Showing posts with label Paul Sietsema. Show all posts
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05/11/25

Exposition Paul Sietsema @ Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

Paul Sietsema 
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris 
18 octobre - 20 décembre 2025

Paul Sietsema Art
Paul Sietsema 
Arrangement, 2025 
Peinture émail sur lin 
121.9 x 121.9 x 2.9 cm (48 x 48 x 1 1/8 in.)
© Paul Sietsema, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

La Galerie Marian Goodman à Paris présente actuellement la deuxième exposition personnelle de l'atiste américain Paul Sietsema en France. Cette exposition rassemble des oeuvres nouvelles et plus anciennes, dont deux films 16 mm. Le travail de Paul Sietsema explore la nature complexe de la représentation, en examinant comment le sens se construit à l'intersection de l'image et de la matière. Si l'art est une forme de langage culturel, l’artiste adopte une approche dialectique qui interrompt, détourne ou reconfigure le flux naturel de la communication.

Sept oeuvres créées cette année sont exposées au rez-de-chaussée de la galerie. A première vue, chacune d'entre elles représente un objet familier – un téléphone, une pièce de monnaie, un pinceau, etc. – et pourtant, de par différents dégrés de mises à distance propres au procédé de Paul Sietsema, ces images apparaissent comme des spectres ou des réceptacles de ces représentations. Ces reliquaires se déploient de manière critique pour redéfinir leur fonction, à mesure qu’ils évoluent dans le temps au sein d’un système dont la constante mutation dépend des valeurs culturelles héritées du passé. Object painting (2025), figure une machine obsolète, conçue dans sa physiologie pour permettre au corps humain de transformer une action laborieuse en langage. Le téléphone à cadran, déconnecté, de Arrangement (2025) évoque, quant à lui, la dimension métaphysique de la peinture tout en suggérant un potentiel de transmission et d’échanges réels, rendu ici irréalisable. 

A travers ces oeuvres, Paul Sietsema représente ou présente des matières premières : métal, toiles naturelles et peinture dans leurs formes les plus brutes. Dans cette optique, réfléchissant à la valeur symbolique de la peinture, Gray painting (2025) est une composition abstraite et monochrome qui joue des codes du matérialisme concret et laisse apparaître certaines parties de la toile vierge. Cette oeuvre renvoie tant à un travail antérieur de l’artiste qu'à la peinture abstraite du milieu du XXe siècle, période durant laquelle la peinture est passée d’un statut spirituel et politique à celui d'une monnaie culturelle dotée d'une valeur symbolique. De même, Action painting (black line) (2025) et Action painting (white on black) (2025) évoquent la portée emblématique du geste pictural autonome dans la peinture abstraite occidentale et de la valeur qui lui est attribuée. Action painting (black line), représentant l'image peinte d'une pièce de monnaie répandant une trainée de peinture sur la toile, met en parallèle le commerce et la valeur d'échange de l’oeuvre avec une action concrète.

Les oeuvres Action painting (black line) et Figure ground study (white on white) (2025) ont été peintes au verso d’imitations de tableaux de Jackson Pollock achetées sur des sites d'enchères en ligne, estampillées de faux tampons d'authenticité. Dans Figure ground study (white on white) (2025) et Arrangement (2025), des fragments de CD et de vinyles brisés ont été recouverts de peinture. Les objets initiaux sont littéralement et métaphysiquement ‘réduits au silence’ par les différentes interventions opérées par l’artiste, marquant leur transformation d'objet en image.

Au sous-sol de la galerie est présentée une sélection d'oeuvres datant de 2009 à 2020. Les ‘date paitings’ 1992 (2015) et 1994 (2015) ont été réalisées, entre autres outils de retouche photo argentique, avec un pinceau enduit de liquide de masquage au latex et un aérographe en partie cassé pour représenter des dalles de pierre minimalistes. La figuration des dates sur les pierres traduit l'échelle d'une histoire personnelle plutôt que collective. De même, Collection 5 (2016) donne à voir des jetons de vestiaire de musée collectés par l’artiste, réalisés à la peinture émail sur du papier incrusté de poussières provenant de son atelier. Lors de nombreuses visites dans des musées, l'artiste a régulièrement échangé des effets personnels contre ces jetons souvent marqués du nom des institutions. Si la première fois, il a oublié un vêtement, il a ensuite délibérément abandonné divers articles de sa propre garde-robe, essaimant ainsi, en quelque sorte, ses ‘oeuvres’ dans les musées du monde entier.

