accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1963 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Sam Samore is considered one of the pioneers of large-scale conceptual photograph. His creations explore ideas of privacy and myth in contemporary society. According to Art historian Britany Salsbury, “Samore’s photographs are characterized by open-ended and evocative narrative compositions that are reminiscent of film stills. Through the contrast between the straightforwardness of their artifice and the impossibility of explaining the situations they portray, Samore’s photographs reveal a fragmented and constructed subject that invites interrogation of gender, popular culture, and identity.”
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1981 in Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.
Fabrice Samyn’s body of work is distinguished by its singular combination of classicism, innovation and poetry. His conceptual work mirrors the artist’s engagement with themes such as life, death and creation, as well as his questioning of the visible and perceptible. Whether making sculptures, photographic series or paintings, his technique is one of collecting, gathering, selecting and erasing. He uses found images or classic pieces from ancient painting to focus on their essence, contrasting them with one another while developing a reduced and clear aesthetic. About his interest in historical art, the artist explains that he is mostly attracted by the idea of sacred and the question of time. “The act of painting corresponds to a carefree moment ... often preceded by the exacerbation of an inner struggle” says Samyn. “The magic of painting occurs in the happy medium between the task of realizing an inspiration, and a fortunate accident. It is a sort of metaphor in the relationship that one can have with one's own destiny.”
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1969 in Scotland. Lives and works in Tampere.
Computer programs created by the artist generate Charles Sandison’s artworks. Words and signs are screened in dark areas, moving about separately or in groups, chasing one another, organizing themselves into patterns, absorbing or rejecting each other. His works are installed in situ, adapting themselves to the room’s architecture, but also sculpting its space. The spectators wander inside the room, this way becoming also a surface for the projection and an inherent part of the artwork. Sandison is interested in biological, medical and linguistic theories, which inspires him to create his installations.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Wilhelm Sasnal, born in 1972 in Poland, lives and works in Tarnow.
Sasnal is an artist of an exceptional sensitivity to the images that surround us and, at the same time, their expert critic - both on the painterly and the political level. Paintings and films by Sasnal reflect an intense observation of the surrounding world and simultaneously form a peculiar image-dictionary of cultural fascinations and experiences from the beginning of the 21st century extending from music to history. The list of genres for which the artist reaches is long: from paintings, comic books, drawings, posters, photographs to video clips, structural films and ‘amateur’ recordings on an 8 mm tape yet.
He developed an individual formula of contemporary painting. «I am a realist painter», he says, because everything he paints has its roots in particular situations, events, images and views, or is taken from books, the Internet, newspapers or the street. At the same time, his paintings - almost like a television ‘replay’ - happen in slow motion, ‘in close-up’, deforming the reality, so as to feel its meaning better and recreate the emotions that accompany the perception. These images - physically ‘oil on canvas’ - really take place in the deepest recesses of consciousness, between the visible and the visual memory.
Sasnal's art always stands on the side of the weaker, recognizing the creative potential of impairment and vagueness, and seeing sad paintings and amateur films shot from the hand, as a critical counterpart to the incessantly and dangerously developing world.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1960 in Austria. Lives and works in Wien.
Over the past years, Eva Schlegel has developed a keen interest in the perception of art and has been creating photographs, objects and installations that reflect this preoccupation. She investigates structures of desire and comprehensibility that are immanent to the image. Her preference for contradictory states (presence/absence, focus/blurriness, exterior/interior, stasis/motion) represents an important point of departure in Schelegel’s work. An example is the artist’s choice for physical materials, such as lead and glass, contrasting with subject matters approaching the ephemeral, like images of clouds and of people flying.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1976 in Switzerland. Lives and works in Montreuil.
The use of paper, sketches, photos and richly colored illustrations are a central part of Mathias Schmied’s artistic practice. His universe draws on graffiti, pin-ups and super-heroes. While manipulating comic strips and magazine images he creates wall installations, paintings and drawings. Schmied ‘empties’ the images, cutting and removing everything that would make them explicit, thus creating complex graphic objects. In most of his works, reckless gesture and calculated destruction coexist.
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accrochages «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013 et «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1968 in Germany. Lives and works in New York.
Photographer Martin Schoeller is mostly known for his portraits of actors, politicians, musicians and anonymous people. They are all photographed with the same equipment and from similar angles, resulting in an unflinching close-up that all at once decontextualizes and sharpens its contents. Schoeller’s photographs challenge the viewer to identify the qualities that may, under varying circumstances, either distinguish individuals or link them together.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1975 in Germany. Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Andreas Schulenburg works approach different genres and media such as ceramic, drawing, film and sculpture. Nevertheless, his favorite material remains the felt – a thick cloth made from wool packed tightly together - which he both uses for small objects and large sculptures as well as two-dimensional pictures. These works hold a rather poetic sensibility, where the soft expression of the felt always covers serious problematics frequently referring to human existence and threats. While Schulenburg’s works concentrate on the relationship between nature and culture and deal with the issues of our time, he approaches them with humor, essential in his creations.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1978 in the USA. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Allison Schulnik’s work includes paintings, sculptures, drawings and videos. Her creations focus on darkly romantic and mysterious subjects such as classical elements, netherworld character or forces, flora, fauna and mythological creatures. Schulnik explains that her «fixation on these characters is not intended to exploit deficiencies, but to find valour in adversity. Hobo clowns, misshapen animals or alien beasts, they are typically built upon a human frame, drawing from film and dance. I like to blend earthly fact, blatant fiction and lots of oil paint to form a stage of tragedy, farce, and raw, ominous beauty.» Her sculptural use of oil paint refers to her clay-animation background, like a motion-like sensibility which gives her paintings unparalleled depth and energy.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Thomas Schütte, born in 1954 in Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Schütte uses a broad range of techniques and has built a large body of work: watercolors, drawings, scale models, sculptures and installations. Central in his work is the questioning about the positions of both artworks and artists in society. In some of his creations he refers to the consumer society or to the role of museums and accessibility to art. Schütte’s work is often humorous or ironic, but it also has a melancholic aspect.
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