For the first time in Singapore, the traveling art gallery artAttack (founded in 2003 in Tokyo) presents his concept of ephemeral exhibition by investing the lobby of the luxurious
"50 Scotts Road" building from 21 to 25 February 2011.
On this occasion, artAttack invites 2 french artists for the "Vanished" exhibition :
Emmanuel Monzon, who explores the field of image and its reproduction through the ownership of an emblematic object -the iPod- that he declines in series. His work has been shown since 1992 mainly in France. "Vanished" will be his 3rd exhibition in Singapore (after Forth Gallery and Opera Gallery).
Lalie Choffel, photographer, who has worked for years on the many fields that photography can approach: advertising, reportage, architecture, portrait, photo science… Since 1999 her interest and practice focuses on art photography.
In « Vanished » Choffel tries a representation of absence. What is left to us when someone -or something- is missing ? What stays in our mind ? What remains to our senses ? Signs, shadows, blow, echoes, reflections… she has tracked it with a camera.
For this event, artAttack has chosen to bring contemporary art into the world of business by investing the main hall of a building occupied by an international media company. The challenge is to provoke a dialogue between artists and the world of work.
artAttack wants to thank WPP and Ms Patricia Ong to be the very first one in Singapore to understand its concept of travelling gallery and to trust its know-how.
About the Artists and the Exhibition
EMMANUEL MONZON French-born artist (Paris 1966) who lives in Singapore. Exhibiting since 1992 mainly in France, he has participated in many shows and private exhibitions. MONZON is part of a stream of artists who, from the early 90's onwards, worked on the topic of "Daily Life" with deliberately modest means (as opposed to current high-tech artists). He has worked alongside artists such as Thomas Schulte, known for his paintings of canned food, Antoinette Ohannessian who applies trivial sentences heard on the radio or TV onto artistic canvases, and Jean-Christophe Robert who reconstruct everyday objects into sculptural works of art.
EMMANUEL MONZON has chosen his line of work by the choice, attracted by the medium fast speed of execution and the possibility to ,provide an un-edited rendition of global reality.
Two major themes that are dear to him are explored : the everyday environment (urban landscapes) and personal mytology (family, friends, holiday scenes).
Since 2006, MONZON has focused on the famous iconic object developed by Apple : the iPod. He uses it as a transmitter of and support for his own pictures, remixing his early works by scanning and integrating old and new objects : body, car carcasses, targets, video surveillance cameras, self-portrait, artwork, logos, branding, weapons... all done in thematic series.
True to his minimalism approach, MONZON has worked mainly on small formats, focusing his artistic quest on the representation and reproduction of an image which has been his field of study since his early days.
LALIE CHOFFEL french photographer born in marseilles in 1963, she studied photography and video at the aix-marseilles university I. since then she never stopped working photo-p-aphy in all the fields it approach : advertising, reportage, architecture, portrait, photo science ... since 1999 the interest and practice of Choffel focuses on art photography.
"VANISHED" in this work Choffel is trying a representation of absence. what remains, what is left to us when someone -or something- is missing? what stays in our mind? what remains to our senses? signs, shadows, impressions, blow, echoes, reflections... CHOFFEL has tracked them with a camera.
