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Eau Sauvage
Vernissage le jeudi 30 mars 2006
Ouverture du 31 mars au 22 avril 2006
Text by Juan Bolivar
The thinking behind the "Eau Savage" exhibition is purposely confusing. It is intended to initiate a debate. It"s deliberately ambiguous and open to interpretation. On the one hand "Eau Savage" refers to Christian Dior's famous fragrance for men. We may therefore begin to think about the artists in this show, as international "signifiers"; jet set travellers; cultural as well as commercial commodities; objects of luxury and desire.

On the other hand we have the word "savage". It echoes the "Museum of Art Brut" in Lausanne. It refers to the artist as an obsessive, reclusive, compulsive creature. Here meaning does not travel or translate easily like a road sign or the Euro. It is hermetically sealed in the mind of its creator. It is caged.

The debate that arises from this duality hinges on how the artists and art as a whole performs a balancing act between both of these worlds. Between communication and incomprehension. Between what's internal and what's external. "Eau Savage" is the modern "brut".

The London artists selected for this exhibition encompass a mixed selection of disciplines. In addition to the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture, there is also computer animation, sound installation and video/sculpture installation. It informs us of "hitech" and "low-tech" activities. Sophisticated objects and hand made objects.

The overall look of the show is intended to be more like a museum or boutique rather than a gallery: a mixture between the Museum of Art Brut and an airport's "Duty Free" zone. Things lurking round corners; hung low and high; next to each other; almost too much to take in; too much to think about and consume; an "amusement park" or a ride through a "ghost train".

The exhibition takes place on two main sites. The Lucy Mackintosh Gallery and a disused car showroom near the gallery. One space, the gallery, is luxurious, well lit and modern. Like a perfume counter in a department store or an airport. The other space, the garage, has an air of abandonment, like the hotel in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining". It's mirrored walls resemble a "discotheque" but also a fairground's "hall of mirrors". "Eau Savage" is a mood rather than a concept. It is about not being able to put things into words or being able to hold on to a moment, but at the same time recognising a fragrance or a scent of that moment even after it's gone.
Show overview

35 artists / 3 curators

Text by Juan Bolivar

Texte de Marco Costantini

Juan Bolivar
High Society

Mauro Bonacina
Twin Towers

Nick Dawes
Roadworks

Mathew Gooding
Fleur d'Allie

Haruhi Hayashi
Lion Royal

Hiroe Komai
Window and Corner

John Stark
Sky Burial

Jennifer Niederhauser
Mum at the Piano

Jennifer Niederhauser
Knitting

Annaick Pitteloud
Hunting

Pauline Boudry
Sometimes you fight...

Raphaël Julliard
100m2 + Les Génies

Körner Union
Too Much Love

Lee Maelzer
The Last House...

Marc Bauer
Boy IV

Matt Franks
Double Skull House

Milo Keller
Alka Seltzer

Virginie Morillo
Dragedie

Virginie Morillo
Dragedie

Virginie Morillo
Dragedie

Pamela Richardson
Swamp

Sandrine Pelletier
Senhsucht

Sandrine Pelletier
Poupées russes

Sandrine Pelletier
Petit albinos

John Richert
The East

John Richert
The Call of the Wild

Sacha Roulet
sans titre

Sacha Roulet
sans titre

Sacha Roulet
sans titre

Sam Herbert
The Modernists

Julie Verhoeven
Happy-Go-Lucky

Richard Wathen
Bearded Lady

Julian Hugh Watts
Tommy Hilfiger

Laura White
Pretty Boy

Neil Zakiewicz
Pencil Holder

Neil Zakiewicz
Pencil Plaque

Zorro et Bernardo
Medaille Pisanellianne

Eau Sauvage

Eau Sauvage

Eau Sauvage

Eau Sauvage

Alexia Walther
Totentanz

Pam Richardson & Kevin Smith
Spinter Episode XI

Léonore Easton
SOB

Virginie Morillo
Insuline

Eau Sauvage II

Eau Sauvage II

Eau Sauvage II

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Profil
Avril 2006

Kunst Bulletin
Avril 2006

British Council
Septembre 2006
Archives

Stephen Felmingham
touching: clear

Michael Ashcroft
All The Rest Of The
Things In The World

Abbas Kiarostami
Pariyoush Ganji
Windows

You know I can't
sleep,
I can't stop my brain

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Julius Baer Art Talks
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皆是虚妄
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10番目の感傷(点・線・面)

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au Château d'Aubonne

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Lalie Schewadron
Under The Bridge

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Art Dubai
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Michael Ashcroft
Camille Zakharia

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Love With
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Rememory
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Gauri Gill

Grands Paysages
d'Europe
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Offspring /
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"INIMITABLE"

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Ingrid Hora
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"Home Alone"
Juan Bolivar

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Design

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Concert

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Lauris Paulus

"Altneuland"
Justin Hibbs

"The Return of the
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"When Life Began"
Michael Ashcroft

"To Infinity,
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"Recess"
Group show

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Newbetter

Eau Sauvage

Ayumi Minemura
Are You Meaning Company

"Erscheinungsformen des zweidimensionales Raumes und deren Umstände"
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"Studies for the Consumption"
Perfektron
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10 puissance 24

"What Birds See"
Christian Vetter

"Bee Vessel Wax Wave"
Stephen Felmingham

News From Nowhere

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Alexandre Hollan And Also The Trees

"Qaqortok - Niseko"
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"BD Origin"
Büro Destruct