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Paris Gallery Weekend — 2020
Past: July 2 → 5, 2020
Paris Gallery Weekend are pleased to announce the participation of 57 Parisian modern and contemporary art galleries for its next edition that will take place from July 2 — 5, 2020.
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Film, installation, painting...
Multiple venues
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Ariane Loze — Cet endroit où nous sommes
Past: February 9 → April 6, 2019
La galerie Michel Rein présente la première exposition personnelle d’Ariane Loze. Dans ses vidéo-performances, Ariane Loze procède à une méthodique déconstruction des normes du cinéma pour ramener les structures de ses films à leur minimum opérant.
Performance, mixed media, video
Michel Rein Gallery
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Jordi Colomer — X-Ville
Past: January 9 → February 27, 2016
Protéiforme (films, photographies, sculptures ou installations), généreuse et singulière, l’œuvre de Jordi Colomer est toutefois toujours identifiable. Souvent à travers les sujets d’urbanisme et d’architecture, l’artiste évoque la question des utopies, les valeurs humanistes, le dialogue au quotidien avec l’autre.
Architecture, mixed media, video
Michel Rein Gallery
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Enrique Ramírez — Cartografías para navegantes de tierra
Past: April 5 → May 31, 2014
Le travail d’Enrique Ramírez se situe dans cet interstice où la fiction et le réel s’enrichissent mutuellement. L’artiste questionne, par des moyens métaphoriques, notre monde et ses flux migratoires. Ses démarches variées frôlent l’ethnographie et la sociologie.
Installation, photography, video
Michel Rein Gallery
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Maria Thereza Alves — Beyond the painting / Unrejected Wild Flora
Past: February 1 → March 22, 2014
For her second exhibition at Michel Rein’s gallery, the artist Maria Thereza Alves present “Beyond the Painting”, a 24-minute video for which thirty women reinterpreted postures of female nudes in French painting, and the new serie of paintings ”Unrejected Wild Flora”.
Painting, photography, video
Michel Rein Gallery
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Armand Jalut — A piece of lace
Past: February 1 → March 22, 2014
United under the title “A piece of lace”, the paintings produced over the last months by Armand Jalut are marked by the presence of machines, fashioning tools which collide with organic and dietary ingredients: a slice of grapefruit, fried eggs, banana diet, or coconut.
Drawing, painting
Michel Rein Gallery
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Didier Faustino — We Can’t Go Home Again
Past: November 30, 2013 → January 11, 2014
For his second personal exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein, Didier Faustino invites us to step outside of our homes and penetrate an ambiguous world, which strangely resembles our own but is haunted by other versions of us bearing armour built from the materials of our own homes.
Sculpture
Michel Rein Gallery
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LaToya Ruby Fraizer — The Notion of Family (2002-present)
Past: October 24 → November 23, 2013
With her series of black and white photographs, LaToya Ruby Frazier seeks to adjust and define a field of investigation over a period of around ten years: neighbourly relations, adjacency, juxtaposition, drawing up a realistic inventory of the black American middle class in the 2000’s.
Photography
Michel Rein Gallery
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Abigail DeVille — Invisible Men : Beyond the Veil
Past: October 24 → November 23, 2013
Abigail DeVille’s work imbues with cultural and historical cues. Her dark sculptural installations are steeped in destruction and decay, acting as reflections on social and cultural oppression, racial identity, and discrimination in American history.
Installation, mixed media
Michel Rein Gallery
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Jordi Colomer — Défense de chanter
Past: April 6 → June 1, 2013
Enjoying a gifted and marked sculptural sense, Jordi Colomer’s work spans many mediums, centering on photography, video and the staging of both in exhibition areas. The variety of mediums called forth by his work and the transversality of his judgment are undoubtedly linked to his fragmentary education as an architect, an artist and an art historian.
Installation
Michel Rein Gallery
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Jimmie Durham — Works on paper : The Sache Series
Past: April 6 → June 1, 2013
As always with Jimmie Durham, the drawings are the result of an action, a movement, they appear to be prints on paper, like the marks left by the hand or by a certain material. His approach falls into a sort of archeology, the discovery but also the classification of the traces left by our predecessors.
Design
Michel Rein Gallery
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Mark Raidpere — I’ll come back later
Past: February 9 → March 30, 2013
Mark Raidpere’s work explores with a great sensitivity and efficacy the dilemmas and anxieties of the human soul, its incoercible loneliness, its tragic fate. His research often takes its cue from his own family’s universe but sometimes it takes on social connotations, focusing on marginalized people, urban violence and street life.
