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Galerie Francesca Pia: St�phane Dafflon - 9 Oct 2009 to 21 Nov 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Installation view St�phane Dafflon, Galerie Francesca Pia, Z�rich, 2009
Courtesy Galerie Francesca Pia, Z�rich. Photography: Dominique Uldry |
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STEPHANE DAFFLON October 9 � November 21, 2009 Exhibition opening on Friday, October 8, 2009, 6�8 p.m. With his paintings, wall paintings and sculptures St�phane Dafflon enters into a fruitful dialog with the history of 20th-century abstraction, combining and inflecting the artistic legacy with mental images, musical rhythms, sign systems and codes from the worlds of advertising and popular culture. The forms for his works are designed, deformed, combined and transposed on the screen of his computer: the corners of a square are rounded off, a circle morphs into an oval, a line splits while curving or becomes narrower, until all that is visible of it is a dot. In his art Dafflon confronts purely pictorial explorations with the everyday visual language of design, as applied directly in our quotidian surroundings. In his exhibition at Galerie Francesca Pia, St�phane Dafflon is showing recent paintings. The careful selection and combination of colors, the meticulous application of paint and the graphic play of lines lend the paintings an almost immaterial quality. Simple and plain, they appear like very basic, greatly reduced visual signs that disregard the boundaries of the picture surface. While Dafflon�s individual pieces appear reduced and unobtrusive, a visual rhythm and sound of sorts is generated in the spaces he creates. The paintings seem to emanate undulations which are cast back and forth from one corner of the space to the other like an echo. The paintings in this synthetic, futuristic space might just as well be adorning the walls of the first-class waiting room of the spaceship Enterprise. Dafflon�s works certainly seem to possess sufficient buoyancy to defy gravity. As St�phane Dafflon takes the liberty of slipping production methods and elements of commercial art and industrial design into abstract painting, fissures and shifts occur in the tradition of concrete art and, moreover, new possibilities of combining art and design are opened up. Born in Neyruz, Switzerland, in 1972, St�phane Dafflon lives and works in Lausanne. Selected Exhibitions 2009 Mamco, Turnaround, Geneva 2008 Galerie Air de Paris, up and down, Paris Galerie Jan Winkelmann, Cocktail, Berlin 2007 Frac Acquitaine, Statik Dancin�, Bordeaux 2006 Haus Konstruktiv, Ordnung & Verf�hrung, Zurich Centre culturel Suisse, Aller-Retour, Paris 2002 Villa Arson, St�phane Dafflon (with Peter Kogler et Francis Baudevin), Nice Selected Collections Fond National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC) Paris FRAC Franche-Comt� FRAC Poitou Charantes The Sarasin Bank, Switzerland Daimler Chrysler Bank, Switzerland FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes Banque nationale Suisse, Switzerland BCV, Lausanne |
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