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Catégorie : van Blerk

  • Artwork

    After Empire, 2016

    I and my Chimney, 2013

    Ephemeron, 2012

    Players, 2010

    Chair publique, 2009

    Capital Vices, 2008

    Four seasons, 2006

    From the New World, 2003

    Hippopotamus, 2000

    Cow Voyages, 1998

  • Group Exhibitions

    2015
    Fotofever 2015, « Mythes et sculptures classiques dans la photo contemporaine », Chris Boïcos Fine Arts, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France.
    93, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Le Huit, Paris, France.
    Ελιά ! , curated by Chris Boicos Fine Arts & Corfu Gallery, Paxos Municipal Gallery, Loggos, Paxos, Greece.

    2014
    ΙΧΘΕΙΣ – Creatures of the Sea, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Gaios, Paxos, Greece.
    Landscapes and Myths II, Municipal Gallery, Loggos, Paxos, Greece.
    Poseidon, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Gaios, Paxos, Greece.
    Art Factum, Beirut, Lebanon.
    Les Artistes de la Source, Fondation Garouste, La Guéroulde, Normandy, France.

    2013
    Landscapes and Myths (Island Lives series) Chris Boïcos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece.
    In Toto gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    2012
    Artifices, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Fotofever Brussels 2012, (Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris), Brussels, Belgium.
    Safari Urbain collectif Daktari, Centre Culturel, Le Bourget, France.

    2010
    Sculptures, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2009
    Baroque! Vices, fleurs et miroirs, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2008
    Urban Landscapes, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Nu au Masculin, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2006
    The Rite of Spring, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Art Chicago 2006 (Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris) Chicago IL, USA.

    2005
    Month of Photography Cape Town, South Africa.

    2004
    Art Chicago 2004 (Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris) Chicago IL, USA.
    Natures Mortes, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2003
    Luxe, Calme et Volupté, Hôtel Scribe, Paris, France.
    La Source de l’art, Fondation Garouste, La Gueroulde, Normandy, France.
    La Source de l’art, Hôtel du Département, Evreux, Normandy, France.

    2002
    Nus, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Après l’Apartheid, Maison des Arts, Grand Quevilly, Normandy, France.
    Fondation Colas, Boulogne (92), France.
    Huit artistes pour la Source, Fondation COFFIM, Paris, France.
    Mois de la Photo, Cité des Arts, Paris, France.

    2001
    Natures Mortes, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Artuel – Beyrouth 2001, Salon international d’art contemporain, Beirut, Lebanon.
    Art Paris 2001 Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2000
    Après l’apartheid, Trois photographes d’Afrique du sud,  Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France. 
    Art Paris 2000 Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France. 
    Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

    1999
    Paysages, Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Mois de la Photo bis, Paris, France.

    1996
    Cape Town Association of Art, Cape Town, South Africa.
    Durban Association of Art, Durban, South Africa.
    Johannesburg Association of Art, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    1995
    People’s Portraits, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

    1994
    Images using traditional and experimental processes (cyanotype, calotype, silver and etching), Clairemont Gallery, Cape Town, South
    South African Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.

    1988
    National Theatre, Durban, South Africa.

  • Press

    • Journal des Arts (Paris) – Exhibition review – March 2011
    • Loyola Phoenix (Chicago) – February 2006.
    • New City Magazine (Chicago) –January 2006.
    • Elle Decoration (South Africa) – September 2005.
    • Cape Times (Cape Town) – Art Review – February 2003.
    • Regards magazine (La Courneuve, France) – Full page article – January 2003.
    • Résidences Décoration (Paris) – Exhibition review – July-August 2002.
    • Art Actuel (Paris) – Exhibition review – May 2002.
    • Connaissance des Arts (Paris) – Exhibition review – May 2002.
    • Photo magazine (Paris) – Exhibition review – April and May 2002.
    • First Class magazine (Paris) – Exhibition review – March 2002.
    • Arts Actualités magazine (Paris) – 3 page article – February 2002.
    • Art Actuel (Paris) – 3 page article – October 2001.
    • New City magazine (Chicago) – Exhibition review – July 2001.
    • Artuel (Beirut) – July 2001.
    • Time Out Paris Edition – Exhibition review (« best show in town ») – November 2000.
    • Beaux-arts Magazine (Paris) Le Tour des Galeries – November 2000.
    • Cape Times (Cape Town) Art Review – 13 May 1999.
    • Cape Times (Cape Town) Art Review – March and October 1995.

