Philippe Brault Prison Valley

11.05.2010 - 12.06.2010
Since.Upian is showcasing Philippe Brault's work ! For those of you who haven't heard of him yet, Philippe is a founding member of the French photographer agency l'Oeil Public, and last but not least, co-director with David Dufresne of the webdocumentary Prison Valley! Diptych, triptych, large printings, no matter what the format, Philippe's photography is about that particular America that one gets to face in Cañon City. Where they build a first prison back in the 80's. Then a hotel. Then another prison. Then a diner. Then a third prison. And another motel. A lawyer opened an office a bit later. Before five other prisons were built. Then it all expanded over to the nearest town, Florence. And in the end, that's what Cañon City has become: a prison town where even those on the outside live from the inside. One way or another.

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Titi From Paris Animal Circus

01.04.2010 - 24.04.2010
Titi from Paris is a yellow funky feathery entity born from the imagination of Frank & Tiphaine. His beak is always open, for he loves to tell stories… in the streets, on walls. Animal Circus is a whole new exhibition, created only from new pieces by Titi from Paris. Mainly based on Titi from Paris’ work with India ink, Animal Circus is a complete new collection of characters and shapes. Inside the gallery, you'll find a fresco and drawings on the walls. Framed, Titi from Paris’ characters silently shout out the cruelty and bitterness of the entertainment society.

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MWM Crystals & Lasers

05.02.2010 - 12.03.2010
An ambitious creative spirit, MWM (Matt W. Moore) is travelling to Paris for one month to prepare, from scratch, for his first Paris Solo-Exhibition. He arrives with no art, no supplies, and no firm plan for this new series of canvas paintings. The ideas for the artworks have actualized while processing time spent absorbing French Culture, exploring this Mega-City, the vibrant colors, the exaggerated geometry, and the diverse architecture and fashion of Paris.
 The "Crystals & Lasers" Series explores and celebrates the convergence of his dedication to various disciplines of design and fine art. The paintings are to be created entirely with spray paint, one of Matt's favorite mediums. But the designs are very clean, and appear almost digital in their precise details and craft. An honest, analog attempt to achieve the same depth and abstract geometry of his digital "Vectorfunk" style. The goal with each work is to have the viewers eye fall into the piece and get lost in the optical illusions, trying to figure out what is up, down, left, and right. Welcome to the Future!

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Baptiste Lignel & Johnny Miller Coney Island

07.01.2010 - 14.01.2010
The amusement park had been sold, it was about to close, living through its last and long summer season. For Baptiste Lignel, say the words “Coney Island” to just about any American and you will provoke a reaction, at the very least a spark of recognition. Whether from experience, retold stories of past generations or the personal, albeit generalized, identification and sense of ownership that legend generates, you will have touched on a piece of Americana. A jointly-owned American archetype. The river. This is a project about that particular River. But these are images not of what is constant, the geographical elements of a well-known landmark, but of what is in constant change: the people. The flow of individuals who come to Coney Island and, by their interaction, affect its course over time. The water. These images are of people who, out for a good time on a hot summer’s weekend, are caught in the paradox of being private in public; en famille in a crowd of strangers. And reacting to Baptiste Lignel’s images, Johnny Miller behaved like an archaeologist, who can only look at the “traces” of a civilisation to try and understand it. This trash, these objects, he collected are so many pieces of lives lived there, or gone through there. Pieces of a culture, signs of behaviours, from which one can recompose a scenario, a life, an activity.

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Boris Hoppek Since 1989

20.11.2009 - 24.12.2009
Boris Hoppek’s work is rooted in urban culture, in the here and now. But Boris Hoppek can’t be reduced to the typical graffiti artist. Yes, graffiti is one of the roots of its work. But his work, his declarations, his techniques and the material he works with are too various and too complex too be labelled as belonging to that genre. Often described nice, cute or lovely, his work is not intended to be decorative, and even less to be liked. Politically incorrect, Hoppek’s imagery tells stories based on taboos, such as violence, racism, prostitution or pornography. Despite its beauty and claimed innocence, the body of work of Boris Hoppek achieves an unrivaled combination of cute and ugly. For its first exhibition in Paris, Boris Hoppek himself will present its latest pieces during the inauguration evening: photographies, watercolors, drawings, characters.

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FKDL Metro Monde

14.10.2009 - 12.11.2009
It is inside the Parisian subway that FKDL drew the material for those 20 pieces chosen for the exhibit at the Since.Upian Artspace.Underneath the earthenware tiles and the branded posters, the artist, endless strider of the streets and entrails of the French capital, stumbles upon a treasure : strips of olds ads, forgotten remnants of the 50’s.

Vintage colors, shapes and fonts that instantly take us back in time, somewhere between nostalgia and modernity. Here, over that colored paper from the 50’s, playful silhouettes stretch out in black & white, and adorn themselves with actors and actresses from those days. On the back of each piece, the artist carefully listed all the appearing people, along with the number and the date of the magazine he used.

Those silhouettes have been part of FKDL’s family since 2006, and he gave them life on the streets of Paris, Barcelona, New-York, London… Now, it has gotten bigger to welcome this testimony to the 50’s. For old papers, left on walls to hang for decades, tell a universal story and link us all through time and space. Urban recycling "made in Franck" : a touch of eternity, life forever reinvented.

