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Jules de Balincourt — There are more eyes than leaves on the trees
Past: July 2 → September 5, 2020
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Jules de Balincourt. This latest series of abstract landscapes, initiated over a year ago and finalised during the first half of 2020, express a desire for both physical and emotional escape.
Jules de Balincourt — There are more eyes than leaves on the trees
Past: July 2 → September 5, 2020
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Jules de Balincourt. This latest series of abstract landscapes, initiated over a year ago and finalised during the first half of 2020, express a desire for both physical and emotional escape.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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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.
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.
Event
Film, installation, painting...
Multiple venues
Archives
Arnulf Rainer — Early Work
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2019
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of early works by Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929) in France. The Austrian artist is regarded as a pioneer of Art Informel, a movement which brought an intuitive form of lyrical expression in the field of abstraction.
Arnulf Rainer — Early Work
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2019
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of early works by Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929) in France. The Austrian artist is regarded as a pioneer of Art Informel, a movement which brought an intuitive form of lyrical expression in the field of abstraction.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
Archives
Paris Gallery Weekend — Édition 2019
Past: May 17 → 19, 2019
Over the course of its 5 previous editions, Paris Gallery Weekend marked itself as the Springtime “rendez-vous” for Paris and its art scene. The 6th edition of Paris Gallery Weekend will take place from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2019 and 48 galleries have already confirmed their participation so far (see list below).
Paris Gallery Weekend — Édition 2019
Past: May 17 → 19, 2019
Over the course of its 5 previous editions, Paris Gallery Weekend marked itself as the Springtime “rendez-vous” for Paris and its art scene. The 6th edition of Paris Gallery Weekend will take place from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2019 and 48 galleries have already confirmed their participation so far (see list below).
Event
Architecture, ceramic, collage...
Multiple venues
Archives
Sylvie Fleury — Palettes of Shadows
Past: November 27, 2018 → January 5, 2019
Sylvie Fleury’s new paintings fully embrace their hybrid status, between customised objects and serious art. Beautifully streamlined, their sleek, yet sensuous and at times glittery surfaces eventually engage with strategies of seduction, while leaving open the question: for what reason do we find an object attractive?
Sylvie Fleury — Palettes of Shadows
Past: November 27, 2018 → January 5, 2019
Sylvie Fleury’s new paintings fully embrace their hybrid status, between customised objects and serious art. Beautifully streamlined, their sleek, yet sensuous and at times glittery surfaces eventually engage with strategies of seduction, while leaving open the question: for what reason do we find an object attractive?
Painting, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Stephan Balkenhol — Fabula
Past: September 8 → October 13, 2018
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to present an exhibition of new works by German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol. For this exhibition, Balkenhol has drawn his inspiration from the approach of French author Jean de La Fontaine in his famous Fables.
Stephan Balkenhol — Fabula
Past: September 8 → October 13, 2018
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to present an exhibition of new works by German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol. For this exhibition, Balkenhol has drawn his inspiration from the approach of French author Jean de La Fontaine in his famous Fables.
Installation, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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VALIE EXPORT, Body Configurations
Past: January 12 → February 24, 2018
“VALIE EXPORT has always refused conventions. Rejecting the role of housewife, she turns to art with a sense of urgency. Her first and seminal gesture is when she dubs herself VALIE EXPORT—in all capital letters—to match the strength of an other self who may bear a masculine name. Defining your name instead of enduring your father’s.
VALIE EXPORT, Body Configurations
Past: January 12 → February 24, 2018
“VALIE EXPORT has always refused conventions. Rejecting the role of housewife, she turns to art with a sense of urgency. Her first and seminal gesture is when she dubs herself VALIE EXPORT—in all capital letters—to match the strength of an other self who may bear a masculine name. Defining your name instead of enduring your father’s.
Mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Joseph Beuys — Backrest
Past: September 8 → December 23, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Backrest, an exhibition of works on paper and sculpture by Joseph Beuys focusing on the role of the figure.
Joseph Beuys — Backrest
Past: September 8 → December 23, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Backrest, an exhibition of works on paper and sculpture by Joseph Beuys focusing on the role of the figure.
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Wolfgang Laib — The Beginning of Something Else
Past: September 8 → October 14, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present The Beginning of Something Else, an exhibition of new works by Wolfgang Laib. Six Brahmanda will be displayed in the centre of the main space. Carved out of black Indian granite, these egg-shaped sculptures reference the very first work of art Laib created.
Wolfgang Laib — The Beginning of Something Else
Past: September 8 → October 14, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present The Beginning of Something Else, an exhibition of new works by Wolfgang Laib. Six Brahmanda will be displayed in the centre of the main space. Carved out of black Indian granite, these egg-shaped sculptures reference the very first work of art Laib created.
Drawing, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Daniel Richter — Le Freak
Past: June 22 → July 29, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents Daniel Richter’s new group of works which constitutes a radical departure from the artist’s style of the last decade.
Daniel Richter — Le Freak
Past: June 22 → July 29, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais presents Daniel Richter’s new group of works which constitutes a radical departure from the artist’s style of the last decade.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
Archives
Sturtevant — Undeniable Allusion
Past: April 22 → June 17, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents “Undeniable Allusion”, an exhibition of rare photographs and objects by Sturtevant. Our close collaboration with the estate of the artist has enabled us to gather an exceptional body of work, which will be exhibited for the first time in Paris.
Sturtevant — Undeniable Allusion
Past: April 22 → June 17, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents “Undeniable Allusion”, an exhibition of rare photographs and objects by Sturtevant. Our close collaboration with the estate of the artist has enabled us to gather an exceptional body of work, which will be exhibited for the first time in Paris.
Photography, screen-printing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Robert Mapplethorpe — Objects
Past: March 11 → April 29, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the exhibition Objects, with unique early pieces by Robert Mapplethorpe shown for the first time in Paris.
Dating from the late sixties until the mid-eighties, these rarely exhibited works demonstrate Mapplethorpe’s range of techniques and his commitment to a personal vision throughout his life.
Robert Mapplethorpe — Objects
Past: March 11 → April 29, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the exhibition Objects, with unique early pieces by Robert Mapplethorpe shown for the first time in Paris.
Dating from the late sixties until the mid-eighties, these rarely exhibited works demonstrate Mapplethorpe’s range of techniques and his commitment to a personal vision throughout his life.
