PRESS RELEASE
The Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to announce an exhibition by Jean-Marc
Bustamante, opening on Saturday, September 13th.
In this new project entitled La Chambre des Saintes (The Room of the Saints), Bustamante
transforms the exhibition space, inviting the viewer into an enclosed space that is at once
public and private. The visitorʼs gaze will alternately lead him/her through a succession of
stages punctuated by new works that occupy and accentuate the space.
A monochrome, screen-printed, Plexiglas screen in three parts will seal off the entrance to La
Chambre des Saintes. In walking around this screened entrance, one will discover the
Chambre with walls covered in wallpaper with streaks of neutral colors that are simple and
understated.
For the center of the room, Jean-Marc Bustamante invited Franz West to create an original
piece of furniture upholstered in a hand-screened fabric with patterns designed by
Bustamante, which acts as a vantage point for converging view points.
The artist will present five new painted works on Plexiglas. Apart from the process of these
works being considered as mysterious and unique, they also represent a freshness and
sophistication, which Bustamanteʼs work has embodied since 1998. He creates a visual and
immaterial space where a mélange of casualness, naiveté and humor affirm this relationship
to art that is so dear to the artist.
These visual elements come together through lines, colors that are always unexpected and
often built upon a silent narrative that is simultaneous to the artistʼs gesture, which continues
to freely explore the place of art and to push its limits.
Jean-Marc Bustamante lives and works in Paris.
His upcoming solo museum exhibitions will take place this fall at the MACʼs Grand-Hornu, the
Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as the Cultural
Foundation Ekaterina in Moscow in the spring of 2009.
For further information regarding this exhibition, please contact Bénédicte Burrus at + 33 1 42 72 99 00, béné[email protected] or Alessandra Bellavita at [email protected].
To obtain visual elements, please contact Zahra KH-Alam ([email protected]).
