paris, fr
shooting: Gilles Berquet/Mirka Lugosi
la maison témoin - kumi
12 may 08
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this is from our 4th or 5th shooting session.
mirka shot behind the scenes while we worked.
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paris, fr
shooting: Gilles Berquet/Mirka Lugosi
la maison témoin - kumi
12 may 08
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this is from our 4th or 5th shooting session.
mirka shot behind the scenes while we worked.
heading out with
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mistress_sandra tonite to see thisgilles berquet will be there too :-)
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CAROLINE PAGÈS GALLERY // PRESS RELEASE
Sofia Leitão, detail of a sculpture (acrylic on zinc)
Mïrka Lugosi, Untitled #64, 2007, graphite on paper, 40 x 30 cm
Sofia Leitão / Mïrka Lugosi
Dear Time’s Waste
May 21 – July 31, 2009
Opening reception on Thursday, May 21 at 10 pm. The artists will be present.
Guided tour by the artists on Saturday, May 23 at 5 pm.
Caroline Pagès Gallery
Rua Tenente Ferreira Durão, 12 – 1º Dto.
[Campo de Ourique]
1350-315 Lisbon, Portugal
T [+351] 21 387 33 76
M [+351] 91 679 56 97
gallery@carolinepages.com
www.carolinepages.com
Opening hours: Monday through Saturday from 3 to 8 pm and by appointment.
Dear Time’s Waste is the title of Sofia Leitão’s second individual exhibition in the gallery. Through
research related to time and history (both material and circumstantial), she has created sculptures that
are like symbols which have been lit up and placed like pieces of stage scenery. A feeling of yearning and
nostalgia for other experiences takes centre stage. The objects, previously smothered by decay, are
brought to life in sculpture form and affirm themselves in a sublime trespassing of time in which the
insistence on the durability of things is accentuated by the effect the objects produce on their
surroundings: the light which emanates from them due to their physical nature is made of reflexes and is
artificial, the result of detailed work which, in itself, becomes a calculated gesture about the relevance of
temporal permanence, in which metamorphosis is a necessary agent for the updating of the existing
bodies.
Sofia Leitão’s work has previously shown a preoccupation with recovering contexts and settings lost in
the past. It has sought to renew certain symbolic and iconographic features, and this is formally and
visually translated into artistic work which is largely inspired by a scenographic vision (combining aspects
of cinema, theatre and photography). In her sculpture and painting, the artist captures light in a
sumptuous and ornamental way. She does the same with forms projected in space, whose dimension is
based on suggesting seductive imagery that allows you to return to an ephemeral but longed for essence.
Sofia Leitão (PT 1977) graduated in Sculpture from the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Oporto
(FBAUP) in 2005 and in Drawing from the Superior School of Fine Arts in Oporto (ESAP) in 2000. In 2003
she did her first individual exhibition Contra Péssimos Hábitos at Maus Hábitos in Oporto. In 2005 her
first solo show at the MCO Gallery in Oporto as well as 3 collective exhibitions: Anteciparte in Lisbon, XIII
Cerveira Biennial in Vila Nova de Cerveira and 100 Desenhos at Maus Hábitos. In 2006 she took part in
the exhibitions Young Giant Painters at the MCO Gallery and Surrounding Matta-Clark (curated by Paulo
Reis) at the Carlos Carvalho Gallery in Lisbon. In 2007, Beauté du Siècle was her first individual
exhibition at the Caroline Pagès Gallery in Lisbon. Her work was shown recently for the first time in
Austria in Pavilhão de Portugal at Hangart-7 in Salzburg. The artist is represented by the galleries
Caroline Pagès in Lisbon and MCO in Oporto where she shows regularly.
Her work is represented in the collections of the PLMJ Foundation in Lisbon and Ilídio Pinho Foundation in
Oporto as well as in many private collections in Portugal, Spain and Austria.
The exhibition also includes a set of eight graphite and coloured pencil drawings by the French artist
Mïrka Lugosi. The artist achieves the peak of her expression through these meticulous drawings, which
are characterized by delicacy and detail. She explores a surreal and intensely symbolic world of hybridism
in which forms and beings complete each other in spite of the possible and apparent incongruity between
them. A fantastical universe, changing between the erotic and the feminine, is produced. It is as if all the
participants were naturally meshed in a fluid movement which, rather than bringing out a sense of not
belonging, provokes feelings of desire.