Une autre oeuvre est en partie issue des effets du travail en atelier. Le film muet, en noir et blanc, Anticultural Positions (2009), montre des images de traces résiduelles provenant de l'espace de travail de Paul Sietsema. Celles-ci sont accompagnées de sous-titres extrait d'une conférence donnée en 1951 par Jean Dubuffet, dans laquelle celui-ci énonce l'absence de forme et l'ambiguïté comme éléments essentiels du processus artistique. Le film a été projeté pour la première fois à la New School de New York en remplacement inattendu d'une conférence de Paul Sietsema alors que celui-ci était dans un avion en route vers la côte ouest des Etats-Unis.

Les deux films 16 mm dans l’exposition mettent en lumière le médium de prédilection initialement choisi par l'artiste pour interroger les constructions de la matérialité et leur relation plus large avec les médias. Dans Telegraph (2012), des fragments de bois trouvés sont utilisés pour former et incarner le langage. Reliés par une série de fondus enchaînés, ces morceaux sont configurés et reconfigurés au sein d'une structure répétitive et minimale qui finit par composer la phrase «L/E/T/T/E/R/T/O/A/Y/O/U/N/G/P/A/I/N/T/E/R». Le film explore l'idée de l’oeuvre d'art comme transmission en atténuant l'ordre de lisibilité linguistique et en soulignant l'abstraction inhérente à chaque forme de lettre.

Antérieures aux oeuvres présentées au rez-de-chaussée, Action painting (1977) (2017) et Action painting (City National) (2016) sont composées d'un unique geste réalisé en raclant ou frottant un objet sur la couche picturale, respectivement une pièce de monnaie et une carte de crédit. L'objet physique reste incrusté dans la peinture, l’amenant à perdre sa valeur monétaire au profit d’une valeur symbolique lors de sa transformation en oeuvre d’art. Pour Blue Picasso (2020), Paul Sietsema a sérigraphié sur toile une affiche originale du Guggenheim, avant d’y superposer la couleur de sa bordure originelle, créant ainsi un masque monochrome recouvrant l’intégralité de image. Cette technique affadit subtilement l’image, diminuant, voire suspendant, la fonction première de l’affiche.

Paul Sietsema (né en 1968 en Californie) vit et travaille à Los Angeles. Il est diplômé de l'université de Californie à Los Angeles en 1999 et de l'université de Californie à Berkeley en 1992. De nombreuses institutions ont consacré des expositions individuelles à son oeuvre, notamment le Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2015), le Museum of Contemporary Art de Denver (2014), le Museum of Contemporary Art de Chicago (2013), le Wexner Center for the Arts de Columbus, dans l'Ohio (2013), le Mercer Union de Toronto (2013), la Kunsthalle Basel (2012), The Drawing Room de Londres (2012), le Schinkel Pavilion de Berlin (2010), le Cubitt de Londres (2010), le Midway Contemporary Art de Minneapolis (2010) ; le Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid (2009) ; le Museum of Modern Art de New York (2009) ; le San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008) ; la de Appel Foundation d’Amsterdam (2008) et le Whitney Museum of American Art de New York (2003).

GALERIE MARIAN GOODMAN, PARIS
79 rue du Temple, 75003 Paris

15/08/25

"Surface Streets" Group Exhibition Curated by Russell Ferguson @ Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles

Surface Streets
Curated by Russell Ferguson
Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles
6 September – 18 October 2025

Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal 
Berkeley Street, 2024 
Oil on canvas
© Wilhelm Sasnal, courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery presents Surface Streets, curated by Russell Ferguson, a group exhibition of recent paintings made in Los Angeles. The title of the exhibition, a term that contextually denotes Los Angeles streets (but not freeways), is intended to evoke both the specificity of the local environment and the tactility that is integral to painting. The intergenerational group of artists chosen by Ferguson for this exhibition traces a variety of aesthetics, strategies, and traditions, yet at the same time pays close attention to the physicality of the painted surface which unites them. While many works in Surface Streets depict familiar scenes of everyday urban life, others reach beyond, to a movie set, to an ancient fossil, or even into spaces of fiction and fantasy. 

Surface Streets includes works by Hye-Shin Chun, Kirsten Everberg, Owen Fu, Anna Glantz, Robert Gunderman, James Iveson, Becky Kolsrud, Tidawhitney Lek, Manuel López, Nihura Montiel, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Paul Sietsema, Wilhelm Sasnal, Henry Taylor, and Tristan Unrau.

Hye-Shin Chun (b. 1983, Libreville, Gabon) graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). Her work has been exhibited at numerous group shows, including Elsewhere, Ivory Gate Gallery, Shanghai, China (2025); Now You Don’t, Five Churches, Los Angeles (2025); 12 Hour Day - 12 Hour, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and Smoke The Moon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2023, 2024). 