Photography, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Richard Deacon — Thirty pieces
Past: March 11 → April 15, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Thirty Pieces, a solo exhibition by British sculptor Richard Deacon. As the title suggests, 30 works will be on display, 20 new sculptures in various materials and 10 works on paper.
Richard Deacon — Thirty pieces
Past: March 11 → April 15, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Thirty Pieces, a solo exhibition by British sculptor Richard Deacon. As the title suggests, 30 works will be on display, 20 new sculptures in various materials and 10 works on paper.
Ceramic, graphic design, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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David Salle — New paintings
Past: January 21 → February 25, 2017
Immediately eye-catching, David Salle new works combine a vibrant palette with a dense and dynamic composition. Salle juxtaposes shapes and heterogeneous images that link the photographic to the painterly, while creating disruptions between black and white areas and bold colour tones.
David Salle — New paintings
Past: January 21 → February 25, 2017
Immediately eye-catching, David Salle new works combine a vibrant palette with a dense and dynamic composition. Salle juxtaposes shapes and heterogeneous images that link the photographic to the painterly, while creating disruptions between black and white areas and bold colour tones.
Drawing, painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Robert Rauschenberg — Salvage
Past: October 20, 2016 → January 14, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the first solo exhibition of American artist Robert Rauschenberg at their Marais gallery. The gallery has represented the artist’s estate since April 2015.
Robert Rauschenberg — Salvage
Past: October 20, 2016 → January 14, 2017
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the first solo exhibition of American artist Robert Rauschenberg at their Marais gallery. The gallery has represented the artist’s estate since April 2015.
Painting, screen-printing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Marcel Duchamp — Porte-bouteilles
Past: October 20, 2016 → January 14, 2017
The iconic Porte-bouteilles was considered by Duchamp to be his first readymade. For Duchamp, the readymade meant the transition from what he called “retinal art” to an intellectual approach of his practice. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces a forthcoming exhibition featuring the most important sculpture by Marcel Duchamp .
Marcel Duchamp — Porte-bouteilles
Past: October 20, 2016 → January 14, 2017
The iconic Porte-bouteilles was considered by Duchamp to be his first readymade. For Duchamp, the readymade meant the transition from what he called “retinal art” to an intellectual approach of his practice. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces a forthcoming exhibition featuring the most important sculpture by Marcel Duchamp .
Drawing, publishing, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Alex Katz — New Landscapes
Past: July 5 → October 8, 2016
The landscapes exhibited in the Marais gallery represent the fragile branch of a tree, the clearing on the edge of a forest, a house surrounded by nature. Regardless of the subject, Alex Katz paints with an economy of lines, simplifying form to convey an idea of painting based on the Essential.
Alex Katz — New Landscapes
Past: July 5 → October 8, 2016
The landscapes exhibited in the Marais gallery represent the fragile branch of a tree, the clearing on the edge of a forest, a house surrounded by nature. Regardless of the subject, Alex Katz paints with an economy of lines, simplifying form to convey an idea of painting based on the Essential.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
Alex Katz — New Landscapes
Past: Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 6 PM
Alex Katz s’entretiendra avec la critique d’art Marie Maertens, la conversation aura lieu en anglais.
Meeting
Archives
Imi Knoebel — Liaison astéroïde
Past: May 27 → July 2, 2016
The exhibition “Liaison astéroïde” by Minimalist German artist Imi Knoebel is his first exhibition in France since the completion of six monumental stained glass works, commissioned in 2011 in honor of the 800th anniversary of the Notre-Dame of Reims cathedral. Inducted permanently, they represent the artist’s first use of this medium.
Imi Knoebel — Liaison astéroïde
Past: May 27 → July 2, 2016
The exhibition “Liaison astéroïde” by Minimalist German artist Imi Knoebel is his first exhibition in France since the completion of six monumental stained glass works, commissioned in 2011 in honor of the 800th anniversary of the Notre-Dame of Reims cathedral. Inducted permanently, they represent the artist’s first use of this medium.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Choices Paris — Collectors weekend
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
Throughout 2 days, CHOICES presents a program encompassing almost 40 Parisian galleries and a collective exhibition which is this year being held at the Palais de Tokyo. In the program: openings, performances, meetings with the artists, gallery staff and curators.
Choices Paris — Collectors weekend
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
Throughout 2 days, CHOICES presents a program encompassing almost 40 Parisian galleries and a collective exhibition which is this year being held at the Palais de Tokyo. In the program: openings, performances, meetings with the artists, gallery staff and curators.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Choices Paris — NextLevel Galerie
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
San Francisco-based artist John Chiara (born in 1971) pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium through his choice of process and the mastery of its possibilities. His approach is distinguished by its incredible physicality and recalls the early days of the medium when artists dealt with heavy, awkward equipment and endured long exposure and development times. Chiara’s giant cameras, which he designed and built himself, are transported to locations on a flatbed trailer to produce one-of-a-kind large-scale prints. The design of the cameras, which is much like daguerreotype box cameras, allows the artist to simultaneously shoot and perform his darkroom work while images are recorded directly onto oversized photosensitive paper (not film). This process, which Chiara first discovered as a student in 1999, invites anomalies in his final prints and adds to the mystery and lyricism of his pictures.
Choices Paris — NextLevel Galerie
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
San Francisco-based artist John Chiara (born in 1971) pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium through his choice of process and the mastery of its possibilities. His approach is distinguished by its incredible physicality and recalls the early days of the medium when artists dealt with heavy, awkward equipment and endured long exposure and development times. Chiara’s giant cameras, which he designed and built himself, are transported to locations on a flatbed trailer to produce one-of-a-kind large-scale prints. The design of the cameras, which is much like daguerreotype box cameras, allows the artist to simultaneously shoot and perform his darkroom work while images are recorded directly onto oversized photosensitive paper (not film). This process, which Chiara first discovered as a student in 1999, invites anomalies in his final prints and adds to the mystery and lyricism of his pictures.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Robert Longo — Luminous Discontent
Past: April 16 → May 21, 2016
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to present Luminous Discontent, an exhibition of new work by American artist Robert Longo, of his large-scale charcoal drawings and sculpture spanning the three floors of the Paris Marais gallery.
Robert Longo — Luminous Discontent
Past: April 16 → May 21, 2016
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to present Luminous Discontent, an exhibition of new work by American artist Robert Longo, of his large-scale charcoal drawings and sculpture spanning the three floors of the Paris Marais gallery.
