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Birthdate: | 1972 |
About: | |
Born in France in 1972, Laurent Grasso has developed a fascination with the visual possibilities related to the science of electromagnetic energy, radio waves and naturally occurring phenomena. Grasso also explores these sciences as they apply to paranormal activity, a favorite subject of 18th century scientists and philosophers, often used as parlor entertainment during the Victorian era. In addition, Grasso uses imagery culled from the cinema and art history and, working in video, sculpture and, most recently, painting and drawing, he recreates phenomena – both human and natural – that set up surreal and ambiguous juxtapositions of time and space. One of his most well known works, Les Oiseaux, depicts a flock of starlings filmed in the dusk sky above Rome. Taken out of its natural context, the flock of birds resembles an ionic particle field, moved as if by unseen magnetic waves. Other works create visual representations of energy and wave movement found in places such as the Very Large Array Observatory in the desert of New Mexico. Grasso often intentionally manipulates imagery by imposing unique and unusual perspectives onto his subject matter, thereby subverting the viewer's instinct to accept what they see at face value. A continually shifting viewpoint is at the heart of Grasso's aesthetic sensibility – in Grasso's words, "the idea is to construct a floating viewpoint, thereby creating a discrepancy in relation to reality. We move from one viewpoint to another, and that's also how we manufacture states of consciousness." Grasso was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2008 and is the subject of a major monograph – Laurent Grasso: The Black-Body Radiation – published by les presses du réel. Recent solo exhibitions have included The Horn Perspective at the Centre Pompidou andGakona at the Palais de Tokyo, both in Paris, France in 2009. Grasso was also included in 9th Sharjah Biennial and Manifesta 8. For many recent exhibitions, including Portrait of a Young Man at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, URANIBORG at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada and, most recently, Disasters and Miracles at the Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland, Grasso has acted as a co-curator in conjunction with the museums, altering the architecture of the exhibition spaces and merging his works with pieces in the permanent collections of the institutions in order to create a unique and dynamic viewing experience. Grasso's US public art debut, Infinite Light, was installed on the exterior of the Hunter College Lexington Avenue pedestrian walkway in New York in 2008. One of Grasso's major architectural installations includes Nomiya (2009 - 2011), the temporary project he designed which was situated on the rooftop of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. Laurent Grasso lives and works in Paris, France. |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Laurent Grasso : Élysée, Edouard Malingue, Hong Kong
2015 Laurent Grasso : Soleil Noir, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Laurent Grasso : Soleil Double, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
Laurent Grasso : Soleil Double, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
2013 Laurent Grasso: Disasters and Miracles, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Uraniborg, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada [catalogue]
On Air, Trois Gallery, SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia
Laurent Grasso, Nani Bernardo Luscheschi, Venice, Italy
2012 Uraniborg, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France [catalogue]
Future Archeology, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong [catalogue]
2011 Laurent Grasso : Portrait of a Young Man, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
Laurent Grasso, The Black Box Theatre of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Nomiya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1610, Alfonso Artiaco Project Space, Napoli, Italy
2010 The Birds, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
SoundFossil, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
The Silent Movie, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France
Nomiya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2009 Reflections Belong to the Past, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
The Horn Perspective, Espace 315, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
NOMIYA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
GAKONA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
artLA, Barkar Hanger, Stand Galerie chez Valentin, Santa Monica, California
2008 Laurent Grasso, Prefix, Institute of contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Infinite light, Bridge of the Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, New York
Neurocinéma, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
TimeDust, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Lʼatelier dʼhiver de Laurent Grasso, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Neurocinéma, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Electric Palace, Studio 814, New York, New York
2007 Lost, Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques, France
Magnetic palace, IAC, Villeurbanne, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Political Failure, projection, sign and matter, Valentin, Paris, France
Night Begins the Day : Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San
Francisco, California
Little is left to tell (Calvino after Calvino), Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Art Fictions, Marseille, France
