ART
Peter Coffin, Daniel Arsham |
Written 30 January |
Thursday 25 March, 11:00Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 75003 [map]Peter Coffin, Daniel Arsham
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presents The Colors Are Bright, the forthcoming exhibition of work by New York based artist,
Peter Coffin.
Peter Coffin orchestrates the work of experts in different fields, be they historians or sociologists, astronomers or artists. Coffin’s work invokes art history, fringe science, social psychology and epistemology to explore interpretation. His matter-of-fact aesthetic suggests an interest in the methods used to render common things loquacious and common situations significant. This approach is concerned with the drawing out of ideas. In 2009, Peter Coffin was commissioned by the Tate Britain Museum in London to create an original artwork for their Triennial. He responded by first curating a gallery with paintings, photographs and sculptures from their permanent collection, which he then animated with video and sound.
For his exhibition at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Coffin has arranged a curated exhibition of artworks from the Centre Georges Pompidou to animate. Works include masterpieces such as Alexander Calder’s wire sculpture of
Josephine Baker from 1928,
Rene Magritte’s Le viol, 1945 and
Piet Mondrian’s Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc II, 1937.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presents the solo show of
Daniel Arsham entitled Animal Architecture. Daniel Arsham’s work straddles the line between art, architecture and performance. He has worked across disciplines with
Merce Cunningham,
Hedi Slimane,
Bob Wilson, and
Jonah Bokaer. This show, entitled Animal Architecture, weaves a multitude of materials and references into an intricate tableau, creating a window into Arsham’s diverse studio practice and the ideas behind his work.
Architecture is a prevalent subject throughout the artwork of Daniel Arsham: environments with eroded walls and stairs going nowhere, landscapes where nature overrides structures, and a general sense of playfulness within existing architecture. His drawings of ruins in the middle of a luxurious and dominant nature reveal his fascination for the classical painters such as
Nicolas Poussin and
Hubert Robert. Nevertheless, the ruins he describes are those of the modernists’ buildings, evoking
Mies van der Rohe and
Le Corbusier.
Arsham’s new series of Gouache on Mylar drawings are inspired by etchings of
Gustave Doré and
Albrecht Dürer, among others, with Arsham rehashing old images into new stories. The artist has said that «The type of line work found in etchings brings to mind a certain time period, though in my work time has been compressed. Through the use of imagery foreign to the period and to the place, the imagery becomes timeless. There is a post-human quality to this series.» The series of sculptures entitled Pixel Clouds, 2010, reveals Arsham’s fascination with architecture and its relationship to nature which takes him into new territory. The white marble sculpture, Hide, 2005, depics skyscrapers in a mountainous landscape, defying the material.
Two new cube sculptures will also be presented that carry Arsham’s erosion works onto autonomous forms separate from the architecture.
