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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 »

Photo by Matt Emonson

Galerie Lelong

Alison Saar 1956, United States

"Sweet Life"

Martin Boyce Spook School, 2016 Giclee Photographic Prints 19 x 12,5 cm each (unframed), 21 parts 52 x 42 x 2 cm each (framed), 21 parts Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul Photo © Martin Boyce Studio

Galerie Natalie Seroussi

Martin Boyce 1967, Scotland

"Walk With Me"

Anne Manoli, Sauvage est le vent, 2017, Peinture à l’huile, cire et emulsion sur toile, 158 x 198 cm

Berthet-Aittouarès

Anne Manoli, Yann Bagot, Paul Iratzoquy

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"La nature en question"

In the thematic « Contemporary Art »

Evelyn Pultara, Atnwelarr and Kame, Acrylique sur toile, 210 x 120 cm, 2007 ©Evelyn Pultara ©Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob

©Evelyn Pultara ©Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob

GALERIE ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB

Abie Loy Kemarre, Ada Pula Beasley, Anna Pitjara, Belinda Golder Kngwarreye, Clara Wubuqwubuk, Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarreye, Evelyn Omeenyo, Evelyn Pultara, G. W. Bot, Konstantina, Lilly Sandover Kngwarreye, Marilyn Golder Kngwarreye, Naomi Price, Niah Juella Mcleod, Ollie Kemmare, Philip Gudthaykudthay et Tjimpuna Williams

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"Yallaroo"

Photo credit: Gaïa Lamarre.

Air de Paris

Mona Filleul 1993, France/Switzerland

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"Air de Tranny"

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"

In the thematic « Sculpture »

Yves Klein, L’Esclave mourant d’après Michel-Ange, 1962

Galerie Jean-François Cazeau

Eduardo Arroyo, César, Gaston Chaissac, Paul Delvaux, Leonor Fini, Gen Paul, Henri Hayden, Auguste Herbin, Marcel Janco, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Jean Lacombe, Fernand Léger, Eugène Leroy, Aristide Maillol, André Masson, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Paul Elie Ranson, Auguste Renoir, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Kees Van Dongen

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"La Figuration dans tous ses états"

Sophie Whettnall, Invisible landscape, 2025, soie perforée, cadre cuivre, 51,5 x 40 x 3,5 cm, Photo © Isabelle Arthuis, Courtesy of the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels

Michel Rein

Sophie Whettnall 1973, Belgium

"Invisible"

Miguel CHEVALIER, Pixels Infini (jaune - orange), 2011, Sérigraphie sur miroir sans tain, néons, 80 x 80 x 15 cm, Oeuvre unique

Galerie Lélia Mordoch

Miguel Chevalier, Keren, Julio Le Parc, Jean-Claude Meynard

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"Fractales Toujours"

In the tour « Marais »

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

Galerie Maubert

Joachim Bandau 1936, Germany

"Solo Show''

Charles Le Hyaric, Les jours bleus, 2024, Peinture à l’huile, peinture en spray sur papier, 75 x 110 cm

Galerie Papillon

Cathryn Boch, Erik Dietman, Joël Kermarrec, Jürgen Klauke, Charles Le Hyaric, Frédérique Loutz, Javier Pérez, Raphaëlle Peria, JC Ruggirello,Didier Trenet

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"Des dessins"

Lalitha Lajmi. Performer and Child, 2015. Watercolor on paper, 21 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the Estate of Lalitha Lajmi and Gallery Art & Soul, Mumbai.

Galerie Anne Barrault

Lalitha Lajmi 1932 — 2023, India

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