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)» avril - juin 2012
Wilhelm Sasnal, né en 1972 en Pologne, vit et travaille à Tarnow.
Sasnal est un artiste à l’exceptionnelle sensibilité aux images qui nous entourent en même temps qu’à leurs critiques expertes, aussi bien par leur traitement stylistique que politique. Les peintures et les films de Sasnal reflètent une observation intense du monde qui nous entoure et simultanément forment un étrange dictionnaire d’images de nos fascinations et expériences depuis le début du XXIème siècle, allant de la musique à l’histoire. Egalement, les genres que l’artiste cherchent à atteindre sont étendus: de la peinture à la bande dessiné, au cinéma ‘structurel’ et aux enregistrements amateurs en 8mm.
Sasnal a développé une formule individuelle en peinture contemporaine. «Je suis un peintre réaliste» explique t-il, parce que tout ce qu’il peint s’enracine dans des situations particulières, évènements, images, scènes, ou bien sont empruntés à des livres, internet, journaux et à la rue. En même temps, ses peintures - presque comme des scènes de télévision rejouées – se déroulent au ralentit, en gros plan, déformant la réalité afin d’en mieux saisir le sens et de recréer les émotions qui ont accompagnées leur perception. Ces images - littéralement et physiquement ‘huile sur toile’ - prennent place au plus profond des recoins de la conscience, entre le visible et la mémoire visuelle.
L’art de Sasnal se place toujours du point de vue du plus faible, en reconnaissant le potentiel créatif du trouble mental ou moteur, du flou ou de l’imprécision. Et, visualiser des peintures tristes et des films d’amateurs est une contrepartie critique au monde qui se développe incessamment et dangereusement.
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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)» avril - juin 2012
Thomas Schütte, né en 1954 en Allemagne, vit et travaille à Düsseldorf.
Schütte utilise dans son travail une grande variété de techniques et a créé une vaste œuvre : aquarelles, dessins, maquettes, sculptures et installations. Essentiel dans son travail est le questionnement sur la place de l’œuvre d’art et de l’artiste dans la société. Dans certaines de ses créations il se réfère à la société de consommation, ou il remet en question le rôle des musées et de l'accessibilité à l'art. Le travail de Schütte, souvent amusant ou ironique, a aussi un côté mélancolique.
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