Vernissage à l’occasion du week-end GENEVE.ART le samedi 31 octobre et dimache 1er novembre de 11h à 18h
La galerie Xippas est heureuse de présenter pour la première fois une exposition de l’artiste uruguayen Pablo Atchugarry. Intitulée Lien entre deux mondes, elle dévoilera un ensemble de sculptures inédites spécialement réali- sées à cette occasion.
Le langage artistique d’Atchugarry, inspiré par les arché- types de la statuaire classique, de la Renaissance et du baroque, se développe et s’étend dans des formes abstraites à l’esthétique harmonieuse et aux compositions ascendantes délicates.
My name is Matias Alonso Revelli, I’m a photographer and digital artist based in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. I started creating back in 2012. Currently most of my work is based on conceiving impossible scenari using nature and the sky as primary subjects.
My work is concerned with the re-evaluation and investigations of breaking down of materials and rethinking them as objects to then reconstruct them developing a new meaning. These objects are commonplace items – more recently the structures of canvases. The references to painting via coloured tape travels and traverses on both surfaces of the canvas, by manipulating the structure and reordering the flow of colours in a fractured way, the fluorescence exaggerates pathways also on three dimensional surfaces, as the colours encounter and avoid, beginning a diverse three-dimensional dialogue. The construction of the pieces makes for easy portability, so reconfigurations after installing the work is strategic and adaptable, reacting to conditions when reflecting and considering.
Links to Arte Povera (then as now) point to a necessity of the gathering and treatment of non- traditional materials. So, what lies within a domestic setting can be transformed as viable artists materials, using this approach of work also relating to colour, the utility of green and yellow electrical tape and colours of other pre-designed vinyl tapes as a ready-made palette. These bright colours suggest at times emblems and flags of journeys in the Andalusian Hills and the maritime communication ensigns, the latter connecting to the Futurist’s Dazzle ships.
Camouflage seeking ambiguity. The use of the words ‘visible camouflage’ is of course paradoxical, a concealment and abstraction on display, magnifications of a minimalist space so concealment is almost impossible and the disguise of what is in plain sight. Jagged linear colours travel on surfaces, acting in a dividing way to demonstrate to the viewer what is there but what is not immediately seen.
Contradictions always occur, art’s paradox is that it reveals and conceals at the same time, visible camouflage is another strand to this way of thinking and seeing into this reflection of ourselves.
Born in Catanzaro (1962), where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist free lance… Active since many years in the international underground scene. He has collaborated and he collaborates with magazines of contemporary art and of comics in Italy and in the rest of the world.
Born in Paris in 1965, Eric Lanuit has always been interested in image, fashion, and photography. After 15 years as the head of communications and press relations for various haute couture houses, including Givenchy with John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, he decided to change his direction, and in 2003 he began working with the famous Parisian cabaret the Lido. At the Lido the spectacle of what happens onstage and backstage revived his original interest in photography. Eric Lanuit is now based in Lyon, France, and focuses on his photography artwork which appears in numerous American and European magazines. He regularly shows his artworks in Paris, Lyon and Los Angeles.
Sabina Lang (*1972) and Daniel Baumann (*1967) live in Burgdorf (Switzerland) and have collaborated since 1990. Their body of work includes installations, sculptures, large-scale wall or floor paintings, and architectural interventions. The two artists work in a wide range of materials—wood, metal, paint, carpet and inflatable structures—but their true medium is space. Most of their works are site-specific, some are modular and can be adapted to different situations. Many of their pieces can not only be viewed but actually used as well while others merely feign usability or artfully subvert it.
Through careful prior analysis of the location and context of their interventions, Lang/Baumann initiate a dialogue with the existing situation, often playfully upending expectations and disrupting patterns of perception. With their opulent imagery they deliberately seek a delicate balance between clearly defined categories like public and private space, familiar and strange, art and functionality.
