Fabien Castanier Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery will be exhibiting once again at CONTEXT Art Miami 2015. CONTEXT is a part of Miami Art Week (Dec. 1-6), one of the most important weeks for contemporary art in the United States. This art fair brings together international galleries from all over the globe with over four hundred and sixty artists represented. This fair take place in tandem with Art Miami which allows for artists, galleries, and collectors to develop an open dialogue and share new ideas about contemporary art.
Fabien Castanier Gallery has exhibited with CONTEXT since its launch in 2012. This year the gallery will be exhibiting new works from both established and emerging artists including: Speedy Graphito, JonOne, RERO, Mark Jenkins, Miaz Brothers, Fidia Falaschetti, Stuart Semple and Luke Newton. Making their CONTEXT debut, British artists Stuart Semple and Luke Newton will both be showing new works from their 2015 solo exhibitions.
CONTEXT begins December 1st for VIPs at 5:30pm and General Admission begins December 2nd at 11:00am. The fair is located at The CONTEXT | Art Miami Pavilion Midtown | Wynwood Arts District 2901 NE 1st Avenue Miami, FL 33137.
Fabien Castanier Gallery will be located at booth number 32. For complimentary tickets see here. For more information about CONTEXT and Art Miami please visit their website www.contextartmiami.com.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank IDOL Magazine for featuring Stuart Semple’s latest solo exhibition MY SONIC YOUTH . This solo exhibition is the LA debut for one of the UK’s most significant post YBA artists, Stuart Semple. In My Sonic Youth, Semple uses painting, sculpture, and installation to explore social concepts in addition to dissecting the psychological evolution of youth culture over the course of several decades. The artist illustrates how spaces, communication, and music have changed drastically, forcing a generation of young people into a new kind of isolation. Heavily inspired by the music of his own youth, Semple uses references from music and art history to construct a fluid visual narrative, which tells the tale of a radical social and emotional shift among youth culture.
MY SONIC YOUTH is on view through November 28th. See link below for the full article.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank EXCLAMA for their recent interview featuring the Miaz Brothers. The artists discuss their latest solo exhibition, Antimatter Series: Timeless, which opens November 5th in Bogotá. Timeless is an extension of the artists’ Antimatter Series which will once again focus on the artists’ unique form of portraiture. This exhibition will also mark the grand opening of the gallery’s second location in Bogotá, Colombia. See the link below for the full interview.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank Hunger TV for featuring Stuart Semple’s artist interview. MY SONIC YOUTH is the LA debut for one of the UK’s most significant post YBA artists, Stuart Semple. See link below for the full interview.
Following a traumatic near death experience as a teenager studying fine art in the English countryside, Semple has gone on to exhibit in over 15 solo exhibitions internationally in China, Italy, London and NYC. He is best known for his paintings, which present an emotive and sociological perspective on mass culture. In My Sonic Youth, Semple uses painting, sculpture, and installation to explore social concepts in addition to dissecting the psychological evolution of youth culture over the course of several decades. The artist illustrates how spaces, communication, and music have changed drastically, forcing a generation of young people into a new kind of isolation. Heavily inspired by the music of his own youth, Semple uses references from music and art history to construct a fluid visual narrative, which tells the tale of a radical social and emotional shift among youth culture.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present Antimatter Series: Timeless, a solo exhibition by the Miaz Brothers. Timeless is an extension of the artists’ Antimatter Series which will once again focus on the artists’ unique form of portraiture. This exhibition will also mark the grand opening of the gallery’s second location in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Miaz Brothers offer a profound new take on conventional portrait painting. The Italian siblings work in tandem using layers of aerosol paint to create ghost-like canvases that are antithetical to the classical portrayal of the lone figure. The Antimatter Series, as their body of work is known, has incorporated a diverse range of subjects. The two installments of the series exhibited in Timeless are both haunting and ethereal representations of familiar faces, the first being the “Masters” series that utilizes figures from the Renaissance and other old world paintings. The second set is the latest by the artists – the “Friends” series – which includes more contemporary subjects.
