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Aaron Flint Jamison Ingrid Luche Jef Geys Aaron Flint Jamison Ingrid Luche Jef Geys solo shows * September 11th > October 24th, 2015 Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] Aaron Flint JAMISON À l’occasion de sa deuxième exposition personnelle à Air de Paris, Aaron Flint Jamison présentera «2x Scrypt Huffer». Cette oeuvre est une machine affairée, un désordre de noeuds. Aaron Flint Jamison (1979, vit et travaille à Portland), il a bénéficié d’expositions per- sonnelles à Artists Space, New York, Cubitt, Londres, CEC, Genève et castillo/corrales en 2011. Aaron Flint Jamison est le co-fondateur du centre d’art YU à Portland, Ore- gon et le fondateur et éditeur de Veneer Magazine. Cet été Yale Union et castillo/corrales ont permuté leurs espaces. Dans le cadre de cet échange, Yale Union organise chez castillo/corales l’exposition Love Shack avec Anne- Mie Van Kerckhoven dont le vernissage aura lieu le samedi 12 Septembre de 19h à 21h et sera visible jusqu’au 7 Novembre 2015. On the occasion of his second solo exhibition at Air de Paris, Aaron Flint Jamison edits «2x Scrypt Huffer». The work is a busy machine, a litany of nodes. Aaron Flint Jamison (1979, lives and works in Portland), his works were on view in solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York, Cubitt, London, CEC, Geneva, castillo/ corrales, Paris and Liverpool Biennial. Aaron Flint Jamison is the co-founder of Yale Union art center in Portland, Oregon and is the founder and editor of Veneer Maga- zine. This summer Yale Union and castillo/corrales swapped their spaces. As part of this exchange, Yale Union will presents at castillo/corales the show Love Shack with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven which opening will take place on Saturday, September 12, 7–9pm. This exhibition will be on view until November 7, 2015. More: Personal Page Press online Veneer Magazine Yale Union Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] Exhibition view CUBITT Gallery, Londres 2013 Exhibition view CEC, Genève. 2012 For all images request, please contact Audrey Pedron : [email protected] Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] AARON FLINT JAMISON Born in Billings, MT, USA, in 1979. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and now lives & works in Portland, OR, USA. Aaron Flint Jamison is the founder and editor of Veneer Magazine. He founded the artist run center De- partment of Safety and is currently living and working in Portland as a founder of YU. SOLO SHOWS (selection) 2015 Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York Gta Exhibition, ETH Zurich, Zurich 2013 Artists Space, New York Cubitt Gallery, London 2012 Air de Paris, Paris Aaron Flint Jamison, Artspeak, Vancouver Aaron Flint Jamison, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève 2011 DYP 1-7, castillo / corrales, Paris GROUP SHOWS (selection) 2014 Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York Pushlet Array, Works Sited, Central Library, Los Angeles Liverpool Biennial 2014, Liverpool 2013 Paginations & Machinations, Air de Paris, Paris O the sleeping bag contains the body but not the dreaming head, gallery Altman Siegel, San Francisco -USA (curated by McIntyre Parker) 2012 Print Studio, MOMA, New-York 2011 Poste Restante, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada Freaks and geeks, Air de Paris, France The Way It Wasn’t, Culturgest, Porto The Way It Wasn’t, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis 2010 The Social Life Of The Book, De Vleeshal, Middelburg 2009 T, quelques possibilités de textes, Centre d’ édition contemporaine, Genève Good Morning, Captain, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin PUBLICATIONS Aaron Flint Jamison is editor of the publication Veneer. When its run concludes in six years, the series will comprise eighteen issues, including a bookshelf to house the complete set for subscribers. Past contributors to Veneer include Sturtevant, George Kuchar, Kevin Kelly, and Ray Kurzweil. Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] Ingrid LUCHE Les œuvres d’Ingrid Luche s’inspirent pour certaines du contexte même de l’exposition. Jouant parfois avec des persistances rétiniennes de lieux fréquentés ou simplement fantasmés, ses œuvres intrigantes interrogent sans cesse notre perception des espaces en développant notamment une forme de temporalité intermédiaire : un présent qui n’est plus, un futur qui est déjà-vu. À l’instar de sa quatrième exposition personnelle prenant comme prétexte un lieu pré- cédemment investi et photographié, c’est lors d’une banale prise de vue de repérage de l’espace dévoué à sa future exposition que l’artiste s’aperçoit que les néons retrans- mis à travers un écran déforment et font vibrer Air de Paris ! Elle décide alors de le transformer davantage. Les œuvres présentées aujourd’hui résultent de cette courbure de l’espace - d’une exposition passée - et apportent une vision inédite en rapprochant notamment des points