Galerie Zeitgeist
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ZEVS
Created in August 2009 by Habib Diab (Art Collector and Chairman of Curart Association), Galerie Zeitgeist is an unconventional Parisian gallery. Mr. Diab promotes essentially Contextual Art as Contemporary Art.
Galerie Zeitgeist will exhibit three artists Zevs, Yevgeniy Fiks and Raphael Denis, as eyewitnesses of our period.
Zevs use the original colors and re-paints corporate logos with excess. By pouring paint over them, the logo dissolves in front of the viewer’s eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognizable and omnipresent trademark. Fountain, Zevs strikes at several famous brands including Nasdaq and Google.
Yevgeniy Fiks paints his subjects — current members of the Communist Party USA — from life in trivial interiors of their New York offices and wearing everyday clothings. These paintings are a site of struggle against specters of both Socialist Realism and Sots Art, which are inevitably evoked when a genre of a “portrait of a Communist” is concerned. These paintings portray those who identify as Communists in the present-day United States. It’s about stating facts — and the fact is that there are Communists in the USA circa 2007. The existence of Communists in the USA, a quintessential late-capitalist nation, fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet bloc is highly subversive and problematic for a post-Soviet subject. Communism is dead in Eastern Europe but Abdul, Sheltrees, Dan and others whom he painted are living, breathing, and thinking New Yorkers of the 2000s. It’s precisely in this context of the proclaimed death of Communism and the end of the Cold War that he focuses his attention on American Communists today. It’s the contradiction between the notion of death of Communism and a sense of life emanating from those whom I painted that is so disturbing.
Raphael Denis realizes WTB – World Towers of Babel, a monumental sculpture including two towers. Towers refer to the World Trade Center, but also, to the Ka’ba. The sculpture symbolizes the culture shock between two civilizations and precariousness of the world.
Raphel Denis, Mixed Media Sculpture, 2010