The Missing Link

The Missing Link
Ein Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle M3
Mengerzeile 1-3, Alt-Treptow
FREITAG 2. AUGUST / 19-22 UHR
Charlotte Lepelletier
Patrick Guidot
www.patrickguidot.fr // www.atelierhaus-mengerzeile.de // more info: +33 6 64 30 16 37
The Missing Link
At dusk a man falls asleep in his hideout. A glimmer of hope
is promised when the day is over and a new day looms. This point of transition
between day and night signifies a boundary between two ages. It is a story
embodied with meaning made up to feel reassured. This witching hour affords
modern man different liberties to dream. Quieting the world around him, he
lies there in private reverie and meditates on his instinctual nature and the
origins of man. Through thousands of years of history modern man rejected
primitive impulses and the bestiality of distant ancestors so to overpower the
nature which surrounds him.
At the blue hour he awakes from this ancient dream. From the rocks
imaginary and mysterious creatures emerge and take shape. The entrance of
a cave; the presence of a fossil; the footsteps of our fathers: he goes in search
of the picture which is missing. His own origin story which reveals a sense of
connection and intuition not reflected in the artifice of his contemporary time
and place.
Foregoing semantic narrative structures Patrick Guidot and
Charlotte Lepelletier have developed their own instinctive pictorial language
within their respective art practices. Drawing on line, gesture, mark-making
and materiality as a site of meaning, Guidot and Lepelletier engage with
various mediums to explore their process driven practice. Featuring paintings,
sculpture, installation, video, the exhibition ‘The Missing Link’ at Kunsthalle
M3, Berlin is the second cycle in a series which began with the exhibition
‘Equinox’ at the Arty. Show gallery, Paris in March 2013.
Guidot and Lepelletier write: ‘Man shouts to celebrate life. The spirit
of man and material are reconciled by Art in the daily quest for contribution
to arise. This ontological approach leads to the proposal of an intermediate
and absolute shape of man’s image, of his environment and his spirituality.
These are some of the challenges of this exhibition. Creating works to act like a
mirror, the viewer is invited to reflect on his or her own contemporary animal
condition.’
The Missing Link
Charlotte Lepelletier
Charlotte Lepelletier is a French multidisciplinary visual artist who lives and
works in Paris and Berlin.
Lepelletier grew up in regional Alsace, where she developed a personal affinity
for nature and the arts. Such talents where cultivated from a tender age. As a child
Lepelletier studied at the Waldorf School, where she was exposed to painting, sculpture,
handicrafts and theater. These talents were pursued and cultivated throughout high
school and later university study.
Though initially studying Applied Art, specialising in Fashion Modeling
at ESMOD, a series of life events inspired Lepelletier to explore the possibilities of
temporary installation sculptural practices. Employing found objects and ephemera
Lepelletier’s early works draw on an aesthetic of destruction and flux, personally
reflecting her autobiographical experience with irony and humor.
Her current works investigate the notions of the body and its belonging, change and
memory as explored though the interplay between various organic and inorganic
materials and objects.
In 2012 Lepelletier began collaborating with French painter Patrick Guidot
which has influenced her aesthetic approach in a number of ways. The exhibition ‘The
missing Link’ marks the pairs second exhibition together.
Empreintes , 2013
3x3x2m
The Missing Link
Charlotte Lepelletier
GROUP SHOW
2013 :
"The Missing Link" Kunsthalle M3, duo show avec Patrick Guidot, Berlin
Film en Super 8 pour l'exposition "Sous les Cocos", Galerie Vanessa Quang, Résidence artistique et participation à l'exposition "Equinoxe" Galerie Arty Show, avec le soutien de Nikki Ract et Pierre Emmanuel Singel, Saint Ouent, France
2012 : Résidence artistique et exposition in situ en collaboration avec
La Agencia Bogota, Colombie
2011 : Exposition/Installation dans l'espace Ephémère, « LA STATION » pour les nuits électroniques, Paris
Instalation mobile pour l' exposition "Noir/Blanc" à la Galerie Chez Madame, Paris
2010 : Exposition/évènement "SWAG" Galerie OXIII, Paris
Exposition/ouverture de l'espace galerie « Ö8 » rue Royale, Paris
PERSONNAL EXHIBITION
2013: Installation In Situ pour les 20 ans/ Openning de Mengerzeile 3, Berlin
2011: "Reminds" séries de sculpture métalliques à la Galerie Jour et Nuit, Paris
2006 : "Tropical " défilé au Palais de la Culture ,Managua, Nicaragua.
