ART
Jim Shaw, Peter Saul |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 13 October, 11:00Galerie Praz Delavallade, 75013 [map]Jim Shaw, Peter Saul
Praz-Delavallade Gallery’s first show devoted to the American artist
Peter Saul.
Born in San Francisco in 1934, Saul is recognized as a major contemporary art figure. His unanimously hailed Orange County Museum show in 2006 highlighted this anomalous figure and the discovery of a uniquely original and far reaching work.
Although integrated at first into the pop Art Movement, Saul soon distanced himself in order to develop his own language made up of bad jokes and disrespectful references. Counter culture, black humour, outrageous excess and questionable taste : such are this « American nasty kid » ‘s favourite tools.
In the course of the past forty-five years, he has revisited in his own idiosyncratic way, the great works of art history and developed his entirely own vision of History. A radical vision, indeed, which, far from aggrandizing, proposes instead a new take as seen through the prism of popular contemporary culture.
Saul returns history to its primitive reality, which he sees as a mix of romance and terror.
Space II of the gallery presents a series of erotics drawings from Jim Shaw's well known "Dream Drawings" series.
Jim Shaw made an inventory of his dreams for several years, first by writing them down and then by recording them into a Walkman. In 1992 he initiated a series of pencil drawings based on these dreams (approximately five hundred today). On identical 12- by 9-inch sheets, each drawing is divided into sections, which sometimes overlap as in a comic strip. Accompanying each work is a text on the bottom or on the back of the page, in which Shaw recounts the action.
| What: | Jim Shaw, Peter Saul |
| When: | Tuesday 13 October, 11:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Praz Delavallade, SPACE I 28, rue Louise-Weiss, SPACE II 10, rue Duchefdelaville 75013 [map] |
| Transport: | Chevaleret, Bibliothèque François Mitterrand |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33 (0)1 45 86 20 00 / +33 (0)1 45 83 70 |
| Email: | info@praz-delavallade.com |
| Web: | www.praz-delavallade.com |
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