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Sharon Eyal

Soul chain
“La pièce qui semble inspirée d’un numéro de music-hall ou de cabaret qu’elle pervertit aussitôt ne cherche pas l’élégance, ne tire pas vers la séduction aguicheuse et facile. Le geste est moins poli. Il déjoue les attentes et se moque des apparences. Le groupe transpire en permanence d’un irrépressible désir de résistance et de transgression, d’autant d’états, de sentiments intérieurs que Sharon Eyel et ses danseurs cherchent à extraire, à faire s’extirper et se libérer des corps qui exultent dans l’urgence.” Christophe Candoni
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Salt Womb
“Laut Programm bewegt sich die Ballett-Compagnie in „Salt Womb“ als Ganzes wie eine Maschine. Und wirklich: im 1. Bild dieses Stückes mit dem enigmatischen Titel stehen die Tänzer und Tänzerinnen des Basler Balletts in einem großen Halbkreis, der zu Ende gedacht wie ein Zylinder wirkt, in dessen Mitte sich ein riesiger Kolben auf und ab bewegt. Die Körper der Tänzer:innen, die sich breitbeinig stehend immer wieder auf und ab bewegen, wirken wie gefangen in einem nicht enden wollenden Kraftakt: die minutenlange, fast stoische Wiederholung einer einzigen Bewegung zu hämmernden Technobeats hat tatsächlich etwas Inhumanes… Nach und nach formieren sie sich zu einer pulsierenden Gruppe in Dauerbewegung, zu einem unheimlich wirkenden Superorganismus, aus dem sich einzelne Tänzer:innen in kurzen Solopassagen herauslösen, aber immer wieder vom Sog des Gruppenpulses aufgesogen werden.” Renate Killmann

RENE LALOUX

Рене Лалу
gandahar

René Laloux, criou Gandahar, seu último filme de animação. Baseado no romance de Jean-Pierre Andrevon Les Hommes-machines contra Gandahar Esta fascinante animação adulta combina a famosa imaginação de Laloux com a do designer de animação Philippe Caza. “A minha busca começou com um enigma. “Em mil anos, Gandahar foi destruído, e todo o seu povo massacrado. Há mil anos, Gandahar será salvo, e o que não pode ser evitado será.” -Sylvain. Este filme está no planeta Gandahar, onde a paz reina e a pobreza é desconhecida. O estilo de vida utópico é perturbado por relatos de pessoas nas fronteiras periféricas sendo transformadas em pedra. Enviado para investigar, o Príncipe Sylvain (João Shea) cai e é resgatado pelas experiências genéticas deformadas e horrendas que correram mal e deixado para defender-se por si mesmos. Com sua ajuda, Sylvain descobre que a Metamorfose, um cérebro gigante também criado em uma experiência, está tentando destruir Gandahar.
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René Laloux created Gandahar, his last animated film. Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines against Gandahar This fascinating adult animation combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. “My quest began with a riddle. “In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, and all his people slaughtered.

GUDA KOSTER

Keep it up
Guda Koster est une artiste néerlandaise qui compose des sculptures vivantes. L’artiste utilise des tissus, des couleurs et des motifs originaux qui lui permettent de créer des harmonies et des tableaux à la fois énigmatiques et mystérieux. Chacune de ses oeuvres mélange des éléments à la fois concrets et surréalistes.

KIT WEBSTER

謎めいた火星
Enigmaticaは、光、音、空間を組み合わせた実験的なプラットフォームとして機能します。一連の吊り下げられたフレームは、ギャラリーの長さとともにサイズが小さくなり、表面固有の投影された視覚シーケンスを表示するためのキャンバスとして機能します。この構築された次元間で、抽象的な視覚的および音響的シーケンスの開発を通じて、新しい形のデジタル彫刻の可能性を示しながら、幻想的な謎めいた環境を作り出すことを目指しています。

Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva

Signals
SIGNALS is a collaborative project by artists Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva that focuses on immersive audio-visual renderings of altered seascapes. Sassoon and Silva share an ongoing theme in their individual practices; the depiction of wilderness and natural forms through computer imaging. Created by merging their respective fields of visual research, SIGNALS features oceanic panoramas inhabited by unnatural substances and enigmatic structures. The project draws from sources such as oceanographic surveys, climate studies and science-fiction to create 3D generated video works and installations that reflect on contamination, mutation and future ecologies.

Sanja Marusic

Red Yellow Blue

Plaçant des lieux au-dessus des gens, de nombreuses photographies de Sanja sont placées dans de grands espaces futuristes ouverts dans le but de créer des émotions visuelles surréalistes et aliénantes. Elle utilise souvent des couleurs fraîches et vives, ainsi que des objets et accessoires uniques pour créer des récits uniques et énigmatiques.

 

PAUL CHAN

ODYSSEUS AND THE BATHERS

Far from the traditional pastoral scenes that are evoked by the exhibition’s title, the New York-based artist has conjured a bright and minimalist series of kinetic sculptures at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.For the new works, the artist drew inspiration from Ancient Greece. This was not only through the titles of his work, which play on the names of characters from The Odyssey, but also through an exploration of the characteristics of the protagonists.Abstract and enigmatic, Paul Chan artfully brings the philosophical tethering of Ancient Greek thought to a modern and relatable new setting. Odysseus’ drive to return to his home after the Trojan War, and the way in which he navigates the journey, becomes a poignant metaphor for contemporary experience.

