Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
‘One to Rule Them All’ (07 December – 25 January 2020)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Texts by Julie Crenn and Clément Thibault

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
“Passage” (12 October – 30 November 2019)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Text by Eric Darragon

Avec la sculpture « Katielo », un événement se produit, Kriki crée du spectaculaire ! D’emblée, cette oeuvre monumentale, spécialement conçue et réalisée pour la Collégiale de Chartres force le dialogue avec ce lieu historique. Il est rare de retrouver chez des artistes de la génération de Kriki, des sculptures aussi impressionnantes présentées à un large public. Voilà pourquoi la complicité avec l’histoire de cette Collégiale n’en demeure pas moins un débat forcé avec l’histoire de l’art contemporain français ! « Katielo », nom issu de la cosmogonie Sénoufo – ethnie du Mali, signifie la divinité-maternité consacrée de la forêt. Son message est inséparablement théologique et anthropologique. A savoir aussi qu’à la source de la conceptualisation de cette sculpture, la cosmogonie des Sénoufos est ignorée de Kriki qui, lui, à ce moment-là, cherche à radicaliser son idée-force de masques africains dont le bois se met à repousser.

Text by Philippe Piguet / Critic of art and independant curator

KRIKI, PAINTING OR THE POSSIBILITY OF THE FIGURABLE (extract)

Where Kriki’s art take on all its meaning, is precisely in this capacity the artist has for bringing things together. Whilst he draws here and there on the twists and turns of his own experience and culture, the iconographic elements that give form to the work he has in mind, the painting phase charges the creative act with a determining link to the spawning of meaning. From local to global, in some way, Kriki’s painting acts as a catalyser for his thoughts. Like a musician or writer, notes serving one, words the other, by combining them together to express the depth and fullness of their feelings and their vision, painting is the vector through which Kriki expresses his place in the world. With complete integrity. Because, as Louise Bourgeois so rightly put it, “art is a guaranty of sanity,” Kriki’s work is capable of guaranteeing a crit- ical way of looking, without depriving the gaze of pure aesthetic pleasure.

Philippe Piguet

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
“De front” (16 March – 13 April 2019)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Text by Baptiste Brun

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
“Insoumises expressions” (13 October 2018 – 26 January 2019)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

Presented artists:
Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Benjamin Katz, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke

Text by Eric Darragon

On the occasion of Paris Photo 2018
(08 – 11 November 2018)

Presented artists:
Jeff Cowen
Jürgen Klauke
Francette Levieux
Robert Mapplethorpe
Boris Mikhaïlov
Juergen Teller

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
“Phantomempfindung” (19 mai – 17 juin 2018)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Text by Catherine Millet

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
“History Repeating” (07 April – 12 May 2018)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Texts by Daria de Beauvais and Yann Chateigné

Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition
“The Black Mirror” (10 – 31 March 2018)
at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Text by Edward Colless