accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1976 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Mark Wagner’s creations include drawings, collages, assemblages and writings. In whatever media he works with, he tends towards meticulous production and solid graphic presentation. For him it is essential that concept and craft should both be strong in his artworks. Wagner is mostly known for turning money paper into artworks; he has transformed one-dollar bills into pictures of people, plants and scenes in which he reproduces the effects of painting, tapestry, mosaics, and engravings.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1966 in Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
Brigitte Waldach engages herself in a multimedia project called Sichtung – rot (searching - red). In her drawings, always made with crimson red on handmade paper, she focuses on space and figure. Her imagery has clear references to theater and cinema, but also literature and philosophy. Waldach’s use of the highly symbolic red colour helps to reinforce the mood of an intense psychological space. Her interest lies in the mixing and overlapping of different levels of reality, of truth and fiction, memory and imagination. Besides drawing she also creates site-specific works, installations and photography.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Kara Walker, born in 1969 in the USA, lives and works in New York.
Walker is best known for her black cut-paper silhouettes, but she also works with video, paintings and texts. Her oeuvre explores highly charged themes such as power, suppression, sexuality, racial differences and slavery’s painful history. The artist picks up images from history books that she transforms using the silhouette technique.
The combination of historical facts and fantasy creates fascinating and sometimes shocking installations. Walker’s work raises questions about racial prejudices and sexuality that still play a major role in contemporary life.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh and died in 1987 in New York.
After graduating he moved to New York where he became a successful illustrator.
In the late 50’s, Warhol began to devote more energy to painting. He made his first Pop paintings, which were based on comics and ads, in 1961. The following year marked the beginning of Warhol’s celebrity. He debuted his famous «Campbell’s Soup Can» series, which caused a sensation in the art world. Shortly thereafter he began a large sequence of movie star portraits, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Warhol was a prolific artist, producing numerous paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings through the 70’s and 80’s.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Photographer Albert Watson was born in 1942 in Scotland.
He studied graphic design, film and television. Though photography was just a hobby at the beginning, Watson has made his mark during the last four decades with fashion work for publications like Vogue and Rolling Stone. He has created advertising campaigns for corporations such as Gap, Revlon and Chanel.
Watson also devotes time to his personal projects, with images from his travels and interests. His visual language follows his own distinctive rules and concepts of quality. Watson’s way of lighting subjects - especially fetish objects - and portraits, creates in his photographs a meditative atmosphere.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1959 in the USA. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Marnie Weber’s work – which includes photography, sculpture, installation, video, collage and performance – is made up of strange and melancholic creatures with surprising costumes evolving in a marvelous but yet perverted world. She is inspired by cinema, fairytales, surrealism, and popular American imagery. Through her work, Weber always tries to interfere with the spectator’s expectations, as the Surrealists did.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Mathew Weir, born in 1977 in England, lives and works in London.
Densely loaded with diverse visual and literary references, Weir's paintings and sculptures examine slavery, mental illness, sexual and racial stereotypes issues as well as representations of ideas relating to death.
The iconography of his paintings draws on a very specific tradition of eighteenth and nineteenth century decorative art, the ceramic figurine. These figurines offer highly ornate and stylized representations of a diverse number of historical, fictional and fantastical figures, from political nobles to novel’s characters. In Weir's paintings, these objects are animated within rich, often powerfully, delicate and textured backdrops to realise their symbolic potential.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Eric Wesley was born in 1973 in the USA. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Wesley often uses decrepit materials in his works, which can take the form of sculpture, painting, drawing or architectural model. His creations convey a humorous take on the world.
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Joel Peter Witkin was born in 1939 in the USA.
He lives and works in New Mexico. Witkin studied Art, but it was during his military service that he began to photograph. After 1976, he began to take photographs inspired by old masters’ paintings, particularly by scenes of the Christian religion (martyrs, saints, vanities) or by mythology. He cuts, draws on the negatives and treats them in order to alter aspects of the reality that he does not wish to see in the final result.
With his photographic canvasses, Witkin engages a meditation about death, the reality of body and flesh, sexuality and the dark side of each person. His images are sometimes hard to look at, with their hybrid beings, compositions and transformations of dead flesh in morgues, deformed or amputated bodies.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Johannes Wohnseifer, born in 1967 in Germany, lives and works in Cologne and Erfstadt.
Wohnseifer’s creations – sculptures, paintings, installations, and photographs – explore political topics and refer to modern German history, often mixing fact and fiction. The artist appropriates brands and design elements that he personalizes adding other levels of meaning.
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