SPECIAL ORDER
2010:
2005 :
Réalisation d’une fresque peinte pour le lieu culturel "La Station", Paris
Réalisation de toiles figuratives 2m x 2,5m et d’une sculpture monumentale à échelle humaine pour le Parc des Exposition de Colmar (68)
FORMATION
2004 :
94/00:
Formation en art appliqué, spécialisation Stylisme-Modélisme à ESMOD, Paris
Ecole d’art pluridisciplinaire Rudolf Steiner
The Missing Link
Patrick Guidot
Born in 1985 in Lyon, I currently live and work between Paris and Berlin.
I grew up in a suburb of Lyon where culture wasn’t a central issue. But I decided
to go to art school after my baccalauréat, although I’d been pushed by my parents to enter
a more conventional field of study. During four years, my curriculum was very academic, as
I was required to gain knowledge in the basics of fine art : antique studies, nudes, anatomy
and perspective. At this moment, I met the personalities which motivated my concentration
towards a more plastic form of expression. I realised my very first oil series at school
representing the 14 stations of the cross, borrowing compositions from Rembrandt and
Boticelli. In the professional realm of things, I regularly work for prestigious houses such
as Atelier Meriguet-Carrere. Working closely with painters who have a more traditional
approach of painting has helped me gather both the knowledge and chemistry nescessary to
mastering my own craft. I am increasingly attached to the inherent richness of the painting
matter itself. I would say that my work find a form of legitimacy in this important technical
basis, and I hope that they find their
place in a certain tradition of painting.
My pictorial works mainly
address
existential,
ontological
and spiritual themes, in a style I
would qualify as both figurative
and conceptual. I hope to create an
a-temporal image gathering diverse
influences from the contemporary
world.
www.patrickguidot.fr
Ape 01 , 2013
114 x 142 cm
Oil on Canvas
The Missing Link
Patrick Guidot
exhibitions / residency
August 2013 : Duo Show, «Missing Link» at Kunsthalle M3, Berlin
July 2013 : Group Show «Sous les cocos» at GVQ Gallery Vanessa Quang, Paris (75003)
March /April 2013 : Personnal Exhibition at Arty.Show Gallery, in Saint-Ouen (Fr.)
November 2012 : Selected within 125 artists for the salon of contemporary Art MAC
PARIS, at Espace Champeret, Paris.
Mars 2012 : Group show at Bogotà (Colombie)
Fev. 2012 / Mars 2012 : Residency in Bogotà (Colombia) collaborating with El
Parche, and La Agencia.
Avr.2010 : Group Show «Beauté Volée» in Lyon, Rue Terme
presse
December 2012 :Favorite of the eleventh tv show «La semaine de l’Art» who was
broadcast by the information channel LCI.
March 2013 : Paris Art, Figaro Evene, interview about the exhibition «Equinoxe»,
TCQVAR.com
works of exceptions
Oct. 2010 / Apr. 2011 : Collaboration for painting a dome and five ceilings for the
castle LOUIS XIV, in Louveciennes, in the way of great french master of the 17th
century
Dec 2009 + March 2010 : Collaboration for painting a mural piece in the old town
of Jerusalem (Israel) for a archeological site
Oct. / Dec. 2009 : Participate to the painting of the biggest trompe l’oeil in the
world, in Shanghai (China), 5000 sq.m.
Juin 2010 / Dec 2012: Numerous paintings with the abstract painter Bujar Luca,
whose orginially from Albania, specially to perform luxury decoration for private
hotel, and luxe brands (Dior.) Orders generally done by Maison Meriguet Carrere.
Sept. 2008 /Oct. 2012 : Many collaborations for wall paintings in Berlin, Moskow,
Frankfort, Lyon... specially with Stadt un Land and Dekorative City (Ger.)
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