Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Luxembourg

New spaces from Zidoun-Bossuyt and Perrotin gift more voice to art On the occasion, a pool of artists from different generations and cultures reflecting the gallery’s diverse programme, are showcasing their work.

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Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery continues its expansion in opening a new gallery in Dubai, located at 796 Jumeirah Street, in Jumeirah 3, one of the most vibrant and popular areas in Dubai, nearby Burj Al-Arab.

To celebrate the opening of its new gallery in Dubai, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is showing works by artists from different generations and cultures, reflecting its diverse program, such as Noel W. Anderson, Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil, Louis Granet, Yashua Klos, John Madu, Tomokazu Matsuyama, Jeff Sonhouse and Summer Wheat among others...

This new space will allow to showcase an expanded exhibition program with a focus upon Afro-American and African emerging artists and will reinforce the strong international positioning of Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery in the art world.

Special Art Dubai opening hours:
Open every day from 10 AM until 8 PM

ZIDOUN-BOSSUYT GALLERY OPENING IN DUBAI

We are proud to announce the opening of our new gallery in Dubai !

Save the date ! 8 March 2022

More details to follow …

Thank you Aesthetica Magazine !

We’d like to highlight the 10th edition of Untitled Art Miami Beach. Running from Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 2021, the fair features 145 international contemporary galleries and is located on the beach at Ocean Drive and 12th Street. To mark its 10th anniversary, Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021 features an extended curatorial platform with four guest curators whose “diverse perspectives and regional expertise, will nurture dialogue between participating galleries and artists to generate a more global and inclusive conversation.” Pictured are some of the works featured at the fair. All photos courtesy of AK Art Consulting and Curating.

John Madu’s “A Loop in Time” Gives Context to Contemporary at Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Playing on such themes as Greek mythology, racist American poster art, and Star Wars, the Nigerian artist’s compelling, humorous new solo show turns negative cultural symbols on their head.

John Madu's first solo show at Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg - Art Africa Magazine Madu discusses three of the works that form part of ‘A Loop In Time’ ‘A Loop In Time’ is an exhibition of paintings exploring figures of power through identity, emotion and time, reinterpreting narratives in history to fit into a contemporary discourse concerning social and political debates...

Jeff Sonhouse’s Latest Exhibition at the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Jeff Sonhouse’s portraits of Black men exude an aura of mystery tempered by hints of ironic humor. Throughout his paintings, Sonhouse explores how notions of African-American masculinity are constr…

Aesthetica Magazine - Composite Portraits Jeff Sonhouse is an American artist creating stylised portraits of Black male figures. His works challenge the conventions of figurative painting.

Opening on Thursday 23 ! from 6 to 8 pm

Les portraits arlequins de Jeff Sonhouse Dans le centre de la ville de Luxembourg, la galerie Zidoun-Bossuyt expose les dernières œuvres de Jeff Sonhouse. L’artiste noir américain présente six grands formats et cinq petites toiles, ...

MARTINE FEIPEL & JEAN BECHAMEIL
WHILE YOU SLEEP

Exhibition 6 February - 13 March, 2021.


Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is pleased to welcome the artists duo Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil for their second solo show at the gallery.

Working as a twosome, Feipel & Bechameil produce installations where there is a mix of illusion, imagination, instability and illogicality within gridded and controlled places in the contemporary world. As sculptors but also amateur researchers and engineers, informed by a great sensibility with regard to the theatricality of the world and its various forms of beauty, they create works within a socio-historical, aesthetic, political and technical approach. In combining their many areas of know-how in various fields - drawing, sculpture, engineering, directing and presentation, and sets -, they are producing an oeuvre that is as formally accomplished as it is powerfully engaged.

As artists, they have no certainties about ideal social and cultural models, but they are forever questioning human life by way of themes such as the social and collective setting, life styles, the forms of architecture people occupy and the objects which accompany us in our daily round, the landscape that is presented to us, and the areas of freedom we are given, as well as the future being traced out for us. As robotics hackers Feipel&Bechameil propose a re-appropriation of the realm of technology in a sensitive way, using an eminently political gesture: taking possession of the expertise and know-how of industrial robotics, to apply them to the creation of artworks which describe our world in a different way.

The exhibition « While You Sleep » places Nature at the center of the its reflection. Entirely designed and implemented in the periods of lockdown of the current health crisis, it functions as an introspection and takes an interrogative look at our environment and nature. The artists apprehend their environment in its most raw and purified forms with an imagined, fantasized and dreamed view of nature.