Mïrka Lugosi (FR 1958) has been showing her work for almost two decades. However, it is shown in
Portugal for the first time. The artist is represented by the Parisian gallery Air de Paris and exhibits
regularly in other galleries and art centres in France. In the United States, she has taken part in
exhibitions in several galleries such as Columns (New York 2007), Bellwether (New York 2006) and Tod
Kaplan (Los Angeles 1997). Five monographs have been published on her work which is represented in
many private collections in Europe and the United-States.
Rita Santos, April 2009
Caroline Pagès Gallery
For information and visuals please contact Caroline Pagès or Rui Palmeiro at [+351]
21 387 33 76 or [+351] 91 679 56 97, or at gallery@carolinepages.com
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my friend Mirka Lugosi has a new site.
She's the one who is usually taking behind the scenes videos of me during my shoots with Gilles Berquet and being a little spy in her own house.
She models, she draws, she writes, she makes videos and she makes yummy dessert!
Her site is here:
http://www.mirkalugosi.com
She's the one who is usually taking behind the scenes videos of me during my shoots with Gilles Berquet and being a little spy in her own house.
She models, she draws, she writes, she makes videos and she makes yummy dessert!
Her site is here:
http://www.mirkalugosi.com
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I really wish I could be at this one.
Perfect timing had I been attending this year's weekend Démonia events, but nope.
i'm stuck here diving downunder and enjoying the sun when it decides to pop out!
This is a huge show for Gilles & Mirka - 100 pieces of work or the 2 of them.
And I really love working with both of them. Someday they'll have a show i can actually attend (and give me enough notice for!)
Perfect timing had I been attending this year's weekend Démonia events, but nope.
i'm stuck here diving downunder and enjoying the sun when it decides to pop out!
This is a huge show for Gilles & Mirka - 100 pieces of work or the 2 of them.
And I really love working with both of them. Someday they'll have a show i can actually attend (and give me enough notice for!)
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this is from my buddy fred in paris
he's an editor over at Photo
(yes that magazine that has some of the world's best photographs)
he was at a gallery show that just happened to have Gilles Berquet in it too!
So Gilles and Mirka decided to pose with me in the background.
:-)
he's an editor over at Photo
(yes that magazine that has some of the world's best photographs)
he was at a gallery show that just happened to have Gilles Berquet in it too!
So Gilles and Mirka decided to pose with me in the background.
:-)
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Psychic Reality
Bellwether Gallerz
January 26-February 25, 2006
January 28th at 6pm, screening: Zoe Beloff's "Charming Augustine," a 3-D film
Zoe Beloff
Cynthia Chan
Devon Costello
Justin Craun
Gregory Edwards
Jill Hubley
Timothy Marvel Hull
Mïrka Lugosi
Justin Samson & Aisling Hamrogue
Sara VanDerBeek
Johannes VanDerBeek
“The truth that the artist is after is primarily psychic truth. And it is Freud, of course, who has taught us the importance of psychic reality.”i
“Psychoanalysis as a treatment originated in the idea that neurosis is related to the ways in which individual psychic reality departs from actuality. Psychic reality includes memories, beliefs, and their associated affects and fantasies connected with an individual’s experience of the inner and outer world.”ii
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Mïrka Lugosi’s drawings are self-portraits in erotic situations. She explores dark eroticism in relation to fear and death from the perspective of Georges Bataille. Mïrka uses her fears to begin the stories she relates; for instance, the dog is a motif presented simultaneously as lover and threat, treading the balance between attraction and mistrust, becoming simultaneously familiar and uncanny or unheimlich. Mïrka develops her work piece by piece like a puzzle, but the game never ends and mystery persists because her subjects are always open. Her work is articulating itself around a kind of images’ psychanalise in which images are presented not like material reality but always like a mysterious but tangible proposition. Mïrka Lugosi lives and works lives and works at Clamart (Paris). In addition to making small drawings on paper, Mïrka also uses gouache, watercolor, ink on photographs, and film.
