ODA JAUNE
Once in a Blue Moon
6 Novembre - 24 December 2010
After the success of her first show last year, Oda Jaune returns with a major exhibition of her work at Galerie Templon.
Recently having turned thirty, the Bulgarian artist has now set up home in Paris, a city which echoes her own poetic and tormented universe. Under the title Once in a Blue Moon, her exhibition includes twenty-odd works that straddle the space between surrealism and expressionism, and whose feigned naivety is often profoundly disturbing.
Deformed pin-ups, drowned children, nightmarish bridal couples... her paintings provide us with troubling scenes of intermingled gentleness and violence. They speak of a total lack of inhibition and demand that same self-abandonment from the viewer. In the words of the artist: “I can perhaps salve the viewer’s fear [...] I try to extract what is good, beautiful or even funny from my subjects, laden as they are with fear or prejudice.”
Fascinated by the theories attributed to Aristophanes in The Banquet, according to which the origins of love lie in the splitting in half of beings who then spend all their time searching for their lost other half, Oda Jaune adds: “I try to exteriorise a thought, a feeling, something that a person hides within them [...]; some things exist and we have no idea what they look like.” In her search for the missing piece, she reveals elements that themselves have no shape.
Born in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 1979, Oda Jaune studied under the painter Jörg Immendorff at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts; she has lived in Paris since 2008. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Beijing’s White Space Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘Twenty-four living artists in China’ (2003), the Kunsthalle in Koblenz (2004), the Fondazione Mudima in Milan (2007) and at the 11th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura in Venice as part of ‘The bearable lightness of being’ (2008).
Spring 2011 will see her included in the exhibition ‘Je te mange et tu me manges’ (I eat you and you eat me) organised at the Maison Rouge in Paris.
In October, the leading art book publisher Hatje Cantz will release a 240 pages book of her watercolours.
The exhibition catalogue for Once in a Blue Moon, with an essay by art critic Judicaël Lavrador, will be available at Galerie Templon.
Image:
Oda Jaune
For All to See, 2010
Oil on canvas
170 x 160 cm (66 7/8 x 63 in.)
Courtesy of Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
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