Sebastien de Ganay Folded Linen Abstract Minimalist Sculpture, 2016

Description

Folded Flat Linen 01
2016
Dimensions: H: 36 cm / W: 35 cm / D: 9 cm
Materials: architectural wire … more Folded Flat Linen 01
2016
Dimensions: H: 36 cm / W: 35 cm / D: 9 cm
Materials: architectural wire mesh, raw linen


Born in 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Sebastien De Ganay studied political science and film at Columbia University in New York 1986-1990 ( (Bachelor of Political Science, Master of Fine Arts in Cinema) and is co-founder and editor of the art book publishing house onestar press. In addition to numerous exhibition participations, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Landesmuseum Österreich in St. Pölten, Austria, the Institut Français in Vienna showed a comprehensive solo exhibition of the artist in 2014. In 2017, de Ganay realized a highly acclaimed installation for the Kunsthalle Krems. de Ganay lives and works in Austria.

de Ganay produces minimalist abstract art works, painting, relief and wall sculpture. Sculptures made of aluminum, linen fabric, plastic, oil painting, wood and other materials. de Ganay joins a tradition of experimental artists. In this sense, for example, the Achromes by the Italian Arte-Povera artist Piero Manzoni, created in the 1960s, point the way for de Ganay's examination of folded linen fabric.
"The process of de Ganay's Painting is the process of thought itself; it is a process which turns not away from painting, but towards it. And rather than seeing painting as closure, he presents his work to us as a space of multiple openings, layers, shadows and reflections. Painting is, as much as an object or a process, a state of flux."
(Adrian Searle, art critic for The Guardian, London (1994)) In the style of Readymades and Arte Povera, de Ganay starts out from a simple utility material and combines this with an examination of the surface in the tradition of Minimal Art. He designed a limited edition chair "PLEASE" a “4 Piece Chair” customized by John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner and Rirkrit Tiravanija.






SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 CRISS CROSS - Sébastien de Ganay, Raffaella della Olga, Galerie Steinek, Wien, Österreich
"Flip, Flop, Flux", Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2018 "und, und, und", rauminhalt harald bichler, Vienna, Austria
2017 "Fold on Fold", Häusler Contemporary, Lustenau, Austria
"Transposition an Reproduction", Kunsthalle Krems in der Dominikanerkirche, Krems, Austria
2016 "Space on the Move", Hausler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 "Fold", Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany
"Folded Flat" Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2014 "Turn the green light on", Institut Français in Palais Clam-Gallas, Vienna, Austria
"over again forever" Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria
2013 Sébastien de Ganay, "Carton Sculptures", rauminhalt harald bichler, Vienna, Austria
St. Moritz Art Masters, Schlosserei, St. Moritz, Switzerland
"you are here", Galerie Günter Salzmann, Innsbruck, Austria
2010 Presentation of the "All in one"-project, Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, France
2009 "Catalogue", Daniel Abate Galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 "Máscaras, más cajas, más caras", Daniel Abate Galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 "Artist Quarterly", Sotheby’s, Vienna, Austria
2002 Galerie Jacqueline Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France
2001 "Blanchiment d’argent et haute couture", Galerie Jacqueline Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 "THE OTHER IS ONESELF", FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3, Vienna, Austria "Sculptura", Iris Andraschek, Babi Badalov, Khaled Barakeh, Bernhard Cella, Adriana Czerni, Ramesch Daha, Sébastien de Ganay, Raffaella della Olga, Julius Deutschbauer, Sylvia Eckermann, Anna Jermolaewa, Bouchra Khalili, Thomas Locher, Jonathan Monk, Klaus Mosettig, Rudolf Polansky, Hans Schabus, Slavs & Tatars Gerold Tagwerker, Florian Unterberger, Costa Vece, Martin Walde, Lawrence Weiner, Nil Yalter
Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland "Sculpture Only", Artists: Michael Venezia, Gary Kuehn, Hamish Fulton
Sébastien De Ganay, Haroon Mirza, Roman Signer, Keith Sonnier.
2013 "Book Machine", Le Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2003 "Betonsalon: Erwin Wurm & Sébastien de Ganay", Vienna, Austria
1999 "F.I.A.C.", Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris, France
1997 "Plastic", Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, England
"Sébastien de Ganay and Neil Cummings", Richard Salmon Ltd, London, England
2016 "PARALLEL VIENNA", "Scarpa Diem", Max Henry, Vienna, Austria
"Art Basel", Three Star Books, Basel, Switzerland
2015 "UNTITLED, ART", Miami Beach, USA less