Invitation au voyage, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Brussels, Belgium
Ars’tronomy, An Odyssey of the Mind, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Du Paradis à l'Enfer. Tapis volant et drones, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Belgium
Infosphere, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Global Control, ZKM, Center for Art and Media
Là où commence le jour, LaM, Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve,
France
Le secret de l’État. Surveiller, protéger, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France
Sublime, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Climats artificiels, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
Hemelbestormers, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Explode Every Day : An Inquiry in the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams,
Massachusetts
2014 Les Oiseaux, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Dernières Nouvelles de l'Ether, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Curiosity : Art, Wonder and the Pleasures of Knowing, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland ;
De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Trame, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Toutes Directions : exposition Prix Marcel Duchamp, Musée Wilhelm Hack, Ludwigshafen, Germany
A screaming comes across the sky, LABoral centro de arte, Gijón, Spain
GIRL, Galerie Perrotin Salle de Bal, Paris, France
2013 Pataphysics: A Theoretical Exhibition, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
On Nature, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
Grasso, Grimonprez, Koh : Three Installations, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
Curiosity: Art & Pleasure of Knowing, Hayward Gallery, London – will travel to Turner
Contemporary, Margate; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin,
De Appel, Amsterdam
A Trip to the Moon, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
Reconnaissance: exploring French territory in recent artist video and film, DIM, The Cinemathèque,
Vancouver, Canada
De leur temps (4), Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes, France
Le Pont, MAC, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Dread, fear in the age of technological acceleration, De Hallen, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
You promised me and you said a lie to me, Anna Schwarz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Purkinje effect, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
La quatrième dimension, MAMAC, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
Dynamo. Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l'art. 1913-2013, Galeries nationales du Grand
Palais, Paris, France
Pensé(z) Cinéma, Abbaye Saint-André - Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France
Idea 9, CASA, Oaxaca, Mexico
2012 Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
Oh, you mean cellphone and all that crap, Calder Foundation, New York
Howling at the Moon, Dickinson Gallery, New York
Neon, who's afraid of red, yellow and blue? La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris,
France
'Futur Antérieur': Rétrofuturisme/Steampunk/Archéomodernisme, Galerie du jour Agnès b., Paris,
France [Curator: Jean François Sanz]
Project Daejeon 2012: Energy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
Du soleil dans la nuit, Nuit Blanche 2012, Paris, France.
In the Holocene, MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2011 cherries on the boat collection, Fondation Hippocrene, Paris, France
Mémoires du futur, Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, NMCA, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
South Korea
French Window: Looking at contemporary Art throught the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Atmosphère, parcours autour des collections de l'Institut d'Art Contemporain, Palais Delphinal, Saint-
Donat-sur-l'herbasse, France
Dans le palais de cristal, CA'ASI, Venezia, Italy
Views on politics and poetics, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France
Le monochrome sous tension, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, France
Paysages / Films et vidéos, Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Paysages en mouvement, Aubette, Strasbourg, France
2001-2011 : soudain, déjà, ENSBA, Ecole Nationale supérieur des Beaux Art, Paris, France [Curator:
Guillaume Désanges]
Le scepticisme du canapé, Art House, Moscow, Russia
Architecture of fear, Z33, House for contemporary art, Hasselt, Belgium
TransLife: The National Art Museum of China Triennial of Media Art, Beijing, China
Small, Medium, Large, Donjon de Vez, Vez, France
2010 Memories of the future, Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Memories of the future, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
De leur temps, 10ème anniversaire du Prix Marcel Duchamp, Musée dʼArt Moderne et Contemporain,
Strasbourg, France
Workers and philosophers, Business school de Skolkovo, Moscou, Russia
ResPublica, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, Portugal
Manifesta 8, Carthagène-Murcie, Spain
XX International Film Forum, Arsenals , Centre culturel français, Riga, Latvia
Satellite, Art 41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Manif d'art 5, Québec City Biennial, Quebec, Canada
Transit-Topos, Akbank Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Nomos et Physis, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, Canada
Cuvée Biennale, Ok Center, Linz, Austria
Magnetic North, Galerie Léonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada
La Tête et les pieds (Projection), MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Terra Infirma, ISCP, New York, New York
Dreamlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Birthdate: | 1972 |
About: | |
Born in France in 1972, Laurent Grasso has developed a fascination with the visual possibilities related to the science of electromagnetic energy, radio waves and naturally occurring phenomena. Grasso also explores these sciences as they apply to paranormal activity, a favorite subject of 18th century scientists and philosophers, often used as parlor entertainment during the Victorian era. In addition, Grasso uses imagery culled from the cinema and art history and, working in video, sculpture and, most recently, painting and drawing, he recreates phenomena – both human and natural – that set up surreal and ambiguous juxtapositions of time and space. One of his most well known works, Les Oiseaux, depicts a flock of starlings filmed in the dusk sky above Rome. Taken out of its natural context, the flock of birds resembles an ionic particle field, moved as if by unseen magnetic waves. Other works create visual representations of energy and wave movement found in places such as the Very Large Array Observatory in the desert of New Mexico. Grasso often intentionally manipulates imagery by imposing unique and unusual perspectives onto his subject matter, thereby subverting the viewer's instinct to accept what they see at face value. A continually shifting viewpoint is at the heart of Grasso's aesthetic sensibility – in Grasso's words, "the idea is to construct a floating viewpoint, thereby creating a discrepancy in relation to reality. We move from one viewpoint to another, and that's also how we manufacture states of consciousness." Grasso was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2008 and is the subject of a major monograph – Laurent Grasso: The Black-Body Radiation – published by les presses du réel. Recent solo exhibitions have included The Horn Perspective at the Centre Pompidou andGakona at the Palais de Tokyo, both in Paris, France in 2009. Grasso was also included in 9th Sharjah Biennial and Manifesta 8. For many recent exhibitions, including Portrait of a Young Man at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, URANIBORG at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada and, most recently, Disasters and Miracles at the Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland, Grasso has acted as a co-curator in conjunction with the museums, altering the architecture of the exhibition spaces and merging his works with pieces in the permanent collections of the institutions in order to create a unique and dynamic viewing experience. Grasso's US public art debut, Infinite Light, was installed on the exterior of the Hunter College Lexington Avenue pedestrian walkway in New York in 2008. One of Grasso's major architectural installations includes Nomiya (2009 - 2011), the temporary project he designed which was situated on the rooftop of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. Laurent Grasso lives and works in Paris, France. |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Laurent Grasso : Élysée, Edouard Malingue, Hong Kong
2015 Laurent Grasso : Soleil Noir, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Laurent Grasso : Soleil Double, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
Laurent Grasso : Soleil Double, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
2013 Laurent Grasso: Disasters and Miracles, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Uraniborg, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada [catalogue]
On Air, Trois Gallery, SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia
Laurent Grasso, Nani Bernardo Luscheschi, Venice, Italy
2012 Uraniborg, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France [catalogue]
Future Archeology, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong [catalogue]
2011 Laurent Grasso : Portrait of a Young Man, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
Laurent Grasso, The Black Box Theatre of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Nomiya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1610, Alfonso Artiaco Project Space, Napoli, Italy
2010 The Birds, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
SoundFossil, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
The Silent Movie, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France
Nomiya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2009 Reflections Belong to the Past, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
The Horn Perspective, Espace 315, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
NOMIYA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
GAKONA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
artLA, Barkar Hanger, Stand Galerie chez Valentin, Santa Monica, California
2008 Laurent Grasso, Prefix, Institute of contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Infinite light, Bridge of the Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, New York
Neurocinéma, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
TimeDust, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Lʼatelier dʼhiver de Laurent Grasso, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Neurocinéma, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Electric Palace, Studio 814, New York, New York
2007 Lost, Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques, France
Magnetic palace, IAC, Villeurbanne, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Political Failure, projection, sign and matter, Valentin, Paris, France
Night Begins the Day : Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San
Francisco, California
Little is left to tell (Calvino after Calvino), Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Art Fictions, Marseille, France
Invitation au voyage, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Brussels, Belgium
