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Léopold Rabus: Ma région, ma passion
Opening:
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 7 pm
Duration of exhibition:
6 February – 11 April 2008
Monday – Friday, 9 am – 8 pm
He plays with clichés, symbols, familiar motifs, altering them slightly or giving them new meanings. The pictorial worlds of the young Swiss artist Léopold Rabus (*1977, Neuenburg / Switzerland) defy any clear interpretation. The viewer wanders through them as though they were worlds of make-believe that might suddenly turn into a nightmare. His works are concerned with the dialectics of good and evil, religion and sexuality, life and death. Rabus's themes undergo a formal disruption through the graphic exaggeration, garish colours, unusual materials and extraordinary luminescence of his paintings.
This young artist's unmistakable style, the way he combines aesthetic appeal with the darkness of an abyss, the way he links the here-and-now with the beyond, the way he captures on canvas twilight worlds of such extreme fantasy and ambiguity lend his works a charisma that the viewer can hardly resist. Léopold Rabus does not re-invent painting but rather draws on its glorious past, at times combining it into installations verging on the extravagant.
The exhibition is being presented in association with Galerie Adler, Frankfurt.
Leopold Rabus
Léopold Rabus
Biography:
Léopold Rabus was born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 1977. He studied at the Académie Maximilien de Meuron, Neuchâtel (1993-94), the École d´Art, La Chaux-de-Fonds (1994) and the Cité des Arts de Paris (2000). He received the 'Premio Lissone' award, Italy, in 2005 and the 'Swiss Art Award', Basle in 2006.
Exhibitions (Selection, since 2000) (E=Solo exhibitions)
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2008 |
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland |
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2007 |
The teardrop explodes, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Austria Mon camerade et mon ami, Basta Espace d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne (S) Ouvrage en cheveux, Artrepco, Z�rich, Switzerland (S) Du pain pour les oiseaux, Galerie Adler, New York (S) CONVERSATIONS: peinture.fr // maalaus.fi, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki The new story � imaginary figurative art of painting, Pulchri Studio, The Hague Strange Brew, Max Lang, New York 100 Days 100 Videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen Peinture(s) / G�n�ration 70, Fondation Salomon, Ch�teau D'Arenthon, Alex, France The new story � imaginary figurative art of painting, Pulchri Studio, The Hague |
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2006 |
Rigueur et fermet�, Collections de Saint-Cyprien (S) 100 Days 100 Videos, Kunstverein Heidelberg Replacing Mashkov - Recent acquisitions, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Happy Believers, 7. Werkleitz Biennale, Halle / Saale, Germany Swiss Art Awards, Basle Birdwatching, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Blessed are the merciful, Feigen Contemporary, New York |
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2005 |
L�opold Rabus & Pat Andrea, Galerie Artdirekt, Berne (S) Premio Lissone 2005, Museo d�Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy Contemporary European Painting Award 2005, Frissiras Museum, Athens Playtime, Aeroplastics, Brussels Mysterium, Galerie Artrepco, Z�rich rewind<<, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany boost in the shell, Bruges Cultural Centre, Bruges, Belgium after nature, Aeroplastics, Brussels |
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2004 |
�l�vation Galerie Artrepco, Z�rich (S) Sc�ne Sainte, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main (S) L�opold Rabus & Virginie Morillo, Galerie Artdirekt, Berne (S) Galerie Une, Neuch�tel |
