accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1956 in Scotland. Lives and works in London.
Sculptor and installation artist David Mach creates artworks based on assemblages of mass-produced objects like magazines, teddy bears, newspapers, car tires, matchsticks and coat hangers. He brings diverse items together in large-scale installations filled with humorous and social comments. Some of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.
Mach believes that «an artist must be an ideas monger responding to all kinds of physical location, social and political environments, to materials, to processes, to timescales and budgets. I also believe that sculpture just about encompasses everything – a painting can be a sculpture, a TV ad can be a sculpture, a dance, a performance, a film, a video.»
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accrochages «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013, «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» januari - march 2013
Born in 1966 in Portugal. Lives and works in Paris.
The sculptures Monica Machado creates are inspired by her memories, her artistic culture and religious background. Everyday objects such as tables, wardrobes, shopping trolleys, miniature fountains or whispered sound machines, are transformed into works of art. Whether her material is common, like broken pieces of ceramics or more daring, such as electric motors, all produce surprising and humorous works based on her wildest dreams.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1937 in France and died in 1980.
Robert Malaval was a multi-faceted artist; painter, draftsman and writer, he created a large body of work, permeated with ruptures between the very different series he created. He explained that these radical changes were due to his urge to “escape the boredom of repetition”. The first concept he explored was the aliment blanc, a formless material he created from papier mâché to express a proliferating and unavoidable evil. In the late 60’s, Malaval returned to painting with a more pop aesthetics. Passionate about music, he has embedded rock culture to his work and conducted researches about the connections between sound and image.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Sally Mann was born in 1951 in the USA.
She usually photographs in black and white. The early photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called «Immediate Family».
These were tales of innocence, or of innocence about to be shattered by the intrusion of the adult world with its lies, violence and a thousand other sins.
These are powerful works, evocative of an age, so pure and because of its purity, so vulnerable.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in South Africa.
Graffiti artist Mantis has been contributing to the street art landscape for over a decade. With a sense of bold irreverence and a keen spirit of contemporary culture-mining he has ornamented street walls of international locations including Los Angeles, Sydney and Berlin. Mantis uses the stenciled-aerosol technique to create images that comment on the contemporary consumer culture.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1920 in Belgium and died in 1993.
Marcel Mariën was not only active as photographer, collagist and filmmaker, but also as author and publisher, having written and published numerous books. He was an important personality in the Belgian Surrealist scene. In 1937 he started making collages and photos in the surrealist tradition. His two- and three-dimensional collages explored physical and metaphysical connections between things. For his photos, he arranged scenes usually with a woman’s body as canvas, interacting with objects and words. During his whole career Mariën was more concerned with the ideas behind his creations than with the execution or technical aspects.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Marino Marini was born in 1901 in Italy and died in 1980.
She started his artistic career creating paintings and drawings, but, throughout his life, has devoted himself primarily to sculpture. Marino’s creations sought to interpret classical themes – female nude, portrait bust and equestrian figure - in light of modern concerns and with modern techniques.
The content of his artworks is set by the consciousness of the human as well as the spiritual and aesthetic nature of life. The variety of techniques employed by Marini offers a testimony of the artist’s interest in researching different forms of expression.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Tony Marsh was born in 1954 in the USA. He lives and works in California.
Marsh works intuitively, creating ceramics that tend to be highly abstracts. Fascinated by the history of ceramics, he doesn’t make utilitarian pieces, but tries to address the essence of pottery – to preserve, to offer, to beautify – with his creations.
Frequent subjects in Marsh’s work include his personal experiences with creation, death, marriage and fertility.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» avril - juin 2012
Helen Marten, born in 1958 in the UK, lives and works in London.
Marten’s work is underpinned by an interest in different materials and in the handmade. She approaches sculpture and installation in a digital way; she drags and drops, compresses and unpacks. Her creations are full of humor and references to pop culture.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1972 in Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent.
Kris Martin practice is set within the traditions of conceptual art, working with diverse media such as drawing, photography, collage, installation, sculpture or ready-made. His creations are meditative and yet, humorously, materialize his reflections on major issues about life: morbidity, beauty, destruction and time. In an art of appropriation and revelation, he alters found objects, with minimal interference and reduced means, to create blank spaces, which the viewers can fill with their own interpretations. Material and immaterial concerns are delicately balanced in the artist’s work.
Sculptural materials and objects are used to intervene in the constant motion of time. They remind us of the brevity of human existence, of its fleetingness. Martin is fascinated by the way interventions into the daily uses and understandings of things enable the loosening of fixed identities, the subversion of established systems and hierarchies, and the opening up of a new space for reflection, resistance, and creativity.
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