MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS

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Marc Desgrandchamps

"With scraps of memory and chance happenings, I create unclear situations, a no-man’s-land. It’s a bit like a game, with very precise rules, but where one can never predict what the outcome might be: the pieces in my possession have no identity (figures, objects, landscapes). I set them in a certain light and they become "exhibits". Things disappear -bodies, more or less truncated, or cut through by the landscape -but this is quite reversible: things "appear" also. I call these "abandonments" in an attempt at naming what sometimes looms in the pictures -a sort of state between life and death that can be portrayed in painting, so long as it constitutes a trace. My work today is evolving in this direction." Marc Desgrandchamps, "Interview avec Bernard Zürcher", Sensart, n° 2, Nov. 2002

PRESS RELEASE - Zürcher Studio Mai 9 - June 18, 2009



"Je crée avec des bribes de mémoire, à partir d’évènements fortuits, des situations indéterminées que je considère comme des non-lieux. Cela se passe un peu comme dans un jeu, avec des règles très précises, mais dont l’issue reste toujours imprévisible : Je dispose des pièces sans identité (figures, objets et paysages) que je mets dans une certaine lumière pour en faire des "pièces à conviction". Il y a des disparitions - ces corps plus ou moins tronqués ou traversés par l’horizon du paysage - mais qui sont parfaitement réversibles : ce sont aussi bien des "apparitions". Je les nomme "les délaissements", un mot qui tente de désigner ce qui parfois surgit dans ces tableaux - une sorte d’état entre la vie et la mort que la peinture peut représenter, à condition de se constituer comme trace. Mon travail se développe aujourd’hui dans cette direction." Marc Desgrandchamps, "Interview avec Bernard Zürcher", Sensart n°2, nov.2002

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - Zürcher Studio, 9 mai - 18 juin 2009

MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS

Born in 1956, in Bangalore, India. Lives and works in Bangalore.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
The Passion - Nature Morte - New Delhi, New Delhi

2011
Pushpamala N Bose Pacia Gallery, New York City, NY

2009
Pushpamala N. Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

2008

Paris Autumn – video and photo installation, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, USA

Paris Autumn - video and photo installation, Nature Morte, New Delhi

Streetside Theatre – outdoor photo installation on bridge, Media Wave Festival, Gyor, Hungary

2007

Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer, Film Screening, Mohile Parikh Centre, Mumbai

Streetside Theatre, Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2007, National School of Drama, New Delhi

Streetside Theatre, outdoor photo installation on bridge, szene- Salzburg Festival, Austria

Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer, Film Screening, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore

Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer, Film Screening, Gallery Chemould, Bangalore

Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer – Film screening, Vidyashankar Art Centre, Hyderabad

Paris Autumn and Rashtriy Kheer – Film screening, Design Friday, Bangalore

2006

Pushpamala N, photo- performance work, Nature Morte and Bose Pacia, Milan, Italy

Pushpamala N, photo- and video- performance work, Espace Croise, Roubaix, France

Paris Autumn, video and photo installation, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France

Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, collaborative photo- performance project with Clare Arni at Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, USA *book

2005

Native Women of South India, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2004

Native Women of South India – Manners and Customs, collaborative photo performance project with Clare Arni at Sumukha Gallery, Bangalore, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai & Seagull Arts and Media Centre, Kolkata

2003

Phantom Lady and Sunhere Sapne, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA

The Anguished Heart, photo performance work, Queens Gallery, British Council, New Delhi

2002

Golden Dreams, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore.

