Exhibition
Laurent Grasso
1 May - 10 Oct 2021
1 May - 10 Oct 2021
The event is over
The Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project is delighted to present the work of French artist Laurent Grasso in Shanghai. Through his sculptures, paintings, films and audiovisual installations incorporating multiple historical, mythological and scientific references, Laurent Grasso questions the porous boundaries between reality and simulacra.
From his earliest beginnings, the artist has plumbed the depths of the concepts of projection and vision that lie at the heart of most of his works. Inspired by paranormal and electromagnetic phenomena, the artist attempts to reveal the invisible behind modes of perception based on beliefs he seeks to deconstruct. More recently, his research has explored the power of images in the “post-Anthropocene” era in order to come to grips with the imminent character of the consequences of the climate crisis.
Interrogating science, technology, religion and occultism, Laurent Grasso’s work undermines our certainties and our most deeply-held beliefs. Between past and future, visible and invisible, the artist invents a science fiction world that is not devoid of profound insights concerning the future of our humanity.
The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project presents a dialogue between three of his works made between 2007 and 2020, a large luminous sphere entitled 320, a painting from his Studies into the Past series, and ARTIFICIALIS, his recent film.
Laurent Grasso
Born in Mulhouse (France) in 1972, Laurent Grasso is one of the most important French artists of his generation. After graduating from Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts) in Paris and Fresnoy in Tourcoing (France), as well as Central Saint Martins School of Art in London (England), he was artist in residence at the Académie de France – Villa Medici (Italy) in 2004 and was awarded the Prix Altadis in 2005 and the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2008. Since then he has had solo exhibitions in many institutions (Jeonnam Museum of Art, South Korea, 2021; Musée d’Orsay, 2020; Musée Zadkine, Paris, 2020; Palais Fesch – Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, 2016; Fondation Hermès, Tokyo, 2015; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, 2013; Jeu de Paume, 2012; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, 2011; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2011; Palais de Tokyo, 2009; Centre Pompidou, 2009) as well as group exhibitions, and has participated in a large number of international art events.
Where
West Bund Museum, Shanghai
No.2600 Longteng Avenue
Xuihui District
Shanghai
When
1 May - 10 Oct 2021
Laurent Grasso, Studies into the past, Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris
© Centre Pompidou, Paris / Mnam-Cci