HEY! modern art & pop culture / Act III Opens!

I `m participating with four works in HEY! modern art & pop culture / Act III a great show in the Museum La Halle Saint Pierre, in Paris, it will last six months and is amazing. Here are the details and some pictures:

 

http://www.hallesaintpierre.org

Halle Saint Pierre
2, rue Ronsard – 75018 Paris
Métro : Anvers/Abbesses

Ouvert tous les jours : en semaine de 11h à 18h
samedi de 11h à 19h / dimanche de 12h à 18hOpen Monday-Friday : 11:00 am/18:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am/19:00 pm – Sunday 12:00 am/18 pm

MUSÉE D’ART BRUT ET D’ART SINGULIER

Au sein d’une belle architecture de style Baltard, tournée vers les jardins de la Butte Montmartre, la Halle Saint Pierre abrite un musée et une galerie, une librairie, un auditorium, un café. C’est dans ce cadre harmonieux et lumineux que sont présentées les grandes expositions temporaires et les multiples activités artistiques et culturelles dédiées aux formes les plus inattendues de la création.

La Halle Saint Pierre presents
HEY! modern art & pop culture / Act III
18/09/15 — 13/03/16

ABOUT
HEY! modern art & pop culture / ACT III62 international artists
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HEY! modern art & pop culture, an art magazine founded in 2010 by Anne & Julien, is back at La Halle Saint Pierre after the resounding success of its two previous editions in 2011 and 2013. This third edition, HEY! modern art & pop culture / Act III, will go further in its exploration and diffusion of various countercultural artistic media: Lowbrow Art, outsider art, comics and more generally any artistic vector of street culture.

Awash with first ever (Gabriel Grun, Thomas Woodruff, Ed Hardy) as well as exceptional guests (Marion Peck), the exhibition will also unveil previously unseen works by Joël Negri, Albert Sallé and Alain Bourbonnais from la Fabuloserie, an emblematic, offbeat art venue in France. For the first time in Europe works by Mark Ryden, tutelary figure of Pop Surrealism, will be on show at La Halle Saint Pierre.

This scene that Anne & Julien have been supporting for a number of years is vibrant, diverse and complex : its numerous trends and territories, ranging from its most radical manifestations such as Art Brut to the more sophisticated forms of Pop Surrealism, ensure its incontrovertible place in contemporary art history.

For Anne & Julien all the worth and modernity of this scene stem from these very characteristics. The two art activists are committed to defending it through their review, performances and exhibitions.They have been instrumental in putting a spotlight on idiosyncratic visual worlds whose common denominator is their sheer resistance through imagination: resistance to norms, to categorisations, institutionalization and fashion diktats. They are both the promoters and historians of a marginal, underground, alternative art scene.

For La Halle Saint Pierre, to be involved in such an adventure makes perfect sense : art history has always experienced upheavals and paradigm shifts. Echoing the current geopolitical, cultural watershed the world is facing, the art world is also going through a period of crisis and dramatic change. The HEY! modern art & pop culture trilogy is the perfect illustration of this.

Catalogue 340 pages.
Format 22 x 28 cm. Livre relié, cousu, couverture toilée, impression sérigraphie, tranche fil.
Editions Ankama /619

Vendu à la librairie de la Halle Saint Pierre
avec le sac en toile Hey! : prix 39,90 €.

The works present in the exhibition:

El Traje de Ramas

~ El Traje de Ramas ~

88 x 170 cm. óleo sobre tela 2015.

Una obra en la que indagué en la situación de una figura inquieta, frágil, pero que elige un camino, cruza un puente y nos mira sobre el hombro, como si estorbáramos un ritual íntimo. A mí estas palabras explicativas en clave poética hasta me disgusta verterlas, casi siempre empobrecen la visión de una obra que nos atrae... pero me parecía algo seco hacer la entrada y no escribir nada.

El Bosco, EL vendedor ambulante, El Peregrino o El Camino de la Vida, hacia 1516. Óleo sobre tabla, 135 x 100 cm, Museo de Prado. Son las dos tablas que cierran El carro del heno, y me abstuve de buscar verlas recientemente para que me sirvieran de inspiración lejana y general del cuadro, como un Norte nebuloso hacia el cual dirigirme, sin contaminarme directamente y haciendo que su recuerdo me guiara.