2001

Golden Dreams, photo performance work, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

1998

Phantom Lady or Kismet, a photo romance, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

1994

Excavations, sculpture/ installation, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai

1993

Pushpamala N, sculptures, Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013

Mythopoetic, Women artists from Australia and India, Griffith University Art Gallery (Curator : Marie Dean)

The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago

2012

Return of The Phantom Lady aka Sinful City in Cinema City @ NGMA,Mumbai

2011

Paris-Delhi-Bombay, musée national d’Art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Concurrent India, Helsingin Kaupungin Taidemuseo, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki

Biennale Jogja XI 2011 Edition #1: Indonesia and India Meeting - Yayasan Biennale Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta

The Second Sex: New Feminist Photography on the Cusp - Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai

’Back to School : 1’ Baroda - 1979 - ’89 - Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

Dolls - Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore

2010

Trickster, curated by Victoria Lynn at Gyeonggi Museum, Seoul

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Gallery, London

The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today - The Saatchi Gallery, London

The New Order Beauty - Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi

Reframing Reality: Glimpses into the Lowave video archive - Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde

2009

Marvelous Reality - Gallery Espace, New Delhi

Yo y el otro. Retratos en la fotografía india contemporánea / Sala Norte - ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz

After Color - Bose Pacia - Kolkata, Calcutta

After Color - Bose Pacia Gallery, New York City, NY

Group show - Galerie Zürcher - New York, New York City, NY

2008

Theatre of Life, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Destination Asia: Conversation Part I, Elementa Gallery, Dubai

My India, Video et Après, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Performing Identities: Pushpamala N, Coco Fusco and Albert Chong, IDEA, Colorado College, USA

Asian Hotshots Film Festival- Berlin, Germany

Expanding Horizons, Bodhi Art travelling show, Maharashtra

Modern India: Art and Culture in the Indian Sub-Continent 1857-2007, Institut Valencia d’Modern, Spain

New Narratives - Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA

My Life is my Message – La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Shifting Terrains, Altered Realities- Empire Art and The Shrine Gallery at New Delhi/ Singapore

The Ramayana and its Internal Mirrors- Gallery Threshold, New Delhi

The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today – Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Still Moving Image, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi

2007

Face East, Contemporary Asian Portraiture, Wedel Fine Art, London UK*cat Move on Asia, Gallery Loop, Seoul, South Korea *cat

Indian Photo and Media Art, A Journey of Discovery, Fluss, Vienna, Austria

Post Object – with Kim Sooja, Michael Joo, Samina Mansuri and Ravinder Reddy, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada * cat.

4th Sguardi Altrove Women’s Film Festival, Milan, Italy

Reflections: Women Imaging Realities, IAWRT Third Asian Film Festival, Delhi

Private/ Corporate IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Destination Asia, Almaty, Kazhakstan

Indian Photography: Four Voices, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy

Public Places/ Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, The Newark Museum, USA *cat

New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India, Chicago Cultural Centre, USA *cat

Tiger by the Tail- Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Brandeis University, USA *cat

House Of Mirrors, Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London, UK *cat

Here, There and Now, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, Thailand *cat

New India/ New Wave Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy *cat

Prospects – Contemporary Art from India, Rome Film Festival, Italy

Bangalore International Film Festival

Edge of Desire, Asia Society, NGMA New Delhi and Mumbai *cat

Making History Our Own, SAHMAT, New Delhi

After Images, Baroda

Fotofluss, Vienna, Austria

2006

India Express, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland

India in all its Senses, Louis Vuitton Galleries, Paris, France

Lille 3000, France

Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2006, Netherlands

Indian Video Art: Between Myth and History, part of Cinema Prayoga: Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006, Tate Modern, London, UK

2005

Indian Summer, ENSBA, Paris, France

Edge of Desire, Asia Society, New York, USA & Museo Tamayo, Mexico

Yokohama Triennale, Open Circle, Japan

2004

Edge of Desire, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

2003

Heat - a Picture Show, Bose Pacia, New York, USA

City Park, Dublin, Ireland

2002

New Indian Art: Home, Street, Shrine, Bazaar, Museum; Manchester City Galleries, UK

2001

Century City: Bombay/Mumbai, Tate Modern, London, UK

Moving Ideas, Montreal and Vancouver, Canada

1999

Art from India, Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles Biennale, USA

1997

Telling Tales, Bath Festival Trust, UK

1996

The New South, London, UK

Fire and Life, Asia Link Art Project, Mumbai and Perth, Australia

1995

Africus, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa

1992

2nd International Women’s Festival, Bangkok, Thailand