In the “Friends” series the artists have transitioned to a monochromatic tonal palette, which pays homage to traditional black and white photography. However in contrast to photographic portraits, the Miaz Brothers venture to render an unsharpened image, a mere suggestion of the sitter’s form. As for the “Masters” series, the artists apply the same blurred technique with muted tones of blue, green, and brown to create dark extrapolations of Renaissance portrait paintings.
The brothers employ contextual titles as well as subtle changes in color and form to explore notions of perception rather than representation. The paintings are made up of a fragile haze of aerosol paint, layered to create only ideas of any human likeness and setting. By making such evasive portraits without portraying a real representation, the artists present the viewer with an exercise in memory and subjective understanding. The Miaz Brothers create paintings that defy epochs and activate the present viewer, allowing the audience to contemplate, as the artists suggest, “the transitory nature of existence”.
Opening reception with the Artists Thursday, Nov 5th from 7-10pm. The show will be on view at the gallery’s second location through November 28th.
Castanier Gallery | Bogota
Cra 23 No. 76-56 Bogotá, Colombia
In My Sonic Youth, Stuart Semple uses painting, sculpture, and installation to explore social concepts in addition to dissecting the psychological evolution of youth culture over the course of several decades. The artist illustrates how spaces, communication, and music have changed drastically, forcing a generation of young people into a new kind of isolation. Heavily inspired by the music of his own youth, Semple uses references from music and art history to construct a fluid visual narrative, which tells the tale of a radical social and emotional shift among youth culture.
In addition to the work having a musically historical thread the exhibition is also accompanied with a limited edition vinyl record, which includes a custom soundtrack featuring collaborations with BLACK MOSES, OFFICERS, KARIMA FRANCIS, SAM FORREST (nine black alps), MAXIM (prodigy), ED LAURIE, PAUL FRYER, CHARLOTTE CHURCH, DOUG TIELL, and IAN PICKERING (sneaker pimps). The album is an edition of 250 which includes a 12″ gatefold vinyl with a bonus 7″ vinyl, a signed and numbered screenprint, and an exclusive super high-def digital audio download link.
The vinyl was compiled & curated by: OFFICERS at the Bullfighter Dorm
Mastered by: James Barton
A&R: Emily Mann
All artwork: Stuart Semple
Proceeds will go to support of CALM (campaign against living miserably). My Sonic Youth is available for pre-order for delivery on or before 12th December. Contact the gallery for details.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to announce the second location in Bogotá Colombia is officially opened. The gallery celebrated the newest location with a group exhibition, DANDO PAPAYA. The inaugural exhibition includes the works of Ludo, JonOne, RERO, Speedy Graphito, Fidia Falaschetti, Tilt and Mark Jenkins. A sincere thank you to the San Felipe Arts District and Bogotá community for making the first opening reception such a success. The group exhibition will be on view October 2-31.
Contact the gallery for a full catalog of available work.
NEW BOGOTÁ LOCATION: San Felipe Arts District Cra 23 No. 76-56 Bogota, Colombia.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank Bizarre Beyond Belief and We Heart for additional features on Mark Jenkins Still Life. In Still Life Jenkins presents an all-new body of work created here in Los Angeles. The collection features an evocative series of site- specific installations, including three-dimensional canvases, incorporated taxidermy, a human birdhouse and anthropomorphic stringed instruments. Akin to traditional notions of the “still life,” his sculptures capture moments that conjure their own realities, presenting tableaus that challenge one’s sense of what is real and what is not. Jenkins constructs his people, animals, children – entities commonly filled with life – into inanimate objects, frozen in bizarre postures and scenarios. By creating these unconventional situations, he re-contextualizes commonplace ideas or things and inserts them into a new landscape in which the viewer plays an integral part.
The show has been extended through October 17th.
To read the full features see the links below:
Bizarre Beyond Belief Magazine- Mark Jenkins- “Still Life”
We Heart- Mark Jenkins, Still Life at Fabien Castanier Gallery
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present My Sonic Youth, the LA debut for one of the UK’s most significant post YBA artists, Stuart Semple. Semple will take over Fabien Castanier Gallery in Culver City this October with a series of new controversial artworks.
