5 Suddenly this overview _ curated by La KGM
Balkis island…
Glen Baxter
Sophie de Bayser
Romain Cattenoz
Matthieu Cossé
Corentin Grossmann
Hendrik Hegray
Sophie Lamm
Plonk & Replonk
opening 14.05.14
exhibition may 14th - may 21st / open everyday 14-19h
Paris20 10 ter rue Bisson 75020 Paris — paris20.org
Corentin grossmann, Le retour au pays, 2008Graphit on paper, 142 x 80 cm, private collection
Hendrik Hegray, Sans titre 1 & 2, 2009
Ink on paper, 40 x 30 cm each
Hendrik Hegray, Sans titre 1 & 2, 2009Ink on paper, 40 x 30 cm each
Corentin grossmann, Le retour au pays, 2008Graphit on paper, 142 x 80 cm, private collection
Sophie Lamm, La partition n’est pas la musique, 2013Mixed techniques on wood, 50 x 60 cm
Glen Baxter, Sans titre, 2007
Ink and coloured pencil on paper, 26 x 38 cm
Courtesy Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre
From 1981 to 2005, Peter Fischli and David Weiss started a body of work they pursued alongside their other series and productions. Composed of more than 200 small clay sculptures, "Suddenly this Overview" describes in a fragmentary, elliptical and humorous way some states of the world. Great historical moments are observed through the wrong end of the telescope and simple objects such as a brick or an ashtray are introduced in all their material reflexivity. The coexistence of these different levels produces a paradoxal effect of encyclopedic truth.
Using this narrative pattern and supplying its universality with triviality and ellipse, the exhibition "Suddenly this Overwiew" intends to present a selection of drawn landscapes by some contemporaries, involving the encounter of geographical evocations and funny twists.
The history landscape painting is well known : after a gradual onset, almost underground, in the background of religious scenes from the Middle Ages, what started of as an excuse gained importance until it shaded the main subject of the works. To avoid unfair competition, the place which will be assigned to him is often limited to a window frame, locking the seduction of the anecdote into the hermetic outlines of a closed universe. Then rejected from the categories of noble genre, landscape representation is still gradually becoming one of the privileged means of expression for atmospheric feeling and Sublime in art. At the turn of the twentieth century, working on pattern, real or supposed guarantee of artistic authenticity, makes landscape a recurring motive and therefore one of the major media of the development of new artistic forms.
Despite and for these reasons, in the adventure of riding and reading the world that drawing can be, the landscape is certainly one of the first impulses of the illustrator, besides nude or still life, almost the absolute commonplace. The artists of "Suddenly this Overwiew" confront with it and all of their work is intended as an invitation to wander, to experience the pleasure of the arbitrariness of the "point of view".
Exo & La KGM would like to thank : Galerie Anne Barrault, Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre et Galerie Jeanrochdard.