(Idéale) Géographie, une introduction

(Idéale) Géographie, une introduction is the exhibition organized by Matteo Noire and Pietro Rossi in the Noire Gallery space. The show, curated by Olivier Kosta-Théfaine (also one of the artists displayed) offers a sort of utopian cartography.
It’s the recalling of an informal landscape, fragmented, where the memory of urban suburbs, an abandoned object, becomes unique and precious. The image of a moving geography, ever-changing and surprising.
The artists  use found objectual entities that now are esthetically reinvented, conveying a subtle conceptualism, an almost minimalistic reading of the landscape.
SKKI©’s big wooden panels, Products of the environment (2016), replicate this idea of urban wandering; it’s like getting lost in the city streets and finding lost ''details'' which become structures for painting.
Manor Grunewald’s series, Organic Mess Black (2014), consists of paintings with strong black nuances, where the pictorial matter seems to bring to mind the wet bitumen of a rainy city.
Olivier Kosta-Théfaine’s Untitled, La Gaubretière, Paris IV (2013 - 2014) is made of pieces of metal, seen daily in the city but now transformed and stripped of their original function to be used for paintings and sculptures.
Lastly, Simon Laureyns’s serie Pool Painting (2015) is composed of cloths from used pool tables, all found in the suburbs of Ghent and which become abstract models for his work.
(Idéale) Géographie, une introduction is a new reading of the landscape and, as the show’s curator suggests… postcards, sent by friends, now hanging on the fridge and reinventing a new journey, a new personal geography.

Matteo Noire (1991) and Pietro Rossi (1992), through Associazione Inossidabile, have organized The Bridges of Graffiti, one of the collateral events of the last Biennale di Venezia, 2015.
SKKI© (1967) - Paris (FR) is considered a pioneer of the European Graffiti movement. His first appearing on the urban artistic scene dates back to the 1980s, thanks to the BBC group he founds with JAY ONE and ASH. Using a broad range of materials, which allows him to develop a unique style, he unites Street Culture with the multidisciplinary language of contemporary art. His installations, paintings, photography, sculptures and videos take on themes such as risk, control, the internet, globalization, waste and consumerism, urban development and the dynamics between private and public space.
Olivier Kosta-Théfaine (1972) - Paris (FR) is an artist and creator of art shows. He comes from the Graffiti scene which gave him the opportunity to look at the landscape with a different and more alert eye. He now defines himself as ''peintre de paysage'', a keen observer of all the city’s ''details'' which become the basis of his works. (Idéale) Géographie is the title of a series of collective - traveling exhibitions he created in connection with his ideas about landscape.
Simon Laureyns (1979) - Ghent (BE) investigates the urban landscape, mapping places through his findings.
Manor Grunewald (1985) - Ghent (BE) comes from a street art background but his work differentiated over time. His art is characterized by the constant analysis of the development of painting in a day-to-day environment. He finds and collects the material for his images everywhere, in papers, adds, book, comics, digital media and even illustrations of biological microcosms and macrocosms. His archive serves as a source of inspiration.

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