朱莉 · 梅雷图个展现场，玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊，2022
朱莉 · 梅雷图个展
及罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯的装置作品
2022.04.02-05.14
巴黎玛丽安 · 古德曼画廊很高兴举办朱莉 · 梅雷图的作品展。从2019年到2022年，美国最大的艺术博物馆中有四所参与巡回展出了梅雷图的大型回顾展。这次全新的个展是梅雷图在画廊巴黎空间的第三次展览，选择了一组新的中等尺幅画作和两幅大型版画。展览也标志着梅雷图与诗人罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯（Robin Coste Lewis）之间的首次合作。在画廊空间里艺术和诗歌产生交集：刘易斯为梅雷图创作的一首新的诗歌在画廊空间中回荡；并且二者之间的微妙对话最终以影像装置的形式来呈现刘易斯的家族摄影档案。
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《多样性之中VI》，2020-2022 / 墨水，丙烯颜料，布面 / 121.9 x 152.4 x 5cm
二十多年来，朱莉 · 梅雷图始终在用一种独特且富有诗意的视觉语言重塑抽象绘画，其画面中蕴含了各种标记、动作和意义。她的绘画、素描以及版画令人过目难忘，灵感来源随着时间的推移也在发生演变：从建筑立面、古代历史到文学和音乐等。近年来她的作品也多受到我们这个时代的一些重大议题的影响，例如移民、革命、社会正义、气候变化以及疫情两年来对所有国家的冲击。
朱莉 · 梅雷图个展现场，玛丽安 · 古德曼巴黎画廊，2022
审视当下众多事件成为梅雷图近期画作的核心：源自国际权威媒体的照片既是作品构图的出发点，也是艺术家在形式上进行自由发挥的基础。她选定的图像首先经过数字化的修改及模糊处理，然后通过喷枪转绘到画布上。经过这一过程，这些图像似乎难以辨认，但它们却传达出一种潜意识的感觉。
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《多样性之中XI》，2020-2022 / 墨水，丙烯颜料，布面 / 121.9 x 152.4 x 5cm
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《多样性之中VII》，2020-2022 / 墨水，丙烯颜料，布面 / 121.9 x 152.4 x 5cm
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《多样性之中XIII》，2020-2022 / 墨水，丙烯颜料，布面 / 121.9 x 152.4 x 5cm
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《多样性之中V》，2020-2022 / 墨水，丙烯颜料，布面 / 121.9 x 152.4 x 5cm然后，梅雷图使用笔刷、喷枪并结合丝网印刷技术，在画布上添加不同层次的墨水和丙烯颜料，创造出错综复杂的多重空间。画廊展出的九幅画作属于新的《多样性之中》系列。艺术家标志性的充满动感的黑色标记及线条，与鲜艳的色块混合交错，形成紧密的构图。这些画面间相互呼应，如同在对话；而每一幅又像各自在讲述一个短篇故事或神话，有一个神秘的主角在画面中出入，难以捕捉却若隐若现。
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《关于被行刑者的论文（来自罗宾的作品〈亲密〉）》，2022 / 10块板，凹版蚀刻版画 / 每块板：118.7 x 87.9cm，装框：120.5 x 89.5 x 4cm，整体：241 x 448.5 x 4cm
朱莉 · 梅雷图 /《历史性无助的这一体现（来自罗宾的作品〈亲密〉)》，2022 / 10块板，凹版蚀刻版画 / 每块板：118.7 x 87.9cm，装框：120.5 x 89.5 x 4cm，整体：241 x 448.5 x 4cm
该展览还包括两张巨幅版画，是艺术家与位于洛杉矶的著名版画工作室Gemini GEL合作创作的。梅雷图对版画技巧的探索在她的艺术实践中占有重要地位：她既能够进行形式上的研究，从而为绘画作品提供新的灵感，同时也以此尝试新的技术工艺。两幅版画都由十张印在纸上的凹版蚀刻版画组成，它们每张都装裱过并呈网格状排列展示。两幅作品使用了同一套蚀刻板，但涂上了不同的颜色。每个单张的纸上有五块不同的蚀刻板前后印制的痕迹，因此完成整幅作品共需要用到50块蚀刻板，仅此便已是一项技术成就。
罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯 / 《亲密》，2022 / 单频影像装置，66幅图像，文字，有声 / 23分52秒，循环播放 / 尺寸可变
