Material Art Fair 2017
Daniele Milvio
February 9 - 12, 2017


16 Zach_Version_1.1
Nicholas Steindorf
January 26 - February 2, 2017


Xo of Excess
ssaliva/Early Holography/AllPass/Hasar de Doria
December 9, 2016
organised by Diesel project space


Video Night at Exo Exo
Anna-Sophie Berger, Keren Cytter, Saige Rowe, Geo Wyeth
October 21, 2016
curated by Levi Easterbrooks


Triplication
Bending Binding, Evan Robarts, Deirdre Sargent
October 1 - 8, 2016
curated by Elisa Rigoulet @ Sushi Bar, NY


A Thousand Friends (part 2)
Daniele Milvio, Olga Pedan, Matthieu Haberard, Micah Hesse, Stefan Fuchs, Bianca Bondi, Rosa Aiello, Aline Bouvy, Sandra Vaka Olsen, Clément Roche, Kareem Lotfy, Nuno Patrício, Antoine Donzeaud, Dominic Samsworth, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Hilda Stammarnäs, Agata Ingarden, Austin Lee, Chris Lecler, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Hubert Marot, Strauss Bourque Lafrance, Loup Sarion, Sean Raspet, Bending Binding, Liesl Raff & Christoph Meier, Mathis Collins
September 9 - 23, 2016
curated by Elisa Rigoulet @ New Jörg, Vienna


15 Presented by Exo Exo and Lodos
Michael Debatty, Noah Barker
June 23 - 30, 2016


14 Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine)
Viktor Timofeev, Jason Benson, Martin Kohout, Eric Veit, Mia Goyette, Hannah Lees, Eloise Bonneviot + Anne De Boer
May 12 - 19, 2016
curated by Florent Delval


13 Concert for solista and other sad stories
Beatrice Marchi
March 4 - 11, 2016


Just Lifelike Enough
Joey Villemont, Zoe Barcza, Olga Pedan, Bradley Davies, Julian Tromp, Hilda Stammarnäs
December 7, 2015 - February 28, 2016
curated by Exo Exo @ Anticipation T


Never Land Alone
Isaac Lythgoe, Jack Lavender
January 23 - February 27, 2016
curated by Exo Exo @ Galerie Hussenot, Paris


Material Art Fair 2016
Zoe Barcza, Bending Binding, Micah Hesse, Yves Scherer
February 4 - 7, 2016


12 Dawning
Fenêtreproject & Pakui Hardware
December 10 - 18, 2015


Sprint Independent publishers' salon 2015
Aline Bouvy, Antoine Donzeaud, Exo Exo, Nickolas Mohanna, Justin Morin, Yves Scherer, Joey Villemont
November 28 - 29, 2015
curated by Exo Exo at O', Milan


11 Politics are personal
Spencer Ashby, Harm van den Dorpel, Bruno Zhu
October 23 - 30, 2015
curated by Domenico de Chirico


10 Where is the love
Yves Scherer
September 17 - 24, 2015


Loop of Faith
Bending Binding
September 5 - 27, 2015
curated by Exo Exo @ Passebery, Galerie Gutharc, Paris


9 Sorry I slept with your dog
Aline Bouvy
July 9 - 16, 2015


Check XXe
Bending Binding, Adam Cruces, Antoine Donzeaud, Matthieu Haberard, Antone Konst, Hubert Marot, Quintessa Matranga, Yannick Val Gesto
April 25 - May 9, 2015
curated by Exo Exo @ After Howl, Brussels


8 What Are You Going To Do If They Don't Believe You
Andrés Ramirez
March 14 - 20, 2015
curated by Clara Guislain


Zombie Routine
Bending Binding, Skye Chamberlain, Hadrien Gérenton, Beatrice Marchi, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jana Schröder
March 12 - 28, 2015
curated by Exo Exo @ New Galerie, Paris


7 i cut out the mug and went to the bottle

Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Loup Sarion
January 16 - 23, 2015
curated by Exo Exo


Crystal Bark
Alessandro Castiglioni, Enrico Boccioletti, Jean Pol Fargeau, Adam Cruces
December 12 - 13, 2014
curated by Fenêtreproject


Dana Plato's Cave
Uffe Isolotto
November 8 - 9, 2014
organised by Weekends


Château d'eau / Femme qui pleure ..
Wolf Cuyvers
October 20 - 26, 2014
a proposal by Clara Guislain, Biennale de Belleville part 3


A Grotto
Renaud Perriches
October 09 - 16, 2014
a proposal by Elisa Rigoulet & Renaud Perriches, Biennale de Belleville part 2


What's on ur Mind
Grégory Cuquel, Nicolas Hosteing, Sam Mapp, Damien Mazières, Hugo Pernet, Aurélien Porte, Simon Rayssac, Aldéric Trével
September 25 - October 02, 2014
organised by Benoit Ménard & Tristan Léonard, Biennale de Belleville part 1