autrefois éloignés. Un phénomène qui dans le domaine de la cosmologie est déjà théoriquement possible ! Parmi les œuvres produites à l’occasion de cette exposition une autre espèce s’est invitée, cosmique cette fois. En effet, «Maquette pour une robe à partir de l’œuvre Sternhimmeltuch (1968) de Sigmar Polke, paraphée I. Luche » n’est pas seulement le déploiement et l’emprunt d’un titre énigmatique, c’est aussi la reproduction d’une constellation d’étoiles dans lesquelles Sigmar Polke écrivit son nom en 1986. Ingrid Luche superpose aujourd’hui le sien et transforme ainsi ce tissu spatial en nouvelle-née de la série des «Ghost Dresses». Et pourquoi pas se parer à présent de ses astres ? Dans cette nouvelle exposition, se cache aussi l’agrandisse- ment d’un livre sur lequel est gravé un dessin représentant Achille. Le point commun réside sans doute ici, dans le monde, le socle qu’il a volontairement quitté pour se voir plonger dans le fleuve… Il est parfois difficile de savoir si le cosmos convoqué dans les œuvres d’Ingrid Luche existe ou si nous l’avons rêvé ensemble, mais finalement cette dissociation n’a que peu d’importance dans le plaisir de découvrir ce nouveau voyage dans l’espace. Ingrid Luche (1971, vit et travaille à Paris) participera avec Air de Paris à Artissima/ section Present Future, Turin en Novembre 2015. Son installation permanente «The Gold, the Night & the Noon» est visible à Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal ainsi que l’oeuvre «Morceau de lune» produite spécialement pour la Triennale de Beaufort «Beyond Borders». Elle participe également à l’exposition «Et nous voici plus bas et plus haut que jamais» organisée par Vincent Romagny à Chiso Gallery, Kyoto. Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] In some cases Ingrid Luche’s works take their inspiration directly from the exhi- bition context. Sometimes making play with persistence of vision relating to places she has known or simply fantasised, her intriguing pieces endlessly challenge our spatial perceptions, notably by generating a kind of intermediate time frame: a no longer ex- tant present, a déjà vu future. As with her fourth solo exhibition, which took as its pretext a venue where she had already shown, it was after taking photographs of the space she would later use that the artist realised that the vibrations of the fluorescent lighting at Air de Paris set the gallery undulating. She then decided to alter the frame of reference by using another artist’s ex- hibition views as part of her project. The works on show here are the outcome of this use of curved space, creating a new vision by, among other things, bringing points in space closer than they were before – something already theoretically feasible in the field of cosmology. Among the works specially created for the exhibition is a new, cosmic kind: «Maquette pour une robe à partir de l’œuvre Sternenhimmeltuch (1968) de Sigmar Polke, paraphée I. Luche» not only involves borrowing and reusing an enigmatic title, it is also a reproduction of a constellation in which Sigmar Polke wrote his name in 1968. Here Luche overlays her own name and transforms this space cloth into the latest-born of her Ghost Dresses series. After all, why not use one’s stars as adornment? Also to be found in this exhibition is a blow-up of a book inscribed with a drawing of Achilles. The common factor is doubtless right here, in the world: the base he deliberately left so as to see himself plunge into the river… It is sometimes hard to tell if the cosmos conjured up by Ingrid Luche actually exists, or if we have dreamed it together. In the end, though, this disconnection is of little importance; what counts is the pleasure of discovery, of this new journey into space. Ingrid Luche (b. 1971, lives and works in Paris) will be joining Air de Paris in the Pre- sent Future section of Artissima, in Turin in November 2015. Her permanent instal- lation «The Gold, the Night & the Noon» can be seen at the Von-der-Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, together with her «Morceau de Lune», specially created for «Beyond Borders», the fifth Beaufort Triennial in Ostend. She also participates to «Et nous voici plus bas et plus haut que jamais», a group show curated by Vincent Romagny at Chiso Gallery, Kyoto. More: Personal Page Press online Ingrid Luche’s website Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] Exhibition view Le Lapin turquoise, Air de Paris, Paris, 2011 Exhibition view The Gold, the Night and the Noon, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, 2014 Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] Flying (after TD) 2012/13 dyptich, inkjet print on paper, colour pencil, nail varnish, wood frame 93 x 78 x 4,5 cm; 73 x 53 x 3 cm without frame 59 x 42 cm unique For all images request, please contact Audrey Pedron : [email protected] Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com [email protected] Ingrid LUCHE Born in Antibes, France, in 1971.
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