Meris Angioletti
Solo exhibition
17 September–19 November 2011
Opening:
Friday, 16 September 2011,
6:00–9:00pm
Free shuttle bus leaving from Paris at 6:30pm
Drawing on the history of the arts—from the first abstractions of the late 19th century to the “expanded cinema” of the 1970s—as well as the cognitive sciences, psychology and esoteric beliefs, Meris Angioletti’s work investigates the mechanisms of perception, memory and the psyche. Applying an analytical method in which iconographic exploration and writing complement each other, the artist creates light and sound installations, video projections, slide shows, publications and photographs. The projection of light, images and colours and the diffusion of sound in a given venue aim at setting up a relationship between physical and mental space in a way that can generate “inner visions” for the viewer.
Each of Angioletti’s works is an attempt to give concrete expression to such hitherto unexplained psychological processes as the creation of mental images, free association of ideas and intuition: each is a new way of speculating about the links between the visible and the invisible or between what is conscious and what is not. Central to Angioletti approach is the concept of translation: of numbers into movement, memory into dialogue, historical events into images, mental mechanisms into sounds, etc.
“I’m interested in translation as a cerebral activity—the brain constantly translating external stimuli—and as a phase in the process of artistic creation in which thought is translated into a visual, sound, verbal or other language. Also representing the unconscious—and even the esoteric (in the sense of the hidden)—a transitional zone between what is not manifest in the work and what is visible.”
Forthcoming programme at La Galerie:
Georges Tony Stoll, solo show
Associate curator: Jean-Marc Avrilla
3 December 2011–11 February 2012
Artist in residence from July 2011 to April 2012:
Pauline Curnier Jardin
www.paulinecurnierjardin.net
La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre
in Noisy-le-Sec / Paris, France
1, rue Jean Jaurès
F-93130 Noisy-le-Sec, France
T +33 (0)1 49 42 67 17
lagalerie@noisylesec.fr
Access by train in 10 min. from Paris: RER line E from Saint-Lazare/Haussmann or Gare du Nord, then 10 minutes walk
Open Tuesday to Friday: 2–6pm and Saturday: 2–7pm
Closed on 1 and 11 November
Admission free
La Galerie Contemporary art centre is financed by the city of Noisy-le-Sec, with the support of the Ile-de-France/Ministry of Culture and Communications Regional Cultural Affairs Board, the Seine-Saint-Denis Département and the Ile-de-France Region.
Meris Angioletti’s exhibition is supported by the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris
La Galerie is a member of:
tram, Paris/Île de France contemporary art network: www.tram-idf.fr
d.c.a, French association for the development of art centres: www.dca-art.com
