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Pascal Kern, L'éloge du paradoxe

Past exhibition
2017-09-13
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Pascal Kern Fiction Colorée Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur aluminium, encadrement métal
Pascal Kern
Fiction Colorée
Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur aluminium, encadrement métal

We are pleased to announce In praise of paradox, the new solo show by Pascal Kern.

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Works
  • Pascal Kern Fiction Colorée Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur aluminium, encadrement métal
    Pascal Kern
    Fiction Colorée
    Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur aluminium, encadrement métal
  • Pascal Kern Sculpture Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement métal
    Pascal Kern
    Sculpture
    Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement métal
  • Pascal Kern Fiction Colorée Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur aluminium, encadrement métal
    Pascal Kern
    Fiction Colorée
    Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur aluminium, encadrement métal
  • Pascal Kern Fiction Colorée Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur carton, encadrement cuivre
    Pascal Kern
    Fiction Colorée
    Tirage Cibachrome contrecollé sur carton, encadrement cuivre
  • Pascal Kern, Nature, 1990
    Pascal Kern, Nature, 1990
  • Pascal Kern Nature Polyptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Nature
    Polyptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern Nature Triptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Nature
    Triptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern Sculpture Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Sculpture
    Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern Sculpture Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Sculpture
    Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern Sculpture Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Sculpture
    Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern, Sculpture, 1994
    Pascal Kern, Sculpture, 1994
  • Pascal Kern Sculpture Triptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Sculpture
    Triptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern Sculpture Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Sculpture
    Diptyque, tirages Cibachrome contrecollés sur aluminium, encadrement bois
  • Pascal Kern, Nature, 1990
    Pascal Kern, Nature, 1990
  • Pascal Kern Nature Triptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
    Pascal Kern
    Nature
    Triptyque, tirages Cibachrome, encadrement bois
Press
  • Les objets incongrus de Pascal Kern

    Jean-Baptiste Gauvin, L'oeil de la Photographie, 28 September 2017
  • Pascal Kern, l'Éloge du paradoxe

    Étienne Hatt, Artpress, 19 September 2017
  • Pascal Kern, l'éloge du paradoxe

    Frédérique Chapuis, Télérama - Sortir, 13 September 2017
  • Pascal Kern : L'éloge du paradoxe

    L'oeil de la photographie, 12 September 2017
Installation Views
News
  • A conversation about Pascal Kern

    A conversation about Pascal Kern

    Conférence 21 October 2017
    With Régis Durand and Ghislaine Vappereau, from 11 to 12 am Les Douches la Galerie
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Press release

IN PRAISE OF PARADOX

While Pascal Kern's works are all technically speaking photographs, let us not be fooled: there is much more at work here. 

If we look closely at his large Cibachrome prints, with their seductive colours, we see temporary sculptural installations, settings built from natural elements (cucurbits) as well as industrial ones (found objects) that forever explode our codes for perceiving space. In the three series presented here, Fictions colorées [Coloured Fictions], Sculpture and Nature, Pascal Kern blurs the lines.

As Philippe Piguet says, "everything works in terms of binary oppositions: full-empty, negative-positive, front-back, surface-depth. He is always trying to bring the presence of a virtual space to the fore, building off of a reality that is as much conceptual as it is tangible."[1].

In fact, everything is a thinly-disguised paradox. If we are prepared to accept that Kern's intention is not to represent objects in themselves, then we must further admit that his work questions the methods of representation that are specific to the history of painting and sculpture, going from two dimensions to three, and back again. For Régis Durand, "all of this leads the viewer back and forth between fascination for the photographic image at its most refined, and the awareness that its traditional function has been displaced, requiring a new type of attention from us. What we behold is neither a celebration of, nor a lament for the world, as is so often the case with photographs. Rather Kern's work is a rich meditation on the use of forms, their fate, their delicate passage through the world"[2].

Since his passing in 2007, there has been no individual exhibit dedicated to Pascal Kern in France , so it is a wonderful opportunity for the gallery to be able to host a new rereading  of his work, which is exceptional in so many ways.



[1] Philippe Piguet, "L?espace entre-deux", in Pascal Kern, Le Parvis, Tarbes et Parvis 3, Pau, 1992.

[2] Régis Durand, "Pour une poétique des transferts", in Pascal Kern, C.A.P. Royan, 1994.

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