Air de Paris

Lord of The Fucking Wasteland - Eliza Douglas ^{1984, United-States}

Solitaires - Brice Dellsperger ^{1972, France}

Eliza Douglas :
« Back in the old days the painting repertoire was all but immutable, but since the advent of modernism artists have broadened their horizons with new subjects. Paradoxically, what is expected of art now is the unexpected. And what we’re getting here is fucking unexpected. That a Death Metal group’s T-shirt should find its way into a painting is as improbable now as the Impressionist apparition in the traditional art world of a concert in the Tuileries or a train pulling into a station.»
- Vincent Pécoil

Brice Dellsperger :
The only character in Dellsperger’s films is multiplied, diffracted like light by the facets of a diamond.
During confinement, who of us did not have a lonely neighbor who took online sports lessons with a high volume?

Body Double 36 (2019) : Body Double 36 is a kaleidoscopic and mind-blowing remake of Perfect by James Bridge (1985), with Jean Biche in all the roles. The scene taken up is that of an aerobics class which sees the bodies of the journalist (John Travolta in the original film) and of the coach (camped by Jamie Lee Curtis) synchronize during a group class which is similar to an orgasm. (Production Villa Arson)

Body Double 37 (2020) : Already for Body Double 15 then 30, Dellsperger was redoing scenes from Brian de Palma’s Pulsions (1980). During the eight weeks of our recent confinement he shot a new scene, a scene of troubled seduction in which he plays both male (the psychiatrist) and female (the prostitute who pushes him to unmask) roles. One must then imagine the prowess of the director-actor-decorator-lighting designer, then editor-keyboarder, alone in his apartment, juggling with the frames and the remote controls. (Production Brice Dellsperger)

Rendez-Vous

Sunday 5 July 2020 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm

Garden party

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43 Rue de la Commune de Paris
93230 Romainville, France +33 (0) 6 52 07 78 74 airdeparis.com

The gallery

Air de Paris will turn thirty in 2020. To duly celebrate its non-birthday, the gallery moved out to Romainville, in a beautiful light-flooded space where we will keep on scheduling two exhibitions at once, for the pleasure of generating hyperimages links.

Gallery artists

Leonor Antunes • Sadie Benning • François Curlet • Stéphane Dafflon • Brice Dellsperger • Guy de Cointet • Trisha Donnelly • Eliza Douglas • Claire Fontaine • Jef Geys • Liam Gillick • Joseph Grigely • Guyton\Walker • Carsten Höller • Michel Houellebecq • Dorothy Iannone • Aaron Flint Jamison • Pierre Joseph • Ben Kinmont • Adriana Lara • Ingrid Luche • Mïrka Lugosi • Monica Majoli M/M (Paris) • Sarah Morris • Mrzyk & Moriceau • Jean Painlevé • Philippe Parreno • Bruno Pelassy • Rob Pruitt • Sarah Pucci • Torbjørn Rødland • Allen Ruppersberg • Bruno Serralongue • Shimabuku • Lily van der Stokker • Sturtevant • Jean-Luc Verna