MARTINE FEIPEL & JEAN BECHAMEIL

The work of Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil addresses the question of space. Their work shows in a destructive manner, the hidden complexity of the ideas in the traditional way of constructing space. At the same time, their work also opens a perception for an alternative reflection. In it, art and society go hand and hand.
Past, present and future, the artist duo Feipel & Bechameil deal with all times at once one. Firmly attuned to the present (robotization) so as to better consider the future (the consequences of a robotized world on humans), the artist duo nonetheless proposes a rereading of the history and utopias of modernity: dada, De Stijl, the Bauhaus and all the modernist movements that, before the invention of the atom bomb, believed in the compatibility of technical progress and humankind.

Martine Feipel was born in 1975 in Luxembourg. Jean Bechameil was born in 1964 in Paris. They have worked together since 2008 and currently live in Brussels.

Martine Feipel studied visual art at the UdK in Berlin and Central Saint Martins in London. Jean Bechameil attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. He has also worked to design the sets on a variety of films, including several of Lars Von Trier’s.

In addition to being selected in 2011 to represent Luxembourg for the 54th Venice Biennale, Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil have also been invited to participate in many international exhibitions and cultural events – for instance at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, the Beaufort Triennale of art by the sea in Belgium, and the Nuit Blanche in Paris, to name only a few. In 2017, Casino Luxembourg -Forum for contemporary art dedicated a monographic exhibition to them and in 2020 the occupied the HAB galerie in Nantes for the periode of the summer with the exhibition Automatic Revolution.
The duo joined the exhibition « Listen to your eyes » in November 2020 at the Museum Voorlinden in The Netherlands and entered the collection of the museum. The artists have been nominated to create an installation for the National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) and to design the metro station « Canal Parc Technologique » on the new metro line to be built in Toulouse, France.

JEAN-CHARLES BLAIS – LEIKO IKEMURA
7 November 2020 - 9 January 2021

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of the artists Jean-Charles Blais (France) and Leiko Ikemura (Germany). Each of these two artists are well known and sought after for their unique stories. This is the first time these artists will be exhibited together and first exhibition in Luxembourg for Jean-Charles Blais.

JEAN-CHARLES BLAIS
In the South of France, Jean-Charles Blais continued his exploration of bold abstracted forms, turning progressively into figures, painted on thick layers of large billboard posters. The densely layered posters convey a sense of timelessness, playing with the viewer's subconscious, on emotional, visual, and physical levels.
The comparison of works from different periods, which simultaneously work on different levels, is a common practice in the work of Jean Charles Blais. His work is informed by the diverse application of the medium, by using the couture as drawing or painting. With the help of digital media, billboards and other graphics emerge.
The new works shown at the gallery fit into his figurative repertoire, whose fascination lies in the various layers of paper. It seems that the memory of forgotten forms, which were present in early works from the 80s, have been rediscovered. The polysemy arises through incessant metamorphoses, which play with the staging of the body and ambiguity. Forms are created, which arise from the concurrence of depth and surface – modern, unique, consistent and elusive.
One looks for the empty forms, which emerge as memories of an absent body only to immediately disappear again.

Jean-Charles Blais was born in1956 in Nantes. He studied at the University of Beaux-Arts in Rennes, France from 1974 to 1979. He lives and works between Paris and Vence in South of France.
Jean Charles Blais’ body of work abounds with art historical references, touching on the work of artists such as Henri Matisse, Kasimir Malevitsch and Philip Guston. He uses this as the basis to develop his own, distinctive artistic lexicon to portray the human body, which in his newest works in particular is emotionally deeply compelling.
Paintings by Jean Charles Blais have been on show at the Cabinet d’art graphique, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris (1987), at the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, the Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain Nice, the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux, and the Musée Picasso in Antibes (2013). Gallery shows include Leo Castelli, New York (1984), Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (1994), Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (1992-1998), Kenji Taki, Tokyo (2000) and on a regular basis at Catherine Issert Gallery (from 1983 until now).
Jean-Charles Blais designed different projects in the urban space, such as the posters frieze in the station « Assemblée Nationale » in the Parisian subway (2013).
The artist’s works can be found in several major collections, including the collections of the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, the Carré d’Art Nîmes, the CAPC Bordeaux, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Musée National Monaco and the Centre Pompidou Paris.

