gallery kashya hildebrand new york artist profile: christiane grimm
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gallery kashya hildebrand new york artist profile: christiane grimm
GALLERY KASHYA HILDEBRAND NEW YORK ARTIST PROFILE: CHRISTIANE GRIMM MATTER AND MEANING Part I: Water and Its Histories For some years now, Christiane Grimm has opened up to the world of science and established dialogues with scholars in the fields of physics or geology. Her current work integrates a creative research on the physical qualities of light and color. The artist’s photographs invite the viewer to appreciate a rational world before penetrating a timeless and poetic universe. As the artist explains: “First, I am captivated and seduced by the force of color, I am dazzled by it. Then, I look at the matter that holds the color. My gaze touches it, plunges into it. At this moment, the color is in my eye, exacerbated, saturated, dense or shaded. The color is also in the back of my eyes, where it appears, for an instant, weak and fleeting.” Bathed in light, colors come from water, ice, or air in a mineral, vegetable, and animal world. Christiane Grimm, inspired by science and her thoughts filled by the history, myths, and symbols of color, is trying to represent the essence of things as well as their multiplicity of meaning. This series of large-scale photographs was created around the theme of water and its histories. Christiane Grimm chose to work on this element for its symbolic significance and its sensual quality. But more importantly, she was interested in the way water transforms the appearance of matter, which is very close to the way light interacts with objects. And light is, for the photographer, a major artistic concern. “The gaze of Christiane Grimm penetrates matter and distills within it the senses: the eyes first capture the essence of color in all its intimacy and then interpret the symbolism of the object thus recomposed. In turn her perspective balances both opposite and complimentary forms, thereby reiterating the eye as an instrument of investigation. In this quest, science, the eminence grise, is always in close proximity to the artist. As such, her blacks are no longer the blacks of a child’s nightmares, nor are her whites the whites of mere expectancy and void, of which anything is possible.” Libero Zuppiroli Professor of Physics and the History of Science, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne; researcher in the physics of molecular and organic materials, in particular of their optical qualities. 531-539 West 25th St. New York, NY, 10021, USA Tel: (216) 366 5757 Fax: (212) 366 4747 [email protected] www.kashyahildebrand.org GALLERY KASHYA HILDEBRAND NEW YORK ARTIST PROFILE: CHRISTIANE GRIMM 2 Born in 1952 in Basel (Switzerland). Lives and works in Geneva. 1974–1977 School of Fine Arts, Basel 1978 Practices painting, drawing and photography 1980 Co-producer and set designer for the film Seuls by F. Reusser 1984 Adaptation and dialogue for the film Derborence by F. Reusser, official selection at Cannes, won the César 1985 for best French-language film 1986 Receives a Federal Grant for Applied Arts (photography section) 1988–1990 Teaches drawing and color at the Centre d’Enseignement Photographique Professionnel in Yverdon-les-Bains 1993 Conception and photography for the documentary film Passage de la Recherche (for the television channel Arte), which receives a Special Jury Prize at the Festival du Film Scientifique de la Tour Eiffel 1994–1999 Photographic research, in collaboration with Libero Zuppiroli, professor of physics at the EPFL in Lausanne and M.N. Bussac, for the illustration of “Traité des couleurs,” a series of photographic studies on a variety of themes related to the city of Geneva 1999–2000 Overall conception and realization of a model for Traité des couleurs by L. Zuppiroli and M.N. Bussac—book published in April 2001 by the Editions des Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes. Photographic research on water, stones and books, to accompany a text by writer Maurice Pianzola. 2001 Research on a vision of the Lake spanning the period from the ice age to the present day 531-539 West 25th St. New York, NY, 10021, USA Tel: (216) 366 5757 Fax: (212) 366 4747 [email protected] www.kashyahildebrand.org GALLERY KASHYA HILDEBRAND NEW YORK ARTIST PROFILE: CHRISTIANE GRIMM 3 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 Nouvelle Compagnie de Réassurances, Geneva Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Geneva 2001 Objectifs Soreya Azarmsa, Geneva 1999–2000 Maison Tavel, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva 1999 Halles de l’Ile, Geneva 1998 Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris 1997 Café des Bains, Geneva 1995 Saint-Gervais, Geneva 1993 Galerie Europa, Geneva 1992 Galerie Anita Neugebauer, Basel 1988 Centre Valaisan du Film, Martigny 1987 Cinéma City, Pully 1986 Galerie du CEPP, Yverdon-les-Bains 1985 Cinéma Romandie, Lausanne; Espace Ringier, Zürich; Théâtre de Poche, Bienne 531-539 West 25th St. New York, NY, 10021, USA Tel: (216) 366 5757 Fax: (212) 366 4747 [email protected] www.kashyahildebrand.org GALLERY KASHYA HILDEBRAND NEW YORK ARTIST PROFILE: CHRISTIANE GRIMM 4 GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 Galerie du Centre Culturel, Morges (Rouge) Maison des arts du Grütli, Geneva (24h pour la photographie, Plaine de Plainpalais) 2001 Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris (1 Figure) Ecole d’ingénieur, Yverdon (Etats du Lac) 1998 Maison Tavel, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva (les Quais) 1997 Fotomuseum Winterthur (Regards sur le monde) Galerie Anita Neugebauer, Basel (la Fleur) 1993 Musée de Pully (C.F. Ramuz dans les collections du Musée) 1986 La Grenette, Bern (Bourse Fédérale) 1977 Musée Rath, Geneva (drawings) PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne Fondation de la Photographie Suisse, Kunsthaus Zürich Fonds Cantonal de Décoration et d’Art Visuel, Geneva Musée de Pully Documentation photographique de Genève Centre d’Iconographie Genevoise Has been living and working in Geneva since 1971. March 2002 1998, 1997 1997 Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Geneva, Switzerland Salon de Mai, Paris Fred Lanzenberg Gallery, Brussels 531-539 West 25th St. New York, NY, 10021, USA Tel: (216) 366 5757 Fax: (212) 366 4747 [email protected] www.kashyahildebrand.org