Auteur/autrice : Chris Boicos

  • Personal Exhibitions

    2014
    Like This. with Cindy Bernhard, Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.
    A Passing Fancy, Center on Halsted Gallery, Chicago IL , USA.
    Tales Tolds, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH, USA.
    Bodies, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle Washington, USA.
    Like This. with Cindy Bernhard. Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.

    2013
    In Metamorphosis (with Vivian van Blerk), Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, Chicago IL, USA.
    Galex 47, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg IL, USA. Juried exhibition.

    2012
    Optimistic Reconstructions, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, USA.
    The Grand Spectacle: Recent Collages, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago IL, USA.

    2011
    Juxtaposed in its Essence, Elgin Community College Safety-Kleen Gallery, Elgin IL, USA.

    2010
    Michael and Angelo, Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    Romp, The Depot Gallery, Beverly Shores, Indiana, USA.

    2009
    New Collages, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    Navigation Imagination, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO, USA.
    From What Are Dreams (two person exhibition), Eyeporium Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    3×3 Exhibition, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago IL, USA.

    2008
    Sideshow, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.

    2006-08
    12×12, Refuge Center for Artists in Recovery, Skokie IL, USA.

    2001
    Making Art Matter : Artists Transforming Society, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI, USA.

  • About

    American, born 1963.
    Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

    Doug Stapleton is an artist, curator and educator. He is an Assistant Curator of Art with the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery and an adjunct faculty in the Interdisciplinary Arts graduate program at Columbia College Chicago. Stapleton’s work has been the subject of two solo exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center and Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago in 2012.

    A former Artistic Associate with the Chicago based contemporary dance company « The Seldoms », he had worked on eleven evening length dance performances in the capacity of dramaturg and as a performer. Prior to his work with the Seldoms, he has performed in over forty solo and collaborative performances since 1989. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989, and a BA in Anthropology from University of Delaware with a minor concentration in Art History and Ceramics.

    “In my collages, I re-configure found images into ambiguous narratives that often refer to the source, but mess around with the original message. Visually I respond to the operatic sparkle and complexity—the grandly narrated spectacle—that is the history of western art. I want to continue that high key drama in my work.
    My background in anthropology and art history informs how I construct these collages. I’m tethered to the possible of the story within the fragment. I play loosely with symbols and metaphors from art history, language, and religion to create new images that are strongly representational, with an attention to precise cutting and visual consistency, and a nod toward absurd, implied narrative.”

    website: http://dougstapleton.com/

  • Artwork

    Fotofever Paris, 2015

    Poseidon, 2014

    Collages, 2011-13

  • Illustrations

    Illustrations

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    Book Covers:

    2013
    Illustration of book cover : Le festin des monstres by Michel Frantz.
    2012
    Publication of box of 10 post cards of 10 collages at the musée International de la Chaussure in Romans, France.
    Illustration of book cover : La maison des sept notes et autres nouvelles by Michel Frantz.
    Illustration of book cover : Le manoir du pendu by Michel Frantz.
    Illustration of book cover : Sunday et le chien qui voulait voler by Michel Frantz.
    Illustration of book cover : Le grimoire arc-en-ciel by Michel Frantz.
    Illustration of book cover : La perruque ensorcelée by Michel Frantz.
    2011
    Publication of post card of a collage from ist s collection by the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France.
    Illustration of book cover : L’ordinateur diabolique by Michel Frantz.
    Illustration of book cover : Le masque de Halloween by Michel Frantz.
    Illustration of book cover : On a enlevé le Père Noël ou Le cercle des sorciers disparus by Michel Frantz
    2008
    Poster for the prize Elsa Morante Ragazzi Newton hall,(Science Villa) Naples, Italy.
    2007
    Poster for the prize Prix Elsa Morante at the Parioli theatre, Rome, Italy.
    Illustration of book cover : Una primavera atroz by Juan Pedro Quiñonero, Narrativa collection,
    Publisher: Espuela de plata.
    2001
    Illustration for the invitation to the stage play Colloques des bébés by Roland Fichet. Salle Erik Satie, Vénissieux, France.

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  • Collections

    Musée Artcolle, Plémet, France.
    Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France.
    Centre d’études catalanes de Paris-Sorbonne, France.
    Centre culturel Arabe-Syrien de Paris, France.
    Entreprise des tissus et soieries Walder, Lyon, France.
    Fundacion MAPFRE Guanarteme, Gran Canaria, Spain.
    CICCA (Centro insular de cultura de la caja de ahorros de Canarias),Las Palmas, Spain.
    Fundacion Premio Coexistencia, Museo de Ceuta, Spain.
    Collection d’art moderne et contemporain de la Ville d’Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
    Institut Cervantes de Paris, France.
    Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain.

