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KURZ / DUST / غبار

Honorary Patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage prof. Małgorzata Omilanowska.

Opening: 4 September 2015 (Friday) at 6:00 p.m.
Opening concert: PRAED (Liban)
On view through 15 November 2015

Artists:
Mona Aghababee (Iran), Nazgol Ansarinia (Iran), Caline Aoun (Lebanon), Mehraneh Atashi (Iran),Vartan Avakian (Lebanon), Naser Bakhshi (Iran), Charbel-joseph H. Boutros (Lebanon), Ali Cherri(Lebanon), Vikram Divecha (UAE), Negar Farajiani (Iran), Barbad Golshiri (Iran), Mikołaj Grospierre(Poland), Mireille Kassar (Lebanon), Ali Kazim (Pakistan), Komuna// Warszawa (Poland), Mehreen Murtaza (Pakistan), Jurgen Ots (Belgium), Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwait), Wojciech Pustoła (Poland), Neda Razavipour (Iran), Iza Tarasewicz (Poland), Lorde Selys (Belgium).

Curator: Anna Ptak
Co-Curator: Amanda Abi Khalil
Exhibition Design: Krzysztof Skoczylas

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BALTIC GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART in SŁUPSK

Fundacja Archeologii Fotografii presents:

Nicolas Grospierre  /  Tadeusz Sumiński
The Picture which grows
Part of the Living Archives series
Project launch and an afternoon picnic:
May 22 (Sunday), 3.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Venue: the apartment of Tadeusz Sumiński,
Ulica Koszykowa 1, Apt. 82 and in the green courtyard

The picture which grows will be on view from May 23 to June 11, 2011

Mondays to Fridays, 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm, Saturdays 12.00 – 5.00 pm

Koszykowa 1, Apt. 82, Warsaw

The picture which grows, a project by Nicolas Grospierre (b. 1975) realized in the apartment of the photographer Tadeusz Sumiński (1924-2009), is a new event in the Living Archives series, organized by the Archeology of Photography Foundation, which seeks to establish a creative dialogue between the classic figures of Polish photography and contemporary artists.
The picture which grows is an attempt at confronting the ideas of tidiness and untidiness, the static and the dynamic, order and entropy, in the form of a photographic installation. It is also a clash of the order informing the archive of Tadeusz Sumiński and a method that aims to disturb this order. The installation consists of Sumiński’s archive accompanied by 800 photographs of the apartment and the archive taken by Nicolas Grospierre and mounted on the walls, ceiling and the floor. Grospierre photographed the interior of a room, made a print, mounted it in the same room in order to photograph it, develop, and photograph again, repeating the process up to a point when the room was completely filled with photographs of itself.

FUNDACJA ARCHEOLOGII FOTOGRAFII, WARSAW

NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CHINA, BEIJING

STATE OF LIFE. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance
curator: Jarosław Lubiak
On show: May 10 until June 24, 2015

 State of Life is an attempt to communicate the Polish experience to recipients from a different culture. Presenting Polish art at the National Art Museum of China, State of Life aims to reflect the complex balance of forces and tensions shaping reality in today’s Poland as it undergoes modernization and globalization processes.

The exhibition features some 70 works by artists who concern themselves with the present-day situation in Poland yet work in a truly global vein. It is precisely the achievements of artists from generations enjoying full access to participation in global culture that the exhibition presents in the widest selection.

artists: Paweł Althamer, Ewa Axelrad, Mirosław Bałka, Wojciech Bąkowski, Michał Budny, Rafał Bujnowski, Olaf Brzeski, Marek Chlanda, Tomasz Ciecierski, Edward Dwurnik, Nicolas Grospierre, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Piotr Janas, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Adam Jastrzębski, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Tadeusz Kantor, Leszek Knaflewski, Katarzyna Kobro, Tomasz Kozak, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zofia Kulik, Kamil Kuskowski, Norman Leto, Zbigniew Libera, Robert Maciejuk, Jan Manski, Angelika Markul, Anna Molska, Magdalena Moskwa, Jerzy Nowosielski, Roman Opałka, Ewa Partum, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Zbigniew Rogalski, Tadeusz Rolke, Zofia Rydet, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jan Simon, Aleksandra Ska, Łukasz Skąpski, Jan Smaga, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Magdalena Starska, Władysław Strzemiński, Alina Szapocznikow, Radek Szlaga, Leon Tarasewicz, Andrzej Wasilewski, Julita Wójcik, Andrzej Wróblewski, Monika Zawadzki, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Zorka Projekt

KUNSTHALLE BRATISLAVA

PROCEDURES FOR THE HEAD / Polish Art Today
Curator : Sebastian Cichocki
on show until June 28, 2015

The exhibition PROCEDURES FOR THE HEAD / Polish Art Today was prepared by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The exhibition presents over 50 Polish contemporary artists of several generations and it is the first large international event of the Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava.

BWA Warszawa invites you to the exhibition by

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE, OLGA MOKRZYCKA-GROSPIERRE

A Glass Shard in the Eye

Friday, 26.09.2014, 5 p.m.

Exhibition is open till 08.11.2014

Wednesday – Saturday 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a crystal – a mineral of fascinating qualities, of sensual beauty and geometric precision. The crystal not only attracts the eye as an object of beauty, but it also facilitates seeing itself as a material often used in optical equipment (such as cameras). At the same time it maintains its mystery, with its complex structure of mirrors reflecting infinitely.

The Grospierres translate this complexity into the language of visual arts. In Olga’s paintings it appears both as a theme and as a medium. The seemingly abstract canvases show real crystals created using a special pigment containing microscopic crystals.

Nicolas builds upon Olga’s canvases in creating an installation that sets optical equipment among her works.

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Nicolas Grospierre was awarded a grant by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, towards the achivement of his latest work, A House for Culture, dealing with the architetural legacy of the Israeli Kibbutzim and of the Estonian Kolkhozes

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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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