Bruno Rousselot
12 March–30 April 2011
Opening:
Saturday, 12 March, 4–9 pm
54 rue Chapon
75003, Paris
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www.semiose.com
This new solo show dedicated to Bruno Rousselot at Semiose galerie from March 12th to April 30th, 2011, significantly renews arguments which show painting on a human scale, just as the work of Mary Heilmann shown at the New Museum in New York in 2009.
Across the pictorial slidings carried by John Armleder and Peter Halley, geometric abstraction extends, since the eighties, the bases of a report between spectator and painted surface, as cleared by Sol Lewitt.
Among them, Bruno Rousselot supports, since 1980 and his years in New York, constantly and uncompromising, the pictorial requirement which unites these artists, not without pleasure and derision. The practice of colour constitutes the central vector of its work: vibrating, frankly juxtaposed, tones disperse outlines, locating abstraction so beyond any materiality. More exactly, the work of Bruno Rousselot plays with the border which separates the systematic of variation, which separates the insignificance of symbol with structural canons of abstraction without limiting himself.
The recent series of painting on wood, which will form the centre of this new solo exhibition, is not therefore without referring to the most pioneer painter of the geometric abstraction, and to the most “popular” also, Kasimir Malévitch.
Bruno Rousselot participated in solo and group exhibitions at La Force de l’Art – Grand Palais, Paris ; Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne ; Fondation Guerlain, Les Menuls and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Vassivières. His work is owned by many public collections such as MoMA, New-York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. ; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris or Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greenboro.
Semiose galerie is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11 am–7 pm and on appointment. For futher information please visit us at www.semiose.com or contact Leslie Compan, Virginie Jacquet or Benoît Porcher.