Ars’tronomy, An Odyssey of the Mind, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Du Paradis à l'Enfer. Tapis volant et drones, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Belgium
Infosphere, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Global Control, ZKM, Center for Art and Media
Là où commence le jour, LaM, Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve,
France
Le secret de l’État. Surveiller, protéger, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France
Sublime, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Climats artificiels, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
Hemelbestormers, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Explode Every Day : An Inquiry in the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams,
Massachusetts
2014 Les Oiseaux, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Dernières Nouvelles de l'Ether, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Curiosity : Art, Wonder and the Pleasures of Knowing, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland ;
De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Trame, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Toutes Directions : exposition Prix Marcel Duchamp, Musée Wilhelm Hack, Ludwigshafen, Germany
A screaming comes across the sky, LABoral centro de arte, Gijón, Spain
GIRL, Galerie Perrotin Salle de Bal, Paris, France
2013 Pataphysics: A Theoretical Exhibition, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
On Nature, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
Grasso, Grimonprez, Koh : Three Installations, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
Curiosity: Art & Pleasure of Knowing, Hayward Gallery, London – will travel to Turner
Contemporary, Margate; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin,
De Appel, Amsterdam
A Trip to the Moon, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
Reconnaissance: exploring French territory in recent artist video and film, DIM, The Cinemathèque,
Vancouver, Canada
De leur temps (4), Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes, France
Le Pont, MAC, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Dread, fear in the age of technological acceleration, De Hallen, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
You promised me and you said a lie to me, Anna Schwarz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Purkinje effect, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
La quatrième dimension, MAMAC, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
Dynamo. Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l'art. 1913-2013, Galeries nationales du Grand
Palais, Paris, France
Pensé(z) Cinéma, Abbaye Saint-André - Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France
Idea 9, CASA, Oaxaca, Mexico
2012 Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
Oh, you mean cellphone and all that crap, Calder Foundation, New York
Howling at the Moon, Dickinson Gallery, New York
Neon, who's afraid of red, yellow and blue? La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris,
France
'Futur Antérieur': Rétrofuturisme/Steampunk/Archéomodernisme, Galerie du jour Agnès b., Paris,
France [Curator: Jean François Sanz]
Project Daejeon 2012: Energy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
Du soleil dans la nuit, Nuit Blanche 2012, Paris, France.
In the Holocene, MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2011 cherries on the boat collection, Fondation Hippocrene, Paris, France
Mémoires du futur, Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, NMCA, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
South Korea
French Window: Looking at contemporary Art throught the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Atmosphère, parcours autour des collections de l'Institut d'Art Contemporain, Palais Delphinal, Saint-
Donat-sur-l'herbasse, France
Dans le palais de cristal, CA'ASI, Venezia, Italy
Views on politics and poetics, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France
Le monochrome sous tension, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, France
Paysages / Films et vidéos, Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Paysages en mouvement, Aubette, Strasbourg, France
2001-2011 : soudain, déjà, ENSBA, Ecole Nationale supérieur des Beaux Art, Paris, France [Curator:
Guillaume Désanges]
Le scepticisme du canapé, Art House, Moscow, Russia
Architecture of fear, Z33, House for contemporary art, Hasselt, Belgium
TransLife: The National Art Museum of China Triennial of Media Art, Beijing, China
Small, Medium, Large, Donjon de Vez, Vez, France
2010 Memories of the future, Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Memories of the future, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
De leur temps, 10ème anniversaire du Prix Marcel Duchamp, Musée dʼArt Moderne et Contemporain,
Strasbourg, France
Workers and philosophers, Business school de Skolkovo, Moscou, Russia
ResPublica, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, Portugal
Manifesta 8, Carthagène-Murcie, Spain
XX International Film Forum, Arsenals , Centre culturel français, Riga, Latvia
Satellite, Art 41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Manif d'art 5, Québec City Biennial, Quebec, Canada
Transit-Topos, Akbank Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Nomos et Physis, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, Canada
Cuvée Biennale, Ok Center, Linz, Austria
Magnetic North, Galerie Léonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada
La Tête et les pieds (Projection), MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Terra Infirma, ISCP, New York, New York
Dreamlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France