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Louise / 13 January-28 February
Through recent years, Louise has been turning into a must-go-to place on the Parisian artistic scene. A few years ago, a group of seven galleries from the Louise Weiss street joined together to collaborate on the organization of vernissages and the creation of mailing lists - sharing information and technology but at the same time allowing each gallery to keep its own identity. The neighborhood is now home to eleven galleries that have expanded to include the Duchefdelaville street and the Chevaleret street. This association, Louise, named after its geographic location (originally selected because of its lack of identity), brings us closer to the French and international avant garde. In this section of BistArt, entirely devoted to this promising Parisian neighborhood, there will be a regular summary of what is up and coming in Louise.
			JOUSSE ENTREPRISE 34 rue louisse weiss Happy 2004 infos@jousse-entreprise.com http://www.jousse-entreprise.com Under Construction GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN 30 / 5 rue louisse weiss Dana SCHULTZ / LFL Gallery (échange de galeries / gallery swap) info@galerieperrotin.com http://www.galerieperrotin.com The LFL Gallery will present the new paintings of Dana Schutz at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Recently, I have been working on a group of paintings loosely hinged on the act of painting a fictional man from observation, and representing the objects that surround us. The paintings are premised on the imaginary situation that the man and I are the last people on earth. The man is the last subject and the last audience and, because the man isn't making any paintings, I am the last painter. The pictures oscillate between observational paintings of him posing for me and hallucinatory arrangements of objects, mirages and visions of transitory events. (...) The psychological and representational implication of painting in a world where reality is relational between two people (...) is a starting point for these paintings. Dana Schutz. GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN 20 rue Louise Weiss Eric Du Yckaerts, Melvil Poupaud info@galerieperrotin.com http://www.galerieperrotin.com The Soury rings are so titled as a tribute to Pierre Soury, a young mathematician who worked with Jacques Lacan at the end of his teaching, when he was putting the finishing touches to his topology, as a string circles. Lacan was wondering about Borromean Knots--tracery made of several bits, the way when you cut just one out, and all the others are free.(?) I wondered if Borromean tracery might hold up in the space. Three pieces of tracery were made. They are about ten feet in diameter. Two of them are suspended; they contain respectively three and four bits. The last piece is on the floor and consists of 18 bits. The free-bits ring is not Borromean. Eric Du Yckaerts GALERIE KREO 22 Rue Duchefdelaville Marc NEWSON / Diode Lamps 2003 kreogal@wanadoo.fr http://www.galeriekreo.com Kreo gallery will be showing the work of Marc Newson, one of the world?s most accomplished and influential self-taught architect and designer. Many of his furniture, lighting, glassware and household object designs have already achieved a culturally significant status, with design curators from moma, sfmoma, vitra design museum and london's design museum snatching them up for their permanent collections. His work has also infiltrated the ultra-hip world of pop culture, appearing in madonna's videos, austin powers film and many other movie sets... JOUSSE ENTREPRISE 34 rue louisse weiss Happy 2004 infos@jousse-entreprise.com http://www.jousse-entreprise.com Under Construction Jennifer Flay Closed &: gb agency 10 Rue Duchefdelaville Alban HAJDINAJ Alban Hajdinaj creates parallel worlds, fictions from a chaotic context: his generation and his country. His installations assemble objects, photos, videos and paintings:domestic objects (porcelains, figurines) are reactivated as ready-mades collaged together to generate narrative tension. Porcelain such as those used in Alban Hajdinaj's work was considered during the communist regime as symbols of 'bourgeoisie' and were kept secret. Since the 90', the process has been reversed: the same figurines, wildly popular now, are sold everywhere in Tirana. For the