Jiali Gallery in collaboration with China Art Management will present Smog by Night: David Ancelin Solo exhibition.
His project Deep Blue, a protean and multiple part installation, will be presented at Palais de Tokyo in November 2013 at the occasion of the exhibition of Push Your Art contest organized by Palais de Tokyo and Orange. His work is part of the Mamco collection in Geneva as well as several private collections.
After an initial stay in Beijing in 2009, David is returning to China to continue his work producing images during a month and a half residency at Jiali Gallery. He will present two series that form the backbone of the exhibition: Smog and By night, consisting of large screen prints on stainless steel plates and small paintings on paper. Other works produced on site will be presented to complete a multi-faceted exhibition set up. The entire exhibition is built around the relationship between original images and their changes through usurpation, manipulation, blur, fabrication, and remodeling the reproduced image...
With “Smog By Night”, Jiali Gallery presents the work of the young French artist David Ancelin for the first time in China. From one Bay of Angels to another, the graduate artist from Villa Arson (Nice, 2005) continues his work on the fabrication of image through two complementary series: Smog and By Night.
In his large screen prints on stainless steel plates, David Ancelin manually polishes the surface to give an effect of smog to the coarse, industrial designs. Thus composing the background, he incorporates a motif chosen from one of his many photographs, which reanimates and redefines the entire space of the ‘painting’. As the sole object in the representation, this motif resists the blurring of the image.
David Ancelin’s second series, By Night, reflects on the work of remembrance and the reconstruction of the image. Between festivities, nights of intoxication and intoxications of the night, the artist composes his repertoire. A neon light flickers, a lamp illuminates the platform of an austere station or hangar, and the wandering thoughts of the solitary walker engulf the scene.
Small paintings on paper are transformed from night-time photographs, which are often poorly framed and frequently blurred. Through drawing and painting, David Ancelin dilutes the pixels in the pigment and so imitates photography. The hyperrealist paintings rework the composition and lighting effects taken from the cinema. The scenes depicted comprise dimly lit landscapes or a gleam of light, leaving one to imagine the barely perceptible contours of the surrounding architecture. The formats resemble what could be called amateur photography (10/15). They are the visual memories captured by a machine and retouched by man, falsified to some extent. David Ancelin attempts a rescue. A last desolate street corner, where the man always shines, but only in his absence.
- Julien Blanpied
Courtesy of Jiali Gallery
