IVAN ARGOTE & PAULINE BASTARD

Rising Action

20 JANUARY - 19 FEBRUARY 2012

Preview: Thursday 19 January, 6-9pm

Performance: "Born to Curate" : Thursday 26 January, 7pm - RSVP Essential!

NETTIE HORN is pleased to present a twofold project by Colombian and French artists Iván Argote and Pauline Bastard consisting, on the one hand, of the exhibition “Rising Action” - featuring a video programme “Home Cinema” alongside an ensemble of installation and sculptural pieces - and followed by a performance event entitled “Born to Curate”, at the initiative of both artists, which will take place on Thursday 26 January.

Meeting in 2007 within the vibrant atmosphere of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Iván and Pauline form an artist couple whose individual practices develop in parallel to joint projects based on concepts of presentations, curatorial events, residencies and other performative games for which the artists rewrite the rules. The exhibition “Rising Action” unites for the first time in the UK their common vision of the city as a theatrical playground – putting in place playful environments where tricks, hijackings and other narrative displacement and interventions initiate pictures of consumerism, humanism, poetry and action.

Iván Argote’s practice deals with social, political and art historical fields through mediums as varied as video, photography, sculpture and painting. Being simultaneously the director and main actor in his work, Iván interrogates with humour the views and perspectives imposed by our social positions but also the status of an artwork and the notion of interactivity, which he addresses through a fictionalisation of the everyday.

Pauline Bastard invites us into a world where fiction and reality are entangled and at the heart of which misleading fictions reign. Through mediums such as video and sculpture, she plays with and defies narrative processes through the phenomenon of detachment, re-appropriation or semantic displacement. Popular objects and everyday materials are omnipresent in her practice, creating a complicit game with the spectator where the veracity of their fictional and dramatic potential is questioned.



Iván Argote was born in 1983 Bogota. He lives and works between Paris and New York and graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2009.
Recent exhibitions include: The Dialectic City, Laboratorio de Artes Binarios, Puerto Rico (2011); Caliente, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, 2011 (solo show); A brake to dance, Galerie Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia, 2009; Zapping Unit, MAC/VAL Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2009.


Pauline Bastard was born in 1982 and lives and works between Paris and New York. She graduated in 2009 and 2010 from the Beaux-Arts in Paris, the University of La Sorbonne, Paris, Steinhardt University, New York.
Recent exhibitions include: Green-white-red: un parfum d’Italie dans les collections du FRAC Aquitaine; Collezione Maramotti, Regio Emilia, Italia (2011); XOVUXY, Eva Hober gallery, Paris, 2011 (solo show); Rehab, Espace Electra, Paris, 2009; Prehistorias, Galerie Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia, 2009.

If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP to marie@nettiehorn.com as spaces are limited!

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