artistic structure, in which a broken windowpane will welcome visitors at the entrance of the gallery, referring to the artist's retrospective at Villeurbanne�s Institut d�Art Contemporain and at SMAK (Gent) "Plans d'�vasion" (2009-2010), while the installation in the left gallery space engages on a material level with this monographic exhibition-format. In the right gallery space, large- as well as small-scale sculptures manifest the artist�s formal choices in several modalities. |
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