Thank you HubCulture and
Inspirelle for inviting me to present the below artworks along their seminars program in Paris during the COP21 summit.
French artist Lionel Sabatté works on
the memory of the world, using
residual materials, discarded, ignored or even repulsive, treating
them as precious archives, emissaries of the
past. He patiently
collects the raw material, subway dust,
amassed from the
perpetual human
flux, damaged
butterflies are
meticulously repaired with human nail
fragments,
abolishing the
borders between
plant, mineral and organic. Recalling ancient
wall-art bestiary, his
creatures tell the
narrative dimension of matter:
they tell the journey of matter
in our world.
Bulbul - 2014
Dust on metal structure, 18x17x11cm
2,500 euros
Petit oiseau des îles du 10/01/1989 - 2014
Oxidized iron and bronze solution, acrylic on Arches paper, 46x61cm
2,000 euros
Rameau #3 - 2015
Dead olive branch, dead skin, 20x92x20cm
2,000 euros
Réparation métissée #1 - 2015
Damaged butterfly, human nails, dead skin, pin and specimen box, 26x19,5x7cm
2,000 euros
Danish photographer
Winnie Denker is a reknown and
intrepid risk-taker, who's immortalized the World Heritage sites
for the UNESCO, and traveled the remote regions of Turkey, the Euphrates
Valley, Alep, Damascus, Palmyra, Egypt, China, the Hermitage Museum
in Saint-Petersburg where her photographs are displayed... Her recent discovery of Iceland has
urged her to capture the ephemerality of landscapes under threat
from climate change.
Une Portée Islandaise - 2013
Lambda print on aluminium, limited edition, edition of 10, 95.50x44.50cm
3,500 euros
La Petite Sirène - 2013
Cibachrome gloss photographic print, 180x95cm
Exhibited at HubCulture Paris and Davos World Economic Forum
10,000 euros
French artist
Seib Pascot presents
de medusis, a project about climate change and over-consumption:
a poetic critique of the anthropogenic impact on
nature. As nature mutates into landscape, it becomes an
industrial-scape, a trash-scape.
Crafting his jellyfish
from piano hammers, the artist uses a former bourgeois identifier
outside of the cozy interiors it is usually confined to. Medusae represent
the visible transformation of the environment, and its impact on
society, from summer beach alerts to fishing disasters in Japan.
Ocean warming and acidification allow jellyfish to develop, and
over-fishing has killed their predators.
Seib Pascot is working on a de medusis ballet featuring a hundred sculptures, where
humanity is disappearing.
De Medusis 1 - 2015
Piano hammers, paper, electronics, 45x200cm
7,000 euros
Scottish artist
Tony Valentine's wooden
sculptures totemize human figures from the forest, resembling fragile
puppets or timeless divinities, contemplations of desperation and
humour.
Wooden objects - 1997, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2014
One Armed Alice - 2004, Wood, 160cm, 2,000 euros
Figure Frêne - 1997, Wood, 160cm, 2,000 euros
Marie-Madeleine Cariou representing Tony Valentine, Yann Lemonnier and
Winnie Denker
