Press Release
XAVIER VEILHAN “Mobiles”
Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong / May 21 – July 6, 2013
Xavier Veilhan solo show “Mobiles” organized by Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong from 21 May to 6 July 2013 gathers a group of recent or never seen mobiles of different various shapes and dimensions.
Xavier Veilhan creates exhibitions in the form of wanderings and site specific interventions, in cities, parks or living environments (Veilhan Versailles, Palace of Versailles, 2009; Veilhan at Hatfield: Promenade, 2012; Architectones, Los
Angeles, 2012-2013). Veilhan is a multidisciplinary artist. He is possessed of a highly personal artistic universe inhabited by a heterodox range of characters, objects and animals. Through complex devices, the playful component emerges as a fundamental element in evoking a reality peopled with symbols, metaphors and other semantic ambiguities. Veilhan turns his gaze on the
past to deconstruct classical genres and iconographies: a reinvention of the equestrian portrait, the setting up of a istinctive bestiary based on traditional canons or the transformation of the imaginary of the vanitas into objects akin to a pop aesthetic … in an approach that seeks communion with the viewer in an overall experience.
For Veilhan, the possibilities of representation and the art of the exhibition are part of his leitmotif, the ultimate live performance where his works function as part of a greater machinery.
