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07/02/21

Douglas Gordon @ Dvir Gallery, Bruxelles - Paradise

Douglas Gordon: Paradise 
Dvir Gallery, Bruxelles 
Jusqu'au 27 mars 2021 

Paradise est la troisième exposition personnelle de Douglas Gordon avec la galerie Dvir et sa première à Bruxelles. Elle se déploie à travers une installation rythmée et dynamique de nouvelles peintures. L’artiste y continue son expérimentation sur et avec les images, les signes visuels et leur support matériel, imaginant ainsi des apparitions physiques extensibles qui défilent dans l’espace et en temps réel.

A l’aide de la technique de l’impression à l’acétone, Douglas Gordon transfère des images provocantes des premiers numéros du magazine Playboy des années 1960 sur des toiles asymétriques et de différentes tailles. Elles sont ensuite brûlées et marquées par des gouttes de cire, de peinture acrylique et de divers liquides biomorphiques. Les transferts atténuent la résolution et la définition des images au point qu’elles deviennent un voile presque imperceptible. Les images s’évaporent ainsi à travers les fils entrelacés de la toile qui à la fois les consume et les matérialise. Cette nouvelle série, par l’apparition et la disparition successive des images, confronte le mouvement cyclique du temps avec un sentiment de changement et d’extension, induit par les contours flous et les positions aléatoires des toiles.

Une topographie imprévisible s’intensifie lors de l’observation des panneaux de miroir contre lesquels les toiles sont placées. Dans la majorité des œuvres, on remarque des fragments de miroir outrepassant les bords effilés de la toile ou encore les trous du tissus. Incorporés dans la composition des œuvres, les miroirs exposent l’arrière des images et reflètent ainsi le paysage dynamique qui leur fait face. Les miroirs dévoilent le vide caché dans les œuvres ; le vide dont elles émergent et dans lequel elles risquent de s’effondrer. Ils créent l’illusion d’un espace abyssal au-delà de la surface, assignant ainsi aux images la qualité d’une origine ex-nihilo et primitive. De plus, étant l’effet d’un transfert direct et simultané d’une image sur une surface, les nouvelles peintures de Gordon font inévitablement référence à la légende du voile de Sainte Véronique - l’empreinte miraculeuse du visage du Christ sur un tissu, révélant ainsi leur affinité avec les modèles archétypiques et originels de la création d’images.

L’emploi des miroirs et du feu est un motif récurrent dans de nombreuses œuvres de Douglas Gordon, comme dans la série Self Portrait of You + Me (commencée en 2007). Dans ce corpus d’œuvres, des restes brûlés des sérigraphies d’Andy Warhol de Marylin Monroe ou encore de Jackie Kennedy sont fixés sur des panneaux de miroir. Elles capturent temporairement le portrait du spectateur dans un processus séquentiel d’analogie et d’élimination. Dans Paradise, l’artiste emploi pour la première fois des panneaux de miroir de couleur noir en guise de toile de fond de certaines œuvres. Les miroirs noirs de Gordon peuvent faire référence au miroir de Claude Lorrain (un dispositif optique utilisé par les peintres pendant des siècles), à des rituels de divination ésotérique, ou encore aux écrans sombres réfléchissants des appareils de communication numérique qui nous entourent aujourd’hui.

L’intérêt de Gordon pour les archives culturelles recouvre non seulement le champ des mémoires collectives mais exploite aussi les entités historiques comme des aspects de sa propre biographie et de sa pratique artistique. Paradise, en faisant référence aux magazines Playboy du début des années 1960, nous renvoie à l’époque de la révolution sexuelle et cherche également à examiner la portée de l’imagerie érotique et ce, dans les années précédant la naissance de l’artiste. Il imagine ainsi le climat sexuel dans lequel ses parents vivaient. Le nouveau corpus d’œuvres rappelle l’installation sonore de Gordon de 1994, Something Between my Mouth and Your Ear, qui consiste en une pièce bleue close dont la luminosité change en fonction de l’heure de la journée et de l’intensité de lumière à l’extérieur. La bande originale de l’œuvre est une sélection de trente chansons répertoriées dans les hit-parade entre janvier et septembre 1966 : des chansons que la mère de Gordon aurait pu écouter pendant sa grossesse. C’est la playlist spéculative du temps passé dans le ventre de sa mère tout comme Paradise est l’image érotique spéculative de l’époque antérieure à sa naissance.

