Press kit ARTISTS contact presse: Sophie Dulin • [email protected] • +33 6 07 90 76 30 Yann Perreau • [email protected] • +33 6 40 97 70 73 • Instagram : @setelosangeles Association Sète - Los Angeles • siret : 83875791200012 SCOLI ACOSTA Born in 1973 in Los Angeles, Scoli Acosta is represented by galerie Laurent Godin in France. «The aesthetics of resourcefulness» is a phrase that Scoli Acosta has often used to describe his wide-ranging artwork, which includes sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video and performance. Thirty-eight years old and slight of frame, Acosta has a sheepish but subtly theatrical demeanor that gives every conversation the feel of a performance. Though he grew up in Lincoln Heights and Baldwin Hills, he lived in Europe on and off through his 20s, speaks French, some German and some Spanish, and maintains a somewhat self-conscious relationship to English, his diction intermittently formal and colloquial. His process is one of meandering absorption, his work the outgrowth, in many cases, of his interactions with a particular place.” Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, 2011. Levitating the Pentagon (poems), performance, 2011 ©La Ferme du Buisson LES ARTISTES SCOLI acosta Scoli Acosta films himself in front of the frescoes in Los Angeles, those that Agnes Varda filmed in Walls Walls, which is happening in his hometown. The members of Asco (nausea in Spanish), militant Chicanos artists of the 1960s, appear with Scoli Acosta in the Phantom Sightings exhibition at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) in 2008. VANESSA atlaN Born in Paris (France) in 1971. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Vanessa Atlan has a Masters in Art History from the Sorbonne. Deliberately experimental, the artist explores - through various media including photography, paintings, collage, writings and sound - the intimate territories of her childhood in Sète (whose family is from) or her everyday life in Los Angeles. From her first photographic series, “Paris-Méditerranée” to “Wonderland Stereo” (an imaginary record label) her vision is profoundly connected to an emotional immediacy, balancing the fine line between fiction and reality like an existential thread. She has taken part in various exhibitions in Europe and the United States : Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC - HIE Gallery, Los Angeles - Galerie Philippe Chaume, Paris - Galeria Tagomago, Barcelona - Palazzo Spinelli, Naples. D.R. LES ARTISTES VANESSA atlaN Downtown Jerusalem Electric City BARBARA CARRASCO Barbara Carrasco is born in 1955. She is a Chicana artist and activist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She is considered to be a «renegade feminist» whose work critiques dominant cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomics, race, gender and sexuality. Carrasco is as equally comfortable as an artist in creating large-scale works, like murals, as she is with detailed, small-scale pen and ink work. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was part of the important Chicano art exhibit, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA).Carrasco continues to create art and teach others about art today. D.R. BARBARA CARRASCO Dolores Pregnant Woman in ball of yarn, 2004 Serigraphie, 2005. Tirage 165 L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective Fresque murale, 43 panneaux PERCIval EVERETT Born December 22, 1956 in Fort Gordon, Georgia. He is a writer and American professor. A versatile author, his writings are at the crossroads of several literary genres. He did graduate studies in biochemistry and philosophy at the University of Miami, recognizing that he was influenced by the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, including his semantic theories. He obtained university degrees in literature and philosophy. He began his career in literature in 1983, when he completed a master’s degree at Brown University through the publication of his novel Suder, which is based on a professional baseball player. Percival Everett is an English teacher and director of the Department of English Literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the winner of the 2010 John Dos-Passos Award. D.R. PERCIval EVERETT Romans Glyph (1999) Erasure (2001) American Desert (2004) Wounded (2005) The Water Cure (2007) I am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) Assumption (2011) Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (2013) Poésie Swimming Swimmers Swimming (2010) Intitle, 2014 FRANCESCA GABBIANI Born in 1965 in Montreal (Canada). Lives in Los Angeles. The idea of memory is at the heart of Francesca Gabbiani’s work. His collages describe moments frozen in time and space. It creates a space that seems familiar, but strange, as if the viewer was visiting a new place he or she has already seen. She is represented by the Baert Gallery. D.R. FRANCESCA GABBIANI Detritus Pareo/Scarf PIERO GOLIA Piero Golia was born in 1974 in Naples, Italy. His work has been exhibited in major exhibitions in the United States and Europe. From the beginning of his career, Piero