Following a traumatic near death experience as a teenager studying fine art in the English countryside, Semple has gone on to exhibit in over 15 solo exhibitions internationally in China, Italy, London and NYC. He is best known for his paintings, which present an emotive and sociological perspective on mass culture. In My Sonic Youth, Semple uses painting, sculpture, and installation to explore social concepts in addition to dissecting the psychological evolution of youth culture over the course of several decades. The artist illustrates how spaces, communication, and music have changed drastically, forcing a generation of young people into a new kind of isolation. Heavily inspired by the music of his own youth, Semple uses references from music and art history to construct a fluid visual narrative, which tells the tale of a radical social and emotional shift among youth culture.
This densely woven chronicle of generational displacement takes form in My Sonic Youth through several large-scale paintings, 3d stereogram prints, large format wallpapers, fun house distortion mirrors, large collage works on paper and sculptures. The exhibition will also be accompanied with a limited edition vinyl record, which will include a custom soundtrack featuring collaborations with several musicians. Proceeds from the vinyl sales will go to charity.
“In the tangled web of the anti-social Internet we are all responsible for ‘brand me’… All our friends are beautiful, all their lives are perfect and if we don’t project the same we are worthless. Ironically with this ability to self-direct a fluid and fluctuating image comes a catastrophic resignation of true self-control. The more loved the distorted public persona becomes the more lonely and empty our private reality becomes. In the process of losing our self, we sacrificed our physical connections, exchanging them for a manipulated distorted digital link to other fictions.” –Stuart Semple
The opening reception with the artist will take place on Saturday October 24th from 6:00 -9:00 pm. Contact the gallery for more info.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is excited to announce the gallery will be participating in this year’s Odeón art fair. Odeón will be celebrating its fifth edition happening October 1st through 5th. The fair focuses on providing a platform for both emerging and independent galleries to enter into the Latin American art market. Fabien Castanier Gallery will be showing the work of the Miaz Brothers and RERO.
Odeón, considered the main alternative art fair, will celebrate its fifth version with the country of Brazil as the guest of honor; five of the best contemporary galleries from Brazil will attend this year’s celebration. Odeón seeks to provide a platform for both emerging galleries and independent spaces to join the art market in Colombia and Latin America. The fair is part of Espacio Odeón’s visual arts program, which throughout the year promotes the work of emerging and mid-career artists and curators. Espacio Odeón is thus a platform not only for galleries, but also for artists, curators, and other members of the art circuit.
Additionally, the fair will include other galleries from Los Angeles, Lima, La Habana, Medellin and Bogotá. The artists selected for this year’s Solo Projects are Salvadorian artist Walterio Iraheta and Chilean artist Ignacio Gatica.
Visitors will be able to see two site-specific art installations by Colombian artists Leyla Cárdenas and Luis Fernando Rámirez as well as a public circulation piece by artist Kevin Mancera. The event will also include an academic program that seeks to bring the public closer to the different processes of cultural management, curatorial development and circulation of contemporary art.
Fabien Castanier Gallery, Booth 07
For additional details please visit www.espacioodeon.com.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is excited to announce the gallery will once again be a part of the BARCÚ arts and culture festival in Bogotá, Colombia. On the fair booth at this second edition of BARCÚ, the gallery will be showing the works of Mark Jenkins (U.S.), Speedy Graphito (France), Tilt (France), JonOne (U.S.), Fidia Falaschetti (Italy), and Ludo (France).
In addition to participating in the BARCÚ art fair Fabien Castanier will be curating the House of Urban Art a collection of the world’s top urban contemporary artists including: Speedy Graphito (France), Tilt (France), Mark Jenkins (U.S.), Chanoir (Colombia), DJ Lu (Colombia), and Ludo (France). This event will take place in tandem with Fashion House and the Treasure of SXX, curated by Philippa Adams.
The fair will be held in the historical center of Bogotá D.C., La Candelaria Center, from September 30th to October 5th and is open to the public. For seven days this cultural festival will take over La Candelaria, with more than 12 historic houses from colonial and republican, over 25 national and international galleries, five concerts, 10 cultural lectures, 10 special guests, 3 Solo Projects, and performances and workshops for children.
