ivelostmymarbles

Talking to Z I realized it was a common dream those statues
Faces, body parts
You want to grab them
You want to touch the silky surfaces
Sometime they appear randomly in a garden
On the screen in a middle of a movie
Or in pictures as serial proofs of somebody’s obsession
They are haunting me with their whiteness
Eyelids closing/opening like a sharp pair of scissors
A bunch of flickers
There is darkness and light but I think the brightness comes from their skin

They are mute and veiled
Still and solid
Yet moving like souls
Piercing through the centuries
Losing parts but never losing shape
Bearing the layers of the years like cloaks

The sweetish taste of marble

A cornucopia pouring pink and blue neon lights, rusty metal wastes in moonlight, hovering air conditioners and carcasses of fridges, lacquered blinds, turquoise ceramic tiles and so on.

++++

Text by Barbara Sirieix

I'VE LOST MY MARBLES

16 - 30 November 2013

Opening: 16 November 2013 - 8 - 10pm

Jean-Marie Appriou, Julie Béna, Antonio Contador, David Horvitz, Renaud Jerez, Cecile Nogues, Zoë Paul, Maxime Thieffine

"No it is not the true story.
No you never went on the benched ships.
No you never came to the towers of Troy."

Anne Carson

ΕΙΒ ΛΟΣΤ ΜΑΙ ΜΑΡΜΠΛΕΣ

Οχι δεν είναι η αληθινή ιστορία.
Οχι δεν έφυγες ποτέ με τα γοργά καράβια.
Οχι δεν ήρθες ποτέ στους πύργους της Τροίας.

Anne Carson

Μιλώντας στον Χ κατάλαβα ότι ήταν όνειρο κοινό αυτά τα αγάλματα
Πρόσωπα, μέλη του σώματος
Θέλεις να τα αδράξεις
Θές να αγγίξεις τις μεταξένιες επιφάνειες
Κάποτε εμφανίζονται τυχαία σ' ένα κήπο
Στην οθόνη στα μισά μιας ταινίας
Η σε εικόνες σα κατά συρροήν αποδείξεις της εμμονής κάποιου
Με στοιχειώνουν με τη λευκότητά τους
Βλέφαρα κλείνουν / ανοίγουν σα κοφτερά ψαλίδια
Κάμποσα τρεμοπαίγματα
Εχει σκοτάδι και φως αλλά νομίζω η λάμψη έρχεται απ΄το δέρμα τους

Ειναι καλυμμένα και βουβά
Στέρεα και ακίνητα
Μα κινούνται σα ψυχές
διαπερνώντας τους αιώνες
Χάνοντας μέλη αλλά χωρίς ποτέ να χάνουν σχήμα
Φέροντας τα στρώματα των χρόνων σα παλτά

Η γλυκερή γεύση του μάρμαρου

Ενα αμάλθειο κέρας που αναβλύζει ροζ και μπλε νέον φώτα, σκουριασμένα μεταλλικά απορρίματα στο σεληνόφως, αιωρούμενα κλιματιστικά και κουφάρια από ψυγεία, λουστραρισμένα στόρια, τυρκουάζ κεραμικά πλακάκια και ούτω καθ' εξής.

++++

Kείμενο της Barbara Sirieix
Μετάφραση : Μαρίκα Κωνσταντινίδου

Text reading/translation: Marika Konstantinidou
Μετάφραση/Ανάγνωση κειμένου : Μαρικα Κωνσταντινίδου

(left to right)
Maxime Theiffine, David Horvitz, Antonio Contador, Cecile Nogues

(left to right)
Julie Béna, Cecile Nogues, Antonio Contador, David Horvitz, Jean-Marie Appriou, Renaud Jerez

Julie Béna, One of the basic items by Johnny M, digital print - 2013

Antonio Contador - "dans un coin de la toile le boute d'un pied nu qui sortait de ce chaos de couleurs" (study)
Excerpt from le chef d'oeuvre inconnu by Balzac
Printed business card, edition of 200, 9x5.5 cm - 2013

Cecile Nogues, Antonio Contador, David Horvitz

Antonio Contador - Text reading of Le Grosse Orteil by Georges Bataille (1929). Translated and read in Greek by Marika Konstantinidou, Duration 15 minutes.

Antonio Contador, David Hovitz, Maxime Theiffine, Cecile Nogues

Cecile Nogues - Têtes Vertes - Faïence - 2012

Renaud Jerez - Greed - Digital video - 2013

Jean-Marie Appriou, Renaud Jerez

Jean-Marie Appriou - Magdalen, Madeleine - bronze and ruban - 2013

Julie Béna, One of the basic items by Johnny M, digital print - 2013

Zoë Paul - Tenir - wool and string on found fridge grills - 2013

Renaud Jerez - Greed - Digital video - 2013

Julie Béna (b.1982, France) is an artist based in Paris, France. Julie Béna treats the exhibition space as a playground for her objects, texts, videos, photos and performances, borrowing from the language of theatre, games, and popular culture. Béna studied fine arts the Villa Arson in Nice, France, and at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. She has exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian and Display Art Projects in Paris, Song Eun Art Space in Seoul, Korea, at Nettie Horn in London, Fonderie Darling in Montréal, and was a resident at Le Pavillon at the Palais de Tokyo in 2012-2013.
www.juliebena.com

One of the basic items by Johnny M, digital print, 2013

Jean-Marie Appriou (b.1986, Brest, France) lives and works in Paris. He graduated from Ecole régionale de beaux-arts de Rennes in 2010. His work was shown in Salon de Montrouge, Palais de Tokyo (BYOB), Commissariat, galerie Sémiose, Air de Paris and more recently at Triangle in Marseille and at galerie Edouart Manet in Genevilliers.

