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Exhibition from March 13 to April 6 2019Opening on Tuesday 12 March from 6pm to 9pm

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JUUL KRAIJER

ExhibitionConversationPerformance

« Man has been called by the ancients a lesser world

and indeed the term is well applied; because, as man is

composed of earth, water, fire, and air, this body of earth

is similar. While man has within himself bones as a stay

and framework for the flesh, the world has stones which

are the supports of earth. While man has within him a

pool of blood wherein the lungs as he breathes expand

and contract, so the body of the earth has its ocean, which

also rises and falls every six hours with the breathing of

the world; as from the said pool of blood proceed the veins

which spread their branches through the human body so

the ocean fills the body of the earth with an infinite number

of veins of water » (Léonard de Vinci)

Juul Kraijer. Morphogenesis, the life of forms

In a series of photographs by Juul Kraijer, a snake surrounds a face like a

shawl or headdress from a Holbein painting. The scales, which resemble an

organic fabric, become an integral part of the body. In a drawing, a head

of hair shelters a bush. In another scene, mosquitos swarm a body, which

nevertheless remains still.

For the artist, it is a question of a state of consciousness. The serene beauty

of her models recalls the harmony of Greek statues. The fineness of her

line and the precision of the details evoke drawings from the Renaissance.

In counterpoint, the butterflies nesting on a woman’s skin bring to mind a

waking dream, which becomes an organic nightmare. In another drawing,

a branch coming out of a mouth speaks of co-existence or, rather, of the

dialogue with all living things. In this space of hybridisation, the boundaries

between the human, animal, insect and plant are abolished.

Her photographs on a black background, the exact layout of a flower, recall

Art Forms in Nature by the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. Juul Kraijer

insists « these are not portraits, but abstract, almost transcendent faces. »

The concentration and light are those of meditation : time paused.

The galerie Les Filles du Calvaire has the pleasure of announcing the solo exhibition of the Dutch artist Juul Kraijer (nominated for the Prix Guerlain du Dessin Contemporain 2018) bringing together photographs, drawings, sculptures and video.

17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire 75003 Paris01 42 74 47 05 / www.fillesducalvaire.com / [email protected]

Exhibition from March 13 to April 6 2019Opening on Tuesday March 12 from 6pm to 9pm

JUUL KRAIJER

Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 2014-201519.58 x 14.29 inches. Pigment printing on paper Hahnemühle Museum EtchingCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Kraijer is fascinated by the flexibility of dancers’

bodies and their state of mind. The body as a

malleable material is the place of an excess where

every kind of metamorphosis is enacted. Here, the

gravity of the human condition disappears. In the

video Prologue, the curled-up dancer is enveloped

in a fabric like a chrysalis. Her arms come out in

slow motion, unfolding in space. This performance

evokes different phases of growth. All of Kraijer’s

œuvre evokes this morphogenesis: the development of an organism, the

folding and unfolding of a form.

Most of her protagonists are looking inward; this introspection is shared with

the spectators. For Lise Pauton, a contortionist and choreographer, also one

of Kraijer’s models, this attitude is central to dance in order to arrive at a

meta-consciousness: forgetting the self. The upside-down dancer forms a

wheel like a snake biting its tail, “the ouroboros” Juul Kraijer tells us. This circle

embodies both present time and suspended time.

This timelessness characterises Kraijer’s work. Her long sojourns in India,

with her husband, an Indian artist, have opened up a world to her of

intense contrasts and dazzling nature with its inherent dangers: the artist

emphasises that she is hypnotized by the snake’s beauty and threat; this

juxtaposition marks all her work.

She nevertheless rejects a symbolic interpretation of this, instead, she is

right up close to reality: her gaze captures the analogy of forms: veins, trees’

branches and the folds of entrails. In her photographs of dancers, the back

with its clearly visible spinal column reveals the objectivity of her gaze. The

body’s muscular tissue and the backbone are sculpted by light. This relief

looks like a fossil. Like a botanist, she studies the architecture of the living

world around her..

