ADRIEN MISSIKA
French artist, born in 1981 in Paris, lives and works in Berlin.
If Adrien MISSIKA follows the tradition of traveling artists, it is to better question the meaning and concept of travel, at a time when the vast and almost instantaneous distribution of images - from tourist guides to channels specialized on the subject , from Google Earth to overloaded amateurs tumbler blogs -, has profoundly changed its terms and meaning. Through a wide range of mediums, from photography to video, sculpture to installation, Adrien Missika explores the issues of elsewhere and its representation, of exoticism, and the production made out of it by the tourism industry.
(Except from the presentation of the artist's first solo exhibition in Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris)
Adrien Missika cofounded the artist run space 1m3 in Lausanne in 2006 and graduated from ECAL (University of arts and design Lausanne) in 2007. Missika's work has been recently shown in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Glarus, the Edouard Manet Gallery, the Contemporary Art Centre in Gennevilliers, the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His works have been shown in group projects at Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, New York, USA; the Museo d'arte cantonal in Lugano, the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, the New National Museum of Monaco Montecarlo, the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne.
In 2011 he was awarded the Prize of the Fondation Ricard and the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize.
In 2013 he was awarded 2013 Swiss Art Awards during Art Basel.
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FOR LOVETRIANGLE 2013 :
Adrien Missika
After Brasilia
2013
Color photograph, lambda print on dibond
40 x 60 cm
Sold with the certificate of authenticity
Ed. 5 + 3 A.P
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Prices will be made public on the occasion of ART-O-RAMA art fair and Triangle France GALA, on 31 August, 2013. Online purchase will then be available for our members and friends!
ABOUT THE WORK :
The workAfter Brasilia (2013), made by Adrien Missika especially for LOVETRIANGLE is in direct link with his recent solo exhibition at Galerie Bugada & Cargnel in Paris. This exhibition was titled Botanical impressions is Adrien MISSIKA's first solo exhibition at the gallery , its name was inspired by the book Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel , written from the boat before its author even set foot on the continent. Unlike the writer, Adrien Missika made the trip he is talking about, namely Brazil, following the traces of the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994). Having designed many gardens, parks and walks - including one iconic promenade, bordering the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro - and collaborated regularly with architects such as Lucio Costa, Le Corbusier's collaborator and Oscar Niemeyer, he is considered the founder of the modernist landscape architecture. Also a naturalist, BURLE Marx had a special interest in Brazilian native plants; a total of 33 species were named after him. He cultivated the tropical plants that he collected on his expeditions and then used them in the composition of his gardens. Whereas before the gardens created in Brazil gathered only European plants, following the European model- gestures of cultural colonialism, but also exotic symbols in the tropical context - Burle Marx innovated by using native plants.
The workAfter Brasilia (2013), is a photograph taken in an abandoned building in Brasilia that Adrien Missika took during his trip. Away from its status of document and archive, this photograph becomes an abstract image whose scale becomes unclear, between an aerial photograph of some mysterious expedition or a small detail of a the ground somewhere in Brasilia, but leaving the context of the city invisible.
