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Modern Art & Pop Culture MODERN ART & POP CULTURE ARTSHOW (36 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS) PUBLIC OPENING: MARCH 23RD ENDING: AUGUST 2ND, 2019 PRIVATE OPENING: MARCH 22ND HALLE SAINT PIERRE MUSEUM, Paris Curator : Anne De HEY! — [email protected] Curator assistant : Zoé De HEY! — [email protected] Coordination : Julien De HEY! — [email protected] HEY! modern art & pop culture - 4 avenue Debidour - 75019 Paris www.heyheyhey.fr Art brut and art singulier museum La Halle Saint Pierre — 2 rue Ronsard - 75018 Paris + 33 (0)1 42 58 72 59 www.hallesaintpierre.org 2019 MODERN ART & POP CULTURE fter three exhibitions, considered important in France today, from 2011, 2013, and 2015, that regroup Aover sixty international artists, always hosted by the museum of the Halle Saint Pierre museum (Paris), HEY! has refreshed the experience of big group exhibitions within institutions, in France. Provoked by the Halle Saint Pierre museum, this 4th exhibition – the fruit of the association between the HEY! curation and this historical French space for singular art and art brut - is on a mission: to offer visibility to art carrying an aesthetic overshadowed by dominant academics, and ignored by the radars of conventional criticism. “Three exhibitions, in 2011, 2013, and 2015, don’t seem to have been enough to expose the breadth of genres and families that make up this other artistic scene. Thus, we bring the same passion to this new exhibition, hoping to do justice both geographically and historically. With the thirty or so artists gathered here, we will be able to experience the emancipating reach of their works as they hold open the door to our imaginary spaces, irreducible in all of us,” says Martine Lusardy, director of the Halle Saint Pierre. edicated to outsider pop – a term instated by Anne & Julien in 2010 – this 2019 edition presents, Don the upper level, thirty-seven artists from eighteen different countries to explore the value of exclusively figurative art. In a parallel exhibition, on the lower level, the Halle Saint Pierre has invited The Intuit Center (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art) of Chicago, whose mission is, “Drawing on the power of outsider art to transcend borders—those drawn on maps as well as those existing only in our minds.” They are a natural and coherent counterpart to the HEY! exhibition, a strong proposal on European territory, and a celebration of the Outsider as a vital force. Outsider Art and Outsider Pop is what we are committed to, outside of the “doxas of contemporary art.” EY! modern art & pop culture – IV defends “outsider pop culture”, or the aesthetic incarnation Hof counter cultural discourse faced with images and icons produced my mass media. The curatorial approach of Anne de HEY!, following the example of the editorial commitment of the journal she directs, assembles works fed by transversal disciplines, lights, and gestures, in which pop culture and figuration continue to embody a source of delight and a horizon towards the imagination. Call it a true pop iconology, in which the particular is preferred to the average, the surprising to the obvious. “We have a devouring passion for sites that are freed from the norm, we have fought to create an alternative vision of a one-sided culture since 2010, helping to unveil a whole mass of contemporary art looked down upon by critics and the big market. This approach supports artists to get through the locked doors of museums and art galleries. To fulfill this mission, we have created a unique magazine. Dedicated to contemporary figurative pop art and born from the codes of worldwide counterculture, our mag transmits the very energy of our time.” HEY! team 36 ARTISTS, 17 COUNTRIES Vasilis Avramidis (Greece) mad meg (France) Gil Batle (USA) Gerard Mas (Spain) Jürg Benninger (Swiss) Masayoshi Hanawa (Japan) Nils Bertho (France) Mothmeister (Belgium) Troy Brooks (Canada) Heather O’Shaughnessy (USA) Chen M (Belgium) Agathe Pitié (France) Maryrose Crook (New-Zeland) Osvaldo Ramirez-Castillo (Canada) Mikaël De Poissy (France) David Rochline (France) Fulvio Di Piazza (Italy) Shelter Shirrstone (Russia) Claire Fanjul (France) Heidi Taillefer (Canada) Alessandro Gallo (Italy) The Kid (Netherlands, Brasil) Séverine Gambier (France) Paul Toupet (France) Davor Gromilovic (Serbia) Yannick Unfricht (France) Filip Hodas (Czech Republic) Henriette Valium (Canada) Nancy Josephson (USA) Nathalie Verdon (Swiss) Kris Kuksi (USA) Quan Wansanit Deslouis (Thailand) Brigitte Lajoinie (France) Betsy Youngquist Mathieu Lewin (France) & R. Scott Long (USA) Lizz Lopez (USA) EFFECT HOUSE OF OUTSIDER POP ARTS & CULTURES Outsider art, Lowbrow, Surreal Pop, Visionary art, Tattoo art, Graphic Novel, comics, Rock Poster, Post Graffiti, Art Singulier, ArToys