ART
Hernan Bas |
Written 30 January |
Friday 15 January, 11:00Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 75003 [map]Hernan Bas
The Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin presents for the first time in France a solo exhibition by
Hernan Bas.
The ethereal characters in the Hernan Bas’ paintings, drawings and films are often melancholy and solitary. They belong to the romantic and decadent literature of the 19th century, Lautréamont, Huysmans… Like
Elisabeth Peyton or
Karen Kilimnik, Hernan Bas reinterprets classical painting and draws particular inspiration from the myths and history of art.
The title of the show, Considering Henry, refers to the life and works of author
Henry David Thoreau, poet and writer of the 19th century, one of the forerunners of the American Transcendentalists’ movement with
Emerson,
Alcott and
Whitman. Henry David Thoreau was also a political activist, abolitionist and founder of the notion of Civil Disobedience. Nature-lover, he wrote his novel Walden,or Life in the woods (1854) in an isolated cabin in the middle of the Walden Pond forest in Massachussetts. Hernan Bas is fascinated by this atypical character whose life symbolizes the quintessence of rebellion and fusion with nature.
These artworks almost exclusively deal with the lone figure in a landscape, either reading alone or whispering to a tree as if it were their only friend in the world (Don’t tell it on the Mountain, 2009)….
