Babi Badalov, De More Cry Sea, 2018,, Paris Babi Badalov De More Cry Sea 24 mars - 27 mai 2018 Nikita Kadan Carte Blanche 28 avril - 27 mai 2018
EXHIBITIONS : From 24 March to 27 May 2018, The gallery Jérôme Poggi is pleased to present the 5th solo exhibition in France of Azeri artist and poet Babi Badalov (born in 1959, in Lerik). Living and working in Paris since 2008, Babi Badalov has, since 2011, the political refugee status before obtaining French nationality in 2018. Organized in collaboration with curators Simon Poulain and Thomas Conchou, the exhibition brings together a hundred works on fabric that Babi Badalov has created in the continuity of his ornamental poetry work from his Goutte d'or studio in Barbès-Rochechouart (Paris). His working environment is partly reconstructed within the exhibition by the arrangement of alcoves gathering ancient sculptural and graphic works recalling the practice he began to develop in the 90s in Saint Petersburg when he frequented the underground scene, The New Artists, alongside archives and objects witnessing the creative process of the artist. NIKITA KADAN : Secondly, Nikita Kadan (born in 1982, in Kyiv), emerging figure of the Ukrainian artistic scene, was invited by Babi Badalov and the Russian independent curator Sasha Pevak for a Carte Blanche within the exhibition space to confront his work to the recent paintings on fabric of the artist. Babi Badalov, view of the exhibition De More Cry Sea at Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris 2018. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris CONTACTS Galerie Poggi 2 rue Beaubourg - 75 004 Paris +33 (0)9 84 38 87 74 office@galeriepoggi.com Tue. - Sat. 11.00-19.00
Babi Badalov, De More Cry Sea, view of the exhibition at Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018 BABI BADALOV : De More Cry Sea The exhibition brings together a collection of recent works by Babi Badalov related to his practice of painting, drawing and poetry, which he summarizes under the title "orna-mental poetry". The selection of works focuses on geopolitical issues related to migration and globalization, which he evokes through a visual game on language, typography and calligraphy. Facing this characteristic pictorial ensemble where painting, drawing and writing are mixed on found fabrics, the exhibition presents in alcoves objects belonging to the artist's working environment, recalling his multidisciplinary practice as he practiced it before settling in France in 2008.
Babi Badalov really defined his formal vocabulary when he joined St. Petersburg in 1978, after completing his military service in the Red Army in Moscow. Babi Badalov was also excluded from the official artistic sphere, close to the New Russian Artists gathered in the squat 10 rue Pouchkine in the 1980s. Denied and monitored by the Soviet government that tolerated only the official doctrine of Socialist Realism, dissident artists had no access to painters' usual supplies, nor to institutions. Whether they were painters, sculptors or performers, this underground scene often had no other choice than the recovery of materials, various supports (including textiles) to create their works. This recovery process remains today at the heart of Babi Badalov's practice, who collects pieces of cloth, paper, leaflets, photographs, books, business cards, etc... in the street to make work. The exhibition renews the perception of the artist's work by presenting his new paintings on fabric alongside unusual objects found during his travels in Paris. This collection of objects found and accumulated since his arrival in France in 2008, accompany him in his creative process. The eclectic universe of the artist is reconstructed essentially within two modules, one uniting part of his collection of political, religious books, and classics of literature that he finds in the street. A second, more intimate module, in the form of a work desk, presents his work on clothes, as he already showed them at the Biennale de Rennes in 2016 or in the large monographic exhibition To make art to take clothes off dedicated to him by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon (MUSAC) in 2017. Babi Badalov, De More Cry Sea, view of the exhibition at Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018 There are also presented for the first time in France, a set of "Dolls", dolls made of textile falls, which he realized in Cardiff, in 2006, while he waited in vain for the political asylum of the United Kingdom before being expelled from it. This gesture of collecting and appropriating an object to transform and reuse it, through collage and painting is found on these found objects (vase, mirror, figurines...) that surrounds and inspires it. The artist also presents his collection of business cards that he inserts in numerous collages, as well as mosaics of portraits of strangers made from photos of abandoned identities.
