Damien Deroubaix

Damien Deroubaix

La  pratique artistique de Damien Deroubaix est marquée par une grande diversité de formes et de techniques : peinture à l’huile, aquarelle, gravure, tapisserie, panneaux de bois gravés, mais aussi sculpture et installation.

À cette variété formelle répondent des sources et des références des plus éclectiques, cohabitant souvent au sein de ses oeuvres dans un esprit qui n’est pas sans rappeler celui, iconoclaste, des montages Dada. Des motifs empruntés aux danses macabres médiévales s’y mêlent à des évocations de chapitres tragiques de l’histoire contemporaine ; des images d’actualité y côtoient la mythologie ou le folklore ; l’histoire de l’art et la scène musicale metal s’y télescopent. Ouvertement expressionnistes, ses peintures convoquent bien souvent des thèmes apocalyptiques, et c’est peut-être ce qui les rend si intemporels.

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Chervine

Chervine

Chervine was born in Iran. He grew up mainly in Paris and moved to New York in 2008. Self-taught photographer, he trained during his many trips around the world and began to work for the press and fashion. Since 2015, he has been developing a personal work, photographing the city and the scenes that take place there, in black and white and above all in color. His work has been presented in several exhibitions in France and abroad and was in the spotlight of the Nuit de la Photo in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) in February 2018. His exhibition “On That Day” takes place currently in Geneva, until October 22, 2021 (at the Esther Woerdehoff gallery, Rue Marguerite-Dellenbach 3).

Chervine titled his latest series “Twilight” and the light isolates and illuminates the scenes he photographs, testifying to the anonymity of cities but also to what brings us together and unites us. With great empathy, he captures passers-by: a woman looks at the sun, a couple discusses in front of a cafe, a mother and her daughter cross the road, these innocuous moments, the photographer sublimates them with a chiaroscuro that dramatizes the scene. and plunges us into a cinematographic imagination. Chervine invites the viewer to imagine the story of each of these anonymous figures, near and far at the same time, immersed in spectacle lighting, the one that unfolds before our eyes and that we often forget to look at.

Shiva Lynn Burgos

Shiva Lynn Burgos

CYANOTYPES
Working widely with ‘alternative’ photographic techniques the artist Shiva Lynn Burgos revisits the historic process of cyanotyping.
First used nearly 150 years ago, the cyanotype was formerly described as a shadowgraph by Anna Atkins, the pioneering and perhaps first known female photographer to document her findings in the natural world; Photographs of British Algae :Cyanotype Impressions.
The process involves painting a ferric salt solution onto watercolour paper. Placing the subject then exposing to sunlight or an ultra violet light source results in the brilliant Prussian blue hue. The spiritual and celestial colour provokes an ethereal and emotional attraction.
The painterly, alchemical ritual involved in the production echoes her experiences imbedded with the Kwoma people of Papua New Guinea. The artist has been inducted into the Kiava clan where art-making is connected to the ritual washing of objects to attract the energy of spirits and ancestors. The resulting series POWER, PROTECTION, CURRENCY is a device to capture the shadow energy of precious objects the artist was given or collected in Papua New Guinea.
For example, the feather crown of her father Chief Colin, amulets, bones, shell money and pre-historic stone tools.
The interactions between chance, intuition, and inductive logic are inherent. The objects themselves are represented by a lack of colour and manifest as negative space. We are confronted by the absence of the object and therefore, the artist reminds us of the temporality and fragility of indigenous cultures themselves.

