Art Paris Art Fair has a cosmopolitan dynamic with the exploration of faraway places and new interpretations of the image, an other strong trend in this broad overview.
The only Colombian gallery present, La Balsa Arte of Bogota, offers several several images by the photojournalist Jesus Abad Colorado who, instead of just witnessing the atrocities and the violence committed in Colombia, makes every effort to highlight the desolation, the lost cause, the silence but also the capacity for resilience and vibrant memory.
Originally from Kazakhstan, Almagul Menlibayeva (YAY Gallery of Baku), mixing in her images a nostalgia for ancient Mongolia and the Soviet avant-garde, denounces an unprecedented ecological catastrophe in the region following the drying out of the Sea of Aral. She designs on these desert-like shores theatrical sacrifices to long-disappeared deities in the form of mutant creatures, mermaids, wolves and foxes.
In the face of a standardisation of the modes of representation in the landscape of the digital era, Douglas Mandry (Bildhalle Gallery) researches the primitive experiments in the medium (cyanotype, photogram…) that he recreates by processes of his own invention exploiting the physical properties subject to various risks.
Georg Brückmann (Rutger Brandt Gallery). Manipulating interior views, classical in appearance where painting and photography conflict, Brückmann brings in iconic pieces of design and walls or transparent cubes to create a depth, a perspective that quickly becomes destabilising.
Robert Gligorov (Pascal Vanhoecke Gallery). Using all visual media, photographer, performer, painter, videographer, sculptor, Gligorov has the art of controversy. He directs his own body in a sophisticated aesthetic appearance and very like advertising images, but which conceal a form of violence destined to awaken the spectator. Genetics, sex, ecology, identity, he sounds the alarm, half angel, half energetic demon, up to the creation of his own magazine Hystery, short-circuiting the usual channels for the spreading of art.
Ulrich Lamsfuss (Templon). This young Berlin artist plays the appropriator from a stock of photographs from different sources that he collects to repaint with incredible precision. Setting aside the idea of author and celebrity, we fluctuate between Juergen Teller and Rainer Fassbinder and suddenly what was insignificant becomes suspect. Unmask artifice, questioning desire and its visual mechanisms, fiction from reality.
FAIR
Art Paris Art Fair
From March 31st to April 3rd, 2016
Grand Palais
75008 Paris
France
http://artparis.com
