Selected works 2014-2020

Andrés Baron

Born in Bogotá (Colombia), Andrés Baron lives Andrés Baron’s Mango, mariposa y bolsa roja (2016) is and works in Paris. Relying mainly on film and fleshy and mellow. It is ripe and can be foraged. The photography, Andrés Baron’s practice has as a red, carnal film, echoing the fragile wings of butterflies, characteristic not to dissociate subjects according filters half the image and, like something frail, flies to mediums, but on the contrary to cultivate their in draughts of air. A juicy Sliced pear (2016)—a circulation between different spaces of representation. diptych—suffices for the composition of a still life. In Baron’s work explores the physical possibilities of a shift of viewpoint, one of these two images shows body language, gestures, and the tactile interaction the outstretched arms of an assistant, pinching a large with images. These image-elements are often recycled sheet of white paper on which the fruit is laid. Behind from pop culture and the everyday, for example the scenes is just another scene, the assistant being the clothes, decorative objects, popular music. Through protagonist. Portrait of a context of a take. their frontal or circular devices, their absence of narration and their deliberate artificiality, the films Then it is up to the images themselves to make open a field of great ambiguity, where the filmed their flesh felt. Because “what is folded is folded in subjects always seem aware of the representations in something that contains the fold,” Andrés Baron wraps which they participate and the codes that animate and posts folded portraits. The people he portrayed them. Andrés Baron further develops the research send them back to him, along with an autograph done in experimental cinema and video art in the 70s (Folded and signed photographs, 2016). A fold-feature, by renewing historically formal strategies through With Andrés Baron’s Printed Sunset, two ambiguous or a fold-line, which reveals the real material of an contemporary questions regarding the fluidity of characters are seated against each other, face-to- “image of affection”: an exchange between two people. genres. face, their gaze plunged in the distance, in a naked This time, different hands fold a natural landscape landscape with the colors of the seaside. Then untouched by human exploitation (in the 16mm The variation of situations does not only provoke appears, apparently what fascinated them: a sun filmFolded Landscape (El Páramo), 2016): man’s a change in the perception of the subjects: it is the whose unfolding gradually reveals that it is only ink rare appearance in these lands is replaced by the very space of the shooting that is involved each time, and paper what they are seeing. Andrés Baron cites manipulation of an image that is massaged and folded. through a specific work on the frontality of the poses, traditional cinema at the same time by the malicious spaces and looks which, associated with a constant creation of an unconvincing shot reverse shot (one In another film 36,( rue d’Ulm (for Gordon, for presence of the flatness of the image (whether filmic or doubts that the characters really fix this sun made of Dan),2016), standing and leaning on her elbows, arms photographic), can sometimes evoke the characteristic paper), by a syrupy but cracking music, and by this crossed on a trestle table, a girl builds, manipulates forms of art prior to perspective. Thus, although using trope of the cinema of fiction, the contemplation of and admires a model. She painstakingly focuses on a the apparently classical forms of 16 mm film, video a sunset by a couple. A superbly simple and elegant double object: the replica of Dan Graham’s scale model way of diverting conventions to create from them, a and photography, Andrés Baron’s work testifies to a of a New-Jersey suburban house that Gordon Matta- new form of beauty: the factitious aspect of cinema relationship with the image well after these mediums, Clark had split in two. “What I like in this building is - Hollywood in particular - is pushed to the extreme reconfigured by screens and networks and aware of the fact that it looks oddly like an object. Cutting it in to give birth to a scene all the more dense that it is their surface effects: always facing the image, but two enables me to handle it, like an object,” emptied of any narrative stake. constantly escaping it.

—Vtape Toronto —Olivia Cooper Hadjian —Thimothée Chaillou

1 Link to the film: https://vimeo.com/459040693 Participant 2020 (in postproduction) film 16 mm transferred to 4K Password: 9 min 40, color, sound 2020participant

2 Link to the film: https://vimeo.com/459042474 Red Logics 2020 (in postproduction) film 16 mm transferred to 4K, Password: 2 min 45, color, sound - Synchronised diptych logics2020

3 Recordings, galerie untilthen, 2019

4 Framing twice 2019 Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

5 Peels 2019 Ramiro’s painting 2019 Inkjet print on baryté paper Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

6 Aberración Cromática (Fiebre), 2018 Link to film : 16mm film https://vimeo.com/256238211 8min, color password : ab2018

Aberración Cromática (Fiebre) opens on a scene In the second part of the film, the protagonist made showing a woman who prints her own image on a up of red, sees his clothes cover with pieces of fabric paper. The space it occupies is devoid of any context taking the exact pattern of the printed image, giving other than what is shown: a white background, a table, the impression of a contamination of different a sheet of paper, scotch pieces, a silk screen, a pot of representations. black and red ink. It is his hands present at each shot of the film that we follow, performing the technical —Guillaume Lasserre gestures of printing. The portrait produced after the printing has a red color layer forming a curved and repetitive pattern. The screen-printed image is studded with red spots of different sizes giving the impression Extract from an article by Guillaume Lasserre (in french): that the body is covered with the same pattern. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/guillaume-lasserre/blog/200318/andres- baron-lart-pondere-de-detourner-les-images

Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, 2018

7 System Failure, PCP Gallery, Paris, France 2020

Portals Link to the film: 16mm film https://vimeo.com/338234109 6 min, color music: Various artists (see filmography) Password: 2019 portails20192

8 Printed Sunset, 2017 Link to the film: 16mm film https://vimeo.com/205951532 6 min 20, color, loop music: The Caretaker password: sunset2017

By borrowing from the traditional - if not worn-out the inexpressivity of their game gradually awakens - codes of the romantic film,Printed Sunset arouses frustration. Everything hinders the contemplation ambivalent emotions in the viewer. The soundtrack, by procuration, all is obstruction to a personal and first, supports the unbearable expectation of an emotional transposition for the viewer. The scene is aesthetic delight: slow, purring and played in a loop, played in a pasteboard decor mounted from scratch it stirs the irrepressible desire to discover the object and shows itself as such, and the end of this scene of contemplation of the two women. The slowness sewn with white thread only confirms it: the sun of the image emanates from languor, created by the with saturated hues proves to be a gross imitation on almost imperceptible movements of the camera. an easel, an artifact created from scratch. Everything However, the elements of decoration, the choice of seemed perfect, but by too much scripting, the clothing of the characters and their neutrality instil emotive potential soon vanished. from the beginning an inconvenience in this scene which could be idyllic. The wide shot reveals the —Camille Richert, 2017 background, the impersonality of the outfits provides a feeling of de-personalization of the actresses, while The sun Panics, The Island Cub, Lemesnos, Chypre, 2019

9 Measures of Proximity at Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), 2020, Photo by Paul Kuimet

10 6th Moscow Internationale Biennale for Young Art, Rosizo Museum, Moscow, Russia 2018 Mirror Travelling, Gallerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, 2018

11 Mirror Travelling, 2017 Link to the film: 16mm film https://vimeo.com/208874641 2 min 45, color, loop music: The Caretaker Password: mirror2017 The camera begins to film facing the front side of a mirror - it films itself, the camera operator and one of the performers. The movement of the camera allows the viewer to discover the other performers in the space one after another, and the action ends as the camera faces the back of the mirror - another mirror. Mirror Travelling is a formal exploration of film and movement highlighting the subjectivity of our cinematic experience.

—European Media festival (EMAF) 2019 Mirror Travelling, Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, 2018

12 Torso Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed 2019

13 5 and 7 (diptych) Contact negative on photographic paper 15 x 10 cm (each), framed on plexiglass 2019

14 Zoé listening to blue (twice) 2019 Exhibition view, 68th Salon Jeune Création Palais des Beaux Arts, May 2018 4 photographs, record player, blue vinyl Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

15 Indexes and Kodak 2018 Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

16 Kieu, 2018 Silkprint on paper, framed 29 × 42 cm

17 Printed Sunset 2017 Signed photography (Zoé and Bettina) 3 engraved stainless steel plates Inkjet print on baryté paper 7,6 x 9, 5 x 0,7 cm 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed 2017

18 Unpopular Century (Poster) 2016 Screenprint on acrylic paper 52,4 x 38, 5 x 3 cm, framed

19 Unpopular Century, 2017 62nd Salon de Montrouge, Beffroi de Montrouge

20 link to the film: https://vimeo.com/165919529 Folded Landscape (el Páramo) 2016 16mm film Password: 2 min 45, color, loop, no sound unpopular2016

21 El Páramo, flowers, can and Wallpaper,2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

22 Bettina and Wallpaper 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

23 link to the film: Bettina et Wallpaper, 2016 https://vimeo.com/183663780 16mm film password: 2 min 45, color, loop, no sound unpopular2016

24 Sliced pear Nº 1, 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

25 Sliced pear Nº 2, 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

26 36 rue d’Ulm (for Gordon, for Dan) 16mm film 2 min 45, color, loop, no sound 2016

In 1983, Dan Graham shows in a church in Paris (today disappeared) a model reconstructing the Splitting of Gordon Matta-Clark. He called it Museum for Gordon Matta- Clark. Based on the photographs link to the film: found in the book of writings by Dan Graham I https://vimeo.com/181929992 built the same model with the same size, but as a manipulable artefact. The film shows a woman who password: examines and manipulates the Splitting. unpopular2016

27 Bettina and White Backround (six times), 2017 link to the film: 16mm film https://vimeo.com/165599461 2 min 45, color, loop, no sound password: unpopular2016 The action of this film takes place around the filmed subject, according to a 180-degree movement around the model: starting with the face, passing by the hips, then the feet, the movement ends at the back of the white background of the plate of shooting. The action is repeated five times and the last is performed in a reverse rotation.

