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LE CRÉPUSCULE DES PROMESSES ÉTERNELLES
FLOW GALLERY . ANTANANARIVO
NOVEMBER 25TH – FEBRUARY 29TH. 2024
This exhibition is the first chapter in a cycle that Joël Andrianomearisoa is unfolding across time and geography. This cycle begins here in Antananarivo, his hometown, where his last exhibition was held several years ago. In this exhibition, he brings together the hallmarks of his visual and artistic identity, drawing the strength of his aesthetic not only from the poetry and musicality of words, but also from materials such as textiles, paper and metal.
© Kevin Ramarohetra
ALMOST HERE
ALMOST THERE
ALMOST HOME
MARIANE IBRAHIM GALLERY . CHICAGO . UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NOVEMBER 11TH. 2023 – JANUARY 20TH. 2024
Curator : Jérôme Sans
Like a landscape, a musical score, or a notebook on which writing drips and overturns meaning, his three textile works Geometry and tales of our desires play with an ambiguity between rigidity and liquidity, presence and absence. A series of 10 of his eponymous drawings accompany these works, like sketches, echoes of the roughly drawn, almost dancing, black lines. Terrain de tous les possible showcases his emblematic black vocabulary, while demonstrating another use of textile which focuses on cuts, folds and the suggestiveness of materiality to convey sentimental meanings. Comprised of 200 Beldi glasses and 30 ceramic plates which each hold a unique drawing by the artist, Almost Here, Almost There, Almost Home is produced in Morocco, underlining local production that blends art and craft. Combining textile, paper, glass and ceramics, all characteristic elements of the artist’s language, the works reveal a world of vibrations and ambiguities, both sensitive and poetic.
HIRAFEN
ATELIER DU CENTRE TECHNIQUE DU TAPIS ET DU TISSAGE . TUNIS . TUNISIE
NOVEMBER 4TH. 2023 – MARCH 20TH. 2024
Curator: Ludovic Delalande
The group exhibition curated by Ludovic Delalande fosters a unique dialogue between contemporary art and Tunisian textile craftsmanship. Nineteen multidisciplinary artists were invited to draw from the fields of thread and fiber crafts to create a specific work as part of a research and production residency in the Tunisian territory.
© Nicolas Fauqué . © Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
FORBES
OCTOBER 2023
THE ART NEWSPAPER
OCTOBER 2023
VOGUE
OCTOBER 2023
NUMÉRO ART
OCTOBER 2023
BEAUX ARTS
OCTOBER 2023
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
OCTOBER 2023
VOGUE
OCTOBER 2023
CRASH
OCTOBER 2023
LE QUOTIDIEN DE L’ART
OCTOBER 2023
UN AUTRE MONDE . 2023
Un autre monde . Carte blanche by Diptyque
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Graphic design : Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
© Grafiche Veneziane
L’AUTOMNE BRÛLANT D’UN PAYS LOINTAIN
Joël Andrianomearisoa
260 x 180 cm
Textile
2023
L’AUTOMNE BRÛLANT D’UN PAYS LOINTAIN
Paris + par Art Basel . Almine Rech Gallery . 2023
Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery
© Nicolas Brasseur
DIPTYQUE X JOËL ANDRIANOMEARISOA
UN AUTRE MONDE
For its first participation in Paris+ by Art Basel, Diptyque is continuing the collaboration it began 2 years ago with artist Joël Andrianomearisoa as part of the Grand Tour. The Maison has given him carte blanche to create a work in which imagination, real or dream journeys and the fragrance L’Autre take center stage.
The installation is an invitation to imagine a new, infinite elsewhere, unique to each person according to their own desires and intimate geography.
The first proposition is a monumental metal sculpture-poem that calls the gaze and summons the imagination. The second is a black silk paper collage exuding the scent of L’Autre, like an abstract evocation of a garden. The third is a printed manifesto, a collection of multiple stories revealing the artist’s intimate universe.