这是梅雷图首次邀请罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯参与她的展览，委托诗人完成一首诗歌和一件装置作品。刘易斯创作并亲自录音的诗歌在画廊通往地下一层空间的通道中回响，引导观看者进入最深处的拱形空间。梅雷图和刘易斯的合作是两人之间在政治和审美层面的友谊结晶。这一友谊随着时间的推移而变得愈发深厚，往往表现为两人对时间、痕迹创作（mark-making）、人类迁移以及欲望的历史与抽象的关系的思考交流。她们相识于1990年代末，当时都是研究生，并常常在相同的课程和讲座上遇到。在那个年代，有关后殖民、性别酷儿以及批判性种族理论的研究方兴未艾。从两人相识的第一天起，她们共同的兴趣以及坚持便促使两人展开了一场长久的对话，直到今天以展览的方式呈现出来。
罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯 / 《亲密》，2022 / 单频影像装置，66幅图像，文字，有声 / 23分52秒，循环播放 / 尺寸可变
刘易斯的单频影像装置《亲密》在画廊最里面的拱形空间展示，由属于她家族的一系列老照片组成。刘易斯在祖母去世后从一个旧手提箱中偶然发现了这些照片。这些泛黄的湿版或黑白照片默默回顾着她的家族历史：他们与其他数百万黑人家庭一起，随着西部大迁徙运动逃离了美国南方。这段影像以及空间中萦绕的诗歌也呼应了梅雷图自身的移民经历和她的审美研究。朱莉 · 梅雷图1970年出生于埃塞俄比亚的阿迪斯亚贝巴（Addis Ababa），现在纽约生活和创作。她拥有密歇根州卡拉马祖学院的艺术学士学位，曾在塞内加尔达喀尔的谢赫 · 安达 · 迪奥普大学学习，并于1997年获得罗德岛设计学院硕士学位。此后，她多次获得著名奖项，包括：麦克阿瑟奖学金（2005），美国国务院艺术奖章（2015），纽约艺术领导力自由奖（2018），并于2017年入选美国艺术暨文学学会。
从2019年到2022年，梅雷图的大型回顾展先后在加利福尼亚洛杉矶县立艺术博物馆、纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆、明尼阿波利斯沃克艺术博物馆以及亚特兰大高等艺术博物馆巡回展出。梅雷图的作品曾在众多重要美术馆以及双年展展出，包括卡内基国际艺术展（2004-2005），悉尼双年展（2006），纽约古根海姆美术馆（2010），第13届卡塞尔文献展（2012），沙迦双年展（2015），波尔图塞拉维斯当代美术馆（2017），剑桥大学Kettle’s Yard美术馆（2019）以及第58届威尼斯双年展（2019）。
关于罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯
罗宾 · 科斯特 · 刘易斯1964年生于加利福尼亚州康普顿，现在洛杉矶生活和创作，并且是该市委任的上一任桂冠诗人。2015年，她的审视艺术、性别以及种族苦难史的处女作诗集《暗夜维纳斯之旅》（Voyage of the Sable Venus）获得了代表美国文学界最高荣誉的国家图书奖（诗歌类）。这是美国国家图书基金会历史上首次由非裔美国人以诗歌获奖，也是自1974年以来首次有处女作获奖。刘易斯正在创作新的诗集《实现完美的无助》（Knopf，2022），并于纽约大学在巴黎的美术硕士驻留项目中任教，同时也是南加州大学的常驻作家。此外，她目前也是罗马美国学院的约瑟夫 · 布罗茨基罗马奖学项目研究员。刘易斯在马萨诸塞州罕布什尔学院获得创意写作和比较文学学士学位，在哈佛大学神学院获得梵文神学研究和比较宗教文学的硕士学位，在纽约大学获得诗歌硕士学位，并在南加州大学获得创意写作和文学博士学位。
Marian Goodman Gallery Paris
Julie Mehretu
With an installation by Robin Coste Lewis
2 April - 14 May 2022
Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is delighted to present an exhibition of works by Julie Mehretu. Following her acclaimed retrospective recently presented in four major U.S. museums, the show — the third by Mehretu at the Paris gallery — features a new series of medium-sized paintings and two large-scale prints. This exhibition also marks the debut of an ongoing collaboration between Mehretu and poet Robin Coste Lewis. Here, art and poetry intersect, as an audio recording of a new poem composed by Lewis for Mehretu is transmitted in the gallery space; a subtle conversation ensues, culminating in an installation created by Lewis from her family’s private photographic archive.
For more than two decades, Julie Mehretu has been reinventing abstraction with a poetic and unique visual language layered with a variety of marks, gestures and meanings. Her impressive body of work, including paintings, drawings and prints, is inspired by a multitude of sources that have evolved over time; architectural elevations, ancient history, literary and musical references, and, in the last few years, addressing international subjects of concern such as migration, revolution, social justice, climate change and the impact and repercussions of the global pandemic experienced by all nations over the past two years.Mehretu’s examinations of contemporaneous events are reinforced in her recent paintings, as photographs from accredited news sources of world events serve as both the point of departure on which compositions unfold as well as the foundation for formal experimentation. The selected imagery is first digitally modified and blurred, before being translated via airbrush onto canvas; the result is imperceptible yet conveys a subliminal feeling.Mehretu then combines various layers of ink and acrylic with the use of paint brush, airbrush, and screen print, creating intricate spaces of possibility. The nine paintings on view at the gallery are part of a suite of works entitled Among the Multitude. The iconic volatile black marks and shapes mingle with vibrant colors to constitute tight and dense compositions. Interacting with each other and in conversation,each of the new paintings operates like a short-story or myth with an enigmatic protagonist that comes in and out of focus, ungraspable but visceral.The show also includes two monumental prints created in a collaboration with Gemini GEL, the well-known printmaking workshop based in Los Angeles. Mehretu’s exploration in printmaking takes an essential part in her practice, enabling her to pursue formal research which inform her painted works, as well as experimenting with new technical processes. Each print in the show is composed of ten aquatint etchings printed on paper, individually framed and hung as a grid. Both works used the exact same etching plates but were inked in different colors, each panel received five layers from five separate plates – a technical achievement with a total of fifty etching plates employed to complete the entire project.For the first time, Mehretu invites Robin Coste Lewis to participate in one of her exhibitions, by presenting an original poem and installation commissioned by Mehretu. The text written and recorded by Lewis infiltrates the stairwell going to the lower gallery and leads visitors down into the vaulted space. The collaboration between Mehretu and Lewis in the show is the culmination of a political and aesthetic friendship between the two which grew over time, and which meditates on the relationship between the history of time, mark-making, human migrations, desire and the abstract. Mehretu and Lewis met in the late 1990's when they were both graduate students, and regularly attended the same lectures and conferences that took place during the heady 90s of the study of post-colonial theory, queer studies, and critical race theory. From their first meeting, each recognized that their interests and obsessions engaged a shared conversation which continues until today, in this exhibition.Intimacy, the installation by Lewis on display in the final space of the gallery, is a single-channel video composed of a selection of her family’s photographic archive, which Lewis discovered by chance in an old suitcase after her grandmother’s death. The sepia, tintypes, and black-and-white pictures subtly recount the history of her family who, along with millions of other Black families, fled the South as part of the Great Migration west. The video along with the accompanying poem by Lewis engages Mehretu’s own history of immigrations as well her aesthetic concerns.
Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in New York. She received a Bachelor of Art from Kalamazoo College, Michigan, studied at the University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, and received a Master of Fine Art with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. She has since received many prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2005, the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts Award in 2015, and the Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, New York in 2018. In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters.From 2019 to 2022, Mehretu's mid-career retrospective was presented by the LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, which co-organized it, and also traveling to the Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, and to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Julie Mehretu's work has been exhibited extensively in international museums and biennials including at the Carnegie International (2004-05); Sydney Biennial (2006); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); dOCUMENTA (13) (2012); Sharjah Biennial (2015); Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2017); Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain (2018); Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, UK (2019); and the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2019).Robin Coste Lewis (b. 1964, Compton, California) is the outgoing poet laureate for the city of Los Angeles where she now lives and works. In 2015, her debut poetry collection Voyage of the Sable Venus, which examined the fraught history of art, gender, and race,won the National Book Award in poetry––the first time a poetry debut by an African American had ever won the prize in the National Book Foundation's history, and the first time any debut had won the award since 1974. Lewis is at work on a new collection, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (Knopf, 2022), and teaches in NYU’s low-residency MFA program in Paris and is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.Lewis received her Bachelor of Art from Hampshire College in creative writing and comparative literature; a Master of Theological Studies degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University; a Master of Fine Art in poetry at New York University; and a PhD from the University of Southern Creative Writing and Literature Program.
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