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Opening PHOTOGRAPHY DEGROWTH, May 17, 2024,Polish Institute Dusseldorf

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Photography Degrowth is an exhibition mostly focused on Nicolas Grospierre’s works dedicated to architecture, and the games the photographer has developed with architecture over the years, but not only. Nicolas Grospierre’s photographs have been often playing with the ideas of growth, expansion, reflection, multiplication – and this in the context of modernist architecture, that was always envisioned as ever-expanding, no matter what, and no matter the costs. However, turning these ideas on their heads, and as the title indicates, the time has perhaps come for architecture – and architecture photography – to reflect on whether or not growth is an absolute prerequisite of its development.
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Photography Degrowth
Curated by Adam Mazur
Opening: Friday May 17, 2024 at 7 PM
Show open until August 8, 2024
Polish Institute in Dusseldorf
Citadellestrasse 7
40213 Dusseldorf

opening THE MYTH OF THE ETERNAL RETURN / Alarcon Criado Gallery, Seville

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The Myth of the Eternal Return is a show which explores the concept of the loop, or the closed cycle. The exhibition combines various works which, each in a distinctive way, are organised around the idea of the loop. Still, while the earlier works, such as Phoenix, were looped as a playful and formal experiment, the later projects, such as The Alder King or The Bunker, acquire a social, environmental or even political context. As if the amusing and intellectually stimulating form of the closed cycle stopped from being a mere game, to enter the realm of reality.

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The Myth of the Eternal Return
Opening : Saturday November 26, 2022 at 12:00
Show open until January 28, 2023

Alarcon Criado gallery
Velarde 941001 Sevilla, Spain
info@alarconcriado.com
Phone: +34 954 22 16 13

Opening LCAXN at the Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, on November, 9, 2021

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The Le Corbusier Foundation presents the exhibition LCAXN by Nicolas Grospierre, architectural photographer awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2008.

Nicolas Grospierre has developed a form of photographic representation that is neither photography nor drawing, which he calls ‘axonometric photography’
In LCAXN, he has taken the axonometric drawings of LeCorbusier’s unbuilt projects and brought them to life by telling the imaginary story of these buildings in his photomontages.
This exhibition opens an artistic dialogue between the Maison La Roche – Le Corbusier’s first purist house – and the works of Nicolas Grospierre.
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Fondation Le Corbusier,
10 square du Docteur Blanche, 75016 Paris
Entrance by 55, rue du Dr Blanche
Open to the public
Tuesday, and Thursday to Saturday, 10:00-18:00
Exhibition on view until December 17, 2021

Opening LONGUE DUREE with Nelly Agassi at Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, September 20, 2019

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Opening of Nelly Agassi and Nicolas Grospierre exhibition Longue durée, in the frame of Warsaw Gallery Weekend, September 20-22, 2019

Pola Magnetyczne,
Londyńska 13,
03-921, Warsaw, Poland

In Longue durée, Nelly Agassi and Nicolas Grospierre develop a visual dialogue which revolves around time, architecture, and the physical absence of light. “Longue durée” – the long run – should be seen as a view on things, perceived over a long period of time, and focusing on the longstanding and imperceptibly slow changing events and their consequences, and understood as perhaps the most fundamental aspects of reality.

In Heliography, Nicolas Grospierre’s new body of works, the photographer abandons one of his favourite topics, architecture, to deliver works that could be seen as the antithesis of Cartier Bressons’s concept of “decisive moment”. It is indeed the long perspective that is essential in Heliography, which could be described as photography without film, without camera, and even without paper: geometric patterns created by the sun over colorful velvet canvases, exposed over a period of five months.

The long run is equally essential in Nelly Agassi’s practice, and her re-interpretation of architecture. In Longue durée, Nelly Agassi deals with the the biography of the building housing the Pola Magnetyczne gallery. Plein-Air, one of her minimalist yet masterful interventions, revives architectural elements once integral to the house, and which have disappeared: the windows of the gallery space. Marking the absence of these windows allows her to connect with the long history of the house and explore erasure, preservation, and architecture’s capacity to change and repurpose by its users and by time, while at the same time echoing Grospierre’s Heliography, by referring to the absence/presence of light which the window allow, and which is fundamental in Grospierre’s works.

Born out of the visual exchange between two autonomous artistic sensitivities, Longue durée eventually hints at notions of time, memory and immanent change, often imperceptible to the naked eye.

 

Opening FICTION AND FABRICATION at MAAT Lisboa, March 19, 2019

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Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn.

