Galerie Laurent Godin

VOLTA 5, BASEL

June 8th - 13th, 2009

Opening, Monday June 8th

www.voltashow.com

Galerie Laurent Godin is pleased to announce its participation at VOLTA 5, BASEL.

New works by

SCOLI ACOSTA

DELPHINE COINDET

ALEKSANDRA MIR

VINCENT OLINET

HENRIK SAMUELSSON

SCOLI ACOSTA - (1973, lives and works in Los Angeles)

In developing a very personal iconography, the work of Scoli Acosta stresses an obsessional approach to transforming daily objects and salvaged material.

? I try to stick to a ? resourceful aesthetic ?, in other words, recycling, reclamation, readaptation and reproduction of daily objects and found objects. This approach relies on the necessity of reducing, reusing and recycling, all in isolating and rendering in a sublime light, the poetry of everyday life.

The fact that I have been greatly influenced from an early age by literature, and have lived in a multitude of countries, has reinforcced in me the contruction of a visual vocabulary, which I am developing and permanently recombining. This factor, along with a biological process of creation in a studio where each sculpture, painting, drawing etc, drives one another, gives my work the appearance of a dream-like sculpture, or that of an incoherent narrative. ? S.A.

The Devil Pours out of the Guitar with the Homemade Pickguard, 2007-2008 - 21 x 29,7 cm

DELPHINE COINDET (1969, lives and works in Lausanne) occupies a position on the scene of French contemporary sculpture : somewhere between minimal and farcical sculpture, abstract and virtual, sophisticated and artisanal, in brief, according to the art critic Vincent Pécoil, a sort of ? anti-academic ? sculpture.

From her independent preparatory drawings, she has effectively developed a creative process, which conditions their realisation in three dimensions. She elaborates from synthetic drawings, designed to be transformed on differing scales in animating a particular space, rendering them in materials and colours which will infuse them with an idea or feeling other than that of the objects already represented. These drawings are entrusted in another body of material, which ensure its execution. Shifting, but also metamorphosing, the first being that of its realisation. Alexia Fabre

La Prairie, 2008 - H 180 x L 125 x l 65 cm

ALEKSANDRA MIR - (1967, lives and works in Palermo)

? Plane Landing in Zürich ? : a series of photographs shot during the inflation of the plane in 2008, at Zurich Airport, as part of the exhibition ? Shifting Identities ?, Kunsthaus Zurich, curated by Mirjam Varandinis.

Mir's vision centers on the creation of a purpose-built helium balloon in the shape and size of a passenger jet plane. Suspended above the ground, as in a permanent state of landing, the plane had its world première at Compton Verney against a backdrop of quintessential English landscape, before embarking on a global tour to other 'picture postcard' destinations. Plane Landing is an event : the production of the balloon, its travel to new destinations, the inflation, its 'landing' and the documentation of all these parts constitutes the artwork.

Plane Landing in Switzerland #34, 2008 -176 x 122 cm

VINCENT OLINET - (1981, lives and works in Brussells)

"The artist's intent is to subvert and play with roles, matter and dimensions. Olinet's fascination for childhood and fairytale, both classic and Walt Disney's, allows him to create fantastical sculptures which are simultaneously attractive and repulsive. His drums recall, from their shape and colour, a playful and circus-like atmosphere, but also hide a darker side to their creation, insomuch as the artist himself defines them as "martial"". Giulio Cattaneo

Rhythm Is My Only Companion, 2009 - 40 x H45 cm

HENRIK SAMUELSSON - (1960, lives and works in Stockolm)

The Nation's Memory is a new series of paintings. As with his previous work, the artist constructs a reality, which plays simultaneously with interior and extieror, light and darkness.

? I have been working with a specific place, The Old National Archives of Sweden. I think of the National Archives as an aspect of the common memory ; a house that gives an actual body to our common history. Since the actual archives were closed down in the late sixties, this can also be seen as a place for these lost memorys. The characters and things that enter this scene and the events that take place in these rooms represent, in some sense, the individual experience.

This work might seem like a work of deconstruction but I prefer to think of it more as a slow and poetic blasting of a common memory. ? HS

Silent Inventions and the Sound of Distant Chainsaws, 2008 - 180 x 270 cm

GALERIE LAURENT GODIN

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ALEKSANDRA MIR

Plane Landing in Zürich and Paris

Until 13 june 2009

PIOTR DLUZNIEWSKI

Better Homes and Gardens with Modern Art and Cows

Until 13 june 2009

HSIA-FEI CHANG

20 June - 1 August, 2009

DAVID KRAMER

20 June - 1 August, 2009