  • Fotofever Paris 2014

    Fotofever Paris 2014

    Chris Boïcos Fine Arts was part of the first edition of Fotofever, the new Paris photo fair, at the Espace Cardin in 2011 and also at the Brussels edition in 2012.
    For the 2014 edition of Fotofever the theme of our stand will be « Collage ».
    We will be exhibiting photographic collages by three gallery artists:
    Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera – Douglas Stapleton – Vivian van Blerk


    Place: Carrousel du Louvre – 99 rue de Rivoli – 75001 Paris
    Métro: Palais-Royal/Musée du Louvre

    Fair Hours:
    Private view by invitation only on Thursday 13 November 2014, from 5 to 10 pm
    For free invitations for Thursday and Friday, please contact Chris Boïcos at contact@boicosfinearts.com

    Friday 14 November: 10am – 8pm
    Saturday 15 November: 10am – 8pm
    Sunday 16 November: 10am – 7pm



    Collage
    was first used in the art world in the early 20th century in the work of the Dada artists and the Surrealists (Ernst, Haussmann, Höch, Bayer…). Classic collage is still important in the contemporary art scene despite the advent of new digital techniques for the compilation and transformation of photographic images like Photoshop.
    One of our objectives in this exhibition is to demonstrate the ongoing importance, indeed renaissance, of mechanical and manual techniques in contemporary photography despite the advent of the digital age.


    Our artists will be presenting photographic collages in three distinctive techniques:

    Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera:
    Collage of figures, plants, animals or still lives, cut out from illustrations of art magazines and the French auction house magazine, the Gazette de Drouot, pasted on to photographs of urban landscapes taken by the artist.





    Douglas Stapleton:
    Collages of images of works of art – sculptures and paintings – cut out from old art history books and magazines, assembled and juxtaposed in strange or witty configurations against a neutral background.

    Vivian van Blerk:
    Black and white photographic prints by the artist are re-photographed in combination with found objects, sculptures and architectural models, also made by the artist, in his studio. The resulting single photographic negative of assembled and juxtaposed elements is then hand tinted in brilliant and artificial colors and printed.



  • Fotofever Paris 2014

    Fotofever Paris 2014

    13 – 16 November 2014

    Chris Boïcos Fine Arts was part of the first edition of Fotofever, the new Paris photo fair, at the Espace Cardin in 2011 and also at the Brussels edition in 2012.

    For the 2014 edition of Fotofever the theme of our stand will be « Collage ».
    We will be exhibiting photographic collages by three gallery artists:

    Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera
    Douglas Stapleton
    Vivian van Blerk

    Place: CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE – 99 rue de Rivoli – 75001 Paris
    Métro: Palais-Royal/Musée du Louvre

    FAIR HOURS:
    Private view by invitation only on Thursday 13 November 2014, from 5 to 10 pm
    For free invitations for Thursday and Friday, please contact Chris Boïcos at contact@boicosfinearts.com

    Friday 14 November: 10am – 8pm
    Saturday 15 November: 10am – 8pm
    Sunday 16 November: 10am – 7pm

    Collage was first used in the art world in the early 20th century in the work of the Dada artists and the Surrealists (Ernst, Haussmann, Höch, Bayer…). Classic collage is still important in the contemporary art scene despite the advent of new digital techniques for the compilation and transformation of photographic images like Photoshop.

    Our artists will be presenting photographic collages in three distinctive techniques:

    Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera: Collage of figures, plants, animals or still lives, cut out from illustrations of art magazines and the French auction house magazine, the Gazette de Drouot, pasted on to photographs of urban landscapes taken by the artist.

    Douglas Stapleton: Collages of images of works of art – sculptures and paintings – cut out from old art history books and magazines, assembled and juxtaposed in strange or witty configurations against a neutral background.

    Vivian van Blerk: Black and white photographic prints by the artist are re-photographed in combination with found objects, sculptures and architectural models, also made by the artist, in his studio. The resulting single photographic negative of assembled and juxtaposed elements is then hand tinted in brilliant and artificial colors and printed.

    One of our objectives in this exhibition is to demonstrate the ongoing importance, indeed renaissance, of mechanical and manual techniques in contemporary photography despite the advent of the digital age.

    Stapleton - Salacia 2014
    Stapleton – Salacia 2014
    Collage on paper 32.4 x 20 cm
    Rodriguez de Rivera - La galerie des cactus antiques 2013
    Rodriguez de Rivera – La galerie des cactus antiques 2013
    Collage on photography 30 x 40 cm
    van Blerk - Into the World: La Course 2009
    van Blerk – Into the World: La Course 2009
    c-print edition of 9

  • Artwork

    Artwork

    Clichy-sous-Bois (93), 2016

  • Personal Exhibitions

    2017
    Rapsodia en cactus menor. Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón, Gáldar, Grande Canaria, Spain.

    2016
    Royal cactus story. Espace Viollet-le-Duc. Eu (Seine-Maritime), France

    2015
    « A propósito de Oscar ». TEA – Tenerife art space, Tenerife, Spain.
    « La adaptacion del cactus ». Museo Ulpiano Checa, Madrid, Spain.

    2013
    « Le surréalisme magique d’un cactus aux enchères ». Galerie Alexis Bordes, Paris, France.
    « Paris en collages ». Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2012
    « Pied de cactus ». Musée international de la chaussure. Romans, France.

    2011
    « Un cactus peut en cacher un autre ». Espace Gainville, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.

