Galleries in Paris » Ramuncho Matta

MATTA – BARRAULT

Galleries — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:52:29 +0000

Getting out of the tunnel -

Sometimes

Even several times

You happen to put huge energy into making tunnels, as Rejane Ereau recalls in “l’ascension horizontale”, everyone has the tunnels of realities he needs in order to get out of them.

Through his daily exercise of making the drawing of the day, Ramuntcho Matta practices in a space where the drawing calls the text, in order to build a mental space in which the magic of the sentence rhythm triggers a special time.

For this is what it is about: in order to escape from the inherent acceleration of time with the use of social networks, Ramuntcho Matta proposes to slow down.

Anything can happen, arise, sprout…

In his Histoire chuchotée de l’art (a long voiced poem in twelve stanzas recorded for the first time in Copenhagen in 1963), Robert Filliou uses the phrase of “permanent creation” to name all the shapes of human inventiveness, whether it results in a work, or remains an idea. No known date, no famous name in this Histoire. “Whatever you think, think something else. Whatever you do, do something else. The absolute secret of permanent creation : do not want anything, do not decide anything, do not choose anything, be aware of yourself, remain awoke, sit calm and do nothing.” This aptitude for believing no longer that art means the steady making of works, confined in the studio, but as a daily liberating practice which frees you from the shackles of thinking is somehow very Zen. It is not surprising that Robert Filliou, at the end of his life, retired in a Buddhist monastery.

It is also not surprising that Ramuntcho Matta often refers to Robert Filliou when speaking of his own practice.

“What is living intensely?” the artist asks. You can recognize a way of thinking issued from the twentieth avant-gardes, all the aesthetic revolutions, which advocated going beyond art for the benefice of the emancipation of self and/or of society. You rarely hear such views today in the comments of an exhibition. Situationism – to live in the present time, like a work in itself- seems an outdated and fusty concept in a world where what is urgent is different. Potlatch and pure expenses are no longer relevant. The time is no longer for intensity but for slowing down and decrease.

Ramuntcho Matta has the blood of experimentation in his veins. This is why he is not only a gallery plastic artist, but writes, composes and produces music with sometimeStudio label, and founded, in 2018, Lizières program, hosting all kinds of artists and spectators for traineeships or residences with reflection and the making of works: “The name of Lizières is due to the fact that I feel much attention is given to what is central, whereas I believe that interesting things are on the fringe.”

Everything is only experience…

Eric Mangion

BE MY GUEST 1st part – ANNE BARRAULT

Galleries — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:22:11 +0000

BE MY GUEST _ 1st part

Neïla Czermak Ichti . Jochen Gerner . Ramuntcho Matta . Manuela Marques . David Renaud . Stéphanie Saadé

It will be the opportunity to present paintings, films, drawings and installations never yet shown at the gallery. Most of these works have already travelled according to the artists invited by museums, art centers, galleries and artist residencies. All these places build up an essential network in an artist ‘s career.

Today the gallery reciprocates these invitations and gathers 6 artists.

The fist one to be invited will be Neïla Czermak Ichti. Her work has been discovered in the exhibition “Désolé” devised by Mohamed Bourouissa at galerie Edouard Manet, (Gennevilliers). Neïla Czermak Ichti lives in Marseilles, and studies at the fine arts college. Through drawings and paintings, she depicts her family and her friends. The representation of apparently ordinary and trivial scenes refers to her beliefs, her cultures, and takes on magic and invisible dimensions.

For the firs time, Jochen Gerner will present a set of 80 pictures drawn while on the phone from 2009 to 2019. This series entitled “Atelier” has just been published by “l’Association”. This work is a criticism of language and image, and shows this artist’s polymorphism.

Stéphanie Saadé will present two works “Cut Colour” and “Burnt Measure”, emblematic of her approach expressing physical or temporal distances. She develops a suggestive language, using poetry and metaphor. The clue is often to be found in the artist’s personal history.

Following an invitation from Lodève Museum, Manuela Marques has stayed on the Causses plateaus, where she has filmed and taken photographs of the countryside she has observed, altered and re-enchanted. She will present two large format photographs entitled “seeds”.

Ramuntcho Matta will present a photograph of Brion Gysin, he met when he was 16. This founding relationship still feeds Ramuntcho Matta’s work.

Last but not least David Renaud will present a work entitled “les courants océaniques”. With it he tries and explores space, which allows him to work out experimentation both physical and mental.

RAMUNTCHO MATTA – BARRAULT

Galleries — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:56:18 +0000

Ramuntcho Matta is an eclectic artist, who has ploughed and ploughs all kinds of fields. His collaborating with Brion Gysin, the painter, writer and poet, John Cage, the sound artist, Don Cherry, the jazzman, as well as with Elli Medeiros, the singer and actress, has fed Ramuntcho Matta’s artistic and interdisciplinary world.
From paper to sound to video, installation , performance, it defines and connects the art of these various mediums.