TOILETPAPER

Posted on 2017-12-11

Contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari are the duo behind TOILETPAPER, known for its cheeky hyperreal imagery, breaking down the prevailing codes and photographic motifs of fashion. Photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari first met artist Maurizio Cattelan when capturing him on camera more than ten years ago. The magic worked and the pair went on to create the experimental art magazine TOILETPAPER in 2010. In a class of its own, the image-only publication features carefully constructed photographs in a unique time and mental space. On the surface, the composition shots in TOILETPAPER have a quaint, slightly retro feel to them, an artful way of drawing us in before catching us off guard as we realize what we are actually looking at… Intriguing, comical, startling—the images in TOILETPAPER are guaranteed to leave their mark.

Opposite – Untitled, 2017

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2018

Perrotin
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
Japan

www.timvanlaeregallery.com

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JUAN USLE – LA NOCHE SE AGITA

Posted on 2017-12-11

Juan Uslé is an artist who understands the meaning of time, not only theoretically but also practically. He paints with a deliberate slowness, often at night, to the rhythm of his beating heart, his breathing, after reading texts that encourage him to dream. He likes the vibrations of silence and hates to hurry. He tests his paintings, one by one, leaving plenty of space around them, in the calm of his studio, alone or with a friend, in Saro (Cantabria) or in New York, where he has been based for nearly 25 years. He likes to paint either very large or very small canvases; the tension between these extreme formats stimulates him.
This new exhibition presents paintings from 2017, including two very large works that exceed the dimensions he has hitherto preferred. One is blue and the other two-tone and both bear the name of rivers, because there is a flow in these surfaces that are simultaneously static and vibratile; they will be accompanied by the family of works he has entitled “Soné que revelabas” and a group of small canvases, each illustrating that sensitive touch that has become his “signature”.

Opposite – Tejiendo el desvelo, 2017

Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2018

Galerie Lelong & Co
13, rue de Téhéran
75008 Paris
France

www.galerie-lelong.com

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FRANZ WEST

Posted on 2017-12-11

West is without doubt one of the most important sculptors and environment artists of contemporary art. His oeuvre is characterized not only by the forms he invents, but also for the communicative quality with which he directly addresses the viewer, urging him/ her to participate. The exhibition brings together various aspects from the broad oeuvre of Franz West. Both collages, sculptures from papier-mâché, plaster and polyester, furniture, an outdoor sculpture in aluminium and installations from different periods of his career are shown.

In the mid-1970s, West made his so-called Paßstücke (Adaptives), movable sculptures made of plaster and metal that were intended to be moved, touched, and handled—transforming viewers into participants. For West, the essence of the artwork is not the aesthetic quality, but how the work is used. These objects stimulate the ingenuity of the public and disrupt conditioned behavior in the exhibition space. From the 80s, he incorporated more fragile materials, such as papier-mâché and glass bottles in his sculptures, which he combined in the Labstücke (Refresher Pieces).

Opposite – Uncle chair, 2001-2010

Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2018

Tim Van Laere Gallery
Verlatstraat 23-25
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

www.timvanlaeregallery.com

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