Fabien Castanier Gallery, Booth B16
For more information please visit www.barcu.com
Fabien Castanier Gallery is excited to announce the opening of a second location in Bogotá, Colombia. The gallery has had a successful year in its new Culver City space since moving in May 2014, and in the wake of this positive move, the gallery wishes to expand programing to include even more international artists and communities. Bogotá, the Colombian capital, has a burgeoning art scene with exciting gallery programs, art fairs, museums, and an emerging arts district in San Felipe, where the new gallery space resides. Artists, gallery owners, and collectors have been developing this historical district in the north of the city, making the community an ideal place for the Fabien Castanier Gallery’s second location. The gallery will continue to develop its established program in Bogotá as well as create new connections with Latin American artists. This focus on Latin American art will also have a cross-over emphasis between the gallery program here in Los Angeles.
To celebrate the opening of the new space, Fabien Castanier Gallery will present a group exhibition,DANDO PAPAYA, introducing the works of Ludo, JonOne, RERO, Speedy Graphito, Fidia Falaschetti,Tilt and Mark Jenkins.
VIP Opening Reception | Fri. October 2nd and Sat. October 3rd all day from 10am-6pm
Refreshments & Hors d’oeuvres will be served
The group exhibition will be on view October 2-31
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank Widewalls, Arrested Motion, and The LA Times for featuring Mark Jenkins’ solo exhibition STILL LIFE in recent articles and blog posts. In Still Life Jenkins presents an all-new body of work created here in Los Angeles. The collection features an evocative series of site- specific installations, including three-dimensional canvases, incorporated taxidermy, a human birdhouse and anthropomorphic stringed instruments. Akin to traditional notions of the “still life,” his sculptures capture moments that conjure their own realities, presenting tableaus that challenge one’s sense of what is real and what is not. Jenkins constructs his people, animals, children – entities commonly filled with life – into inanimate objects, frozen in bizarre postures and scenarios. By creating these unconventional situations, he re-contextualizes commonplace ideas or things and inserts them into a new landscape in which the viewer plays an integral part.
The solo show will be on view through October 3rd. To read the full features see the links below.
Widewalls -Mark Jenkins at Fabien Castanier Gallery- Still Life
The Los Angeles Times- Datebook
Arrested Motion- Mark Jenkins “Still Life” at Fabien Castanier Gallery
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present Still Life, a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Mark Jenkins and the first solo show for the artist at the gallery. Mark Jenkins is a sculptor and installation artist whose work focuses on a variety of urban and social themes, re-defining the limits of sculpture both in the public sphere, where many of his pieces have been found, to the more intimate realm of the “White Cube.” The foundation of his artwork is in the artist’s specific technique, casting objects as well as his own body (and those of others) using conventional packing tape and plastic wrap. Encompassing the actual form of these subjects with his method, he has materialized a range of characters, from translucent ducks, dogs and babies, to his most well-known clothed hyper-realistic figures.
In Still Life Jenkins presents an all-new body of work created here in Los Angeles. The collection features an evocative series of site- specific installations, including three-dimensional canvases, incorporated taxidermy, a human birdhouse and anthropomorphic stringed instruments. Akin to traditional notions of the “still life,” his sculptures capture moments that conjure their own realities, presenting tableaus that challenge one’s sense of what is real and what is not. Jenkins constructs his people, animals, children – entities commonly filled with life – into inanimate objects, frozen in bizarre postures and scenarios. By creating these unconventional situations, he re-contextualizes commonplace ideas or things and inserts them into a new landscape in which the viewer plays an integral part.
Opening reception will take place on September 5th from 6:00 -9:00 pm.
Please note that our current group exhibition Multifarious Abstraction has been extended and will now be on view through August 1st.
Multifarious Abstraction, a group exhibition featuring the work of five Latin American artists, Magdalena Atria (Chile, 1966), Antonio Muñiz (Mexico, 1969), Ricardo Rendón (Mexico, 1970), Mariángeles Soto-Díaz (Venezuela, 1970), and Rubén Ortiz-Torres (Mexico, 1964). This exhibition is guest curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, a British/Venezuelan art historian and curator. Multifarious Abstractionbrings together these five artists to explore diverse themes related to art and experience through individual practices of conceptual abstraction.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank Artishock for featuring “Multifarious Abstraction” in a recent article on conceptual abstraction. The group exhibition featuring the work of Magdalena Atria, Antonio Muñiz, Ricardo Rendón, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, and Mariangeles Soto-Díaz will be on view through July 25th. To read the full feature see the link below.
