Galleries in Paris » David Maljkovic

MALJKOVIĆ – DVIR

Galleries — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:05:28 +0000

Over the past few years, the exploration of painting as a medium—specifically its capabilities and capacity as a visual language—has become more prominent in the work of David Maljković. To be sure, the problematization of media codes and epistemological dispositions within painting, the abstraction of pictorial properties, and their transfer to different media realities are constants in Maljković’s art. Therefore, the presence of easel painting at an exhibition or the use of painterly procedures should not be viewed as a return or revival, but rather as a continuation of his poetic protocols. These protocols are, very generally speaking, aligned with the logic of deconstruction, which is based on the dissociation of various visual formations or entire sign systems (such as individual works of art, painting, architecture, scenography, etc.) from their essential properties, identities, and functions, reducing them to fragmentary, peripheral aspects of appearance. This remnant of form becomes a factor of the new symbolic reality that the exhibition somehow holds together.

Similar principles are at work here. The exhibition at Dvir consists of several interconnected elements from different classes of objects. Maljković forms a loose spatial installation, supplementing paintings and drawings on canvas with large-formatted MDF panels, whose fronts are painted to suggest a kind of colour chart, and a direct intervention on the wall—another “painterly” colour palette, studded with ambiguous stucco accents. All these elements are objects held in tension by the multiple conflicting codes they carry. Thus, in addition to compositions made using classic painterly procedures, the easel paintings are occasionally enhanced by laser drawings, which in some places extend beyond the painting’s field onto the supporting boards and frames. In some instances, painting is missing altogether, and the laser drawing is the only intervention on the raw canvas. The colour charts on MDF panels seem to be part of the working process, a rehearsal for the paintings. However, as these panels are conventionally used to make doors, they are also articulated within the exhibition set-up in a sculptural-spatial sense; massive supports and door knockers enhance their materiality, opening up further connotations that negate their ability to function as neutral backgrounds. Something similar happens

with the walls, onto which the artist has transposed analogous painterly and other formative procedures, disturbing the clear and unambiguous demarcation between the space of the painting and the space outside it, between the artwork and the environment.

FENÊTRE DU STUDIO – DVIR

Galleries — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:12:08 +0000

“Fenêtre du studio” is a group exhibition centered around the question of painting, with works by Aysha E Arar, Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Mircea Cantor, Latifa Echakhch, Douglas Gordon, Sigalit Landau, Yudith Levin, David Maljkovic, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Ortmeyer, Florian Pumhösl, Ariel Schlesinger.

The exhibition explores the various conceptual and artistic approaches these artists, coming from different backgrounds and generations, have with the medium of painting.

Galerie Dvir – Paris 3

Galleries — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:49:35 +0000

Dvir Gallery was founded in 1982 by Dvir Intrator to introduce cutting-edge contemporary Israeli artists. In 1994, the gallery broadened its representation to include international artists such as Miroslaw Balka, Marianne Berenhaut, Douglas Gordon, Latifa Echakhch and Lawrence Weiner in its program. In 2013, Dvir Gallery combined its three separate spaces into a five-story building, the first of its kind in Tel Aviv.

In 2016, the gallery opened its first gateway to Europe with a branch in Brussels, which strengthen and developed the existing relationship with the international artistic community.

In 2022, on the occasion of its 40^th anniversary, the gallery opened a space in Paris, in the heart of the historical Marais District, emphasizing the special ties and connection the gallery has had, since its beginnings, with the French cultural milieu, collaborating with artists, institutions and private collections.
Artists represented : Adel Abdessemed, Nelly Agassi, Miroslaw Balka,, Marianne Berenhaut, Jennifer Bornstein, Yossi Breger, Orna Bromberg, Mircea Cantor ,Lisetta Carmi, Latifa Echakhch ,Omer Fast, Adi Fluman, Simon Fujiwara, Douglas Gordon, Dor Guez, Thomas Hirschhorn, Shai-Lee Horodi, Sigalit , Yudith Levin, David Maljkovic, Matan Mittwoch, Jonathan Monk, Vered Nachmani, Moshe Ninio, Melik Ohanian, Sarah Ortmeyer, Florian Pumhösl, Barak Ravitz, Ariel Schlesinger, Netally Schlosser, Miri Segal, Nedko Solakov, Naama Tsabar, Lawrence Weiner, Bri Williams, Pavel Wolberg