In July, I had an exhibition at A-frame, and I made a drape for the show. It was one of eight drapes I had sketched earlier this year. It was a cozy show partly because A-frame is a perfectly cozy place, and partly because of the people who visited. It was also lovely to see them trying on the drape which cocooned them.
In the suburb of Paris, inside a big warehouse-turned-atelier shared by many artists, there’s a small space Blaise Parmentier and Théo Robine-Langlois built above their shared workspace and under the angled roof to invite artists and organize exhibitions. Space is named appropriately A-frame as you can see in the photos.
It took me some time to figure out what I wanted to show in this uniquely shaped space. Then I realized the form of the drapes I’ve sketched during La Patronne residency early this year would fit nicely. Hence I decided to make the first drape of the eight I’ve sketched. Then Théo came up with the title of the exhibition <1 of 8>.
During the vernissage (June 22, 2018), we let people wear the drape. It was interesting to see how everyone moved so differently in it from one another. And now I can’t wait to make all eight drapes and see them worn by people, although this will take some time.
Big big thanks to all of you who came out, traveled across town in the midst of a train strike, to see my work. Sincere thank you thank you thank you! And of course a big thanks to Théo and Blaise : )
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1 of 8 A-Frame 11, avenue Victor Hugo F–93120 La Courneuve June 22 2018 – TBD
by appointment
Since I’m on a marathon of posting old news (string of my last posts all actually occurred more than a year ago), why not another old story.
Beginning this year, Mattie and I had to go to Brussels to visit the French embassy for my visa related appointment (well, that is another adventure story!). After this boring but very important appointment, we visited Alice Gallery. I followed this gallery for some time now as some of my favorite artists have exhibited there (Atelier Pica Pica, Steve Powers, Todd James, Erosie). Also during this time, I knew Paul Wakers was exhibiting. Even though the gallery was closed on the day we were in town, Alice opened the gallery for us.
Paul Wackers is a painter from NY. I don’t know where or when I first encountered his paintings, but I instantly fell in love with his shelf-like composition – full of plants, vases, weird sculptures. Chaos contained between straight lines.
I felt fortunate to see the paintings up closed. There are so many interesting textures, layers, thickness, mediums which I missed from only looking at pictures of his paintings.
You can look at more of his works on his website or instagram. And follow Alice from Alice Gallery here.
Our Moderne Jazz exhibition finished two weeks ago. Fun time exhibiting with Moderne Jazz friends. Thanks again for those who came out for vernissage, finissage and in between : ) Here is my piece I made for the exhibition in movement. Perhaps the shadow looks better than the actual piece.
Something about mobile that is so zen. Hope you have a zen week : )
Paul Loubet is a French artist based in Valencia, Spain. But I often forget that he is French because he was living in Argentina when I first met him several years ago, and since then he seems to be at different places every time I hear of him.
I still remember when I saw his big canvas for the first time on flickr. I was fascinated and impressed by his strange universe, and I dreamed of owning this canvas.
A few days ago, there was a vernissage of his exhibition with Galerie Bomma in Paris. His strange universe is currently full of missile shooting drones.
His canvases and wood works are mix of matte and shiny, and it is beautiful to see in person. So stop by.
12 of us Moderne Jazzers – Christ, Cor21, Frida, Gsulf, Hams, Ishem 8, Matti, Noteen, Obisk, Yor81, コンタン – had a vernissage of our third exhibition together last Saturday (Nov 11) at Module in Paris. We all made a children’s toy and some sketches,コンタン made the poster above and Christ wrote the text about the exhibition. Here is a quick peek of the exhibition, but for all the details, you should go to the exhibition in person ; )
Yor81
Noteen
Obisk
Frida
Matti
Mirjam
Ishem 8
Frida
Hams
コンタン
Christ
Cor21
Gsulf
Big big thanks to everyone who came out under the rain, it was fun : )
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FFRRRRVUMVUMTACTAC ! ! November 11 – December 1, 2017 Open every Saturday 16h to 19h Module 9 rue Cyrano de Bergerac 75018 Paris
Recent trip to Rennes was to attend the varnissage of Kevin’s solo exhibition at Galerie 126. Kevin Pinsembert aka Christ is a recent graduate from ENSCI (an industrial design graduate school), an artist, a graffiti writer, the tallest member of Moderne Jazz, foremost a friend, always curious, finds beauty everywhere. Really everywhere. He is also a avid sketcher. If you ever run into him, you’ll most likely see him sketching on his often homemade sketchbook with a black fine felt-tip pen. I always enjoy going through it – his shaky lines, mirrored writings, some graffiti, some drawings, often sketches of ideas, some pure shapes…
This exhibition titled <CADRES> is his first solo show, and simply put, it is a blow up 3D version of his sketchbook in color. I love it.
