ART
Berlin-Paris: Un Echange De Galeries |
Written 30 January |
Friday 05 February, 11:00Galerie Michel Rein, 75003 [map]Saâdane Afif, Rosa Barba, Michel François, Michael Hale, Santu Mofokeng, Elisa Pône
BERLIN-PARIS
A gallery exchange
The galerie Michel Rein welcomes Carlier | Gebauer (Berlin) for the second edition of Berlin-Paris, a gallery exchange. Open from the 29th January to 27th February 2010, the group show is built around a common project between the two galleries and presents the works of Saâdane Afif,
Rosa Barba, Michel François, Mathew Hale, Santu Mofokeng and
Elisa Pône.
SAADANE AFIF
Born in 1972 in Vendôme, France. Lives and works in Berlin.
Experimenting with multiple art practises, and with no predetermined media, Saâdane Afif works on the exhibitions themselves and the reception of his work. He presents here two “sculptural” works, while allowing their meaning and possible interpretations to remain flexible : Untitled (Suspense) and the ready-made Essence, which draws its inspiration from a Parisian gas station sign. Saâdane Afif is laureate of the Marcel Duchamp price 2009 and will have a solo show at Centre Pompidou in 2010.
ROSA BARBA
Born in 1972 in Sicilia, Italy. Lives and works in Cologne and Amsterdam.
Rosa Barba’s films construct utopias, possible worlds which evolve from a craving to take action, and produced by the voids and displacements of our everyday reality. Those displacements are what Barba’s films often start from; their characteristics lead her to filmic interweavings of realities and possibilities.
MICHEL FRANCOIS
Born in 1956 in Saint-Trond, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.
Alongside his photography practise, Michel François develops a particular use of sculpture and installation. His sculptures have multiple “meanings”; this variability/versatility results from confrontations with other sculptures, as well as the exhibition space and the artwork/space relationship.
MATHEW HALE
Born in 1962 in Swindon, UK. Lives and works in Berlin
Mathew Hale describes his collages and drawings as the results of « associative improvisations », thus elevating chance as the selective tool in his works. His taste for diversion produces some unexpected links between heterogenous images and in turns creates a political and humorous language.
SANTU MOFOKENG
Born in 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg.
Santu Mofokeng discovered photography as a reporter in the streets of Soweto. Both political and poetical, his work is tied with Black representation in South Africa and to the hardship of their life conditions. With a snapshot quality, his photographs are imbued with piercing plastic and atmospheric traits; mixing steams, sounds, smells and brutality.
ELISA PONE
Born in 1979 in Pontoise, France. Lives and works in Paris.
Graduating from the Art School of Cergy-Pontoise, Elisa Pône was offered a solo show at the galerie Michel Rein in 2008. Her work includes images of live fires to printed reproductions of collages made from firework rockets, wrapping papers, and the remains of past pyrotechnical performances by the artist.
| What: | Saâdane Afif, Rosa Barba, Michel François, Michael Hale, Santu Mofokeng, Elisa Pône |
| When: | Friday 05 February, 11:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Michel Rein, 42 rue de Turenne 75003 [map] |
| Transport: | Chemin Vert |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33 (0)1 42 72 68 13 |
| Email: | galerie@michelrein.com |
| Web: | www.michelrein.com |
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