Détournement / à ta santé

source: aptglobalorg

Born in 1966 in Antwerp, Belgium, Sven ’t Jolle lives and works in Melbourne and Antwerp. ’T Jolle uses a range of media including drawing, sculpture and installation. His work addresses current socio-economic practices that stem from Post-Fordist modes of production, such as the implementation of abusive managerial strategies like Toyotism within the work force to regulate and maximize productivity and labour relations. Often departing from real situations and events, his works are constructed as social commentaries that nonetheless acknowledge the rhetorical limits of aesthetic forms as well as the art market’s problematic economies of exchange. ’T Jolle uses various stylistic devices, including caricature, to materialize his critical content, acknowledging the futility of any attempt to circumvent art’s inevitable commodification. The title of his works further sharpen his proposals through their calculated use of word plays and metonymies that open up his poignant commentaries to a wider range of playful, yet related associations.

Sven ’t Jolle has recently presented solo exhibitions and projects at Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (2009), Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp (2009), Vera Gliem Gallery, Cologne (2007), Stroom, The Hague (2007) and SMAK, Ghent. His work has also been shown as part of “Beaufort 03”, Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst at Kunstmuseum aan zee, Oostende and different locations (2009), “Corpus Delicti” at Justitiepaleis, Brussels (2008), “Parkhaus” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2008), “Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous)” at Extra City –
Centre for Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2008), “Die Geschichte Sich Nicht! ” at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2007) and “Come-Back / le retour” at CRAC Alsace – Altkirch, France (2005).
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source: toulouseartfestival

Sven’t Jolle was born in 1966, he lives and works in Antwerp and Melbourne.
His pieces are held in public collections in Belgium, France and Germany (Frac Basse-Normandie and Frac Nord – Pas-de-Calais; Smak Ghent Muhka Antwerp and Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf). He has had solo shows at Smak, 2005 and the Laurent Godin and Stella Lohaus galleries and featured in group shows at Mamac, Nice and Frac Basse Normandie in 2013, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Crac Alsace, etc.
He is represented by Galerie Laurent Godin.

With Sven’t Jolle we can be sure to avoid slickness and cliché. For over twenty years, this Belgian artist has been developing a singular body of work combining formal experiment and social critique. He explores the possibilities of figurative contemporary sculpture, from statues to the readymade, from monument to installation, referencing both the history of western art and the early civilisations of the Middle East. In these connections and mixings, art, culture and political thought are intimately linked. Jolle’s work makes no attempt to exclude the noise and bustle of the world; on the contrary, it affords room to the underdogs of our society, to workers on the edge, the undocumented and the homeless, resisting the dominant modes of thought in both art and economics. Jolle’s work has been shown around Europe but his show at BBB centre d’art is his first of this type in France. Sculptures produced specially for the occasion will sit alongside older pieces, with sketchbooks providing a sense of the scope of this artist’s work.
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source: paris-art

La démarche artistique de Sven’t Jolle passe d’abord par le dessin, par l’accumulation de croquis qui se répondent, prennent vie, et tissent le fil d’un récit les uns avec les autres, pour ensuite se développer dans la troisième dimension avec pour matériau privilégié l’argile, le modelage.

Son œuvre fourmille de références à l’actualité politique, sociale, et artistique. Là une allusion à une phrase perdue (insolite, très incongrue) de notre président français dans (Casse-toi alors) Pauvre C[anard], ailleurs un clin d’œil aux marques de supermarchés qui peuplent nos villes : Aldi, Lidl, Auchan, Carrefour… dans un dessin intitulé Sketchbook Drawing. Savoir survivre avec plus de 15 000 EUR par jour, ou encore la présence une jeune fille d’argile au bras levé, à l’allure «archaïque» ayant pour modèle explicite un bas-relief de Derain.

Ses sculptures, ses sujets et ses discours sont sans aucun doute les marques d’un engagement quotidien de Sven’t Jolle dans l’art et dans la société. La création artistique et la vie (de tous les jours) s’interpénètrent et s’inspirent réciproquement dans l’oeuvre de Sven’t Jolle.
Idée qui est très justement illustrée dans Bauhaus notamment, un «sketchbook drawing» (aquarelle et crayon) qui représente une banale caissière de supermarché et dont le titre évoque pourtant cette célèbre «école» d’architecture et design des année 1920 en Allemagne.
Ou encore la petite femme de ménage reluisant un probable Maillol dans Claire et nette, petite silhouette quasi transparente, presque oubliée, derrière l’œuvre d’art…