ART
Peter Zimmermann, Yeondoo Jung |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 15 May, 11:00Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 75003 [map]Peter Zimmermann, Yeondoo Jung
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presents the new solo show by
Peter Zimmermann entitled Kith and Kin; a series of never seen paintings in different formats, a floor entitled Leak and a ceiling will be produced for the occasion immersing the visitor in a minimalist environment of pop colours. Peter Zimmermann borrows the knowledge of old masters like
Cranach and
Dürer in superimposing layers of paint to provide a subtly transparent effect. Oil painting is replaced here by epoxy resin in which acrylic pigments are randomly inserted. Peter Zimmermann also reinvents Action Painting, giving it a post-modern twist. The abstract motifs that have been present in his works since the end of the 1990’s spring paradoxically from figurative representations. He has for some time subjected the world of art and society in general to a critical semiological reading through art book or philisophy enlarged cover paintings and fictional publicity stands. Thanks to computer tools and dithering, the artist deforms visuals, texts and signs coming from his own inventory of sundry images that recall the atlases of
Gerhard Richter and Warburg. The digital files obtained in this way, which are the matrices of his future paintings, are subsequently transfigured. Peter Zimmermann’s «tactile» paintings possess a luminosity and unique internal sensuality issuing from a complex technique.
Peter Zimmermann was born in 1956 at Friburg, Germany. He lives and works in Köln.
Through films, installations, performances and photographs,
Yeondoo Jung reveals the other side of the image. Oscillating between fiction and reality, Yeondoo Jung’s works question photography and cinema by revealing what should not be visible - the staging and the décor. The destabilized spectator cuts through the mirror of appearances and their imagination discerns the real (the set) from the fake (the representation), as in
Borges’ Fictions.
Fascinated by
Georges Méliès, in 2009 Yeondoo Jung twice presented a performance entitled CineMagician (at the Yokohama Museum of Arts and the Performa Festival 09 in New York) where a magician makes a film in front of an audience by means of various special effects. The film and the performance are being shown at the Gallery.
SIXPOINTS (2010) “animates” still images in trompe-l’oeil taken in six New York neighbourhoods through an internal tracking shot where only shadows move with an unreal / artificial light. In the 85 min film, Documentary Nostalgia (2008), six street, interior or pastoral scenes are meticulously deconstructed through a slow “making of”. The authenticity of our memories and the veracity of our experiences are subjected to pretence. Lastly the series of photographs Locations (2006–2010), places characters in compositions that appear idyllic, but where an element, at times miniscule, foils the illusion.