Photography
Michel Rein Gallery
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Davide Balliano — Panos Tsagaris — Picatrix
Past: February 9 → March 30, 2013
Davide Balliano and Panos Tsagaris cross knowledge, genres, and chronologies in an illuminating, scandalous, pulsating poïesis. In their research the work of art explodes and recomposes itself in the mixed fabric of the past and the future; it vibrates with the contrary, like elastic stretched between knowing and prophecy, between tradition and dissolution.
Drawing, installation, sculpture
Michel Rein Gallery
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Christian Hidaka — Souvenir
Past: December 1, 2012 → February 2, 2013
The derivation of the title of Christian Hidaka’s exhibition, Souvenir, is from the French, ‘to come to mind’. This cognitive inference, which is inspired by a physical memento or form is in common with Hidaka’s different depictions of space within the exhibition and the various notions of the competing representational values which accompany them.
Mixed media
Michel Rein Gallery
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Allan Sekula — Californian Sequences
Past: December 1, 2012 → February 2, 2013
It is in South California in 1977, during the time that the United States was facing the crisis which followed its defeat in South East Asia, that Allan Sekula began combining writing and photography to document the political and economic situation of postwar military Keynesianism. In his notes, the artist characterised this linking of texts, sound and images.
Film, photography
Michel Rein Gallery
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Michael Riedel — Kunste Zur Text (Algorithmiques)
Past: October 18 → November 24, 2012
The beginning of Michael Riedel’s artistic practice can be considered by his 1997 performance (during a lecture at the Städelschule in Frankfurt) in which he reinvented himself as an artist sporting a paper bag on his head with his name written on it, thus portraying the artist within the artist.
Graphic design, installation, screen-printing...
Michel Rein Gallery
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Franck Scurti — My Creative Method
Past: October 18 → November 24, 2012
Franck Scurti is currently presenting three types of books, each very different, which circulate between and allow us to navigate through the Home, the Street and the Museum, where the complex of the street pedlar can merge with that of the portable gallery.
Drawing, installation
Michel Rein Gallery
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Elisa Pône — Le goût du mercure
Past: September 8 → October 6, 2012
The more spectacular the celebration for a festival or public holiday, the more vain it can seem. Elisa Pône’s fireworks are set off in inadvisable place — under a bridge or in a car — and evoke a sort of disappointing wonder, which upsets because the risk and gratuity of such a brief yet excessive spectacle.
Film, installation
Michel Rein Gallery
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Jean-Pierre Bertrand — Six Fois Shem en Deux
Past: September 8 → October 6, 2012
The formula for the title “Six Fois Shem en Deux” can be seen as the devision between the two spaces and the six manifestations of one unique shem — a format present in the Jean-Pierre Bertrand’s work for many years and which he describes in simple terms: “sheets of plexiglas, painted the colour of parchment, which allow horizontal stripes of colour to appear”.
Mixed media
Michel Rein Gallery
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Ici
Past: June 5 → July 28, 2012
The exhibition Ici, organised in parallel with the exhibition Là-bas at the Maison européenne de la photographie, allows us to discover intriguing spaces, the far off, places which are far and beyond what we know but which somehow seem localisable.
Video
Michel Rein Gallery
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Raphaël Zarka — Les Prismatiques
Past: April 14 → May 26, 2012
A number of themes crucial to Raphaël Zarka’s work come together in the exhibition Les Prismatiques : his interest for geometry, the transposition of elements from the world of painting to the world of sculpture, the construction of a body of forms developed on the model of a collection.
Drawing, painting, sculpture...
Michel Rein Gallery
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Société Réaliste — Monotopia
Past: April 14 → May 26, 2012
Société Réaliste experiments with their typography by presenting ornamental accumulations of Monotopia, reproducing the rythmics of political mantras, mixing the fundamental directions, researching the connections between number and dates, trying to define the shape of any date and any place, registering the common transversality of time and space, or refusing to inscribe the privative u- of Utopia.
Ceramic, installation, mixed media
Michel Rein Gallery
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Mathew Hale — Der Willkommene Fremde
Past: March 10 → April 7, 2012
“Der Willkommene Fremde” is Mathew Hale’s second exhibition at the Galerie Michel Rein. While diverse in both form and content, his work hopes to achieve a collapse of historical time into mythic time, where today’s online papers can sit quite naturally alongside Elizabethan material or pornography from the 1970s.
Collage, installation
Michel Rein Gallery
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Dora Garcia — The Beggar’s Things
Past: March 10 → April 7, 2012
The Beggar’s Opera consisted of an extended performance in which Dora García adopted the character of Filch, who first appeared in the opera of the same name by John Gay and later in Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. An actor inhabited this character and wandered around the town meeting with locals and tourists.
