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Raphaël Zarka
Winner of the 10th Ricard Prize, awarded at the exhibition The consistency of the visible, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud.
Ricard Foundation Prize presentation
in the Centre Pompidou
Biography
Born in 1977 in Montpellier
Lives and works in Pairs
The artist is represented by the gallery Michel Rein
Personal Exhibitions (selection)
2009
Raphaël Zarka, Museum of modern art, Oxford, Royaume-Uni
2008
"Ratiocination", galerie Michel Rein, Paris
"Padova", La Vitrine, Galerie de l'école des beaux-arts de Cergy, Paris
2007
"Foundation", Galerie 1m3, Lausanne, Suisse
"En Milieu Continu", Galerie de l'Erban, Nantes
Sébastien Vonier / Raphaël Zarka, Musée des Beaux Arts de La Roche-Sur-Yon
"Un Voyage d'hiver" avec Guillaume Constantin), Tripode, Espace Diderot, Rezé
2006
"Les Formes du Repos", Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris
Exhibitions (selection)
2008
"L'anomalie d'Ararat", IrmaVepLab, Chatillon sur Marne
"Grand chaos et tiroirs", Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques et Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
"The White Patch", Galerie HO, Marseille
"La Marge d'erreur", Synagogue de Delme, Delme
"Ultramoderne", Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest
"(), Neutre Intense", Centre d'art Mira Phalaina / Maison Pop, Montreuil
"Amorces", Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers
"P2P", Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Auteurs Autoritaires", Frac Champagne Ardenne, Reims
"220 jours", Galerie GB Agency, Paris
2007
"XS PARIS", Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris
"Speed Dating 2", Zoo Galerie, Nantes
"Le Jardin de Cyrus", Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers
"Utopomorfias", Galeria Antonio Henriques, Viseu, Portugual
"Biennale de Lyon", Musée d'art Contemporain, Lyon
"Ultramoderne / Materia", Espace Paul Wurth, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Enlarge your Practice", Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille
"Le Syndrome Broadway", Centre d'art du Parc St Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
"Speed Dating", Espace Mica, Rennes
"L'ile de Morel", Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault
"Uni Super Blockhaus Total Parpaing", Oeen group, Copenhague, Danemark
"Ideal.Loop", Espace Croisé, Roubaix / Espai Ubu, Barcelone, Espagne
"Airs de Paris", MNAM Centre George Pompidou, Paris
"Voyage Blanc", Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon
2006
"Mémorabilia", l'Atelier, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
"Rencontres vidéos #3", MACVAL, Musée d'art contemporain, Vitry
"Horizons Synthétiques", Mains d'oeuvres, Saint Ouen
"Les Nuits Blanches", Galerie Extérieure, Paris
"L'usage du monde", Musée d'art Moderne et contemporain de Rijeka, Croatie
"AAKEY", CCC, Centre d'art contemporain, Tours
"Etranges Fictions", Schloss Agathenburg, Allemagne
"The Library, With bizarre rooms in whimsical shapes", Villa Warsaw, Varsovie, Pologne
"Reprise et Reprise", Galerie Extérieure, Paris
"Le Spectre des Armatures", Glassbox, Paris
"Video-Salon", Galerija 10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnie-Herzégovine
"Le Bord du Monde", Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
"Récurrences Dérobées", Betonsalon, Paris
"Exposition#3", Galerie Schirman & de Beaucé, Paris
2005
"Le Bord du Monde", Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
"Itanomthub", Mains d'oeuvres, Saint-Ouen
Works
The work of Raphaël Zarka plays with the plurality of the senses. He deals with the replica of existing objects, the reproduction of a work, or the deduction from an existing form. In this respect, he remains loyal to the principle of "ratiocination", a title borrowed from Edgar Poe during his last personal exhibition in the Michel Rein gallery. He is close to the artists-scientists-architects of the Italian Renaissance, but he is also linked to disruption, poetry, and free association of forms and ideas. Between science and fiction, the work of Raphaël Zarka gives way to several interpretations, as his forms in movement can be construed at different levels, without any signification ruling out the other.
To read: Raphaël Zarka, by Aude Launay, art critic, in the Zero Deux magazine