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Fupete Jolly Roger

09.09.2009 - 09.10.2009
First solo exhibition in Paris of Fupete presents a new serie of abstract paintings and an exclusive installation inspired by piracy. In "Jolly Roger", Fupete will raise his black flag, painted with skull and crossed bones, in order to conduct his art-vessel to conquer new horizons: a cacophony of characters, colors, ancient signs and magic words bursting from his artworks will fulfill the artspace. Fupete is an italian born artist, designer and illustrator currently living in the countryside of Tuscany.

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eBoy Pixorama

18.06.2009 - 18.07.2009
eBoy ("Godfathers of Pixel") is a pixel art group founded in 1997 by Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital, Kai Vermehr. Their complex illustrations have been made into posters, shirts, souvenirs, and even displayed in gallery exhibitions. They were founded on May 2, 1997, expressing their modular and collaborative approach as something that defines eBoy as much as the use of pixels. "We started working with pixels because we loved the idea of making pictures only for the screen. It’s the best way to get really sharp and clean looking results. Also, handling pixels is fun and you are forced to simplify and abstract things, which is the big advantage of this technique."

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Todd Selby The Selby is in your Place

30.03.2009 - 02.05.2009
Through the lens of the photographer, the Selby portraits various people in their intimate interiors. Watercolors, videos installations, small photographs and large-size panoramic portraits will be displayed throughout the boutique and gallery on rue Saint-Honoré. For the colette show, Todd embarked on an eight-day marathon journey in Paris, photographing twenty people in just over a week time, including artist Xavier Veilhan, pastry chef Pierre Hermé, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, interior architect Jacques Grange, as well as Lanvin Homme’s Lucas Ossendrijver. The show will include photos from these Parisian shoots as well as from his archive of material from Los Angeles, New York, Mexico and London.

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Anthony Burrill Geometry in Nature

26.01.2009 - 28.02.2009
Anthony Burrill is a graphic artist who works in print, installation, moving image and interactive, web based projects. He was born in Littleborough, Lancashire and now lives and works on the Isle of Oxney, Kent. After studying graphic design at Leeds Polytechnic he completed an MA in Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art, London where he created his now trademark technique for direct communication.

The show will contain specially constructed laser cut plastic artwork. The artworks are all based on Anthony’s interest in nature and geometry. Although the subject matter of the work is nature, the pictures will have a hard edge almost abstract appearance. The laser cut plastic pieces will fit together like a jigsaw puzzle to produce a clean, glossy perfect version of nature.

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James Mollison The Disciples

05.01.2009 - 24.01.2009
Between 2004 and 2007, James Mollison attended pop concerts across Europe and the USA with a mobile photography studio, inviting fans of each music star or band to pose for their portrait outside the gig. He subsequently combined portraits of 8-10 fans for each performer into a single line up, making a single panoramic image in each case. With a total over 500 individual portraits, in 58 panoramic images, The Disciples, an original, sharp and highly entertaining take on contemporary music culture and the tribalism invoked by popular music stars.

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ESPO L'Attraction De La Boue / A True Provider Is Good To Find

01.12.2008 - 27.12.2008
ESPO's exhibition will be in two locations, one at colette and one on the street. The street exhibition is called "L'Attraction De La Boue" and it will consist of me putting uniquely created raincoats on prostitutes at Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord, and in and around Pigalle and Clichy Blvd, for free. The colette show is called "A True Provider Is Good To Find". The works on display will continue Mister Powers' distillation of life into potent combinations of word and image, while adding light and a bit of "la boue". Powers work dwells on relationships, emotion, music, wasting time, and yearning- in that order. Last week, He was stopped by a nice lady in the street and she said, "I love going to your site and looking at the paintings. My favorite ones are the ones that are sad and happy".

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Tomoko Sawada Harajuku Look

03.11.2008 - 29.11.2008
Tomoko Sawada graduated from Seian University of Art and Design and is known for works such as “ID400” in which she transforms herself into 400 different persons, or “OMIAI” where she tackles Japanese tradition of arranged marriages in which photo albums of a potential soon-to-be-bride are presented to prospective families. By showing herself in so many situations and possibilities, she invites viewers to think about common existing ambiguities between appearance and personality.

As Tomoko Sawada confirms herself: “This series of work was created after a curator asked me for a new series. The theme for the exhibition that was planed by the curator was ‘Harajuku Look’. I thought what I was asked to make is the series of works of which the concept is related to Japanese fashion, a teenagers’ fashion in particular which represents the fashion by younger generation in Tokyo. Therefore, I created the new series ‘Decoration’. I would say that this kind of fashion movement is a symbol of ‘Kawaii’ culture as well as a typical case of the fashion encoded in Japan.”

This will be her first show in France, during the Paris-Photo Japan special event.

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Off, Off Bowery Group Show

29.09.2008 - 01.11.2008
Curated by Aaron Bondaroff and Jen Brill with original artworks by around 30 different names such as Aaron Young, Terry Richardson, Dan Colen, Ari Marcopoulos, Neckface, Brendan Fowler, Rita Ackerman, Jack Pierson, Ryan McGinley... On the first floor, under our gallery, visit Aaron’s pop-up-shop with souvenirs from Wreck Store and a selection of Off Bowery t-shirts, collaborations with Supreme and Wtaps, fanzines, stickers, special editions and a serie of 4 different dollar skateboards created for the event.

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Sølve Sundsbø Perroquet

25.08.2008 - 27.09.2008
Selection of photography prints and short movies exhibited all through colette three levels. "These pictures are a sum of a lifelong love of nature documentaries, National Geographic and my later work with fashion photography. Birds have a sartorial quality which in a sense is a pure form of fashion." First show at colette new version re-opening same date and first Sølve Sundsbø solo show in Paris.

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