Golia has overturned the conventions of contemporary art through concept, form and act. Luminous Sphere (2010), a mysterious luminous globe installed on the roof of the Standard Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, only comes on when Golia is in Los Angeles. Golia participated at the 2nd Moscow Biennale (2007), SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008-09) at the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art (2008), at the 55th Biennale di Venezia, (2013) and Made in LA 2014, the fourth biennale of the Hammer Museum. Golia lives and works in Los Angeles, he is represented by the Gagosian Gallery. D.R. LES ARTISTES PIERO GOLIA Piero Golia, The Painter, 2016. Photo by Daniele Molajoli, © Gagosian Piero Golia - Comedy of Craft © Gagosian KIM GORDON Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, songwriter, and visual artist. Born in Rochester, New York, Gordon was raised in Los Angeles and studied art at the Otis Art Institute. She later rose to prominence as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of the New York City-based alternative rockband Sonic Youth. Gordon also formed the musical project Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore) in the 1990s and debuted as a producer on Hole’s debut album Pretty on the Inside (1991). Gordon also worked on a fashion line called X-Girl in 1993, and continued to write and release material with Sonic Youth throughout the 1990s and on into the late 2000s. D.R. KIM GORDON Palmiers, 2018 Installation, 2018 ALEX ISRAEL - BRET EASTON ELLIS Alex Israel was born in 1977 in Los Angeles. Bret Easton Elis was born in 1964 in Los Angeles. The duo met in 2010. They instantly established a link. Their collaboration is a reflection on Los Angeles, where the two creatives were born and raised, and wants to be «a slideshow of the subconscious of the city». The duo’s work process is a back-and-forth exercise: they meet at a bar in a Los Angeles mall to exchange ideas, Easton Ellis writes his fictional texts from their discussions, and Israel travels iStock looking for pictures of scenes that best illustrate their feelings and chooses a font. The pieces are then printed and painted in the studios of Warner Bros, thus strengthening their relationship with Los Angeles and the Hollywood film industry. Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Westside Pavilion Mall, Los Angeles, 2016. Photo by Aubrey Mayer ALEX ISRAEL BRET EASTON ELLIS Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Was She in Pain?, 2016, acrylic and UV ink on canvas, 84 × 168 inches (213.4 × 426.7 cm) © Gagosian Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Fourth Tequila, 2016, acrylic and UV ink on canvas, 72 × 144 inches (182,9 × 365,8 cm) © Gagosian PATRICK JACKSON Los Angeles native, Patrick Jackson works as both a collector and a maker to create crowded, immersive mixed-media environments. Whether compiling found objects, setting a scene for a presumed homicide, or sculpting visceral and scarred ceramics, he is invested in narrative and conceptual installations. D.R. LES ARTISTES PatricK JACKSON Drawings and Reliefs, 2016 © Ghebaly Gallery RICHARD JACKSON Born in Sacramento (USA) in 1939. Lives in Los Angeles. Richard Jackson questions the traditional definition of painting by exploring matter. His approach as a sculptor is mainly on the side of humor, experimentation with the desire to report an action while offering an unprecedented critical position towards the art world. Long unknown, he has now become a historical figure, defending this freedom to create amazing machines, crazy sculptures or potaches. With a backdrop, the projection of colors, as a raw, childish aesthetic enjoyment. He is represented by the Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois gallery in Paris. Richard Jackson installing ‘Richard Jackson. New Paintings’ Hauser & Wirth London, 2014 © Richard Jackson Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Tristan Fewings RICHARD JACKSON Untitled (Project for Orange County), 2013, canvas, wood, acrylic paint. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: © Grant MudfordGalerie Anne de Villepoix Painting with Two Balls, 1997, Ford Pinto, metal, wood, canvas, acrylic paint, 20 x 36 x 20 feet. Photo: © Grant Mudford EDDIE RUSCHA Eddie Ruscha, son of artist Edward Ruscha, is a multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. He graduated from the California Institute of Art in 1991. Ruscha’s visual style is strongly influenced by graphic design, psychedelic album, comic strip and poster art, Italian interiors and fashion, as well as all the movements of the fine arts in the hope of blurring the boundaries between them. Art and music have always been inseparable for Ruscha. Eddie has released several records over the years, producing different styles of psychedelic electronic music. In the world of music, Ruscha is now nicknamed Secret Circuit. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions including The London Institute, Regional Fund of Contemporary Art. D.R. EDDIE RUSCHA Cover and Music, 2018 JIM SHAW Born in Midland (USA) in 1952.