IMAGINE-GALLERY
"It is the first time Claire Maugeais and JC Nourisson collaborate on their work. Since both sojourn in Beijing, the occasion to work together was too beautiful to let pass. From this meeting is born a mixed installation which composes with the essence of their research: the city, memory, the reason, urbanism. ?Soft architecture counters prototype dustbin. Images of images of a world long forgotten counters critical views on contemporary China. Meaningful complexity counters the urgency of media. ?The installation of Claire Maugeais and JC Nourisson has the solidity of a marsh."
"...The modernity desired to break free from past and directed its creative spirit towards the sole resolution of the end of history. While confirming the ethic position of the plane, which is the interface of the written page, of photography and of architecture, JC Nourisson also feeds the radical aspect which geometrical abstraction seemed to exclude with the return of art historicals forms and the imaginary state." Sylvie Coellier?"Inheriting from modernity, but to contest some of its schematic aspects, Claire Maugeais'artistic undertaking goes voluntarily against the grain of concepts such as purity, perfect form, organization or harmony (that of images and spatial arrangements). Not to consider them as automatically invalid, but to signify how much their historical valorization is often due to a certain naivete. Citations from?modernist painting or architecture in her work are therefore not surprising, as the artist uses counterpoints against them. Moreover, this approach of a critical nature provides Claire Maugeais the occasion for a permanent play of forms,?in the sense of an unexpected redistribution, an incitement to "better see", and thus "better live" reality." Paul Ardenne??
Francais:
"C'est la premiere fois que?les travaux de Claire Maugeais et de JC Nourisson sont reunis. L'occasion est trop belle pour eux pour?se laisser aller a une installation mixte qui assemble les composantes essentielles de leur recherche: la ville, la memoire, le motif, l'urbain.Architecture molle contre prototype de poubelle. Images d'images d'un monde oublie contre vue critique de la Chine contemporaine. Complexite signifiante contre immediatete mediatique. L'installation de Claire Maugeais et de JC Nourisson a la solidite d'un marecage."??Also: Meet?IMAGINE GALLERY?at ART BEIJING6-10 Oct. 2006National Agricultural Exhibition Center?*Imagine Gallery sponsors Homonumos Magazine d'Avant Garde*
Megumi Shimizu Solo Exhibition ?Photography?Exhibitions Dates: From August 11th to September 10th, 2006?Opening: Friday August 11th, from 5 to 8pm
NICOLAS CABRERA - BEIJING - March 9th
From Nov.5 to Jan.15.2006
"FEMALE ART / Nu Yishu-Series one"
