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Alighiero Boetti, Entre chien et loup, 1988, Tapestry, Embroidery/fabric, 18 x 18 cm, Courtesy : Pron

Pron

Femme Jibóia, Kássia Borges Mytara, photo Sami Korhonen @ricardofernandesgallery

Ricardo Fernandes

RABOUAN MOUSSION

Dimitri Tsykalov 1963, Rusia

"ELEMENTS"

  • Adam et Eve, 2020-2021, bois, caisses de munitions, diptyque : 242 x 99 x 12 cm / 244 x 100 x 10,5 cm.

Adam et Eve, 2020-2021, bois, caisses de munitions, diptyque : 242 x 99 x 12 cm / 244 x 100 x 10,5 cm.

Dimitri Tsykalov has long affectionately referred to his studio as “the bunker”. So it’s hardly surprising that this casemate – both shelter and outpost – should be the setting for this exhibition, with pieces that all have something to do with violence and war. Not that their subject is warmongering or military strategy. More subtly, with his sculptures and drawings, Tsykalov expresses art through the means of what materially makes war possible, at the most basic level: ammunition containers.

This is not in the least an “art of war”, but a stunning way of making art triumph through the means and tools of what a priori seems furthest from it: war. To the shadow cast by war over culture, the artist opposes the shadow cast by culture over war. In a striking paradox, Tsykalov creates with what destroys. All the pieces in ELEMENTS are built from the dismemberment, cutting up and rearrangement of those boxes without which war simply could not take place.

With ELEMENTS, art has taken up arms. And we’re now forced to realize that the words “art” and “artillery” have something in common.

A monumental work of art dominates the exhibition: “Temple”. The piece may suggest the shape of the Empire State Building. Here, it’s the signifier “empire” that’s important to remember. “Empire State Building” can be translated as “Empire State Construction”. How does an empire build itself up, if not through weapons and the violence it inflicts on those it subjugates? With its two legs resting on the ground in front of it, “Temple” also evokes the Sphynx of Giza. The piece seems to carry an enigma that would ask every visitor to the exhibition the question of the origin of hatred and violence – a question destined to remain eternally unanswered. As they might be in an arsenal, the empty ammunition boxes that make up “Temple” are stacked whole, while the other pieces are made of cut-up pieces. Thus, even more obviously composed than the other works, “Temple” provides the key to reading the exhibition as a whole, in the sense that it brutally designates its main subject.

Matter is Dimitri Tsykalov’s primary object, his obsession. His sculptural work to date has been divided into four phases, each organized around a different material: wood (with WOODLAND, a ramshackle, second-degree evocation of the high-tech world, with a material evocative of birch wood, a central figure in Russian literary culture), fruit and vegetables (with SKULLS, which explores their capacity to fade, lose their shape and become damaged), meat (with MEAT, weapons are identically reconstituted from meat), to arrive at the current period, centered around the ammunition box, the subject of a series of still lifes.

Solo show of Dimitri Tsykalov

From March 15th to May 31st, 2025

11 Rue Pastourelle
75003 Paris, France
01 48 87 75 91 www.rabouanmoussion.com/fr

The gallery

In 1989, Jacqueline Rabouan Moussion opened a gallery rue Vieille du Temple in Paris and showed artists like Hervé Télémaque, Jean Degottex, Valie Export, Otto Muehl, Sandy Skoglund and Oleg Kulik. In 2015, the gallery inaugurates a new space rue Pastourelle with a solo show of Erwin Olaf « Waiting ».

Since its creation, the gallery favors an exploratory approach towards emerging scenes drawing its energy between subculture and political commitment. Thus, artists represented from their beginnings and today recognized by institutions (Hervé Télémaque, Erwin Olaf, Oleg Kulik) meet the creations of young talents and established artists.

