Galerie Hubert Winter curated by Mouna Mekouar
„Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Alessandro Piangiamore, Stéphanie Saadé curated by Mouna Mekouar“

4.9. - 2.10.2021 Press release

Galerie Hubert Winter, Breite Gasse 17, 1070 Vienna
www.galeriewinter.at

Curator(s):

Mouna Mekouar More

Mouna Mekouar is a curator and art critic. She held curatorial positions at Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She has curated several exhibitions at Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, Punta della Dogana in Venice, Nijo Jo Castle in Kyoto, Ifa-Gallery (Stuttgart and Berlin) and others. She further contributed at the infra-curatorial projects for the 11th edition of the Shanghai Biennial. She was the 4th Independent Curators International/French Institute Fellow in NYC and Residency fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

Courtesy of Mouna Mekouar

Artist(s):

Alessandro Piangiamore More

Alessandro Piangiamore (born 1976 in Enna / IT), lives and works in Rome. He pushes artistic creation up against the most technical wall, but also the most poetic. In works such as his panels made with candle wax or his classification of all the wind in the world in the form of sculpture, Alessandro Piangiamore confers a conceptual and poetic dimension to his work. The artist uses time as a factor to summon the viewer’s imaginary and perception.
Stéphanie Saadé More

Stéphanie Saadé was born in 1983 in Lebanon, she lives between Beirut, Paris and Amsterdam. Her work develops a language of suggestion, playing with poetics and metaphor. She shares clues, signs, imageless and occasionally silent trails with us, which interact like the words of a single sentence. It is for the viewer to decipher them, as would an archaeologist faced with traces, fossils, and fragments. This enigmatic quality often stems from the artist’s own experience. In her oeuvre, personal experience is invoked exclusively as a universal subject. Saadé graduated in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and attended a post-graduate program at the China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou. She was an artist in residence at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2014-15) and the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2015) as well as the 2018-19 recipient of the AFK’s 3Package Deal (Amsterdam). She had solo exhibitions in Museum Van Loon (Amsterdam), Parc Saint Léger (Pougues-les-Eaux) and Maison Salvan (Labège) and a duo exhibition at Marres (Maastricht). Her work was also shown collectively at Punta della Dogana (Venice), MOCA (Toronto), MUCEM (Marseille), MAXXI (Rome), MuHKA (Antwerp), Jameels Art Center (Dubai), Sharjah Biennale 13, Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), La Criée (Rennes), Kunsthaus Pasquart (Biel), SALTS (Birsfelden), National Gallery of Iceland (Reykjavík), Oslo Kunstforening, Ystad Konstmuseum, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard (New York), Home Works 7 (Beirut), Beirut Art Center.
Charbel-joseph H. Boutros More

Charbel-joseph H. Boutros was born in1981, Lebanon. He lives and works between Beirut, Paris. In his work invisibility is charged with intimate, geographical and historical layers, finding poetic lines that extend beyond the realm of existing speculations and realities. Being born amidst the Lebanese conflict, his art is not engaged in an explicit political and historical reflection, but is more accurately haunted by the said political and historical reflection. H. Boutros was a resident at The Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France and was a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands. His first extensive institutional exhibition in Europe, The Sun Is My Only Ally was recently shown at S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent. His work has been shown internationally at: The 12th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey / Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France / Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy / Centre Pompidou - Metz, France / S.M.A.K. Museum, Gent, Belgium / Home Works 8, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut / CCS Bard College, New York, USA / 3rd Bahia Biennial, Salvador, Brazil / 1st Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China / CCA, Warsaw, Poland / More Konzeption Conception Now, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany / Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE / Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon / La Criée Centre for Contemporary Art, France / Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands. A permanent installation ‘Sueur d’étoile’, that he realized with the French étoile dancer Marie-Agnes Gillot, inaugurated in 2016 remains on view at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. His works are in the collections of S.M.A.K. Museum, Gent / CNAP, Paris,France / Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.

Exhibition text

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While using different approaches, Stéphanie Saadé, Alessandro Piangiamore and Charbel-joseph H. Boutros shape what has no shape, in an attempt to make the immaterial visible or to reveal the invisible aspects of things. They translate emotions, feelings and perceptions, giving new meaning to each object. Each work of art becomes a kind of poetic space with an inherent potential imagination. These are intimate spaces, refuges, places where an exchange with the public can happen. This approach is reminiscent of the “The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible” an expression used by Peter Brook to describe Shakespeare's theater. Thanks to "the distribution of the Sensible” Shakespeare translates “the invisible currents that rule our lives” and plays with numerous styles of political themes. In the light of this rhetoric, it is clear that the works of art on display emanate a poetic and paradoxical image of the world that invites the public to enter into an intimate and intuitive relationship with each of these pieces of art, but also and above all, to question their relation to the world of today.

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Photos

Alessandro Piangiamore: The dust hunter

Soil; variable dimensions Installation view at Galleria Civica, Trento

Stéphanie Saadé: Building a Home with Time

2832 wooden beads (provenance: a factory in Germany now closed), thread; variable dimensions

Charbel-joseph H. Boutros: Mon amour

Supermarket receipt, marker.

Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai. Photo: Dirk Pauwels, exhibition view from the solo of the artist at S.M.A.K. Gent.