La notion d’internalisation rétroactive / future du monde extérieur se manifeste également dans les titres des nouveaux tableaux. Chacune des œuvres de l’exposition Paradise est intitulée Belongs to... (“Appartient à ...”). Lorsqu’elle est vendue, les points de suspension sont remplacés par le nom de l’acquéreur qui devient alors une partie intégrante de l’œuvre. Ainsi, les œuvres deviennent des expériences personnifiées, qui, à l’instar des numéros originaux de Playboy, établissent un lien unique avec chaque collectionneur.

Ory Dessau

DOUGLAS GORDON (né en 1966 à Glasgow) a eu d’importantes expositions personnelles à la Tate Liverpool (2000), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2001), The Hayward Gallery, London (2002) et au Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2003). En 2005, il a organisé The Vanity of Allegory, une exposition au Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin et a réalisé son film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Parmi ses expositions personnelles, nous pouvons citer Superhumanatural à la National Gallery of Scotland (2006), Between Darkness and Light au Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2007), Timeline au MoMA, New York (2006), Lambert Collection, et au Palais des Papes, Avignon (2008), DOX, Prague (2009), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich (2009), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (2009), et Art and the Sublime à la TATE Britain, London (2010), Gagosian Gallery, London (2011), Yvon Lambert, Paris (2011), MMK, Frankfurt (2011) et au MOCA, Los Angeles (2012). Son travail Henry Rebel a été montré à la 43ème Basel Art Unlimited, Basel. En 2012, il a eu deux expositions personnelles à l’Akademie der Künste, Berlin et à Gagosian Gallery, New York. En 2013 au Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv et Blain Southern, Berlin, Galerie Eva Presenhuber à Zürich et au Museum Folkwang, Essen. En 2014 au ACCA, Melbourne. Au mois de décembre 2014, Douglas Gordon et la pianiste Hélène Grimaud ont collaboré ensemble pour explorer la beauté de l’eau dans une performance à Armory on Park à New York. Leur collaboration s’est poursuivie lorsque Gordon a dirigé le spectacle de théâtre Neck of the Woods avec Charlotte Rampling et Hélène Grimaud au MIF 2015 - Manchester International Festival, Manchester. En 2016, Douglas Gordon a sorti son film I had nowhere to go, un portrait de Jonas Mekas, le parrain du cinéma d’avant-garde américain. Il a eu des expositions personnelles en 2016 avec la Galerie Eva Presenhuber à Zurich, Gagosian Gallery à Genève et dans le cadre de Paris Photo. En 2017, Gordon a présenté I had nowhere to go à la Documenta 14 à Athens et Kassel et a eu une exposition personnelle à la Scottish National Portrait Gallery à Edinburgh.

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06/09/20

Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Latifa Echakhch, Gustav Metzger @ Dvir Gallery, Brussels - ‘Lacrimae Rerum’ Homage to Gustav Metzger

‘Lacrimae Rerum’ Homage to Gustav Metzger
Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Latifa Echakhch, Gustav Metzger
Dvir Gallery, Brussels
September 3 - October 24, 2020

Dvir Gallery presents ‘Lacrimae Rerum’ – homage to Gustav Metzger. The exhibition aims to show a selection of Gustav Metzger’s historical works alongside never seen before pieces by Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut and Latifa Echakhch created especially for this exhibition.

Gustav Metzger, born in Nuremberg in 1926, revolutionized the contemporary art world by developing the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and questioning the role of art in the political discourse.
« There is no choice but to follow the path of ethics into aesthetics. »
– Gustav Metzger
GUSTAV METZGER

Born to Polish-Jewish parents in Nurnberg, Gustav Metzger was evacuated to Great Britain in 1939 at the age of twelve with the help of the initiative known as the Kindertransport. As a young boy, he became aware of the atrocities of the totalitarian Nazi regime. His parents and other relatives perished in the Holocaust.

