2 RUE BEAUBOURG F-75004 PARIS 33 (0)9 8438 8774 www.galeriepoggi.com SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER PÈRES Solo show May 17 > June 14 2014 Opening on Saturday 17 th of May 2014 from 2pm to 8pm Sophie Ristelhueber, Pères, 2014, Color HD video, 13 DU MARDI AU SAMEDI DE 11H À 19H TUESDAY-SATURDAY, FROM 11AM TO 7PM POUR TOUTES INFORMATIONS SUPPLÉMENTAIRES CONTACTER ANNA BENICHOU: PRESS@GALERIEPOGGI.COM VISUELS DISPONIBLES SUR DEMANDE
SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER PÈRES - Solo show May 17 > June 14 2014 Jérôme Poggi is pleased to present Sophie Ristelhueber s latest work in his new space on rue Beaubourg from Saturday 17 th of May to Saturday 14 th of June 2014. This first exhibition at the gallery will be fully dedicated to the presentation of the film entitled Pères (Fathers) that Sophie Ristelhueber made at the invitation of «Ligne de Front» (Front Line) as part of the commemoration of the First World War centenary, of which one of the other high points will be the exhibition «Les désastres de la guerre. 1800-2014» (The disasters of war. 1800-2014) that Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac will present at the Louvre-Lens starting May 28 th, in which several works by Ristelhueber will be shown. The opening will be on Saturday 17 th of May from 2pm to 8pm. After its preview at the gallery, Pères (Fathers) will then be screened from June 14 to September 28 in Vermelles, in the framework of a historical and artistic itinerary around ten towns of the Artois province that bears the marks of the 1914-1918 front line. Sophie Ristelhueber has continued a reflection on territory and its history for about thirty years, through a unique approach to the ruins and traces left by mankind in those places devastated by war or by natural and cultural upheaval. Far from the classical photo story, she strives to implement the bare act and the stamp of history on both the body and on the landscape, by rendering visible wounds and scars, veritable memories of the acts of history. If she essentially turns to photography in her work, Sophie Ristelhueber utilizes her shooting to create full plastic works, playing with the material and the format of the image, its status, its framework and its installation in space. Her work has been exhibited in numerous international institutions, among which MoMA (New York, US), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, US), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, US), The Power Plant (Toronto, CA), Tate Modern (London, GB), Imperial War Museum (London, GB), biennials of Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Triennial of Etchigo-Tsumari, Rencontres Photographiques d Arles, and in Paris, MNAM Centre Pompidou, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Musée Zadkine, Musée Rodin... Sophie Ristelhueber is represented by the Jérôme Poggi Gallery. Her work will also be shown at Louvre- Lens «Les désastres de la guerre» (May 2014) «Ligne de front», (June-September 2014) and Tate Modern (Londres, GB) «Conflict, Time, Photography» (November 2014).
For its first show dedicated to Sophie Ristelhueber, Jérôme Poggi Gallery is pleased to premiere the film Pères (Fathers), made at the invitation of the Contemporary art center Lab-Labanque Béthune as part of the commemorations of the First World War. Echoing the exhibition «Les Désastres de la guerre. 1800-2014» (The Disasters of War 1800-2014) at Louvre- Lens that features several of her works, the artist evokes the war, this time implicitly, in this film shot in her family home in Vulaines (FR). Sophie Ristelhueber, develops a work based on a reflection around territory conveived as a bearer of the traces of human activity and as the remembrance of major historical upheavals. Pères, 2014, Color HD video, 13 In counterpoint to the film, the projection of which will occupy the whole gallery, a photograph taken by Ristelhueber in Syria in 1999 (Dead Set, 2001) welcomes the visitor, immediately placing him/her on the grounds of ruin, of disappearance and of vestige. If Sophie Ristelhueber has often been at the heart of conflicts to realize her works, it is not so much the grounds of current affairs but the grounds of history that she brings us to. The history of mankind, from the Peloponnesian war to the Gulf war, but also the story of each and every one of us, through her relationship to the past, to memory and to collective history. It is also through her personal story that Ristelhueber finally responded to the invitation to participate in the commemoration of the 1914-1918 war, not without some hesitation to tread on the wounded soils she had already stridden accross in the Middle East. After a trip to Baalbek in May 2013 where she wanted to film landscapes, on the bordres of Lebanon and Syria, which she had photographed thirty years before, it is finally in her family home in Vulaines, next to Fontainebleau, that she found the matter of her film. The artist one again took high angle shots, this time not leaning onto the stretches of the Kuwait desert (Fait, 1992), onto the aisles of the Luxembourg Gardens (Le Luxembourg, 2002) or on the paths of the Vercors (Le Chardon, 2007), but on the worn out floors and the threadbare carpets of her childhood home, trampled upon by several generations, and particularly by a great-uncle, called up in 1914 and who died in the battlefield in 1916 at the age of 22. It is when reading the letters of her «young» forefather evoking this house while he was on the front lines, that Ristelhueber dedided to work there, far from any theater of war, and yet bearing deep and implicit marks caused by the disappearance of those gone to fight. The film is carried by the famous Lied Der Erlkönig (1813) that Schubert composed at the age of 16 for a poem by Goethe. In it, the German poet describes the frantic race through a forest, on horseback, of a father and his young son, whom he fails to protect from death, ignoring his anxieties and his pleas.
Pères, 2014 A film by Sophie Ristelhueber Color HD Video, 13 Image: Julien Devaux - Jacques Bouquin Editing: Julien Devaux Color grading: Vincent Magescas An Artois Comm/Lab - Labanque coproduction, wit the participation of Anna Sanders Films and Jérôme Poggi Gallery (Paris).