ver the years and during almost thirty years richness in production, broadcasting and circulation Oof activity, Anne & Julien’s curating work is of images establishes a unique face-to-face position recognized for its ability to uncover new talent and towards the history of Fine Arts and Art History. Far open fields of exploration so far ignored. Specialists from being an argument, this face-to-face positioning in fringe and outsider pop arts, the duo works on - a major point of exploration for HEY! - opens two axes already specified in 1990 on the occasion of instead a virtuous dialogue, a discussion on influences the opening of their art gallery L'Hydre de L'Art in and inspirations for the ones that care to listen; Paris. In connection with the concerns and interests Fine Arts, far from being disowned, are questioned, of the present time, they invite forgotten worlds quoted and celebrated and their filiation is claimed. to resurface, selecting themes and works which These works and artists share with their ancestors a tend to make an avant-garde visible; and decrypt common interest that can be easily understood as a precise subjects offering an alternative to the vision timeless questioning within works of art: the subject, of a unilateral normative culture. As visionaries the composition, the technique. concerning the influence of pop counter-cultures and fringe art on a global scale, they are the source oday, the world of contemporary art is growing of several major exhibitions in France and worldwide. Tsteadily, but is defined more than ever on the Their thirty years of experience put at the service of basis of the market and its transactions. These HEY! crystallized an impetus, united the energy of mechanics lead to audience fragmentation, repetition today, and built the foundations of a new frame of and elitist proposals, disconnecting this world from reference. This is what we call the “HEY! Effect”. many new and potential interlocutors, especially in younger generations. The HEY Effect! follows the he artistic categories that shaped the Western active principle of the hive, deploys the energy of Tacademic tradition, aesthetics and iconography the communities it supports and of which it is made, are now at the heart of a bustling mutation; and creates a dynamism and a reactive vitality, as well as today's art overflows its heritage. After six decades of activates the connections between artists, collectors, independent and underground growth, pop culture art market, public and amateurs. The art critic now enjoys a global recognition. It has become a wide Philippe Dagen framed his view of our approach field of interpretations, a global creation made of in the daily newspaper Le Monde in 2011 in the multiple vocabularies. Our contemporary era with its headline: "HEY! Beyond the avant-garde”. HEY! invokes a re-appropriation of the circulation of ideas ne could define "the other pop culture" in the among audiences, artists, merchants, art critics and Osame way that the global discussion was nourished collectors. And brings together, in different territories by the discourses and aesthetics produced by the of action and intervention, individualities around a countercultures since 1940. With the establishment common interest: the heart of contemporary art of of the format and the cliché, HEY! responds by the tomorrow. This shift - where HEY! turns out to be defense of works of artists little or never seen, and by a the coagulating agent - brings a rich and distinctive slanting observation revealing invisible subtexts. This alphabet, whether anchored in aesthetic proposals for understanding of the contemporary world is extended the general audience or deliberately far from common from the image to the sounds and to the live show - a thought. Movements - lowbrow, pop surrealism, span of all available mediums (visual arts, sound arts, outsider art, visionary art - and domains – tattooing, movement arts and forms, pictorial arts and words comics, rock posters, video games… - previously ...); a moving encyclopedia of our time, where the considered as too representative and rooted in a certain outsider pop plays the opposite pictorial point. This subculture, are currently imposing their codes and term espouses the dynamics of our worldview (see the hammering their heroes, their phrasing. This global HEY! manifesto). Outsider pop designates the global effect integrates new icons and references which used family of the arts carrying a contemporary aesthetic to be tied to specific popular mediums. Under the yoke pop minored by the dominant academism. It is made of globalization, while it is not wrong to think that of movements and singular universes, considered by contemporary pop culture is already determining the the institutions as too anchored
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