Bio arts / 2000 acrylique sur toile
EXPOSITION CHRISTIAN PARASCHIV / NOMOS
1er Décembre
2018 au 30 mars 2019
Dans le cadre du projet d’exposition, une monographie intitulée Nomos - Christian Paraschiv est
publiée.
Elle se compose de trois essais originaux et d’un ensemble rétrospectif de l’œuvre du
plasticien.
Elle est produite par :
Editeurs : Institutul Cultural Român, Bucuresti, România et Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris
Contributeur : Fonds de dotation Enseigne des Oudin, Paris
Enseigne des Oudin - Fonds de dotation - 4 rue Martel - 75010 Paris
MANIFESTATION ORGANISÉE DANS LE CADRE DE LA SAISON FRANCE-ROUMANIE
2019
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The Glory and the Limits of the Body: Bio-art Exhibition by Christian Paraschiv
15/03 - 13/04/2012 @ 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PH
Opening: Thu 15 March, 6.30pm @ 1 Belgrave Square SW1X 8PH
16 March-13 April, 10am-5pm
With the London Olympics 2012 approaching fast, the human body – its performances and its limits – becomes the focus of reflection and debate this year. Christian Paraschiv, one of the most famous Romanian artists abroad, expresses his vision in a flux of works under construction since the ‘90s, bearing the title Skin & Body and encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, scanned imagery, installations, photo montage, video elements, art books.
The artist traces the concepts of corporeality and identity to our biological core: in the specific form of bio-art that he practices, his own cells, prelevated in a laboratory, give birth to an artificial skin, fixed in latex and wood resins. For Paraschiv, the skin is the contour of the body in the world, an ensemble of signs which can be technologically represented: if scanned, it is the trace of corporeality decomposed into fragments – body-in-pieces – like a puzzle making up a new body, another individual.
Alongside his suite of scanned panels, painted in resins and gold leaf, the artist covers the human skull in lead, makes his self-portrait via crosswords or impresses his body on transparent gelatine, in multiple copies – all unique representations of the biological and metaphysical, the scientific and metaphorical, the limited and glorious body.
“Paraschiv is baroque in his art, his creative uproar finding its counterpoint in his long exercised analytical spirit. The ideas and life itself, the profane and the sacred, his own body and the social body, the present and history are blended in his work. His art starts a dialogue with science, by making use of state-of-the-art technology. Paraschiv exposes us to an explosion of artistic information that represents a show in itself.”
Adrian Guţă, critic, in the monography Black is the colour of language, 2011
(born 1953) became known in the ‘80s as an exponent of the generation which radically transformed Romanian experimental art, leading the path towards international aesthetic postmodernism. He left Romania in 1986 and moved to Paris, where he is represented by the Oudin Art Contemporain Gallery. Individual exhibitions (selection): Black Is the Colour of Language, 1986-2011, Oudin Art Contemporain Gallery, Paris; Bio Art Skin & Body 1990-2011, Oudin Art Contemporain Gallery, Paris; Body for Space, recent works 2007-2008, Oudin Art Contemporain Gallery, Paris; Retrospective 1977-2007, MNAC, Bucureşti; Nomos/The Body, ICR Paris, Oudin Art Contemporain Gallery, Paris.
Christian Paraschiv | Le noir est la couleur du langage/ bilingue francais-roumain
Une rencontre avec l'univers mythique d'un des plus grands artistes contemporains roumains, fils spirituel de Cioran, Ionesco et Tristan Tzara, ses compatriotes.
Ouvrage français / roumain, publié avec le concours du National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucarest ; de l’Institut culturel roumain, Paris ; de la fondation Colas, Boulogne-Billancourt ; de la galerie Oudin art contemporain, Paris et de E. A. galerie, la Bourguignière à Béthonvilliers – 2010
Christian Paraschiv | Le noir est la couleur du langage | entretien avec Ion Grigorescu et textes critiques de Marin Gherasim, Dorina Bohantov, Alain Oudin, Magda Carneci, Carmen Iovitu, Mihai Plamadeala, Adriana Oprea, Agnès Giard,Ralf Marsault, Adrian Guta et Sébastien Lecordier
Format: 21 x 24 cm
504 pages en couleur / +460 réproduction couleur
Broché avec rabats
ISBN 978-2-35532-070-5
A meeting within the mythical universe of one of the greatest contemporary Romanian artist, spiritual son of his comrades Cioran, Ionesco and Tristan Tzara.
His french and romanian works, published with the assistance of The National Museum of Contempirary Art in Bucarest, The Cultural Romanian Institute in Paris, The Colas Foundation, Boulogne-Billancourt ; The Oudin Contemporary Art Gallery, Paris and The E.A Gallery, The Bourguignière at Béthonvillier in 2010.
Christain Paraschiv / Black is the color of language / Interview with Ion Grigorescu and critical texts by Martin Gherasim, Dorina Bohantov, Alain Oudin, Magda Carneci, Carmen Iovitu, Mihai Plamadeala, Adriana Oprea, Agnès Giard, Ralf Marsault, Adrian Guta and Sébastien Lecordier
Format : 21 x 24 cm
504 pages in color / + 460 in color reproduction
Paperback wuth flaps
ISBN 978-2-35532-070-5