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Olaf Breuning — Still Complaining Forest
Ends in 18 days: November 23 → December 21
Ecological disaster isn’t obvious subject matter for comedy. Don’t misunderstand me, if humanity were wiped out, I’d find it hilarious, but I’m not a good person. In preferring to combine his ecological mission with entertainment and accessibility, Breuning’s work seems to align with the post-critical tendencies of the last two decades.
Film, photography
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Closing
Hugo Capron — zzzZZZ
Closing
Ends in 5 days: November 23 → December 21
In the early years of his practice, Hugo Capron’s painting was very different. In his own words, his painting was rather “minimalist.” He entered the world of art through printing and exchanged technical college for art school.
Painting
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Upcoming
Xie Lei — Mort heureuse
Upcoming
In about 1 month: January 11 → March 15, 2025
The omission of the articles “un” and “la” is certainly of importance: Is it not the means Xie Lei wishes to use in order to lead us down the pathway of song(s) and death(s) that remain radically undefined?
Painting
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Asami Shoji — October, Much Ado About Nothing
Past: October 12 → November 16
At first sight, one might come to the conclusion that the figures haunting Asami Shoji’s images are doubles. In truth, we are more likely to be witnessing astral projections, out-of-body experiences, figures being torn apart or tearing themselves apart.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Moffat Takadiwa — The Reverse Deal
Past: October 12 → November 16
The circle, omnipresent in Moffat Takadiwa’s oeuvre, not only refers to a shape found in numerous everyday objects but also evokes the outlines of Great Zimbabwe, a legendary medieval city, today in ruins, but which once sat at the center of an empire that encompassed present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Installation, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Présence Panchounette surréaliste ? Mon œil !
Past: August 31 → October 5
While the Parisian Surrealist group disbanded in 1969, followed by the Situationist International in 1972, Présence Panchounette established its own critical, insolent and down-to-earth definition of post artistic creation.
Mixed media
Semiose Gallery
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Second Nature — Anthony Cudahy, Fiza Khatri, Justin Liam O’Brien, Françoise Pétrovitch, Laurent Proux, Philemona Williamson, Xie Lei
Past: August 31 → October 5
The exhibition presents the artworks created by seven artists brought together by Semiose. What they express beyond what they depict, what they convey or what they subvert, perhaps constitutes a certain state of existence reclaimed as vital as it is fragile, an impression of being where one has always desired to find oneself
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Laurent Le Deunff — Whatever This May Be
Past: June 22 → August 17
Whatever This May Be is Laurent Le Deunff’s sixth exhibition at Semiose. The gallery space is transformed into a white landscape, inhabited by figurative sculptures made of both ‘real’ and ‘fake’ wood, set on plinths or placed directly on the floor.
Installation, sculpture
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Abraham Poincheval — Stone & Gold
Past: June 22 → August 17
In the form of a sculpture and a pair of drawings, two of Abraham Poincheval’s performances are revisited in the Semiose Project Room: Pierre (2017) and L’Homme Lion (2020). The fundamental element that these installations have in common is that they were conceived as inhabitable spaces within which the artist lived.
Drawing, performance, mixed media
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Drew Dodge — Earth Song
Past: May 4 → June 15
s it sensuality or agony? Is it seductiveness or dread? Is it life or death? Perhaps things do not necessarily have to be in a state of “either/or,” and do not have to be in harmony, but embedded in a heterogenous apparatus of push and pull—existing at the same time, in the same painting.
Drew Dodge’s paintings are…
Painting
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Justin Liam O’Brien — All Sunsets Risen
Past: May 4 → June 15
he title of Justin Liam O’Brien’s exhibition evokes a dual movement in two opposing directions: sunsets / risen, and as always, when contradictory forces meet, there comes a moment when they neutralize each-other and come to a standstill. Freeze… on the image. Yet there’s nothing to do with photographic snaps in all o…
Painting
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Amy Bravo — I’m Going There With You
Past: March 16 → April 27
Around the table to which Amy Bravo invites us, we are confronted with the hieratic figures, more or less avatars of the artist, who inhabit her works. These figures, whose bodies are sparsely sketched out, and which the artist describes as female, do not correspond to anything definite, neither in terms of gender, species or status.
Installation, painting, sculpture...
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Ernest T. — Peintures d’histoire
Past: March 16 → April 27
Going under a pseudonym borrowed from a comic character in a US TV show, Ernest T. is a French artist whose work follows on in the tradition of Dadaism and the Incoherents. His sparse biography tells us that he worked in advertising before fully devoting himself to art in the 1980s.
Installation, painting, photography
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Françoise Pétrovitch — Dans mes mains
Past: January 13 → March 9
Françoise Pétrovitch’s upcoming exhibition at Semiose is centered around an imposing bronze sculpture entitled Dans mes mains (In My Hands). The sculpture is accompanied by paintings and drawings of groups of teenagers and landscapes featuring islands.
Drawing, painting
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Abigail Lane — Doing Time
Past: January 13 → March 9
The series Doing Time, exhibited in Semiose’s Project Room, is made up of embroidered birds set in boxes closed off by bars. Previously, your works have featured all kinds of animals—cats, dogs, insects, pandas, snails…—that have variously been molded, filmed, photographed, inserted into photomontages, impersonated us…
Installation
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Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence
Past: November 18 → December 30, 2023
In her more than four decades-long distinguished career, the American artist Philemona Williamson has created an evocative and compelling body of work that she describes as “visual poems.” Through the veil of personal memory, Williamson’s opaque narratives recall the beauty, drama, and vagaries of innocence. In her pa…
Painting
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Laurent Le Deunff — Easter Eggs
Past: November 18 → December 30, 2023
The sculptures featured in the exhibition Easter Eggs are totem-like forms, made up of a combination of unexpected objects, both natural and cultural, that the artist has put together with a great sense of freedom. On the walls hang monumental charcoal drawings from the “Brouillard” [Fog] series, inspired by cartoon e…
Drawing, sculpture, mixed media
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Amy Bravo — Well Done Assassin
Past: October 14 → November 11, 2023
With great pugnacity and courage, Amy Bravo’s works poke fun at a global village of supremacists, puffed up with “petro-masculinity” and ready to fight. It’s up to us to perpetuate and extend the spirit of this “dance of the furies.” And we can make a start in our own imaginations…
Collage, drawing, installation
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Gert & Uwe Tobias — An Ocean in Between the Waves
Past: October 14 → November 11, 2023
Born in Transylvania, Romania in 1973, the twin brothers Gert & Uwe Tobias currently live in Cologne, Germany. Over the past twenty years, they have developed a four-handed body of work, whose conceptual and production process is unique from every point of view. This process begins with an initial life-sized drawing, from which shapes and figures are cut out in extremely fine plywood.
Painting
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Laurent Proux — Sunburn
Past: September 2 → October 7, 2023
The exhibition Sunburn highlights two seemingly opposite scenarios: on the one hand naked characters frolic in natural surroundings, while on the other, figures labor in weaving or sewing workshops. Two universes sit side by side, the first a product of fantasy, the other one of realism.
Painting
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Jose Bonell — Scenes from Painterhood
Past: September 2 → October 7, 2023
Jose Bonell is a painter of fragmentary details, whose work is imbued with immense subtlety. His narratives are based around the collective imagination and infused with historical, literary and personal references. Whether dreamlike, sarcastic or simply humorous, his canvases depict scenes in which his characters are involved in a series of outlandish or bizarre acts.
Painting
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Richard Woods — Harvest
Past: June 24 → August 12, 2023
For his exhibition entitled Harvest at Semiose Gallery, the British artist Richard Woods presents a group of stools and coffee tables, whose forms and surface decoration imitate tree stumps. These pieces of furniture, whose vibrant colors permeate the exhibition space, are surrounded by a gigantic mural…
Sculpture
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Sébastien Gouju — Hiss
Past: June 24 → August 12, 2023
In 1908, the Viennese architect Adolf Loos wrote his well-known essay Ornament and Crime, in which he criticized the excessive use of ornamentation in architecture and art, stating that ornament was a sign of cultural and moral decadence. According to Loos, patterns, arabesques, reliefs, gilding, decorative moldings a…
Ceramic, sculpture
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Moffat Takadiwa — Zero Zero
Past: May 6 → June 17, 2023
Moffat Takadiwa is known for his organically structured works, made up of objects salvaged from one of Zimbabwe’s largest landfills, situated on the outskirts of Harare. Appropriating everyday consumer products and breathing new life into them, the artist denounces the prevailing dynamics of economic and political power.
Installation, sculpture, mixed media
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Hippolyte Hentgen — Flirt
Past: May 6 → June 17, 2023
Semiose is delighted to welcome a selection of recent works by the duo Hippolyte Hentgen to be shown in its Project Room. This installation follows on from their solo show at the Artothèque de Caen (Femme Pratique [Practical Woman], July — October, 2022).
Collage, installation, mixed media
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William S. Burroughs — The Ripper Spirals
Past: March 11 → April 29, 2023
h3. Operation Sabotage
The cult that revolves around William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), his reputation as an author who was both a junkie and genius, his invention of the cut-up technique in Paris at the end of the 1950s, alongside Brion Gysin, his influence that endures through the work of generations of artists, m…
Painting, mixed media
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Stefan Rinck — Sleep of Reason
Past: March 11 → April 29, 2023
The three new sculptures on display in the Project Room demonstrate once again the artful way in which the artist conceals scathing criticism behind apparently playful or outlandish imagery.
Sculpture
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The Minotaur’s Daydream
Past: January 7 → March 4, 2023
Semiose is happy to present _The Minotaur’s Daydream_, an exhibition curated by Brooklyn-based artist Anthony Cudahy, which brings together the works of ten American artists.
Drawing, installation, painting...
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Aneta Kajzer — Head in the Clouds
Past: November 19 → December 24, 2022
Aneta Kajzer, whose work is defined by her focus on color, while exploiting the drama of light conditions and playing on its own potential for multiple interpretations. Her painting blends abstract and semi-abstract elements. The “semi” is important here because it does not imply the use of figurative elements and the surfaces and forms of her paintings defy any unambiguous reading.
Painting
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Présence Panchounette — Le soir au fond de la cuisine
Past: November 19 → December 24, 2022
Semiose is pleased to present a selection of works by Présence Panchounette, centered on the subject of light, in the gallery’s Project Room.
Installation, painting, photography...
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Oli Epp — Nine Lives
Past: October 15 → November 12, 2022
For his exhibition Nine Lives, Epp brings together nine works of cats, animals he has depicted in the past.
Painting, sculpture
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Steve Gianakos — How to Murder Your Pet
Past: October 15 → November 12, 2022
Produced in 1978, the 24 drawings that make up the series How to Murder Your Pet are perfect examples of Gianakos’ art. Firstly, the subject matter is deeply linked to the primal emergence of sexuality.
Drawing
Semiose Gallery
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Xie Lei — Chant d’Amour
Past: September 3 → October 8, 2022
The title of his first solo exhibition at Semiose, Chant d’Amour, refers to Jean Genet’s film and emphasizes the literary & cinematographic influences that infuse Xie Lei’s highly sensitive universe. In its paintings, the subject matter intrigues through its exploration of the in-between world betwixt sleep & death or torment & eroticism.
Painting
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Salvatore Arancio — We Have Always Been Here
Past: September 3 → October 8, 2022
During his residency in the Salento region in the heel of Italy, at Cutrofiano (Lecce), a town with a long tradition of ceramic production, Salvatore Arancio spent time with local ceramicists in a personal and technical exchange that led to the creation of five biomorphic sculptures.
As is often the case in Arancio…
Ceramic, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Hugo Capron — Dolphin Derby
Past: June 25 → August 13, 2022
Hugo Capron doesn’t feel the slightest affection for the “subjects” of his paintings: the fireworks, shrimps or lemon trees, nor with the more recent rivers. They are “motifs” not chosen lightly, but rather because of what the vocabulary they permit him to use: his choice is more a question of formal rather than semantic qualities.
Painting
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Moffat Takadiwa — The Bull
Past: June 25 → August 13, 2022
Semiose is delighted to be hosting two recent works by the artist Moffat Takadiwa in its Project Room.
Installation
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Julien Tiberi — Landmarks melodia
Past: May 14 → June 18, 2022
Drawing with a brush-pen, losing himself in a succession of rapid, regular and rhythmic strokes, Julien Tiberi contemplates the black mass, gazing through it in order to “hallucinate the image”. He advances blindly in this process of “slow spinning” always in reaction to the dot he has just placed, “respecting and fol…
Painting
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Hiroshi Sugito — Shifting Atmospheres
Past: March 19 → May 7, 2022
_Shifting Atmospheres_
It’s all a question of atmosphere. Hiroshi Sugito’s painting, whether it’s abstract or semi-figurative—a notion we’ll discuss a little later—conveys a feeling of haziness as soon as the eye attempts to grasp its outlines, content or density. In terms of color, we are struck by the fact t…
Painting
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Hugo Capron — Citronnier
Past: March 19 → May 7, 2022
_First impressions_
Hugo Capron paints in series. Like the nineteenth century Impressionists, Capron’s fascination with ever-changing light conditions’ impact on form, color and composition has inspired him to treat the same subjects over and over—a repetitive exercise that reveals dramatic and subtle variation…
Painting
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Stefan Rinck — The Trembling of the Veil
Past: January 15 → March 12, 2022
It is easy to imagine Stefan Rinck’s sculptures in some far off, distant future. Decades or centuries from now, I envision Rinck’s strange stone creatures in an overgrown forest clearing as the earth reclaims the built environment once we are gone. Moss covered and rain-worn, they will continue to stand enduringly as …
Sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Keith Boadwee — The Shape of Water
Past: January 15 → March 12, 2022
Has Keith Boadwee mellowed out? There’s no doubt about it. In his recent works shown at Semiose gallery there are no longer any close-ups of his paint- spattered anus or of his scrotum in the guise of a doll’s wig, no abstract paintings made by squirting paint from his colon and no more performances involving body pai…
Painting
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Présence Panchounette
Past: November 20, 2021 → January 1, 2022
Even by today’s standards, Présence Panchounette undoubtedly remains the most elusive yet explosive collective of French artists of the second half of the 20th century, their activity covering the period between 1968—a year marked by all manner of subversion—and 1990, when Nelson Mandela was finally liberated in South Africa.
Installation, painting, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Steve Gianakos — Rare Species
Past: October 9 → November 13, 2021
Since the 1970s, Steve Gianakos, a New York artist of Greek origin, has been producing paintings and drawings firmly rooted in a punk rock version of pop art.
Drawing
Semiose Gallery
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Thomas Mailaender — Two Girls, One Cup
Past: October 9 → November 13, 2021
Known for his use of a wide range of mediums including ceramic, cyanotype, photography and collage, Thomas Mailaender (b. Marseille, 1979, lives and works in Paris) often incorporates found imagery and objects into his works, updating obsolete photo processes as a kind of Jack of all trades, and archaeologist of present times.
Design
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FIAC 2021 — 47e édition
Past: October 21 → 24, 2021
La Foire internationale d’art contemporain signe son retour avec une édition 2021 qui occupera les murs du Grand Palais Ephémère, structure d’accueil des événements habituellement tenus dans l’enceinte de la nef du Grand Palais durant ses travaux.
Mixed media
Multiple venues
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Amélie Bertrand, Super-Cannes
Past: September 4 → October 2, 2021
The idea of “California” exists, apart from the actual place, as a commercially constructed vision collectively held across the world. The Los Angeles-inflected mythology of a temperate, permanently sunny climate of palm trees and beaches suggests an aspirational lifestyle that is used to peddle all kinds of goods…
Painting, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Aneta Kajzer — Heavy Water
Past: September 4 → October 2, 2021
Aneta Kajzer’s paintings teeter between abstraction and figuration. Working with wide brushes and thinned oil paints, the artist uses bold sweeping strokes to mix and mingle jewel-toned hues directly on the canvas. At a certain (if unpredictable) point during her spontaneous mark-making, a subject reveals itself.
Painting
Semiose Gallery
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József Csató, Kiss of the leopard
Past: June 5 → July 31, 2021
The Hungarian painter Jósef Csató breaks from the traditions of narrative painting and the contemporary trends in figurative art through his appropriation of a very particular mode of representation.
Painting
Semiose Gallery
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Strangers in the House
Past: July 10 → 31, 2021
Once mankind has disappeared from the planet, hardy nature and resilient animal life will quickly reclaim the Earth, and in this joyful muddle, new species will undoubtedly emerge from the reheated primordial soup. Ahead of the pack, some of the gallery’s artists have anticipated these newly concocted forms of life, and unleash their oddball creatures for a collective exhibition at Semiose.
Drawing, painting, sculpture
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Anthony Cudahy — The Moon Sets A Knife
Past: May 22 → July 4, 2021
Anthony Cudahy’s exhibition at Semiose Gallery brings together twenty or so paintings and a dozen drawings under the enigmatic title “A Moon Sets A Knife,” borrowed from Federico Garcia Lorca’s, Bodas de Sangre.
Painting
Semiose Gallery
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Hein Koh — Not So Healthy
Past: May 22 → July 3, 2021
Broccoli is good for you… but what’s good for broccoli? Hein Koh’s latest suite of drawings and paintings anthropomorphize the leafy green vegetable, creating an avatar through which the artist can navigate contemporary anxieties.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Moffat Takadiwa — VaForomani ndimi mawondonga purazi / Mr. Foreman, you have destroyed the land
Past: March 13 → May 15, 2021
For his first Parisian solo show, Moffat Takadiwa (b. 1983 in Karoi, Zimbabwe) is presenting a number of hitherto unseen sculptural pieces at Semiose gallery. One of the most acclaimed artists on the emerging African art scene, he has enjoyed exhibitions in both galleries and institutions from London to Singapore via Johannesburg.
Installation
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Laurent Proux — Soft Grass
Past: March 13 → May 15, 2021
Improbable colors, indescribable lighting, a few impenetrable shadows, physically impossible bodies and remorseless deformations… In short, a perfectly unspeakable scene!
Painting
Semiose Gallery
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Laurent Le Deunff — The Mystery of Sculpting Cats
Past: January 16 → February 20, 2021
The two lions that guard the New York Public Library are named Patience and Fortitude. Many a castle and treasure vault, tomb and museum has a fierce feline or two protecting its gates. Cats, big and small, have long existed as protectors for those things we humans value.
Drawing, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Guillaume Pilet — Future Back Then
Past: January 16 → February 20, 2021
Semiose Gallery is delighted to present the Swiss artist Guillaume Pilet (born in 1984) in its Project Room.
Ceramic, painting
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Abraham Poincheval — Walk on Clouds
Past: November 7 → December 24, 2020
While Abraham Poincheval’s work certainly resembles the existence of a claustrophile hermit, it is also that of an insatiable explorer. Possibly echoing “Mount Analogue”, the unfinished novel written by René Daumal, the artist appears to be at once searching for a world, a tree that has risen from the earth and reached the sky, and a sacred mountain.
