Month: February 2023

Anthony D Green, Absolute Redundancy, 2023. Peinture acrylique et encre sur toile
141,1 × 100 × 3 cm (55 ½ × 39 ⅜ × 1 ⅛ inches)/ Acrylic paint and ink on canvas, 141,1 × 100 × 3 cm (55 ½ × 39 ⅜ × 1 ⅛ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud

Biography

Between painting and bas-relief, Anthony D. Green’s recent works attest to the artist’s fascination with images, their central place in consumer society and their potential for transformation. Hijacking the codes of advertising photography and computer graphics, he establishes a distance with the subjects, here taken from commercial image banks. Made of MDF, spray paint, acrylic paint, printed paper and assembled, they play with volumes and points of view, and disturb the gaze through formal games (shift, repetition, etc.). The ears, in relief on one of the volumes, then appears as a way out of the grip exerted by the visual regime. Natural bas-reliefs, they are the mediators between the non-visible outside and an invisible inside, signifying the access to something beyond the visible.

Anthony D Green was born in 1973 in Welwyn Garden City/UK. He lives and works in Kent/UK.

Biography

Born in France in 1969, raised in Germany and based in England, Caroline Achaintre attended the Kunsthochschule in Halle, then the Chelsea College of Art and Design, and the Goldsmiths University of London. The artist is nourished by multiple and radically different cultural references that influence her approach. With her sculptures made of wool, ceramic and with her watercolours, the artist appropriates each space to install her hybrid creatures, transforming the exhibition space into a theater where a dialogue between different characters half-fantastic, half-ghostly can take place. Inspired at once by European carnivals, primitivism, German Expressionism and science fiction, Caroline Achaintre’s work on the one hand evokes the possible coexistence of several characters within a same being as well as the tensions generated by duality. No precise indication is given as to how to approach the work of Achaintre. We see in turn a mask, a garment, an animal… Her works have the particular feature of being difficult to define. At once abstract and figurative, they reveal anthropomorphic forms and indicate a particular interest for animism. The mutation of forms and the plurality of possible interpretations engage the mind and the whim of the viewer. This is the strength of Caroline Achaintre’s work: to question our own capacity to be in the world as individuals defined by complex and multiple identities.

Her work is part of numerous public collections among which: CAPC, Bordeaux/FR; Tate Britain, Londres/UK; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.

Selected solo exhibitions: Visual, Carlow/IR, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz/DE, Neues Museum, Nürnberg/DE (2023); Centre d’art Pasquart/CH (2022); Kunstmuseum Ravensburg/DE (2021); CAPC, Bordeaux/FR (2020), MO.CO., Montpellier/FR (2019); Belvedere 21, Vienna/AU (2019); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea/UK (2018); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims/FR (2017); BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead/UK (2016); Tate Britain, London/UK (2015); Castello di Rivoli, Turin/IT (2013).

At the gallery

The Seeker, 2024
Tête-à-tête, 2021
Indus 2, 2019
Duo Infernal, 2018

Videos

Links

CV (pdf)Download

Press (pdf)Download

Catalogues

Caroline Achaintre, Shiftings, catalogue d’exposition / exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, 2022, 144 pages

Vue d’exposition / Installation views Constellations, Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret, 2023. Photo Robin Townsend

Biography

Hubert Duprat was born in 1957 in Nérac in Lot-et-Garonne, he lives and works in the South of France.

Protean, demanding and complex, Duprat’s work draws inspiration from chance and the empirical, combining the discovery of objects, remnants and texts in a testing-out of matter, technique and dexterity. The artist is equally happy in the natural world or working with strange minerals (iron pyrites, calcite, ulexite, etc.), species that defy classification (amber, coral, etc.) and everyday industrial materials (polystyrene, concrete, paraffin, modelling clay, etc.) His repurposed processes come largely from the crafts – marquetry, goldsmithery, upholstery – but also from such vernacular domains as string art.*

His work can be found in several public collections among which: Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmanie/AU; Centre Pompidou, Paris/FR; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco/FR; Collection Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Grand-Hornu/BE ; Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris/FR; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon/FR ; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; and in numerous regional art funds (FRAC).

A retrospective of his work was presented at the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art in 2020-2021. Solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work among which: Art : Concept, Paris/FR (2019); MONA, Tasmania/AU (2013); Norwich Museum, Norwich/UK (2011); Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivière/FR (2008); Musée Picasso, Antibes/FR (1998).

*Read the press release for the exhibition “Hubert Duprat” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, written by Jessica Castex, 2020