Kirsten Everberg (b. 1965, Los Angeles) received an MFA from UCLA in 2004. That same year, Everberg held her first solo exhibition at 1301PE and was included in Russell Ferguson's group exhibition, The Undiscovered Country at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She has exhibited widely, including at the Scottsdale Museum of Art (2011); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2013); and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2009); amongst others.

Owen Fu (b. 1988, Guilin, China) received a bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2018, completed his MFA at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Recent solo exhibitions include Balice Hertling, Paris (2021, 2023); and Mine Project, Hong Kong (2020). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Beijing Biennale, China (2022); Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2022); and Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles (2021).

Anna Glantz (b. 1989, Concord, MA) has exhibited her work in solo shows internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Knowing what you know, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Lichens, The Approach, London (2023); Cement Answers, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); and Baby Grand, The Approach, London (2020). Group exhibitions include Untitled (for Jenni), Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY (2025); Trespass sweetly urged, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2024); A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Therein / Thereof /Thereto, Standard (OSLO), Oslo, Norway (2021); and A Love Letter to a Nightmare, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY (2020).

Robert Gunderman (b. 1963, Los Angeles) attended the Otis Parsons School of Art Los Angeles (1989). Recent solo exhibitions include Place Like You, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); The Quiet Beliefs, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); and Never Let Us Go, Desert Center, Los Angeles (2019). Group exhibitions include Ripe, Harper’s, Los Angeles (2023); LA ON FIREcurated by Michael Slenske, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and Between Worlds, Edward Cella, Los Angeles (2021).

James Iveson (b. 1983, England) holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2016) and a BA from Goldsmiths University of London (2006). Selected solo exhibitions have taken place at South Willard, Los Angeles (2022); Norwich Outpost, Norwich, UK (2012); and Dicksmith Gallery, London (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Taking Care, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2025); 4 X 4, Karma, New York, NY (2024); South Willard, Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY (2023); 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles (2014); The Tetley, Leeds, UK (2014); and Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (2013).

Becky Kolsrud (b. 1984, Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2012) and a BA from New York University (2006). Important solo exhibitions include Elegies, JTT, New York, NY (2021); As Above, So Below, Make Room, Los Angeles (2020); and Yackety Yack Girls, Karma, New York, NY (2011). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (2022); Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2020); Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2018); Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2019). Kolsrud’s work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach) completed her BFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2017. Solo exhibitions include Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (2023); Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles (2022); and Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2021). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2024); Cantor Arts Center Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2024); ICA Miami, Miami, FL (2022); Anat Ebgi, New York, NY (2024); and Ben and Brown Fine Arts, London (2022). Institutional collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and Pérez Art Museum, Miami.

Manuel López (b.1983, East Los Angeles) attended East Los Angeles College and transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where he earned his BFA in painting and drawing in 2010. He has exhibited in institutions, galleries, and museums internationally and nationwide including Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA (2022); Baik Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA (2018); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, 2022); and Self-Help Graphics, Boyle Heights, CA (2017); among others.

Nihura Montiel (b. 1988, Tijuana, Mexico) received her BFA from Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California in Los Angeles (2023). Selected solo exhibitions include A Dog Named Masterpiece, Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); and The Object of My Object, In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022). She has exhibited at Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY (2022); Carlye Packer, Los Angeles (2023); Ochi Projects, Dallas, TX (2023); Château du Marais, Le Marais, France (2021); and Amor Services, Los Angeles (2020). 

Paige Jiyoung Moon (b. 1984, Seoul, South Korea) received a BFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2012 and graduated from the Seoul National University of Technology in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2024, 2020, 2019), and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston (2017). Select group exhibitions include Kiaf Seoul, Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2024); Made in L.A. 2023:Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); and Ogdoad, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles (2018).

Paul Sietsema (b. 1968, Los Angeles) graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and the University of California, Berkeley (1992). Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO (2014); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2012); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009); the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2009); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2009); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2003). Sietsema’s work has been exhibited extensively in biennials including Carnegie International (2008), Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Germany (2008), and Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2019).

Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972, Tarnów, Poland) studied architecture at the Kraków University of Technology (1992–1994) and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1994– 1999). His works have been featured in major exhibitions worldwide, including solo presentations at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2024); and Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China (2023). Institutional collections include The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, among others.

Henry Taylor (b. 1958, Ventura) graduated with a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1995). A major survey exhibition dedicated to the artist, Henry Taylor: B Side, his largest to date, was exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and was then on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2024). Other select solo exhibitions include Henry Taylor. no title, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2024); Jill Mulleady & Henry Taylor: You Me, Berlin (2024); and Here and There, Tokyo, Japan (2018). In 2018, Taylor was the recipient of The Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize in 2018 for his outstanding achievements in painting. Taylor’s work was presented at the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2017 and the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.

