Gabriel Barcia-Colombo and Joanie Lemercier Exhibition
The Muriel Guépin Gallery
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The Muriel Guépin Gallery presents a group show featuring new artworks from Gabriel Barcia-Colombo and Joanie Lemercier
Well-regarded in Europe for his projects in public spaces and UNESCO protected sites, Joanie Lemercier presents unique light performances and installations that question one's perception of space.
Stepping away from standard setups and techniques, Lemercier animates his own drawings and sculptural works using video mapping technology-- a new technology that he has been using since its inception, and continues to contribute to develop today. Lemercier' abstractive works dwells on the objective details of his subjects: light, organic forms, geometrical shapes and colors. In this new piece, static surfaces of an origami wall sculpture installation transform into animated movements. With light wandering through the surface of the installation and at times being projected at precise points and places of the wall, the viewer is plunged into a hypnotizing experience of minimalist beauty.
Expanding the visuals from the restrictions of flat, rectangular surfaces and moving into a three-dimensional world, Lemercier transforms a unique wall sculpture installation into a virtual realm.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo's work focuses on memorialization and, more specifically, the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation. While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance era "cabinets of curiosity"), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture. His video sculptures play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by "collecting" human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo creates video sculptures that re-imagine static, utilitarian objects. The video interventions with items such as blenders, time punch clocks, and Spam are playful yet pointed, questioning the changing culture of today. Time is a constant theme in Barcia-Colombo's work, particularly in terms of engaging the viewer with our modern culture's increasing tendency for nostalgic wanderings, and the obsessive need for digitized, personal chronicling.
[Image: Gabriel Barcia-Colombo "A Point Just Passed" mixed media video sculpture, 10 videos of 10 minute loop, edition 1/6 + AP, 2011]
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Schedule
from April 19, 2013 to June 02, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-04-19 from 18:30 to 20:00