ART
Pierre Joseph et Shimabuku |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 30 March, 11:00Air de Paris, 75013 [map]Pierre Joseph et Shimabuku
Although not collaborative exhibitions per se, these two solo shows are filled with cross-references and veiled allusions.
Pierre Joseph, a seminal figure for a new generation of French artists, looks at the permanence of things as well as the potential of digital manipulation.
«The exhibition is made up of notes and ideas given concrete expression. These ideas take on a certain form right now, but this material form could be different. The forms adopted are not necessarily the most appropriate ones, but they are the product of various choices randomly made at given times…It is about conservation and memory, time and technology » Pierre Joseph
Born in 1965, Pierre Joseph lives and works in Paris.
Following the example of cutting-edge Japanese cuisine – more concerned with difference and variation in savour and texture than with taste sensation – Shimabuku homes in closely on everyday objects, searching for differences between identical products. This poetic observation of nature becomes an opportunity for life lessons, for the challenging of one’s criteria regarding taste and choice, for reconsideration of rushed judgements. Reminiscent of
Robert Filliou’s «bricolage» («…do something else…»), Shimabuku raises questions relating to timeless folk wisdom or even zen philosophy – explicitly formulating issues like “How do you accept something you don’t understand? » and «Doing something you didn’t plan to do». His artworks generate images as humorous as they are dazzling.
Born in 1969 in Kobe, Shimabuku now lives and works in Berlin
| What: | Pierre Joseph et Shimabuku |
| When: | Tuesday 30 March, 11:00 |
| Where: | Air de Paris, 32, rue Louise Weiss 75013 [map] |
| Transport: | Chevaleret |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | 01 44 23 02 77 |
| Email: | fan@airdeparis.com |
| Web: | www.airdeparis.com |
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