Juul Kraijer offers us a new approach to the human being as an anchorage of

living structures. She shows the dynamic principle of nature, inherent in each

being. Her œuvre unites the internalisation of the gaze to the exteriorisation of

the skin. The gaze opens to the interior. Human skin, this boundary, mutates

by becoming the earth that shelters micro-organisms of other living forms,

animal or plant. An almost surrealist drawing of a woman’s face covered

with butterflies, whose wings have eyes, shows the permutation that Kraijer

brings about towards this other gaze, that of nature.

Juul Kraijer raises one of the major issues of civilisation in crisis: to rethink the

human body interacting with the species and our natural milieu. Man’s flesh

fits within a vital universal flux.

Jeanette Zwingenberger

Member of the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and an independent curator. She

teaches art history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 2015-201639.49 x 55.32 inches. Charcoal on paperCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Photo : ©KSH

Corinne Mercadier, Un jeu, Espace Second series, 2018

DURING THE SHOW

SATURDAY APRIL 6 2019at the gallery

FROM 4 TO 7 APRIL 2019ART PARIS ART FAIR (Grand Palais, Paris)

CONVERSATION / MEETING AT 4PM

Animated by Jeanette Zwingenberger

(art historian and independent curator). With :

Paz Corona and Corinne Mercadier (Artists of the

gallery presented at Art Paris, Art Fair) and Juul

Kraijer (exhibited at the gallery)

PERFORMANCE « INTROSPECTION » AT 5.30PM

By Lise Pauton (RaieManta Compagnie)

Lise invites spectators to a state of introspection by

navigating through her contortions. This time is nourished

by the visuals of the photographs of Juul Kraijer, with

whom she works as a model. She positions herself

between photography and the spectator as a vector

allowing to enter, a little more, the singular alchemy of a

work of art.

About : Lise Pauton has been a contortionist since she

was a child. She became a choreographer when she

founded the RaieManta Compagnie in 2010. She takes a

contemporary look at the art of ancestral contortion and

works with a demanding, sensitive and unique means

of expression.

Subject to the number of available seats.

The galerie Les Filles du Calvaire has the

pleasure of announcing its participation at

Art Paris, Art Fair 2019. We will present on our

booth the latest works of Corinne Mercadier, Paz

Corona and Zhuo Qi.


JUUL KRAIJERBorn 1970 in Assen, The Netherlands

Lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands


Juul Kraijer studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and lives and works in Rotterdam. Her

main mediums are drawing and photography, sculpture and video works.

Her works are found in many international collections: MoMA, New York; KIASMA, Helsinki; Museum

Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Museum Moderner

Kunst, Vienna; MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Tasmania; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum

Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam; Teylers

Museum, Haarlem; Drents Museum, Assen; Stedelijk Museum; Museum Het Domein, Sittard; Centraal

Museum, Utrecht; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Museum Overholland and many private and corporate

collections in Europe, the United States and India.

SOLO SHOWS (selection)

1998 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands. 2001 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands.2004 Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands2005 Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany2006 Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands2007 Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy2008 Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany.2009 Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands2010 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. 2014 Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland The Wapping Project/Bankside, London, UK Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, Germany2015 Drents Museum & CBK Drenthe, Assen, The Netherlands 2016 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. Juul Kraijer. Drawings and Photographs2017 Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Chimaera.

GROUP SHOWS (sélection)

2001 Kabinet Overholland, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dutch Glory Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A.. Recent acquisitions in the department of drawings2004 Museo ICO, Madrid, Spain Comportamientos actuales del dibujo -Arte Termita contra Elephante Blanco Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Zwitserland. Animaux. Von Menschen und Tieren Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto, Italy. Il Bello e le Bestie. Del divenire animale2005 Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. Slow Art. Zeitgenössige Kunst aus den Niederlanden und Flandern Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Apeldoorns Museum CODA, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Institut Neérlandais, Paris, France Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany. Into Drawing. Contemporary Dutch Drawings2006 Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. ARS 06 - SENSE OF THE REAL. 2007 Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart. CentrePasquArt Biel, Switzerland Surréalités. Le surréel dans l’art contemporain 2008 Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany. Diana and Actaion – the forbidden sight of nudity Gemeentemuseum The Hague, The Netherlands. XXste Eeuw. 2009 The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia. The Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Against Exclusion.

