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Sol Calero, Nino Kapanadze, Shana Moulton
Sol Calero, Nino Kapanadze, Shana Moulton
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- 💙 Crèvecœur
- đź–¤ Sol Calero, Nino Kapanadze, Shana Moulton
- 💛 Aurélien Mole, Alex Kostromin
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“Nature doesn’t exist”. Philippe Descola, chair holder in Anthropology of Nature at the Collège de France, has coined this shocking phrase, putting forward a new way of thinking about the world, reviewing the relations of continuities and discontinuities between man and his environment. Through the works of Sol Calero, Nino Kapanadze and Shana Moulton, the exhibition aims to blur the naturalistic representations of nature that artists have maintained throughout the history of art. In Sol Calero’s work, the exoticism of fruit and landscapes becomes a reflection on the classificatory narratives that predetermine hierarchies and perspectives. In Nino Kapanadze’s practice, landscape painting is a space that enables her to activate areas of pictorial conflict and deliberately blur the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. In the 2008 film Sand Saga, which at first glance appears to be a coming-of-age story set in a natural environment, Shana Moulton operates through various cultural analogies. Moulton deliberately mixes low-tech special effects with a healthy dose of New Age, passages through multiple dimensions, beauty masks, and references to Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock.
Sol Calero was born in Venezuela, in 1982. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at the Museum of Stavanger, Norway (2023), 1646, The Hague (2022), Copenhagen Contemporary (2020), TATE Liverpool (2019); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2018); Brücke Museum, Berlin (2018); Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris (2018); Düsseldorf Kunstverein (2018); Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (2018); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Studio Voltaire, London (2018).
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1990, Nino Kapanadze practiced painting from an early age. A graduate of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, she moved to France in 2018 to continue her studies at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and enrolled the same year at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which she graduated in June 2023. In 2023, she took part in the group exhibition Cache-Cache at Galerie Perrotin (Paris) and had her first solo exhibition at Galerie LC Queisser in Tbilisi (Georgia).
Shana Moulton was born in Oakhurst (USA) in 1976. Her work has been shown at Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) ; MCASB, Santa Barbara (US); Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (CH); Zabludowicz Collection, London (GB); Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich (CH); New Museum, New York (NY) ; MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR); UCCA, Beijing (CN); Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw (PL); Lyon Biennale, Lyon (FR); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (CH); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (US); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US). Her solo exhibition will be held at the MOMA (New York) in January 2024.