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Rob Pruitt
You Get the Face You Deserve
Guest gallery: Château Shatto
On Plane Air
Save the date
Opening September 15th
6-9 pm
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Rob Pruitt You Get The Face You Deserve Depuis 1998, Rob Pruitt (né en 1964, Washington DC) utilise le motif du panda dans une volonté de constante répétition. Initialement imaginé comme une forme d’humour, ce refrain est à la fois une réponse à une mul- tiplicité d’émotions, de sensibilités, de revendications mais aussi la médiatisation d’une espèce en voie d’ex- tinction parmi d’autres dont la rencontre fût intimement politique. En effet, le gouvernement chinois offrit en 1972 deux pandas à la Nixon White House située à Washington DC où Rob Pruitt a grandi, un événement qui a participé à sa naturelle fascination pour l’animal. Nous fêterons l’année prochaine, les vingt premières années de la série, et tant qu’il y aura des pandas, Rob Pruitt les peindra ! Le panda se camoufle aujourd’hui sous forme de “motivational posters“ transformés pour l’exposition en “motivational panda“. Ainsi l’animal se retrouve associé à des messages de coaching et développement per- sonnel sensés décupler notre motivation voire améliorer notre connaissance de soi. Ils proviennent notam- ment de citations du philosophe et naturaliste Henry David Thoreau, (auteur de l’illustre «Walden ou la vie dans les bois»), de personnalités issues de la mode alias Coco Chanel auteure du titre de l’exposition et dont l’énoncé complet est le suivant : “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve”, mais aussi de personnages emblématiques d’une culture populaire à l’instar d’Obi-Wan Kenobi et de son fameux «May the Force Be With You» (extrait du film La guerre des étoiles) ! Tant de “mantras“ d’encouragement ayant quitté leurs modèles jadis épinglés dans l’espace des bureaux, écoles ou encore hôpitaux états-uniens pour rejoindre ceux d’Air de Paris. Le panda ira même cette fois jusqu’à se confondre avec le statut même du spectateur dans sa version géante comme figé en pleine contem- plation d’un coucher de soleil ou dégradé polychromatique. Le titre de cette quatrième exposition personnelle “You Get The Face You Deserve“ provient des “motiva- tional panda“ certes, mais il résonne aussi avec les «Artificial Intelligence Style Transfer Self-Portraits», une nouvelle série réalisée grâce à un logiciel confiant à un savant algorithme le mélange et glissement des contours du visage de l’artiste sur celui de certains maîtres et icônes de l’histoire de l’art. Par là-même, Rob Pruitt ose un joyeux face à face avec le bleu swimming-pool de D. Hockney, les rayures signatures de B. Riley ou encore les courbes fauves du niçois H. Matisse. À la relecture du titre de cette quatrième exposition personnelle, les «Polar Bear» semblent aussi se charger d’une toute autre signification. En effet, l’ours blanc est également une espèce en voie de disparition, sa figure à présent associée à des prises de parole de personnalités politiques ou politisées - telles que Barack Obama, Brian Eno, Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Ansel Adams - intervient comme un manifeste écologique nous rap- pelant leurs volontés de prises de conscience et engagements dans une lutte urgente contre le réchauffement climatique. Rob Pruitt (né en 1964 à Washington DC), vit et travaille à New York. En 2018, la Kunsthalle Zurich lui consacrera une exposition monographique organisée par Daniel Baumann. Il bénéficie actuellement d’une exposition personnelle sur une invitation de Bjarne Melgaard à la galerie Rod Bianco à Oslo. Rob Pruitt a bénéficié de nombreuses expositions personnelles dont récemment au Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Aspen Art Museum, et au Palais de Tokyo. Un de ses projets les plus ico- niques Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market a été organisé dans de nombreux lieux dans le monde dont Palm Springs Art Museum (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2015), AplusA Gallery, Venice (2015), La Monnaie de Paris (2012) et Tate Modern (2009). Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
Rob Pruitt You Get The Face You Deserve Since 1998 Rob Pruitt (1964, Washington DC) has been making deliberately repetitive use of the panda motif. Initially intended as a form of humour, this refrain is both a response to a host of emotions, sensibilities and causes and a publicising of an endangered species the artist first encountered in a personal political context: in 1972 the Chinese government gave two pandas to the Nixon White House in Pruitt’s home town, an event that contributed to the future artist’s innate fascination with the animal. Next year we will be celebrating the series’ first twenty years; and as long as there are pandas Rob Pruitt will paint them! These days his panda comes camouflaged as «motivational posters» – or, for the purposes of the exhibi- tion, under the heading «motivational pandas». Here our animal is associated with coaching and personal growth messages supposed to unleash motivation and even boost our self-knowledge. Their sources notably include the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (author of the celebrated Walden; or, Life in the Woods); fashion personalities like Coco Chanel, who provides the title of the exhibition with the statement “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve“; and such emblematic pop culture figures as Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi and his famous “May the Force Be With you“. All these «mantras» of encouragement have left behind the models pinned up on the walls of America’s offices, schools and hospitals and joined the ones here at Air de Paris. And this time the panda will