Beaten Ink, Upset Brick, Downcast Charcoal
November 27, 2021–January 29, 2022
10 rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10am–6pm,
Saturday 11am–7pm
T +33 1 42 77 38 87
galerie@crousel.com
For his first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Matias Faldbakken presents a series of installations bringing together drawings from 2017 to 2021, and various groups of lacquered bricks, some locally sourced, others originating from Norway.
Matias Faldbakken’s practice involves various and often conflicting themes, but seen as a whole, his practice might be summed up by one question: What is antagonism?
Faldbakken’s works hold in perpetual tension the forces of proposition and cancellation, aesthetic generosity and conceptual restraint, the possibility of language and its dissolution into illegibility. A consistent characteristic of his work is a movement towards abstraction through a variety of materials often used in construction or logistics, like garbage bags and flattened cardboard boxes, tiled walls, concrete objects or, more recently, brick sculptures. The “aesthetic products” in his exhibitions are for Faldbakken “the side effects of an artistic strategy that engages readily available possibilities of disengagement”.