28 Unpopular Century, Ensad, Paris, 2016

29 Folded and signed photograph (Francisca), 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper and white marker pen 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

30 Folded and signed photograph (Julián), 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper and white marker pen 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

31 Mango, mariposa y bolsa roja, 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper and red plastic pocket 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

32 Two tennis courts, 2016 Inkjet print on baryté paper (diptych) 52,4 x 38, 5 x 3 cm (each), framed

33 34 link to the film: https://vimeo.com/288699931 Alix (and a still life), 2017 16mm film password: 2 min 45, color, loop, no sound unpopular2016

35 Ultrachrome (livre), 2014 Inkjet print on baryté paper, 29,7 x 42 cm unique edition

36 Palmera, 2014 40 x 29,8 cm x 3, framed

37 Notes et exercises,* 2014 Wallpaper, 2014 14 photographs series Inkjet print on baryté paper 42 x 59,4 cm *See next pages

38 Untitled, (left side) 2014 Inkjet print on baryté paper 42 x 59,4 cm

Rainbow of sorrow, 2014 Untitled, (right side) 2014 Inkjet print on baryté paper 42 x 59,4 cm Inkjet print on baryté paper 42 x 59,4 cm

39 Chevrolet, 2014 El Páramo, 2014 Inkjet print on baryté paper , 42 x 59,4 cm Inkjet print on baryté paper 42 x 59,4 cm

40 Dog (perro durmiendo), 2014 Canon, 2014 Inkjet print on baryté paper, 42 x 59,4 Inkjet print on baryté paper , 42 x 59,4 cm cm