Artishock Conceptual Abstraction Five in the Work of Latin American Artists.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank Paris Photo, Widewalls, and The Latin American Art Journal for featuring our most recent group exhibition, Multifarious Abstraction. The group exhibition features the work of five Latin American artists: Magdalena Atria (Chile, 1966), Antonio Muñiz (Mexico, 1969), Ricardo Rendón (Mexico, 1970), Mariángeles Soto-Díaz (Venezuela, 1970), and Rubén Ortiz-Torres (Mexico, 1964). This exhibition is guest curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, a British/Venezuelan art historian and curator. Multifarious Abstraction brings together these five artists to explore diverse themes related to art and experience through individual practices of conceptual abstraction. The show is on view now through July 25th.
See links above for full features.
Speedy Graphito’s solo exhibition Artificial Paradise has been extended until Saturday, June 13th.
Speedy Graphito returns to Los Angeles for his first solo exhibition of 2015, presenting new work which takes a critical look at contemporary consumer culture. Commercialism coupled with images of pop cultural icons have remained constant themes throughout Speedy Graphito’s artistic repertoire, however in his new body of work, the artist shifts his creative focus to representations of advertising. By deconstructing and collaging familiar images, Speedy confronts advertising’s unfiltered philosophy.
From the artist: “Presented as the temple of consumerism, this exhibition reveals the hidden faces of advertising and highlights their manipulative power. Hypnotic and powerful brands are decrypted to give us the freedom to break this addiction.” Beautiful women paired with Coke cans, iPods, and designer logos all work in tandem to reflect the multitude of ways in which advertisers have a hold on our subconscious – various fragmented reflections of what and whom we desire based on our consumer impulses.
For this exhibition, Speedy Graphito, as a classically trained painter, uses his skills to create a consumerist utopia. Presenting a simulacrum of artificial images, canonical in our modern society, he re-contextualizes these motifs into a veritable explosion of logos, mascots, slogans, and contemporary paraphernalia. This newest visual landscape presents the most striking exploration of “image overdose”. He proposes, “If the world is a self-representation, we are what we think we see.” His new work will include multimedia pieces, paintings, film, sculpture and large-scale installations.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present Multifarious Abstraction, a group exhibition featuring the work of five Latin American artists, Magdalena Atria (Chile, 1966), Antonio Muñiz (Mexico, 1969), Ricardo Rendón (Mexico, 1970), Mariángeles Soto-Díaz (Venezuela, 1970), and Rubén Ortiz-Torres (Mexico, 1964). This exhibition is guest curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, a British/Venezuelan art historian and curator. Multifarious Abstraction brings together these five artists to explore diverse themes related to art and experience through individual practices of conceptual abstraction.
The opening reception will take place on Saturday, June 20th from 6:00- 9:00 pm. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to thank Nicholas Forrest and Blouin ArtInfo for featuring an interview with Fabien Castanier about Speedy Graphito’s latest book and solo exhibition. Graphito has recently published a new book which takes a look at his career in the arts. The artist will be signing copies of his newly published book, titled “Serial Painter,” at the Librairie Flammarion in Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou. Speedy Graphito’s solo exhibition “Artificial Paradise” is now on view at Fabien Castanier Gallery through June 6th. Please see the link below for the full interview and more information about the upcoming book signing.
Speedy Graphito’s solo exhibition entitled “Artificial Paradise” opened last Saturday. The exhibition is Speedy’s first in the new space but third solo show with the gallery. We are pleased to share a recent review written by Los Angeles art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, who also penned the introduction for Speedy Graphito’s book, “Made in America”.
We would like to say thank you to Shana and Huffington Post for the feature! Please see below for the full article.
“Artificial Paradise” is currently on view through June 6th.
Last weekend Fabien Castanier Gallery participated in Paris Photo Los Angeles, an internationally celebrated art fair dedicated to works of photography and moving images. We were proud to exhibit the work of Diana Thorneycroft, a Canadian photographer living and working in Winnipeg. Her body of work entitled “Canadians and Americans (best friends forever… it’s complicated)” was the subject of positive review from both the press and fair goers. We would like to thank BlouinArtInfo, Artnet and Widewalls for featuring the work of Thorneycroft in their recent reviews. Please see the full articles below.
