At the Gallery : Recent sculptures
Unlike his previous solo exhibitions at the Chantal Crousel Gallery, this seventh exhibition consists of a declination of exclusively bronze sculptures, framed by a selection of drawings. This choice can be interpreted as a conscious focus -- or a reflexion - on a way of defining a surface and a shape determined by the variation of the inner axis of the sculpture.
March 8th May 15th 2003
At the BNF : 12 monumental sculptures on the Parvis The Chantal Crousel Gallery will present 12 large outdoor sculptures by Anthony Cragg on the North-East and South-East plazas of the BNF (quai François Mauriac, Paris 75013).
Their aerodynamic form and their scale will offer an appropriate and meaningful link between the scale of the human body and the static monumentality of the architectural site.
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May 22 - June 28, 2003
To the characteristics that mark the works of his conceptual contemporaries, Bas Jan Ader adds a very personal element : sober emotion.
'Ader gestures toward the mortal risk and failure inherent in any search for the miraculous or experience of the sublime.' (Bruce Hainley in Legend of the Fall, Artforum, March 1999).
His extreme engagement in the refusal of established codes, his use of the journey as a form of art, continue inspiring and influencing successive generations of artists.
The Galerie Chantal Crousel is proud to present this first gallery exhibition of Bas Jan Ader in France.
FALL - DISTANCIATION - LOSS
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July 3rd - September 13th 2003
Uniting the works of ABSALON, SOPHIE CALLE, ALBERTO GARCIA-ALIX, FABRICE GYGI, MONA HATOUM, THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, HASSAN KHAN, MOSHE NINIO, MELIK OHANIAN, GABRIEL OROZCO, ANRI SALA, and JOSÉ MARIA SICILIA.
This exhibition presents works revealing private and intimate situations, which because of an external intervention, topple over into the public, the dramatic.
Most of the artists invited to contribute to the exhibition have created a new piece of work in response to the theme.
September 17 - October 24 2003
LA LUZ QUE SE APAGA
The Chantal Crousel Gallery presents a new series of dazzling paintings that were realized this summer. Again, José Maria Sicilia names them with the generic title : La luz que se apaga.
From the early beeswax paintings on (1992), light is the center of the ongoing quest of José Maria Sicilia. Light or its absence, its brightness, or its vanishing. Unfailingly, through this process, the artist persistingly addresses the mystery of death.
Although the human figure never appears in his work, human activity or its projection, its transcendance or drift are clearly evoked. José Maria Sicilia pursues his declination of the flower as a metaphor of life, of the universe.
31 october - 4 décember 2003
GEOGRAPHIES # 3 comes naturally after GEOGRAPHIES #2, a year later. Five artists gather around this notion, each one giving his own personal version of the theme: Fikret Atay, Jean-Luc Moulène, Melik Ohanian, De Rijke / De Rooij, Susanne Bürner. They all have an existential attitude towards geography: moving frontiers, redrawn ones, adopted for the sake of a necessity. A psycho-geography. It is the idea of the letting go of certainties, of "mise-en-abîme" - it is the art of the passage.