ART
Ever Prosperity |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 24 March, 14:00Bugada & Cargnel, 75019 [map]Wilfrid ALMENDRA, Pierre BISMUTH, Nick DEVEREUX, Iris van DONGEN, Gardar EIDE EINARSSON, Lisa OPPENHEIM
Ever Prosperity was a Liberty ship cargo vessel, based in Monrovia, Liberia. In 1965, she was wrecked on the West Coast barrier reef of New Caledonia. In 1970, her sister ship, who belonged to the same ship-owner, had been given the same name and the same Korean captain, met with the same destiny, just a few miles away from the first wreck.
Braving the curse which ironically seems to weigh on this name yet so full of promises, the exhibition Ever Prosperity brings together works by six artists who apply here their artistic approach on pre-existent cultural material.
Thus,
Wilfrid Almendra confronts the Utopian forms of Dutch artist
Constant Nieuwenhuys' New Babylon project to those of suburban and industrial areas that he is familiar to.
Pierre Bismuth, meanwhile, performs the impossible synthesis between the two faces of
Le Corbusier: from the villas blanches to housing projects.
Iris van Dongen associates with one of her iconic portraits, taken from an etching by a German Expressionist artist, conveying a certain memory of Berlin.
Gardar Eide Einarsson applies his black and white grid to a detail from a colourful painting by
Roy Lichtenstein.
Lisa Oppenheim revives the photographic memory of works from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's collection of public art, stored in the basement of the World Trade Center and destroyed during 9/11.
| What: | Wilfrid ALMENDRA, Pierre BISMUTH, Nick DEVEREUX, Iris van DONGEN, Gardar EIDE EINARSSON, Lisa OPPENHEIM |
| When: | Wednesday 24 March, 14:00 |
| Where: | Bugada & Cargnel, 7-9, rue de l'Équerre 75019 [map] |
| Transport: | Pyrénées |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33 1 42 71 72 73 |
| Email: | contact@bugadacargnel.com |
| Web: | www.bugadacargnel.com |
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