gogoparis.com » Le Plateau http://www.gogoparis.com your insider guide to paris fashion, food, arts, gigs & gossip Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Chris Avery’s Onomatopoeia at the Plateau http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/05/27/chris-averys-onomatopoeia-at-the-plateau/ http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/05/27/chris-averys-onomatopoeia-at-the-plateau/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 10:51:35 +0000 c.rossiter arts]]> http://www.gogoparis.com/?p=4056 Continuing their string of excellent shows, the Plateau brings us ‘Onomatopoeia, part 1′ by up-and-coming UK artist, Charles Avery. For his first solo exhibition in France, he brings us a piece of ‘The Islanders’, a project he has been working on since 2004 that creates and documents an imaginary island. Onomatopoeia is the capital city, where the artist/explorer begins his journey. Using sculpture, large-scale drawings and installation the gallery space is transformed into the fantastical, but uncannily familiar, world of the island. Avery mixes the childlike joy of mapping out a make-believe land with ascerbic observations of the modern world. His imaginary anarchic society is unable to decide on a guiding ideology, creating a surreal vaccum of meaning, laced with humour. You can meet the artist on Thu 17 June, 7.30pm, when he’ll be in discussion with curator and critic Nicolas Bourriaud.
Until 8 Aug.
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]]> http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/05/27/chris-averys-onomatopoeia-at-the-plateau/feed/ 0 48.8774605 2.3854575 Keren Cytter at the Plateau http://www.gogoparis.com/2009/12/07/keren-cytter-at-the-plateau/ http://www.gogoparis.com/2009/12/07/keren-cytter-at-the-plateau/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:13:27 +0000 c.rossiter arts]]> http://www.gogoparis.com/?p=2262 It’s been a good year for Berlin-based Israeli artist Keren Cytter. As well as appearing in New York’s New Museum exhibition Younger than Jesus, a show of contemporary artists born after 1976, and this year’s Venice Biennale, she also made number 2 on Flash Art magazine’s most promising artists list, and won the 2009 Absolut Art Award! Her first solo show in France is now on at the Plâteau. The space has been reconfigured to create a maze of video projections, reflecting their fragmented and perplexing narratives, which seem violent or tragic even if it’s not quite clear why. The pieces on show include Repulsion (2006), Der Spiegel (2007) and Four Seasons (2009). Shown on multiple screens or on a continuous loop, the stories have no beginning or end, and the films leave the viewer feeling destabilised and trapped.
(Until 14 Feb)
It’s worth noting too that her 75 min film The Great Tale of The Devil’s Hill and The Endless Search for Freedom (2007-2009) will be screening at the Pompidou Centre, as part of their Prospectif Cinema cycle, on Thu 28 Jan, 8pm.
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