Shiva Lynn Burgos is a contemporary artist and photographer from New York currently living and working between Paris, London and Papua New Guinea. Her diverse contemporary, conceptual and collaborative practice is positioned within the unifying concepts of evolution, competition, natural and social selection. Burgos’ works encompass photography, film, 360 Virtual Reality, sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, tapestry and performance as well as an ongoing passion for experimental and digital image making.
Shiva Lynn Burgos is the first international contemporary artist to work in Mariwai, a small Kwoma village located on the Upper Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. She has returned annually following her first trip there in 2013 and has created The Mariwai Project, an arts project and cultural exchange with the indigenous artists to include philanthropic support for art, culture, health, education and development in the region.
Burgos integrates field collected and found objects with contemporary materials as a resource for examining value systems in relation to currency, spirituality and custom. The artist bridges her knowledge of this living culture with authorities in the field of anthropology, museum collections, government agencies and art market experts who define the value systems for tribal and indigenous art in order to recognize these communities and cultures within the greater international consciousness and due position within contemporary art.
The work is currently on view in the permanent collection of The Ethnologisches Museum, Humboldt Forum, Berlin and has been recently exhibited at The Bath House of the Winds, Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens GR. Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, USA. Manifesta 13 Marseille, Les Parallèles du Sud, FR. Les Recontres d’Arles, Arles, FR. Le109, Nice. Centre d’Art Gallifet, Aix-en Provence . AORAspace.com

Dimitri Mallet

Dimitri Mallet

Dimitri Mallet, born in the South of France in 1983, situates his research between the limits of the various physical aspects of cognition and those of social construction. Often referring to minimalism and conceptual heritage, Mallet initiates a continuous mental dialogue with his viewer, where the artist is the one who brings to light the paradoxes, inverts the syntax of common perception and of knowing oneself as part of the global . His work exists as an antithesis to rapid vision, therefore to overwhelming visual consumption. The artist tries to establish in the exhibition spaces systems of sensitive measures that question the condition of the viewer, his relationship to the work of art, to the context, to the space, to others. And more broadly our attitude towards silence, emptiness and contemplation.
The Landscapes series transcribes, in various mediums, the contemplation of an “internal landscape”: those sensations that one experiences with closed eyes. These optical visions have the role of permanently reassuring the function of the gaze. Aesthetic and social object, the protocol for the creation of Landscapes, aims, in an era of “speed” to revalue, reorientate, redistribute our apprehension of reality.

Dimitri Mallet’s work has been exhibited at MAC VAL, at the Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne with the ADIAF, the Contemporary Art Space in Privas in resonance with the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon, in Atelier Calder, at ArtCologne… More recently in Marseille and Nice as part of the European biennial MANIFESTA 13 during an exhibition organized by The (He) art for (He) art program, in Luxembourg in “Le dos au sol »An exhibition curated by Claudia Passeri and Michèle Walerich and organized by Le Casino with the MNHA.

For several years, he has been carrying out part of his production with the Arcay screen printing studio in Paris with which he is preparing a monographic exhibition at the Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence. Finally, he is the winner of a project in public space for Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture in Luxembourg, a cross-disciplinary project that will last throughout the cultural year.

All pictures : © Dimitri Mallet, ADAGP Paris.

Reynier Leyva Novo (El Chino Novo)

Reynier Leyva Novo (El Chino Novo)

He represented Cuba during the previous Venice Biennale

From May 2nd to June 6th, come discover the universe of the artist Reynier Leyva Novo also called “El Chino Novo”. This artist of Galleries
Continua (San Gimigniano, Paris, Beijing, Havana) and El Apartamento (Havana) has just finished a collective at the Kadist Foundation of Paris and will present
his work.

Short resume 

Residences:

2018

Programa de Residencias Internacionales, Proyecto Siqueiros, Cuernavaca, México 

2017

Residency Unlimited (RU) Program, Endorsed by The Cuban Artist Foundation (CAF) and Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Brooklyn, New York, United States. 

Public Collections 

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon, USA (2010)

Perez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami, USA (2013) / (2015)

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2015)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA (2015)

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA (2012)

National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba. (2008) / (2012)

Private Collections

Farber Collection, New York, USA (2012)

Pizzuti Collection, Ohio, USA (2012)

Private Foundations

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Spain. (2013)

MISOL Art Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia (2011)