For his first solo show in
France, Gareth Nyandoro has produced an installation inspired from the urban
space and ephemeral sales sites, such as the stands of the Parisian
“bouquinistes” (booksellers) on the banks of the Seine. Inhabited by famous
African figures of sport, society and politics, his paper pieces can be
deployed in space to become sculptures.
In his work, Gareth
Nyandoro takes an attentive look at business exchanges and social interactions
in the public space. Scenes of life, which he extracts from his environment,
are depicted in ink on large superimposed strips of paper. Once the motifs have
been applied to the blank sheets, Gareth Nyandoro cuts and lacerates with
precision the pictorial layers into long, fine strips. This play of incisions
reveals the colours of the lower sheets. A network of lines from these cuttings
amplifies the depicted movements or else disturbs the figures which then tend
towards abstraction.
Curator: Adélaïde Blanc
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/event/gareth-nyandoro
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