"PARIS—SCOPE: BENOÎT PYPE" Exhibition
Mixed Greens Gallery
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Mixed Greens presents the third installment of ParisScope, a series of peculiar, collaborative exhibitions that give visitors to Mixed Greens a glimpse into Paris-based Projective City’s newest gallery space. Operating as a kind of alchemical experiment into the possibilities of “action at a distance,” viewers are able to peer into (but obviously not enter) the space both thousands of miles away and inches from their grasp—to mystically be both HERE and THERE simultaneously. The Paris-Scope series allows artists unprecedented control over the gallery space, and focuses on ambitious solo installations. The third exhibition showcases the elegant work of French artist Benoît Pype.
For the first time in his career, Paris-Scope allows Pype to fill an entire gallery space with his delicate sculpture. Benoît Pype’s practice calls attention to scale and lavishes care on overlooked items. In one series, for example, he creates very specific supports for neglected natural elements: a tiny carrying case for a drop of water, a crutch for a blade of grass, a series of shelves for willow leaves. In his work Geographie Transitoire, maps of major world cities are die-cut into enormous leaves, whose veins and patterns resonate with the latticework of urban spaces. Slowly the leaves decompose, forming a fictional and ephemeral city.This preoccupation with small, disregarded detail leads Pype
to a poetic and witty practice. For some time he has crafted small pedestals for the display of micro-sculptures made from pocket lint. Quotidian, tiny, and insignificant materials transform into aesthetic monuments. For Paris-Scope, Pype is finally able to push the work to a greater extreme by blowing up the scale of the lint balls. Increased by several orders of magnitude, the work still maintains a curious, if somewhat ominous and uncanny presence.
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Schedule
from September 06, 2012 to November 10, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00