SERENADE SERENADE
SERENADE AND THE TRIUMPH OF ROMANCE
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Variable dimensions
Glass . Metal
2023
SERENADE SERENADE
SERENADE AND THE TRIUMPH OF ROMANCE
Paris + par Art Basel Hors les murs . 2023
Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery
© Nicolas Brasseur
LITANIE DES HORIZONS OBSCURS
ALMINE RECH GALLERY . FRONT SPACE . PARIS . FRANCE
2023
In line with Joël Andrianomearisoa’s work and his recent artistic interventions based on evolution and constant change, such as the recent exhibition “Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent” at the Buro Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Malagasy-French artist takes us on a journey through the history of his “Litanies des horizons obscurs” through 3 chapters during his presentation with Almine Rech.
First: the word. An emblematic figure in the artist’s work, the word is presented with the launch of a collection of poems, “Sentimental whispers”, in collaboration with Almine Rech Editions. This first chapter is complemented by the exhibition of three works featuring the artist’s verses.
The second chapter consists of three historic textile works. One set of 24 pieces ‘Labyrinth of Passions’ 2018, and a large piece ‘La Dérive des Sentiments II’ 2016. Joël Andrianomerisoa was awarded the 4th Audemars Piguet Prize for his work, ‘The Labyrinth of Passions’, exhibited at VIP ARCO-Madrid 2016, becoming the first non-Spanish artist to receive this award.
The third chapter is devoted to drawing. A medium that allows Joël to let himself be completely carried away by his intuition. These works, a selection of which was presented by the gallery at Art Brussels 2023, reflect the authenticity of the artist’s practice as well as his formal restlessness.
“Les Litanies des horizons obscurs” will round off this experience, during which visitors will live different stories through this evolving display. These textile pieces, presented at MACAAL in Marrakech, reflect Joël’s desire to return to the sources, as well as his interest in craftsmanship, by rediscovering ancestral techniques and bringing them to the forefront of contemporary art.
PASSAGE TO PROMISE
GREGOR PODNAR GALLERY . VIENNA . AUSTRIA
2023
Curator : Dr. Kirstin zu Hohenlohe
The exhibition “Passage to Promise” shows four different artistic positions from southern Africa: Usha Seejarim, Thania Petersens, Joël Andrianomearisoa, and Jared Ginsburg. The exhibition borrows its title from a work by Usha Seejarim and creatively references Homi Bhabha‘s post-colonial concept, The Third Space. In his book “The Location of Culture”, the social theorist argues that cultural identities are neither fixed nor essential, but are always constructed through processes of negotiation and interaction. The Third Space is an “in between” space of cultural hybridity that arises when different cultures come into contact. It is a space of ambiguity, where dominant and marginalized cultures intersect, creating new meanings and identities. A space that challenges and destabilizes established categories, opening up new and transformative possibilities.
Joël Andrianomearisoa’s work is always dealing with the idea of duality, between light and darkness, passion and fragility and the space between us, creating Labyrinths of Passion. He explores concepts of time and physicality in a fine, inside-out approach. Activating the latent, emotional power of the material world, he transcends the boundaries of video, fashion, architecture, sculpture, installation and photography. Black plays a prominent role in his textile works, which hover seductively between ephemeral and permanent. These works are partly sculptural, partly left to chance and to the randomness of the material.
SENTIMENTAL WHISPERS . 2023
Sentimental Whispers . Almine Rech Editions . 2023
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Graphic design : Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa . Almine Rech Editions
DECAY : AN ODE TO THE IMPERMANENT
BURO STEDELIJK . CENTRAL SPACE . AMSTERDAM . THE NETHERLANDS
2023
Curator : Azu Nwagbogu and Rita Ouédrago
Falling, crumbling, rotting and decomposing so as to grow. What are the ethics we bring to concepts of preservation and decay? We nourish and flourish through embracing the discomfort of decay. Decay as the fruitful ground upon which we stand. The ongoing process of decay, of rebuilding and blossoming. Matter changes, time changes. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown and the experiment, and observe what grows. Death not as the end but rather as the precursor of life. Through this notion of decay, we want to reimagine and reorient the institution. Decay in this respect could provoke discomfort, but it is precisely this feeling of discomfort that we wish to encourage people to become more comfortable with.
