Our highly anticipated inaugural exhibition Expressway to Your Skull by French painter Agathe de Bailliencourt runs from November 6 through December 18. Opening reception on Friday November 5 from 9 - 11pm.
Expressway to Your Skull is a quote from Sonic Youth - an allegory for a straight and material approach to imagery, directness and spontaneity.
The eleven large paintings mark the latest evolution in de Bailliencourt’s series "Je m'en fous". Although this part of the series is firstly an exploration of space, t... Read more
Our highly anticipated inaugural exhibition Expressway to Your Skull by French painter Agathe de Bailliencourt runs from November 6 through December 18. Opening reception on Friday November 5 from 9 – 11pm.
Expressway to Your Skull is a quote from Sonic Youth – an allegory for a straight and material approach to imagery, directness and spontaneity.
The eleven large paintings mark the latest evolution in de Bailliencourt’s series “Je m’en fous”. Although this part of the series is firstly an exploration of space, the viewer has unquestionably entered the psyche of the artist. At first glance, the paintings allude to architectural structures – sketched spaces within the frame of the canvas. Her gestural strokes attempt to define this unknown space, yet in doing so contributes to the deconstruction of the figurative element.
De Bailliencourt’s new work transgresses the limits of both abstraction and figuration with a profoundly personal dimension, consisting of a vibrant, and often fluorescent, chromaticity. In “Je m’en fous 26”, an element like a door reinforces the relationship between exterior and interior, thus pointing out a space between objective reality and subjective potential. Though the viewer is reminded of the rich tradition of expressionist painting, de Bailliencourt draws more upon the gestural strokes of Franz Kline, the materiality of Nicolas de Staël and the emotional transparency of Sophie Calle.
Born in Paris in 1974, Agathe de Bailliencourt attended the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Cergy Pontoise and the Ecole Boulle, Paris. She currently works and lives in Berlin. She was included in the Singapore Biennale 2006. Among her permanent public installations is the French Embassy in Tokyo. Hot off the press is “Despite Territories” a 64-page full color book of her public installations and paintings, with an introduction essay written by Amelia Abdullahsani, published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin. The book is available at Lu Magnus.
