Joël Andrianomearisoa – Tools of Emotions and Desires
In the organizer's words:
Joël Andrianomearisoa's work is multidisciplinary, with materiality and scale being important aspects. Imbued with complex emotional experiences, his delicate, often ambiguous works are an ongoing series of constantly evolving exercises that consider the aesthetics and architecture of feelings that all can perceive, but not necessarily name. His work is multidisciplinary, with materiality and scale being important aspects.
Born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the artist lives and works between Paris and Magnat-l'Ètrange, both in France, and Antananarivo. He obtained a diploma in architecture at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris in 2003. In 2016, he was awarded the Arco Madrid Audemars Piguet Prize. In 2019, he was the first artist ever to represent Madagascar at the 58th Biennale di Venezia. Since then, his work has been exhibited in leading international institutions such as the MAXXI, Rome (2018), the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC (2015), the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010) and the Center Pompidou, Paris (2005).
More recent commissions and exhibitions have taken place at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (November 2021), Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (August 2022) and MACAAl, Marrakech (September 2022). In October 2021, Andrianomearisoa presented two public sculptures in Antananarivo with the support of the Yavarhoussen Fund. His works are part of the important international collections of the Smithsonian, Washington DC, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the Yavarhoussen Collection, Antananarivo and the Museum Sztuki, Łódź.
Andrianomearisoa's approach to poetry and architecture allows him to go his own way by creating a new architectural division in the exhibition space. Special textiles and weaves as well as his use of specially dyed and produced papers play a major role, with materiality, haptics and oversize being explored as essential criteria. In this way, the artist manages to transform spaces in his own way and charge them emotionally.
Andrianomearisoa continues his poetic exploration with textiles embroidered using a traditional Malagasy technique. For "Manifeste d'une Rupture", he collaborated with artisans from his hometown of Antananarivo and once again pushed the technical boundaries of traditional embroidery by using raffia, a palm fiber typical of Madagascar. The chromatic minimalism, the use of similar color tones, makes it almost impossible to read the embroidered words.
For the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, he is developing these concepts further and will create two different, yet mutually referencing pictorial spaces.
The exhibition is curated by Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid, director of the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, and Jérôme Sans, artistic director, Paris.
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