LEIKO IKEMURA
It is often said that Leiko Ikemura’s work is characterized by the encounter of two cultures: it references Western art history, but the themes and formal vocabulary also immerse the beholder in the Japanese tradition, which venerates asymmetry, incompleteness, and ambiguity. “Imagination is the strongest force in my work”, says the artist, and it is precisely this exercise of completing something with one’s imagination that enables the viewer to enter into a dialogue with the Western tradition, which is oriented towards limits, an avoidance of ambiguity, and symmetry. In her art, Ikemura attempts to elude rational control and to immerse herself and the beholder in sensual and emotional experience. The viewer seems to find himself in a kind of intermediate world, in horizontal landscapes with visually unlimited pictorial spaces, or in cosmic landscapes whose forms may be interpreted anthropomorphically - human creatures take on the shapes of animals, or trees or rocks metamorphose into human faces. The transitions are always fluid – in painting and sculpture, in landscape and in human portrayals.
“The larger paintings under the title Genesis are recent works that contemplate the origin of humans and all other living beings in nature. Utopia and admonitions are simultaneously present, while the motif of the large female figure transforms into forms in nature like mountains, rivers, and trees. The smaller paintings demonstrate a praxis of abstraction in painting that delves into the open horizon. They intimate the moments when painting is an act.
While the paintings are almost immaterial and able to hint toward other realities, my sculptures assert more physical presence. Collectively, they could be seen as a hybrid, like the silver cat between humans and animals. The lying female figure represents the circle of life, which unfolds the power of life beyond mortality.”
Leiko Ikemura
Leiko Ikemura was born in Tsu, Japan. She studied Spanish literature at the University of Foreign Languages in Ōsaka and emigrated to Spain in 1972 to intensify her studies in Salamanca and Granada. From 1973 until 1978 she pursued painting studies at the Academy in Seville. After moving to Switzerland Ikemura left a lasting impression on the Zurich art scene of the Eighties. In 1983, the Bonner Kunstverein dedicated her works a major exhibition. Numerous exhibitions and retrospectives at renowned international institutions followed, the most notable of which being recent shows at Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe (2012), Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (2014), Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, (2015), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2016) and KunstMuseum Basel, (2019).
In 2021, her work will be exhibited at the Sainsbury Art Center, UK (Usagi in Wonderland) and at the Shugo Arts Gallery à Tokyo.
From 1991 to 2015 she taught at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (UdK, formerly HdK). Since 2014 she is a professor at the Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan. Leiko Ikemura lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

SARAH PETERS
CELESTE RAPONE
10 September - 17 October 2020

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is pleased to present a duo exhibition exploring the dialogue and connection between the sculptor Sarah Peters and the painter Celeste Rapone.
Four bronzes and two plasters by Sarah Peters are shown alongside six paintings by Celeste Rapone.
Sarah Peters’ work expands upon her exploration of formal sculptural languages and themes ranging from power and authority to psychology, gender, and humanity. Many of Rapone’s paintings attest that she is in a kind of dialogue with sculpture. Her paintings are suffused with plasticity; all figures examine their bodily flexibility and exercise their ability to excessively stretch their arms and legs to the extent that their appearance looks supernatural.

Shallow Water
Until July 18th

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Reopening / Summer Wheat Exhibition Opening

We are thrilled to announce that the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery will reopen on Tuesday 12th of May, with the first solo show in Europe of American artist Summer Wheat.

Shallow Water
12 May-18 July 2020

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday 10am to 6pm
Saturday 11am to 5pm

For those who will not have the opportunity to visit the exhibition in person, we invite you to experience our new online viewing room for an immersive visit when hovering your mouse on the paintings.

http://viewingroom.zidoun-bossuyt.com

We look forward to seeing you again

MARTINE FEIPEL & JEAN BECHAMEIL / Les Nids d’oiseaux

Avec les « Cités d’urgences » les artistes Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil cherchent à mettre en œuvre une série de projets qui propose des logements dédiés aux espèces dont la survie est directement menacé par la raréfaction ou la destruction de leur habitat naturel dû à nos modes de vie modernes.

En 2018, le projet « Cités d’urgences -Apus Apus » a emporté le Prix Spécial du Jury, discerné par l’organisation COAL en collaboration avec le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature de Paris. Les artistes ont ensuite bénéficié d’une résidence d’artiste au domaine Belval de la Fondation Sommer en France.

