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Augustine Kofie 3/3 – Nothing Should Be Easy

Augustine Kofie dรฉfinit ce quโest pour lui un jeune artiste et le travail quโil doit accomplir. Depuis ses premiรจres commandes, la premiรจre exposition ร la Zero One Gallery qui a tout fait basculรฉ jusquโร lโartiste quโil est devenu aujourdโhui, cโest en autodidacte quโil sโest construit. Il partage enfin ses envies et lโรฉvolution quโil souhaite donner ร son travail.
Augustine Kofie defines what a young artist is for him and the work he has to accomplish. Since his first commissions, the first exposure to the Zero One Gallery that changed everything to the artist he has become today, he built himself as a self-taught artist. He finally shares his desires and the evolution he wants to give to his work.
Augustine Kofie 1/3 – Street Culture

Augustine Kofie est un artiste urbain de Los Angeles connu pour ses abstractions et considรฉrรฉ comme le pionnier du graffuturisme. Issu dโune famille dโartistes et intรฉressรฉ par les arts manuels, le graphisme et le dessin, il รฉvolue dโabord dans le milieu du skateboard. Il y dรฉcouvre un univers culturellement riche et variรฉ en termes de musique et de rรฉfรฉrences artistiques. De petits projets gรฉnรฉrรฉs au hasard des rencontres, il plonge peu ร peu dans lโexpression qui deviendra son art.
Augustine Kofie is an urban artist from Los Angeles known for his abstract work and considered as one of the pioneers of graffuturism. Coming from a family of artists and interested in craft arts, graphics and drawing, he first evolved in the skateboarding world. Here, he discovers a culturally rich and varied world in terms of music and artistic references. From small projects generated at random encounters, he dives little by little into the expression that will become his art.
Cleon Peterson – Victory

Lโartiste amรฉricain Cleon Peterson prรฉsente sa premiรจre exposition solo ร Paris. VICTORY se tient ร la Galerie du Jour du 12 janvier au 18 fรฉvrier 2017.
Toujours fascinรฉ par la violence, la brutalitรฉ et lโexercice du pouvoir entre les puissants et les marginaux ; lโartiste nous met face ร une rรฉalitรฉ quโil a connu et quโil observe encore. Son exposition rรฉsonne avec force au regard de lโactualitรฉ politique et sociรฉtale aux Etats-Unis comme dans le monde.
ยซCette exposition explore les triomphes hรฉdonistes de ceux qui se reconnaissent comme victorieux dans le miroir du cours de lโhistoire. Leur accession au plaisir dรฉpend de leur projection de douleur sur le vaincu, ou lโexpression courante du plaisir que lโon tire du malheur des autres. Alors que les vainqueurs font รฉtalage de leur arrogance et remportent leurs trophรฉes, les perdants sont considรฉrรฉs comme insignifiants et marginalisรฉs. Lโexposition VICTORY raconte la victoire dโun homme sur un autre, ร quoi ressemble cette victoire, et les effets quโelle exerce sur les perdantsยป.
American artist Cleon Peterson presents his first solo exhibition in Paris. VICTORY is shown at the Galerie du Jour from January 12 to February 18, 2017.
Always fascinated by violence, brutality and the exercise of power between the powerful and the marginalized; the artist puts us in front of a reality he experienced and still observes. His exhibition resonates with force today in the light of the political and societal situation in the United States as in the world.
โThis show explores the hedonistic triumphs of those who recognize themselves as victorious in the unfolding mirror of history. Their right to pleasure hinges on their projection of pain onto the unvictorious other. This often expresses itself in pleasure derived from the misfortune of the defeated. As the winners display their hubris and take their trophies the losers are left insignificant and marginalized. VICTORY explores one man’s victory over another, what that victory looks like and the result that victory has on the losers.โ

