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may 11, 2020 - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Reopening Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
We are happy to announce the reopening of our Paris Marais gallery as of 12 May, where Antony Gormley's exhibition In Habit will be on view until 20 June. Details of the gallery's reopening and hours are available here.
In an exclusive interview with art historian Jon Wood, Antony Gormley discusses some of the topics he has always been passionate about, from the changing landscape of London to the importance of Happenings and dance in his formative years at Cambridge University. The artist also reflects on the nature of contemporary urban life and the role of sculpture as a catalyst for first-hand experience.
Released on the occasion of the reopening, the In Habit exhibition catalogue includes studio and exhibition views alongside two essays: 'Communicating Vessels' by art historian Jon Wood and 'Antony Gormley: Spatial Sculptor' by geographer Michel Lussault.
The publication will be available for purchase onsite at our Paris gallery and through our online bookstore.
To accompany the reopening of Sylvie Fleury's exhibition She-Devils on Wheels, we are happy to share the video of her 1998 performance Between My Legs, in which she drives the iconic car while engaged in suggestive activities. Often posited as the ultimate signifier of manhood, cars are central to Sylvie Fleury's work. In her first exhibition at Art & Public in Geneva (1993), Fleury presented a 1967 Buick Skylark as sculpture. After the exhibition ended, the artist drove the car for many years and it became a central element in the evolution of her practice.
Now on view on our website, a selection of seminal video works by Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl are drawn together for an online exhibition following our recent London show Life Captured Still. Curated by Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra, the exhibition brings together two pioneers in the fields of documentary film and new media art, whose work is often conceptually associated but is shown in dialogue for the first time.
Nobody imagined that this exhibition and so many others would have to be closed off to the public. That the works so carefully chosen and placed in each room would be abandoned to the solitude of a closed gallery. In this moment we come across a different version of what being human means. This is what we can learn from Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl. How to be better humans after operational images have taken over the world, which before was dominated by humans. How to survive a reality in which we no longer trust the world we see and experience at a remote distance. And how to experience a decent enjoyment of art in a dramatic situation that would normally exclude such a priority. – Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra
Somehow, until right now, nobody had properly surveyed Farocki and Steyerl's work together... The two share a concise set of interests and artistic approaches... they weave together seemingly unlike events and ideas, coolly delighting in the phantom threads they find along the way that cross national and ideological borders.
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