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GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL: Andy Warhol - Crude Icons | Wang Bing - 22 Oct 2009 to 5 Dec 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Andy Warhol, Truck, 1985
Screenprint and colored graphic art paper collage on board / S�rigraphie et papiers teint�s coll�s sur carton, 103,5 x 101,6 cm |
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English below Andy Warhol - Crude Icons 22 octobre - 5 d�cembre 2009 A la suite de l�exposition � Shadows and Other Signs of Life �, en d�cembre 2007, la Galerie Chantal Crousel est heureuse de pr�senter une deuxi�me s�rie d�oeuvres sur papier � collages et dessins � d� Andy Warhol. Les 13 travaux r�unis ici sous le d�nominateur Crude Icons, Icones brutes nous font entrer dans une partie plus cach�e du studio de l�artiste. Il s�agit tant�t d��tudes de formes, simples ou r� p�t�es, dessin�es au graphite, ou peints au polym�re synth�tique sur papier, tant�t de collages complexes, compos�s de dessins au graphite ou s�rigraphi�s et de papiers de couleur coll�s. On assiste � l��laboration d�un vocabulaire de formes et de couleurs, qui se retrouveront ult� rieurement combin�s, superpos�s, r�p�t�s. Toutes ces oeuvres ont en commun le tra�t g�nialement simple et s�r, une rapidit� d�ex�cution, une vivacit�, dont � dans la phase suivante : l�impression, la reproduction, la r�p�tition � la spontan�it� sera bannie. Parmi les travaux pr�sent�s ici, on reconna�tra plusieurs sujets devenus �ic�nes� tout court, et notamment le �Gem� et les �Trucks� A l�occasion de cette exposition, un catalogue � Crude Icons � sera publi�. Andy Warhol - Crude Icons October 22 - December 5 2009 Following the show Shadows and Other Signs of Life in December 2007 Chantal Crousel Gal lery is pleased to present a second series of works on paper � collages and drawings � by Andy Warhol. The 13 works reunited here under the denominator Crude Icons allow us to enter the most hid den part of the artist�s studio. Sometimes they are studies of form, simple or repeated, drawn in graphite or painted with synthetic polymer on paper, sometimes they are complex collages, composed of graphite or silkscreen drawings and glued with coloured paper. We are before the elaboration of a vocabulary of forms and colours, which are then later combined, superposed, repeated. All the works have in common a wonderfully simple and confident stroke, rapid execution, vivac ity, whose spontaneity is banished in the next step: impression, reproduction, repetition. Among the works presented here, one recognizes several subjects that have become �icons,� particularly Gem and Trucks. On the occasion of this show, a catalogue Crude Icons will be published. Wang Bing October 31 - December 5, 2009 Fengming, duration: 3 h 50 min, screenings at 11:00 and 15:00. Man With No Name, duration: 92 min, continuous screening. Chantal Crousel Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of the Chinese director Wang Bing. Considered one of the most promising film-makers of his generation, thanks to the monumental West of the Tracks � a nine-hour-documentary on the dismantling of a huge industrial complex in China, acclaimed as a decisive work of the early XXIst century � Wang Bing stages his unique cinematographic grammar, through two intersected portraits. Fengming is a striking account of political and social reality in China. The protagonist re calls her memories, started in 1949, and unfolds more than 30 years of her life. Almost four hours long, the film translates the suffering of a fierce battle and the necessity to survive. Without any cuts, facing camera, Fengming refinds a speech too long repressed. Free of pre meditated screenplay, the narrative unfurls like a path to follow, while the woman�s move ments and silences become moments of respite. Man With No Name is a metaphor based on a real person, whom Wang Bing has been filming since 2007. The man lives in a cave, isolated from Chinese society, and deals with his sur vival with dignity and determination. He never speaks, refuses his country�s system and as sumes his marginalization. Living away from the worlds of matter and spirit, he constructs his own conditions of survival. Wang Bing�s cinema tackles the problematic of time and displacement. The notion of move ment is essential; it is in the centre of the two portraits. Under Wang Bing�s eye the tragic becomes poetic, silence is magnified, time that passes becomes freedom. On the occasion of this exhibition, Chantal Crousel Gallery publishes an A.S.S.N. notebook with an essay by Alexandre and Daniel Costanzo. With the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques (aid to the first exhibition), Ministry of Culture and Communication. |
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