Paul Grund’s ‘Paris Fragments’ is now on view in our vitrine in Brussels at Rue de la Concorde 33.
The French artist’s broad, experimental art practice is influenced by his career as both professional skateboarder and self-taught analogue photographer. His travels and explorations as a skater have provided ample material for his ever-growing photographic archive, which includes thousands of images taken the world-over.
Grund’s particularly free spirited, autonomous approach to artmaking has resulted in a plethora of unconventional methods for production and presentation, with a special emphasis on handmade printed ephemera such as artist books, zines, and multiples, as well as performances which question the typical gallery model’s dispersion of personal, memory-laden images within a commercialized setting.
On view is a 6-meter (20-foot) rolled silver gelatin print of skateboarder Kevin Rodrigues, alongside various printed materials, and original black-and-white and hand-colored prints made by the artist. Furthermore, multiple interventions with the hanging will be made over time, by changing the works on view throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Paul Grund (b. 1988, France) lives and works in Paris. Grund has exhibited at institutions such as Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany and LE BAL, Paris, as well as galleries and off-spaces such as Librarie Yvon Lambert, Paris; Medusa, Paris; Studio35Minutes, Tokyo. He has produced over 25 zines and books of his photography, both independently and with other publishing houses. He is a co-founder of Serpent Press, an independent artist book publisher based in Paris.
The exhibition is on view 24/7 through July 1st.
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