ART
Kendell Geers, Shilpa Gupta |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 15 September, 10:00Galerie Yvon Lambert, 75003 [map]Kendell Geers, Shilpa Gupta
For his new exhibition
Kendell Geers, artist, performance artist, musician and film-maker, has chosen the poem The Waste Land (1922) by T.S Eliot as source of inspiration. The work of Kendell Geers explores a world whose foundations, beliefs and ideologies are falling apart. As artist he tries to engage with life, a combat in which vital experiences are taken to the extreme and where the role of the spectator is implicit. As he says himself: “I try to create places in which the viewers must accept the responsibility of their presence in the artistic work. Obviously they are always free to leave and continue their path but if they decide to take part in my work, they become active spectators… danger is something present in all my work.”
In Venice, 1993, Geers rose to international notoriety when he urinated in
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain.
Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) lives and works in Mumbai, Gupta creates artwork using interactive video, websites, objects, photographs, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security on the street and on the imagined border.
In her installation “Threat”, a sculpture composed of thousands of soaps engraved with the word “THREAT”, viewers are invited to take a piece of soap home to be used to make it truly interactive. In her work Gupta regularly looks at the crisis between India and Pakistan and Gupta’s empathy concerning the situation in Kashmir is obvious in numerous works. The works of Shilpa Gupta transcend cultural barriers, providing form to the most dangerous contents of the soul as well as personal and collective fears.
| What: | Kendell Geers, Shilpa Gupta |
| When: | Tuesday 15 September, 10:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Yvon Lambert, 108, rue Vieille du Temple 75003 [map] |
| Transport: | Hôtel de Ville / St Paul |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33 (0)1 42 71 09 33 |
| Email: | paris@yvon-lambert.com |
| Web: | www.yvon-lambert.com |
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