Yaled

The first solo exhibition in the new space Rue Eugène Oudiné was a show by Claude Closky, entitled Vampires & ghosts. This project addressed questions related to chance and intention, not only through the works exhibited, but also through the presentation and lighting system.
Inviting Delphine Coindet and Paul Czerlitzki to exhibit together is of course a choice but also involves a certain amount of chance….
The works of Delphine Coindet gathered here were all presented in the solo exhibition Ventile at the art centre Le Portique in Le Havre in autumn 2018, while those of Paul Czerlitzki had not yet been created when he was invited to exhibit.

Yet their work seem to echo each other, points of contact appear and set up an unexpected dialogue… For example, the invocation of the figure of Joseph Beuys in Delphine Coindet’s work Pour Joseph, while Paul Czerlitzki lives in Germany, and studied at the Kunst Akademie in Düsseldorf where Beuys’ teaching left a very strong legacy. Connections also exist between the enigmatic nature of Paul’s great black monochrome paintings
Delay, which are nevertheless very objective and material, and Delphine Coindet’s very concrete but nevertheless mysterious Corde Jaune et bleue.
Resonances again, between the large silkscreen prints on felt (Hello Joseph!) which concentrate random and precision, brightness of colors and matte aspect of matter, and Paul’s FLESH OUT paintings which, although offering to our eyes the raw materiality of the canvas, nevertheless seem inaccessible…

1 – Since everyone is an artist, for whom are you doing art ?
Delphine Coindet : For anyone who is suceptible to see it as long as there is… (Artists are quite often the most discerning viewers by the way). Surely not for someone in particular. But to be honest I should say I do it for me because it’s the only way I’ve found to escape quite a bit from the conformism and bourgeois way of living I was initially conditionned for. That being said, the hardest thing is still not to let oneself be trapped by one’s own certainties, habits and automatisms throughout life.
Paul Czerlitzki : Laurent.

2 – Who the fuck is Joseph Beuys ?
Paul : Not Laurent.
Delphine : Someone brilliant enough and probably crazy enough to claim loud and clear that everyone is an artist.
Someone who can combine artistic practice and political activism by being a member of a party that initiates the environmental cause. A model for a concrete demonstration of «Total Art». Luckily I came across the documentary Beuys by director Andres Veiel, when I arrived in my hotel room in Le Havre in October 2018. As I was there to set up my exhibition at Le Portique, I seized this coincidence to evoke the extraordinary commitment of the creator of the concept of «social sculpture», whose work was omnipresent and always very influential when I began my studies at the Ecole d’Art in France in 1987.

3 – Are you friend on Facebook or Instagram ?
Delphine : Sorry, these social networks are definitely not for me!
Paul : Just with Laurent.

Paul Czerlitzki was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1986. He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. After studying art history, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf where he became a student of Katharina Grosse. He received a grant from the German People’s Foundation in 2011 and was a resident of the International City of Arts in Paris in 2013.
His work has been exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Leopold Hoesch Museum Düren in Germany, the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, the Kunstverein in Leverkusen in Germany…