gallery page with all the info
Bellwether Gallerz
January 26-February 25, 2006
January 28th at 6pm, screening: Zoe Beloff's "Charming Augustine," a 3-D film
Zoe Beloff
Cynthia Chan
Devon Costello
Justin Craun
Gregory Edwards
Jill Hubley
Timothy Marvel Hull
Mïrka Lugosi
Justin Samson & Aisling Hamrogue
Sara VanDerBeek
Johannes VanDerBeek
“The truth that the artist is after is primarily psychic truth. And it is Freud, of course, who has taught us the importance of psychic reality.”i
“Psychoanalysis as a treatment originated in the idea that neurosis is related to the ways in which individual psychic reality departs from actuality. Psychic reality includes memories, beliefs, and their associated affects and fantasies connected with an individual’s experience of the inner and outer world.”ii
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Mïrka Lugosi’s drawings are self-portraits in erotic situations. She explores dark eroticism in relation to fear and death from the perspective of Georges Bataille. Mïrka uses her fears to begin the stories she relates; for instance, the dog is a motif presented simultaneously as lover and threat, treading the balance between attraction and mistrust, becoming simultaneously familiar and uncanny or unheimlich. Mïrka develops her work piece by piece like a puzzle, but the game never ends and mystery persists because her subjects are always open. Her work is articulating itself around a kind of images’ psychanalise in which images are presented not like material reality but always like a mysterious but tangible proposition. Mïrka Lugosi lives and works lives and works at Clamart (Paris). In addition to making small drawings on paper, Mïrka also uses gouache, watercolor, ink on photographs, and film.
gallery page with all the info
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grr. i am bummed i will miss the party. mirka sent me an invite but i will be in bruxelles and dont get to paris until the 8th :(
une exposition de dessins non conformes
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par blanquet - paquito bolino - captain cavern - anne-laure draisey
fredox - thierry guitard - joko - lulu larsen - mirka lugosi
jean-michel perrin - placid - pyon - rocco - charlie schlingo
caroline sury - anne van der linden
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> exposition du 16 octobre au 5 novembre 2005
> vernissage le dimanche 16 octobre de 15h à 20h
> art's factory - 48, rue d'orsel 75018 paris - tél : 01 53 28 13 50
> mardi au vendredi 13h/19h30 - samedi 11h/19h30 - dimanche 14h/19h
à l'occasion de cette expo, mise en orbite - si tout va bien - du n°5 du journal vertige !
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mirka lugosi
Mirka Lugosi n'est pas un personnage ordinaire : née à quelques lieues du Château de Dracula, au cœur des Carpates septentrionales, Mïrka a grandi dans ce décor fantasmatique qui fait tout le charme et le mystère de son univers pictural. Plus connue comme illustratrice de presse (ADEN, Télérama, Lire), Mïrka Lugosi est avant tout une artiste singulière dont le travail personnel flirte souvent avec un érotisme noir … poudré de rose.
Dessins, gouaches, autoportraits polaroïds, encres sur photographies, images numériques, sont autant d'outils avec lesquels elle s'amuse pour animer son royaume miniature qui tient dit-on sur la table de la cuisine. C'est dans la promiscuité de ce boudoir incongru qu'elle explore les infinies possibilités d'un jeu de dames cruelles. Mirka Lugosi à notamment participé à l’exposition "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (galerie art’s factory - 2003) et ses dessins ont été récemment présentés à ArtBasel par la galerie Air de Paris.
other artist's info at the site
http://arts.factory.free.fr/expos/vertige/index.html
une exposition de dessins non conformes
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par blanquet - paquito bolino - captain cavern - anne-laure draisey
fredox - thierry guitard - joko - lulu larsen - mirka lugosi
jean-michel perrin - placid - pyon - rocco - charlie schlingo
caroline sury - anne van der linden
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> exposition du 16 octobre au 5 novembre 2005
> vernissage le dimanche 16 octobre de 15h à 20h
> art's factory - 48, rue d'orsel 75018 paris - tél : 01 53 28 13 50
> mardi au vendredi 13h/19h30 - samedi 11h/19h30 - dimanche 14h/19h
à l'occasion de cette expo, mise en orbite - si tout va bien - du n°5 du journal vertige !
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mirka lugosi
Mirka Lugosi n'est pas un personnage ordinaire : née à quelques lieues du Château de Dracula, au cœur des Carpates septentrionales, Mïrka a grandi dans ce décor fantasmatique qui fait tout le charme et le mystère de son univers pictural. Plus connue comme illustratrice de presse (ADEN, Télérama, Lire), Mïrka Lugosi est avant tout une artiste singulière dont le travail personnel flirte souvent avec un érotisme noir … poudré de rose.
Dessins, gouaches, autoportraits polaroïds, encres sur photographies, images numériques, sont autant d'outils avec lesquels elle s'amuse pour animer son royaume miniature qui tient dit-on sur la table de la cuisine. C'est dans la promiscuité de ce boudoir incongru qu'elle explore les infinies possibilités d'un jeu de dames cruelles. Mirka Lugosi à notamment participé à l’exposition "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (galerie art’s factory - 2003) et ses dessins ont été récemment présentés à ArtBasel par la galerie Air de Paris.
other artist's info at the site
http://arts.factory.free.fr/expos/vertige/index.html
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