docExhibition Virginie Barré Close Up May 27th – July
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Exhibition Virginie Barré Close Up May 27th – July
Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Virginie Barré Close Up May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Press release Virginie Barré draws her inspiration from the cultural fields of cinema, literature and comics, among others. In this exhibition, the artist presents new installations and a series of drawings recalling episodes or protagonists that marked the history of the moving image, in traditional cinema as well as in cartoons. The title Close Up refers to a t type off camera shooting h ti that th t gets t close l t a character to h t or an object bj t andd restricts t i t thus th the th field fi ld off vision, i i excluding l di contextual elements. We could say that Barré adopts the same “close up” perspective in her work, as this exhibition confirms. The viewer experiences indeed the unusual sensation to burst without authorization into a shooting or a show stage and finds characters that look as if they were misplaced and full of doubts about their own condition and role. Her installations with dummies of human figures, as well as her drawings that recall the aesthetics of the storyboards or the clear line of some comics or cartoons, cartoons present little fictions or rather “infra infra-narrations narrations” which only unveil fragments of stories. The situations imagined by Barré operate as the indexes or the beginnings of an upcoming event: they introduce incomplete elements of information – a character, an outfit, a behavior or a state of mind – that lead the spectator to construct his own narrative. The protagonists of Barré’s world are dreamy adults or children, “normal” people dressed up as heroes, and vice versa. These figures resist to identification; however, precisely because of this lack of characterization they open a familiar dimension composed by ordinary individuals we daily bump into or we identify characterization, ourselves with. In the exhibition, we find a female dummy dressed up as an astronaut, lying on the floor as if she were lost in her dream or anesthetized, maybe to bear a large space trip. The character seems to come out from some kind of vintage, timeless, science fiction movie. From an apparently insignificant scene such as a sleeping woman, we draw up a multiplicity of hypotheses of narration, between the oniric, the unseemly and the disturbing. Several pieces on show refer to the creative process. The puppet of a child, wearing an old Mickey Mouse costume, is sitting in a pool of black ink that seems to indicate his origin, somewhere between the imagination of his artistic “father” and the point of a drawing pen. Perhaps this child is re-creating his own tale and identifying himself with his hero, in the same way each reader or spectator does? Barré maintains an ambiguity about the identities of the characters; she invites us to speculate on the respective roles of the author and the character, and their eventual permutation. A series of large drawings complements the exhibition. They are inspired by the cinematographic imaginary too and make visible the pprocess of elaboration of the movie,, through g a mix of sketches and written notes. The drawings g contribute to demystify the fiction and the way it is constructed. With a simple though accurate line, and colorfields, Barré reinterprets in an aesthetic and sensitive way the artificial means that keep illusion and dream alive. Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Images Virginie Barré, 2011 Virginie Barré, 2011 Virginie Barré Close Up May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Images Virginie Barré, Le groupe du vendredi – Les enfants, 2010. Virginie Barré Close Up May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Exhibition c/ Enrique Granados, 49, SP-08008 Barcelona T. (+34) 93 451 0064, [email protected] http://www.adngaleria.com Virginie Barré Close Up May 27th – July 30th, 2011 Selected biography g p y Virginie Barré - 1970, Lives and works in Douarnenez (France) Solo shows (selection): 2011 Close Up, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. Virginie Barré, Université de Caen de BasseNormandie, Caen, France. Virginie Barré, CIAC, Pont-Aven, France. 2010 Le Groupe du Vendredi, Château de Taurines, Centrès, France. 2009 Simone, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France. Pieces, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. 2007 Blissfully, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. Slumberland, Les Collections de Saint Cyprien, St. Cyprien, France. 2006 Bauhaus, Gallery Parker´s Box, New York, USA. Bauhaus and indians, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London, Great Britain.Virginie Barré, Abbaye de Ronseray Angers, Ronseray, Angers France. France 2005 Simple Dames, Dames Galerie Loevenbruck, Loevenbruck Paris, Paris France. France El Corte Francés, ADN Galeria, Galeria Barcelona, Barcelona Spain. Group shows (selection): 2011 Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden. Sans Titre: Virginie BARRÉ, - Pierre MALPHETTES –Bruno PEINADO, Musée des Beaux-arts Denys-Puech, Rodez, France. Je me fais mon cinéma, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Istres, France. 2010 WNTRSLN, Parker’s Box, New York, USA. The Digital Hand, National Taïwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taïwan. L’art selon Elles, Espace culturel Les Dominicaines, Pont-l’Evêque, France. Arts Le Havre, Biennale d'Art Conteporain, Le Havre, France. 2009 Animamix Biennial-Visual Attract&Attack, MOCA, Taipei. Suspect Reason, A l i New Artlexis, N York, Y k USA. USA Investigations I i i off a Dog D , Fondazione F d i S d Sandretto R Rebaudengo, Re R b d T i Italy. Torino, I l Play Pl Time Ti , Parcours P S i Saint Germain, Paris, France. Vraoum!, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France. 2008 5 is only a number, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain. Esculturismo, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain. When fears become form, CAN - Centre d'art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Every Body Counts, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo, Norway. 2007 Drawing and Dreaming, ADN Galeria Barcelona, Spain. XS París, Fondation Ricard, Paris. France. Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2007, Lyon, France. Nuevos Horizontes - Artistas contemporáneos de Francia, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain. News Horizons, La Centrale Electrique – Centro Europeo de Arte Contemporáneo, Art, Bruselas, Belgium. 2006 Cosa Nostra, Glassbox, Paris, France. Bang Bang! Musée d´art et d´industrie de St. Etienne, Saint Etienne, France. Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. 2005 WA, Jakarta, Indonesia. Parafraseando al diablo, Alzaibar, Montevideo, Uruguay. Expérience de la Durée. Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, France. WA Surface d´autonomie temporaire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Draw! Galerie du jour Agnès B, Paris, France. I Still Believe in Miracles, Musée d´art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France.