In 1959, Gustav Metzger wrote his first manifesto, titled ‘Auto-destructive Art’ and with this became the founding father of a radical new form of art. With this and his later manifestos, he showed how society could be destroyed by capitalism, but also highlighted the transformative potential of destruction; for example, the possibility for transformation of society through individual and collective action. In 1961, Gustav Metzger demonstrated the concept of ADA for the first time by vigorously spraying nylon canvasses with acid, causing them to disintegrate. This was an attack on, and even a symbolic destruction of, the system. At the same time, Gustav Metzger not only rebelled against the political system, but also against the commercial aspects of the art world. In 1977, he proposed a three-year Art Strike, which he hoped would cause a collapse and complete restructuring of the art system.

Gustav Metzger has had solo exhibitions at Serpentine Galleries, London; Tate Britain, London; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; New Museum, New York; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv and many others. Moreover, his work was shown at Documenta 13 (2012), the Venice Biennale of 2003 and the Sao Paulo Biennale of 2010.

LATIFA ECHAKHCH

Working in painting, sculpture and installations, Latifa Echakhch (El Khnansa, Morocco, 1974) chooses easily recognisable objects invested with a domestic and/or social burden, which she silences through destruction, deletion or by restoring them. This thereby deprives them of their usage value - pushing their function into oblivion - in order to free the memories attached to them. She summons memories and frees the ghosts that emerge from these objects. The work of Latifa Echakhch is simultaneously conceptual and romantic, both political and poetic.

Latifa Echakhch’s work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions: at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the macLYON, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the BPS22 in Charleroi, the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio), the Kunsthaus Zurich, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, the Swiss Institute in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Memmo Foundation in Rome; as well as group exhibitions: at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the MoMA PS1 in New York, the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; and as part of the Istanbul Biennial, the 54th Venice Biennale, the 11th Sharjah Biennial, the Jerusalem Art Focus Biennale and the Manifesta 7 in Bolzano.

Latifa Echakhch won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013 and the Zurich Art Prize in 2015. She is representing Switzerland at Venice Biennale 2022.

MIROSLAW BALKA

Miroslaw Balka was born in 1958 in Warsaw, Poland where he lives and works. Comprising installation, sculpture and video, Miroslaw Balka’s work has a bare and elegiac quality that is underlined by the careful, minimalist placement of objects, as well as the gaps and pauses between them. Miroslaw Balka’s work deals with both personal and collective memories, especially as they relate to his Catholic upbringing and the collective experience of Poland’s fractured history. Through this investigation of domestic memories and public catastrophe, he explores how subjective traumas are translated into collective histories and vice versa. His materials are simple, everyday objects and things, but also powerfully resonant of ritual, hidden memories and the history of Nazi occupation in Poland.

Miroslaw Balka has participated in major exhibitions worldwide including: Venice Biennale (1990, 2003, 2005, 2013; representing Poland in 1993), documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Sydney Biennale (1992, 2006), The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1995), Sao Paulo Biennale (1998), Liverpool Biennial (1999), Santa Fe Biennale (2006). In 2009 he presented the special project How It Is for the Unilever Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. He is the author of the Memorial to the Victims of the Estonia Ferry Disaster in Stockholm (1997), and numerous spatial works including AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Cracow (2010), and HEAL, University of California, San Francisco (2009).

Retrospectives of his work took place in such institutions as Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan, Museum of Art in Lodz and in the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen. Miroslaw Balka’s works are in numerous institutional collections including: Tate Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; MOCA, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; MOMA, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museu Serralves, Porto; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kiasma, Helsinki; Kröller-Müller, Otterlo; EMST The National Museum of Art, Athens; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Collection Lambert, Avignon; Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp; Fundación Botín, Santander; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. In Poland his works are in the collections of: Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz; Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; The National Museum, Wroclaw; MOCAK, Cracow; Labirynt, Lublin; Arsenał, Bialystok.

MARIANNE BERENHAUT

Marianne Berenhaut, Belgian-born (1934) artist has been gathering, curating, transforming objects found in her immediate surrounding creating powerful yet delicate sculptures and installations. Her work addresses longing, trauma, absence and memory. Through her vast body of work, spanning through 45 years, Marianne Berenhaut has created a unique visual language.

Today, Marianne Berenhaut divides her time between Brussels and London, constantly creating. Having graduated the Académie du Midi and Atelier de Moeschal in the sixties, she had various solo exhibitions in different art spaces and institutions like La Maison des Femmes (Brussels), Island Brussels, Musée juif de Belgique (Brussels), MAC’s Grand Hornu (Belgium) as well as in Isy Brachot Gallery (Brussels), and Nadja Vilenne Gallery (Liège).

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Rue de Fiennes 85, Brussels 1070

03/01/10

Lawrence Weiner – Dvir Gallery, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port, Israel

Lawrence Weiner
Dvir Gallery, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port
December 19, 2009 - February 13, 2010

LAWRENCE WEINER was born in 1942, New- York.
He has been a central figure in the field of Conceptual art since the 1960.
His work is characterized with texts and is as revolutionary today as it has been before.
This fact was recently confirmed by the retrospective exhibition As far as the eye can see at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New-York, later at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and finally at K21 Düsseldorf .

New works created for the new space of Dvir Gallery - Hangar 2, Jaffa Port are on view.
Weiner continues his fascination/focus relation to Israel/Tel-Aviv-Jaffa by combining the three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English.

Lawrence Weiner: "The picture-frame convention was a very real thing. The painting stopped at the edge. When you are dealing with language, there is no edge that the picture drops over or drops of. You are dealing with something completely infinite. Language, because it is the most non-objective thing we have ever developed in this world, never stops".

-- From: "Art Without Space", 1969. 

Recent Solo Exhibitions:
Placed on the tip of a wave, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, 2009.
Done with, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, 2009.
1/2 empty 1/2 full, Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2009.
At the level of the sea, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2009.
Quid pro quo, Gagosian, Rome, 2008.
Offsides, Lisson Gallery, London, 2008.
As Far as The Eye Can See USA, Whitney Museum of American Art, New -York, 15 November 2007 - 10 February 2008, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at Mocca, 13 April - 14 July, 2008 and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 20 September 2008 - 4 January, 2009.

Recent group Exhibitions:
"Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artusts and Ed Ruscha”, Flag Art foundation, New-York, NY, 2009.
“The End”, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009.                                       
“Intervention/Decoration, Foreground”, From, Somerset, England, 2008.
Book/Shelf, organized by Christophe Cherix, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008.
Into me / Out of me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, 2006.

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Jaffa Port - Israel

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10/11/03

Yitzhak Golombek, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv - “Gaya”

Yitzhak Golombek - “Gaya”
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
November 8 - December 13, 2003
"Exhibited is a garden surrounded by cardboard sculptures, each a still life, about the height of a three-year-old. The objects – packaging, sewing notions and ornaments – which are piled up into towers or strewn on the floor like archeological ruins, are from a home where nothing is thrown away 'in case it might come in handy some day.' The back garden sits on a balcony belonging to a family of refugees. A universe of three generations huddling together and clinging to one another while holding on to inanimate objects that harbor the touch of the father, the son, the daughter. At the same time, the exhibit aims to achieve maximal receptiveness to materials and forms, and to construct from the compressed parcels the alphabet of an independent sculptural language."

Yitzhak Golombek

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11 Nahum st., Tel Aviv 63503

05/10/02

Yigal Nizri at Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Living Growing"

Yigal Nizri "Living Growing"
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
October 3 - November 9, 2002

Yigal Nizri creates a sensual pictorial installation at the heart of which stand graphic images of the biblical seven species (wheat, barley, olive, fig, date, pomegranate, and grape). The depiction, imposed directly on the walls, will employ materials used in large-scale public advertising. In addition to the illustrations (see attached images) articles of clothing and other sewn objects will be placed throughout the space.

In Israel, the iconography of the seven species ("A land of wheat, barley, olive, fig, etc.") represents the abundance/fecundity of the "holy land." Thus, the installation addresses questions of cultural belonging, origin, and "roots".

Through the seven species, Yigal Nizri calls the dominant images adopted by Israeli culture into question. While the seven species signify attachment (to the land), they also attest to Israel's symbolic detachment from its geographic and cultural surroundings. The seven species bespeak a would be utopian oasis in a 'Levantine desert wilderness,' a fruitful eroticism amidst an 'arid impotence.'

Yigal Nizri is an artist and designer living and working in New York and Tel Aviv. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (1998), he participated in the "World Views" studio residency program on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center in Fall/Winter 2000-2001.

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11 Nahum st., Tel Aviv 63503