JIRO TAKAMATSU
高松次郎
Inspirée par des images d’ombres dans la peinture et les gravures sur bois japonaises du XIXe siècle, ainsi que par des ombres réelles projetées sur des portes coulissantes en papier dans des environnements domestiques, la série Shadow Painting de Takamatsu (1964–98) a étudié les fondements formels de la peinture à travers des représentations délicates de ombres (de clés ou de figures humaines) en émail et acrylique. La série rappelle également les empreintes figuratives laissées sur les murs laissés après la destruction nucléaire d’Hiroshima. Takamatsu s’est bridé à l’essentialisation du matériau et du médium au milieu du siècle, préférant plutôt un excès de l’ancien et, semblable à des artistes comme Eva Hesse, a créé des sculptures telles que Slack of Net (1968-1969) qui s’affaissaient et s’inclinaient sous l’effet de la gravité. Son Unicité du béton (1971) a pris la forme d’un gros bloc brisé en centaines de fragments, une ruine faite de monument qui contestait la suprématie du cube minimaliste.
Dinh Q. Lê
Memory for Tomorrow
Vietnamese American artist Dinh Q. Lê is known for his work in photography, video, and installation. He often splices, interweaves, and distorts photographs to explore his own relationship to Vietnam’s complicated cultural and political history. Lê’s family left Vietnam when he was 10; he has returned and now lives in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
BARRY X BALL
БАРРИ Х БОЛЛ
Purity
Ball’s portraits are marked by a kind of hyper-compressed energy and visceral intensity that sends your mind reeling. Your thoughts vacillate between the likeness of the sitter, the aesthetic qualities of the stone, and the odd contortions of the form — even though you are completely baffled about how these objects came into existence. more…
STARN STUDIO
Старн студии
麦克与道格·斯塔恩
Bruce Nauman
Nature Morte
Nature Morte focuses on Nauman’s long relationship to his own studio, a variation on his four unique multi-projection videos, Mapping the Studio (2001). Three viewing stations, each consisting of an iPad linked to a wall-sized projection, provide an interactive exploration of the 3D studio space. Only now the artist is absent, and the participant becomes performer as he/she manipulates the large scale video projections on an iPad using touch control. The participant is free to navigate anywhere throughout the space, selecting broad vistas or individual objects. Using a hand-held 3D scanner, Nauman recorded hundreds of images that allow participants to select an object and locate close-up anything found there, and further reorient the image to see an object from above and below, and at times inside-out. The resulting mobility intensifies the experience of the viewer/performer. Presenting a static, but immersive re-creation of his studio space, Nauman’s pieces once again play at the tenuous lines between the body and space, perception and physical material.
JON MCCORMACK
Fifty Sisters
Sinds eind jaren tachtig werkt McCormack met computercode als medium voor creatieve expressie. Geïnspireerd door de complexiteit en het wonder van een afnemende natuurlijke wereld, houdt zijn werk zich bezig met elektronische ‘after natures’ – alternatieve vormen van kunstmatig leven die op een dag de biologische natuur kunnen vervangen die verloren is gegaan door menselijke vooruitgang en ontwikkeling.
Rui Calçada Bastos
Par Terre
THOM KUBLI
FILE SAO PAULO 2017
BLACK HOLE HORIZON
The nucleus of the installation is the invention of an apparatus resembling a ship horn. With the sounding of each tone, a huge soap bubble emerges from the horn. It grows while the tone sounds, peels off the horn, lingers through the exhibition space and finally bursts at an erratic position within the room.
MOEBIUS
メビウス
Мебиус
Moebius
Jean Giraud (nascido em 8 de maio de 1938) é um artista francês de história em quadrinhos que também colaborou na produção de diversos filmes. Giraud é também conhecido pelos pseudônimos de Moebius e Gir. Ele começou a publicar suas primeiras tiras aos 18 anos, logo tornando-se um dos ilustradores mais consagrados da Europa.
Beni Bischof
بني بيشوف
Бени Бишоф
Everyone loves to poke fun at celebrities and those in the lime light and every now and again an artist or critic finds the perfect way in which to do so… well, Beni Bischof has made poking fun at those that dwell in glossy mags into an art form, with his ‘primitive technique’.Using his fingers or sausages, Bischof is changing the face of fashion pages, giving Scarlett Johansson a decent sized nose, decorating a fashion shoot in various meats or transforming the face of a Chanel watch into a sausage numbers extravaganza.
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN
フセイン·チャラヤン
ЧАЛАЯН
후세인 샬 라얀
Hussein Chalayan wurde in Zypern geboren und schloss 1993 an der Londoner Central St. Martins School of Art and Design ab. Bereits 1994 gründete er sein eigenes Modelabel und in den Jahren 1999 und 2000 wurde er zum British Designer of the Year ernannt. Seit 2002 zeigt er seine Kollektionen in Paris und 2008 wurde er zum Creative Director von Puma berufen. Chalayans Kreationen zeichnen sich durch innovatives Design, wunderschöne Schnitte und ein puristische Ästhetik aus. Museen auf der ganze Welt widmen ihm Ausstellungen, unter anderem das Museum of Modern Art, New York, das Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Palais du Louvre, Paris oder das Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Neben seinem Modedesign macht Hussein Chalayan Filme und ist in Theater- und Tanzproduktionen involviert.
SARAH MAPLE
Sarah Maple’s artwork is unfailingly bold and brave, not for the coy or faint of heart. These unflinching, occasionally even controversial, investigations into what it is to be a woman and a Muslim in 21st century Britain are made joyful by her own very personal brand of boisterous, tongue-in-cheek humour. more…
HANNES VAN SEVEREN
“Hannes Van Severen makes the connection between reality and imagination in his work. The artist starts with an existing, everyday object, usually a piece of furniture, which he then transforms and changes. In this way, he deprives the object of its original functionality and allows its aesthetic value to prevail. As a result, the original usefulness of the everyday object no longer predominates, but his work nevertheless continues to be a visual reference to the original. With this paradoxical construction, Hannes Van Severen creates a fictitious world of images with alternative, intrinsic meanings and potential. The observer has to let go of the explanatory and allow his or her imagination to take flight. In combination with the personal experience of the observer, a richer dimension of the reality experienced will emerge with the new reading and interpretation of things that are apparently obvious. With this transformation, Van Severen wants to break down our recognition, to question the obviousness of our reality, and to show us the absurdity that surrounds us. Like the cubists and the surrealists, the artist divides into pieces and rearranges an existing reality, which means that he can be described as a saboteur of the obvious.” Stef Van Bellingen
Karel Fonteyne
Paper Plane
Unlike most photographers, Karel does not take pictures from the outside world. His photographs are extremely intricate and nothing is what it seems at first. He composes and translates his thoughts and feelings into very personal images. In order to achieve this, he identifies elements which at first sight have nothing in common.
