accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Giulia Caira was born in 1970 in Cosenza, Italy. She currently lives and works in Turin.
Freelance curator and art critic, Ombretta Agro Andruff, describes Caira’s œuvre as follows: «Her body of work is rooted in ‘70s feminist culture when female artists used, and abused, their bodies, in public performances. However, while the atmosphere conveyed by her moving and still images can reach quite intense and dramatic effects, she never reverts to the literal representation of self-inflicted violence. Caira is always the subject of her photographs, but more than self-portraits, these works become visual representations of the various identities and roles she assumes and interprets. The universe in which she performs always refers to domestic and household context.»
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1953 in France. Lives and works in Malakoff.
Sophie Calle is a unique artist in the way that she is a writer, photographer, director, installation and conceptual artist. She decided to become an artist herself because she gained inspiration from artists close to her family, particularly Martial Raysse, Arman and Christian Boltanski. Her artistic approach, for over thirty years now, has been about involving her personal life to her work. She has done so by using almost all mediums one can think of, including books, texts, photos, videos, films, performances and more. She challenges, in an original way, the liaison between private and public personae, truth and fiction. Because she allows her own and other people’s life to be put on display, she has been called a detective and a voyeur.
Her most extraordinary works deal with ordinary human tendencies. By sharing feelings and tiny intimate details of her personal life, and of those near her, each work of art is a document, a catalog of her actions and of the interaction Calle engages with the world in her own distinctive way. She explores the limits of how people interact with one another, as well as what are, or not, socially acceptable behaviors. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability and examines identity and intimacy. An important theme Sophie Calle also explores is absence.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1965 in Peru. Lives and works in Brussels.
In the late 1990’s Jota Castro ended his career as a diplomat and decided to devote himself totally to the field of art. Since then he has used photography, sculpture, video, and installation to address social issues as both artist and activist. Castro explores and exposes, not without humor, the world of politics thus defending intellectual freedom and democracy. The artist reinterprets facts, connecting current events with his own personal history. His more recent works deal with problems caused by the global economic crisis and developments in European politics.
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accrochages «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012 and «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Jorge Caterbetti, born in 1951 in Argentina, lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Caterbetti is known for his unique ability to continually reinvent and diversify his style and creations. His art is conceptual and compromised with history, human rights, philosophical and socio-political issues. He is also permanently experimenting with new visual languages and different materials.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1959 in the USA. Lives and works in Chicago.
Sculptor and performance artist Nick Cave is mainly known for his Soundsuits. These sculptures, named for the sound made when they are worn, are inspired by sources as varied as African ceremonial costumes, Tibetan textiles, «Haute Couture» and pop-culture. This multitude of references also highlights Cave’s diverse background and artistic training, as dancer and clothing designer. He is as interested in fashion, cultural, ritualistic and ceremonial concepts as he is in politics, a subject that has always been part of his work.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Saint Clair Cemin was born in 1951 in Brazil and studied at the National Superior Fine Arts School in Paris. Currently he lives and works between Paris, New York and Beijing.
Cemin works with materials like bronze, plaster, marble, steel, and wood. As varied as the materials, so are the dimensions of his sculptures, which might take human, animal or symbolic forms.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1921 in France, died in 1998.
César Baldaccini, usually called César, was a sculptor associated with the «Nouveau Réalisme» movement that proclaimed new ways of perceiving the real, as well as the use and critique of mass-produced commercial objects. In the 60’s César began to create his famous «Compressions,» for which he would become renowned. These sculptures were made out of cars’ chassis and metal objects of all kinds compressed by a metal press into dense packages. César also created the «Expansions» series, solidify polyurethane foam sculptures. His late work includes sculptures made out of molten crystal.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1959 in France. Lives and works in Paris.
Philippe Chancel’s photographs explore the various degrees where art, documentary and journalism meet. Focusing on the status of images confronted with reality, he investigates the fascination of the image in the contemporary world in order to better understand the reasons for this attraction/repulsion process. Over the past twenty years Chancel has shown a particular interest for authoritarian societies and communist dictatorships.
Traveling to the Emirates and North Korea, he noticed similarities to both country: the cult of personality, the concentration of power, the control over individuals and most of all, the denial of the human being. His interest lays in the way those society stage their power.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1962 (Dinos) and in 1966 (Jake) in England. Live and work in London.
Visual artists and brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman began their artistic collaboration in 1990. Since then, they have been creating iconoclastic sculptures, paintings, prints and installations that examine contemporary politics, religion and morality. Their work is described as existing between what repulses and what attracts the viewer. According to curator and museum director, Christoph Gruneneberg, what is really disturbing in the Chapman’s creations is their underlying psychological meanings – the attacks on the whole body, the blurring of gender lines, the insinuation of sadism and moral offense. Jake and Dinos also create artworks separately.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Xooang Choi was born in 1975 in Seoul, Korea.
He makes fascinating hyper realistic polymer clay figures, for the large part, nude and bald. Through this gallery of almost mutant characters, he manages to express and reconstitute with incredible force the most intense human emotions such as fear or sadness, desire, the intricate relationships between individuals, erotic tension and confusion of feelings.
Strangely, the characters are represented sexually, but without hair, causing a discomfort like the shadow of death on a society that it is sick by its excesses. We cannot avoid in our minds images of cancer or other diseases; these figures captured in their absolute nakedness remind us of our fragility and vulnerability.
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