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The Sollertis Gallery is celebrating its 20 years old. In 1987, Brice Fauché inaugurated his exhibition space in Toulouse. With more of 180 exhibitions and an intensive participation in international art fairs, the Sollertis Gallery has found its own place on the contemporary art stage. For this 20th anniversary, 20 artists will invest the gallery through 10.Part 1 : Sophie Calle / Bertrand Lavier From June 28 to September 1st, 2007 Part 2 : Madeleine Berkhemer / Pierre Molinier From September 7 to October 11, 2007 Part 3 : Paul Armand Gette / Niele Toroni From October 13 to November 11, 2007 Part 4 : Roland Fischer / Xing Danwen From November 15 to December 12, 2007 Part 5 : Olivier Mosset / Morgane Tschiember From December 14 to January 12, 2008 Part 6 : Monique Frydman / Gloria Friedmann From January 15 to February 10, 2008 Part 7 : Yvan Salomone / Rudy Ricciotti From February 12 to March 8, 2008 Part 8 : Katia Bourdarel / Gilles Barbier From March 12 to April 12, 2008 Part 9 : Philippe Cognée / James Rielly From April 22 to May 31, 2008 Part 10 : Alain Josseau / Anne & Patrick Poirier From May 7 to July 5, 2008View All Friends | View Blog | View Pics | Add Comment

Roland Fischer / Xing Danwen
From November 15 to December 12, 2007

Roland Fischer After his series Los Angeles Portraits, Roland Fischer shows news pool portraits realised in China. If the visual appearance and the selection of models stay similar, this new work is an indepth analysis of the previous series as an exemplary change of his artistic pratice. Fischer has been interested in China for many years as the serie Façades realised in this country shows it. On his new images, the shoulders emerge from the water, the faces stand out against a turquoise background on a composition without reference. The models appear in the frontal way without pose, fixed gazes, turned to the camera without look at it. These figures have “an over physical presence but as an absence on the world”. Without retouch, the portraits are separated from the reality. Documentary medium par excellence, Roland Fischer uses photography to confuse the reality captured by his camera. For a long time, painters and sculptors have been trying to capture life expression on their portraits, Roland Fischer confers unreality on his portraits. His portraits don’t have the inherent hic & nunc in photography. The models are included on the massive colored back with timeless style. These monochrome backs of the photographs are a real environment participating to the construction of the own artistic language of the artist. This back, with a large technical complexity to delete any reflections on the liquid surface, remaind the graphic overprinting method used by Roland Fischer for his series Cathédrales. It contributes to the isolation of the body floating on the surface. Rather than to give some informations about the identity of model, traditional function of the portrait, Roland Fischer shows the loneliness of the existence.

Xing Danwen Througt her pictures and her multimedia installation, Xing Danwen underlines the economic, politic and social upheavals of her country. Two main concepts seem recurrent in her art : post industrial development of Asia and the idea of pilling. Pillings of technological item, buildings, infrastructures, bodies, then it’s impossible for the eyes to look all of them at the same time. How does Danwen imagine chinese development ? In a vertical way : layers of technologic discovery, concrete cubes added on the top of the cities. Her Urban Fiction are photographs of model urban plan in Beijing. Juggling with the irrealism play model and the reality of the urban establishment, the artist questions about space disruption of chinses cities. But, her interest is not only focused on this urbanistic aspect. Which is invisible at first sight, a more longer look reveals a real human comedy playing on these urban stages. The embrased couple, children playing down the street, the lover running away from the husband, the accident, the murder… The daily life invaded these spaces, still in entirety. In order to divert the goal, her face animates each feminine figures. For each photograph, she personifies a different protagonist : the loving wife, the fatal woman, the bimbo under the sun … Danwen represents, as the same time, all chineses women and no ones. In this fiction theater, life is present but stuck in the giant concrete which, step by step, becomes the city. If the models reflect a future reality, the scenes are fictions. But in a close futur, the city will become the irrealistic set of the daily drama. So, Xing Danwen plays again, with a kind of mischievousness, the role of the visionary usually attached to the artist. For the very first time shown in France, the serie Wall House takes place inside the building and reveal the urban daily. The protagonists of Urban Fiction become incarnate in human models. The artist discloses big white placeas as a gallery where a woman fusses around. The picture reveals loneliness and isolation.