Drawing, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Markus Schinwald
Past: March 12 → April 9, 2016
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Austrian artist Markus Schinwald’s first solo exhibition at its Paris Marais gallery.
Through his protean work, Schinwald explores a range of media such as video, drawing, sculpture or installation to shape a world that enables a dialogue between theatre, sociology, philosophy, psychology and even fetishism.
Markus Schinwald
Past: March 12 → April 9, 2016
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Austrian artist Markus Schinwald’s first solo exhibition at its Paris Marais gallery.
Through his protean work, Schinwald explores a range of media such as video, drawing, sculpture or installation to shape a world that enables a dialogue between theatre, sociology, philosophy, psychology and even fetishism.
Drawing, installation, painting...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Erwin Wurm — Lost
Past: January 14 → March 5, 2016
Erwin Wurm’s works which are displayed in “Lost” are primarily developed in correlation to the form of everyday objects and the recollection of the haptic perception of their surfaces and materials. The inside and the outside, the shell as a pars pro toto is a recurrent theme in Erwin Wurm’s artworks.
Erwin Wurm — Lost
Past: January 14 → March 5, 2016
Erwin Wurm’s works which are displayed in “Lost” are primarily developed in correlation to the form of everyday objects and the recollection of the haptic perception of their surfaces and materials. The inside and the outside, the shell as a pars pro toto is a recurrent theme in Erwin Wurm’s artworks.
Installation, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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XYZ — Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Peter Marino
Past: January 28 → March 5, 2016
For the exhibition XYZ at the gallery in the Marais, Peter Marino revisits the themes he believes fundamental: Mapplethorpe’s XYZ portfolio (X for sex, Y for floral still lifes, and Z for male nudes), selecting from the archives of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation based in New York.
XYZ — Robert Mapplethorpe curated by Peter Marino
Past: January 28 → March 5, 2016
For the exhibition XYZ at the gallery in the Marais, Peter Marino revisits the themes he believes fundamental: Mapplethorpe’s XYZ portfolio (X for sex, Y for floral still lifes, and Z for male nudes), selecting from the archives of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation based in New York.
Photography
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
Archives
Ali Banisadr — In Medias Res
Past: November 28, 2015 → January 16, 2016
Ali Banisadr’s work is characterized by an instability that fascinates the viewer and showcases the very essence of imagination. Neither completely abstract nor completely figurative, the scenes that Ali Banisadr paints fit within the art history narrative, from Jérôme Bosch to Francis Bacon.
Ali Banisadr — In Medias Res
Past: November 28, 2015 → January 16, 2016
Ali Banisadr’s work is characterized by an instability that fascinates the viewer and showcases the very essence of imagination. Neither completely abstract nor completely figurative, the scenes that Ali Banisadr paints fit within the art history narrative, from Jérôme Bosch to Francis Bacon.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Adrian Ghenie
Past: October 22 → November 21, 2015
Born in Baia Mare Romania in 1977 and now living and working in Berlin, Adrian Ghenie is currently representing Romania in the 56th Venice Biennale. Brought up in post-Ceausescu Romania, Adrian Ghenie’s work often dwells on the darker moments of post-war European history and the personalities whose actions have defined its course.
Adrian Ghenie
Past: October 22 → November 21, 2015
Born in Baia Mare Romania in 1977 and now living and working in Berlin, Adrian Ghenie is currently representing Romania in the 56th Venice Biennale. Brought up in post-Ceausescu Romania, Adrian Ghenie’s work often dwells on the darker moments of post-war European history and the personalities whose actions have defined its course.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Imran Qureshi — Idea of Landscape
Past: September 12 → October 17, 2015
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Imran Qureshi’s first solo exhibition in its Marais gallery space. Qureshi, who lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan, was born in 1972. His unique style combines the motifs, symbolism, and ornamental techniques of Mughal miniature painting, expressed in a resolutely contemporary language.
Imran Qureshi — Idea of Landscape
Past: September 12 → October 17, 2015
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Imran Qureshi’s first solo exhibition in its Marais gallery space. Qureshi, who lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan, was born in 1972. His unique style combines the motifs, symbolism, and ornamental techniques of Mughal miniature painting, expressed in a resolutely contemporary language.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Un dimanche à la galerie
Past: Sunday, September 27, 2015 12 PM → 6 PM
Rendez-vous immanquable, l’événement « Un dimanche à la galerie » est une belle occasion de découvrir la diversité des expositions proposées par plus de 100 galeries d’art à Paris, exceptionnellement ouvertes un dimanche pour accueillir le public. Retrouvez notre sélection d’expositions à ne pas manquer.
Un dimanche à la galerie
Past: Sunday, September 27, 2015 12 PM → 6 PM
Rendez-vous immanquable, l’événement « Un dimanche à la galerie » est une belle occasion de découvrir la diversité des expositions proposées par plus de 100 galeries d’art à Paris, exceptionnellement ouvertes un dimanche pour accueillir le public. Retrouvez notre sélection d’expositions à ne pas manquer.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Jules de Balincourt — Lancement de la publication As Far West As We Could Go
Past: Saturday, September 26, 2015 4 PM → 6 PM
Jules de Balincourt s’intéresse à la propriété double des images qui nous entourent, physiques et métaphysiques, extraites d’un contexte politique, social ou religieux. À l’occasion de la parution du livre « As Far West As We Could Go », rencontre et signature en présence de l’artiste.
Jules de Balincourt — Lancement de la publication As Far West As We Could Go
Past: Saturday, September 26, 2015 4 PM → 6 PM
Jules de Balincourt s’intéresse à la propriété double des images qui nous entourent, physiques et métaphysiques, extraites d’un contexte politique, social ou religieux. À l’occasion de la parution du livre « As Far West As We Could Go », rencontre et signature en présence de l’artiste.
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Raqib Shaw
Past: June 6 → July 25, 2015
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Raqib Shaw’s second solo exhibition in the Paris Marais gallery featuring a series of new bronze sculptures and paintings. True to his signature style, Shaw presents us with radical images that are deeply informed by art historical references.
Raqib Shaw
Past: June 6 → July 25, 2015
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Raqib Shaw’s second solo exhibition in the Paris Marais gallery featuring a series of new bronze sculptures and paintings. True to his signature style, Shaw presents us with radical images that are deeply informed by art historical references.
Painting, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Miquel Barceló — L’inassèchement
Past: April 25 → May 31, 2015
Renowned for the diversity of his work, Barceló’s oeuvre ranges from monumental terracotta murals to a performance piece/living sculpture. In 2008 he created the ceiling painting for Chamber XX of the Human Rights, at the United Nations offices, covering the 1500m2 ellipsoidal dome with 35 tons of paint with pigments creating multi-coloured stalactite forms.
Miquel Barceló — L’inassèchement
Past: April 25 → May 31, 2015
Renowned for the diversity of his work, Barceló’s oeuvre ranges from monumental terracotta murals to a performance piece/living sculpture. In 2008 he created the ceiling painting for Chamber XX of the Human Rights, at the United Nations offices, covering the 1500m2 ellipsoidal dome with 35 tons of paint with pigments creating multi-coloured stalactite forms.
Painting, mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Nick Oberthaler — Pièce dérivée
Past: March 18 → April 18, 2015
Arranging salvaged fragments and elements, Oberthaler toys with the very notion of diversion, both in the sense of manipulation and in the sense of diversion as displacement without purpose, without reason. The way Nick Oberthaler carves out elements and forms is an invitation to decode and to recognize past artistic achievements.
Nick Oberthaler — Pièce dérivée
Past: March 18 → April 18, 2015
Arranging salvaged fragments and elements, Oberthaler toys with the very notion of diversion, both in the sense of manipulation and in the sense of diversion as displacement without purpose, without reason. The way Nick Oberthaler carves out elements and forms is an invitation to decode and to recognize past artistic achievements.
Collage, installation, painting...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Claire Adelfang — Le Hameau de la Reine
Past: March 18 → April 18, 2015
Claire Adelfang’s photographs frequently treat architecture as being moulded by human activity in spite of the paradoxical human absence. The Queen’s Hamlet at Versailles is the centrepiece of this new exhibition, for which, with her profoundly calm vision, the photographer has captured the spirit of the historic place.
Claire Adelfang — Le Hameau de la Reine
Past: March 18 → April 18, 2015
Claire Adelfang’s photographs frequently treat architecture as being moulded by human activity in spite of the paradoxical human absence. The Queen’s Hamlet at Versailles is the centrepiece of this new exhibition, for which, with her profoundly calm vision, the photographer has captured the spirit of the historic place.
Photography
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Bjarne Melgaard — The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment
Past: February 5 → March 14, 2015
Bjarne Melgaard’s expressive paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations have achieved a unique position within the international art world. His characteristic style and provocative themes have made him a controversial, but also highly regarded artist.
Bjarne Melgaard — The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment
Past: February 5 → March 14, 2015
Bjarne Melgaard’s expressive paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations have achieved a unique position within the international art world. His characteristic style and provocative themes have made him a controversial, but also highly regarded artist.
Collage, installation, painting...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Sturtevant — Reloaded
Past: November 22, 2014 → January 28, 2015
This exhibition will be an opportunity to gain a new perspective on Sturtevant’s innovations and to (re)discover her unique vision — her interpretation of what constitutes an artwork and her profound insights into the changes in society.
Sturtevant — Reloaded
Past: November 22, 2014 → January 28, 2015
This exhibition will be an opportunity to gain a new perspective on Sturtevant’s innovations and to (re)discover her unique vision — her interpretation of what constitutes an artwork and her profound insights into the changes in society.
Installation, painting, mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Tomorrow’s Man — curated by Jack Pierson
Past: October 23 → November 19, 2014
Jack Pierson has curated a group exhibition titled Tomorrow’s Man. When Bywaters Bros publishers offer to publish a monograph on Jack Pierson’s work, the artist considered a new form of publication. He imagined a book that brings together his own works associated with images of different origins.
Tomorrow’s Man — curated by Jack Pierson
Past: October 23 → November 19, 2014
Jack Pierson has curated a group exhibition titled Tomorrow’s Man. When Bywaters Bros publishers offer to publish a monograph on Jack Pierson’s work, the artist considered a new form of publication. He imagined a book that brings together his own works associated with images of different origins.
Collage, drawing, painting...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Liza Lou — ixube
Past: October 23 → November 19, 2014
For this exhibition Lou explores the surface commonly accepted as the ground for art — the canvas — making it into the subject of the work. At first glance, the 12 works in this exhibition appear to be paintings, on closer examination however color and gesture do not exist on the surface but are imbedded into the very structure of the canvas itself.
Liza Lou — ixube
Past: October 23 → November 19, 2014
For this exhibition Lou explores the surface commonly accepted as the ground for art — the canvas — making it into the subject of the work. At first glance, the 12 works in this exhibition appear to be paintings, on closer examination however color and gesture do not exist on the surface but are imbedded into the very structure of the canvas itself.
Mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Jules de Balincourt — Blue Hours
Past: September 6 → October 18, 2014
Jules de Balincourt explores private themes that evoke architecture, travel, human migrations and artificial places, in a floating, idealised and escapist atmosphere with hints of a pervading vulnerability.
Jules de Balincourt — Blue Hours
Past: September 6 → October 18, 2014
Jules de Balincourt explores private themes that evoke architecture, travel, human migrations and artificial places, in a floating, idealised and escapist atmosphere with hints of a pervading vulnerability.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Richard Deacon — Alphabet, sculptures et dessins
Past: June 28 → September 30, 2014
Richard Deacon is one of the most important contemporary British sculptors. His existential study of form and space reveals a fundamentally new approach, the determining factor being his treatment of the most diverse materials.
Richard Deacon — Alphabet, sculptures et dessins
Past: June 28 → September 30, 2014
Richard Deacon is one of the most important contemporary British sculptors. His existential study of form and space reveals a fundamentally new approach, the determining factor being his treatment of the most diverse materials.
Ceramic, drawing, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Not Vital — Heads
Past: May 22 → July 26, 2014
The depiction of heads, be it human or otherwise, has recurred often throughout Not Vital’s practice, both in sculpted, drawn and painted form — including a remarkable series of painted portraits that Vital has been working on since the early months of his time in China.
Not Vital — Heads
Past: May 22 → July 26, 2014
The depiction of heads, be it human or otherwise, has recurred often throughout Not Vital’s practice, both in sculpted, drawn and painted form — including a remarkable series of painted portraits that Vital has been working on since the early months of his time in China.
Sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Georg Baselitz — Vanitas
Past: February 22 → May 3, 2014
Le Cabinet des Dessins de la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac présente une série d’encres et d’aquarelles du célèbre peintre et sculpteur allemand Georg Baselitz. Cette puissante série est unie par la répétition d’ossements humains et évoque avec une force expressive le thème de la Vanité. Cette exposition fait suite à l’expos…
Georg Baselitz — Vanitas
Past: February 22 → May 3, 2014
Le Cabinet des Dessins de la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac présente une série d’encres et d’aquarelles du célèbre peintre et sculpteur allemand Georg Baselitz. Cette puissante série est unie par la répétition d’ossements humains et évoque avec une force expressive le thème de la Vanité. Cette exposition fait suite à l’expos…
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Tom Sachs — American Handmade Paintings
Past: March 29 → May 3, 2014
This exhibition features mainly wall works highlighting two distinct techniques in Tom Sachs’s practice: pyrography and marquetry. By using fire as the sole drawing tool, pyrography permits to create a work without any additional material, while the craft of marquetry is a complex assembly of pre-painted, inlaid elements.
Tom Sachs — American Handmade Paintings
Past: March 29 → May 3, 2014
This exhibition features mainly wall works highlighting two distinct techniques in Tom Sachs’s practice: pyrography and marquetry. By using fire as the sole drawing tool, pyrography permits to create a work without any additional material, while the craft of marquetry is a complex assembly of pre-painted, inlaid elements.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Jason Martin — Gestural Ubiquity
Past: February 22 → March 21, 2014
Firmly anchored in the modernist practices of the gestural and monochrome, Jason Martin has been consistently exploring and refining his painting over the years. The meticulously choreographed movement of the brush and controlled application of paint have always conferred his work an extraordinary sculptural quality.
Jason Martin — Gestural Ubiquity
Past: February 22 → March 21, 2014
Firmly anchored in the modernist practices of the gestural and monochrome, Jason Martin has been consistently exploring and refining his painting over the years. The meticulously choreographed movement of the brush and controlled application of paint have always conferred his work an extraordinary sculptural quality.
Mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Harun Farocki — Parallele
Past: January 15 → February 15, 2014
La galerie Thaddaeus Ropac présente pour la quatrième fois une exposition personnelle du vidéaste et cinéaste expérimental berlinois Harun Farocki (*1944) dans sa galerie du Marais.
Harun Farocki — Parallele
Past: January 15 → February 15, 2014
La galerie Thaddaeus Ropac présente pour la quatrième fois une exposition personnelle du vidéaste et cinéaste expérimental berlinois Harun Farocki (*1944) dans sa galerie du Marais.
New media, mixed media, video
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Marc Brandenburg — Interior/Exterior
Past: November 30, 2013 → January 11, 2014
The title, Interior/Exterior, refers to eight drawings in frieze form, running like a continuous strip round almost the entire walls of the Paris gallery. The darkened room will be bathed in black light, causing the white parts of the drawings to stand out sharply.
Marc Brandenburg — Interior/Exterior
Past: November 30, 2013 → January 11, 2014
The title, Interior/Exterior, refers to eight drawings in frieze form, running like a continuous strip round almost the entire walls of the Paris gallery. The darkened room will be bathed in black light, causing the white parts of the drawings to stand out sharply.
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Robert Wilson — Video Portraits of Lady Gaga
Past: November 30, 2013 → January 11, 2014
This exhibition shows video portraits that Robert Wilson made in London in November 2013: Video Portraits of Lady Gaga. He has based this series of slowly shifting video portraits on old masters like Ingres and Solario. Lady Gaga’s face and body metamorphose into the features of Mademoiselle Rivière, for example, in a video inspired by the famous portrait by Ingres.
Robert Wilson — Video Portraits of Lady Gaga
Past: November 30, 2013 → January 11, 2014
This exhibition shows video portraits that Robert Wilson made in London in November 2013: Video Portraits of Lady Gaga. He has based this series of slowly shifting video portraits on old masters like Ingres and Solario. Lady Gaga’s face and body metamorphose into the features of Mademoiselle Rivière, for example, in a video inspired by the famous portrait by Ingres.
Installation, video
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Yan Pei-Ming — Help!
Past: October 21 → November 23, 2013
With Help!, the portrait, the history painting and the vanity are presented on the three floors of the gallery in the Marais. In a dialectical and pictorial relation, the secular theme of war and peace enter into confrontation in the main gallery space whereas the icon embodied in the portrait genre and the works on paper are presented on the other two floors of the gallery.
Yan Pei-Ming — Help!
Past: October 21 → November 23, 2013
With Help!, the portrait, the history painting and the vanity are presented on the three floors of the gallery in the Marais. In a dialectical and pictorial relation, the secular theme of war and peace enter into confrontation in the main gallery space whereas the icon embodied in the portrait genre and the works on paper are presented on the other two floors of the gallery.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Marcin Maciejowski — Fine Gesture
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris is holding an exhibition by Polish artist Marcin Maciejowski. In a virtuoso act of simplification and reduction typical of his work, Maciejowski combines the blatancy of a comic strip with soft, sporadically pastose, meticulous brushwork resembling the style of the old masters.
Marcin Maciejowski — Fine Gesture
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris is holding an exhibition by Polish artist Marcin Maciejowski. In a virtuoso act of simplification and reduction typical of his work, Maciejowski combines the blatancy of a comic strip with soft, sporadically pastose, meticulous brushwork resembling the style of the old masters.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Lee Bul — Pure Invisible Sun
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
In addition to the freedom of form and a certain visionary aesthetic, Lee Bul’s wall sculptures give substance to a metaphorical vision of urban landscapes. The visual complexity of her metallic “interlacings” seems to evoke the growing intensification of material and immaterial networks.
Lee Bul — Pure Invisible Sun
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
In addition to the freedom of form and a certain visionary aesthetic, Lee Bul’s wall sculptures give substance to a metaphorical vision of urban landscapes. The visual complexity of her metallic “interlacings” seems to evoke the growing intensification of material and immaterial networks.
Installation, mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Tony Cragg — Accurate Figure
Past: April 25 → June 15, 2013
Cragg’s sculptural œuvre was originally motivated by his encounter with English Land Art and Performance, and is still distinguished by an immense wealth of surprising formal inventions and combinations. Cragg sees himself as a materialist, constantly seeking to explore and expand new materials.
Tony Cragg — Accurate Figure
Past: April 25 → June 15, 2013
Cragg’s sculptural œuvre was originally motivated by his encounter with English Land Art and Performance, and is still distinguished by an immense wealth of surprising formal inventions and combinations. Cragg sees himself as a materialist, constantly seeking to explore and expand new materials.
Sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Claire Adelfang — Les Forges
Past: April 25 → June 15, 2013
Like her photographs, Adelfang’s video work surveys industrial vestiges, bringing to bear a gaze that seems neutral and non-judgemental. The observation and documentation of abandonment invests these vestiges with a poetic power. The absence of human figures highlights the place’s loss of function and the gradual fading of these structures’ reason for existing.
Claire Adelfang — Les Forges
Past: April 25 → June 15, 2013
Like her photographs, Adelfang’s video work surveys industrial vestiges, bringing to bear a gaze that seems neutral and non-judgemental. The observation and documentation of abandonment invests these vestiges with a poetic power. The absence of human figures highlights the place’s loss of function and the gradual fading of these structures’ reason for existing.
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Jack Pierson — Ennui (La Vie Continue)
Past: March 2 → April 20, 2013
Ennui (Life Goes On) is the sixth solo exhibition by American artist Jack Pierson. He continues his experiments into the wealth of mental associations triggered through his sculptures made of found commercial signage as well as his drawings and paintings. In this exhibition Pierson takes on the important questions besetting Western culture.
Jack Pierson — Ennui (La Vie Continue)
Past: March 2 → April 20, 2013
Ennui (Life Goes On) is the sixth solo exhibition by American artist Jack Pierson. He continues his experiments into the wealth of mental associations triggered through his sculptures made of found commercial signage as well as his drawings and paintings. In this exhibition Pierson takes on the important questions besetting Western culture.
Installation, painting, sculpture...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Gerwald Rockenschaub — Doing the same again (Refaire la même chose)
Past: March 2 → April 20, 2013
Gerwald Rockenschaub is one of the first artists to make use of a formal vocabulary which includes computer-generated graphics. Linear structures, individual geometric forms and colour fields suggest a narrative which the visitor must decipher by drawing from his own mental store of images.
Gerwald Rockenschaub — Doing the same again (Refaire la même chose)
Past: March 2 → April 20, 2013
Gerwald Rockenschaub is one of the first artists to make use of a formal vocabulary which includes computer-generated graphics. Linear structures, individual geometric forms and colour fields suggest a narrative which the visitor must decipher by drawing from his own mental store of images.
Painting, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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David Salle / Francis Picabia
Past: January 23 → February 23, 2013
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac announces an exhibition which sets out to create a strong dialogue between new paintings by the American artist David Salle and a selection of works by Picabia. In their frequent comparison of the two artists, critics may have particularly dwelt on their shared use of superimposed images and its effect of semantic multiplication.
David Salle / Francis Picabia
Past: January 23 → February 23, 2013
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac announces an exhibition which sets out to create a strong dialogue between new paintings by the American artist David Salle and a selection of works by Picabia. In their frequent comparison of the two artists, critics may have particularly dwelt on their shared use of superimposed images and its effect of semantic multiplication.
Painting, screen-printing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui
Past: November 30, 2012 → January 19, 2013
Covering twenty years of artistic practice, the works featured in the exhibition are all related to collage, montage and fragmentation. The display is itself conceived as a collage in space by the juxtaposition of several mediums, the superimposition of works and the presence of works composed of mirrors, fragmenting the exhibition and the public.
Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui
Past: November 30, 2012 → January 19, 2013
Covering twenty years of artistic practice, the works featured in the exhibition are all related to collage, montage and fragmentation. The display is itself conceived as a collage in space by the juxtaposition of several mediums, the superimposition of works and the presence of works composed of mirrors, fragmenting the exhibition and the public.
Collage, film, sculpture...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui — Invitation au lancement du catalogue
Past: Saturday, January 12, 2013 6:30 PM → 8:30 PM
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to invite you to discover the catalogue for the exhibition “Only Parts of Us…” in the company of the curator, Timothée Chaillou and photographer Pierre Even who presents a personal vision of the exhibition through a portfolio of images.
Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui — Invitation au lancement du catalogue
Past: Saturday, January 12, 2013 6:30 PM → 8:30 PM
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to invite you to discover the catalogue for the exhibition “Only Parts of Us…” in the company of the curator, Timothée Chaillou and photographer Pierre Even who presents a personal vision of the exhibition through a portfolio of images.
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Joseph Beuys, Hirschdenkmäler
Past: October 14 → November 24, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is especially pleased to present an extensive collection of works by Joseph Beuys. This selection, curated by Norman Rosenthal, centres around the exhibition’s eponymous installation: “Hirschdenkmäler”, an exemplary piece from Joseph Beuys’s artistic œuvre, for it covers a vast spectre of the artist’s obsessions.
Joseph Beuys, Hirschdenkmäler
Past: October 14 → November 24, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is especially pleased to present an extensive collection of works by Joseph Beuys. This selection, curated by Norman Rosenthal, centres around the exhibition’s eponymous installation: “Hirschdenkmäler”, an exemplary piece from Joseph Beuys’s artistic œuvre, for it covers a vast spectre of the artist’s obsessions.
Installation, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Sturtevant — l’Abécédaire de Deleuze
Past: September 8 → October 6, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Sturtevant’s video installation “l’Abécédaire de Deleuze.” The installation is derived to bring into being the higher power of words and the tight formal format is to focus on space as related to content.
Sturtevant — l’Abécédaire de Deleuze
Past: September 8 → October 6, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Sturtevant’s video installation “l’Abécédaire de Deleuze.” The installation is derived to bring into being the higher power of words and the tight formal format is to focus on space as related to content.
Photography, sculpture, mixed media...
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Daniel Richter — Voyage, voyage
Past: July 4 → September 8, 2012
Under the title Voyage, Voyage, the exhibition shows works which, against a linear seismographic background, depict mysterious figures bathed in artificial light, typical of Richter’s work. Involved in peculiar interactions, they seem like actors on a stage.
Daniel Richter — Voyage, voyage
Past: July 4 → September 8, 2012
Under the title Voyage, Voyage, the exhibition shows works which, against a linear seismographic background, depict mysterious figures bathed in artificial light, typical of Richter’s work. Involved in peculiar interactions, they seem like actors on a stage.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Rona Pondick — Dessins et sculptures
Past: July 4 → 28, 2012
Since 1998 Pondick has been working with the same head, originally taken from a life cast but altered for each sculpture. This exhibition includes recent, intimately scaled drawings, where the artist uses her head as a starting point, distorting its form, mutating it to the point where the original, drawn from the life cast has all but disappeared.
Rona Pondick — Dessins et sculptures
Past: July 4 → 28, 2012
Since 1998 Pondick has been working with the same head, originally taken from a life cast but altered for each sculpture. This exhibition includes recent, intimately scaled drawings, where the artist uses her head as a starting point, distorting its form, mutating it to the point where the original, drawn from the life cast has all but disappeared.
Drawing, sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Raqib Shaw — Of Beasts and Super-Beasts
Past: March 3 → April 7, 2012
Of Beasts and Super-Beasts is Raqib Shaw’s 1st solo exhibition. His anthropomorphic figures have heads like birds, crocodiles or tigers, somewhere between gods and heroes, and parody our perception of society. Inspired by the first Empire style, his precious aesthetics goes beyond the decorative in order to question the role of art in Western society.
Raqib Shaw — Of Beasts and Super-Beasts
Past: March 3 → April 7, 2012
Of Beasts and Super-Beasts is Raqib Shaw’s 1st solo exhibition. His anthropomorphic figures have heads like birds, crocodiles or tigers, somewhere between gods and heroes, and parody our perception of society. Inspired by the first Empire style, his precious aesthetics goes beyond the decorative in order to question the role of art in Western society.
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Jean-Marc Bustamante — Peintures Carrées
Past: January 10 → February 25, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces an exhibition of new works on square screen-reprinted Plexiglas by French artist, Jean-Marc Bustamante. This new body of work, titled Colorito-Colorado, refers to the Renaissance era during which the determining characteristic of the Venetian school was colour, rather than drawing.
Jean-Marc Bustamante — Peintures Carrées
Past: January 10 → February 25, 2012
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces an exhibition of new works on square screen-reprinted Plexiglas by French artist, Jean-Marc Bustamante. This new body of work, titled Colorito-Colorado, refers to the Renaissance era during which the determining characteristic of the Venetian school was colour, rather than drawing.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Jonathan Lasker — Peintures Récentes
Past: January 10 → February 2, 2012
Jonathan Lasker, an ardent believer in the vitality of painting as a medium for artistic expression, rebelled against the pervasiveness of conceptual art. He was inspired by two of his professors, Richard Artschwager and Susan Rothenberg, amongst others. He gives new breath to painting by introducing basic pictorial elements such as lines, colours, and textures.
Jonathan Lasker — Peintures Récentes
Past: January 10 → February 2, 2012
Jonathan Lasker, an ardent believer in the vitality of painting as a medium for artistic expression, rebelled against the pervasiveness of conceptual art. He was inspired by two of his professors, Richard Artschwager and Susan Rothenberg, amongst others. He gives new breath to painting by introducing basic pictorial elements such as lines, colours, and textures.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Nick Oberthaler — Le doute et la grâce (Doubt and Grace)
Past: November 25 → December 23, 2011
Nick Oberthaler is a draftsman who uses intriguing techniques. Though he likes to refer to his works as ‘drawings’, he also works with paint and ink, which he further combines with pasted-on fragments. He remains partial to paper as his “canvas”, due to its fragile quality. The marks that he makes on it are unalterable.
Nick Oberthaler — Le doute et la grâce (Doubt and Grace)
Past: November 25 → December 23, 2011
Nick Oberthaler is a draftsman who uses intriguing techniques. Though he likes to refer to his works as ‘drawings’, he also works with paint and ink, which he further combines with pasted-on fragments. He remains partial to paper as his “canvas”, due to its fragile quality. The marks that he makes on it are unalterable.
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Alex Katz — Face the Music
Past: October 20 → November 19, 2011
The American artist Alex Katz presents a new sequence of canvases, studies in oil, cartoons and drawings, all pertaining to dance. One of the undisputed key figures of American pop art, since the early 1950s he was already preparing the way for pop art.
Alex Katz — Face the Music
Past: October 20 → November 19, 2011
The American artist Alex Katz presents a new sequence of canvases, studies in oil, cartoons and drawings, all pertaining to dance. One of the undisputed key figures of American pop art, since the early 1950s he was already preparing the way for pop art.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Banks Violette — Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children
Past: October 20 → November 19, 2011
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac present an exhibition of works on paper by New York artist, banks Violette.
The artist is most well known for his sculptures and large-scale installations that often explore subcultural communities, in a stark, enigmatic yet minimal aesthetics.
Banks Violette — Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children
Past: October 20 → November 19, 2011
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac present an exhibition of works on paper by New York artist, banks Violette.
The artist is most well known for his sculptures and large-scale installations that often explore subcultural communities, in a stark, enigmatic yet minimal aesthetics.
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Not Vital — Sculptures, Diao Su
Past: September 9 → October 15, 2011
In Vital’s current exhibition of new work we can see the influence of China, and specifically, Beijing. Since 2008 Vital has spent five months per year working in his studio in the Caochangdi district of Beijing. Here, he discovered exceptionally skilled and creative stainless steel craftsmen — Tongue is made in a foundry on the outskirts of Beijing.
Not Vital — Sculptures, Diao Su
Past: September 9 → October 15, 2011
In Vital’s current exhibition of new work we can see the influence of China, and specifically, Beijing. Since 2008 Vital has spent five months per year working in his studio in the Caochangdi district of Beijing. Here, he discovered exceptionally skilled and creative stainless steel craftsmen — Tongue is made in a foundry on the outskirts of Beijing.
Sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Elger Esser — Nocturnes
Past: July 6 → 30, 2011
La galerie présente une série de photographies et d’héliogravures réalisée en 2010 dans la commune normande éponyme qui inspira Claude Monet pour ses Nymphéas. À Giverny, Elger Esser a travaillé de nuit en couleur mais aussi en nuances de gris. Il montre une nature touffue et silencieuse, un peu brouillonne, comme abandonnée.
Elger Esser — Nocturnes
Past: July 6 → 30, 2011
La galerie présente une série de photographies et d’héliogravures réalisée en 2010 dans la commune normande éponyme qui inspira Claude Monet pour ses Nymphéas. À Giverny, Elger Esser a travaillé de nuit en couleur mais aussi en nuances de gris. Il montre une nature touffue et silencieuse, un peu brouillonne, comme abandonnée.
