GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL

Gallery Chantal Crousel is pleased to announce the next exhibition of the Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig to be held in the two gallery spaces, rue Charlot and rue Léon Jouhaux (La Douane).

At the main gallery space, Heimo Zobernig will present a set of new paintings, La Douane will on the other hand be dedicated to sculpture and video.

Heimo Zobernig borrows the vocabulary of minimalism and confronts “figuration” and “abstraction” until they are both conflated. His work is on the edge of the sculpture and space, architecture and design.

In his new untitled series of untitled abstract paintings Heimo Zobernig reveals words in capital letters in Helvetica font, which he has appropriated since many years.

The sculptures are hybrid objects made of poor materials (cardboard, polyester, plywood...). The banality of the materials used and their daily nature are reinforced by the object’s functional appearance and nomalised aesthetic.

These works from different periods, some of which were presented at the major exhibition of Heimo Zobernig at the Kunsthalle Zürich in 2011 - alternate between figurative, minimalist and functional sculptures.

Key figure in the Austrian art scene, Heimo Zobernig has participated in numerous exhibitions and biennials in the world.

Some of the recent exhibitions: Tate St Ives (2008) , CAPC in Bordeaux (2009), Essl Museum in Vienna (2011), at the Kunsthalle Zürich (2011).

In October 2012, the Museo Reina Sofia of Madrid will present an exhaustive exhibition of his work.

Heimo Zobernig won the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in 2010.

A text by Catherine Chevalier about the exhibition will be available soon.