    2009
    « Le cactus paranoïco-critique ». Centre d’Études Catalanes de Paris, France.
    « Los cactus también vienen de París », Fondation Mapfre Guanarteme. Siège de Arucas. Gran Canaria, Spain.

    2008
    « La graine et le cactus ». Centre Culturel Arabe Syrien de Paris, France.

    2007
    « Canaryctus ». Galerie Luroa. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
    « La collection exotique de Monsieur C ». Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, France.

    2006
    « Crónicas del cactus ». Galerie Montsequi. Madrid, Spain
    « Cactus-Band ». Tissus et soieries Walder. Lyon, France.

    2005
    « Los ojos del cactus ». Galerie Ruíz Linares. Granada, Spain.

    2004
    « Cactus terapia ». Centro Cultural de la Casa de Canarias (CICCA) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

    2003
    « Serial collage ». Galerie Christian Siret. Paris, France.

    2002
    « Nuevos inquilinos ». Galerie consell d’art. Barcelona, Spain.

    2001
    « Equus et cactus ». Galerie Christian Siret. Paris, France.

    2000
    « Cactusland ». Galerie Christian Siret. Paris, France.

    1999
    « L’éternel retour ». Galerie Christian Siret. Paris, France.

  • About

    Spanish, born 1970 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
    Lives and works in Paris, France.

    After receiving his BA in economics, marketing and advertising Jorge moved to Paris where he now also works as an art dealer specializing in Spanish and Latin American modern art.
    He has been creating collages since 1998 and has been exhibiting regularly ever since.

    He has won a number of prizes for his work, which is to be found in many public collections (Musée Carnavalet, Paris/ Musée Artcolle, Brittany / CICCA, Las Palmas / Fondation Mapfre, Madrid). In April 2014 he received the first prize at the International Collage Salon held in Paris.

    His collages are made with a great variety of pictures of figures, animals, plants (notably cactuses, his personal symbol) and objects cut out mostly from illustrations in auction house catalogs, Sotheby’s, Christie’s and the Gazette de Drouot. These are carefully glued onto his own photographs of city views and landscapes. The cut-outs are frequently small and rather delicate. They are incorporated into the space of the photographs in a very subtle manner creating a truly illusionist effect. The incorporated figures seem like friendly invaders – whimsical ghosts from the historical past strolling nonchalantly through the modern streets and parks of the photos.

    For the « Landscapes and Myths » and « Poseidon » exhibitions of summer 2014 in Paxos, Greece, Jorge created four collages of the underwater world peopled by mythical figures, sea creatures and plants evoking the realm of Poseidon and his companions – visionary images mixing poetry, humour and magic.

    website: http://loscollagesderodriguezderivera.blogspot.fr


    Dans l’univers du collage artistique, l’œuvre de Jorge Rodríguez de Rivera tient une place toute particulière. Dans sa technique il est distingué par l’attention que porte l’artiste aux minuties et aux détails. Ses personnages, plantes, animaux et objets découpés dans des livres et des catalogues de ventes aux enchères sont attentivement collés sur des photos de paysages urbains en respectant les perspectives et la profondeur du champ de la photo. La taille des personnages diminue au fur et à mesure qu’on s’approche de l’arrière-plan, créant ainsi une véritable impression de trompe-l’œil. En regardant les collages de plus près, on découvre petit à petit un nombre insoupçonné de créatures, de plantes, d’oiseaux et animaux de toutes sortes. Les personnages empruntés à la peinture victorienne ou rococo peuplent les scènes de rue modernes transformant la banalité quotidienne en une féérie magique. Les collages sont empreints de légèreté, d’humour et d’une touche de surréalisme renforcée par des titres toujours spirituels. Les titres des collages, ainsi que la signature de l’artiste et la date de l’œuvre sont discrètement inscrits en caractères minuscules sur des corniches ou des coins de mur où on les découvre avec amusement. Le cactus, omniprésent dans les collages, est le symbole personnel de l’artiste et rappelle ses origines des îles Canaries.
    Chaque collage raconte une histoire nouvelle. La narration est une autre liaison avec la tradition surréaliste. Des amants de la Belle Epoque, des personnages mythologiques, des odalisques, des Pierrots, des mendiants dickensiens et des chevaux de trait s’introduisent dans ses mises en scènes tels des comédiens égarés et sans lien apparent avec la pièce qui s’y déroule. L’histoire du collage nait de ces juxtapositions amusantes et hasardeuses et de la poésie toute surréaliste des rencontres et associations fortuites. Un des grands plaisirs dans la contemplation des œuvres de Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera est de suivre justement les mouvements, les regards et les actions des ses personnages dans leur labyrinthe féerique savamment construit, découvrant à chaque fois de nouvelles configurations et liaisons possibles.
    Synthèse de poésie, de magie et de rêveries avec un esprit enfantin qui aime créer des mondes imaginaires, l’art de Jorge a des qualités de fraicheur, de charme et de franchise devenus très rares dans le monde de l’art contemporain.

    site: http://loscollagesderodriguezderivera.blogspot.fr