Babi Badalov Born in 1959 in Lerik (Azerbaïdjan). Lives and Works in Paris. Babi Badalov s pratice is a constant exploration of the limits of the language. He is particularly interesting in the way that this language is abble to isolate individuals from the people who don t share the same language (even if its function is to communicate and share). Thereby, the artist covers current geo-political topics that echo his own personnal experiences. After having lived in Russian, he tried to settle in Cardiff (UK), but his asylium application was refused. Sent back in Azerbaijan, he finally got the right to stay and live in France in 2011. And, at the beginning of 2018, the naturalisation procedure is about to be finalised. Great traveler and poet himself, Babi Badalov often introduces his own texts in his work : by combinating it with manipulated political pictures, he creates installations, objects, paintings and happenings that he used to qualified as «visual poetry» His works have been exhibited in solo and group shows around the world : in 2017, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, at the Palais de la Porte Dorée (FR), at the MUSAC (ES), at the Palais de Tokyo (FR), at the White Space Gallery in London (2016), at the Luici Pecci Center for Contemporary Art (IT). The artist has also participated in numerous biennales such as the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moscou (2017), the Biennale of Gwandju (KR), and the Biennale d'art contemporain de Rennes (2016). Several Babi Badalov s artworks are now entered in great collections around the world : Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia), MuHKA Museum Contemporary Art Antwerp, Azerbaijan State Museum of Art in Baku (Azerbaïjan), Kunstmuseum of Emden (Germany), Martigny Art Museum (Switzerland), Oetcker Collection in Bielefeld (Germany), Arina Kowner Collection in Zurich (Switzerland) and Zimmerli Art Museum (New Jersey, USA).
NIKITA KADAN : Carte Blanche In the second part of his exhibition, from the 28th April, Babi Badalov invited the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan to dialogue with his work within the framework of a Carte Blanche. With the complicity of curator Sasha Pevak, Nikita Kadan will exhibit a series of works for the first time in Paris. In parallel to this Carte blanche, the Centre Georges Pompidou has invited Nikita Kadan for a meeting to be held on Wednesday 25th April 2018. Babi Badalov and Nikita Kadan have been exhibited jointly at the Arsenal Gallery in Poland (2011 and 2014), as part of the "The Rise of Eastern Culture / Another Dimension 2014" festival, and have forged artistic and human friendship. Babi Badalov and Nikita Kadan have met in several group exhibitions in Eastern Europe. In Ukraine for Some say you can find happiness there and Exploitation of imaginary at the Visual Culture Research Centre (2015), and more recently at the Kiev International Biennale (2017). Nikita Kadan, "Observations on Archives", 2015, paper, coal, charcoal. Courtesy of the artist Although their artistic approaches are formally different, Babi Badalov and Nikita Kadan question common political and social themes. Nikita Kadan's approach echoes Babi Badalov's in that he also captures the objects, remains and traces that surround him, testifying to certain "social symptoms" according to the artist, as is the case for Babi Badalov when he collects fabrics, papers, leaflets or business cards in the street. For his Carte blanche at the gallery, Nikita Kadan will exhibit some of his well-known photographic boxes from the series "Observations on archives" (2015), filled with coal, as well as several charcoal drawings. He will also make a sculpture, produced for the exhibition, from a sheet of metal he found in Donbass in Eastern Ukraine, screened by artillery.
Nikita Kadan Born in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1982. Nikita Kadan works and lives today in Kyiv. Emerging figure of the Ukrainian artistic scene, Nikita Kadan is a member of the group of artists R.E.P. (Revolutionary Experimental Space) since 2004 and co-founder and member of the HUDRADA, group of curators and activities, since 2008. A graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev, where he studied monumental painting, he now works with installation, graphics, painting, wall drawings and posters in the city, sometimes in interdisciplinary collaboration with architects, human rights activists and sociologists. The MUKHA of Antwerp is devoting a monographic exhibition to him until 19 April 2018. He has participated in many biennials, notably in Venice in 2015 and 2017, Istanbul, Kiev, Odessa etc... He won the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize in 2011 and the Future Generation Art Prize at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Sasha Pevak Born in Moscow (Russia) in 1988. Sasha Pevak works and lives today in Paris. Sasha Pevak is an independent researcher, art critic and curator. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Paris 8. He is interested in the relationship between art and power, as well as the functioning of the art system under authoritarian regimes. His curatorial practice is based on the establishment of long-term exchanges and dialogues with artists. Since March 2017, he is co-founder and curator of exhibitions at Shuttle 19, a platform for emerging artists, located in Paris. Nikita Kadan, Graphic work, 2015, paper, charcoal on paper, 49 x 69 cm. Courtesy of the artist Paris Gallery Week-end - Samedi 26 mai 2018-16H On the occasion of the fifth edition of the Paris Gallery Week-End organized by CHOICES, the gallery proposes, within the framework of De More Cry Sea, a meeting between the three protagonists of the exhibition. For this annual meeting, a discussion will be held at the Jérôme Poggi Gallery between the Azeri artist Babi Badalov, Nikita Kadan, Sasha Pevak, curator of the exhibition and Jérôme Poggi.
