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BARRADA – POLARIS

Galleries — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:05:42 +0000

Charade (Twenty years later)

An exhibition conceived by Yto Barrada
curated by Clément Dirié
October 19-November 25, 2023, Galerie Polaris, Paris
With Yto Barrada, Marie Muracciole, Élodie Pong, Irina Prentice, Christine Rohmer et Laurent Védrine

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On the occasion of Yto Barrada’s exhibitions for the 2023 edition of the Festival d’Automne à Paris Paris*, Galerie Polaris is pleased to welcome the artist back to celebrate twenty years years of collaboration. In spring 2003, Gran Royal Turismo was one of her first solo solo exhibitions in Europe, following her meeting with Bernard Utudjian.

Twenty years on, Yto Barrada, in collaboration with art critic and curator Clément Dirié presents an exhibition featuring, alongside her own work (a new series of photographs on the flea market in Tangier) collages and enhanced books by Irina Prentice, paintings by Christine Rohmer and assemblages by Laurent Védrine – and no doubt a few other guests. A special place is given to Christine Rohmer and her paintings, whose pastel-like rendering of oil paint and the tender « silent nature » of things and beings offer a space for contemplation. Whatdothesesixartistshaveincommon? Tiesoffriendshipandadmiration,a belief in art and its modes of expression, the junction between extreme singularity and universality, a sensitive way of looking at worlds, and of course your own way of looking at them together. Art is always an individual and collective adventure.

Like a charade, the exhibition presents a visual, mental and textural landscape where the works will surprise and, let’s be sure, will bounce off each other, twenty years after and twenty years before.

Yto Barrada, New York Marie Muracciole, Paris Élodie Pong, Zurich Irina Prentice, Londres Christine Rohmer, Paris Laurent Védrine, Paris

THE REAL WORLD IS IN BLACK AND WHITE – POLARIS

Galleries — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:24:02 +0000

The title of this exhibition is an extract from an André Bazin critic on the movie “ Le Mystère Picasso” by Henri Georges Clouzot, in which he stresses that this movie filmed in color, is developed in the most part in black and white.

The spectator only recalls the parts kept in color in which Picasso is painting on a glass slab, he does not remember that the movie is mainly in black and white.

The exhibition The Real World is in black and white leads to the questioning of the notion of truth in color. A new found unity between night and day can be perceived.

The exhibition presents pieces from different artists working around black and around white, or using color in a way that unexpectedly, doesn’t give the spectator the immediate impression to be in front of color.

Galerie Polaris – Paris 3

Galleries — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:08:39 +0000

Created by Bernard Utudjian, Polaris Gallery is one of the first contemporary art gallery of this area of Le Marais, in Paris. The new space rue des Arquebusiers, ( incredible array of contemporary talent between this street and rue Saint-Claude) was inaugurated in 2009, (The development was confided to Odile Decq, architect of recent Museum of Contemporary Art in Roma ( Macro) . Polaris made the very first solo exhibitions of the main artists represented, and is always open to emerging and newest tendencies in art. The gallery represents : Etienne Armandon, Eric Aupol, Bart Baele, Yto Barrada, Monika Brandmeier, Matthias Bruggmann, Antonio Caballero, Marcos Carrasquer, John Casey, Odile Decq, Simon Faithfull, Vanessa Fanuele, Harald Fernagu, Patrick Guns, Anthony Hernandez, Louis Heilbronn, Khaled Jarrar, Richard Mudariki, Sara Ouhaddou, Nigel Rolfe, Gaétan Vaguelsy, Walter Van Beirendonck, Clémence Van Lunen, Simon Willems.

Désirance – POLARIS

Galleries — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:58:05 +0000

Désirance is is a title and a concept where it is requested to look at art and only art.

The exhibition presents works by Bart Baele, Yto Barrada, John Casey, Stéphane Couturier, Bouchra Khalili, Speedy Graphito, Laure Tixier, and Patrick Guns.