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fette's
gallery is delighted to present A.K.A., a group show with Antoine Catala
(fr/us), John Copeland (us), Sandrine Pelletier (ch/fr), Levi van Veluw
(nl), and Nick van Woert (us).
For this exhibition, we invited five artists
working internationally to discuss the delicate, rather aged, yet vigorous
theme of portraiture.
New York based French artist Antoine Catala will present two videos, Alex
Fernandez, 3"42 loop, and Blandine, 2"05 loop,
which were both screened for the first time at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de Mexico last December.
Often using video in his practice, Catala engages the viewer to acknowledge
the medium's very own snags and glitch. In this diptych, he enhances imperfections,
render errors, and other visual malformations to generate complex faceted
figures.
Brooklyn based painter John Copeland will present two new large
works on canvas. Creating metaphors rather than specific characters, Copeland
combines the delicate texture of paint, current social and personal conflicts,
as well as absurd elements of writing.
Since 1996, the artist has been keeping journals, small scale intensive
sketchbooks. This recurrent practice leaves room for the experiment, yet
provides him with a certain playful discipline.
Copeland will be one of the three artists selected to create a piece for
the upcoming Whitney Museum Artist Collaboration.
Sandrine Pelletier re-appropriates
mundane objects to explore their symbolic connotations. Using threads
and fabrics, she consolidates her narratives into intricate, yet at times
violent, surreal, and ironical installations and sculptures.
For A.K.A., she will create a new and delicate site-specific installation
with fabric.
She has recently shown her work in Lausanne (solo) (ch), Bruxelles (be)
and London (uk). This is her first show in the US.
Levi van Veluw will have two photographs on view, Tape and Lines,
the latter one being from his ongoing new series Ballpoint in which he
repeats various patterns on his face, ephemeral tattoos sealed for all
time by the shutter.
After a successful internship with Erwin Olaf, Levi van Veluw will be
graduating this summer from the Artez School of Arts Arnhem, the Netherlands.
He recently received the Epson Art Photo Award and the American Photography
Award - AI AP's catalogue will be published in November.
Nick van Woert creates vibrant stalagmitic sculptures using found figurines
of characters from popular culture's tales. Characters such as Alfred,
the Tin Man, or Dorothy are dipped in paint to resurface brightly as nonpictorial
entities. In this practice, van Woert may be saluting Rimbaud's famous
poem "Voyelles", from the absurd and cynical aspect
of the answer, to the organic yet abstract aesthetic.
In May, Nick van Woert presented his Thesis Show from Parson, the New
School for Design, NY at Caelum Gallery in New York. |