Video
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Guillaume Dégé — Retrospective
Past: November 7 → December 24, 2020
Semiose is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the artist Guillaume Dégé in the Project Room of the gallery on the occasion of the publication of his monograph _A Mustard Seed_ published by Semiose editions this fall.
“Guillaume Dégé’s drawn work seems to have neither beginning nor end; so much so that the ima…
Video
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Françoise Pétrovitch — Forget Me Not
Past: September 12 → October 24, 2020
Françoise Pétrovitch once told me she liked her works best during the process of their creation, going against the principle that a soup should be left to cool a little before being consumed. Immediately executed to be immediately relished.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Project Room, Oli Epp
Past: September 12 → October 24, 2020
Semiose is delighted to exhibit works by Oli Epp for the second time. Specially conceived to adorn the three walls of the Project Room, this series entitled “Black Swan” is inspired by personal and contemporary preoccupations, bringing together touching anecdotes and current theories through the medium of painting.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Szabolcs Bozó — Big Bang
Past: June 19 → August 1, 2020
What is art for, what can it do, what’s the point of it all? These are the sort of idle questions that get batted around in normal times, but from the vantage point where I write these words — in New York City, a little over a week into the self-isolation required by the raging COVID-19 pandemic — they take on a renewed.
Painting
Semiose Gallery
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Project Room, Stefan Rinck
Past: June 19 → August 1, 2020
Poursuivant l’idée d’un lieu expérimental ouvert à des projets ponctuels, le Project Space de la rue Chapon se transforme en une Project Room à la nouvelle adresse rue Quincampoix.
Painting
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Julien Tiberi, Symphonic Lava
Past: January 25 → March 7, 2020
Semiose is delighted to present Julien Tiberi’s fourth solo exhibition at its gallery on rue Chapon. Centered around drawings from his _Symphonic Lava_ series, recently published as the artist’s first book, the exhibition also includes several large paintings on canvas and a bronze representing a small black tapir posed on a rock.
Drawing
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Guillaume Dégé — Un grain de moutarde
Past: December 7, 2019 → January 11, 2020
Guillaume Dégé’s drawn work seems to have neither beginning nor end; so much so that the imagination he deploys in its creation appears boundless. In his own corner, the artist playfully dabbles with beings, things and situations, a mischievous smile on his face.
Drawing
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Like a Sort of Pompeii in Reverse
Past: October 12 → November 23, 2019
You can deduce many aspects of the artist Salvatore Arancio’s work from the sentence “Like a Sort of Pompeii in Reverse”—borrowed from Guy Debord for his exhibition at Casa Jorn in Albissola.
Ceramic
Semiose Gallery
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To eat or be eaten — Stefan Rinck
Past: September 7 → October 5, 2019
I approve all the more of Master Stefan Rinck who bravely counters the anonymous and collective forces of cultural-religious certainty with his powerless critique and mordant wit. Instead of harnessing age-old cultural and religious modes of expression to his own greater glory, he returns to an anthropological level.
Sculpture
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Sébastien Gouju — Oasis
Past: June 22 → July 27, 2019
The Semiose Gallery present a exhibition by Sébastien Gouju, which was produced as part of the Artist Residency program of the Hermès Corporate Foundation. The artist produced among the leather craftsmen of the Glove maker, one of his most ambitious works : sculptures in black lamb leather, reproducing various large plants.
Sculpture
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Les nains aussi ont commencé petits — Présence Panchounette
Past: May 18 → June 15, 2019
An exhibition of their “illuminated oeuvres”—installations that include an electric lighting system in their construction accompanied by a number of paintings and graphic works. But above all a state of mind, the rejection of modern good taste, a serious dose of humor and self-derision, a place of honor for the banal and a smile.
Installation, painting, sculpture
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Drawing Dialogue
Past: April 13 → May 11, 2019
When Philip Taaffe visited William S. Burroughs in February 1987, the latter was 73 years old, yet had lost none of his taste for elegant clothing, whereas Taaffe was a promising young painter in the prime of life at 31. During their encounter, the two artists worked together on a series of collaborative drawings as well as various ‘shotgun paintings’.
Drawing
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Peinture Hard
Past: February 16 → March 30, 2019
Canvases, frames and brushes have left the building, while the old refrains of minimalism and geometric abstraction have also been relegated. These three artists cultivate the same mistrust of painting and prefer to take the more oblique routes through the fields of color and shape.
Painting, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Sunday in Kyoto — Hippolyte Hentgen
Past: January 12 → February 9, 2019
What is truly striking when we examine Hippolyte Hentgen oeuvres is their ambition: that of creating a singular visual utopia based on a desire to share lovingly collected images. Their graphic resources are drawn from what is known as popular culture and are imbued with performative virtues that Hippolyte Hentgen exploit with brio.
Collage, drawing, painting...
