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Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS: Who Put Grandma Under The Stairs? | DOLORES: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: �Het Geel Van Gent� - 10 Nov 2007 to 24 Nov 2007 Current Exhibition |
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Karina Bisch
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Who Put Grandma Under The Stairs? Karina Bisch, Nicolas Chardon, Gyan Panchal, Cl�ment Rodzielski and Vier5 My own position is to point out how the modernist program and forms are still available today, as they�re everywhere around us, even if they have been mishandled. I�m not nostalgic, I want to face reality. I know it�s a clich� to talk about Mondriaan�s patterns becoming the L�Oreal shampoo icon, but want to work with these so wellknown forms for what they are now, in a concrete way. Experimenting the materiality of this ersatz forms is a very interesting question, as I think the Modernism is not an obsolete idea. The pieces I chose for the Who Put Grandma Under The Stairs show all deal with this relation between pictures and materiality, like for example, the black square as a generic shape, design as a practice or leftovers as primary forms. Sure Grandma survives and will climb back to the top of the stairs. Karina Bisch, Born in Paris, in 1974, lives and works in Paris. �Karina Bisch surveys the real world, as she would go through a picture book, and vice versa. As an iconographer, the artist brings into play a repertoire that is part of her collection � product of a continual exploration of the urban environment, vernacular landscape, and historical referents �, an association and reinvention of forms in which notions that are specific to the avant-gardes, such as utopia, the practice and the body, are omnipresent. This archive, that is at once active and activated, consequently becomes the background of a physical relation to images, taking on various dimensions, between stylised reproductions, a raw materiality and a revolutionary nostalgia. Art like child�s play � a geometric game.� Yann Chateign�, September 2007 What sort of radicalism are we talking about? That of modern avant-gardes? �Here, when I speak of radicalism, it�s more an image of radicalism in painting. The moment I start painting is when my position on this question is the most evident. I start painting on an object, a painting, that by its very form has already resolved many of the formal issues of modernism: the fabric is a support for colors, a pattern � a grid what�s more -, and even performs a movement by deforming the grid. The action of painting is a second phase. And this phase is truly an after thought in terms of avant-garde ambitions. We can say that my painting is detached from them, even if it still manifests the symptoms. If we consider that distancing strategies are characteristic of modernism, we also need to see that the distancing in my work � the deformation of the grid � comes from a traditional act shared by all painters: stretching a canvas. In my case, radicalism is not heroic but rather everyday, archetypal.� Index, Nicolas Chardon interviewed by Judica�l Lavrador, in Catalogue. Nicolas Chardon, 2004, Revolver, Archiv F�r Aktuelles Kunst. Gyan Panchal Starting from standard materials that compose today�s environment, Gyan Panchal's work questions our codes for constructing reality. He is interested in the making and the use of these standards, considering the material from its origin to its potential outcome. Perspex, polystyrene or polyamide constitute as many tools, instruments and shelters. Combining the manufactured with the hand-made, function with ornament, abstract with fetish, future with primitive, reality with fiction, Gyan Panchal proposes an unresolved approach to contemporary signs of production. Cl�ment Rodzielski ��Son travail constitue une s�rie d��nigmes, posant la question : � Quand une image appara�t-elle ? �. Pour l�artiste, � il s�agit le plus souvent de mesurer l��cart entre ce qui est face � moi et la provenance des images � et leur destination �. Toute image est compos�e de strates � explorer au travers de processus complexes, de d�coupes pr�cises et d�une attention extr�me. L�une de ses �uvres prend par exemple la forme d�un grand tirage noir & blanc r�alis� � l�aide d�un photocopieur : le visage d�une actrice de cin�ma est recouvert de bris de miroirs qui, lors du passage du rayon lumineux, refl�tent l�int�rieur du photocopieur. Le � ventre de la machine � produit alors des trous noirs, point d�acc�s vers un ailleurs�� Yann Chateign� VIER5 �The work of VIER5 is based on a classical notion of design. Design as the possibility of drafting and creating new, forward-looking images in The field of visual communication. The work of VIER5 aims to prevent any visual empty phrases and to replace them with individual, creative statements, which were developed especially for the used medium.� Marco Fiedler, Achim Reicehrt DOLORES Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: �Het Geel Van Gent� ��The videos of De Gruyter and Thys balance on the verge of alienation: the strongly pronounced, exaggerated gestures, the sober settings and characters that are leaning towards apathy, degenerated characters, wandering about in an isolated world of their own. To them the outside world is unthinkable; as if there is a vacuum outside of these rooms or, at best, an imminent, invisible threat.Furthermore the twosome sticks to tight, very dry camera manipulations. The camera records from a safe, at times somewhat uneasy distance, from a steady position. The spectator becomes accessory to the actions which take place: he is turned into a voyeur, limited to observing, as powerless as he is amused with the game between the vulnerable, though emotionally paradoxical and the characters, who are harder and harder to grasp�� Ive Stevenheydens, Argos catalogus 2005 opening saturday 10 November 17.00 � 19.00 hours exhibition 10 November � 24 November gallery hours: tuesday to friday 11.00 � 18.00 hours saturday 13.00 � 18.00 hours, and first sunday of the month 14.00 � 17.00 hours Ellen de Bruijne Projects Rozengracht 207 A 1016 LZ Amsterdam open Tue-Sat 13-18 1st Sun of the month 14-17 |
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