Gallery artists

Ghyslain Bertholon, Florence Cantié-Kramer, Kirill Chelushkin, Guillaume Durrieu, Vincent Fournier, Claude Gassian, Louis Jammes, JonOne, Oleg Kulik, Quentin Lefranc, Erwin Olaf, Jonathan Potana, Jay Ramier, Denis Rouvre, Val Smets, Hervé Télémaque, Dimitri Tsykalov, Stephan Vanfleteren, Romain Vayson de Pradenne, Xavier Zimmermann

In the thematic « Art contemporain »

Simon Hantaï, Blancs, 1974, acrylique sur toile 192 x 180 cm

Galerie Larock-Granoff

Pierre Alechinsky, Claude Bellegarde, Gaston Chaissac, Jean Couty, Jean Degottex, René Duvillier, André Fougeron, Françoise Gilot, Simon Hantaï, Daniel Hourdé, Hans Hartung, Philippe Hiquily, Kolos-Vary, Charles Lapicque, Lili Le Gouvello, Jean Messagier, Isabel Michel, Joan Miró, Amédée Ozenfant, Paul Rebeyrolle, Antonio Saura et Pierre Tal Coat

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"Hommage à Pierre Larock, une génération d'artistes"

Osvaldo González - Descendencia, exhibition view - GALLERIA CONTINUA, Paris (C) Hafid Lhachmi - ADAGP Paris, 2025

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Osvaldo González 1982, Cuba

"Descendencia"

Femme Jibóia, Kássia Borges Mytara, photo Sami Korhonen @ricardofernandesgallery

Ricardo Fernandes

Kássia Borges Mytara 1962, Brazil

"'Femme Jibóia"

In the thematic « Contemporary Art »

Vivian Van Blerk, La Clairiere, Sculpture ceramique, 65×65×70 cm.

Galerie Dominique Fiat

Vivian Van Blerk 1971 — 2024, South Africa

"Memento Mori"

MAX ERNST & JOAQUÍN FERRER - Les surprises du hasard exhibition view, Galleria Continua / Paris Matignon. Photo: © Paul Hennebelle. Paris ADAGP 2025

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Max Ernst & Joaquín Ferrer

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"Les surprises du hasard"

Soufia Erfanian,
I Truly Love Both of You, 2024, Acrylique sur toile, 230 x 180 cm.

Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Soufia Erfanian 1990, Iran

"Lies That Bled Blue"

In the thematic « Sculpture »

Elizabeth Lennard, Flower Mold, Red, 2010.

Les Douches la Galerie

August Sander, Daniel Masclet, Anna et Bernhard Blume, Michel Journiac, Valérie Belin, Stéphane Couturier, Elizabeth Lennard, Henri Foucault, Denis Darzacq, Alain Fleischer, Patrick Tosani, Ghislaine Vappereau, François Kollar, Roger Catherineau, Bernard Plossu etc..

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"Dans ma cuisine"

Joachim Bandau, vue de l'exposition personnelle ''La Face cachée'', 2016, Galerie Maubert, Paris

Galerie Maubert

Joachim Bandau 1936, Germany

"Solo Show''

Christian Fogarolli, MauvaisCorps

Galerie Alberta Pane

Christian Fogarolli 1983, France

"Mauvais Corps"

In the tour « Marais »

Zhanna Kadyrova - Strategic locations, exhibition view - GALLERIA CONTINUA, Paris (C) Hafid Lhachmi - ADAGP Paris, 2025

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Zhanna Kadyrova 1981, Ukraine

"Strategic Locations"

Javier Ruiz Pérez, Girasoles, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2025, Unique

Galerie Droste

Javier Ruiz Pérez 1989, Spain

"QUISE SER UN ELEFANTE ASUSTADO"

"I Wanted to Be a Scared Elephant"

Gregory Hodge, Afterlight, 2025. Acrylique sur lin, 130 x 97 cm © Courtesy Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard

Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard

Gregory Hodge 1982, Australia

"Afterlight, Solo Show Gregory Hodge"

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