Stéphane de Medeiros

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Performance in the Museum of Applied Arts , Vienna, December 7, 2006

Stéphane de Medeiros (born February 14, 1972 in Cotonou , Benin ) is a French artist. The focus of his work is in the area of performance . He has lived and worked in Tokyo since 2009 . In Paris he also worked as a designer of installations, video works and drawings. The first artistic appearances took place in the 1990s, when the Parisian art scene was looking for a new direction in the course of the debate about conceptual contemporary art. 2002 undertook the artist, mediated by the University of Paris I , the first exhibition trip to Asia, where he was in Seoul in exhibitions Otoke in Bang Gallery and Bodies and Clothes in Seoul National University Museum of Art participated. In the following years there was increased international exhibition activity, especially in Japan, where de Medeiros established himself in 2008.

Art theoretical classification

Based on historical works by Cabaret Voltaire , Allan Kaprow , Yves Klein , Gilbert and George , from the Gutai Group , Stéphane de Medeiros sets points of reference in the tension between imaginable and unimaginable bodies. This field of tension arises in "plastic scattering" of various kinds in which the human body appears as one object among others. The artist describes his three-dimensional scattering as “visual jokes” or “logical one-way streets”. Tatsumi Orimoto , Peter Coffin , Andy Kaufman and Mike Kelley offer current reference points . The works of Stéphane de Medeiros only make sense after they have been successfully teleported into the freedom of meaning: “A picture is always missing, precisely this picture is superfluous.” “The phenomenological perception of the performance creates affects that are relentlessly linked to new patterns. The gestural motionlessness of the actors affects us differently than an activity aimed at change and unveiling. ”“ In the art of Stéphane de Medeiros, great history, scientific knowledge, electricity bills, porn films, epistemology, yawning, paternalism and mythology mix. The elements often seem out of place (swimming pool full of ketchup in a hotel foyer, cyclists with shaving foam on a museum staircase, etc.) and testify to a sensitivity marked by loss of meaning which, according to the artist, serves to 'give reality what belongs to it' " .

Solo exhibitions

  • 2010 Kabukisenegal , Gankagarou Gallery, Tokyo.
  • 2008 Burdenry , Mycroft Gallery, Paris.
  • 2006 Rocky Balpython , Apartment CD, Paris.
  • 2004 Jérôme Rapanello fait le zouave , Deux pieces cuisine, Paris.
  • 2002 Otoke , Bang Gallery, Seoul.

Group exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philippe Dagen: Djinns, femmes et clones pour se faire peur avec art , in: Le Monde , Paris, 8/9. April 2001, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Sandrine Morsillo, L'identité artistique en mutation . In: Richard Conte (ed.): L'art contemporain au risque du clonage , CERAP / Université Paris-1, Paris, 2002, p. 117.
  3. ↑ a b c Stéphane de Medeiros, excerpt from a press release written by the artist for the performance Rocky Balpython , Paris, May 28, 2006, no p.
  4. ↑ Stéphane Rengeval, Les farces schizophréniques de Stéphane de Medeiros , Catalog Rocky Balpython, Paris, 2006, o.P.
  5. ↑ Robert Lacombe (ed.): Tempête du désert de Wittgenstein , exhibition brochure of the Institut Français, Tokyo, 2009, o.P.
  6. ↑ Christian Denker (ed.), Lebensform Wittgenstein , Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2009, on de Medeiros p. 67, 136. See also photo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from de Medeiros' Tractatus Logico Ketchapcus 6.421@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / denker-bercoff.com  

literature

items

  • Christian W. Denker (Ed.): De Medeiros * Taniuchi , ST / A / R -Printmedium , n ° 16, Vienna, 2007, p. 67.
  • Sandrine Morsillo: L'art contemporain au risque du clonage . In: Richard Conte (Ed.): Clonage: l'identité artistique en mutation . Publications de la Sorbonne, Collection Art & Monde contemporain, Paris 2002, p. 117.
  • Philippe Dagen: Djinns, females et clones pour se faire peur avec art . In: Le Monde , 8./9. April 2001, p. 26.

Exhibition catalogs

  • Chieko Tanaka: Kabukisenegal , Gankagarou , Tokyo, 2010, p. 5.
  • Christian W. Denker: Wittgenstein way of life . Passagen Verlag, Vienna, 2009. ISBN 978-3-85165-895-8 . (P. 67 and 133)
  • Robert Lacombe: 'Tempête du désert de Wittgenstein', installation by Stephane de Medeiros . In: Robert Lacombe (ed.): Les journées du goût, La cuisine à la rencontre de l'art . L'institut franco-japonais, Tokyo, 2009, p. 13.
  • Seiji Shimoda (Ed.): Nipon International Performance Art Festival 2009 . Nipaf, Tokyo, 2009.
  • Sara Tse: Introduction to Exhibition . In: Sara Tse (ed.): Fotanian . Sino Group, Hong Kong, 2007, p. 23.
  • Leila Voight, Stéphane de Medeiros: Les artistes cassent la baraque . A3-art, Paris, 2007, p. 56.
  • Stéphane Rengeval, Les farces schizophréniques de Stéphane de Medeiros , Catalog Rocky Balpython, Paris, 2006, o.P.

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personal data
SURNAME Medeiros, Stéphane de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Cotonou , Benin