Un Coucher de Soleil
Adam Cruces
September 12, 2014
XOXO '1


6 Screensaver
Nick Bastis, Antoine Donzeaud, Jean-Baptiste Lenglet
June 26 - July 4, 2014
curated by Exo


How You Could Have Become a B.A.S.E Jumper
Maxime Bichon
June 19, 2014
XO talks


5 Suddenly this overview
Balkis island..., Glen Baxter, Sophie de Bayser, Romain Cattenoz, Matthieu Cossé, Corentin Grossmann, Hendrik Hegray, Sophie Lamm, Plonk et Replonk
May 14 - 21, 2014
curated by La KGM


4 One from the heart
Juliette Bonneviot, Antoine Carbonne, Daniel Keller, Armand Morin, Clément Roche
March 21 - 28, 2014
curated by Elisa Rigoulet

3 Tout arrive
Florian Auer, Pauline Beaudemont, Davide Cascio, Nicolas Giraud, Nicholas Kashian, Laurent Kropf, Béla Tarr
January 16 - 23, 2014
curated by Sylvain Ménetrey


2 I would prefer not to
Ghislain Amar, Ugo Cerina, Andrés Ramirez
November 8 - 15, 2013
curated by Clara Guislain and Elisa Rigoulet


1 Re-place
Cyril Aboucaya, Antoine Donzeaud, Matthieu Palud, Clara Stengel
September 12 - 19, 2013
curated by Elisa Rigoulet


Exo * Biennale de Belleville II
A Grotto by Renaud Perriches

A proposal by Elisa Rigoulet & Renaud Perriches

Opening 09.10.14
Exhibition October 9th - October 16th, 2014 / open everyday 14-19h


A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

A Grotto, installation view
Renaud Perriches

en. A Grotto is the promise of another place. A new space connected to the memory of forgotten parietal art that covers the walls of unknown caves. Upon the discovery of Chauvet Cave, scientists noticed very elaborate graphic techniques of drawn perspective and superimposed images creating an impression of movement. Today they attempt to re-enact this illusion through an anamorphic replica whose model strangely ressembles an extruded spiral shaped cave placed within a circle. This process held Renaud Perriches’ attention by its strangeness and the fantasy conveyed by this architectural duplication. A Grotto flirts with this idea of dichotomy, a desire of ubiquity, depicting a form of exhibition that is perpetually filmed, whose video channel is broadcasted live in the Belleville project space. The artist cleverly hijacks the physicality and ‘underground’ aesthetics of his studio and exhibition space, located in a Parisian basement. A Grotto becomes the vision of a window on the outside, through the projection of reality. Renaud Perriches arouses our curiosity by offering to show only the reflection of his pieces on a television screen. He also echoes the moving geometry of Chauvet by composing a gold leaf mural - between a rupestrian fresco and a baroque decor - referencing and re-interpreting Frank Lloyd Wright’s glass windows and other pre-modernist architects. This material reveals its capacity to reflect, just like graphite, copper, or polished metal, which regularly appear in his work. Here again, light plays with our certainties and overwhelmingly leads us to discover the cave of lost dreams.

fr. A Grotto est la promesse d’un autre lieu. Un espace inédit lié au souvenir des peintures pariétales oubliées dans des caves inconnues. Lors de la découverte de la Grotte Chauvet, les scientifiques ont constaté des techniques graphiques très élaborées de tracés en perspective et de superpositions d’images générant une impression de mouvement. Ils tentent aujourd’hui de donner l’illusion de cette magie à travers la création d’une réplique anamorphique dont la maquette ressemble étrangement à une grotte extrudée en forme de spirale placée dans un cercle. Ce procédé a retenu toute l’attention de Renaud Perriches par son étrangeté et par le fantasme que représente ce dédoublement architectural. A Grotto flirte ainsi avec cette dichotomie, ce désir d’ubiquité, en imaginant notamment une forme d’exposition continuellement filmée dont le canal vidéo est retransmis en temps réel dans l’artist-run-space bellevillois. L’artiste détourne par là-même brillamment la physicalité et l’esthétique « underground » de son atelier et espace d’exposition situé en sous-sol parisien. A Grotto devient également le songe d’une fenêtre vers l’extérieur, vers la projection du réel. Renaud Perriches éveille d’autant plus notre curiosité en proposant d’exposer uniquement le reflet de ses oeuvres perceptibles via l’écran d’une télévision. Il répond lui aussi à la géométrie en mouvement de Chauvet en composant un dessin mural à la feuille d’or - entre fresque rupestre et décor baroque - s’inspirant et ré-interprétant les vitraux de Frank Lloyd Wright et autres architectes pré-modernistes. Cette matière dévoile ici l’ensemble de sa capacité de réflexion, tout comme la graphite, le cuivre ou encore le métal poli, faisant régulièrement apparition dans son travail. À nouveau, la lumière se joue de nos certitudes et nous emmène irrésistiblement à la découverte de la grotte des rêves perdus.

Arlène Berceliot Courtin

Photos by Eric Giraudet
Exo * invited curator for the third Biennale de Belleville * September 25th - October 26th 2014
Infos and program : labiennaledebelleville.fr


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