artist, recognizing the power of these objects is a way of understanding his society, increasingly populist and fascinated by kitsh. For his first solo show, Alban Hajdinaj will present a new whole of paintings and sculptures, as a new video work. AIR DE PARIS 32 Rue Louisse Weiss Stéphane DAFFLON / Something More Abstract + Sebastiaan BREMER / Monkey anything@airdeparis.com http://www.airdeparis.com Air de paris will be showing the work of Stéphane DAFFLON and Sebastiaan BREMER . Bremer's ink drawings, made diresctly on c-print enlargements of memento-like photographs out of his life are at once surreal dreams overlayed on reality and hyper-activated spatial re-creations. The finely detailed, entrancing stories within stories and spaces within spaces are free associations of the personal life, fantasy, memory and histories, both personal and cultural. He has been showing in Roebling Hall (Brooklyn, New York), Janus Schaper Sundberg Gallery (Stockholm), Ybakatu Gallery (Curitiba, Brazil) and Veronica,? Roebling Hall (Brooklyn, New York), among others. Dafflon, born in1972 in Neyruz, Switzerland, lives and works in Lausanne. He has been showing in different museums and galleries including Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Graça Brandào, Porto; 2002: Mamco, Geneva; Centre d?art contemporain - Synagogue de Delme, France; Villa Arson, Nice; Taché-Lévy, Bruxelles; 2001: CAN, Neuchâtel; Fri-art, Fribourg; 2000: Le Hall, Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Lyon; Glassbox, Paris; 1999: Forde, Geneva. ART : CONCEPT 16 rue Duchefdelaville Richard FAUGUET http://www.galerieartconcept.com The fact of being in step with the era called 'modern' is not big worry for Richard Fauguet. Unless we decide to put aside the impetuous and heroic modernity that recalls Mondrian and Mies van der Rohe which is usually summoned by the use of the word, we are left with the prosaic, everyday consequences of modernity that have produced several variegated and often sinister suburbs. Such are the places Fauguet likes to visit, sketchbook in hand. His sculptures are like children of the agoras of motteled suburbs where everything leads you to one center, the shopping center. Therefore, it is not surprising if his work sometimes recalls the droopy character of secondhand stores, even though the only crockery ever used by him is brand new -undeniably cheap, but intact. 'Cheap to produce chic' is Fauguet's pride and although he always titters at the mere idea of artistic seriousness, it would be impossible for him to fight against his own nature. A nature which is ardent and generous, inventive and playful and that leads him into magnification of the most modest objects. Objects that are merely stuck together with a dot of glue are transfigured by his touch and wrapped by what could be described as a light layer of gloss(...) 'Publish for exhibition 'L'image dans la sculpture', Institut Français, Florence, Italy., 1995 GALERIE PRAZ-DELAVALLADE 28 rue louisse weiss Valentin Carron gallery@praz-delavallade.com http://www.praz-delavallade.com en contrucción GALERIE CORENTIN HAMEL 151 rue du Chevaleret BAD BEUYS ENTERTAINMENT corha@club-internet.fr Bad Beuys entertainment is a group of artists from the Parisian suburb, Cergy, that was formed in 1999. With no manifesto, the group has five members including Sassi, Cazin, Clainchard, François, Marechal, who privilege no medium in particular. The group uses elements from popular media, such as a television series, or urban elements. Using cardboard, Chinese lanterns and hidden cameras they create a "quasi palpable" universe. GALERIE ALMINE RECH 127 RUE DU CHEVALERET Annelies STRBA 'France und die Elfen' + Show room: Philip-Lorca diCORCIA a.rech@galeriealminerech.com http://www.galeriealminerech.com From now on, Strbà takes her images entirely from the video camera, choosing stills which she then enlarges in different formats. After the black-and-white photo canvases of the early years, the digital video stills up to 2003 are mounted on photographic paper under glass or new technique of canvas prints. The singularity of Strbà's camerawork is most clearly evident in its superficial failings: the blurring, the off-colours, the over-exposure. The over-exposure translates the objects from their actual sense and purpose into gently shimmering ephemeral appearances. Nano Gallerie Closed