Sanja Marusic

Dutch-Croatian photographer Sanja Marušić uses an experimental approach to colour, composition, materials, and manipulations in her work to create dreamlike scenes that are at once cinematic and alienating.She travels the world in her production of these otherworldly images, finding settings and forms that play with our relation to the subconscious, simplifying the bodies of her subjects with geometric shapes, and abstracting the human form even further by incorporating stylised dance movements.Putting places above people, many of Sanja’s photographs are set in wide open futuristic spaces in an attempt to create surreal and alienating visual emotions. She often uses cool and bright colours as well as singular objects and accessories in order to create unique and enigmatic narratives.

DOROTHEE GOLZ

Дороти Гольц
A artista Dorothee Golz criou uma série de pinturas digitais através das quais reinventa retratos clássicos em corpos modernos. A coleção de peças híbridas mostram um romper de fronteiras entre a fotografia contemporânea e a pintura a óleo. As obras realizadas completamente em digital são convincentes. Em sua visita ao passado, atribui nova identidade aos olhos enigmáticos presentes nas obras originais.

guda koster

Guda Koster est une artiste néerlandaise qui compose des sculptures vivantes. L’artiste utilise des tissus, des couleurs et des motifs originaux qui lui permettent de créer des harmonies et des tableaux à la fois énigmatiques et mystérieux. Chacune de ses oeuvres mélange des éléments à la fois concrets et surréalistes.

HILARY FAYE

Хилари Фэй
Faye has a magical eye for composition and colour, which especially shines through in her photography. Her collages meld objects, people, animals and landscapes together with haphazard cropping and appropriation, and the outcomes are compelling and enigmatic. She dabbles in layering and geometry; her chosen textures and tones are evocative of another era, with use of nostalgic film grains, which is at the forefront of her mixed media mantra. She has a knack of combining a myriad of elements and arranging them into a rich formation of imagery.

joseph walsh studio

Enignum Shelf XIII
“In the Enignum series of work, I have stripped wood into thin layers, manipulating and reconstructing them into free form compositions. I then shape through these layers to reveal not only the honesty of the structure but the sculpted form which is a unique collaboration of man and material. The title derives from the Latin words Enigma (‘mystery’) and Lignum (‘wood’), for me they sum up the series: the mystery of the composition lies in the material.”

Willy Verginer

ВИЛЛИ ВЕРДЖНЕРА
意大利雕塑家
ciuria de foies

These lifelike sculptures are typically carved from solid linden wood then painted with acrylic paint. Their subtle but strange gestures coupled with unexpected objects give the sculptures a quietly surreal atmosphere. Verginer’s peculiar style of painting his work adds to each piece’s enigmatic quality. Rather than realistically paint each individual detail, Verginer applies large swaths of color to his sculptures. The pieces nearly seem to be dipped in pools of pigment. These large fields of color work in contrasting against the realism of each sculpture.

Matt Keegan

Without touch, we can’t connect. Without skin, we can’t touch.
Matt Keegan is a conceptual artist known for his enigmatic combinations of design, photography, text, printmaking, and sculpture. Using stenciling and printmaking techniques, Keegan isolates idiomatic phrases—for instance, “it goes without saying” or “picture perfect”—and transforms them into art objects, calling attention to the materiality of language and its open-ended possibilities.

CSILLA KLENYÁNSZKI

Pillars of Home
Las enigmáticas fotografías de la artista húngara Csilla Kleyánszki -nacida en 1986- nos estimulan para observar la realidad cotidiana con una nueva forma.

GUDA KOSTER

Guda Koster é uma artista holandesa que compõe esculturas vivas. A artista utiliza tecidos, cores e padrões originais que lhe permitem criar harmonias e pinturas enigmáticas e misteriosas. Cada uma de suas obras mistura elementos concretos e surreais.

Felice Varini

Trois Ellipses Ouvertes en Désordre

C’est à Hasselt en Belgique qu’il a décidé de s’installer pour entourer la vieille ville de trois anneaux concentriques qui se rejoignent qu’en un certain point de vue en hauteur, sur le toit du Radisson Blu Hotel. Les bâtiments sont donc recouverts de traces blanches énigmatiques mais c’est aussi ces fragments que l’artiste trouve intéressant. En effet, depuis un point de vue savamment choisi et bien déterminé, Varini “projette” ses perspectives sur l’ensemble de la ville mais en dehors de cet angle de vue, seuls sont visibles des fragments de son œuvre d’art, puis la cohésion s’estompe.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS

pyramide de toiles

During his twelve-year career as a visual artist, Marcel Broodthaers produced an astonishing variety of works in a wide range of media, including enigmatic objects made of egg – and mussel shells, elegant typographic paintings, films, pints, photographs, and ephemeral, provocative installations. Heir to fellow Belgian René Magritte, his works have also been linked to Pop Art, Conceptualism, Dada, and Minimalism. While extremely rich in allusion, Broodthaers’ s work is ultimately enigmatic and his meaning elusive. In effect, rather than providing answers, Broodthaers’s work raises questions, often about the very nature of art and the institutions that protect and foster it.

CSILLA KLENYÁNSZKI

X marks the spot
THE ENIGMATIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUNGARIAN ARTIST CSILLA KLEYÁNSZKI -BORN IN 1986- STIMULATE US TO OBSERVE EVERYDAY REALITY IN A NEW WAY.