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LAST EXHIBITION
SYLVIE ARLAUD & OTTO MUEHL
THE HUMAN FACTOR
Jan 29 - March 13
Download: catalogue "The Human Factor"
Mein Kampf I, 2015
Magazine-page (shredded), on acrylic glass-plate in wooden-frame.
21 x 30 cm
Source: Filmstill, "The Great Dictator", by Charlie Chaplin 1940,
Charlie Chaplin Archives and Taschen editions, Spring-Summer 2015
@Sylvie Arlaud, 2016
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Installation view „The Human Factor“, Viennacontemporary 2015.
Sources: Two children chairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR-Design of the 45-50ies)
& Erste Hilfe (shredded-book), Lehrbuch des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes, 1941
& Mein Kampf accompagné de commentaires (shredded-book),
par E.L. Michel, Paris 1938
& Kochen mit einer Mark (shredded-book), Dachau editions 1916/1929
Installation, Vienna, 9.2015, mixed media, 55 x 48 x 45 cm.
@Sylvie Arlaud, 2015/16
Political Objets Trouvés
of the early twenty-one
century
Since 2011, Sylvie Arlaud has been increasingly mixing
various media, involving collage, assemblage, installation, and
photo-performance. In her series Sensual Abstraction (2011) and
Feminine (2012), she undertook a very sensitive and humorous
introspection of her feminine identity, introducing an autobiographic
approach and some strong feminist aspects to her work.
This
included work on photo reproductions from material actions by Otto
Muehl in the 60s, a
sexual education book from France in the 70s,
and a current retrospective photographic volume
by Jeanloup
Sieff.
In contrast to these two previous series, in The Human
Factor she reduces every aesthetic intervention and focuses on
historical investigations. Orchestrating some fragments of
controversial realities put in an artistic context, she creates
political objet trouvés (found objects).
The title of Sylvie
Arlaud´s new eries refers to Graham Greene´s 1978 novel. The story
of the book takes place in the context of the Cold War. Being a
vehicle for human doubts — between professional duty and human
responsibility, conscience and setting aside — it describes a world
characterized by a culture of secrecy and manipulation, where people
are permanently confronted with disloyalty and the precariousness of
peace. It is obvious that the choice of this literary work is not
merely a coincidence.
The book is not only very applicable to our present time, it also
makes some generally applicable statements about human behaviour and
power structures. Above all, it doesn’t damn the individuals, but
instead the deprivation of liberty in human societies.
In this way it corresponds perfectly with recurring themes in
Sylvie Arlaud´s work, strongly characterized by the mindset of the
Age of Enlightenment.
In The Human Factor, Sylvie Arlaud takes an
investigative approach, her artistic process approximating a
journalistic strategy. For her collage-assemblages, the artist
selects original images and texts from original documents, which she
applies in original or reproduction on paper or transparent foils.
All of her materials are literary finds possessing an intrinsically
significant symbolic meaning.
After their montage, they reach a much more emotionally charged
content with a stronger force of expression. Giving us indications
about some politically charged backgrounds, they emerge to their
objective, historical veracities with a provocative value whose
relevance is not limited temporally.
Furthermore, as an
inherent part of her artistic process and product, she meticulously
researches and
mentions every source of the utilized and exhibited
documents, which then acts as a form of knowledge transfer that her
historical résumés may require. On an interactive level, she
exhibits all the associated literature, allowing observers to inform
themselves about her chosen themes.
Notions of transparency and freedom of expression also get
symbolized. She uses transparent materials such as foils, and mounts
her works on transparent acrylic glass or glass plates. She installs
everything into vitrines or wooden frames without backgrounds. In
this way the works
seem to hang free and the background pages can
also give important hints regarding contexts.
After conceiving her collages, she allows inspiration to
introduce a sculptural level to her installations. Recycling literary
remnants, she installs them together with carefully selected
familiar objects (usually old-fashioned and highly symbolic),
which maintain a relationship to
the overall content.
Complementary to her more sober and intellectual collage-assemblages,
her sculptural installations
elicit strong feelings, such as
facing an "Autodafé", entering an area after bomb attacks
or an earthquake, or simply entering the flat of a chaotic and
intellectual peace activist...
Sylvie Arlaud´s work may not be characterized in a way that
reduces it to political art with elements
of visual art,
literature, and sculpture. It is a manifest in itself. It is about
freedom of expression and
liberty, ephemerality and manipulability
of information, the fragility of knowledge and the fragility
of
life. And it bases on her thirst for truth that guides her quest for
truth.