De More Cry Sea, view of the exhibition, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018
De More Cry Sea, view of the exhibition, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018
De More Cry See, 2018 Painting on fabric 171,5 x 129 cm, Paris
De More Cry Sea, 2018 Painting on fabric 154 x 97 cm, Paris
Liberalism, 2018 Peinture sur tissu 197 x 102 cm, Paris
Itis m ornamentalised, 2018 Painting on fabric 190 x 129,5 cm
Scanned destroyed, 2018 Painting on fabric 105 x 99,5 cm
Human, 2018 Painting on fabric 113,5 x 185,5 cm
My art, 2015 Painting on fabric 190 x 131,5 cm, Paris
Please, 2018 Painting on fabric 118 x 111 cm
Je m'appelle, 2017 Painting on fabric 89 x 137,5 cm, Paris
Refugee refused, 2016 Painting on fabric 131 x 73 cm
Documentalist, 2017 Peinture sur tissu 150 x 105 cm
Contemporary art, 2018 Painting on fabric 91,5 x 124,5 cm
De More Cry Sea, exhibition view, wall installation details, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018
De More Cry Sea, exhibition view, wall installation details, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018
De More Cry Sea, exhibition view, wall installation details, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, 2018
World wide war, 2014 Ink on paper 20,5 x 29,7 cm
Borders, 2015 Ink on paper 24 x 32 cm
War war holes, 2014 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
En em me, 2017 Ink on paper 39 x 26 cm
This morning my window, 2015 Ink on paper, collage 44 x 50 cm
Migrants Afghanistan, 2015 Ink on paper 32,5 x 50 cm
Orientaleast, 2015 Ink on paper 33,7 x 43,5 cm
Accidental, 2014 Ink on paper 27,5 x 37,5 cm
Di scream nation, 2017 Ink on paper 18 x 25 cm
Cultur, 2017 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Cinema, 2017 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Complain, 2017 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Sans Titre 26, 2017 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Sans titre 1, 2017 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Sans titre 29, 2017 Ink on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Eco logic east, 2017 Ink on paper 25 x 38 cm
Galerie Jérôme Poggi 2 rue Beaubourg 75 004 Paris France +33 (0)9 84 38 87 74 galeriepoggi.com Mar. Sam. Tue. Sat. 11.00 19.00 11 am 07pm ARTISTES / ARTISTS Babi Badalov (AZ, 1959) Fayçal Baghriche (DZ/FR, 1972) Anna-Eva Bergman (NO/FR, 1909 1987) Maxime Bondu (FR, 1985) Gregory Buchert (FR, 1983) Julien Crépieux (FR, 1979) Cédrick Eymenier (FR, 1974) Larissa Fassler (CA, 1975) Sidival Fila (BR, 1962) Kapwani Kiwanga (CA/FR, 1978) Bertrand Lamarche (FR, 1966) Wesley Meuris (BE, 1977) Sophie Ristelhueber (FR, 1949) Société Réaliste (FR/HU, 1982/1972) Georges Tony Stoll (FR, 1955) Marion Verboom (FR, 1983) Kees Visser (NL, 1948) ACTUALITES / NEWS NIKITA KADAN Open Invitation From 28th April to 27th May 2018 KAPWANI KIWANGA Solo show June - July 2018 ART COLOGNE Kees Visser From 19th to 22th April 2018 PARIS GALLERY WEEK-END Babi Badalov From 26th to 27th May 2018