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Jacopo Miliani @ La Plage, Jul 22 – Aug 20

19 July 2016
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Jacopo Miliani is presenting solo exhibition Burning Desire at Paris’ La Plage, opening July 22 and running August 20.

The press release is a poetic musing around notions of suspension, risk, fear and processes of actualisation or physicalisation:

Dot Dot Dot became boing boing boing, 

A group of suspended objects.

The Milan-based artist has worked previously with text and image within the context and act of publication, and specifically with the book series, ‘Self Pleasure Publishing’ which he set up in 2014 and took to London’s White Cubicle Toilet Gallery to launch exhibition and text, Your boss has given you this factory. What do you think? earlier this year. Miliani also presented solo show, Studio for a Choreographed Display for ICA’s Fig-2 series in 2015.

See the La Plage website for more details.**

Jacopo Miliani, Studio for a Choreographed Display (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy the artist and ICA, London
Jacopo Miliani, Studio for a Choreographed Display (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy the artist and ICA, London.
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Jaakko Pallasvuo @ La Plage, Mar 4 – Apr 10

2 March 2016
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Jaakko Pallasvuo is presenting a new exhibition VERDURE at Paris’ La Plage, opening March 4 and running to April 10.

The Helsinki-based artist whose prolific output includes video and sculpture, while pulling focus on working with painting, text and ceramics of late, announces this most recent show with a short text featuring a conversation between one ‘VERDURE’ and ‘TRENT’ discussing the A4 of a show by an artist “who wants to spread positive energy, but the tone is needy and kinda exhausting.”

It also features an excerpt of George Oppen’s poem ‘Of Being Numerous‘ (1968) and references said unnamed artist’s Tumblr that’s been taken offline. Pallasvuo recently did the same with dawsonscreek.info, some of which was compiled in the recently published Scorched Earth book, and now only shows a stand-in page that reads “dawsonscreek.info documented my clumsy forays into writing, first stabs at personal-essay-as-art-criticism. looking back a lot of the texts seem bitter and off, but that was the spirit of the time.”

In the VERDURE text, meanwhile, ‘TRENT’ proclaims, “I liked his work better when he was angry”.

See the FB event page for details.**

Jaakko Pallasvuo, Scorched Earth (pub. Arcadia Missa). Courtesy the artist.
Jaakko Pallasvuo, Scorched Earth (pub. Arcadia Missa). Courtesy the artist.

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Grand Orpheus Highway @ La Plage, Dec 4 – Jan 11

4 December 2015
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The Grand Orpheus Highway group exhibition is on at Paris’s La Plage, opening December 4 and running to January 11, 2016.

Following its inaugural show with Berlin-based artist Ilja Karilampi’s Truss Mi Daddy, the new space will feature work by London-based artists Iain Ball and Yuri Pattison, along with LA’s Parker Ito.

There is little information on the theme of the exhibition save for a short bit of poetry referencing Greek mythology’s tragic god-couple Orpheus and Eurydice, physical highways and information networks as a space of transition and a potential analogy for lost hope:

“It is night. Orpheus glances back and crosses Eurydice’s gaze
Intersecting between Grand and Orpheus, the highway
a place of transition
where some things change
others remain the same
at this speed, systems of information and structures of power are unveiled
Who is looking?
I don’t know
I don’t care

Looking back
The highway’s in ruins”

See the La Plage website for (limited) details.**

Parker Ito, Parker Cheeto’s Infinite Haunted Hobo Playlist (A Dream for Some, a Nightmare for others) exhibition view. Courtesy Smart Objects.
Parker Ito, Parker Cheeto’s Infinite Haunted Hobo Playlist (A Dream for Some, a Nightmare for others). Exhibition view. Courtesy Smart Objects, Los Angeles.

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Ilja Karilampi @ La Plage, Oct 21

20 October 2015
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A new Paris art space La Plage brings a solo show by artist Ilja Karilampi, titled Truss Mi Daddy and opening on October 21.

The Swedish visual artist (now based in Berlin) makes a practice of exploring popular culture through different media, using what could be construed as underground or at least “local” iconography—like his Spätkauf exhibition in all his works, including video, installation, music and performance.

For Truss Mi Daddy, his first solo show in Paris, Karilampi plays with his personal blend of pop culture and transient expressionism, something Downtown Ilja, his Berlin Community Radio show, has become known for.

See the La Plage website for (minimal) details. **

Ilja Karilampi, Espressen (2015)
Ilja Karilampi, ‘Espressen’ (2015).
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