41 Eva et arbre, 2014 Inkjet print on baryté paper, 42 x 59,4 cm

42 Notes et exercises , Exhibition views, Trademart Brussels, Brussels, Belgium 2014

43 9256.122 km, 2013 Strzelecki Books Collaboration with Vera Drebusch

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46 CV - Pazmaker, invitation by Adriana Lara, Vernacular - Printed Sunset, International Competition, 72nd Books, catalogs, editions: Institute, Mexico DF, México, 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Andrés Baron - 62ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France 2017 Scottland 2018 - Contrubution, Caméra Austria Nº 148 - 2020 Born in Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in Paris - Notes et exercices, Trademart Brussels, Brussels, - Printed Sunset, Cinéma de Solstice, FRAC - 9256.122 Km, Strzelecki Books, 2014 andres-baron.com Belgium 2014 Normandie, France 2018 - Notes et exercices, artist book, 2014 film distribution:V-Tape Toronto - Bogotá Gruppenausstellung, Baustelle Kalk, Köln, - Printed Sunset, 31st European Media Festival, - Ultrachrome, artist book, 2014 Germany 2013 Osnabrück, Germany, 2018 - Folded Landscape, artist book, 2016 Education: - Dibujos, Sala de exposición de la Universidad - Folded Landscape (el Páramo),105 Besme, Brussels, - Bettina and Whithe Background, artist book, 2016 Javeriana de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia 2011 Belgium 2018 - 2016 : M.F.A., jury honors, École nationale - Periferias, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, - Printed Sunset, Lancement de Pazmaker Nº 14, Filmography: supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France. Bogotá, Colombia 2011 Mexico DF, Mexico, 2017, hosted by Adriana Lara - 2014 : La Cambre Bruxelles, Photography - Al fin y al cabo cosas, Galería del Club el Nogal, - Printed Sunset, International Competition FCDEP, -Participant 2020 (in postproduction) (4th year) Belgium Bogotá, Colombia 2010 Paris, France 2017 10 min - 2011 B.A., Visuals Arts, Pontificia Universidad - Folded Landscape (El Páramo), Stuttgarter 16mm film transferred to 4k Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia Selected screenings: Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Short experimental film Award, Germany, 2017 - Red logics, 2020 (diptych) Solo shows: - Aberracion Cromática (fiebre), FCDEP, Paris, France - Unpopular Century, Projection organised by Ute 2 min 45s 2020 Aurand, Berlin, Germany 2016 16mm film transferred to 2k, color - Film retrospective, BIFF - Bogotá International Film - Mirror Travelling trilogy, BIFF Bogotá International Music: David Toop Festival, Bogotá, Colombia 2020 Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia 2020 Fellowships, awards, residencies, & commissions: - Recordings, galerie untilthen, 2019 - Aberracion Cromática (fiebre), EXiS film Festival, -Portails, 2019 - Mirror Travelling, Galerie de la Cité Internationale Seoul, South Korea 2020 - 2020 Residency Grant, DRAC Grand-Est, France 6 min 07s des Arts, Curator : Thierry Fournier, Paris, France - Aberracion Cromática (fiebre), 33rd EMAF, - 2020 research Grant, CNAP, France 16mm, color, tranferred to video 2018 Osnabrück, Germany 2020 - 2020 Studio Grant, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart Stuttgart, Comissioned by Le Bal, Paris France - Formas Arcaicas y Familiares, Sala de Proyectos, - Aberracion Cromática (fiebre), International Film Germany (postponed) Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia 2011 Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2020 - 2018 Finalist, Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo • Mirror Travelling trilogy - WRO on Tour #10, Artefacts, Kyoto, Japan - 2018-2019 Laureate, fall comission of la Cité Selected group shows: - Printed Sunset, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Internationale des Arts, Paris, France - Aberración Cromática (Fiebre), 2019 USA 2019 (in Decemeber 2019) - 2017-2018 Laureate Prix Gauthier-Delaye, résidence 4 minutes - Danser sur un Volcan, FRAC Franche-Compté, - Printed Sunset, 23rd International Queer Film à la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 16mm, color Besançon, France 2021 (upcoming) Festival, Lisbon, Portugal 2019 - 2017 Jury prize FCDEP pour le filmPrinted Sunset, music : Leyland Kirby, Children of Alice, Trish - System Failure, PCP Gallery, Paris, France 2020 - Printed Sunset, Stockholm Cinema Queer Festival, competition Internationale Paris, France Keenan, Luboš Fišer - Measures of Proximity, EKKM, Museum of Stockholm, Sweden 2019 - 2017 Nominee, Prix Levallois de la photographie Contemporary Art of Estonia, Tallin, Estonia 2020 - Mirror Travelling, Phenomenon, Anafi, Anafi, Greece - Mirror Travelling, 2017 - Footnotes, Lowtext, hosted by d’Elena Vogman, 2019 Lectures, workshops, interventions: 2 min 45s Berlin, Germany 2019 - Portals, Le Bal / La Fémis, Regards Croisés program of 16mm, color - The sun Panics, The Island Club, hosted by Denise Fabrique du Regard, Paris, France 2019 - Talk, BIFF Bogotá International Film Festival, (Re) music : Leyland Kirby Araouzou, Limassol, Cyprus 2019 - Printed Sunset, Representations of Leaving | Queer Conociendo la diáspora del Cine Colombiano - Contained Energy, Villa Belleville, Paris, France, 2019 Death and heavens, LA Filmforum, Los Angeles, USA -Talk, ENSAPC, École Nationale Supérieure des arts - Printed Sunset, 2017 - 18th WRO Biennale, WRO art Center, Wroclaw, 2019 Cergy Pontoise, hosted by Jean Bauvais 6 min 07s Poland, 2019 - Printed Sunset, Akademie der Bildenden Künste - Workshop, Le Bal, Regards Croisés of La Fabrique du 16mm, color - Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London München, Munich, Germany 2019 Regard 2019 music : Leyland Kirby UK, 2018 -Mirror Travelling, 32nd European Media Art Festival - Lecture and seminar, Icônes/Écrans project by College - Weniger ist mehr, Carte Blanche à Maya Sachweh, (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany 2019 des Bernardins et l’Université de Turin, hosted by • Unpopular Century (film installation) 2016 Gemma Serrano Galerie du Crous, Paris, France 2018 -Printed Sunset, Xposed Film Festival, Berlin, - Lecture, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, - 6th Moscow Internationale Biennale for Young Art, Germany 2019 - Bettina and white background présentation de Unpopular Century, 2017, hosted by Rosizo Museum, Moscou, Russia 2018 - Printed Sunset, 32nd Images Festival, Toronto, - Bettina and Wallpaper Ana Maria Lozano - 68e Salon Jeune Création 2018, Palais des Beaux Arts, Canada 2019 - Folded Landscape (el Páramo) - Interview at Radio Campus Paris, May, 2017, hosted Paris, France 2018 - Printed Sunset, 48th Rotterdam International Film - 31 Rue d’Ulm, for Dan, for Gordon by Flore di Sciullo - Intoto, Fondation Enterprise Ricard, Paris, France Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2019 - Still -life (Alix) - Cinq et demi, Offprint Paris, École Nationale de 2018 - Printed Sunset, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, 2 minutes 30s (each) Beaux arts de Paris, France 2016 UK 2018 16mm, color, no sound - Lecture, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, presentation of Formas Arcaicas y Familiares 2012

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