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Xavier Veilhan: Channel Orange
Xavier Veilhan鈥檚 first solo exhibition on Chinese territory presents a series of newly produced works from each of his significant formal research fields: variations on both human and animal statuary, mobile sculptures and Rays installations. It is an introduction to his oeuvre in its present state of development.
Like a true landscape of sculptures, with variable perspectives yet on a single horizon, the ensemble steers our gaze in many directions, but anchors on the color orange of Manfredi and Mobile n掳5. Choice of color with Xavier Veilhan is often aesthetic but always in regards to the context, either of the piece or of the physical space where it lives. Channel Orange is a title in homage to Frank Ocean. It is the name of his first album and refers to the phenomenon of synesthesia1 and the color he once perceived during a summer when he fell in love for the first time.
For Xavier Veilhan there is also the evident reference to the color orange that passes through the exhibition, notably with the three works of roughly the same color applied to different materials: the mobile, the large bust and the double-necked guitar. A sense of musicality clearly underlies the exhibition and can even be related to the low relief portraits: Tony, for example, reminds us slightly of Frank Ocean. But it is no illustrative title. It rather tells a parallel story to the show.
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Xavier Veilhan鈥檚 first solo exhibition on Chinese territory presents a series of newly produced works from each of his significant formal research fields: variations on both human and animal statuary, mobile sculptures and Rays installations. It is an introduction to his oeuvre in its present state of development.
Like a true landscape of sculptures, with variable perspectives yet on a single horizon, the ensemble steers our gaze in many directions, but anchors on the color orange of Manfredi and Mobile n掳5. Choice of color with Xavier Veilhan is often aesthetic but always in regards to the context, either of the piece or of the physical space where it lives. Channel Orange is a title in homage to Frank Ocean. It is the name of his first album and refers to the phenomenon of synesthesia1 and the color he once perceived during a summer when he fell in love for the first time.
For Xavier Veilhan there is also the evident reference to the color orange that passes through the exhibition, notably with the three works of roughly the same color applied to different materials: the mobile, the large bust and the double-necked guitar. A sense of musicality clearly underlies the exhibition and can even be related to the low relief portraits: Tony, for example, reminds us slightly of Frank Ocean. But it is no illustrative title. It rather tells a parallel story to the show.
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