Pierre Ardouvin “Le couvert est mis (The table is set)”

Topaz Arts

poster for Pierre Ardouvin “Le couvert est mis (The table is set)”

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TOPAZ ARTS presents Pierre Ardouvin, a prominent Paris-based artist in his first solo exhibition in New York, Le couvert est mis (The table is set). Ardouvin’s works, widely exhibited throughout France and internationally, are often presented as a journey into the hazardous byways of consciousness and memory. Conjuring strange visions out of everyday reality, his installations, sculptures, and drawings are flooded with memories that are both personal and collective. Seemingly familiar scenes or objects that make up his work become distorted under the effect of an unsettling juxtaposition of senses, combining chaos, joy and nostalgia – producing a sense of déjà-vu without distinction.

This exhibition features a new installation Le couvert est mis (The table is set) made specifically for the Topaz Arts space during his one-month artist residency. Using ephemeral construction, a set table, raised on columns of bricks placed on top of one another, Ardouvin creates an inviting yet precarious table scene, evoking a distant memory of a horizon, which as a child, seemed so high up. Presenting a collection of works referencing the domestic and familiar sphere of the home, the artist uses objects such as curtains, a table, chairs, dishes and construction bricks (echoing the surrounding architecture of residential buildings in Queens and Brooklyn), recomposed and reused throughout the space.

Also on view are new drawings by Ardouvin, and his sculptural series “The night is not over”, (title extracted from the poem “Isolation” by Michel Houellebecq). Thick velvet curtains with large printed images of caves are attached to the walls. Placed on the floor and peeking out from underneath the curtains are a pale grey cast of a pair of feet are visible, yet the body disappears within the curtain’s folds and the cave-like images. An encounter with clandestine appearances of a world in-between, blurring the stability of the limits between the inside and the outside, past and present, the space of the portrayal and the portrayed.

Pierre Ardouvin was born 1955 in France, and lives & works in Paris. He was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp prize in 2007. His works have been shown throughout France at Palais de Tokyo (Paris); MAM, Muséum of Modern Art d’art (Paris); MAC/VAL, Museum of Contamporary Art d’art of the Val de Marne; among others; and internationally at Jumex Fondation (Mexico); Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan); NMCA Museum (Seoul). He is represented in France and in Los Angeles by Praz-Delavallade Gallery Paris/ Los Angeles and by Yoko Uhoda Gallery at Liège et Knock (Belgium). www.pierreardouvin.com

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Schedule

from September 15, 2018 to October 27, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-09-15 from 15:00 to 18:00

Artist(s)

Pierre Ardouvin

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