Barbies, Punks, and Astronauts: 7 Must See Booth at Paris Photo Los Angeles
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present Artificial Paradise, a solo exhibition by Speedy Graphito. This will be the third solo exhibition for the artist in the U.S. and at the gallery.
Speedy Graphito returns to Los Angeles for his first solo exhibition of 2015, presenting new work which takes a critical look at contemporary consumer culture. Commercialism coupled with images of pop cultural icons have remained constant themes throughout Speedy Graphito’s artistic repertoire, however in his new body of work, the artist shifts his creative focus to representations of advertising. By deconstructing and collaging familiar images, Speedy confronts advertising’s unfiltered philosophy.
From the artist: “Presented as the temple of consumerism, this exhibition reveals the hidden faces of advertising and highlights their manipulative power. Hypnotic and powerful brands are decrypted to give us the freedom to break this addiction.” Beautiful women paired with Coke cans, iPods, and designer logos all work in tandem to reflect the multitude of ways in which advertisers have a hold on our subconscious – various fragmented reflections of what and whom we desire based on our consumer impulses.
For this exhibition, Speedy Graphito, as a classically trained painter, uses his skills to create a consumerist utopia. Presenting a simulacrum of artificial images, canonical in our modern society, he re-contextualizes these motifs into a veritable explosion of logos, mascots, slogans, and contemporary paraphernalia. This newest visual landscape presents the most striking exploration of “image overdose”. He proposes, “If the world is a self-representation, we are what we think we see.” His new work will include multimedia pieces, paintings, film, sculpture and large-scale installations.
Artificial Paradise will be Speedy Graphito’s first solo show in the gallery’s new Culver City space and will coincide with the anniversary of the gallery’s relocation. This exhibition is presented in partnership with SANDOW, a diverse portfolio of multiplatform brands across consumer and business media, retail and e-commerce, licensing and marketing services. The company and its Chairman and CEO Adam I. Sandow have long supported the contemporary art and design communities and have been instrumental in helping to introduce Speedy Graphito’s work in the United States.
The opening reception with the artist will be Saturday, May 2nd beginning at 6:00 pm. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Please join us this weekend, Saturday, April 4th for the opening of OFF THE SHELF. OFF THE SHELF is a solo exhibition by Luke Newton, a young British artist currently living and working in Paris. This show will be his debut solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibit will include new works by Newton and several large scale installations.
OFF THE SHELF presents a lighthearted satirical assessment of what it is to live in a commercially and technologically driven society. Newton recalls DuChamp with his use of appropriation to unshackle factory made utilitarian wares into hand-made pieces of art. Taking these everyday items and ideas on which we depend, Newton re- makes them into sleek vibrant artworks, devoid of functionality. He disconnects these pieces from their intended roles, inflates their aesthetic value, and places them in a gallery context to be consumed and reflected upon. For this exhibition, Newton decomposes precedent in order to create a new visual dialect, specific to a demographic dependent on digital form. By taking imagery from our collective history and combining it with digital symbolism, the artist has created his own vision of conceptual expression. Through a variety of mediums, he supersizes and re-contextualizes the things that make-up our modern lives. Everything from e-cigarettes, shopping carts, iPads, and hashtags are all reborn as paintings, sculptures and mixed media objects made from non-traditional materials. By reorganizing the roles of these everyday articles, Luke Newton sparks a subversive yet important conversation about the things we own and how they define us.
We are pleased to announce our participation in this year’s Paris Photo Los Angeles fair, from May 1-3. We will be exhibiting the work of Diana Thorneycroft at our booth.
From the press release:
“Paris Photo Los Angeles is the US edition of the world’s most celebrated art fair for works created in the photographic medium. The Fair is held annually each spring at Paramount Pictures Studios, the ideal setting to explore how artists have been and are using photography and moving image in their work in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Paris Photo Los Angeles exhibitors present historical and contemporary bodies of works, cutting edge solo shows, and book projects by renowned and emerging artists in the legendary Paramount Pictures’ soundstages and the New York Street Backlot’s exclusive movie set replicas of New York City streets.