Dead Set #7, 2001 Pigment print 90 x 135 cm Edition of 3
Dead Set #3, 2001 Pigment print 90 x 135 cm Edition of 3
Dead Set #5, 2001 Pigment print 90 x 135 cm Edition of 3
Mémoires du Lot II, 1990, Black and white photograph, silver print, 159 x 126 cm, Edition of 3
SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER Born in 1949. Lives and works in Paris (FR). SOLO SHOWS (selection since 2006) 2014 Pères, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (FR) centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) Woman War Artists, Imperial War Museum, London (GB) L invention de l oeuvre: Rodin et les Ambassadeurs, musée Rodin, Paris, (FR) 2013 Track, Galerie Catherine Putman Paris Photo, Paris (FR) 2012 GalerieofMarseille, Marseille (FR) 2011 Blancpain Art Contemporain, Genève (CH) L estampe, un art pour tous : des suites Prisunic à Catherine Putman, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy (FR) 2010 MDD, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (BE) 2009 Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR) 2008 A visée constante 1984-2007, galerie Catherine Putman, Paris Galerieofmarseille, Marseille (FR) 2007 Le Quartier, centre d art contemporain, Quimper (FR) Le Chardon, La suite #11, La Maison Rouge, Paris (FR) 2006 Eleven Blowups, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles (FR) GROUP SHOWS (selection since 2009) 2014 Les Désastres de la guerre.1800-2014, Louvre Lens (FR) Ligne de Front, communes de l Artois, Lab-Labanque (FR) Conflict, Time and Photography, Tate Modern Museum, London, (UK) 2013 Des images comme des oiseaux, une traversée dans la collection photographique du centre national des arts plastiques, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, (FR) Vues d en Haut, centre Pompidou-Metz (FR) L oeil Photographique, Frac Auvergne (FR) Histoire - Regards d Artistes, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon (FR) 2012 Galerie Catherine Putman, Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris (FR) 2011 L estampe, un art pour tous : des suites Prisunic à Catherine Putman, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy (FR) Detonating Rough Ground, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (GB) Suspended Spaces #1 : video et après, centre Georges Pompidou elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du 2010 Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, Londres, (GB), MoMA, San Francisco (US) There is always a cup of sea to sail in, Biennale de Sao Paulo (BR) The crude and the rare, The Cooper Union, New York (US) Mille e tre, salle d actualité du département des Arts graphiques, musée du Louvre, Paris (FR) 2009 elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) Darkside II, Photographic Power and Violence, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH) 2008 Galerie Catherine Putman, Arco, Madrid (ES) Galerieofmarseille, Chicago Art Fair (US) Images narratives/narratives images, centre régional de la photographie Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Douchy-les-Mines (FR) Le spectacle de la ruine, oeuvres du Fonds national d art contemporain/paris, Québec, (CA) Réfléchir le monde, La Centrale Électrique, Brussels (BE) 2007 Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt IX, Skulpturenmuseum, Marl (DE) An Atlas of events, Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisbon (PO) 2006 Lieux de belligérance I, forteresse de Salses (FR) Ecotopia, International Center of Photography, New York (US) PUBLIC COLLECTIONS FRAC Basse Normandie (FR) ; FRAC Haute Normandie (FR) FRAC PACA (FR) FRAC Corse (FR) FRAC Alsace (FR) Musée Départemental d art contemporain, Rochechouart (FR) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Toulon (FR) FMAC, fonds municipal d art contemporain, Paris (FR) FNAC, fonds national d art contemporain, Paris (FR) MNAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) Maison Européenne de la Photographie (FR) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (FR) Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York (US) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US) Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB) Fonds cantonal d art contemporain, Geneva (CH) Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva (CH) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI The Jérôme Poggi Gallery essentially carries out a task of prospection orientated first of all towards young contemporary creation but also toward those figures already recognized, even historical, for whom it supports the process of recognition as much in economical, as in critical and historical spheres, linking economic and critical values within a globalequation where inttelectual and economical speculation come to meet. The Gallery was founded by Jérôme Poggi in 2009, and is originally based nead Gare du Nord in Paris. The Gallery is opening a second space in Le Marais Paris, next to the Centre Pompidou. Jérôme Poggi is also director of «Objet de Production», a production and studies facility created in 2004, to make art appear within the society through private and public commissions as part of the New Patrons initiated by La Fondation de France Convaincus que les mutations profondes que connaît la scène de l art nécessitent de nouveaux outils de production, de diffusion et de réflexion, la Galerie Jérôme Poggi et Objet de Production ont décidé de s associer pour créer ainsi un nouvel outil hybride, conjuguant des modes d action commerciaux et politiques, critiques et pédagogiques pour inventer un nouveau modèle d économie politique pour l art contemporain. Anna-Eva BERGMAN - Bertrand LAMARCHE - Cédrick EYMENIER - Georges Tony STOLL - Juliana BORINSKI - Julien CRÉPIEUX - Kees VISSER - Larissa FASSLER - Oleg TCHERNY - SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - Sophie RISTELHUEBER - Vittorio SANTORO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI - du mardi au samedi de 11h à 19h 2, rue Beaubourg - 75004 paris - 33 (0)9 8438 8774 - www.galeriepoggi.com SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER SOLO SHOW 17.05 > 14.06.2014 ANNA EVA BERGMAN SOLO SHOW 28.06 > 23.08.2014 in collaboration with the Fondation Hartung/Bergman and with the support of the Royal Embassy of Norway ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOIRES ART INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL Wesley Meuris, Société Réaliste, Vittorio Santoro, Bertrand Lamarche 25.09 > 28.09.2014