Le projet s’adresse spécifiquement aux martinets qui sont des oiseaux migratoires. Cet oiseau existait avant que l’homme ne construise des maisons et a toujours installé son habitat dans des structures existantes, tel que les falaises ou des arbres. Certains ornithologues pensent que cette espèce a évolué en même temps que nous bâtissions toujours plus. Ils se sont finalement habitués à utiliser les anfractuosités de nos murs pour y établir leurs nids. Depuis l’abandon du mortier et de la pierre les anfractuosités se font rares, et la rénovation de l’architecture ancienne laisse moins de possibilité aux martinets de créer leurs nids.

Le projet consiste à proposer une nouvelle forme d’habitat pour cet oiseau, afin de le réintégrer au sein de notre espace de vie. Les artistes profiteront des murs existants, pour y intégrer les nids en céramique, dont uniquement les ouvertures seront visibles. Chaque ouverture sera originale et marquera discrètement les façades de immeubles désignés.

Alors que l’épidémie a momentanément modifié nos habitudes de vie et rendu notre environnement presque silencieux, les artistes ont dédié ce moment à la réalisation de ces nids en céramique qui seront ensuite installés au levée du confinement dans les différents sites.

Une intervention artistique qui mettra la nature et la survie des espèces au centre des réflexions et qui permettra une cohabitation poétique et sereine entre l’homme et la nature.

La galerie Zidoun-Bossuyt accueilliera les artistes Martine Feipel et Jean Bechameil pour leur deuxième exposition personnelle à la galerie en novembre prochain.

MARTINE FEIPEL & JEAN BECHAMEIL / BIRD'S NESTS

Duo artists Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil have launched Cités d’urgences, a series of projects to create nests for species directly endangered by the erosion or destruction of their natural habitat as a result of our modern lifestyle.

The Cités d’urgences - Apus Apus project won the Special Jury Prize awarded by the COAL organisation in collaboration with the Paris-based hunting and nature museum, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
This project specifically targets swifts. Migratory bird, swifts were on the planet before people started building houses. Their nesting habit was to build in existing structures, such as cliffs or trees. Some ornithologists are of the opinion that the species evolved according as humans built at an ever-faster pace and started building their nests in the cavities or crevices in our walls. But with mortar and stone no longer used as building materials and the restoration of old architecture, there are fewer and fewer suitable places for swifts to nest.

Cités d’urgences seeks to offer a new form of habitat for the swift to keep the bird as part of our living space. The artists will place ceramic nests in existing walls with only the openings visible. Each opening will be original and create distinctive markings on the facades of the buildings.

The environment around us is almost silent as the COVID-19 epidemic has temporarily and dramatically changed how we live. The artists seize this opportunity to create these ceramic nests which will be installed at different locations when the lockdown restrictions are lifted. This intervention by the artists will give priority to nature and the survival of endangered species, bringing man and nature together in poetic and peaceful coexistence.

Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil will have their second show at Zidoun-Bossuyt gallery in November 2020.

Happy first day of spring !
Louis Granet, "Abou Dhabi-Arcachon-Ajman", 2020

Rushern Baker IV
Michael Ray Charles
David Leggett
Kathia St. Hilaire

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery

Happy to welcome you today.
Untitled San Francisco , Booth B3

Happy to welcome you today.
Untitled San Francisco , Booth B3

Untitled Art Miami is opening tomorrow ! Join us at our booth B31

Group show curated by Thomas Zitzwitz
6 November 2019 - 4 January 2020
With Claudia Comte, FORT, Katharina Grosse, Gregor Hildebrandt, Leiko Ikemura, Anselm Reyle and Thomas Zitzwitz

TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA IS THE LATEST MURALIST AT THE BOWERY WALL

After having painted at Wynwood Walls 2018, Tomokazu Matsuyama is the latest muralist at the Bowery Wall. The Bowery Mural on Houston Street in New York City has been the home to many iconic paintings from the likes of Keith Haring and Banksy. Now, Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama gets to showcase his vision.
Matsuyama was born in Japan and moved to New York City in 2000 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He will be doing a high profile installation for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan, building a 24-foot tall sculpture at JR Shinjuku Station consisting of 316 pieces of stainless steel. His 4th solo exhibition at Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is scheduled for Spring 2021.

THE NEEDLE'S EYE
SOLO EXHIBITION
12 SEPTEMBER - 26 OCTOBER 2019