Sans Commune Mesure

Guillaume Constantin & Raphaël Zarka, Jean-Baptiste Couronne, Rodolphe Delaunay, Jean-François Leroy, Vincent Mauger and Marine Pagès.
Curators: Bertrand Grimont / Tristan van der Stegen

Opening Saturday 14th of January 2012.
(exhibition until the 25th of February 2012).

The gallery is pleased to announce the participation of Marine Pagès and Jean-Baptiste Couronne to the exhibition Sans Commune Mesure in collaboration with gallery Bertrand Grimont.

The group exhibition Sans Commune Mesure, brings together artists who draw their inspiration from formal and theoretical disciplines using measurement. Using drawing, sculpture and collage, presented works share an interest for conception and construction and refer to various fields such as applied sciences, music, architecture, design, cartography, ect.

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Marine Pagès, Untitled (Route serie ), 2011, pencil on paper, 21 cm × 29,7 cm.

Jean-Baptiste Couronne, Untitled, 2011, collage, 21.5 cm x 15.5 cm

Sans Commune Mesure

Text by Claire Taillandier

The world is imbued by gravity. No one pretends to escape from it, but some decide to act as if it were possible and although the laws of physics may not be ignored artists bend mathematical rules in order to give shape to the impalpable and defy gravity.

One needn’t be visible to act on the elements. The science of fluids tracks down what escapes from sight and exerts its strength on others. To capture that flow may require the use of phonic insulator container of vibratory waves (Raphaël Zarka et Guillaume Constantin), a ruler pierced by the winds(Rodolphe Delaunay), or a hollowed out sphere submitting gravitational laws to a counterrevolution(Vincent Mauger).

Architecture is the link between the image and the site. Using it in order to get rid of it, the artistscapture shapes and forces at work to re-instill them afterwards. Whether self-grafted volumes (Jean-Baptiste Couronne) or annihilated landscapes (Marine Pagès) or a memory-enabled piece (Jean-François Leroy) these works take part in a boundless perspective.

Any work of art takes has a legacy - historical, scientific, artistic - to which it belongs. In exchange these works contribute to the construction of the present world. The accomplished work resembles each and everyone: rigorous, unpredictable, spectacular or meticulous, in any case outside the established norms.

Translation by Samy da Silva

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Nofound in collabration with Monstre > solo show Melissa Steckbauer

VDS art projects is pleased to announce its participation to Nofound in collaboration with the journal Monstre. Focusing exclusively on photography Nofound will be the opportunity to discover Melissa Steckbauer's recent works.

Colleen, Poms, 2011,collage,10x10cm

Lacerated, perforated, pierced, enmeshed… Melissa Steckbauer changes the status and era of her pictures by changing them physically. Pictures become images and objects; they leave the scope of family albums and are updated with additionnal meanings.

Gma,Gpa, 2011, mixed media, 8.5x8cm

DRAWING NOW / Salon du dessin contemporain

The gallery is pleased to announce its participation to the Drawing NOW art fair at the Carroussel du Louvre, from the 25th to the 28th of March 2011. The Solo show this year presents Pesce Khete' work. The gallery will also invite P.Nicolas Ledoux alongside regular artists Marine Pagès, John Phillip Abbott, Melissa Steckbauer, SR Labo and Jean-Baptiste Couronne.

Opening is on Thursday the 24th at 6:30pm.

(view of the artist's atelier, 2011)
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SOLO SHOW > PESCE KHETE

Born in 1980, Pesce Khete is a Swiss-Italian painter based in Rome. He has studied at the Institute of Europeo Design and the Academia delle Arte in Rome. His work is exhibited across Europe (France, Italy, Spain and the UK) and in the US. In 2009, his paintings were selected for Volta New York and in 2010, for the « Impresa Pittura » group show, at the CIAC museum in Rome. They are now part of prestigious art collections such at the Golinelli Fondation in Bologna, Italy

HIDDEN

SR Labo, Marine Pagès, Carl D'Alvia, Pesce Khete, John Phillip Abbott, Melissa Steckbauer

Opening Saturday September 11, 2010 at 6:30pm / exhibition runs until the 16th of October 2010

The gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition presenting for the first time works by all of its artists. Entitled Hidden, the exhibition will focus on the intention to hide all or part of a subject in order to change its nature, status and provide other meanings.

