accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1975 in South Korea. Lives and works in Busan.
Tae Hun Kang’s body of work reflects an interest in representing repressive social realities. With his sculptures and installations, he explores relationships and interactions of objects and people within their social, political and cultural contexts. His art practice is focused on the transformation of objects that he empties of their practical dimension and original function to give them a new meaning. In this sense, faucets became important elements in his creations, symbolizing mechanisms through which violence is carried out between the society and the individual.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1925 in Greece. Lives and works between Paris and Athens.
Vassilakis Takis, known simply as Takis, has always been interested in incorporating and exploring natural phenomena is his creations. He is father of an artistic expression based on the functional exploitation of nature’s laws. In 1958, Takis got interested in magnetic fields, which will constitute the basis of his oeuvre. His musical sculptures are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Born in 1977 in Japan, Rieko Tamura studied at the Japanese photography institute.
Currently she lives and works in Tokyo.
She is mostly inspired by nature’s mystical forms and tries to capture echoes in the life of wind and waves. The energy of time is condensed in Tamura's creation.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1966 in Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
For over ten years, photographer Frank Thiel has been depicting Berlin. Having witnessed the historical events that changed Germany, he methodically documented the transformations of his city, especially East Berlin. He has also been interested in surveillance devices that have gradually emerged in public areas, reminders of dark Orwellian scenarios. Nevertheless, his true subject matter is, essentially, the incomplete: he prefers the process of construction to the end result, and persistently pursues the aesthetics of temporality and change. His photographs, which focus on details, give his works an abstract painterly quality, thus exploring the relationship between painting and photography.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1986 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Young artist Kyle Thurman creates paintings that explore materials like enamel paint and techniques such as organic pigment dying. Besides dedicating himself to his creations, Thurman also puts together group shows to promote the work of other young artists.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Sadegh Tirafkan, born in 1965 in Iraq, from Iranian parents, lives and works in Teheran.
Tirafkan's work focuses on Iranian traditions and religious rituals, using his understanding of this culture to explore his own identity. Using photographs as a starting point, he then employs different techniques such as video installation and collage. His early pieces reflect the sadness and despair of the conflicts in his homeland: many resembled photographs of funeral processions — commentaries on the Iranian obsession with death and martyrdom as well as tributes to fallen comrades.
The significant presence of symbolism throughout Tirafkan’s body of work might come from his Persian root in which direct dialogue is rarely used, but frequently replaced by a symbolic language. In recent years, the artist has been focusing on the effects of an increased presence of Western sensibilities and influences on the youth of present-day Iran.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
The twin brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias are born in 1973 in Romania. They live and work in Cologne.
Their work centers on large-scale woodcuts, but also includes typewriter drawings and watercolors, handmade ceramic sculptures, and wooden constructions. They often combine these varied mediums — all of which display lush, vivid color and strong graphic compositions — in installations.
Drawing on such diverse sources as popular culture, traditional Eastern European folk art, and art historical movements like Constructivism, the Tobias brothers create a body of work that is both playful and haunting..
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1967 in Cameroon. Lives and works between Paris, Bandjoun and New York.
Barthélémy Toguo use of many artistic expressions - drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and video - reflect on psychological, familial and political questions such as the absurdity of borders. He is inspired by people and places he encounters through his numerous travels. A versatile artist, Toguo’s command of materials is extensive. His watercolors provide strong visual beats, using a limited repertory of images and colors to depict a dreamy world of metamorphosis - human, animal and vegetal.
The artistry of his large-scale installations is generally rough, quick and underlines human’s conflicts, paradoxes and extremism. Deeply proud of his origins, Toguo is also an active promoter of cultural activities and preservation of art in Africa.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1945 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Betty Tompkins creates photorealistic paintings and drawings, on a large scale, with detailed images of penetration, masturbation, and the female genitalia. Her first Fuck Paintings were created between 1969 and 1976. Her controversial subject matter generated divergent reactions from both critics and public. As an example, in 1973 two of her paintings were seized by the French customs. It was only in the late 1990’s when she rediscovered the Fuck Paintings that she realized that: “what I had been trying to do had never left me at all. I had never given up on the idea of marrying the abstract with the image itself so that they have to duke it out on the canvas. I go for the stand off.”
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» septembre - decembre 2011
Franco-Vietnamese artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang was born in 1963. She lives and works in Paris.
Tran Ba Vang is a fashion designer by training. To express herself she uses painting, photography, video and installations. Tran Ba Vang is known for her photographs of bodies dressed in ‘skin clothes’. Since 1999, she has been presenting her pictures as fashion collections, alternating Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. Because of digital manipulation, the models seem to ‘wear’ a naked skin, which can be stretched or unbuttoned. Body and clothes form one strange silhouette.
Tran Ba Vang captures and alters the vocabulary and the structure of fashion images, the same way as Daniele Buetti or Vanessa Beecroft do. Nicole Tran Ba Vang plays with fashion codes she transforms into principles that structure her work, and thus revealing their comic potential as well as making reference to Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Emperor’s new clothes’.
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