Crisis. Against appearances
04.12.08 > 24.01.09
Opening : 04.12.08, 20h.

Jan Kopp's work infiltrates the social machinery, the gears of meaning production, to uncover and to question the assimilation of the symbolic. Contrasting images created with borrowed or inherited material and appealing to their connotations, Kopp tries to revise and invert their meanings. Recently he has had individual shows in the la Galerie Maisonneuve (Paris), Martos Gallery (New York) and the FRAC Alsace (France). His work has also been shown in group exhibitions in such institutions as: PS1 (New York), the Moscow Biennal, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Guangzhou (China), Shedhalle (Zurich), Kunsthalle Tirol (Austria) or the ICC (Tokyo).

Parabole | Polyesterene and plaster. 400 x 600 cm.
Parabole is a hybrid that emerges from the architectural form of an amphitheater, whose movement evokes the structure of a parabolic antenna. The form refers to two objects—one archaic and one contemporary—that are used for the transmission of information, whether visual or imaginary. In this manner, the work sets metaphor on the capture of information. With a sculpture that not is a sculpture but a cadaver (a structure that is more provisional than solid), the artist presents himself as a “bricoleur” , or handyman, and solicits the spectator to complete the empty structure as well as the temporal chain of disuse and dysfunction of an apparently unfinished object.