*The series "The Human Factor" is an homage to the
artist Mark Lombardi, (1951-2000) and a
reference to his highly
explosive sociograms.
Sylvie Arlaud, February/March 2016
&
Ambacher Contemporary Munich-Paris
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EXHIBITIONS
MUNICH + FAIRS
CURRENT MUSEUM EXHIBITION MUNICH
Solo show "Lokalinfektion"
Show, 18.4. - 28.6.2024
with new works by the artist
CURRENT GALLERY EXHIBITION MUNICH
A Phoenix Journey
Sylvie Arlaud |
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Ernesto Canovas |
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Wolfgang Ganter |
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La Fratrie |
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Frank Maier |
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Otto Muehl |
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Tomislav Nikolic |
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Inge Pries |
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Edwart Vignot |
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Johannes Weiss |
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&
Olivia Mary Nantongo
Show until 25.05.2024
LAST
EXUBERANTIA suspended
Re-enacted from the Romanian Pavilion Biennale Venezia 09, for Munich.
The exhibition raises questions about the relationship between
humans and nature.
ANDREEA FACIU
9.9. - 21.11.2023
GALLERY WEEKEND
35. OPEN ART MUNICH
08. - 10.09.2023
PAST
COUNTDOWN
Ernesto Cánovas
Exhibition extended
- 27.07.2023
Ernesto Cánovas
GRAND LAKE, 2020
Mixed media, resin on wood
30 x 40 cm
PAST
IN YOUR FACE II
Gallery weekend
34. open art with
Christian Henkel
Stephan Jäschke
Exhibition
10.9. - 10.12.2022
Stephan Jäschke
Porträt 2, 2022
Oil on canvas,
100 x 100 cm
GALLERY WEEKEND
34. OPEN ART MUNICH
09. - 11.09.2022
PAST
Sunrise
Wolfgang Ganter
25.09. - 27.11.2021
33. OPEN ART MUNICH
24. - 26.09.2021
Wolfgang Ganter
Untitled-(Nebula-Gate), 2021
Echtpigmentprint auf Glasfaserträger
100 x 106 x 3 cm 1/6 + 2AP
PAST
Title No 211
- 211 shows till 2004 in Munich,
Paris & abroad included curated
ones & internaional fairs
in america, asia, europe
Ernesto Cánovas
La Fratrie
Mevlana Lipp
Tomislav Nikolic
Until, 10.06.2021
- Second half year exhibition - Corona long term exhibition
PAST
Investigative Elements
Sylvie Arlaud
Thomas Kvam
Mark Lombardi
Guest: Andreea Faciu
Until, 7.11.2020
PAST
Investigative Elements
11/12/13.9.2020
Sylvie Arlaud, Thomas Kvam, Mark Lombardi and Andreea Faciu
32. OPEN ART MUNICH
PAST
Primordial Synthetic
12.9. - 8.2.2020
Alina Birkner
Mateusz von Motz
Tomislav Nikolic
LAST FAIRS
BARCELONA
SWAB BARCELONA
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
Ernesto Cánovas & Gracjana Rejmer-Cánovas
Glut Data III
26. - 29.9.2019
MUNICH
POSITION MUNICH ART FAIR
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
ALINA BIRKNER
MEVLANA LIPP
MATEUSZ VON MOTZ
TOMISLAV NIKOLIC
17. - 20.10.2019
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LAST SHOW / PERFORMANCE
PARIS
SYLVIE ARLAUD
19.10.2018
FAITES L´AMOUR,
PAS LA GUERRE
MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR
MACHT LIEBE,
KEINEN KRIEG
2 Square des Combattants
d´Afrique du Nord,
92120 Paris-Montrouge
Anti-war demonstrations,
April 27, 1968 The largest
demonstration took place in
New York City, where more than
100,000 people marched in four
separate parades into Central Park’s
Sheep Meadow to listen to speeches
by Mrs. Martin Luther King, draft resister Michael Ferber, Dave Dellinger, and Mayor
John V. Lindsay.
