Stilleven 11 October 22 November 2008 Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com
PRESS RELEASE Lullin + Ferrari are delighted to present Lausanne based artist David Hominal (b. 1976 Evian) in his first important solo exhibition in Zurich. In 2007 Hominal s solo show at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, fetchingly titled You ll Never Walk Alone attracted much attention amongst the general public and the art world. The title refers to a 1963 song by Gerry & The Pacemakers, sung by the supporters of Liverpool Football Club moments before the start of each home game. Indeed Hominal didn t walk alone for long. The museum bought works and a catalogue was published. In the last couple of years, several group exhibitions have shown Hominal to be a most versatile artist: In A Fantasy for the Moment, Kunsthalle Bern (2007) he combined paintings with assemblages; in the thematic show Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zurich (2008) he showed paintings as well as a group of works on paper which demonstrated the artist s intensive and expressive pictorial language. In our show Hominal dedicates himself to the classical art historical genre of still life. The topic of the still life is a recurring theme in his oeuvre. Hominal is intrigued by the varying denominations of the genre in different languages; in French the genre is called Nature Morte, death nature, in Belgian Stilleven and in German Stillleben. The artist also connects the expression still alive in an associative way with the name of the genre. Most of Hominal s works in the exhibition are located within this reference system, but at the same time the single paintings sometimes cleverly distance themselves from the boundaries of the genre. This strategy is clearly exemplified by the painting Hominal Stilleven, which depicts a painted stretcher-frame and the back of a fictitious canvas on which the artist s name and the title of the picture are recorded. In spring 2008 Hominal obtained a residency in the Belgian port Antwerp. There he painted some of the still lifes shown in our exhibition: Crevettes Stilleven, Pakistan Long Grain Rice and the three paintings titled Diamond Stilleven. Hominal might have been inspired in his choice of subject by Antwerp, its harbour, as well as by his impressions of the city as a world centre of the diamond trade and as an economic powerhouse. Nevertheless Hominal stresses that his choice of motives cannot be deduced to the place of origin of his works of art. The references to the city, to history and to the narrative are not crucial. In his work Hominal investigates the value system in the exchange of goods and illusions. This is also revealed in the series of works called Stilleven (T a pas une clope?) (Could you give me a fag?). Hominal bought so-called projection lighters which can project a round image of a naked woman or an explicit scene onto a wall. He then transferred the round image on a rectangular canvas. Their keyhole format convey these depictions a voyeuristic element and their blue margins a volatile quality. Hominal is intrigued by the way an image is constructed. He is concerned with the conflict of figuration and abstraction. Often his paintings allude to art history: two Diamond Stilleven refer to the Egg paintings by Andy Warhol. The landscape I Have to Go There is reminiscent of the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975, 33 years old, was lost at sea while attempting a singlehanded west-east crossing of the Atlantic in a pocket cruiser. The crossing was part of an art performance called In Search of the Miraculous. Through its deep horizon the painting The Bridge is Up refers to the Romantic movement. In his exhibitions Hominal weaves together a myriad of associations. He creates conceptual exhibitions, in which the public has to unfold the meaning. On the one hand the single images stand for themselves, on the other hand they receive through the dialogue with the other works new layers of meaning. David Hominal Stilleven 11 October 22 November 2008 Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 Oct 22 Nov 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 Oct 22 Nov 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 Oct 22 Nov 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 Oct 22 Nov 2008
: Stilleven Installation view Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich 11 October 22 November 2008
Autoportrait, 2007 Oil on canvas 60.5 x 45 cm (23-7/8 x 17-3/4 in.)
Crevettes Stilleven, 2007 Oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm (15-3/4 x 19-5/8 in.)
Pakistan Long Grain Rice, 2008 Oil on canvas 200 x 150 cm (78-3/4 x 59 in.)
I Have to Go There, 2008 Oil on canvas 200 x 150 cm (78-3/4 x 59 in.)
: Two Birds in the Space, 2008 Oil on canvas, in 2 parts 100 x 200 cm (39-3/8 x 78-3/4 in.)
The Big Problem Eat the Little (after Pieter Brueghel the Elder), 2008 Charcoal and Acrylic, 350 x 900 cm (12 x 30 feet)
For my Birds and Birdy and Charlie Parker, 2008 Oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm (39-3/8 x 47-1/4 in.)
The Bridge is Up, 2008 Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm (59 x 78-3/4 in.)
Untitled, 2008 Oil on canvas, in 2 parts 100 x 150 cm (39-3/8 x 59 in.)
