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October 29 - December 24, 2005
Lal galerie Chantal Crousel a le plaisir de vous annoncer la premi?re exposition personnelle de Darren Almond en France. Le titre de l'exposition - emprunt? ˆ Joseph Brodsky - nous emm?ne d'embl?e au centre des pr?occupations qui guident Darren Almond dans ses travaux actuels : la recherche de soi, le d?passement de soi, loin des certitudes confortables. Les oeuvres r?unies ont tra”t ˆ des s?jours aux extr?mes du monde : l'Arctique, la Sib?rie, o? Darren Almond poursuit un projet de film compliqu? et passionnant.
September 10 - October 29, 2005
Chantal
Crousel has great pleasure in inviting you to a double celebration :
-25 years
of activity as a gallerist,
-the inauguration of her new space, located at
10, rue Charlot, 75003 Paris
(in the Marais, and close to the Picasso Museum).
The exhibition proposed for this occasion could not be an exhaustive one
with regard to the gallery's history. The choice of works has been based on
a whole generation of artists, who have been offered their first solo
exhibition
in France by Chantal Crousel. (with the exception of Jean-Luc
Moulène).
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January
29 - March 26, 2005
CAILLEBOTIS, PYLÔNES, TORAX, Y...
During a conversation about the choice of works he has presented
in his recent exhibition at the MAMCO in Geneva, Fabrice Gygi explains how, whilst
caught in a traffic jam on the motorway, he was amazed by the beauty of lorries
-especially the well finished work of awnings and straps. Since then, he has drawn
his inspiration from these elements to make the "Columns" in white tarpaulin
(1993), and other sewn awning sculptures. From this point onwards, these materials
have always been part of his sculptural vocabulary. The established interrelation
of "skins": the human being's skin, the (chosen) skin-protection, the
(imposed) skin-prison. When discovering Fabrice Gygi's pieces, the visitor is
struck by the accurate choice of materials and the attention to detail. One gets
strongly compelled to touch, to caress each element, the same way one is appealed
by the touch of a nicely curved "carrosserie"", or a smooth skin,
while realizing that these ambivalent objects express a sensitivity, a lucidity
and a violence constantly wide-awake.
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April 9 -June 18, 2005
JENNIFER ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA
DARREN
ALMOND
FIKRET ATAY
ALBERTO GARCIA-ALIX
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN
HASSAN
KHAN
JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE
MOSHE NINIO
MELIK OHANIAN
ANRI SALA
YORGOS SAPOUNTZIS
SEAN SNYDER
FIKRET ATAY, Any Time Prime Time , 2004, video, dvd, 6 min 30 sec
This at first sight a confusing scene was shot during a traditional feast that takes places once a year in the region of Batman, Turkey, by the Iraqi border. It stages a well know popular tale, mimed by the local population. As in his preceding videos, the artist's primary strategy consists in encoding the reality, rather than in trying to reveal it in a straightforward transparent way. The combination of an intriguing backdrop - hills in the South-East of Anatolia - and the nature of the action - a folkloric scene - are mysterious at first; but the contents of the tale become clear soon enough. As implied by the title of the video, Any Time Prime Time , neither the time nor space in which this scene is happening interferes on the spectacle.+ Communiqué de presse / Press release