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Oct 4 – Oct 7, 2018

Frieze London 2018

The project features three artists from different cultures and generations. On a wall, paintings by Fitztpatrick, then in the centre some Millagou's sculptures and Pfeiffer buries a whole wall with wallpaper and photographs hung on it.

Fitzpatrick works into the body as metaphor for social structures, and sexuality in relation to productivity and repression. He is interested in the psychological abstraction of the body that western religion imposed on it through the moralising of sexuality in favour of procreative sex, at the dismissal of any sexuality that fell outside of heterosexual marriage and childbirth.

Surrounded by the immemorial aura of archaic beliefs, Millagou’ surfboards are inspired by the Tiki, which are traditional carved human representations from Oceanian culture with a contemporary and sexual look. Millagou’s practice is located at this point of dilution: from apparently incompatible mythologies, it recomposes a syncretic totality where everything conspires to the recovered utopia.

Pfeiffer's pictures are the extension, concretized by the image, of a certain way of looking, of acting, of moving. This interpretation is confirmed by the way in which Pfeiffer's works are presented, the presentation bears witness to a certain humor that is not gratuitous but reflects, on the contrary, an optics that oscillates between diffuse sensuality and irony.

The three artists explore notions of body representation and masculinity. They also evoke different types of underground culture, gay iconography, rituals, religions, primitivism, identity and social marginality in the works on display.

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Walter Pfeiffer

Untitled, 1974

Imprimé en 2015 / Printed in 2015
Tirage Lambda couleur / Lambda color print

120 x 80 cm

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Walter Pfeiffer

Untitled, 1974

Imprimé en 2018 / Printed in 2018
Tirage Lambda couleur / Lambda color print

Encadré / Framed : 82 x 59 cm
Image : 77,5 x 54,5 cm

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Justin Fitzpatrick

Antibodies: Curtain up, 2018

Huile sur toile, cadre en bois

Oil on canvas, wood frame

110 x 70 cm

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Justin Fitzpatrick

Blue Daisy: Whitman, 2018

Huile sur toile, cadre en bois

Oil on canvas, wood frame

110 x 70 cm

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Olivier Millagou

La CoudouliĂšre, 2017

Platre, sable et métal émaillé / Plaster, sand and enamelled metal

30 x 21 x 10 env cm

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Olivier Millagou

L’Ayguade, 2017

Platre, sable et métal émaillé / Plaster, sand and enamelled metal

30 x 21 x 10 env cm