In Paris you possibly can see a wide-ranging and hypnotic exhibition of American multidisciplinary artist Concord Korine, offered by French dressmaker Agnès B., proprietor of the most important assortment of Korine's works on this planet.
Korine (b. 1973) is greatest identified for his impartial movies, significantly his first characteristic movie as a director in 1997. Clingy and 2012 Spring breakers starring James Franco and Selena Gomez. His first main milestone in movie was writing the screenplay for Larry Clark's cult traditional. Youngsters (1995) after assembly Clark whereas skateboarding in Washington Sq. Park. He’s additionally an skilled fantastic artist, having had latest solo exhibitions with each Hauser and Wirth and Gagosian. His method welcomes humor, erraticism, experimentation and improvisation, and he has known as his artwork “mistaken.”
Korine Concord, Zion's Lament (2023). © Concord Korine.
Agnes b. (b. 1941) was born Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé and opened her first trend boutique in 1975 after a interval working for she after being persecuted for her trend sense at a Paris flea market when she was in her early 20s. In 1982 he opened his first worldwide retailer in New York and demonstrated his love for artwork typically by displaying classic film posters all through the shop. That dedication to supporting inventive creation continues to today.
La Fab, the designer's library and gallery positioned inside a social housing challenge on Place Jean-Michel Basquiat within the 13th arrondissement of Paris, is the headquarters of Agnès B.'s endowment fund and has held public exhibitions, concert events and screenings from February 2020. He spoke to Artnet Information about his artwork assortment when La Fab first opened and mentioned: “I made the gathering by buying items by younger, unknown artists; I by no means purchased a Jeff Koons for three million dollars…After I purchased [a] Basquiat drew it was not costly in any respect; I bought it in his studio at the moment, due to a chunk I had seen in Paris. That's why I needed to know extra about him and we met later.”
Agnes b. and Korine met in 1999 on the Venice Movie Pageant, when the designer went to see Korine's newest movie, the experimental drama. Julien donkey boy, after having been a fan of Clingy. The pair first collaborated that very same 12 months when Korine was invited to contribute to Agnès B's subject 12. level of ironya publication he co-created with Swiss curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist and French sculptor and photographer Christian Boltanski.
Korine Concord, Untitled #2, by Trash Humpers, (2009) © Concord Korine © Rebecca Fanuele.
The 2 shaped a long-lasting skilled relationship and an in depth private friendship. “There’s something between us, we grew to become youngsters collectively. It's not about assist, it's about friendship,” agnès b. mentioned the impartial in 2003. The sensation was mutual: “I favored him instantly,” Korine mentioned, “He's like a kindred spirit or one thing.”
It was at Agnès B's Galerie du Jour. on the Rue du Jour in Paris, based by the designer in 1984, the place Korine had his first solo exhibition, titled “The Seal of the Cloven Hoof Marks Your Path,” with a second exhibition. —which incorporates draft scripts together with drawings and pictures—which passed off in 2003. La Galerie du Jour constructed its status because of exhibitions of graffiti artists comparable to Futura 200, A-one and Les Tétines Noires.
Korine Concord, Untitled (Issues at all times comply with me) (2010). © Concord Korine © Rebecca Fanuele.
Korine's fourth characteristic movie Rubbish collectors (2009) was co-produced by agnès b. by way of their joint manufacturing firm O'Salvation. Speaking to him Impartial Of founding O'Salvation, Korine mentioned: “I didn't desire a movie manufacturing firm as a result of I'm equally excited by writing books or artwork exhibitions, issues like that. She understood that I needed to go in several instructions. I wanted one thing that I might do something I needed to do and publish it.”
The brand new present, “Concord Korine en agnès b. Assortment Since 1997” is the primary solo exhibition of Agnès B.'s assortment to be offered at La Fab. It options work, images, and prints by Korine, highlighting his inventive endeavors which have typically been overshadowed by his status as a filmmaker. The exhibition is a celebration of the “inventive complicity” between the 2 and a testomony to their skilled and private relationship that has strengthened one another's practices for 1 / 4 of a century.
Korine Concord, The nice revealer (2023).
© Concord Korine.
“Concord Korine in Agnès B. Assortment Since 1997” will likely be on view at La Fab, Place Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris, from November 22 to March 23, 2025.