  • Public collections

    • Ministry of Education, South Africa.
    • South African National Gallery.
    • Michaelis Foundation, South Africa.
    • Fondation d’entreprise Colas, Boulogne (92), France.
    • University of Chicago, Cultural Policy Center, Chicago IL, USA.

  • Personal exhibitions

    2014
    Deep Surfaces (with Katya Traboulsi) Artspace Gallery, London, England.
    Beirut Art Fair (with Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, Chicago IL, USA) Beirut, Lebanon.

    2013
    In Metamorphosis (with Douglas Stapleton) Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.
    Beirut Art Fair (with Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, Chicago IL, USA) Beirut, Lebanon.

    2012
    Métamorphoses Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2011
    Des héros, des hommes et des bêtes, Maison des MICI, Paris, France.
    Urbi et Orbi Galerie Huit, Arles, France.

    2010
    Heliograms: Deconstructed Gastronomy Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.

    2009
    Vivian van Blerk – Recent Work, Michael Laconte Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.

    2008
    Seven Capital Vices, Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    Et In Arcadia Ego, Cheyne Walk Salon, London, England.

    2007
    Photographies de Vivian van Blerk, Lycée Gilbert Martin, Le Neubourg, France.
    Quatre saisons et d’autres mondes, Château de Trousse-Barrière, Briare, France.

    2006
    Four Seasons, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Four Seasons, Bell Studio, Chicago IL, USA.
    Vivian van Blerk, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France.
    Quatre saisons, Mois de la Photo de Paris, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.

    2005
    From a New World, Lucca’s, Chicago IL, USA.

    2004
    From a New World, Bell Studio, Chicago IL, USA.
    Vivian van Blerk – Photographies 1994-2004, Arphil, Paris, France.

    2003
    Vivian van Blerk – Recent Photographs, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.

    2002
    Attics, Cows, Hippopotami and the New World – Photographies 1994-2002, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Hippopotamus & Destiny, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

    2001
    Vivian van Blerk, Hart Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.

    1999
    Vivian van Blerk Lipschitz Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

    1998
    Vivian van Blerk, Pi Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    Vivian van Blerk, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

    1995
    Vivian van Blerk, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Education

    Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts in Photography and the History of Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town 1995.

  • About

    About

    South African, born 1971 in Cape Town.
    Lives and works in Paris.

    Vivian van Blerk has lived and worked in Paris since 1996. He tends to work in great narrative series, having created more than 18 since 1994. The principal ones are:
    Attics 1 & 2 (1994-95), A Cow Travels through Space and Time and Confronts her Mortality (1998-2000), Hippopotamus and Destiny (2000-01), From A New World (2001-2004), Four Seasons (2005 –06), The Seven Deadly Vices (2007), Ephemeron (2008), Public Flesh (2009), Eden Park (2009), Into the World (2010) Metamorphoses (2011), I and my Chimney (2011-13). Island Lives (2013) was inspired by his stay on Paxos in 2013.
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    Models for « Winter » and « Summer » (from the series Four Seasons) in the artist’s studio.
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    All his photos require more than a month’s work since they are shots of elaborate sets constructed by the artist. The sets vary in size from about three feet high and deep to seven and eight feet for the Four Seasons and are composed of a great variety of sculpted animals and objects placed in painted décors patiently built and carefully illuminated by the artist. Since 2002 the artist has also re-thought the colours of his photographs by tinting the negatives and has introduced the technique of photomontage which further enriches his process.

    The result is a sophisticated photographic synthesis of sculpture, painting, architecture, perspective, and trompe l’oeil which is unique in contemporary photography.

    website : http://www.vivianvanblerk.com