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Farah Atassi: Resting Dancers

Past viewing_room
April 29 - June 25, 2022
  • Farah Atassi

    Resting Dancers

    April 29 – June 25, 2022


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  • Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition at the gallery, on view online only from April 29 to June 25, 2022.


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    • Sleeping Dancer 3, 2021 Glycero and oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm 63 x 78 1/2 in

      Sleeping Dancer 3, 2021
      Glycero and oil on canvas
      160 x 200 cm

      63 x 78 1/2 in


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  • The society of the spectacle. 

    The performance is over, or perhaps it is yet to begin. Farah Atassi's dancers are at rest, sometimes even asleep, on a stage with a half-open curtain, not for some ballet but for other art forms. Indeed, in the center of a space lined entirely with an impeccable grid that plays almost hypnotically with the reclining dancer's striped costume, striped paintings emerge from the decor, while on the ground a frame seems to be waiting to become an abstraction. 

    • Dancer on Stage 2, 2021 Glycero and oil on canvas 200 x 160 cm 78 1/2 x 63 in
      Dancer on Stage 2, 2021
      Glycero and oil on canvas
      200 x 160 cm
      78 1/2 x 63 in
    • After the Show, 2021 Glycero and oil on canvas 200 x 160 cm 78 1/2 x 63 in
      After the Show, 2021
      Glycero and oil on canvas
      200 x 160 cm
      78 1/2 x 63 in
  • These intersecting lines in Sleeping dancer 3 reveal other crossings, other encounters — those of painting, dance, and theater. This singular dialogue occurs again on the stage of Dancer on stage 2: next to some striped paintings strewn on the floor, the dancer, revealing her intimacy — she only wears a blouse and some slippers — lounges in the stage area, exposing an abstract, undulating decor that merges with the stage curtains. 

    • Dancer with Bouquet, 2021 Oil and glycero on canvas 180 x 250 cm 71 x 98 1/2 in
      Dancer with Bouquet, 2021
      Oil and glycero on canvas
      180 x 250 cm
      71 x 98 1/2 in

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    • The Acrobat Dancer, 2021 Oil and glycero on canvas 250 x 180 cm 98 1/2 x 71 in
      The Acrobat Dancer, 2021
      Oil and glycero on canvas
      250 x 180 cm
      98 1/2 x 71 in
    • Resting Dancer in Black Interior, 2021 Oil and glycero on canvas 162 x 130 cm 64 x 51 1/2 in
      Resting Dancer in Black Interior, 2021
      Oil and glycero on canvas
      162 x 130 cm
      64 x 51 1/2 in
    • The Red Shoes, 2021 Oil and glycero on canvas 130 x 97 cm 51 1/2 x 38 1/2 in
      The Red Shoes, 2021
      Oil and glycero on canvas
      130 x 97 cm
      51 1/2 x 38 1/2 in
  • The same ripples appear in some of the colorful abstractions of the Swiss painter Verena Loewensberg (1912-1986), the only woman in the group of "Zurich concretes" (Max Bill, Camille Graeser, and Richard Paul Lohse) whose project, similar to other historical avant-gardes, had the ambition to produce an abstract plastic which would become a universal language applying to all artistic forms and fields of society, blurring the boundary between art and life. Before becoming a painter, Loewensberg was a dancer in Zurich, trained by the choreographer Trudi Schoop. In Shanghai, in front of Farah Atassi's paintings of dancers — among them perhaps a Loewensberg — the memory of the Swiss painter's abstractions awakens, as much because of the geometry of the decor as the use of many art forms (theater, music, ceramics, dance...). All of this leads to an image of painting which is not defined by its pure pictorial specificity but by its fertile grounding in other art history movements.

    - Marjolaine Lévy, art critic and curator

    • Sleeping Bather, 2021 Oil and glycero on canvas 145 x 180 cm 57 1/2 x 71 in
      Sleeping Bather, 2021
      Oil and glycero on canvas
      145 x 180 cm
      57 1/2 x 71 in

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    • Farah Atassi's studio in Paris, 2021. Photo © Matt Bohli

      Farah Atassi's studio in Paris, 2021.  Photo © Matt Bohli


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