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AEROPLASTICS contemporary is an exceptionally eclectic gallery where group and thematic exhibitions alternate with all used media including installations and video. The common thread is the encouragement of work that has an immediate visual accessibility and promotes a language of its own. But the purely aesthetic is in itself not enough, even if the search for a certain beauty and visual immediacy is indispensable and unignorable. As a consequence, the gallery director and curator, Jerome JACOBS pursues this sort of beauty, simple and unsettling, reductive and discrete, surprising and aggressive, which arouses a reaction in the public. Whether it is positive or negative, the essential thing is that the viewer does not stop at the emotion of the moment. The reaction should prompt a questioning of what one has seen or what one believes one has seen.
It is at the very least remarkable that with this strategy they are trying to represent a view of humanity that one hardly comes across in everyday life. It is true that Aeroplastics is a gallery, but the commercial aspect is secondary to its emphasis on asking socio-cultural questions regarding the basic principles of art and its mechanisms.
At Aeroplastics one encounters the most diverse artists, all of whom approach the excesses of human expression in a certain ironic way: sex and crossover by Annie Sprinkle and painter David Nicholson, humour and the grotesque by Pépé Smit, violence and terrorism by Gregory Green and Philippe Meste, mutation and the limitations of the body by Robert Gligorov, Skip Arnold, Paul Glazier, and Margi Geerlinks and the down sides of the consumer society by Daniele Buetti and Dana Wyse.The artists at Aeroplastics play with illusion, may be classical or, on the contrary, emphatically multidisciplinary.
But at the same time the gallery retains more normal links with a sort of painting and expression that is more accessible to a broader public, that is if it can in any way be part of an approach to constructive eclecticism: the mirrored resin paintings of Carrie Yamaoka, the shell-shocked animals of Jean-Francois Fourtou, the geometric abstract paintings of Georges Meurant, and the illuminated electric apparitions by Martin Richman.
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