When surrealism becomes reality

Have you always wanted to travel to another time and dimension? This is possible to do at Laurent Grasso’s exhibition at the Jeu de Paume. Your sense of time gets blurred, the origin of objects is forgotten, architecture is modified; everything’s made so that you’ll feel completely lost! The documents and information that are handed to you are fictional and aesthetic, the artist wants to “create a false historic memory”, making you lose your means! Reality confronts its own limits, the familiar becomes unknown before you even have the time to realize it. Uraniborg is a journey through time that takes over the present thanks to stunning, surreal and sometimes scary images! Are you ready for a trip to the unknown?

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Laurent Grasso, The Silent Movie, 2010
Néon, transformateur, tablette en bois
6 x 56 x 10 cm
Courtesy Galerie chez Valentin, Paris
Photographie : Florian Kleinefenn
© Laurent Grasso / ADAGP, Paris, 2012

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Laurent Grasso, 1610 III, 2011
Tubes néon, transformateurs
260 x 178 cm
Courtesy Gallerie chez Valentin, Paris
© Laurent Grasso / ADAGP, Paris, 2012

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Laurent Grasso, The Silent Movie, 2010
16 mm sur support blu-ray,
23 min 27 sec, en boucle
Courtesy Galerie chez Valentin, Paris
& Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
© Laurent Grasso / ADAGP, Paris, 2012

Exhibition “Laurent Grasso – Uraniborg”, until September 23rd 2012.
Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays at night until 9 p.m.
Full rate: 8,5€ / Reduced rate: 5,5€.

Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
France
T.: +33 (0)1 47 03 12 50

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