Olivier Castel

Olivier Castel @ Kunstraum, Nov 25 – Feb 12

24 November 2016

Olivier Castel is presenting solo exhibition Communicating vessels at London’s Kunstraum, opening November 25 and running to February 12, 2017.

The French London-based artist aims to “evoke and reconfigure” the thresholds between notions of the interior and exterior, as well as dreaming and wakefulness through the the use of temporal forms of art production, including projection, light, surface, text and audio. Castel carries on his interest in making concepts like the idea, space, image or thought visible through a fascination with the ways that other species perceive time, relative to their life spans and sleep cycles.  

The immersive installation, combining sculptural elements with atmospheric interventions, diverges from the artist’s ongoing research into the lack of street-facing facades in the urban architecture of Los Angeles, making the public into “a network of negative spaces filling the voids between private or intimate  spaces.”

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Olivier Castel + Ian Iaw, 'Mimesis', 'Infirm Arbroath' (2015) Install view. Photo by Original&theCopy. Courtesy Tenderpixel + RODEO, London.
Olivier Castel + Ian Iaw, ‘Mimesis’, ‘Infirm Arbroath’ (2015) Install view. Photo by Original&theCopy. Courtesy Tenderpixel + RODEO, London.
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Who Are You? + Club Univers @ SALTS, Nov 26 – Jan 17

24 November 2016

The Who Are You? and Club Univers group exhibitions are on at Birsfelden’s SALTS, opening November 26 and running to January 17, 2017.

Who Are You? looks at the paradox of publicly concealing your identity through artists working with ideas of the “alter ego, collective identity, meta-artist, improved or lessen versions of oneself”. Featuring Olivier Castel, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Selina Grüter & Michele Graf, Than Hussein Clark and Martin Soto Climent, the show examines these perceptions and iterations of ‘unstable’ realities as a response to a global climate of “austerity and fear”. 

Club Univers — curated by Chus Martinez with assistant curator Eveline Wüthrich — features a group of bachelor students from Institut Kunst and explores the unexplained phenomena of tickling, through dreams. ‘Part I: Even in your dreams, you can’t tickle yourself’ is inspired by neuroscientist and researcher Jennifer Windt who worked with a group of expert lucid dreamers to see if they could tickle themselves, which they couldn’t.

The opening of the exhibitions will also include the launch of a new issue of London-based Next Level magazine, covering the Swiss art scenes of Lausanne and Basel, as well as the Club Univers publication, published via Sternberg Press.

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Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite, Clémence de La Tour du Pin) Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10) 2015 Courtesy of the artists With the support of International Flavors & Fragrances and Adrien Figeac (Coty Inc) Photography: Luis Artemio De Los Santos
Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite, Clémence de La Tour du Pin) Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10) 2015 Courtesy of the artists With the support of International Flavors & Fragrances and Adrien Figeac (Coty Inc) Photography: Luis Artemio De Los Santos
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The Fifth Artist @ Wysing Arts Centre, May 23 – Jul 5

20 May 2015

Wysing Arts Centre launches their latest group exhibition, The Fifth Artist, opening at their Cambridge location on May 23 and running until July 5.

The exhibition brings new works by four artists that had participated in live-in farmhouse residencies during the winter of 2014 at Wysing Arts Centre, residencies that were themed The Future and haunted by the spectral presence of The Fifth Artist. These artists are Olivier Castel, Jesse Darling, Julia Crabtree & William Evans, and Alice Theobald.

A recounted ghost story, they write, created a slippage between fiction and reality, a “part-believed, part-ridiculed ripple” that cast a shadow over not only their time at the Cambridge farmhouse but their post-residency work as well.

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Golden Age Problems @ AISE, Jun 21 – Jul 13

20 June 2014

London’s Auto Italia South East presents the Golden Age Problems group project, running at their King’s Cross location from June 21 to July 13.

The artist-run organisation –run by Kate Cooper, Marianne Forrest, and Marleen Boschen –has been commissioning and producing new work since its 2007 launch, aiming to provide a comprehensive framework for the development of new approaches to both the production and the presentation of exhibitions.

The new Golden Age Problems project explores this innovative approach with an exhibition of images and objects partnered with narrative presentations and a series of performance events, featuring the works of Forrest and Boschen, as well as those of Benedict Drew, Oreet Ashery, Olivier Castel, and Plastique Fantastique, among others.

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Semiotic Score by Oreet Ashery. Image courtesy artist.
Semiotic Score by Oreet Ashery. Image courtesy artist.

 

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