Multiverse
an exhibition by Michel Blazy
September 6–November 10, 2018
Opening: Wednesday, September 5 2018, 6-9pm
The passage of time over matter is central to Michel Blazy’s practice. Since the early nineties, the artist has been working with living entities, both artificial and natural, which are all equally subject to the supremacy of time and the multitude of triggers that impact the environment.
In Multiverse, La Loge reveals its potential as an animated place where materials can grow, germinate, transform and deteriorate. Each room of the building provides specific spatial, lighting and climatological conditions, accommodating different types of life to coexist. The exhibition comprises key elements from Blazy’s studio practice including film, sculpture and installation, often composed of impermanent, transient materials like plants, molds, nutritional ingredients and everyday objects.
Throughout the course of the exhibition, the works develop independently from each other and beyond the control of the artist. In this untended multiverse, where things can freely overflow, the eccentric movement of matter lurks as a constant possibility.
Born in 1966 in Monaco, Michel Blazy lives and works in Paris. Solo exhibitions comprise Last Garden, Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes/FR, 2018; Pull Over Time, Art : Concept, 2015; Bouquet Final 3, National Gallery of Victoria; Melbourne White Night, 2013; Le Grand Restaurant, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, 2012; Débordement domestique, Art : Concept, Paris, 2012; Post Patman, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2007. n 2008 he was nominated for the 2008 Marcel Duchamp Prize, and his work has been collected by numerous public collections including The National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou; the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania; the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris; the New Museum of Monaco; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse and several regional funds for contemporary art. Michel Blazy is represented by Art : Concept in Paris.
Leonard Koren and guests
a three-day conversation
December 13-15, 2018
Leonard Koren and guests is a programme of conversations focussing on a set of ideas that run through the practice of artist and writer Leonard Koren whose primary medium is publishing. A selection of Koren’s publications will serve as the point of departure to discuss recurring themes and intersts including aesthetics, editorial sensibilities and “what artists do.”
Full programme and details to be announced soon on our website
Leonard Koren (°1948, New York) is an American artist, aesthetics expert and writer living in San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from UCLA with a Master’s Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning in 1972, he started organising bath events, creating unusual bathing environments, and producing paper works about bathing. In 1976 Koren founded WET Magazine dedicated to gourmet bathing. In 1981, he shut down WET magazine and began travelling to Tokyo to work on music videos for Japanese television, and where he wrote a series of works on aesthetics. Books by Leonard Koren include Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (1994), Undesigning the Bath (1996), Gardens of Gravel and Sand (2000), 13 Books (2001), Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement (2003), The Flower Shop: Charm Grace Beauty, Tenderness in a Commercial Context (2005), Which “Aesthetics” Do You Mean?: Ten Definitions (2010), Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing (2012) Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts (2015) and What Artist Do (2018).