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
“why decay ?
A state or
A process of decomposition to a statement of hope or desire
From the darker side of our sentiments there will be a new beautiful melody
From destruction we can a built a new emotions.
From tragedy there will be certain kind of perfection.
À partir d’une perte il y a toujours des retrouvailles
Inside absence there is always a presence
To confirm all of those declamations perfume is the medium.
Perfume comes from the process of decomposition
And from this decay we can create new fantasies.
Rano maso rano masina rano manitra.
Process
10 paintings
61 days
61 fragrances
1 space
At the beginning each painting will be almost virgin. Black lines on the new playground.
Everyday each painting will be sprayed with one perfume chosen from the library of fragrances.
The idea is to create from the decomposition of the perfume and the painting a new visual aspect of hopes and desires.
The audience will deal with the evolution of all the installation and
Again from dirt we can create beauty and from decay we can build peace. ”
Joël Andrianomearisoa
PRESTIGE SINGAPORE
THE CRAFT ISSUE
MAY 2023
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FÊTONS LE PRINTEMPS
SAINT-VINCENT-DE-PAUL . PARIS . FRANCE
2023
A monumental artwork QUAND SOUDAIN LA MÉLANCOLIE DU PRINTEMPS RÉVEILLE LE TERRAIN DE NOS CŒURS by the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, specially conceived for the event, exhibited throughout the weekend as part of the second edition of the festival “Fêtons le Printemps”.
CRAFTS COUNCIL
MARCH 2023
From Madagascar to Morocco_ why Joe_l An.. .puts craft traditions in the spotlight (1)
OUR LAND JUST LIKE A DREAM . 2023
Our land just like a dream . MACAAL . 2023
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Graphic design : Baptiste Piguet . Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
JOSEP THE WORLD AND I . 2023
Josep the world and I . Centre Grau-Garriga d’Art Tèxtil Contemporani . 2023
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Graphic design : Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa . Anna Bustins
ARTNET
FEBRUARY 2023
LE QUOTIDIEN DE L’ART
FEBRUARY 2023
MY HEART BELONGS TO THE OTHER
CHURCH PROJECTS . CAPE TOWN . SOUTH AFRICA
2023
The other is a conversation with the land on the other side.
Land Madagascar.
Land not only perceived as a territory but also as an intrigue.
Rather a scenario named the other.
A display around the desire towards the other, the vital dependance towards the other.
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
The other is a mystery yet the other attracts us
The other is intriguing yet the other inspires us
The other is a stranger yet the other calls out to us
The other is a geography and this land is calling us
The project itself is a metaphor
without giving the land its name
Thus the presence of the other, of others
The other of names full of symbols
To read, to quote, to dress and undress
The other is a blind map drown in the darkness of our desires.
LEGENDS OF DAYLIGHT
Joël Andrianomearisoa
350 x 500 CM
Collage papier . Technique mixte
2023
LEGENDS OF DAYLIGHT
Mandarin Oriental Marrakech . 2023
Courtesy of the artist
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
CHRISTIAN DIOR : DESIGNER OF DREAMS
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART . TOKYO . JAPAN
2023
Curator : Florence Müller
Echoing this presentation (Dior Coloroma), a work by the Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa is also featured, made of 1,000 Dior scarves, which creates a poetic landscape using textile and colour as a universal language.
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
Joël Andrianomearisoa’s The Labyrinth of Passions is an immersive installation presented in this year’s Audemars Piguet VIP lounge at ARCOmadrid 2016. It consists of large paper pieces suspended in such numbers so as to saturate the room, obliging visitors to force their way in. It evokes games of impossible love, ultimate caresses of black or white fabrics, with no other frustration that innacessible body.
