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One piece at a time @ Semiose Gallery
18/05/2013 @ 6:00 pm - 15/06/2013 @ 5:00 pm
freeParisian writer and painter Laurent Proux gets his 4th solo exhibition with some of his latest works @ central Parisian Semiose Gallery who’ve been supporting him quite actively for the past few years.
In both his drawing and his painting, Laurent Proux has developed a singular relationship with photography. In the same manner as numerous artists since Richter and Polke, the photographic image acts as a neutral and objective starting point allowing the artist to depict both realistic elements and more abstract peripheral aspects in a sometimes vertiginous interchange. He is however unique in constituting a kind of directory or archive of industrial production sites dating from the seventies. There are “found images” – instruction manuals from the GDR, operating accounts from businesses dating from 1976 – as well as photographs taken himself or by friends at their workplaces.
For “One piece at a time” Semiose gallery will be exhibiting some of his latest works which show factories, warehouses, workshops, offices, IT centres, production lines, tools and machines, which seem as out-dated to the spectator as the iconography of hot air balloons and antique engravings put to use by Polke.
A Piece at a Time, takes its name from a Johnny Cash song. An automobile production line worker each day steals one part of a car hoping, undoubtedly in vain, to finally construct his own free car. Today, Laurent Proux paints in the same manner, one piece at a time not in the hope that one day all the different parts will produce a complete image but more justifiably in the hope that one day painting will win through.
The expo will run from May 18th to mid-June. More info this way.