even be there on the same footing as the viewer: a giant version seemingly locked into contemplation of a sunset or colours shading off into each other. “You Get The Face You Deserve“: the title of this fourth solo show comes from these “motivational pan- das“, but it also chimes with the Artificial Intelligence Style Transfer Self-Portraits, a new series created with software whose smart algorithm takes the contours of the artist’s face and mixes them into the features of art history masters and icons. And so we see Pruitt daring a joyous face-to-face with David Hockney’s blue swimming pool, Bridget Riley’s signature stripes and the Fauvist curves of Henri Matisse. In the light of a second reading of the exhibition title, the Polar Bears also seem to take on quite different meaning. The big white bear is an endangered species, too, and its presence here alongside statements from political or politically connoted figures – among them Barack Obama, Brian Eno, Desmond Tutu, Jane Goo- dall and Ansel Adams – comes as an manifesto reminding us of their ecological awareness their commitment in the urgent struggle against global warming. Rob Pruitt (*1964, Washington DC) lives and works in New York. In 2018, the Kunsthalle Zurich will be pre- senting a monographic exhibition of his work curated by Daniel Baumann. At the invitation of Bjarne Mel- gaard he is currently showing solo at the Rod Bianco Gallery in Oslo. He has had numerous other individual exhibitions, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Brant Foundation in Greenwich, the Aspen Art Museum and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. «Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market», one of his most ico- nic projects, has featured in many venues around the world, including Palm Springs Art Museum (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2015), AplusA Gallery, Venice (2015), the Paris Mint (2012) and Tate Modern (2009). Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
Motivational Panda (Coco Chanel), 2017
sérigraphie sur toile / silkscreen on linen
32 1/2 x 42 inches / 106,7 x 82,6 cm
unique
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Artificial Intelligence Style Transfer Self-Portrait (Henri Matisse & My Face), 2017
encre UV sur panneau / UV ink on wrapped panel
64 x 48 inches / 162.6 x 121.9 cm
unique
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Exhibition views : The Obama Paintings and The Lincoln Monument, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2015
Exhibition views : Rob Pruitt 50th Birthday Bash, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2015
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Exhibition views : Rob Pruitt 50th Birthday Bash, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2015 Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
ROB PRUITT 1964 Born Washington, D.C. Lives and works in New York SOLO SHOWS (selection) 2018 Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Daniel Baumann) 2017 Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway Air de Paris, Paris, France 2016 The Obama Paintings, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 291 Grand St, New York Hong Kong Panda, Massimo de Carlo, Hong Kong, China Rob Pruitt Flea Market, LAND, Los Angeles 2015 Rob Pruitt, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Rob Pruitt, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, AplusA Gallery, Venice, Italy 2014 Multiple Personalities, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich St, New York Three Blind Mice, Museum Dhondt Daenens, Deurle, Belgium Struktur & Organismuss, Müldorf, Austria 2013 Wild Life, Karma, Amagansett, New York Suicide Paintings, Massimo de Carlo, London, UK Us, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland The Last Panda, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 436 W 15 St, New York Rob Pruitt: An American Folk Artist, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 2012 The Andy Monument, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Faces: People and Pandas, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy History of the World, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 2011 Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX The Andy Monument, Public Art Fund, New York Air de Paris, Paris, France 2010 Pattern and Degradation, Maccarone Gallery; Gavin Brown’s enterprice, 620 Greenwich St, New York iPaintings, Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy Pop Touched Me Book Launch/Autograph Collection, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich St, New York 2009 Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy Look What I’ve Done: Rob Pruitt Works 1989 – 2009, Carlson, London, UK 2008 iPhotos, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich St, New York Power House, Memphis, TN American Academy in Rome, Italy GROUP SHOWS (selection) 2018 Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (curated by Gianni Jetzer) (forthcoming) 2017 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan (curated by Akiko Miki) Talking Pictures; camera-phone conversations between artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (curated by Mia Fineman) Feedback, Malborough Chelsea, New York (Curated by Leo Fitzpatrick) HeatWave, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles 99 Cents or Less, MoCAD, Detroit Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
