accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Philippe Pasqua was born in 1965 in France. Self-educated artist, he began to paint in 1985.
With Pasqua, the taste for the monumental goes hand in hand with an attraction towards what is most vulnerable – bodies and faces, sometimes with stigmatizing differences that the artist adopts and magnifies through his paintings. Handicaps, differences, obscenity or the sacred: each canvas is the fruit of a struggle, a tension between what can be shown and 'tolerated', and what is socially repressed or concealed.
As a counterpoint to this 'physical' work, there are his grand drawings and also the 'palimpsests' – works on paper mixing silk-painting techniques, printing and painting. Another major aspect of Pasqua’s work lies in his series of 'vanities'. He covers human skulls with gold or silver leaf and decorates them with butterflies with iridescent colours. Other skulls can be covered in leather, and then tattooed with delicate motifs of imaginary flowers interleaved with mythical animals.
For several years, the artist has also been going to Carrara frequently, where he sculpts skulls weighing several tons. At the foundry, he produces large bronze casts that are then plunged into baths of chrome. The skulls that emerge — human or animal — become like mirrors: sometimes you only see their blinding reflection, sometimes they disappear, so that what they are reflecting, emerges. And on approaching them, inevitably it is our own image that we see.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1972 in Argentina. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Esteban Pastorino Diaz trained as a mechanical engineer before becoming a full-time photographer. His work has established him at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography. The camera, as an extension of the human eye, is what intrigues Pastorino. He achieves his unique photographic style by taking images with cameras he designs and builds himself. Esteban’s use of perspective in his photography gives way to meticulously crafted illusions, fooling the viewer into believing they are constructed with toys and miniatures, while his landscapes are all real.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1961 in Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest.
Dan Perjovschi is mostly known by mixing drawing, cartoon and graffiti to create pieces directly on the walls of museums and contemporary art spaces all over the world. Everywhere he goes, he keeps up with local news and makes witty testimonies on them. His works are keen eyesight on current political, social or cultural issues, as well as on everyday life. He also reacts to events that affect his immediate environment, such as the restoration of the cultural identity in post-communist Romania.
He has transformed his main medium, drawing, using it to create objects, performances and installations. By lessening this medium to its most elementary expression – the clear line – Perjovschi invests his creations with maximum readability, thus getting them closer to writing. The notions of drawing and writing are, indeed, inseparable in the artist’s work. As clarity, spontaneity, and immediacy are so typical of his sketches, his finished drawings embody the most direct materialization of a thought.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» avril - juin 2012
Stéfane Perraud, born in 1975 in France, lives and works in Montreuil.
Stéfane Perraud studied at the ENSAD and specialized in multimedia and scenography. As an artist he works in Paris where he creates scenes for theatre, performances and ballet’s stages. Perraud’s approach is focused in the notion of movement (Amoebe, Simulte & Modifié series, Solar, Blind Crash, Ecosystème). Even more, the narrative takes a central part in his works, neither inert nor petrified, but with a sensibility to displacement that introduces the possibility of a dynamic position for the viewer whose look is itself in motion. Thus, two movements are confronted: the device’s one and the viewer’s one. With this theme may be found the link between his installations and his performances works.
In a way, his performances Pas du tout and Temps reel are exploring a communication above verbal language, staging the body which is physically linked to the technical device through a cell system. The performance becomes an exchange between a device and a viewer, without one being more important than the other. A theme though is never faded in his oeuvre: disaster whether, according to the works, is about anticipating or having premonition of.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1953 in Bolivia. Lives and works in Geneva.
In the 1980’s, Carmen Perrin has imposed herself as a plastic artist creating sculptures. Since the 1990’s, she has developed a close interest in the architecture context and landscape. In her creations she prefers to deal with industrial mass-produced elements like electric wires, cables and building materials. By repeatedly using those materials, she has developed an in-depth knowledge about them. Through her work Perrin visually shows areas of uncertainty – what things could be or what is expected – concentrating as much on the invisible (space) as on the existing structure or form of the finished work. Her creations are permeated with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots, mixing the cultural restraints of Europe with the political constraints of her homeland.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1976 in France. Lives and works in Lyon.
Photographer Philippe Pétremant uses everyday objects to create a different kind of still life that it is not limited to register the existence and presence of these objects, but attempts to explore the nature of reality. Banknotes, ornamental motifs, advertising and other daily items offer the raw material for his photographs. Pétremant’s transformation of ordinary and usual objects into works of art challenges the viewers’ perception of reality, blurring the limit between what is credible and what is not.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in 1942 in France. He lives and works in Paris.
Pignon-Ernest has made the street both the setting and the subject of his works of art. «Places are my essential materials. I try to understand, to grasp everything that can be seen there – space, light, colours – and at the same time everything that cannot or can no longer be seen: history, buried memories».
He makes prints and drawings that he reproduces and pastes on walls, doors or stairs. Photographs keep record of his ephemeral interventions. Pignon-Ernest does not sign his work; they disappear with time, weather and possible extraction.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1955 in Spain. Lives and works in Paris and Barcelona.
Jaume Plensa became known for his innovative sculptural work, executed mostly on a large scale and often included with relief written texts, water or elements of light. He has gone through different stages, during which he explored materials such as iron, bronze and cooper. More recently, Plensa has been working with resin, glass, alabaster, plastic, video and sound. His creations are conceived to provoke emotions and stimulate intellectual engagement. By means of conceptual dualities (inside/outside, front/back, light/dark), he seeks to connect with his viewers on an intuitive level. Beside his sculptures, Plensa also has a large production of etchings, works on paper and often collaborates in the production of stage design and costumes for opera and theatre. What is also an important part in his oeuvre is his creation of public sculpture installed in countries as diverse as, Spain, France, Japan, United States, and Canada…
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1976 in Serbia. Lives and works in Los Angeles and Singapore.
Ana Prvacki’s work draws on performance, daily practices, consumer aesthetics, and social research. Her interventions are meant to transform the viewers’ perception and experience of quotidian activities and routine, and provide solutions to everyday problems, worries and fears. She explores the comical potential of daily life and reveals latent absurdities, social tensions and unexpected moments of beauty.
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