With conceptual references to Oscar Wilde’s letter to his lover De Profundis, The Labyrinth of Passions represents the futility of love to reveal itself “from the depths”. It speaks to obscurity and death, failure and ultimately disappointment; in short, the very fabric of contemporary life. The transition is complete, and the obscured subject is manifested only as crack or a broken mirror that forbids representation. A distant memory cries in the dark.
Leading the viewer almost blindly through a journey from light to darkness, from the primeval dawn of life to mysterious, indescribable loss, Andrianomearisoa continues his earlier engagement with the realities of love, their crude manifestations of borderless desire bound up with the most abysmal faces of the world: violence, domination, longing, cruelty, effacement.
In this strange journey, surfaces become the warm archi-textures of a condition, in a site of contradictions. The black and white monochromes are for Andrianomearisoa not a terminal end, but a monologue and a diary of personal stories tightly sewn into compact wholes by words and gestures – a universality of sentiments. Wilde’s De Profundis, written under emotional isolation and the endurance of physical labor, is more than a testament to love and devotion; it is also an epic of liberation in the midst of discrimination, criminal libel, and exclusion. The artist, inspired by the naturalism of the Victorian age, is keen to describe the complexities of love – and of the world – as dark forces, following Wilde more in the rhythmic pattern of the letter, through a desperate cry of life.
As an artist, Andrianomearisoa proceeds in the manner of a surveyor and ethnographer: mapping out categories of thought and social reality sculpted into immersive environments that simultaneously flatter and deceive. The materials are raw, but infinitely delicate, almost to the point of breaking, in a self-contained chaos ready to overflow an entire universe of experience. This experience, however boundless, is not circumscribed by aesthetic purity or formal properties: It is compromised by the dramas of the political body, the global economy and contemporary alienation. The work attempts to confront us with the emotional vacuity of an uncertain, liquid world.
This object-book Labyrinth of Passions, was designed by the artist as a memory of the project, and a tribute to life itself. It is a tactile and visual experience that celebrates the present moment and the ones to come, gathering in its central body a poem by the artist that contains the concepts that inspired his monumental installation.
Sabrina Amrani
NIRIN
2020
EATS AT LES ABBATOIRS
2018
spoerri
BIENALSUR
2017
bienalsur 2
ESSENTIEL PAYSAGE
2017
AFRICA NOW
2014
TEXTILE LANGUAGES
2014
A COLLECTIVE DIARY
2010
FLOW
2008
flow
AFRICA REMIX
2005
ROUBAIX PHARE TEXTILE
2004
ON A NEVER ENDING HORIZON A FUTURE NOSTALGIA TO KEEP THE PRESENT ALIVE
NOOR FESTIVAL . RIYADH . SAUDI ARABIA
2022
Curator : Hervé Mikaeloff
From Antananarivo to Paris, from mixed-media installation to Dior collaboration, Andrianomearisoa’s work is simply magnetizing. Inspired by the cadence of the city, his textural work triggers an emotional response in audiences of all ages. Unsurprisingly, he has been invited to collaborate with some of the world’s greatest names over the years.
ON A NEVER ENDING HORIZON A FUTURE NOSTALGIA TO KEEP THE PRESENT ALIVE
Using neon lights and metal, On a never ending horizon a future nostalgia to keep the present alive was commissioned for Noor Riyadh and speaks of love, hope and dreams. Or to use the artist’s words: “a sign, a light, a poem… The horizon is the playground for our eyes, but most of all, our dreams. Here lies the theatre of our affections, but most of all, our hopes. On the horizon is where we call for a new future whilst we dance on the wave of the present time, following the moment’s steps. Light is the essential ingredient that allows us to dream of other worlds, other times.”
With this installation, Andrianomearisoa invites you to question time, your horizons and, as always, your emotions and desires.
Hervé Mikaeloff
© Ammar Abd Rabbo