Tristan Unrau (b. 1989, Brampton, Canada) holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles (2023); 56 Henry, New York, NY (2022); Unit 17, Vancouver, Canada (2021, 2018); and Towards, Toronto, Canada (2020), among others. Recent group exhibitions include 50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (2023); Drawings, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2018); and Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2017), among others. 

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Russell Ferguson has lived and worked in Los Angeles for many years. He joined the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1991, and later became the Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs, and Chief Curator of the Hammer Museum from 2001-2007. Ferguson also served as a professor of the Department of Art at the University of California Los Angeles from 2007-2013. An established scholar and critic of contemporary art, his numerous writings have been published internationally.

MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY LOS ANGELES
1120 Seward Street, Los Angeles, CA 90038

23/09/04

Katie Grinnan, Wade Guyton, Christina Mackie, Bojan Sarcevic, Paul Sietsema, Hiroshi Sugito @ Modern Art Oxford - "Real World: The dissolving space of experience"

Real World
The dissolving space of experience
Katie Grinnan, Wade Guyton, Christina Mackie, Bojan Sarcevic, Paul Sietsema, Hiroshi Sugito
Modern Art Oxford
25 September - 28 November 2004

Six artists working internationally reconsider the nature of the sculptural object and its relationship to space in this new exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. The work of Katie Grinnan, Wade Guyton, Christina Mackie, Bojan Sarcevic, Paul Sietsema and Hiroshi Sugito engages with the articulation of image, information, and cultural and social economies that shape contemporary perception. Their built up and assembled objects, structures and spatial scenarios suggest new artistic attitudes in which indeterminacy, resistance and the convergence of multiple spheres of experience are the new creative conditions for understanding space and the way we inhabit it.

Katie Grinnan [b. 1970, Richmond, lives in Los Angeles] creates complex and fantastical sculptures from photographs, found, moulded and modelled objects. Distorted space, actual space and remembered space are activated and collapsed into new constructed forms. In Real World, the artist presents a new sculptural work consisting of dissolving figures, magic brews, and a New Age constructivist tower which she will install in the galleries.

Wade Guyton [b. 1972, Hammond, Tennessee, lives in New York City] describes his sculptures and drawings as Ôacts of protestÕ. The relationship between image and object is central to his work which ranges from crossed out images of vernacular architecture and modernist abstract sculpture to elegant plywood constructions and vast impenetrable objects.

Christina Mackie [b. 1958, Oxford, lives in London] describes her mixed media installations of sculpted and assembled objects, drawings and videos as paintings. Her elaborate works articulate interests in parallel worlds of knowledge and experience and the points at which they intersect. Integral to her installations is the experience of the viewer, which is often orchestrated around structural props and stages.

In his compelling sculptural explorations Paul Sietsema [b. 1968, lives in Los Angeles] unravels and reconfigures relationships between spaces and the objects inhabiting them. His mesmeric film, Empire (2002), presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003 and included in Real World, is a journey through historically specific spaces from the eighteenth century rococo interior of the Hôtel Soubise in Paris, to the 1960s modernist apartment of art critic Clement Greenberg. The figures and interiors, all seemingly real but in fact meticulously crafted by the artist, fade in and out of an absorbing prismatic haze. Drawings and a new sculptural work relating to Empire will also be presented in the exhibition.

At the heart of the work of Bojan Sarcevic [b. 1974, Belgrade, lives in Berlin] is a displacement of materials, places, people and things to create situations that are dysfunctional or incongruous. Moving between sculpture, architecture, photography and film, his works are melancholy encounters between object, space and viewer. The exhibition includes Sarcevic's large-scale sculpture, Ou la main nÕentre pas, la chaleur sÕinsue (Where the hand doesn't enter, heat infuses) (2002) and 1954 (2004), a series of 78 photographic collages in which the artist has incised and reassembled views of modernist interiors with a fractured appliquŽ of image and forms.

Hiroshi Sugito [b. 1970, Nagoya, lives in Nagoya] makes enigmatic paintings in which images and spaces float in a visual reverie of remembered experience. Trained by Yoshitomo Nara in the school of traditional Japanese painting, Hiroshi Sugito builds up his images of vaporous views of dreamlike interiors and hazy sea and landscapes through a meticulous process of layering and covering over. Working from the minute to the monumental in scale, his paintings are a meditative conversation on the motif which seems to separate itself from its pictorial support to declare itself in the world of three dimensional objects.

Real World. The dissolving space of experience is curated by Modern Art Oxford's Senior Curator, Suzanne Cotter.

A fully illustrated book featuring reproductions of work by the artists and new essays by writer and critic Michael Archer and Suzanne Cotter is available from 1 October 2004.

MODERN ART OXFORD
30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP