Vidya Gastaldon and Jean-Michel Wicker began their collaboration at the end of their studies they both attended at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble and continued to develop throughout the 90s. Together, they have worked in mediums as diverse as video, drawing, performance, print and textile sculpture. This exhibition is based on a donation by the artists to the MAMCO consisting of some twenty works on paper and several installations.
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Vue d’exposition / Installation view Olio e pepe, 2024, Art : Concept, Paris.
Courtesy the Artists and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudVidya Gastaldon, Healing Painting (Flower Poltergeist), 2014. Huile sur tableau trouvé / Oil on vintage framed painting, 24 × 19 cm (9 ½ × 7 ½ inches)Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset Vidya Gastaldon, Moomin Landscape, 2023. Acrylique et crayon sur toile et cadre peint / Acrylic and pencil on canvas and painted frame. 36,7 × 47 cm (14 ½ × 18 ½ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Vues d’exposition / Installation view Houses of Tove Jansson, Espace Mont-Louis, Paris, 2023. Curated by The Community. Vues d’exposition / Installation view Houses of Tove Jansson, Espace Mont-Louis, Paris, 2023. Curated by The Community. Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Du Nil au Léman. Regards contemporains © Musée d’art de Pully, 2023. Photographe : Olga Cafiero. Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Du Nil au Léman. Regards contemporains © Musée d’art de Pully, 2023. Photographe : Olga Cafiero. Vidya Gastaldon, Healing Painting (Marine monster), 2016. Huile sur tableau trouvé / Oil on canvas on found painting, 55 × 47 cm (21 ⅝ × 18 ½ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Claire Dorn. Collection privée / Private collection Vue d’exposition / Installation views The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London/UK, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by Michael Brzezinski. Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Expérience #16 Rêveries, 2022. Curator Judicaël Lavrador Domaine Pommery, Reims/FR Vue d’exposition | Installation view Océan Sentimental, Vidya Gastaldon, 16.09.2022 – 05.11.2022. Production Les Capucins, Embrun. Courtesy the Artist; Wilde, Genève; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo © F. Deladerriere Vue d’exposition / Installation views, Hippydrome, 2022, Frac Normandie Caen/FR Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Jusque-là, Le Fresnoy – Studio national, Tourcoing, 2022.
Vidya Gastaldon, Escalator (Rainbow Rain), 2007, laine, fils, baguettes de tilleul / wool, threads, lime tree sticks, 700 × 100 cm, Pinault Collection. Courtesy the Artist; Wilde, Genève; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo: Théo CoeugnietVue d’exposition / Exhibition view Histoires d’abstractions. Le cauchemar de Greenberg, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 2021-2022. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Thomas Lannes Installation view Paysages du temps zéro, 2021. Photo Nicolas Brasseur. courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris Vidya Gastaldon, Les yeux libres 54, 2021, Acrylic paint and varnish on plate ø 12,7 cm (ø 5 inches). Photo Nicolas Brasseur. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris Vidya Gastaldon, Sentiment océanique (Marquis-e), 2021, Watercolour, gouache paint, acrylic paint, pencil and coloured pencils on paper, 20,8 × 29,4 cm (8 ¼ × 11 ⅝ inches). Photo Nicolas Brasseur. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris Vidya Gastaldon, Sentiment océanique (pommettes chaudes), 2021, Watercolour, gouache paint, acrylic paint, pencil and coloured pencils on paper, 29,4 × 41,6 cm (11 ⅝ × 16 ⅜ inches). Photo Nicolas Brasseur. Courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris Santa Saturnia, 2019, acrylic on clock and painted objects, 261 x 41 x 27,7 cm. Healing object (chakra echelle), 2019. Acrylic paint and varnish on found ladder, 87 x 26 3/8 x 5 1/8 in. Private collection FR Healing object (cubistery n°1), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found object, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. Installation view, Géométries de l’Invisible – EAC (Espace de l’Art Concret Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national), 2020. Healing Object (cubistery n°1 et n°2), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found object, 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. each. © photo eac. Installation view, Géométries de l’Invisible – EAC (Espace de l’Art Concret Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national), 2020. Healing Object (cubistery n°1 et n°2), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found object, 5/8 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. each. © photo eac. Healing object (tabouret couché de soleil), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found stall, 18 7/8 x 13 x 13 in. Healing objet (tabouret double face tigre), 2019, acrylic paint and varnish on found stool, 17 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 12 3/8 in. Atlantide, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 70 7/8 x 98 3/8 in. Les rescapés, Installation view, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016 Les rescapés, Installation view, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016 Les rescapés, Installation view, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2016 Healing Painting (A huge ever growing…), 2016, oil on vintage paint, 18 1/8 x 15 in. Healing Painting (Désastre mauve), 2016, oil on vintage framed paint, 19 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. Healing Painting (Vers le Ciel), 2016, oil on vintage framed paint, 15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. Healing Painting (First Human), 2015, oil on vintage paint, 15 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection FR Le long chariot Mixcoatl, 2014, beechwood, wool, silk, Variable dimensions Le long chariot Mixcoatl (detail), 2014, beechwood, wool, silk, Variable dimensions Installation view, L’Illusion des Lumières, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, curator: Caroline Bourgeois, 2014 Let it god (Santa Table), 2013, Variable dimensions Installation view, I’m in Love with the New World, Art : Concept, Paris, 2013 Teapot, salad, poltergeist, 2012, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. De l’amour avec du poil autour, 2012. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 47 1/4 in. Playful Flame, 2011, acrylic and oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 70 7/8 in. Try looking into that place…, 2009. Watercolor, acrylic, gouache, colored pencil on paper, 12 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. Installation view Vidya Gastaldon, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France, 2009 Installation view, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea, 2007 Installation view, Vidya Gastaldon, Kunstmuseum, Thun, 2006
Biography
Vidya Gastaldon was born in 1974 in Besançon. She lives and works in Grange Neuve (Ain), France.
With her mystical, fantastical and extremely vivid approach to art, Vidya Gastaldon develops a sort of harmonisation of qualities both spiritual and physical. Allergic to any attempt to control and restrain her universe, she delivers a cosmic overview combining Hindi divinities, Muppet-Show characters and Christian references. Her work, reminiscent of artists such as Turner, Burchfield, Blake or Bunuel, is extremely multi faced and deals with the divine, the hallucinatory but also with everyday life. In a mixture of sacred, sensual, tongue-in-cheek and sometimes provocative creations, she manages to establish a connection between “being” and “meant to be”. She engenders new beliefs, and by means of negative and positive impulses she pushes social unconsciousness out of the way, liberating our collective thought of the predefined egregores that oblige us to keep reproducing spiritual and social patterns.
Her work is part of the following collections: Frac Normandie, Rouen; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest; Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Jenisch Museum, Vevey; Kunst Museum Bern; CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; Collection Région Piémont, Turin; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Selected solo exhibitions: Océan sentimental, Centre d’Art Contemporain Les Capucins, Embrun (2022); J’aurais voulu qu’on s’aime tous, Wilde, Genève (2020), Objets peints au feu de bois, Art : Concept, Paris (2019); Push the earth with your knees, the sky with your head, Art Bärtschi & Cie, Geneva (2017); Les Rescapés, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne; Hello From the Other Side, Art : Concept, Paris (2016); Tu es Monstrueux et je t’aime beaucoup, MAMCO, Geneva (2012); Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan (2009), among others. In 2019 her work was part of the group exhibition ‘Futur, ancien, fugitif’ at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
At the gallery
- Paysages du temps zéro, 2021
- Objets peints au feu de bois, 2019
- Hello From the Other Side, 2016
- Le cours des choses, 2015
- I’m in Love With the New World, 2013
- Bagna Cauda, 2010
- Cinématique, Esthétique, Politique, Hermétique, 2010
- Necology, 2009
- Vidya Gastaldon, 2006
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Vidya Gastaldon. Les Rescapés, Cahiers de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix n°131, les Sables d’Olonne, 2016, 104 pages Call it what you like…, catalogue de l’exposition, The new art gallery, Walsall, 2008 JRP Ringier éditions, Zürich, 2008 Vidya Gastaldon, Catalogue d’exposition, Kunstmuseum, Thun, 2006 Auteurs : Karl Holmqvist, Madeleine Schuppli & Fabrice Stroun JRP Ringier éditions, Zürich, 2006
Richard Fauguet, Tête de thon, 1999, collage sur papier/collage on paper, 30 x 21 cm (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.) Richard Fauguet, Sans titre (Céramique), 2009-2010, céramique, silicone/ceramic, silicone, 107 x 32 x 30 cm (42 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 11 3/4 in.) Jeremy Deller, Mari Lwyd of Pontypool, Wales (en collaboration avec Alan Kane), 2001, photographie couleur, encadrée/C-type print, mounted and framed, 176 x 81,5 cm (69 1/4 x 32 1/8 in.) ed 3 Vidya Gastaldon, Les invités (après), 2013, 13 objets peints à l’acrylique dimensions variables/13 objects painted with acrylic paint variable dimensions Ulla von Brandenburg, Monster (monstres), 2013, papier découpé sur document trouvé/cut-out paper on found document, 106 x 86,5 cm (41 3/4 x 34 in.) Collection privée/private collection CH Ulla von Brandenburg, Masken (masques), 2013, papier découpé sur document trouvé/cut-out paper on found document, 56 x 64 cm (22 x 25 1/4 in.) Collection privée/private collection Martine Aballéa, Poison mort, 2013, fiole en verre, glycérine, colorant alimentaire noir, arôme/orange glass flask, glycerine, black food colouring, orange smell, 9,5 x 5 x 5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 x 2 in.) ed 1/10 Hubert Duprat, Coupé-Cloué, 1991-1994, bois de hêtre et clous tapissiers en laiton/beech wood and upholstery brass nails, 70 x 517 x 40 cm & 40 x 505 x 40 cm (27 1/2 x 203 x 15 3/4 in. & 15 3/4 x 198 x 15 3/4 in.) Vidya Gastaldon, Healing Painting (Ante-Landscape), 2014, huile sur tableau trouvé/oil on found painting, 69 x 59 cm (27 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.) Geert Goiris, Overgrown, 2014 impression pigmentaire/archival pigment print, 150 x 125 cm (59 x 49 1/4 in.) ed 5 + 1 AP