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Steve Gianakos, documentation celine duval, Hippolyte Hentgen, Dorothy Iannone, Françoise Pétrovitch, Nancy Spero — Steve & the girls
Past: October 13 → December 22, 2018
You can accuse Steve Gianakos of cruelty in his treatment of women: he pleads guilty. Yet women artists in this exhibition lap up his decapitated muses dipped in soup and his other domestic pin-ups, presented as a variety of spare parts.
Drawing, print, installation...
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Amélie Bertrand — Naked light
Past: September 8 → October 6, 2018
Amélie Bertrand is an iconoclastic set dresser. Her painting, while perfectly executed, discredits reality, becoming more and more radical as the years go by. The disparity between a careful and seemingly “easy” methodology and the assembly of discordant elements leaves an impression of sour unease.
Painting
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Roman Cieslewicz — Visualiste
Past: June 16 → July 28, 2018
Alongside the major exhibition devoted to Roman Cieslewicz at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs from 3 May to 23 September 2018, Semiose Gallery has the immense honor of presenting a collection of his works with the precious and friendly assistance of Chantal Petit-Cieslewicz
There’s something of Roman Cieslewicz in a…
Collage, graphic design, lithography / engraving
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Oli Epp — Epiphanies
Past: May 3 → June 9, 2018
In most of Oli Epp’s contemporary portraits, the bodies, obeying the laws of evolution, have been reduced to frail membranes wandering through the margins of the compositions, in which identical hypertrophied heads, deprived of mouths, eyes and ears, seem to have swallowed them whole.
Painting
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Beat Zoderer — Dans quelle mesure
Past: February 24 → April 28, 2018
Semiose gallery present the Swiss artist Beat Zoderer’s first Parisian exhibition. Through a perfect balance between formal radicalism and extravagance, geometry and organic forms, perfection and the unpredictable, monochrome and multicolored, Beat Zoderer manages with great ease to bring together diametrically opposing formal categories.
Drawing, installation, painting...
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Rock Garden — Salvatore Arancio, Piero Gilardi & Abraham Poincheval
Past: January 6 → February 17, 2018
Farewell to “categories”: here domains and kingdoms intermingle and converge giving rise to hybrid forms at once disturbing yet attractive, at the crossroads of the natural and the artificial, of what is human and what is not, on the frontiers of science and esotericism.
Ceramic, drawing, installation...
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Taroop & Glabel — Le couinement de l’âme
Past: November 4 → December 23, 2017
« Pour Taroop & Glabel, le rire est une arme imparable contre la bêtise et les préjugés, les certitudes absurdes, les bassesses bonasses, les simagrées médiatiques, l’épicerie finaude aux dimensions planétaires. Bref : les abrutissements plus ou moins volontaires de l’homme contemporain (religion, politique, loisirs) » — Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Drawing, installation, sculpture
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Françoise Pétrovitch
Past: September 9 → October 28, 2017
Thus, our eyes have been wandering a while along the paths cut by Françoise Pétrovitch over time—the childhood landscapes bordering her work, the impressions overflowing it, the sensations brushing the sheets of paper, the emotions drowning in ink, the sentiments halting in the suspense of a stroke.
Drawing, painting, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Un Dimanche à la Galerie #3 — Ouverture exceptionnelle de 100 galeries d’art
Past: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Proposant un large panorama de la création, de l’art ancien jusqu’à l’art contemporain, le grand public est invité à appréhender une centaine d’expositions libre d’accès reflétant les nombreux courants artistiques et esthétiques issus de la scène artistique française et internationale représentés par les galeries parisiennes.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
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Laurent Proux — Line-off ceremony
Past: June 10 → July 22, 2017
The eye struggles with contradictions; amongst which are the projected shadows that lend depth to the graphic features, while distorting the spectator’s vision of the whole. The painting groans under the lumpy materials, unnatural greens dizzying the eye, the pockmarked surfaces compete with fleshy color gradients.
Painting
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Stefan Rinck — Metaphysical Casino
Past: April 13 → June 3, 2017
Stefan Rinck’s stone figures form a motley and comical community of, for the most part, animals, chimeras and monsters. Dogs, foxes and wolves, rats and mice are to be found rubbing shoulders with one another. But these animals are not merely animals, they wear costumes and masks; are endowed with particular symbols or characteristics.
Sculpture
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Présence Panchounette — Chic, choc, super, sensass !
Past: September 3 → October 8, 2016
The Présence Panchounette group, originating from the Bordeaux area of France and active between 1969 and 1990, was a multi-faceted and flexible collective. Their manifesto, published in 1969 under the name of Internationale Panchounette, announced an imperious desire to tear down everything, but with style and grandiloquence.
Painting
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William S. Burroughs
Past: June 4 → July 23, 2016
True to his non-conformist thinking, Burroughs painted outside any tradition or established set of rules, corrupting the usual means commonly seen in painting. Self-taught and completely without inhibition, he applied paint employing plungers or mushrooms as brushes and using unusual supports such as cardboard folders or doors.