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
& SHOWS MUNICH
ARMIN MÜHSAM
Present Hypotheses
28.6. - 10.8.2019
A. Mühsam - M. Gross
SiteParallels, 2018
HAW Contemporary
Kansas City, USA
LA FRATRIE
I used to be a Trader
but i'am ok now
23.3. - 4.5.2019
Illusion brought me
here, love hotel, 2019
Mixed media, sculpture
53 x 38 x 22 cm
SIGNS, CREATURES AND FORMS
in the new conceptual
expressive abstraction
by six young artists
ARNO BECK
EMANUEL ECKL
JAN HOLTHOFF
GERGELY KISS
JULIA KLEMM
JANA SCHRÖDER
25.5. - 24.8.2018
SCF Show, summer 2018
Installation view, left to right:
Jana Schröder, Julia Klemm
Arno Beck
WOLFGANG GANTER
Chef-d´ouvre brisé
23.2.-19.5.2018
Wolfgang Ganter, 2015
Albrecht Dürer,
Porträt von Oswolt Krel
Echtpigmentprint auf Holz
unter gegossenem Kunststoff
Ed. 1/6 + 1 AP, 140 x 100 cm
JOHANNES WEISS
Notizen
9.9. - 23.1.2018
Johannes Weiss, 2016
der Blick aus der Ferne
Styropor, Epoxy, Acryl, Gips
160 x 50 x 50 cm
LA FRATRIE
Karim & Luc Berchiche
Do i dare disturb the universe
23.6. - 2.9.2017
La Fratrie, 2017
'Ì am here if you need me'
Mixed media
65 x 35 x 20 cm
Courtesy, private
collection Coburg
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
SHOWS PARIS
WOLFGANG GANTER
Chef-d´oeuvre brisé
29.9. - 30.3.2018
Wolfgang Ganter, 2015
Leonardo da Vinci,
La Joconde
Mixed Media, Echtpigment-
Druck auf Holz, Resine
Ed. 1/6+2 AP, 140 x 100 cm
ARMIN MÜHSAM
Manifested Silences
21.4. - 29.7.2017
Armin Mühsam, 2016
Technocratic Mausoleum
Oil on canvas, 72 x 61 cm
PARIS
ART PARIS ART FAIR
Booth D3
30.3. - 2.4.2017
Sylvie Arlaud - Ernesto Cánovas
John Giorno - La Fratrie (Luc and Karim Berchiche) - Tom Hackney
Frank Maier - Armin Mühsam
Tomislav Nikolic - Inge Pries
Daniel Schüßler - Edwart Vignot
From left to right:
Maier, Hackney, Arlaud
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PLATEAU münchen
2016
Fr. 28.10., 18-21h
Sa. 29.10., 11-18h
LIGHTBOX
"I´m so bored with this place"
TIMOTHÉE TALARD
9.9. - 5.11.2016
Timothée Talard, Lightboxes
small, 50 x 100 x 12 cm
big, 150 x 125 x 12 cm
PARIS
OPENING NEW GALLERY SPACE
during Fiac Art Week/Fiac Gallery Night, 20.10.2016
26.10.2016 - 15.04.2017
19, Passage du Ponceau
119, Boulevard de Sébastopol
Marais/Sentier - 75002 Paris
Groupshow, 'Liquidation totale'
Sylvie Arlaud, Sabrina Belouaar, Hugo Bonamin & Samuel Theis, Ernesto Cánovas & Gracjana Rejmer Cánovas, John Giorno, Thomas Draschan, Tom Hackney, La Fratrie (Luc & Karim Berchiche), Frank Maier, Otto Muehl, Armin Mühsam, Tomislav Nikolic, Inge Pries, Daniel Schüßler, Timothée Talard and Edwart Vignot.
Gallery Space until
April 2018 @ Passage
du Ponceau in Paris
YIA ART FAIR
Ernesto Cánovas, Gracjana Rejmer-Cánovas and Tomislav Nikolic
21.-23.10.2016
Le Carreau du Temple - Marais
4, rue Eugène Spuller - 75003 Paris
BERLIN
'Service compris'
A joined exhibition
with
Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst
during Berlin Art Week
Sylvie Arlaud, Ernesto Cánovas,
Thomas Draschan, Tom Hackney,
Jan Holthoff, Birgit Jensen,
Frank Maier, Otto Muehl, Armin
Mühsam, Tomislav Nikolic,
Inge Pries, Daniel Schüßler,
Edwart Vignot, Christopher
Winter, Andreas Zimmermann.
16.09.-29.10.2016
extended until 22.12.2016
AMBACHER CONTEMPORARY &
LEHR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST
Großbeerenstraße 16 - 10963 Berlin
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