2011 Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia. MONANISM.2012 Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia. Theatre of the World.2013 Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. De Herontdekking van de Wereld. La Maison rouge, Paris, France. Théåtre du Monde. Les collections de David Walsh Museum of Old and New Art et du Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.2014 Avenue de Jette - Institut de Carton, Brussels, Belgium. FORCEFIELD. Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. For your eyes only. Eine Privatsammlung zwischen Manierismus und Surrealismus.2015 Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands. Metamorphosen. Ovidius en de hedendaagse kunst. Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany. «Come, little friend» - Tiere als Vermittler in der aktuellen Kunst. Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India. OFF THE RECORD. Meditations on the Photographic Image.2016 Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Photography Extended. Curated by Nelly Voorhuis (cat.) Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France. Intriguing Uncertainties. Disturbing Narratives. Curated by Lorand Hegyi Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany. Die Zweite Haut. (cat.)2017 Galerie Papillon, Paris, France. Images d’invraisemblances. Juul Kraijer et Didier Trenet. Curated by Lorand Hegyi. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands. Oog in Oog - Topstukken.2018 Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg Hau, Germany. Die Zweite Haut. (cat.) Salon du Dessin, Paris, France. Prix Guerlain 2018. Mamma Anderson, Leiko Ikemura, Juul Kraijer. Parkview Museum, Singapore. Intriguing Uncertainties. Curated by Lorand Hegyi. Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Autofiktionen. Zeichnungen der Gegenwart Prix du Dessin Guerlain. Curated by Astrid Ihle and Rene Zechlin. Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018, Kochi, India. Possibilities for a Non- Alienated Life. Curated by Anita Dube. (cat.)

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO SHOW CATALOGUES

Juul Kraijer. Works 2009 - 2015. 51 reproductions, texts by Ernst van Alphen and Roger Malbert. Drents Museum & Wbooks, Zwolle, 2015.Penumbrae. Juul Kraijer, 40 reproductions. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin, 2014Juul Kraijer. 113 reproductions, texts by Wilma Sütö, Véronique Baar and Juul Kraijer, published by Freem, Rotterdam, 2009Juul Kraijer. Exhibition catalogue Galleria Monica De Cardenas, text: Giorgio Verzotti, Milan, 2007.Juul Kraijer - Drawings. 39 reproductions and a text by the artist. Philip Morris BV, 2004.Juul Kraijer. Exhibition catalogue Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, 2004.Juul Kraijer. Calender 1999, 13 A2 size reproductions, Elsevier Publishers, The NetherlandsDe Hydra. 28 reproductions and a text by the artist, published by the artist, 1998Juul Kraijer, Tekeningen / Drawings 1993-1994, text: Anton van Gemert, published by the artist, 1994 DOCUMENTARY Documentary in the series "Hollandse Meesters in de 21ste eeuw" by Lisa Boerstra, 15 min. , 2012. Dutch spoken/ English subtitles


IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR PRESS

Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 2010-2011 39.97 x 82.88 inches. Charcoal on paperPhoto : Peter CoxCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 2017 55.32 x 39.45 inches. Charcoal on paperCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire


Juul Kraijer, Untitled (L.P.#8), 201514.1 x 19.93 inches. Pigment printing on paper Hahnemühle Museum EtchingCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 201414.93 x 16.86 inches. Pigment printing on paper Hahnemühle Museum EtchingCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire




Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 2017 55.32 x 39.45 inches. Charcoal on paperCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Juul Kraijer, Untitled, 2010-2011 39.97 x 82.88 inches. Charcoal on paperPhoto : Peter CoxCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Juul Kraijer, Untitled (L.P.#8), 201514.1 x 19.93 inches. Pigment printing on paper Hahnemühle Museum EtchingCourtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

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