Tuesday 23 November 2010

Bizarre Bazaar: Human Possibilities


26th November till 18th December (Thurs-Sat 12h-18h)

111 Grangegorman Road Lower, Dublin 7


Human Possibilities is a series of drawings/paintings in Chinese ink on A3 paper inspired by profile pictures form facebook. The profile picture is designed for a passport photo so that one can display a recognisable image of oneself what this virtual space is used for, is so much more, so much richer and infitely more meaningful.

In the Pallas these imagees are arranged a floating ceiling. A facebook wall without names just images.

Opening Thursday at 19h.

chinese ink A3

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Art Chartrons 4th-14th November 2010

le Garage Moderne, 1 Rue des Etrangers, Bordeaux. www.arts-chartrons.info
open everyday from 14h till 19h.

Vernissage, Wednesday, 10th November at 19h.






The paintings are large free standing installations who's structure is in dialogue with the building's architecture.

Using two different axes, I question who we are and how we articulate our idenities referencing the history of painting through the portraits of the Kennedy brothers and the uncertainty of what is represented. On the othre hand, I paint images from interior design catelogues creating furniture which represents furniture.

The Kennedy's have a different signification for different people and I find the gap that exists between their images and who they were fascinating. Young, beautiful, dynamic, arrogant, spoilt, womanizers: the question isn't to know who they really were but does it matter or is the image everything?

Living rooms and offices are the intimate settings for our very own exhibition. While before these spaces were constructed from inheritences, gifts and from furniture either made by ourselves or to order. Today, while they are our personal property they are no longer personal objects. The market allows us to not only appropriate furniture but the lifestyles in which we wish to idenitify ourselves or project ourselves.

Français

Partons de deux axes, je nous interroge sur qui nous sommes et comment nous articulons nos identités en abordant l’histoire de la peinture à travers les portraits des frères Kennedys et l’incertitude de ce que cela représente. De l’autre coté je peins des images d’intérieurs provenant de catalogues, un meuble qui représente des meubles.

Les Kennedys ont des significations différentes pour les gens et je trouve fascinant le gouffre qui existe entre leurs images et qui ils étaient. Jeunes, beaux, dynamiques, arrogants, gâtés et dragueurs: la question n’est pas de savoir qui ils étaient vraiment, mais est-ce que cela avait de l’importance ou c’est l’image qui compte pour tout?

Les salons et les bureaux sont des espaces intimes qui sont nos expositions personnelles. Jadis, ils étaient construits des héritages, des dons et des meubles faits par soi-même ou sur commande. Aujourd’hui, ils sont construits non pas personnellement mais avec le marché qui nous permet d’acquérir pas simplement des meubles mais des styles de vie auxquels nous pouvons nous identifier ou nous projeter.



Monday 11 October 2010

#18, Le sport du matin

The fourth installment in the diary of a dandy. The rest of multiprise is available on http://www.revue-multiprise.com/# . Learn French and enjoy.


Monday 21 June 2010

Human Possibilities, Damen Salon, Berlin. June 2010




Part of the kompost festival, Berlin, June 2010.

Friday 4 June 2010

Human Possibilities, Damen Salon, Reuterstrasse, Berlin

This work is a response to the social sciences’ assumption that people can be reduced to a formula which is operational between preconceived limits. My vision is not concerned with explaining why people act in act certain ways but tries to understand who they possibly are or could be.

To explore this vision, I have used facebook’s profile pictures as a soft line of research which was conceived of with portraits in mind but has revealed itself as a means for people to be ‘autrement’. The images have been taken out of facebook in the form of Chinese ink drawings, referencing this tradition which is less concerned with representation than by what lies beyond the image.


This wall of images will be on display in the Damen Salon, Reuterstrasse from the 9th-13th June 2010.

For those of you unable to come, there is a sound piece, 'Leave a Message' which you can experience by telephoning +49 (0) 308 975 0702

Thursday 3 June 2010

Diary of a Dandy

This is a column, I write in French for a cultural review Multiprise - http://www.revue-multiprise.com/# The voice is that of a nonchalant artist meandering through the motions of being it.


# 15 5 O'Clock Passé



#16 Where do they make the cocktale umbrellas?



Friday 7 May 2010



New York, March 2010.
Paintings from 'Damals vor Zwei Stunden' (25 x 20 cm, 2008) and the 'Human Possibilities' Drawings (A3, 2009) framed and hung on 16th Floor of the Radio City Building decorating the halls of Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP