Jean-Marie Appriou, Andrew Lord Event

JEAN-MARIE APPRIOU
GEMINI
Opening on Wednesday, November 8, 6 – 9 pm

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present Gemini, the gallery’s third exhibition with the French artist Jean-Marie Appriou.

The story of life on earth is a story of twins. Ever since the first organisms bubbled into being, tiny specks in a vast primordial soup, they have been splitting themselves in two. Billions of years later, even the largest creatures still begin life as single cells that divide into identical daughters. One becomes two, two becomes four, and eventually, these exponential broods become us.

ANDREW LORD
A SCULPTURE OF MY LEFT HAND AND FIVE EMBRACES
Opening on Wednesday, November 8, 6 – 9 pm

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a sculpture of my left hand and five embraces, the gallery’s third exhibition with the British artist Andrew Lord.

The Open Hand: the embraces by Andrew Lord

For artist Andrew Lord, the atlas of the world is composed not of connected landmasses delineated into political shapes often beset against the grain of geography, but of passages of the body: the mitt of the hand capping a stretch of the arm bending into the block of a torso. Should the figures he hews be of bronze or ceramic—an arrangement of vessels, a circle of swallows, the rise and run of a Lancashire landscape—each work possesses a double consciousness of lyrical embodiment, of being in the world and the world being in it. Or, in other terms, as Lord has touched the thing, the thing has touched him. Both changed in the contact, the work is left with the imprint of metaphor.