Painting
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Sébastien Gouju — Still a life
Past: April 9 → May 28, 2016
“The artist invites us to imagine hybrids that don’t as yet exist and for the benefit of archaeologists from the future, he creates slightly transformed emblems of our present day society.” — Guitemie Maldonado
Painting, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Christian Babou
Past: February 27 → April 2, 2016
Babou used a numbering system for placing the different tones, this great lover of painting created his own architecture based on an analytic and conceptual pillar on the one hand and on a second founded entirely on feeling and emotion, driving him to paint in numerous layers in order to achieve the desired effect.
Painting
Semiose Gallery
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3 days in paris
Past: November 28 → 30, 2014
The 3 days in Paris event was created by galleries from the Marais. They are inviting you to discover the universe of those artists that they support all year round. Whether you observe, debate, or discuss over a coffee, 3 days in Paris is a rare opportunity to meet with artists and gallery owners.
Drawing
Multiple venues
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3 days in paris — Les Filles du Calvaire
Past: November 28 → 30, 2014
For its first involvement in ‘3 days in Paris’, the Filles du Calvaire gallery presents two monographic exhibitions on Mike Brodie and Matt Wilson.
Event
Drawing
Multiple venues
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3 days in paris — Galerie Maria Lund
Past: November 28 → 30, 2014
To celebrate 3 days in Paris, the Galerie Maria Lund has invited five artists to give their vision of the notion of interiority through a series of sculptures.
Interiority would be what we cannot see; what belongs to our interior, a subjective infinite that escapes observation. The five artists have tried to give a form to this reality.
Drawing
Multiple venues
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Sébastien Gouju — Domestique
Past: January 11 → February 8, 2014
Sébastien Gouju jongle avec les mots, les techniques et les contextes. Sa nouvelle exposition est une réflexion sur le jeu basée sur deux rapports : celui entre l’homme et la nature, celui entre l’art et l’artisanat. Qui est domestiqué ? Qui est apprivoisé, par qui et par quoi ?
Ceramic, drawing, sculpture
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Guillaume Dégé — Ron Nagle (guest)
Past: November 29 → December 28, 2013
Des vieux livres aux vieux papiers, il n’y a pas même un pas. L’artiste cherche, collectionne, rassemble, découpe et remet en circulation. Une sorte de digestion perspicace qui le mène à travers les livres de médecines, de religion et autres souvenirs de famille. Il y a ajouté des formes, des pierres ou des végétaux venus du fond des temps ou d’un futur sans nature.
Ceramic, drawing, painting...
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Laurent Le Deunff — Solo show
Past: October 24 → November 23, 2013
These works articulate all the paradoxical lines of thought dear to the artist: the improper and the amusing, the sculptural and the narrative, a surface and its covering, sedimentation — of sources, materials and time — and intuition, both artificial and natural.
Sculpture
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Anne Brégeaut — La menace de l’ananas
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
Peintures ou sculptures ? Au delà d’un simple débat des anciens contre les modernes, la question nous amène à réfléchir à la notion de dimension dans les œuvres malicieuses — une malice sans méchanceté — d’Anne Brégeaut. L’artiste nous invite à plonger dans d’excentriques paysages mentaux.
Collage, drawing, painting...
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Laurent Proux — One piece at a time
Past: May 18 → June 15, 2013
One Piece at a Time est une chanson de Johnny Cash : un ouvrier d’une chaîne de montage vole une pièce de voiture chaque jour dans l’espoir sans doute vain d’avoir enfin sa voiture. Laurent Proux peint aujourd’hui ainsi, morceau par morceau, en espérant à juste titre, non pas que tous ces morceaux finiront par faire image, mais que la peinture en sortira gagnante.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Francoise Petrovitch
Past: March 28 → May 11, 2013
Having been put to one side in favour of drawing and ceramics, painting once more proved irresistible to Françoise Pétrovitch, giving a new dynamic to his reflections. The artist has today returned to the stability of oil on canvas, a technical choice primarily linked to the pleasure of handling material, colour and form.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Rock around the bunker (again)
Past: January 12 → February 16, 2013
Aux Beaux-arts, elle séchait les cours de dessin, préférant s’appliquer à détourer des sculptures de mini-golf sur photoshop, sa plus mauvaise note en perspective punaisée au mur de son atelier. Son « Grand Tour », Amélie Bertrand l’a fait le long des stations balnéaires ringardes, du Lunapark rouillé à l’Aqualand moisi.
Painting
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Pavillon de chasse
Past: November 24 → December 29, 2012
During the night at Colinière, the pilot, the marquise and their guests act like children, to escape the thought that the world is on the verge of ruin. On the eve of the apocalypse, they meet for a hunt, a perfect alibi for amorous to-ings and fro-ings amongst the elite.
Collage, drawing, installation...
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Je est un autre
Past: October 13 → November 17, 2012
On connaît la version Rimbaud, « Je est un autre », ou celle de Flaubert, « Madame Bovary, c’est moi ». Cependant je parierais volontiers que les artistes ici réunis préfèreraient la plus récente, que les étudiants placardèrent en plein mai 1968, en soutien à Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interdit de revenir en France : « Nous sommes tous des juifs allemands ».
Installation, painting, photography...
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Hippolyte Hentgen — Chambre rose, chambre grise
Past: September 8 → October 6, 2012
Si la formule deux salles/deux ambiances est à ce jour le meilleur compromis qu’ait trouvé la fête, il ne faudra pas s’attendre à un tel ménagement dans la galerie Sémiose, qui s’est offert pour la rentrée un relooking bi-goût afin d’accueillir le plus douillettement les humeurs contrastées mais bien assorties d’Hippolyte Hentgen.
Drawing, painting
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Une Guêpe dans le K-Way
Past: June 23 → July 22, 2012
Permutations anodines, déviances imperceptibles, contre-emploi sans conséquence, sans emphase et toujours avec des moyens simples, les gestes des artistes qui figurent au générique d’Une Guêpe dans le K-way, pourraient renverser puissamment le cours des choses en accordant plus de légitimité aux rêves qu’à la réalité, aux contes qu’à l’histoire.
Collage, drawing, performance...
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Taroop & Glabel — Ravissements (suite)
Past: May 12 → June 16, 2012
Depuis le début des années 1990, le collectif Taroop & Glabel déboulonne le business des croyances fleuri sur la tombe des utopies. Comportementaliste de la soumission volontaire, anthropologue spécialiste de la lobotomie bénévole, il collecte les épiphanies de la bêtise qu’il combat à armes égales.
Collage, drawing, sculpture
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André Raffray — Les Brigades du Tigre — Gouaches originales de la série télévisée
Past: March 31 → May 5, 2012
Semiose présente un ensemble exceptionnel et inédit en galerie, des gouaches originales des Brigades du Tigre. Simultanément présentées à la galerie et sur la foire d’Art Paris, une cinquantaine d’œuvres qui nous replongent dans l’univers du début de ce siècle.
Drawing, new media
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Sur un pied
Past: February 18 → March 24, 2012
Chiche de penser une exposition à partir d’un motif ? Pourquoi ne pas se prêter au jeu, prendre son élan et sauter à cloche pied à travers la chronologie, les concepts et les mediums, puis, converti à cette gymnastique enfantine, se raconter de nouvelles histoires ? Mais à jouer les funambules, on n’est pas à l’abri de questionnements existentiels.
Drawing, installation, painting...
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Julien Tiberi
Past: January 7 → February 11, 2012
Julien Tiberi continue d’essaimer avec son œuvre les différentes références qui nourrissent sa pratique, convoquant aussi bien Oskar Fischinger, Viking Eggeling et le cinéma expérimental, la frontière mexicaine et le dessin documentaire que les caricaturistes du XVIIIe siècle.
Drawing, painting
Semiose Gallery
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Guillaume Dégé
Past: November 26 → December 31, 2011
L’image est lente à venir, et pourtant c’est son caractère d‘évidence qui la fixe, lui donne de la vivacité. Sans cesse combiner ce qui peut se frotter, se tendre, aménager un équilibre boiteux. Le jeu imprévisible des poids et des vides, bien plus que celui des contrastes et des lumières traditionnel, s’établit au petit bonheur.
Drawing
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Présence Panchounette — (1969-1990)
Past: October 15 → November 19, 2011
Semiose gallery presents around thirty major and iconic artworks of Presence Panchounette since its creation in 1969 until its dissolution in 1990. The ambition of this display is to make readable intellectual and formal relevance of this prolix Artwork.
Painting, sculpture
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Laurent Le Deunff
Past: September 10 → October 8, 2011
For his fist solo exhibition at the Semiose gallery, the idea is not to recreate a piece of nature within the gallery, but rather to confront the spectator with a diversity of works, whose formal characteristics are both surprising and intriguing (the tunnels of a mole, a giant conch shell, a sculpted animal tooth…).
Drawing, installation, sculpture
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L’avenir du paysage
Past: June 25 → July 30, 2011
La galerie présente une exposition collective avec Amélie Bertrand, Guillaume Dégé, Piero Gilardi, Jacques Julien, Laurent Le Deunff, Robert Morris, André Raffray, Taroop & Glabel et Julien Tiberi.
Drawing, painting, sculpture
Semiose Gallery
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Sébastien Gouju
Past: June 4 → July 17, 2010
Sébastien Gouju fait une œuvre de déplacements. Incessamment, il place et déplace, manipule les images et objets communs qui nous entourent et qui, bien souvent, nous sont devenus indignes d’attention. Parce que nous avons grandi, oui, et que notre position nous impose de toiser le monde…
Drawing, installation, sculpture...
Semiose Gallery
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