Installation art, that occasionally perplexing accumulation of things, whether sculpted or found or otherwise, doesn’t immediately invite comparison with the array of marks an artist makes on a canvas or a piece of paper – but perhaps it could. ‘A shimmering thing at the edge of analysis’: so the art historian James Elkins, in an essay of 1995, described one possible function of the mark. ‘One instant it will seem to be solid and homogenous, and then it will resolve into parts.’ A similar description might be applied to the Delphic installations of Dineo Seshee Bopape, which combine formal elements – drawing, sculpture, video – with commonplace materials like fabric, oil, feathers, herbs, bricks, mirrors, linoleum, houseplants, gold leaf and mud. Confounding as they may first appear, upon close attention the arrangements of Bopape’s installations, which have appeared in cities across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reveal an intuitive logic.
In conversation with Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator of Visual Arts.
About the artist
Amorales is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the limits of language and translation systems to venture into the field of cultural experimentation. He uses graphic production as a tool to develop linguistic structures and alternative working models that allow new forms of interpretation and foster collectivity. In his projects, Amorales examines identity construction processes, proposes a constant re signification of forms present in his work, and provokes a clash between art and pop culture. His research processes are complex; they are based in an ample repertoire of empirical methodologies to develop extensive projects that conjugate historical, cultural, and personal references. His practice expands to diverse media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, or collage; as well as performance, installation, animation, sound art, film, writing, among other non-traditional forma
12 February 2021
Romina De Novellis, installation view.
Alberta Pane Gallery is pleased to present in its Parisian space, on January 22nd and 23rd, 2021, the new
performance Si tu m aimes, protège-moi by Romina De Novellis.
Romina De Novellis is a performer, visual artist, and researcher. She studies the body from an anthropological
perspective and through the lens of the Mediterranean cultures. The artist uses ecofeminist theories1 as a
parameter to analyze and denounce the oppressive realities of our societies and the dichotomies: nature/humanity,
femininity/masculinity, north/south, scientifc/intuitive, power/bodies, establishment/cultures. Her intention is to
highlight the reappropriation of the feminine features for both women and men, with the aim of questioning the
Markus à kesson,Â
Markus à kesson,Â
Now You See Me (Blue and Gold Kimono), 2019, 180x140cm, oil on canvas
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
The pandemic has, to varying degrees, transformed us into undercover agents. On Zoom we exist blurrily from the shoulders up; on the street our smiles and faces are hidden by masks. All of this has diminished the social aspect of fashion and hampered its expressiveness. Or has it? The figures in the Swedish painter Markus à kessonâs series âNow You See Me,â currently on view at Berg Gallery in Stockholm, are shrouded by exquisite textiles, and yet they are in a way portraits of presence. Though hidden, the subject animates the canvas, and seems to inhabit a middle realm between person and object.
Exhibition brings together a group of 27 olfactory sculptures by Antoine Renard
Impressions, après Degas (#020), 2020. 3D printed ceramic, brass, fragrances (muscarome), metal bracket, 53,5 x 32 x 17 cm. 21 1/16 x 12 19/32 x 6 11/16 in. Photo: Bertrand Huet / Tutti image. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels.
PARIS
.-Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Antoine Renards work for the very first time. The artist made his debut at the Palais de Tokyo in Futur, Ancien, Fugitif. Une scène française in 2019. A graduate of the ENSA in Dijon, winner of the Occitanie - Medici Prize and of a scholarship from CNAP and the doctoral program SACRe 2020 from the PSL University and from the Beaux Arts de Paris, the artist, in parallel to his practice, has also been dedicating himself to a thesis on olfaction in the broader sculptural field. He will, furthermore, be the subject of a solo exhibition at the CRAC in Sète, in 2021.