During the entire period of the exhibition, benefit from a reduced rate of €11 at the Centre Pompidou upon presentation of your Bourse de Commerce exhibition ticket.
A major figure on the contemporary art scene, American sculptor
Charles Ray (b. 1953) opens the cultural programme of 2022 , with an exhibition
running until the spring. In collaboration with the artist, the Bourse de
Commerce – Pinault Collection devotes an ambitious exhibition to the sculptor
that opens on 16 February 2022
This carte blanche to the artist, the first of its kind in France
and Europe in terms of its scale, is shared with the Centre Pompidou: two
exhibitions are jointly presented, one in each museum, located a stone’s throw
from each other. The corpus of Charles Ray’s work consists of some one hundred
sculptures and bas-reliefs, and over a third of his sculpted work can be seen
in Paris for the first time, with approximately twenty works at the Bourse de
Commerce – Pinault Collection, and the equivalent at the Centre Pompidou. After
the collective inaugural exhibition “Ouverture”, the Bourse de Commerce –
Pinault Collection will transform its gallery spaces for this new event. The
presentation will stretch from the forecourt to the Rotunda, and from the Salon
to the galleries on the second floor, covering two-thirds of the total
exhibition surface area. It will reveal an exceptional collection, including
six previously unknown works, coming from the Pinault Collection and on loan
from major international public and private collections. Two works from the Pinault Collection are on loan to the Centre Pompidou
for the occasion.
This first major monographic exhibition
presented at the Bourse de Commerce attests to the ability of the Pinault
Collection to take risks and to commit to an artist by inviting them to invest
a very large section of this new Museum. This choice also demonstrates the
strong relationship that has existed for over twenty years between the
collector and the artist, and the importance that the latter occupies in the
Collection: seven works presented in eleven exhibitions since 2006, some of
which have acquired an iconic dimension, like Boy with frog, commissioned by
François Pinault for the opening of the Punta della Dogana. The work was
exhibited at the tip of the Grand Canal in Venice. This exhibition also follows
in the footsteps of several major monographic exhibitions, cartes blanches and
retrospectives in Venice, dedicated to some of the key figures of contemporary
art by the Pinault Collection. These include artists like Marlene Dumas (2022),
Bruce Nauman (2021), Henri Cartier Bresson (2020), Luc Tuymans (2019), Albert
Oehlen (2018), Damien Hirst (2017), Sigmar Polke (2016), Danh Vo (2015),
Martial Raysse (2015), Irving Penn (2014), Rudolf Stingel (2013) and Urs
Fischer (2012).
Between formalism and a reflection on representation and on the individual, Charles Ray plays with the notion of scale, as well as the recourse to realism and stylization. In his works, we have a sudden attention to detail, a fading vein here, an absent gaze there, a suspended expression ... Transformed into sculpture, the everyday beings and objects used as models discreetly destabilize our points of reference, through these imperceptible shifts and transpositions, by a recourse to what the eye might, at first glance, interpret as a hyper realistic, quasi virtuoso obsession, but whose details and particularities evade detection. Without attributes, context, or a narrative, Charles Ray’s works manage, through their presence, mass and monumentality, to set themselves up as a universal figure, even to abstraction.
The artist enjoys making the viewer “look twice”. Through their
“strange familiarity”, ambiguity, and flawless technical precision, Charles
Ray’s works destabilize, similar to the effect of a hallucination, almost
managing to unsettle the space around them, and even reality, surreptitiously
leading the viewer into a form of fiction.
His works are rooted in a deep knowledge of the history of
classical art and antiquity. They are inspired by the great exercises of
statuary, the mastery and play on its iconic canons, all the while coming to
life via the history, themes and procedures specific to the most radical
contemporary art. Whether the work is produced in steel, fiberglass, aluminium,
cement, paper or polished steel, Charles Ray’s practice brings together various
processes, between craftsmanship and cutting-edge industrial technology, always
concealing a complexity that is often prodigious and time-consuming.
The artist explains how, through his reading of the work of Alberto
Giacometti and his slender figures in space, he came to no longer “think of
sculpture” but to “think sculpturally”. His artistic practice places the
question of space at the centre of his research and offers the viewer an
experience of the relationship to reality that is more complex and mysterious.
For Charles Ray, sculpture is the medium that establishes the most privileged
relationship to space, and which most effectively explores this physical and
psychic tension. The artist designs sculptures capable of acting on the
spectator, in particular through the scale of the empty space that they require
around them. Moreover, these works are rarely kept at a distance from the
viewer, but are presented at their level, frequently without stanchions or
pedestals.
https://www.pinaultcollection.com/en/boursedecommerce/charles-ray
AND AT THE TEATRO DE LA ZARZUELA IN APRIL
Fechas y Horarios
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 y 10 de abril de 2022
20:00 horas (domingos, a las 18:00 horas)
Ficha Artística
- Dirección musical
- Guillermo García Calvo
- Dirección de escena y escenografía
- Paco Azorín
- Vestuario
- Juan Sebastián Domínguez
- Iluminación
- Pedro Yagüe
- Diseño de audiovisuales
- Pedro Chamizo
- Movimiento escénico
- Carlos Martos de la Vega
- Reparto
- Lolika Ruth Iniesta (1, 3, 6, 8 y 10) / Carmen Romeu (2, 7 y 9); Alzaga Santiago Ballerini (1, 3, 6, 8 y 10) / Leonardo Sánchez (2, 7 y 9); Carambolas Luis Cansino (1, 3, 6, 8 y 10) / Rodrigo Esteves (2, 7 y 9); Trabucos Damián del Castillo (1, 3, 6, 8 y 10) / César San Martín (2, 7 y 9); Martina Carmen Artaza (1, 3, 6, 8 y 10) / Mar Campo (2, 7 y 9); Aristippus Jeroboám Tejera; Olympia Helena Ressurreiçao; Zoe Alba Chantar; Pekito Gerardo López; Curro Tomeu Bibiloni.
- Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
- Titular del Teatro de La Zarzuela
- Coro del Teatro de La Zarzuela
- Director:
- Antonio Fauró
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