accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1951 in France. Lives and works in Hargicourt.
In 1974, Alfred Marié met Corinne who became his companion as well as his essential link to the external world, thus he chose his artist’s name: A.C.M. for Alfred Corinne Marié. The precarious living conditions in which the couple lived deeply influenced the way ACM sculptures are elaborated. The sculptures are made from mechanical or electronic components taken out of typewriters, transistors, and alarm clocks, among others. After sorting all these little fragments, he assembles them according to their specificities and coats them with acid or paint. Those reconstructed machines loose their former utilitarian function and become architectures to watch and to dream about, looking like legendary edifices or imaginary cities inhabited by strange and fantastic creatures, both impressive and delicate. A.C.M. constantly reworks his sculptures, alternating building and oxidation destruction process.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1933 in the USA and died in 2004.
During his 45 year-career, photographer and photojournalist, Eddie Adams covered 13 wars – in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Lebanon and Kuwait, among others - but became really renowned for an iconic image of the Vietnam War took in 1968. He worked for The Associated Press, Time and other publications, amassing several photojournalism awards. His close-up portraits and emphasis on intimate storytelling presented a new way to photograph war. Adams’ work also includes portraits of politicians and celebrities.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1976 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Mequitta Ahuja’s work consists almost exclusively of self-portraits or colored compositions, oscillating between landscape and abstraction. She unfolds, on canvas or paper, great female figures with oversized hair mingled with different textures and colors. These figures have multiple ethnic identities that relate to the artist’s own mixed origins: Indian by her father and African-American by her mother. Ahuja refers to her work as «Automythography», a combination of history, myth and personal narrative.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Ai Weiwei, born in 1957 in China, lives and works in Beijing.
His artistic practice encompasses a wide range of media, from architecture and sculpture to photography, writing and film. Through his work Ai engages with issues pertinent to contemporary China, notably the loss of historical culture due to rapid modernization and the effects of the global economy on traditional modes of production. He asserts the right to engage in social criticism of his country and to decry oppression, while refusing to be labeled a political artist.
His work also deals with broader themes, including perceptions of value, mass production, globalization and concepts of the ‘fake’ and the ‘real’. The artist expresses himself in a distinctive, simple formal idiom, in a dialogue with factual history and personal memory. His art relates to the universal human condition and insists on respect for the individual.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Carlos Aires, born in 1974 in Spain, lives and works between Antwerp and Malaga.
From collage to cut-out, passing through photograph, video and performance, Aire’s creations are provocative and explore images from Catholicism iconography to Pop culture. Sex, money and religion are constant subjects in his work, as also representations of awkward bodies inserted into a context of difference. The artist is interested in the construction of reality. He works with association of ideas and stereotypes, letting his creations open to various readings and interpretations.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Mounira Al Solh, born in 1978 in Lebanon, lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam.
Her oeuvre is multidisciplinary, oscillating between video, installation, writing, photography and painting. Al Solh's work can be described as an inner conflict with social environments which impose national, cultural and religious identity. In that sense it is a reflection on the social and religious tensions in the country of her birth, Lebanon, which has undergone several civil wars and still occupies a sensitive position in the present eruptions in the Middle East.
Her approach is not documentary but fictional, even fantastic. She deals with dramatic situations using irony and makes parallels between socio-political issues and aesthetics.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
David Altmejd was born in 1974 in Canada. He lives and works in New York.
Altmejd is known for his large-scale sculptures of anthropomorphic figures cast in a state of metamorphosis. His oeuvre explores the boundaries of traditional figuration by embedding his subjects with otherworldly elements and reconceptualising how to represent the human figure in all its spatial, spiritual and psychological multiplicity.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Manel Àlvarez was born in Spain in 1945. He studied clay modelling and sculpture.
His works are always a symbolic expression of an idea, a reflexion or a thought.
After completing a collection inspired in Africa he is currently developing a series based on the Old Testament.
This project has given him the opportunity to create a range of work absolutely remarkable in marble.
Currently at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, the exhibition "Inspired".
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Born in 1963 in Cairo, Egypt, Ghada Amer studied art in Nice and Paris. Currently, she lives and works in New York.
In 1992, Amer begins to embroider her paintings, based on images found in Egyptian magazines. With her sewing, traces replacing the drawing, she questions the stereotypes of female representation, the East/West relations. Amer paints her canvases in large sizes before embroider; she repeats the same patterns that are hidden or twisted by hanging threads. She represents erotic scenes, women alone or together.
To liberate women from daily clichés is the heart of her work. «I chose the art of embroidery because it is by excellence a feminine activity» explains Ghada Amer. «My objective is to potentialize the images of women and liberate them from the slavery of the clichés by the force of sensuality. I think women should love their bodies and use them. Only by means of seduction, feminism can be potentialized.»
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1980 in Belgium. Lives and works in New York and Brussels.
Harold Ancart’s works on paper, wall drawings and sculptural installations derive from a principle of immediacy, usually associated with conventional drawing. He is interested in drawing because it is never completely finished; for him it is typically a work in progress. “Drawing is the first step of an idea’s embodiment,” he says; first, there is the idea, then, the drawing, and, at last, the object. His practice is set between figuration and abstraction, planning and intuition. Ancart has a preference for working in situ, because it allows his creative process to spontaneously engage with and interfere in the structure, proportions, situation and surface of a space.
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