JACKSON – VALLOIS

Galleries — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:04:27 +0000

At the end of the 1960s, art in California (a history still written in the masculine) was dominated by two distinct and opposing trends: Light and Space – minimalism and reduction to the essential by Robert Irwin – and assemblage – installation and maximalism at the Ferus Gallery founded by Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz. On the fringes of this two-lane highway, isolated temperaments gradually emerged, tackling the limits of art’s mediums and questioning this duality: Bas Jan Ader, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Guy de Cointet, David Lamelas
and Richard Jackson.
Born in Sacramento in 1939 under the sign of Leo, Richard Jackson says he grew up with tools not books and claims to have been influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollock’s Action Painting, cathartically pushing his homage to the New York painter to extremes – even to the obscene – by flooding the surface of his installations with paint.
Thanks to his radical use of colour (splashing, squirting, spraying and shooting), his work has been compared to an outrageous version of Yves Klein and Niki de Saint Phalle’s Nouveau Réalisme. With his Action Painting and his painting machines, made from scratch and equipped with pipes spitting out eruptions of colour, Richard Jackson is above all the missing link between the Viennese Actionists and his American contemporaries Paul McCarthy and Bruce Nauman. He was also one of a host among Californian artists (Chris Burden, Mike Kelley,
Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray) and writers (Charles Bukowsky, Dennis Cooper) involved in MOCA’s cult exhibition, the grotesque and macabre Helter Skelter (1992) dedicated to the disruptive forms of 1990s L.A. in which he was a maverick, remembering how the public had to lean against his installation to better
appreciate Kelley’s work…

Galerie GP&N Vallois – Paris 6

Galleries — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:43:22 +0000

Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Gallery opened its doors in 1990 at the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Contemporary Art/Nouveau Réalisme duality has always been one of the main characteristics of the gallery. The idea that a galerist can do the same work for a young emerging artist as for an accomplished one has always been central in our approach. Since our opening, we have exhibited the following artists : Boris Achour, Pilar Albarracin, Gilles Barbier, Julien Berthier, Julien Bismuth, Mike Bouchet, Alain Bublex, Massimo Furlan, Taro Izumi, Richard Jackson, Adam Janes, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Martin Kersels,Paul Mc Carthy, Jeff Mills, Joachim Mogarra, Arnold Odermatt,Henrique Oliveira, Pierre Seinturier, Keith Tyson, Jacques Villeglé, Olav Westphalen, Winshluss, Virginie Yassef. This approach is still ours today with exhibitions of the estates of Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, as well as a personal exhibition dedicated to younger artists, such as Henrique Olivieira, a young Brasilian artist who created a buzz at the last Sao Paulo Biennale

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JACKSON – VALLOIS

Galerie GP&N Vallois – Paris 6