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GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL: Abraham Cruzvillegas Opening of the second gallery's space - The Rule of the game - 23 Oct 2010 to 20 Nov 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Abraham Cruzvillegas 23 octobre - 20 novembre 2010 October 23 - November 20, 2010 Vernissage le samedi 23 octobre de 18h � 21h Opening on October 23 from 6pm to 9pm Ouverture du second espace de la galerie - La R�gle du jeu Opening of the second gallery's space - The Rule of the game 11F rue L�on Jouhaux 7510 Paris Jeudi 21 octobre 2010 de 11h � 15h / Thursday, October 21st, from 11am to 3pm Claire Fontaine, Wade Guyton, Fabrice Gygi, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, Jean-Luc Moul�ne, Gabriel Orozco, Virginia Overton, Seth Price, Reena Spaulings, Cl�ment Rodzielski, Alain S�chas, Danh Vo, Heimo Zobernig Further Information - http://www.crousel.com/news/laregledujeu.pdf Abraham Cruzvillegas October 23 - November 20, 2010 This project focuses on an in-between, liminal or interstitial space. It mostly involves speaking of a difference and the difficulty of describing it. It�s the result of Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas� subjective take on Paris, where he lived for three and a half years. For him, this experience is �something definitively unfinished, something cthat is building itself forever: fragmentary, contradictory, weak, unstable, dark, transparent, warm, stupid, delirious, chaotic, crippled. It�s movement and life, it�s love, it�s sex, it�s me.� After living in Paris, the artist had a lot of questions about the city, but mainly about himself, his own identity in Paris. It took him a while to understand his � supposedly � personal background. He was neither aware of nor willing to look at it. He merely lived in Paris; his strolls were more like wandering. When he left Paris, the artist still had many questions about the city, questions that arise again, in a vague way, when he�s walking around. Whenever he recalls his �Paris experience�, he formulates new questions about the food, about everyday life, the city and its inhabitants, its tourists, museums, monuments and everything that�s supposed to be associated with Paris. He especially recollects the essential elements of what Parisian identity means for him. Even the most in-depth guidebooks don�t always cover these items: Tecktonik dance, Slam poetry, the suburbs, fashion, the pieds-noirs, demonstrations or student and worker strikes, the homeless, Daft Punk and Justice, the unemployed or the royalists� Taking an a priori raw and empirical approach, his perspective is not that of an anthropologist or an initiate. It definitely isn�t a touristic approach. Abraham Cruzvillegas seeks more personal or local initiatives, which nonetheless construct a person�s identity. In the recent years, Cruzvillegas has been working on a series of projects entitled Autoconstrucci�n - self-construction - and comprised of exhibitions, books, music, a film and a play. The work mainly deals with the question of identity as an indefinite, unstable construction undergoing transformation. The environment and the surrounding area of Ajusco, Mexico, where the artist was born and raised, is made up of houses, which the inhabitants built gradually over time, without a budget and with recycled materials. Helping each other out, everyone works with the materials at hand. Additions are made when needed and when materials are available. Impulse drives and is the leitmotif of his entire practice. In Paris, he tries to gather fragments of his own identity, approaching time and space from his lived experience as both an immigrant and a protagonist: Paris. Within the gallery, the artist is creating a sculptural arrangement, whose formal references are inspired by �la petite ceinture� train tracks circling the perimeter of Paris, the �cit� de la Muette� housing project in Drancy (one of the first major ones), the infamous zone, the beltway and the old fortifications of Paris. Made of scrap wood and salvaged materials, this hybrid structure is not figurative, though. It surrounds everything and everyone: structures, sculptural objects and the visitors. In order to develop and diversify his subject, Abraham Cruzvillegas met people with special skills for knitting, singing, acrobatics, gardening, music, skateboarding, dance, drawing, hairstyling to discuss these subjects� Reflecting a variety of viewpoints on contemporary Paris, these interviews, accompanied by images they inspired, are collected in a booklet. This work, which records the process of creating the project, is made available to visitors in the exhibition space. Organic elements and activity developing on and around the structure make it possible to observe � � the experience of self-construction and an interstitial space: silently, slowly but also crudely and directly. Paris, September 2010 We are pleased to announce the opening of Galerie Chantal Crousel�s second space Thursday, October 21, 2010. Since its creation in 1980, Galerie Chantal Crousel has promoted artists conscious of and demanding vis-a-vis their time. After 30 years of activity and promotion of the French and international art scene, Chantal Crousel and Niklas Svennung have decided to open a second exhibition space. This new space is located on the third floor of an industrial building formerly occupied by the French customs, in the heart of Paris, behind the Marais and the place de la R�publique and around the corner from the Canal St. Martin, at 11F rue L�on Jouhaux (Paris 10th). It will initially be open to public from Wednesday to Friday from 1pm to 7pm. The venue will operate in a manner complementary to the main space on Rue Charlot, but with different architectural and temporal specificities. This will allow us a greater adaptability to the artists� shifting practices, and a scale more suitable for projects we produce outside the usual exhibition time (biennials, fairs, museum exhibitions). It represents an indispensable tool to adapt to our constantlychanging environment. Monographic exhibitions and specific invitations will give the artists and visitors the ability to capture the ever more intense ties, affinities, and relationships that we build outside the gallery space with curators, museums, critics, artists, colleague gallerists. The inaugural exhibition marks the beginning of this agenda/programming. It is called �The Rule of the Game,� a title borrowed from the famous film by Jean Renoir, where protagonists with different characters and backgrounds are linked in an unexpected way, thwarting all expected grids with relationships and alliances. Here, the works will occupy the space in order to stand out in a different light, especially through the use of depth of field, allowing many actions to take place at the same time. For more information: [email protected]. Tel +33 1 42 77 38 87 web: republique.crousel.com |
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