PARIS.- Palais de Tokyo is presenting the first solo show by Dorian Gaudin in an art centre. This artist, whose work has recently been shown at the off site exhibition organised by Palais de Tokyo alongside Manifesta 11, in Zürich, will produce an original immersive installation.

Dorian Gaudin appreciates the play of correspondences connecting or separating various elements, from a jet engine to a minimal sculpture, or butchered meat to a mechanical organ. His works are often animated by their own, sometimes chaotic motion, thus bringing together unity and fragmentation, or centrifugal and centripetal forces.

“The notion of time is present as soon as there is motion. I imagine my installations as moments. I do my utmost to provide my works with a psychological aspect. Objects reveal their temperaments thanks to them, they then work themselves into a trance. They dance for us, in a dance which is utterly their own.” Dorian Gaudin

“In the Galerie du Capricorne, the historic showcase for Max Ernst’s work of the same name, and antechamber to the cinemas of the Cinémathèque française at the time when it was housed in Palais de Tokyo, Dorian Gaudin confronts visitors one after the other with a virtually cinematographic show, a theatre of objects, and a banquet table organised by a precise score and mechanism.” Julien Fronsacq

Dorian Gaudin (born in 1986 in Paris, lives in New York) studied first at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and finally at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in Tourcoing. Since 2012, his works have been featured in several group exhibitions, in particular at the Clearing Gallery (New York and Brussels, 2012 and 2013) and at the Balice Hertling gallery (2013). The first solo shows of his work have been held in galleries (Nathalie Karg, New York, 2016; Pact, Paris, 2016). He is represented by the Nathalie Karg gallery (New York).

Curator: Julien Fronsacq

A monographic book published by Palais de Tokyo is accompanying this show.