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The ongoing exhibition of new artworks by Julien Bismuth, titled 'Partition', at Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, ends on December 23, 2016.
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Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews.
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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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In an alluring new video by Julien Bismuth, on view in his second exhibition with Simone Subal, we watch the expressionless
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The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States in collaboration with the Institut Francais, with the support of the Alliance Française of Los Angeles and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, are pleased to announce Ceci n’est pas…Art Between France and Los Angeles.
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Thermostat – under this title, French art centers and German Kunstvereine present a series of joint exhibitions and events between June 2010
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Julien Bismuth (b.1973 Paris, France) received a BFA from UCLA, an MA from Goldsmiths, and is currently finishing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton. Julien Bismuth's work navigates between the visual and literary arts. He has published a number of texts, including a series of books with Devonian Press, which he co-founded with the artist Jean-Pascal Flavien in 2005. His recent pieces can be described as stagings of linguistic and visual elements, text and image (or object) coexisting in a disruptive and distracted dialogue with one another. Much of his work is also performance-based, including a recent series of performative works with actors, in which the actors were directed to communicate laughter or tears to their audience, by working themselves into fits of laughter and tears. He is currently represented by Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Galerie Parisa Kind, and the Layr Wuestenhagen Gallery.
The interactions between text and image, text and performance, language and its other(s) play essential roles in Julien Bismuth’s art. Much of Bismuth’s work is about more than just looking and requires the active participation of the viewer. Though language and writing are central concerns of his practice, Bismuth's work deals more specifically with the gaps, fissures and fragile connections by means of which the linguistic medium interacts with its “outside.” Another central concern of Bismuth's practice is its relation to performance, as well as to theater, and to the complexities of “theatricality,” both on and off the stage. Rarely confined to one medium or way of working, Bismuth's practice engages in a deliberate migration to, from, and between different ways of making and thinking art. His work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, Kunsthalle Wien, the CRAC Alsace, and the Villa Arson, among others.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