Curated by Pedro Gadanho and Sergio Fazenda Rodrigues

MAAT
Museum Art Architecture Technology
Av. Brasília, Central Tejo, 1300-598 Lisboa

Opening: March 19 at 7 PM
On show until August 19, 2019

Fiction and Fabrication gathers nearly 50 artists who build and manipulate images of architectural objects and spaces. Marking 30 years since Photoshop was invented, and digital tools invaded photographic production, this exhibition focuses on the imagery of architecture as a central theme to an expanded practice of photography in contemporary art. From the seminal works of Andreas Gurski, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall or Thomas Demand to the fictional creations of Beate Gütschow, Oliver Boberg or Isabel Brison, the show offers a panorama of architectural photography that evades objective approaches and favours fictionalised takes on reality between cinematic gazes, image deconstruction and more politicised narratives. At a time when digital tools preside over the making of architectural images for media consumption, fictions stemming from the art world appear here as a critical alternative that questions and expands the concept of architecture.Participant artists:
Doug Aitken, Olivier Boberg, Isabel Brison, Rita Sobral Campos, James Casabere, André Cepeda, David Claerbout, Celine Condorelli, Mafalda Marques Correia, Gregory Crewdson, Hans Op de Beeck, Mónica de Miranda, Thomas Demand, Filip Dujardin, Roland Fischer, Carlos Garaicoa, Dionisio Gonzalez, Nicolas Grospierre, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Patrick Hamilton, Sabine Hornig, Veronika Kellndorfer, Lucia Koch, Aglaia Konrad, Jonathan Lewis, Inês Lombardi, Tatiana Macedo, Edgar Martins, Antoni Muntadas, Anja Niemi, Erwin Olaf, Rodrigo Oliveira, Bas Princen, Olivier Ratsi, Teresa Braula Reis, Nick Relph, Martha Rossler, Thomas Ruff, Philip Schaerer, Evandro Soares, Hanna Starkey, Gerold Tagwerker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Pedro Tudela, Jeff Wall, James Welling.

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Opening A SUBJECTIVE ATLAS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

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OPENING A Subjective Atlas of Modern Architecture, March 1st, 2019, in Warsaw’s Fort Institute of Photography.

Instytut Fotografii Fort

Ul. Racławicka 99, budynek 06
opening : Friday March 1st, 7 PM.
exhibition open until April 7.
Curated by Adam Mazur, this show is the summing up of 15 years’ work on modernist architecture. The exhibition will showcase two complementary series, Modern Forms and Modern Spaces, which have until now been published as autonomous books by Prestel Publishing in London.
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Launch of MODERN SPACES. A Subjective Atlas of 20th century Architecture

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Published by Prestel (London), Modern Spaces complements a previous opus, Modern Forms, but it is this time focused exclusively on modern interior design. As in Modern Forms, the photographs are organised neither chronologically nor geographically, but formally, and they therefore create a visual flow of shapes and designs. With the earliest photographs taken in 2004, this album is a sum of 15 years’ work on modernist interiors.

The book is edited by Lincoln Dexter and Elias Redstone, with an essay by Owen Hatherley, and was designed by Magda Ponagajbo (Mamastudio, Warsaw).
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Modern Spaces will be launched in Warsaw, at the occasion of the Warsaw Art Book fair, on Sunday November 25, at 4 PM. The talk will be led by Łukasz Gorzyca.
BABKA do wynajęcia
ul. Młocińska 5/7, 01-065 Warsaw, Poland
Additionally, I shall be signing the book in Paris during the Galeristes Art Fair, on Friday November 30, at 5 PM. The book signing is organised by the Common Room Foundation.
Le Carreau du Temple
2 Rue Perrée, 75003 Paris, France

Launch of MODERN SPACES. A Subjective Atlas of 20th century Architecture

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Published by Prestel (London), Modern Spaces complements a previous opus, Modern Forms, but it is this time focused exclusively on modern interior design. As in Modern Forms, the photographs are organised neither chronologically nor geographically, but formally, and they therefore create a visual flow of shapes and designs. With the earliest photographs taken in 2004, this album is a sum of 15 years’ work on modernist interiors.