Pesce Khete,
Untitled, 2009, oilstick on paper, 53 x 42 cm
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John Phillip Abbott ,

Untitled, 2007, ink on paper, 21.5 x2 8 cm

To hide is not to erase. It’s rather a way of taking a detour to distance oneself from an obvious fact or from a widely accepted idea. The motivations and processes are numerous. The results are, too. But they come together in a fascinating paradox: concealment and creation are complicit forces which work together and often coincide.

Carl D’Alvia blurs the boundary between drawing and sculpture by presenting, on a plinth, a large surface of paper almost entirely covered with ballpoint pen / Pesce Khete uses portrait as a point of departure; by loosely painting the head, he frees himself from the principles of representation and narration and retains only the idea of human life / John Phillip Abbott metamorphoses the letters of his writings. In this way he multiplies the meanings of words and reinforces the hesitation between what is seen and what is read / Melissa Steckbauer reveals the “hidden side” of her subjects which she humanizes through their hidden desires and fantasies / SR Labo uses an object from a Platonic study (the icosahedron) and gives it an ephemeral power by enclosing a crystalline light within / Marine Pages makes the sky and horizon disappear which emphasizes the line of the roads in her natural, highly contrasted landscapes.

So many examples that demonstrate that concealment represents a theoretical interest, formal entertainment or a feeling of empathy…In Hidden; each artist finds their discourse and chooses their process. For the viewer it will be a paper chase where the notions of means and ends are difficult to detect.

Jerk Off Festival: group show
Performance by Melissa Steckbauer, Friday June 25th @ 8pm

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Marion Auburtin, Gunter, 2007,
painting on paper, 70 x 55 cm

For the third time round Jerk Off festival is extending its program to include visual and perfomance arts. Six artists will particpate to a groupshow, presenting works (paintings, videos and performances) revolving around LGTB sexuality and body representation.
A performance by Melissa Steckbauer is planned on Friday the 30th at 8pm. Exhibition ends on Wednesday the 30th.

Artists

Superm (Brian Kenny & Slava Mogutin)
Melissa Steckbauer
Laurent Pernot
Marion Auburtin
Guillaume Soulatges


http://www.myspace.com/jerkoffestival.

crédit : Abel Llavall-Ubach

HALF CAMP

Melissa Steckbauer : solo exhibition
Opening Thursday 22nd of April at 6:30pm / prolonged to the 12th of June 2010
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The VAN DER STEGEN gallery is pleased to announce Melissa Steckbauer’s first solo exhibition in France. Entitled Half Camp, the exhibition presents an unrestrained depiction of fantasies and sexual practices using paintings, pictures and installations.

Big Red, 2009,
acrylic and tape on paper, 16,75 x 20 cm

The word “camp”, used in the title, holds several meanings giving the possibility for the viewer to understand the exhibition works in different ways. It is an adjective that may be used to designate something out of date; something esthetically overdone or a someone with a very feminine attitude. The sentences « It’s so camp ! » or « he’s so Camp ! » therefore tend to convey a demeaning judgment and one which is often unqualified.

For Melissa Steckbauer, a person can only be half camp or part camp. The works selected for this show emphasize this idea, choosing sex as a topic for demonstration. They take the viewer to the heart of human nature, where “camp” individuals have chosen each other to overcome personal limits and share desires.

credit : Abel Llavall-Ubach

CUT, contemporary collages

Pierre Beloüin, Barbara Breitenfellner, Jean-Baptiste Couronne, Richard Fauguet, ANN Guillaume, P. Nicolas Ledoux, Justin Mortimer, Marine Pagès
Curated by Marine Pagès & T. van der Stegen
Opening Thursday March 4, 2010 / exhibition until the April 10, 2010

--- Justin Mortimer, untitled 2009, numeric collage, 29,7x21cm
(courtesy de l'artiste)
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CUT is an exhibition dedicated to collage. It aims to highlight the perennity of this technique and encourage discussion on the subject of modern and contemporary collage.

Whether collages use existing images or materials, continuity may be observed in the creative process which systematically deconstructs and reconstructs images or sound. Most artists go about this “assembling” process with no intention of hiding it. But although resources - numeric or not - for collages are now found in greater abundance, the contemporary nature of collages may rest more solidly on content that form. For despite occasional references to pre-war works (dada and surrealism in particular), narrative contents relate closely to the world we live in today.

By gathering the works of 8 artists, the exhibition CUT highlights the importance of this technique which took off almost a century ago and continues to raise interest.