The exhibition is finished, sorry, but you can see more photos of the exhibition here and the photos of his residency at Galerie 126 preparing for this exhibition here, and you can follow his instagram account here.
Last Friday, I took a bus to Brussels. After four long hours, chatting with a friendly Senegalese man who sat next to me (he started the conversation with “Senegal is love peace and harmony”), I arrived at Salon Mirage – a three day edition/book/zine festival.
Mattie (now my husband since a few weeks ago <3) was invited for a group exhibition during the festival along with Quentin Chambry, Alexis Poline and Adrien Frégosi. All four of them live in different cities (Paris, Rennes, Angers, Sète), so they arrived in Brussels a week before the exhibition opening to produce all the works under the same roof.
Mattie didn’t send me any photos during the week of the production, and I didn’t really ask for them. Mattie’s last few exhibitions were with me, so I was looking forward to be surprised by what he would produce with other guys.
When I walked up to the gallery space which was a floor above the book fair, Senegalese man’s words on the bus came to my mind – “love peace and harmony!” A group exhibition could often be chaotic or divided, but instead, I found the show otherwise. Also, even though I know everyone’s work really well – especially Mattie, Quentin and Alexis’ works – their choice of collaborating made the works new and surprising.
Quentin painted these series with diluted ink off of a carbon paper.
Mattie made the base print using smeared offset printing ink, then together with Quentin and Alexis, they painted on top with ink and oil sticks.
Alexis usual giant canvases, but with unusual brush strokes and color combination.
Drew by Quentin and colored by Alexis. One of my favorite pieces.
Mattie’s paper cut out series, which surprised me the most, using feather light papers and staples. They hung loosely by yarns, almost floating and beautifully backlit by the window behind them.
The book festival was equally great – cozy atmosphere, friendly people, admirable zines (I will share them in future posts), satisfying croque-monsieur served at the bar. You can check out the photos of the festival here (French).
It was a short trip, and we took the train back to Paris on Sunday. As we were walking to the train station, I would not stop talking about Belgium french fries and american filet (my must eats in Belgium) which we didn’t have time to eat and wished I had a few more hours in Brussels. Well, next time : )
Ishem Rouiaï is an impressive and charismatic guy, who on a normal day wears a judogi top and boxing shorts with a fox fur around his neck, then only an hour later he would change into his leopard print tank top and flashy jogging pants. But foremost, Ishem is a generous, warm, easygoing friend. Also he is a very talented artist who currently lives in Marseille and a member of Moderne Jazz.
This September, after his short residence at Galerie 126 in Rennes, he had his solo exhibition titled <AGRUM’ LEMON>. I was happy to be there for the vernissage.
Check out the photos of his residency here for all the interesting behind the scene photos. Also check out the zines he made during his residency here and here. And of course follow Ishem on his site, Instagram and tumblr.
Before summer, I visited Paris beaux-arts to see Côme Clérino‘s graduation exhibition. He layered many different mediums onto the cement plates to create impressive pieces.
The school is also impressive. Beaux-arts are prestigious national fine art school in France. The beaux-arts in Paris was right in the city center in a beautiful historic building (I’ve passed by many times before but never thought it was a school). Once I entered the school, I almost forgot that I was in Paris.
I felt quite envious of the students here hehe. Those rare time I get to visit universities, I dream of going back to school myself.
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