A Very Fulfilled Life—Pierrick Sorin

2017.09.28-12.12

Introduction

At 4 pm Sunday afternoon, Sep 28, 2017, well-known French video artist Pierrick Sorin will open solo exhibition, A Very Fulfilled Life—Pierrick Sorin at Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Boxes Museum. This is OCT Boxes Museum’s Grand Opening exhibition. OCT’s Boxes Museum is entirely built and financed by the OCT Group, a non-profit public benefit organization operated and managed by The Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Overseas Chinese Town Boxes Museum attempts to bring a strict international standard of spatial dimension to Shunde area, giving the city a new cultural calling card, bringing new energy to the Pearl River Delta Area’s cultural ecosystem.

In his earlier creative work, Pierrick Sorin was known for his sense of humor, arrangement of plot, and for delving deeply into his life to bravely pick apart what he saw. From the late 1980’s, Sorin has been seen as the protagonist in most of his short films. At the time, he was seen as we see the first ‘selfie’ stars today. The largest piece in this exhibition was created in 1994 as large-scale video installation A Very Fulfilled Life, consisting of 16 pieces of video documenting original artist performances. This artwork represented a pivotal point in Sorin’s artist career.

Pierrick Sorin began in 2013 to use holographic images in his artwork. Artwork Aquarium is his most famous video installation made into a magical holographic theatre. Projecting his own image onto very realistic backdrop elements, we see art in an aquarium, the artist dancing satirically amongst a school of fish. In his most recent works For My Mother and Hennessy, From Tradition to Innovation, this latter entrusted by Hennessy as its 250 anniversary celebratory artwork; the artist takes his holographic technical abilities to their extreme.

Pierrick Sorin artworks are collected at the Palais de Tokyo, Foundation Cartier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Tate Modern (London), Guggenheim Museum (New York), and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He has collaborated long term with Opéra de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Teatro alla Scala (Italy) and other opera houses as playwright and director. He has collaborated also with Chanel (with photographer Jean-Paul Goude), Cartier, Renault, Louis Vuitton, Hennessy, Galleries Lafayette and other famous brands. In Nantes (west of France), the City Government is now constructing a Pierrick Sorin Art Museum, scheduled to open two years from now.

This exhibition showcases 18 video installation artworks created between 1992 and 2017. This exhibition is hosted by Overseas Chinese Town Boxes Museum, co-hosted by Beijing Amy Li Gallery, curated by the Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, consulting with Art and Culture Innovation Research and Development Center of Sun Yat-sen University, with assistance from Shenzhen Zhangshangmingzhu Culture and Media Co., Ltd.

This exhibition is in gratitude to large-scale support from Shunde District Peoples Government, Consulate General of the Republic of France in Guangzhou, and Hennessy Company. This exhibition will run through December 12, 2017, with free access to the public.

artist

Pierrick Sorin

Artist

1960 Born in Nantes, France

1988 Graduate from l’École des beaux-arts de Nantes

Lives and works in Nantes, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Pierrick Sorin - A very fulfilled life 1992－2017, Amy Li Gallery , Beijing, China

2016 Mini - holographic theaters, Adhemar Castle, Montelimar, France

2015 Holographic theaters and video installations, Amy Li Gallery , Beijing, China

2014 Pièce Unique Gallery, Paris

2013 Invasion, Théâtre de la Criée , Marseille, France

2012 Pierrick Sorin, Regional art contemporary center, Sète, France

2011 Pierrick Sorin, Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Argentina

2010 Retrospective / Prospective - Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France

2010 C’est mignon, tout ça - Aeroplastics gallery , Brussels, Belgium

2009 Pierrick Sorin, Méliès - National Theater Toulouse, France

2007 The video jump, Artist Central House , Moscow

2002 - 2001- 2000

Pierrick Sorin, Cartier Foundation, Paris, France

Pierrick Sorin, Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

1999 Los Mirones, National Museum of Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain

1998 It’s really nice, Official representative of France, Sao-Paulo Biennial, Brazil

1997-1996- 1995- 1994 - 1993

Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

Cartier Foundation, Paris

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Dioramas, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2008 The White Night, Video performances and giant projection on a building, Paris

2002 - 2001- 2000

Guggenheim Museum, New-York

Modern Art Museum, Seoul

Modern Art Museum, Taipei

1999 Abracadabra, The Tate Gallery, London

1999 National portrait Gallery “, London

1997-1996- 1995- 1994 - 1993

Lincoln center, New-York

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New-York

Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

Pompidou center, Paris

Montreal Modern art museum, Montreal

Venice Biennial, Venice

COMMISSION PROJECTS

2017 Glazier and snake-train, Creation of a 3D relief video installation, Commission from cultural center “Les Champs Libres“, Rennes, France.

2016 No title, Creation of an holographic video installation with human scale characters, Commission from Leonardo da Vinci park, Amboise, France.

2014 Hennessy, From Land to Savoir-faire, Creation of a 3D relief video installation, Commission for the Hennessy 250 tour, Moscow, Guangzhou, New-York, Johannesburgh.

2013 Creation of 4 large holographic theaters, Commission from the Red Cross International Museum, Geneva.

2011 Creation of seven holographic theaters, For the exhibition “ Toys and men “, Commission from the National Museums, Grand Palais, Paris.

2010 Shake and be Undiz, Creation of a live and video show, Commission from Etam group, L’Elysée Montmartre , Paris.

2007 Creation of a panoramic video installation, Commission of Nantes City, France.

2005 - 2004 - 2003

Video creation for a big street show by Royal de Luxe Company, Diffusion in London, Antwerp, Nantes.

Video creations for the car brand Renault, The Renault Workshop, Champs-Elysées, Paris.

2002 - 2001- 2000

The five elements, Creation of five holographic theaters, Commission from Chanel, Chanel space, Paris.

OPERA DIRECTING AND SCENOGRAPHY

2016 La pietra del Paragone, Cagliari Opera , Italia

2015 La Belle Hélène, Théâtre du Châtelet , Paris

2013 The Magic Flute, Opera de Lyon, France

2012 Pop’pea , pop-rock version of “The coronation of Poppea“ by Monteverdi,Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris

2011 Turandot, Teatro alla Scala, Milan

2010 22h13, Creation of a theater play, Diffusion in Paris, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Geneva …

2009 Pastorale, Contemporary opera by Gérard Pesson, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris

2006 La Pietra del Paragone, Parma Royal Theater , Italie

COLLECTION

The Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The Cartier Foundation, Paris

The Centre Pompidou, Paris

The Queen Sophie Museum, Madrid

The Tate Modern, London

The Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

The Raina Sophia Museum, Madrid, etc..

COMMERCIAL PROJECTS

Chanel (in collaboration with the photographer Jean-Paul Goude), Cartier, Renault, Louis Vuitton, and the Galeries Lafayette, etc..

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