Sculpture: Sven 't Jolle: [Casse-toi alors] Pauvre Canard / Galerie Laurent Godin / The Armory Show 2010 / 20100305.7D.03981.P1.L1.C23.BW / SML

Sven 't Jolle

[Casse-toi alors] Pauvre canard, 2009

Metal, plaster, feathers, asphalt

5'5 h x 12' l x 2'5 w

 

galerie laurent godin

5, rue du Grenier Saint Lazare 75003 Paris

 

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Born in 1966 in Antwerp, Belgium, Sven ’t Jolle lives and works in Melbourne and Antwerp. ’T Jolle uses a range of media including drawing, sculpture and installation. His practice engages with current socio-economic formations that stem from Post-Fordist modes of production, such as the implementation of abusive managerial strategies like Toyotism within the work force to regulate and maximize productivity as well as labour relations. Often departing from real situations and actual events, his works are constructed as social commentaries that nonetheless acknowledge the rhetorical limits of aesthetic forms, and the art market’s own problematic economies of exchange. ’T Jolle uses various stylistic devices including caricature to materialize his critical content, acknowledging the futility of any attempt to circumvent art’s inevitable commodification. The title of his works further sharpen his proposals through their calculated use of word plays and metonymies that open up his poignant commentaries to a wider range of playful, yet related associations.

 

Sven ’t Jolle has an up-coming solo show at Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (2009-2010) and has recently presented solo exhibitions and projects at Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp (2009), Vera Gliem Gallery, Cologne (2007), Stroom, The Hague (2007) and SMAK, Ghent. His work has also been shown as part of “Beaufort 03”, Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst at Kunstmuseum aan zee, Oostende and different locations (2009), “Corpus Delicti” at Justitiepaleis, Brussels (2008), “Parkhaus” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2008), “Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous)” at Extra City - Centre for Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2008), "Die Geschichte Sich Nicht! " at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2007) and "Come-Back / le retour" at CRAC Alsace - Altkirch, France (2005).

 

Sven ’t Jolle is represented by Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne and Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris.

 

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The Armory Show is the United States’ leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.

 

The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show – Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 4–7, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.

 

Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC

March 4-7, 2010

 

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