The Magda Danysz gallery is reopening after 4 months of renovation. The gallery is reopening with a solo show over the three floors of the gallery by internationally acclaimed young talent Prune Nourry, 31, who is a must have of the French upcoming art scene.
As both an intellectually and aesthetically driven artist, Prune Nourry considers sculpture as her backbone. Through the years, for each of her series she focuses on three pillars: 1- a social issue (as the demographic imbalance); 2- an ancient cultural tradition (the 2000 year old terracotta technique) and 3- her contemporary artistic inspiration.
Prune Nourry's Imbalance exhibition covers the three gallery floors with new installations; bronze as well wax sculptures and mural works.
Imbalance is a series of artworks born from Prune Nourry's long artistic trips to China. Inspired by a country full of contrasts, this series follows her famous series Terracotta Daughters. Back in 2014 Prune Nourry sculpted a full life-size Terracotta Daughters army. The complete army, made out of 116 sculptures has traveled around the world, from Shanghai to Mexico via Paris, Zurich and New York before coming back to China where it is now buried in a secret place until 2030. Why 2030 one would ask. It is the year when the consequences of the restrictive population policy will have reached their climax according to sociologists... Prune Nourry with her new Imbalance series keeps on questioning the society.
In the Imbalance series, the artworks presented in this exhibition subtly combine raw materials and fragile accessories. Prune Nourry incorporates to her bronze and wax sculptures the traditional elements of acupuncture, as needles or suction cups, as if she was trying to find the right balance in the current existing energies. Yet, beyond the aesthetic achievement, Imbalance is also for the artist the result of a long and deep focus on today's issues.
Born in 1985 in Paris, France, and graduated in sculpture from the Paris Ecole Boulle Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist. Prune Nourry draws her inspiration from the complex definition of a human being and the associated gender selection issues. The artist explores bioethics through sculpture as well as video, photography, and performance. Her work focuses on how artificial procreation leads us towards an artificial evolution of mankind and its consequences. From her in-depth research in bioethics is born an intellectual artistic approach, supported by extensive research and interviews with scientists, sociologists and anthropologists.
Currently Prune Nourry is also working with an impressive range of film professionals (as Shigeru Umebayahi the composer for the In the Mood for Love movie) on her much awaited Terracotta Daughters documentary; a book and in spring 2017 a solo exhibition at the Asian Arts Guimet Museum in Paris. As Sophie Makariou, the director of the Guimet Museum, shares « I like the overall dimension of her work, both artistic and social. With her humanism, she evokes the Renaissance artists ».
Prune Nourry, Imbalance:
on show from October 15th to November 26th, 2016
Opening :
Saturday, October 15th from 6pm to 9pm
Address :
Galerie Magda Danysz, 78 rue Amelot 75011 Paris
Website :
http://magdagallery.com
Press contact :
Clémence Wolff +33 (0)1 43 57 79 78
clemence@mnacommunication.com