Photography
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Imi Knoebel — Anima Mundi
Past: June 25 → July 29, 2011
Since his earliest work he has taken a reductivist position that has made him a singular artist of graduating tonalities and surfaces. The influences of the Bauhaus movement are clearly identifiable in his oeuvre. This new group of paintings show the importance of color and geometry as Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten theorized it.
Imi Knoebel — Anima Mundi
Past: June 25 → July 29, 2011
Since his earliest work he has taken a reductivist position that has made him a singular artist of graduating tonalities and surfaces. The influences of the Bauhaus movement are clearly identifiable in his oeuvre. This new group of paintings show the importance of color and geometry as Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten theorized it.
Painting, mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Jules de Balincourt — Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
Past: June 8 → July 2, 2011
Jules de Balincourt’s painting can be interpreted on several different levels. The image is always an encounter and invitation to escape, going from pure utopia to dystopia. Balincourt moves through space, zooming in on details that attract his attention, as what he himself calls a tourist of globalisation.
Jules de Balincourt — Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
Past: June 8 → July 2, 2011
Jules de Balincourt’s painting can be interpreted on several different levels. The image is always an encounter and invitation to escape, going from pure utopia to dystopia. Balincourt moves through space, zooming in on details that attract his attention, as what he himself calls a tourist of globalisation.
Painting
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Mahmoud Bakhshi — Bah Man
Past: June 8 → July 2, 2011
Bakhshi’s works deal with the aesthetics of post-revolutionary Iran, composed of a distinctive combination of ideological Islam, industrial capitalism and the liberational iconography of the 1979 Revolution. His work represents a struggle between an art that is self-conscious of its independence and the propaganda of the state.
Mahmoud Bakhshi — Bah Man
Past: June 8 → July 2, 2011
Bakhshi’s works deal with the aesthetics of post-revolutionary Iran, composed of a distinctive combination of ideological Islam, industrial capitalism and the liberational iconography of the 1979 Revolution. His work represents a struggle between an art that is self-conscious of its independence and the propaganda of the state.
Installation
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Shirin Aliabadi — Miss Hybrid
Past: June 8 → 23, 2011
In Miss Hybrid Aliabadi shows a facet of the behaviour of young Iranian women today. Feminine and conscious of their looks, they have naturally absorbed the influences and fads of the modern West. Veiled young women pose against a black background wearing blond wigs and light-coloured contact lenses.
Shirin Aliabadi — Miss Hybrid
Past: June 8 → 23, 2011
In Miss Hybrid Aliabadi shows a facet of the behaviour of young Iranian women today. Feminine and conscious of their looks, they have naturally absorbed the influences and fads of the modern West. Veiled young women pose against a black background wearing blond wigs and light-coloured contact lenses.
Photography
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Antony Gormley — for the time being
Past: April 30 → June 4, 2011
for the time being uses strategies of scale, mass and three-dimensional drawing to create an experiential field in which the viewer’s own passage through the space is tested and informed by a variety of sculptural foils.
Antony Gormley — for the time being
Past: April 30 → June 4, 2011
for the time being uses strategies of scale, mass and three-dimensional drawing to create an experiential field in which the viewer’s own passage through the space is tested and informed by a variety of sculptural foils.
Sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Robert Longo — God Machines
Past: March 21 → April 23, 2011
God Machines is a major installation of three immensely heroic works. These towering framed charcoal drawings almost entirely cover the walls of the gallery space. Dedicated to the three major monotheistic world religions, Longo has created multi-paneled, monumental works depicting images of Mecca, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Wailing Wall.
Robert Longo — God Machines
Past: March 21 → April 23, 2011
God Machines is a major installation of three immensely heroic works. These towering framed charcoal drawings almost entirely cover the walls of the gallery space. Dedicated to the three major monotheistic world religions, Longo has created multi-paneled, monumental works depicting images of Mecca, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Wailing Wall.
Drawing
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Gilbert & George — The Urethra Postcard Pictures
Past: February 17 → March 19, 2011
Gilbert & George new pictures consist of works of art made from postcards of London, telephone box cards, advertising cards and flyers that can be found in public places. They find efficient sources of inspiration in the voice of the people, a repertory of canonical images to create what they call “Art for All”.
Gilbert & George — The Urethra Postcard Pictures
Past: February 17 → March 19, 2011
Gilbert & George new pictures consist of works of art made from postcards of London, telephone box cards, advertising cards and flyers that can be found in public places. They find efficient sources of inspiration in the voice of the people, a repertory of canonical images to create what they call “Art for All”.
Mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Erwin Wurm — Yes Biological
Past: January 11 → February 12, 2011
Wurm has always concentrated on extending the traditional concept of sculpture, starting from the classic pre-modern premise that sculpture is concerned with the alteration of mass and volume. He takes this premise literally, and applies it to everyday reality: "To change mass and volume is a sculptural act.
Erwin Wurm — Yes Biological
Past: January 11 → February 12, 2011
Wurm has always concentrated on extending the traditional concept of sculpture, starting from the classic pre-modern premise that sculpture is concerned with the alteration of mass and volume. He takes this premise literally, and applies it to everyday reality: "To change mass and volume is a sculptural act.
Sculpture
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Cory Arcangel — Image is everything
Past: November 24 → December 24, 2010
The impartiality with which Arcangel perceives software, hardware and Internet resources as raw art materials, reveals a completely novel style. In the mid-2000s, he became well known particularly through his practice of archaeology in historical computer technology of the 1980s, while in recent years he has expanded his repertoire of art material and digital sources.
Cory Arcangel — Image is everything
Past: November 24 → December 24, 2010
The impartiality with which Arcangel perceives software, hardware and Internet resources as raw art materials, reveals a completely novel style. In the mid-2000s, he became well known particularly through his practice of archaeology in historical computer technology of the 1980s, while in recent years he has expanded his repertoire of art material and digital sources.
Painting, sculpture, video
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Liza Lou — American Idol
Past: October 21 → November 20, 2010
Liza Lou’s work has captivated audiences since her first major sculpture, Kitchen — a life-size room covered entirely with glass beads was exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1996. For her first exhibition at the gallery in nearly seven years, Lou will present the monumental installation, American Presidents.
Liza Lou — American Idol
Past: October 21 → November 20, 2010
Liza Lou’s work has captivated audiences since her first major sculpture, Kitchen — a life-size room covered entirely with glass beads was exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1996. For her first exhibition at the gallery in nearly seven years, Lou will present the monumental installation, American Presidents.
Mixed media
Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery