TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR @ onestar press

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR is an art exhibition featuring a selection of multiple works from the Onestar Press collection, curated by Anna Klossowski, Louise Grislain, and Charlotte Morel. The exhibition features 23 artists, including well-known figures like Marina Abramovic and Lewis Baltz, as well as lesser-known artists who use the inherent qualities of multiple works such as relative cost and lightweight production means. The exhibition includes a range of strategies for subverting reality, including the use of chance as a creative tool, an exploration of the role of the artist as demiurge, and an interest in forms that are ridiculed or dismissed by mainstream culture. Other themes include the use of multiple works as a means of democratizing art and the inherent reproducibility of such works.

The tribulations of Siegfried, staged by Alain Séchas in the psychoanalytic jungle of Jurassic Pork II, kick off the exhibition. Meanwhile, Marina Abramovic and Lewis Baltz delve into the deep layers of their personal history. The rest of the selection introduces different strategies for subtly twisting reality: by hiding fiction in the page of an encyclopedia in Ryan Gander's work, by collecting and decontextualizing newspaper clippings in Taroop & Glabel's work, or by capturing and amplifying imperceptible sounds in Stephen Vitiello's work. The exhibition then invites chance as a creative driving force through the use of dice or angles by Sam Samore and François Morellet. Declining another form of intentionality refusal and the artist's demiurge position, Aleksandra Mir, Claude Closky, and Luca Vitone anchor their thinking around the issue of stroke and drawing. Closky's coloring book or Mir's signed blank sheet invite their owners to a moment of unpretentious expression, while Vitone carefully preserves the sketches made by strangers during his urban wanderings. The works of Annika Ström and Lisa Anne Auerbach also show an interest in ridiculed forms, whether they are the small shops surviving in the context of globalization, photographed by Auerbach, or the interrogations doomed to go unanswered that Ström transcribes in a way that parodies the expressiveness of the pictorial gesture. Pierre Bismuth's Coming Soon temporarily suspends the exhibition, as if announcing the upcoming exhibition of Jonathan Monk. Opposite them, two figures propose DIY as a model for creation: Hans Schabus shows in his video the reconstruction of his workshop within an exhibition space, while Liz Cohen, through the photographic inventory of her favorite tools, portrays the garage in which she "customizes" a Trabant.

Featured artists:

Marina Abramovic • John Armleder • Lisa Anne Auerbach • Lewis Baltz • Pierre Bismuth • Stefan Brecht • Claude Closky • Liz Cohen • Ryan Gander • Pamela Golden • Jamelie Hassan • Jonas Mekas • Aleksandra Mir • Jonathan Monk • François Morellet • Sam Samore • Hans Schabus • Alain Séchas • A.L. Steiner • Annika Ström • Taroop & Glabel • Stephen Vitiello • Luca Vitone