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Anne-Lise Coste
"d5919bcc3aeeb621e64daf06b703c106"
Installation view
Galerie
Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Anne-Lise Coste
"d5919bcc3aeeb621e64daf06b703c106"
16.09.
- 29.10.2011
– painting and new york
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i moved to NY april 1, 2010, into a
handsome apartment on the upper west side. it’s the lay of the
land that made things happen, I’m happy, there’s a handsome
tall tree outside my window where handsome birds (red
cardinal, blue jay) land and sing. it’s very calm here, gentle
and luminous, there’s the sky that opens above my bed. the
sounds of the city that reach me are ambulance sirens and
planes landing in the distance.
I get
the exact opposite when going down into the subway nearby: the
underground, the deafening, the withering, black, neon, metal,
asphalt and concrete. and the rats and cockroaches race.
humans are another story.
in
may 2010 i was drawing on the table (in the living room of my
apartment) on paper, horizontally, with an 8B soft pencil and
a ruler. what came out were the series “cages,”
“penetrations,” “pedestals (Mondrian)” and
“architectures.”
at
the end of the summer, paper felt insufficiently there: i
discovered the wood panel.
so i
continued the first oil paintings (see the oils from berlin,
in the reinhard hauff archives) with the series “sort of
letters” and the series “sort of cubes,” as the name
indicates, you can see letters and cubes in thick spaces of
titanium white.
I was
very sick in october, the smell of oil made me worse, i
therefore switched to tempera on paper and primed canvas,
which i bought at the art supply store.
december 2010, a large painting with many colors,
the last one, made from 15 canvases placed side by side,
exhibited in detroit at susanne hilberry; two faces and two
words, SEX, MAMA, appear again and became the
title.
then
it was over. there wouldn’t be any more. no more heads no more
words.
some
call it silence. i don’t disagree.
january 2011, a reduction of the palette to red
white blue and black and especially the decision to only
paint. painting with tempera on primed canvases of different
sizes, “red,” “blue,” “white.”
end
of february, black nothing but black; then came: “amerikka,”
also exhibited in detroit. then “new york” and “a car in the
night,” the last series made with the sole brush.
for
even more presence, the choice was black oil, “ivory black,” a
fine oxymoron.
i
empty the tube of paint directly onto the handsome, unprimed
wood panels that i’ve just discovered; from there i give up
the brush for the silkscreen squeegee.
later
come fingers upon the suggestion of a friend about the
existence of latex gloves.
the
gravity, the prominence of the work grows as a result of
physical spaces graciously offered to me (financially unable
to have recourse to any myself). i now work in places that
look like what one would call studios: an empty room with
white walls and a wall of windows in an LA-60s-style summer
villa in east hampton and in a gallery on the 4th floor in
chelsea, also a very handsome space with high walls on 26th
near the hudson.
this
has yielded paintings on large wood panels, plywood, bought at
the lumber yard measuring 92 x 123 cm and on unprimed
canvases, dropcloths to be precise, which are used to protect
and which i bought at the hardware store, measuring 3.65 x
2.74 m.
all
of it still flat on a table or the floor.
i
continue down my painter's path: i paint
(Anne-Lise Coste, 2011)
Anne-Lise Coste was born 1973
in Marseille and lives and works in New York. Recently her
works have been shown at Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Santander / Spain, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit,
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York and in the group show
"Hysteria, Laughter and a Sense of Seriousness" at Galerie
Gregor Staiger and Karma International, Zurich (all 2011).
This october she will show at Ellen de Bruijne Projects,
Amsterdam, in november at Noguerras Blanchard, Barcelona.
"d5919bcc3aeeb621e64daf06b703c106" is the fifth solo
exhibition at Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.
GALERIE REINHARD
HAUFF
Paulinenstrasse 47
D - 70178
Stuttgart
Germany
T: +49 (0) 711 609 770
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