Divided States of America, The Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Community Center, New York Desert x, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs (curated by Neville Wakefield) 2016 Mount Analogue, Darrow Contemporary, Aspen (curated by Neville Wakefield) Meow, Wor- cester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Shrines to Speed, Leila Heller Gallery, New York Tomorrow is a new day, Private boat, Quai Antoine Ier, Pontons Riva, Monaco Image Tech: Making Pictures in a Post-Digital Age, TCNJ Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 2014 Painter’s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Empire State, Gallerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France ARTLOVERS, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco 2013 Beer, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee An-Americana, co-organized by the American Academy in Rome and Depart Foundation, Ameri- can Academy in Rome (curated by Vincenzo de Bellis) The Cat Show, White Columns, New York (curated by Rhonda Lieberman) Empire State, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (curated by Norman Rosenthal and Alex Gartenfeld) 2012 Funny, Flag Art Foundation, New York R4, Special FIAC Project, Ile Seguin, Paris, France Infinite Jest, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland Arthur Rainbow, Air de Paris, Paris, France PERFORMANCES, FLEA MARKETS & COLLABORATIONS (selection) 2016 Flea Market, LAND, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Flea market, A plus A Gallery, Venice Italy 2012 Flea Market, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, May 19th Flea Market, The Fireplace Project, Easthampton, NY, August 18th & 19th Pattern & Degradation Book signing, Karma Bookstore, New York, March 10th Resort Collection for Jimmy Choo 2010 The Second Annual Rob Pruitt Art Awards, Guggenheim Museum & White Columns, New York, December 9th Flea Market, Opening Ceremony at Ace Hotel, New York, October 9th 2009 The First Annual Rob Pruitt Art Awards, Guggenheim Museum & White Columns, New York, October 29 Flea Market, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London, December 21 2007 Flea Market, Frieze Art Fair, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, London, October 11 - 14th 2000 Flea Market, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, June 16th, 17th & 18th Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
Château Shatto On Plane Air Air de Paris est heureuse d’inviter la galerie Château Shatto créée en Juillet 2014 par Olivia Barrett et Nelson Harmon à Los Angeles. À cette occasion, seront réunis trois artistes dont deux jeunes amé- ricains Parker Ito et Aria Dean ainsi que la néerlandaise Jacqueline De Jong lors d’une exposition joyeusement intitulée: On Plane Air. Aria Dean, née en 1993, vit et travaille à Los Angeles. Arian Dean est artiste et écrivaine, diplômée d’Oberlin College en 2015. Ses articles ont été publiés dans Artforum, elle contribue aussi à Rhizome et dirige le project space As It Stands basé à Los Angeles. Parker Ito www.parkerito.com Jacqueline De Jong, née en 1939 à Hengelo, Pays-Bas, vit et travaille à Amsterdam. En 1962, elle quitte l’Internationale Situasionniste pour se rapprocher du gruppe Spur basé en Allemagne. À la même époque, elle lance sa propre revue intitulée Le Temps Situationiste (1962-67). Son oeuvre principalement déployée sous forme de peintures a fait l’objet d’expositions personnelles au Mo- derna Museet, Stockholm, ainsi que dans des expositions au Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, et à l’University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts. À partir du 15 Septembre, elle bénéficie d’une exposition personnelle de ses bijoux intitulée : You Say Potato à la galerie Mini Masterpiece à Paris, et participe également à : Sie sagen wo rauch ist, ist auch feuer du 12 Août au 1er Octobre 2017 à la Kunsthalle de Bern. Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
Château Shatto On Plane Air Air de Paris is pleased to invite the gallery Château Shatto, founded by Olivia Barrett and Nelson Harmon in Los Angeles, in July 2014. The exhibition will present three artists, the two young Americans Parker Ito and Aria Dean, as well as Dutch Jacqueline De Jong under a joyful invitation : On Plane Air. Aria Dean, born in 1993, lives and works in Los Angeles. Dean is an artist, writer and assistant cura- tor of net art at Rhizome. Graduating from Oberlin College in 2015, Dean’s contributions have since been published by The New Inquiry and Artforum. Recent prominent essays include Closing the Loop and Poor Meme, Rich Meme. She runs the Los Angeles project space As It Stands. Parker Ito www.parkerito.com Jacqueline De Jong, born in 1939 in Hengelo, Netherlands, lives and works in Amsterdam. In 1962, she left the Situationist International and became more closely involved with the German-based Spur group. At the same time, she commenced editing and publishing the magazine The Situationist Times (1962-67). Her oeuvre, mostly deployed in painting, has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and has been included in exhibitions at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst. From September 15th, she will present a solo exhibition of her jewelry titled You Say Potato at Mini Masterpiece Gallery in Paris, and will participate in Sie sagen wo rauch ist, ist auch feuer at Kunsthalle in Bern, from August 12th to October 1st, 2017. Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.com
Aria Dean
Dead Zone (1), 2017
banche de coton, polyuréthane, cloche en verre, bois, brouilleur de signal
cotton branch, polyurethane, bell jar, wood, signal jammer
33.7 x 31.75 cm / 13.25 x 12.5 in
unique
Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.comParker Ito
Olivia Reading, 2017
huile sur toile / oil on linen
81,3 x 60 cm / 32 x 24 in
unique
Air de Paris www.airdeparis.com fan@airdeparis.comJacqueline de Jong
Off Season, 1986
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
200 x 290 cm / 78.7 x 114.2 in
unique
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