Public programming is an integral component of the Fair. Built around cultural events involving artists, art world professionals, collectors, and cultural institutions, the program includes the Sound & Vision series of conversations and screenings, UNEDITED! unveiling little-known or never-before-seen photographic material, and new for 2015, INTRODUCING! Young California Photographer Award organized in partenrship with J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015 will take place at Paramount Pictures Studios from May 1-3rd and will host 80 leading galleries and art book dealers from 17 countries world-wide. “
For more information about times, special events, and other participating galleries please see the official website.
Fabien Castanier Gallery would like to formally congratulate JONONE on being a 2015 recipient of the Legion of Honor! At the beginning of the year a list of 691 winners of the prestigious award was announced and John Perello was a foreign national who received distinction in the category of culture and communications.
To further explain what the Legion of Honor award is, here is a brief definition from the French Embassy of the United States:
“The Legion of Honor (Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur), France’s premier award, was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte to recognize eminent accomplishments of service to France. The Order is made up of three ranks — chevalier, officier, commandeur — and two high offices (“dignités”) — grand officier and grand croix. A Presidential award, the Legion of Honor may be given to foreign (non-French) citizens in recognition of actions benefitting the country of France or, more broadly, achievements which uphold its ideals…”
Though raised in New York, JonOne has lived in Paris since the mid 1980’s where he has established himself as an artist, building a career that has spanned over 20 years. JonOne’s paintings represent a new era of contemporary artists who have moved beyond their roots as graffiti writers to establish themselves as painters but more specifically as fine artists and now as winners of the Legion of Honor.
We extend our sincere congratulations on this benchmark achievement! Read more about JonOne and his recent award here.
Fabien Castanier Gallery is pleased to share a review of the Miaz Brothers exhibition which was recently featured in ARTPULSE Magazine. Los Angeles based artist and writer Megan Abrahams wrote a glowing review of the show for the magazine.
“The Miaz Brothers offer a new take on portraiture, with the deliberate intention of conveying no likeness at all. These un-portraits, which the artists refer to as their Antimatter Series, portray only a vague suggestion of the human face and figure. In a visually oxy- moronic tour de force, the paintings are, in effect, the antithesis of portraiture. Composed to conceal, more than reveal, they are subtle glimmers, which leave virtually all clues to identity veiled in a haze. ” -Megan Abrahams
See the full review here: MIAZ BROTHERS
Thank you Megan Abrahams and ARTPULSE Magazine for the feature!
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present OFF THE SHELF, a solo exhibition by Luke Newton. Newton is a young British artist currently living and working in Paris, France. This will be his debut solo exhibition in the United States.
OFF THE SHELF presents a lighthearted satirical assessment of what it is to live in a commercially and technologically driven society. Newton recalls DuChamp with his use of appropriation to unshackle factory made utilitarian wares into hand-made pieces of art. Taking these everyday items and ideas on which we depend, Newton re- makes them into sleek vibrant artworks, devoid of functionality. He disconnects these pieces from their intended roles, inflates their aesthetic value, and places them in a gallery context to be consumed and reflected upon.
For this exhibition, Newton decomposes precedent in order to create a new visual dialect, specific to a demographic dependent on digital form. By taking imagery from our collective history and combining it with digital symbolism, the artist has created his own vision of conceptual expression. Through a variety of mediums, he supersizes and re-contextualizes the things that make-up our modern lives. Everything from e-cigarettes, shopping carts, iPads, and hashtags are all reborn as paintings, sculptures and mixed media objects made from non-traditional materials. By reorganizing the roles of these everyday articles, Luke Newton sparks a subversive yet important conversation about the things we own and how they define us.
The opening Reception with the artist is Saturday, April 4th from 6-9pm.
This past weekend marked the opening of RERO’s “GATED COMMUNITY…” the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. RERO presented new works including, paintings, large scale installations, mixed medium works on wood, vintage book sculptures, and a multi-media video installation. This variety of works in an array of mediums all sought to explore the notions of boundaries and how those boundaries have come to define our society. We are pleased to present several reviews recapping the show. Please see below for links to full articles.
RERO “Gated Community…” by Josh Davis of Hypebeast
Gated Community by Ana B.K. of Widewalls
Recap RERO solo exhibition by Graffuturism
What Boundaries? by Jesse James of Stupid Dope
The exhibition is up through February 28th.