Diamond Stilleven, 2008 Oil on canvas 105 x 75.5 cm (41-3/8 x 29-3/4 in.)
Diamond Stilleven, 2008 Oil on canvas 105 x 75.5 cm (41-3/8 x 29-3/4 in.)
Diamond Stilleven, 2008 Oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm (15-3/4 x 19-5/8 in.)
Stilleven Hominal, 2008 Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm (19-5/8 x 15-3/4 in.)
Stilleven (T as pas une clope?), 2008 Oil on canvas each 55.5 x 40 cm (21-7/8 x 15-3/4 in.)
Stilleven (T as pas une clope?), 2008 Oil on canvas each 60.5 x 45 cm (23-7/8 x 17-3/4 in.)
Stilleven (T as pas une clope?), 2008 Oil on canvas, in 10 parts 50 x 40 cm (19-5/8 x 15-3/4 in.) (1) 55.5 x 40 cm (21-7/8 x 15-3/4 in.) (5) 60.5 x 45 cm (23-7/8 x 17-3/4 in.) (4)
Dead Line, 2007 Series of 6 woodblock prints, Ed. 7/25 each 50 x 32.5 cm (19-5/8 x 12-3/4 in.)
DEAD LINE, 2007 Woodblock print on packing paper Ed. 7/20 60 x 90 cm (23-5/8 x 35-1/2 in.)
NON, 2007 Woodblock print on packing paper Ed. 4/8 60 x 90 cm (23-5/8 x 35-1/2 in.)
NON, 2007 Woodblock print on packing paper Ed. 4/8 60 x 90 cm (23-5/8 x 35-1/2 in.)
DAVID HOMINAL Born in 1976, Evian (France). Lives and works in Lausanne and Martigny (Switzerland) Education 2000 Diplôme d Arts Visuels, ECAL (Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne) 1995-1997 ECAV (Ecole cantonale d art du Valais) Awards Accrochage 2006, Musée cantonale des Beaux-Arts Lausanne: You ll never walk Alone Selected Exhibitions 2008 Reduced Construction, Karma International, Zurich, 28.11.2008-18.1.2009 (group) David Hominal Stilleven, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich, 11.10.-22.11.2008 (solo) Artists of the Gallery, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerpen (group) No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, 16.8.-10.9.2008 (group) Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zurich, 6.6.-31.8.2008 (group) Schüttelreime, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerpen (group) LISTE, 3-8 june Basel, Evergreene Gallery, Geneva Nous ne marcherons plus jamais seul, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (group) 2007 flexibility, flexibility, flexibility, Evergreene Gallery, Geneva (group) Welschland, SUBSTITUT Raum für aktuelle Kunst aus der Schweiz, Berlin (group) Estampes, Espacebasta, Lausanne, (solo) Die Panne, Amberg-Marti, Zurich, (solo) A Fantasy for the Moment, Kunsthalle Bern, (group) Outre Tombe, Galerie 1m3, Lausanne (group) Another Group Show, Objectif-exhibitions, Antwerpen (group) Suite, Standard-deluxe, Lausanne (solo) You ll Never Walk Alone, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (solo) 2006 Alain Huck: Excuse Me, Musée Jenish, Vevey (group) Accrochage [Vaud 2006], Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (group) 2004 War Requiem, Circuit, Lausanne (solo) 2003 Estampes, Galerie, K04, Aigle 2002 Carmen, Toit du Monde, Vevey 2001 Argos project, Vevey 1998 Gorgeous, Galerie ELAC Lausanne Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com
DAVID HOMINAL Slam and Text 2008 StilLeven, AirAntwerpen, Bass Tina Schott 2005 Lyrics for the video Spaceship, realized by MCHOMINAL 5.9.2004 All Over, music by Emef, ancienne école de chimie, KABAC, Lausanne 27.3.2004 Paroles, music by Emef, Théâtre du Moulin-Neuf, Aigle 7.6.2003 Inachevé, Cave du Manoir, Martigny 14.4.2003 Fantôme, music by Rez-Edit, sauna, Vevey 4.10.2002 Sans titre, music & scratch by DJE, les Temps Modernes, Vevey Publications You ll Never Walk Alone, published by the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, text by Philippe Pirotte and an interview with the artist by Nicolas Pages Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com
Impressum David Hominal Stilleven 11 October 22 November 2008 All rights reserved. Fotos: Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich For availability and inquiries please contact the gallery: Lullin + Ferrari Limmatstrasse 214 CH-8005 Zürich t. +41 (0)43 205 2607 f. +41 (0)43 205 2608 info@lullinferrari.com www.lullinferrari.com