Magdalene, bronze and ruban, 2013.
Madeleine, bronze and ruban, 2013.

Antonio Contador (b.1971, Vitry-sur-Seine, France) lives and works in et Paris. PHD student in Aesthetics at University Paris I / La Sorbonne working on the concept of expectation. Performer and visual artist, his work has been shown and broadcasted in Paris (Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Ricard, etc.), Bruxelles (Wiels), Lisbon and Porto (Musée Serralves) and recently in Marseille (exhibition curated by Caroline Hancock).

"dans un coin de la toile le bout d'un pied nu qui sortait de ce chaos de couleurs" (study)
Excerpt from Le chef d'œuvre inconnu by Balzac.
Text reading of Le gros orteil by Bataille (1929). Translated and read in Greek by Marika Konstantinidou, Duration: 15 min.
Business cards, edition of 200, 9 x 5,5 cm, 2013.

David Horvitz (b.1982, Los Angeles, USA) is a Brooklyn-based watercolor painter, gimmick developer, photographer and performance artist, known for his often bizarre and absurdist DIY instructional projects, including work on Wikipedia. He was educated at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, where he studied under Penelope Umbrico. As an undergraduate at UC Riverside, he studied under Uta Barth. He has also studied painting at Art Students League of New York. He has published several books, and his exhibitions have been shown at major galleries and museums, including Art Metropole, the Or Gallery, and the New Museum. In 2011 he was nominated for the Discovery Award at the photography festival in Arles, France.

A pocketful of sand, sand, 2013.

Renaud Jerez (b.1982, Narbonne, France) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Greed, MOT International, London, Hypnose Drama, Maison Grégoire, ArtBrussels, Brussels (2013); Standard Devil Wingz, Woodmill GP, London (2012) and A Hand on Your Heart, Galerie Vidal Cuglietta. Brussels. Group exhibitions include L-I-Q-U-I-D8, Sandy Brown, Berlin (2013); General History Of Labyrinth, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris (2013); Domino Effect, Catherine Bastide, Brussels (2012); The Weight of Living, Motinternational, London (2012) and The Best Society, Castillo/Corrales, Paris (2011).

Greed, video, 2013.

Cécile Noguès (b.1975, France) lives and works in Paris. Her recent solo shows: La retenue, with Michael Van den Abeele, Semiose galerie, Paris (c. Damien Airault in the context of Nouvelles vagues / Young curators at Palais de Tokyo) (2013); Miel, la galerie du Second jeudi, Bayonne (2012); Skaï, le Commissariat, Paris (2009); Recent group shows: SHOW OFF, The media art fair, in collaboration with Christophe Bruno, Paris; Coch-Coch, galerie Le Molière, Paris (c. Florence Parot), Eat the Blue, installation by Jagna Ciuchta, le 116, Centre d’art contemporain, Montreuil (2013), By word of mouth, galerie S/Z, Zurich(CH), Anywhere galerie chez Immanence, Paris (2012).

Têtes vertes, faïence, 2012.

Zoë Paul (b.1987, London, UK) lives and works in Athens. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012, finished a residency at the Cité International des Arts, Paris 2013. Recent solo shows: Re-Map 4, Athens; Topic, Laure Genillard London; Thalasseum, Cole London (solo); Between the lines, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex, heart of Darkness, Gallerie Carrée, Villa Arson, Nice; ZARDOV, MOT International, London; London and Colwley Manor and Couttes Art Award and Sculpture Exhibition.

Tenir, wool and string on found fridge grills, 2013.

Maxime Thieffine (b.1973, France) works on editing and assembling images and objects, between their presence and their representation. His was given his own personal exhibition at Commissariat in Paris in 2009. More recently, his work has been displayed in a variety of collective exhibitions in France (La Galerie of Noisy-le-Sec, Emmanuel Hervé Gallery, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Bertrand Grimont Gallery, Paul Frèches, etc) and in Europe (Tate Modern in London, Klemm’s in Berlin, etc). He has a degree in cinema, and subsequently studied at Fresnoy, after which he taught art history and aesthetics and Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. He writes regularly, and created with Cécilia Bécanovic from 2006 to 2008, a curatorial program called L’Ambassade.

Δανάη | Danaé, video, 2010.

David Horvitz - A pocketful of sand, sand, 2013.

Maxime Thieffine - Δανάη | Danaé, video, 2010.