17/06/2018
HUGUES REIP, L’ÉVASION
Currently at Crédac, until July the 1st.
Hugues Reip - sculptor, draftsman, photographer, video artist, musician and, possibly above all, « gardener of the supernatural » - has taken over the Crédac and turned its raw yet bright and warm spaces into a place where escape.
L’Évasion (The Escape) is indeed Reip’s latest solo exhibition that gathers key works and new productions : from « 0,25 » a series of tiny sculptures made of various materials in 1990-1991, considered as the earliest – humble – œuvres of the artist, up to the site-specific work « Windowblow », a photograph printed on a transparent film and placed on a window of the building as an overprint on the urban surroundings, through « Noirs desseins » , series of drawings enriched with collages, or « Black Sheeps », a mobile installation evocative of multiple references, among others.
From work to work, Hugues Reip makes thus a fantastic herbarium and a fanciful bestiary arise in quite uncanny atmospheres so that as visitors we experience a trip through a wonderland as hallucinatory as exquisitely witty.
The Crédac – Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – is an institution devoted to the production, the experimentation and the exhibition of the contemporary artistic creation. Founded in 1987, the center is hosted, since September 2011 on the 3rd floor of the Manufacture des Œillets (Eyelets Factory), a former brick and steel industrial building, built in 1913 following the Chicago School and the Bauhaus’ inspirations.
Here below, some images from our visit…
Hugues Reip - L’Évasion - Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - le Crédac
La Manufacture des Œillets
1 place Pierre Gosnat, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine