Joël Andrianomearisoa, TALE OF THE UNKNOWN DESIRE, 2023, 56 × 76 cm, Pastel on paper
2024.8.6 Tue – 8.24 Sun
Venue: CADAN YURAKUCHO Space M
Address: 1F Kokusai Building, 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11-19pm, Sat, Sun, national holidays 11-17pm
Closed: Mon (or the following weekday if the Monday is a public holiday)
Opening reception: 6 August (Tue) 18:00-20:00
Closing party: 25 August (Sun) 15:00-17:00 *Exhibiting artists will attend.
STANDING PINE is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Joël Andrianomearisoa featuring his new drawings entitled “TALE OF THE UNKNOWN DESIRE” at CADAN Yurakucho.
Joël Andrianomearisoa was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar in 1977. He currently lives and works between Antananarivo and Paris. He explores many disciplines, from fashion to design, video to photography, scenography to architecture, installations to visual arts. His works are often made from textiles, paper, sometimes wood, minerals, or from unexpected objects that causes a non-explicit and abstract emotion and stories, which people perceive yet cannot describe in words.
In his new drawing series “TALE OF THE UNKNOWN DESIRE”, he draws an imprint in oil pastel on paper. Lines drawn sometimes straight sometimes interrupted like tears that flow without ever taking a single trajectory or overflowing emotions themselves. Andrianomearisoa transports us to his universe, always filled with emotion. This emotion that he does not want abstract but always material like an infinite exercise. The materiality of emotions to be read without particular languages and above all without geography.
Joël states “I’m a little against the idea of understanding everything, I think you just have to get emotional every now and then.”, and he continues “You can be yourself and you can take what you like what you desire inside the exhibition.”
This is the beauty and mystery of Andrianomearisoa’s works. It is abstract emotion and stories, which people perceive yet cannot be named.
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Joël Andrianomearisoa was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar in 1977.
He currently lives and works between Antananarivo and Paris.
He achieves lots of attention as one of the international contemporary African artists in the global art scene. In 2019, he represented Madagascar to the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and has participated in different Biennials including Dakar Biennial and 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Throughout his career, his work has been shown at many prestigious international cultural institutions such as the Maxxi in Roma, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Dallas Contemporary in Dallas among many others. In 2016, he received the Arco Madrid Audemars Piguet Prize. His works have been attracting lots of audience and people in the global art world including the huge installation project in the Encounters section of Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 and the special exhibition “Woven” at Frieze London 2019, which was curated by Cosmin Costinas. In recent years, he has collaborated with various companies such as DIOR and MOLESKINE and one of his works was acquired by Yves Saint Laurent Collection as well. His works were exhibited at the exhibition “Christian Dior : Designer of Dreams” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2022.