The book is edited by Lincoln Dexter and Elias Redstone, with an essay by Owen Hatherley, and was designed by Magda Ponagajbo (Mamastudio, Warsaw).
More information HERE.
Modern Spaces will be launched in Warsaw, at the occasion of the Warsaw Art Book fair, on Sunday November 25, at 4 PM. The talk will be led by Łukasz Gorzyca.
BABKA do wynajęcia
ul. Młocińska 5/7, 01-065 Warsaw, Poland
Additionally, I shall be signing the book in Paris during the Galeristes Art Fair, on Friday November 30, at 5 PM. The book signing is organised by the Common Room Foundation.
Le Carreau du Temple
2 Rue Perrée, 75003 Paris, France

Opening THE BEST POSSIBLE CITY at Architekturgalerie MÜNCHEN, 13.09.2018

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OPENart 2018 in der ARCHITEKTURGALERIE MÜNCHEN im BUNKER

THE BEST POSSIBLE CITY
Nicolas Grospierre / Fthenakis Ropee

THE NEXT POSSIBLE CITY
Positions of young architects in Munich

Herzliche Einladung zur Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 13. September um 19 Uhr
Cordial invitation to the opening on Thursday, September 13 at 7pm

Nicola Borgmann Architekturgalerie Munich
Nicolas Grospierre Artist and Photographer
Alexander Fthenakis Fthenakis Ropee Architekten

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opening THE CITY WHICH DOES NOT EXIST / Город, которого нет, Peresvetov Pereulok gallery, Moscow 25.04.2018

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opening of

Город, которого нет  / The City which does not exist

at Peresvetov Pereulok gallery in Moscow, on Wednedsay 25 april 2018 at 7 PM

The exhibition is curated by Daria Kravchuk

This exhibition revolves around imaginary architecture:  ideal buildings, fictitious housing estates, hypothetical urban schemes. It features a selection of large scale photographic objects, installations and photomontages, created over the last decade.

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Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery
Peresvetov Lane, 4/1,

Moscow 115280, Russia
+7 495 675-22-28
https://www.peresvetov-gallery.com/

The exhibition is open until June 10, 2018

opening hours:  tuesday to sunday, 11.00 to 20.00

Opening HELIOSOPHIA at Alarcon Criado, Seville, Friday September 29, 2017

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Opening of

HELIOSOPHIA

September 29, 2017 at 8.30 PM

Galeria Alarcon Criado
C/ Velarde nº9 41001,
Sevilla
+34 954 221 613
info@alarconcriado.com

Show open until 18.11.2017

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NICOLAS GROSPIERRE
Heliosophia

The ancient Greek believed that Helios, the god of the sun, rode a fiery chariot through the sky, in this manner illuminating the world. However, when Helios let his son Phaeton lead the carriage, the inexperienced rider lost control over it, threatening to crash on earth and destroy the world. Zeus had to strike Helios’ chariot, killing Phaeton by the same token.
As is often the case, Greek mythology provides an accurate yet simple narration to apprehend man’s relation to the world around him. Echoes of this story are found in Nicolas Grospierre’s latest exhibition at Alarcon Criado: Heliosophia.
Composed of two distinct yet interdependent parts, Heliosophia brings forward works which develop an ambiguous relation to the sun, and light in general, as a creative means, but also perhaps as a destructive agent.

The first set of works, Heliographia, are abstract geometric compositions which seem to have been drawn on large velvet canvases. What looks like a print is in fact the direct action of the sun over several months. During this time, lightproof caches were placed over the velvet, and periodically moved, the sun burning out the exposed parts. It is a kind of photography without paper, without film, without camera even, the sun being the sole creative power.
Heliopolis is a set of photographs of modernist buildings from different parts of the world, whose common denominator is that they all have been destroyed, each time for different and specific reasons. However, the prints are tricked. Their photographic process has purposefully not been fixed, in such a way that when shown to the public, i.e. when exposed to light, they begin to black out. Here the sun is a destructive force, erasing structures which have already been torn down.
However, and upon closer examination, things are not as simple as they seem. Both works provide canny examples of the paradox of creative destruction, i.e. when the symbolic capital of the destruction of an object is greater than its material value.
One may indeed consider that the Heliographic compositions are in fact, from a technical point of view, the deterioration of an originally virgin piece of velvet.

On the other hand, the Heliopolis photographs are probably more than a simple set of images. One may indeed venture that it is their very fragile nature, their self- destructive quality – that the more one looks at them, the more they become difficult to perceive – which provides a truly genuine artistic experience.
Ultimately, Heliosophia is therefore not only about the sun, but about the complex and intertwined relation between the creative and destructive processes at work in any manly work.

