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Nicolas GROSPIERRE
Les bureaux ovales

Exposition du 6 février au 1er mars 2014
Vernissage le jeudi 6 février à 18h30

Maison de la Photographie
Ouvert du lundi au vendredi de 10h à 18h,
le samedi de 14h à 18h.

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NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

TYPOLOGIES

Opening on Friday January 31, at 20:30

From January 31 to March 29, 2014

Galeria Alarcon Criado

C/ Velarde, 9. 41001, Sevilla

Nicolas Grospierre’s practice as an artist and photographer is close to that of collecting: thanks to his camera, by photographing interesting things or phenomena, he has made them his own, he has appropriated them. For Grospierre, this impulse to photograph is comparable to a kind of imperative. However, this urge to photograph /collect lead him to question the very motivation behind such a behavior and try to systematize it through works which use and display collections, by employing the focus of one of his collections, the exhibition cabinets. 
Therefore, Typologiesis an exhibition which shows a variety of collections (some authentic, some fake, although the distinction is not clear-cut) and raises the question as to the meaning behind the act of collecting. 
Ultimately, Typologies, besides its undeniable visual seduction, instills the viewer with an uneasy feeling. That, however we try to justify our urge to collect, what remains in our hands in the end is perhaps nothing more than a breath of air.

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A PHOTO OF THE CITY

Warsaw photography and related forms of art from the end of WWII until now

Nowy Teatr, Hala Warsztatowa

20 September – 24 November 2013 | 20:00

Exhibition opening: September 20, 2013
The exhibition will be open until November 24, 2013

Curator:
Adam Mazur

Curators of the „Synchronization” part:
Bogna Świątkowska, Piotr Drewko

Cooperation:
Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Artists:
Akademia Ruchu school of dance, Stefan Arczyński, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Zofia Chomętowska, Maria Chrząszczowa, Kuba Dąbrowski, Zbigniew Dłubak, Mikołaj Długosz, Maurycy Gomulicki, Nicolas Grospierre, Łukasz Gorczyca/Michał Kaczyński, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Mariusz Hermanowicz, Elżbieta Janicka, Jacek Kołodziejski, Kobas Laksa, Dominik Lewiński, Zbigniew Libera, Ewa Partum, Krzysztof Pijarski, Błażej Pindor, Krystyna Piotrowska, Konrad Pustoła, Joanna Rajkowska, Szymon Rogiński, Tomasz Saciłowski, Leonard Sempoliński, Tomasz Sikorski, Jan Smaga, Juliusz Sokołowski, Maciej Stępiński, Tomasz Szerszeń, Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Wojciech Wilczyk, Monika Zawadzki

Scenography:
Olga Mokrzycka-Grospierre

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We are pleased to inform about the lauch of Nicolas Grospierre’s monography, OPEN-ENDED.

OPEN-ENDED traces Grospierre’s work through numerous illustrations, critical essays by David Crowley and Adam Mazur, as well as an interview by Tomasz Plata.

The album was designed by the Warsaw based design studio MamaStudio, and published by Jovis Verlag, Berlin.

More info HERE and images HERE

Tuesday April 4 2013, at 7 PM

Opening speech by Levente Polyák, urbanist, Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre

PLatan Gallery, Polish Institute, Budapest

Andrassy ut 32

Budapest

Thursday 4 April, 7:00 pm — Friday 10 May 2013, 7:00 pm

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Transfer: PinchukArtCentre presents

The Bank by Nicolas Grospierre

Opening on September 18, 2012 at 6PM

18–23 September 2012

Open Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00.

Admission is Free.

PinchukArtCentre

Block А, 1/3-2, Chervonoarmiyska Street/Baseyna Street

Besarabka quarter

Kyiv 01 004

Ukraine

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Nicolas Grospierre

The City Which Does Not Exist

Opening: 13 July 2012, 8 pm

The exhibition will be open from 14 July until 26 August 2012
Curator: Lidia Krawczyk

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Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, pl. Szczepański 3a, 31-011 Kraków

www.bunkier.art.pl

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

Axonometry

Inauguración viernes 30 a las 20:30 h.

Hasta el 19 de Mayo 2012.

ALARCÓN CRIADO GALERÍA

C./ Madrid 4.B6

41001 – SEVILLA

www.alarconcriado.com

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Axonometry
The Axonometry exhibition gathers different works by Nicolas Grospierre whose common denominator is that these are all photographic works which represent reality as axonometric views. This is an apparent paradox: one sees reality in perspective (and this is what the camera records), and axonometry is a technique representing reality in an abstract, geometric fashion, which by definition contradicts the fundamental rules of perspective. In other words, the expression “axonometricphotography” is a contradiction in terms, since photography is always a representation through perspective.

This visual paradox has intrigued Nicolas Grospierre, who for the past few years has created numerous axonometric photographs, most of the times visualisations of buildings (as axonometry is very often used in architectural designs), but also of objects. The quasi geometric aspect of these photographs, but also the need to build literally from scratch these images, has led Nicolas Grospierre to represent imaginary buildings, legends of the modernist tradition.

Among other works, the Axonometry exhibition will display a few of these imaginary structures : the floating swimming pool imagined by Rem Koolhas at the end of his book Delirious New York, (which was supposed to carry Russian dissident architects to New York, in a trip which took them 5 decades), but also the legendary Wolkenbügel, designed by the Russian avant-guarde artist and architect El-Lissitzky. In this last work, and in order to create the axonometry of the Wolkenbügel, Nicolas Grospierre used photographs he made in Brasil: in an ironic twist, a brought to life utopia thus served as the visual basis for a never achieved utopian building.

Finally, the show will present a set of two especially prepared axonometric photographs which refer directly to the space of the Alarcon Criado Gallery, where the show is taking place.

BWA WARSZAWA presents
„THE BANK”
a solo show by Nicolas Grospierre

Opening: Saturday, 03.12.2011, 7 p.m.
ul. Jakubowska 16, Functional House, Warsaw
the exhibition is open till 11.02.2012
Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m.-7 p.m.

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BIBLIOTEKA NARODOWA / POLISH NATIONAL LIBRARY

„COŚ, KTÓRE NADCHODZI. ARCHITEKTURA XXI WIEKU” / „SOMETHING THAT COMES. ARCHITECTURE OF XXI CENTURY”
Oprowadzanie kuratorskie po wystawie: sobota, 03.12.2011, godz. 11.00
Guided tour: Saturday, 03.12.2011,11 a.m.
KRÓLIKARNIA /KROLIKARNIA PALACE
NATIONAL MUSEUM in Warsaw

„SKONTRUM”

Curator : Agnieszka Tarasiuk
Artists : Nicolas Grospierre, Agnieszka Polska, Jan Szewczyk
Opening: Sunday, 04.12.2011, 5 p.m.
more info on www.krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl

CSW ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI / CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI
„ENKLAWA” / „ENCLAVE”
Curators : Ewa Gorządek, Stach Szabłowski, Irina Tchesnokova, Evgeny Umansky

Artists : Danil Akimov, Karolina Breguła, Dimitri Bulatov, Alexey Chebykin, Ryszard Górecki, Mikołaj Grospierre, Dominik Lejman, Mariusz Libel, Artur Malewski, Nezhniye Baby (Sasha Artamonova & Zhenya Lapteva), Aleksander Podoprigorow, Maciej Stępiński, Katja Shadkovska, Evgeny Umansky, Anna i Adam Witkowscy, Yury Vassiliev, ZOR (Grzegorz Drozd & Alicja Łukasiak)

Opening: Monday, 05.12.2011, 7 p.m.
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