Beautiful Steps #2 Exhibition: 2009, « Utopics. 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition » Art in urban space, Biel-Bienne Curator: Simon Lamunière Courtesy: Kunstsammlung der Stadt Biel-Bienne CH
Open Solo show: 2012, « Open » Grand Palais, Bern CH Curator: Chantal Meng, Juliane Wolski
Spiral #3 Group show: 2013, « Of Bridges & Borders » Monjas, Valparaiso CL Curator: Sigismond de Vajay
Beautiful Tube #2 Solo show: 2014, Parc Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, Ermenonville F Curator: Corinne Charpentier
Up #1 Solo show: 2014, « Up #1 » sic! Raum für Kunst / Elephanthouse, Luzern CH Curator: Nadine Wietlisbach
Beautiful Bridge #2 Group show: 2016, « Tokyo Art Flow » Futakotamagawa Station area, Tokyo JP Curator: Spiral/Wacoal Art Center
Comfort #14 Group show: 2016, Biela noc, Košice/Bratislava SK Curator: Zuzana Pacáková
Beautiful Windows #3 (Daria’s Belt) Group show: 2017, « Cosima von Bonin, Lang/Baumann, Hannah Weinberger » Zabriskie Point, Genève CH Curator: Yoan Mudry, Laure Marville, Roxane Bovet
Up #3 Group show: 2017, « Un été au Havre » Plage / Porte Océane, Le Havre F Curator: Jean Blaise
Street Painting #9 Solo show: 2017, « Theaterplatz » Luzerner Theater, Luzern CH Curator : Benedikt von Peter
Beautiful House #2 Permanent work: 2017, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers F Curator: Yann Chevallier Courtesy: Ville de Poitiers
Timur Zagirov was born in 1992. A contemporary artist from Russia. Originally from the small town of Pskov. He mainly specializes in traditional painting, and is also fond of woodwork and linocut.
Ne jette pas un regard amer sur ton passé, sinon il se vengera en te poussant du doigt du haut des escaliers.
Au cœur de sa bourgade, Perroy, Jean-Marie Reynier, par jeu et surtout pour organiser le palais de sa mémoire, a peint 48 tableaux relatant ses vingt dernières années de création. Vingt ans, fiévreusement condensés en quelques semaines covidiennes de labeur. Ici, les couleurs vives ont vaincu les ténèbres de son ancienne palette. Un matin, dans un magasin, les capuchons chatoyants de bombes aérosols lui ont fait de l’œil. Fi du bon goût, de l’harmonie chromatique ! Les Whistler et les Chardin peuvent trembler ! Et pourquoi pas, tant qu’on y est, superposer quelques touches de peinture à l’huile à de la peinture industrielle. Techniques simples, compositions simples, propos simples, Jean-Marie Reynier souhaitait « s’allégriser » dans la légèreté. Pour chaque tableau, il s’est fendu la poire, adoptant une posture de dandy punk chic, sans omettre l’un de ses grands objectifs : renouer avec l’essence de sa création jubilatoire.
Le regardeur, dont l’œil est libre de vagabonder à sa guise, offrira à son esprit le choix de la libre association. Comme dans la fameuse bibliothèque d’Aby Warburg, l’organisation labyrinthique émerveille. Jean-Marie Reynier pense beaucoup quand il crée, parfois trop, mais il ne cherche pas à imposer ses idées et nous laisse inventer une histoire générale de la peinture, une histoire de l’art abstrait ou même un récit narratif. Rien n’est juste ou faux ; le voisinage des pièces les décloisonne et nous égare dans des territoires inconnus de la pensée.
Calvino avait réuni dans Le Château des destins croisés (1969) des chevaliers soudainement atteints de mutisme. L’un d’eux brandit un jeu de tarot qu’ils utiliseront pour illustrer leurs aventures. Chacun doit deviner l’histoire de l’autre. Ainsi en va-t-il de « Selfie » de Reynier.
– Thomas Tixhon
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Amparo Michel (2001) is a young Swiss graphic designer with a Latin American background. She finished a four years formation at the CFPA of Geneva, now titular of a CFC and a Professional Artistic Maturity, which earned her an award.
As for the present, she is working on various projects, both personal and commissioned. She puts all of her focus on visual exploration, constantly trying to push the limits of her design knowledge.