KRYSTIAN JARNUSZKIEWICZ – NICOLAS GROSPIERRE / opening: 10.06.2017 Pola Magnetyczne

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Opening of

KRYSTIAN JARNUSZKIEWICZ <- NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

TO MY DEAR MIKOŁAJ

on Saturday, June 10 | 18:00

Pola Magnetyczne

ul. Londyńska 13
03-921 Warszawa
www.polamagnetyczne.com

exhibition open until | 16.09.2017

opening hours:
wed-fri 15:00-19:30
sat 13:00-17:00

KRYSTIAN JARNUSZKIEWICZ <- NICOLAS GROSPIERRE – TO MY DEAR MIKOŁAJ – is a show of my uncle’s and my works at the Pola Magnetyczne gallery in Warsaw.
It is an exhibition of loose formal associations, a silent dialogue (unfortunately in one way only), started by chance, and the attempt to see through the eyes of another person.

Opening LATE POLISHNESS – CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, 31 march 2017

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opening of

LATE POLISHNESS
curators: Ewa Gorządek and Stach Szabłowski

Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

31/03 – 06/08/2017

Opening: Friday, 31/03, 19.00

The project Late Polishness is dedicated to the forms which Polish contemporary identity assumes. Acting as the main space for deliberations is the exhibition, which consists of more than a hundred works and projects from dozens of contemporary artists working in the fields of visual arts, cinema, and theatre. The themes underlined in the show will be expanded on through a rich program of discussions, lectures, and screenings.

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Opening MODERN FORMS at the National Gallery of VIctoria, Melbourne on March 17, 2017

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MODERN FORMS EXHIBITION OPENS AT NGV INTERNATIONAL, MELBOURNE

NGV INTERNATIONAL
180 ST KILDA ROAD, MELBOURNE

Opening March 17, 2017

Nicolas Grospierre’s Modern Forms project is being exhibited at NGV International as part of Melbourne Design Week and features brand new work taken by Grospierre in Australia. Presented as a series of geometric shapes, the bold architectural forms photographed by Grospierre are an expression of modernism’s achievements and failures in delivering a better world.

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Opening LIFE. A MANUAL at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, February 3, 2017

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Opening of

LIFE. A MANUAL
An exhibition inspired by the work of Georges Perec

An exhibition curated by Jadwiga Sawicka

Opening : Friday, February 3, 2017 at 7 PM

Until 23.04.2017

Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
pl. Małachowskiego 3

00-916 Warsaw

The exhibition Life. A Manual  was inspired by one of Perec’s most well-known novels Life a User’s Manual— a multi-layered story about the inhabitants of a Paris building. Constructed according to the principles of combinatorics and the rules of chess, it met the postulates of the experimental literary group OuLiPo, Perec belonged to since 1967.

The exhibition— integrating various disciplines — presents the works by authors who think in classifications, enjoy formal constraints and complex narratives. The exposition is divided into four parts: ludic, sociological, novelist and autobiographical. The reading room, which is an integral part of the show, permeates all the ‘chapters’ of the exhibition.
Artists: Eleanor Antin, Apsolutno, Martin Arnold, Krzysztof Bartnicki & Wojciech Kucharczyk, Michał Chudzicki, CT Jasper & Joanna Malinowska, Omer Fast, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Bartosz Fic, Kaja Gliwa & Mikołaj Moskal, Johan Grimonprez, Nicolas Grospierre, Grzegorz Jankowicz, Lukáš Jasanský & Martin Polák, Alicja Karska & Aleksandra Went, Lila Kalinowska, PIO Kaliński, Agnieszka Kurant, Jamie Livingston, Justyna Łuczaj-Salej, Piotr Macha, Martyna Miller, Aleksandra Mir, Karolina Niwelińska, Krzysztof Pisarek, Jan Rusiński i ilustratorzy (Arobal, Jacek Ambrożewski, Patricija Bliuj-Stodulska, Ola Cieślak, Paulina Derecka, Małgorzata Dmitruk, Paulina Dudek, Magdalena Dukaczewska, Stanisław Gajewski, Joanna Gębal, Agnieszka Głód, Monika Hanulak, Maria Huculak, Marta Ignerska, Rafał Kucharczuk, Wacław Marat, Milena Podloch, Greta Samuel, Aniela Sadlej, Maciej Sieńczyk, Marianna Sztylak, Stanisław Wójcik, Barbara Żuchowska), John Stezaker, Weronika Szczawińska & Krzysztof Kaliski, Mariusz Tarkawian, Andrzej Tobis, Marianne Wex oraz studenci Wydziału Sztuki Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Authors of books: Sophie Calle, Jonathan Safran Foer, Cristina de Middel, Joan Fontcuberta, Michael Landy, Chris WareMore information here