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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 Guest gallery: Château Shatto On Plane Air Save the date Opening September 15th 6-9 pm - Air de Paris
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).

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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 - Air de Paris
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).

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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 - Air de Paris
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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Rob Pruitt You Get the Face You Deserve Guest gallery: Château Shatto On Plane Air Save the date Opening September 15th 6-9 pm - Air de Paris
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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Rob Pruitt You Get the Face You Deserve Guest gallery: Château Shatto On Plane Air Save the date Opening September 15th 6-9 pm - Air de Paris
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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Rob Pruitt You Get the Face You Deserve Guest gallery: Château Shatto On Plane Air Save the date Opening September 15th 6-9 pm - Air de Paris
Exhibition views : Rob Pruitt 50th Birthday Bash, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2015

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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 - Air de Paris
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
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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Parker Ito

                                         Olivia Reading, 2017
                                   huile sur toile / oil on linen
                                    81,3 x 60 cm / 32 x 24 in
                                                          unique

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Jacqueline 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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November 2017

                 Joseph Grigely
                Brice Dellsperger

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