Installation
Michel Rein Gallery
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Jean-Charles Hue — Tijuana Jarretelle le Diable
Past: January 28 → February 25, 2012
At the frontier between documentary, photography and cinema, Jean-Charles Hue’s work revisits the neighbourhood and characters explored in his 2009 series Tijuana, Carne Viva. His videos immerse the spectator in troubling atmospheres, be it the gritty world of the traveler of the erotic heat or the latent violence of Tijuana.
Photography, video
Michel Rein Gallery
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Americans in New York
Past: January 28 → February 24, 2012
After a first exhibition entitled “ Americans In New York ”, the metropolis offers a revitalized scene : nevertheless, globalisation offers a wide berth to opposing cultural horizons of the art world. The three guest artists tell the tense relationship between the private and the public, between a personal story and a collective history.
Photography
Michel Rein Gallery
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Franck Scurti — No snow, no show
Past: October 6 → November 5, 2011
More interested by playing with the sense of things than by a determined belief in them, the artist seeks to give his ideas a freedom which subsequently awards his artworks with a certain independence. Scurti’s work is a constant attempt to invert structured systems to differentiate between them, to find links between them and to test them.
Mixed media
Michel Rein Gallery
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Christian Hidaka — Red Desert
Past: October 6 → November 5, 2011
These paintings were developed after a trip to Volubilis, an ancient Roman outpost in Morocco. Afterwards in Fez I made a set of tempera paintings with this excursion in mind. Deliriously, I thought of many things alongside the visit — the setting sun in the Utah desert which turns the rocks a blood red.
Painting
Michel Rein Gallery
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Armand Jalut — Solo Show
Past: September 3 → 24, 2011
“These compositions, created from photographs, are magnified scenes of debris. An ambiguous ensemble is created, at once both degrading and voluptuous. Far from wanting to arouse an easy collusion with the spectator, attracted by what they may believe as being kitsch, I prefer to display a taste for old fashioned and refined triviality.” A. J
Collage, drawing, painting
Michel Rein Gallery
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Accords Parfaits — Harmony
Past: September 3 → 24, 2011
Galerie Michel Rein inaugurates its new exhibition space dedicated to thematic exhibitions, exclusive projects by our artists and collaborations. For the opening of these new spaces, the gallery pays tribute to it’s artists. The exhibition brings together works which create a dialogue about the notions of precision and harmony.
Ceramic, lithography / engraving, painting...
Michel Rein Gallery
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Didier Faustino
Past: April 14 → May 28, 2011
“Doing architecture with blood, hair, sweat and sperm”
It is with this declaration, if not provocative, then certainly unusual, that Didier Faustino signaled his entry into the professional sphere of architecture. For his final degree presentation there was no question of him presenting a model, or a project for a building.
Architecture, installation, photography...
Michel Rein Gallery
Didier Faustino
Past: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 7 PM
Rencontre avec Didier Faustino dans le cadre de la clôture de l’exposition.
Meeting
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Jimmie Durham Regarde
Past: March 19 → April 7, 2011
Regarde is a monumental installation made of scaffolding and CCTV cameras. With this unexpected pairing of objects, the artwork, whilst reflecting the current preoccupations of our society, reveals a punchy sense of humour. Jimmie Durham questions the established order more surely than all the cameras in the world.
Installation
Michel Rein Gallery
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Berlin-Paris — Un échange de galeries
Past: January 28 → February 26, 2011
The galerie is pleased to participate in the gallery exchange BERLIN-PARIS. The show includes works by Kent Monkman and Gerd Rohling. Kent Monkman explores the complexities of the flawed, yet enduring myth of the American West, and Gerd Rohling coordinates and parameters imagination, appearance and reality.
Painting, photography
Michel Rein Gallery
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Michael Riedel
Past: October 16 → November 20, 2010
Whether an artwork be realized or not, is not what matters. What matters is that it exists. And to exist, the artwork needs to meet an audience. It has to circulate, which happens only through distribution. In order to exist an artwork must be visible, articles must be written about it, photographs taken and published.
Screen-printing, sound - music
Michel Rein Gallery
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Summertime Love
Past: June 12 → July 24, 2010
La galerie Michel Rein présente Summertime Love, douze artistes réunis autour d’une thématique estivale. Se côtoient entre autre la fontaine bleu piscine de Delphine Coindet, dans laquelle l’eau se fige, les « Three Gracies » d’Hans-Peter Feldmann, peintes en couleurs artificielles, suggèrant le kitsch, autant que le …
Installation, sculpture, mixed media
Michel Rein Gallery