MIGUEL ROTHSCHILD Premonition - 4 September 2021 23 October 2021 - Bendana-Pinel | Art Contemporain

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                           MIGUEL ROTHSCHILD
                                                         Premonition

                            4 September 2021 > 23 October 2021

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Miguel Rothschild
Premonition
Exhibition from 4 September to 23 October 2021

Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain is pleased to present Miguel Rothschild’s fourth solo exhibition “Premonition” at
the gallery.

Premonition includes a selection of works from Rothschild’s two most recent series, dedicated to spirits and the
apocalypse. Whereas the forests of Andalusia tipped in rising smoke from a controlled fire inspired works of mythic
connotation, it was the turbulent clouds captured from the studio terrace in Berlin that stimulated the artist to
conceive an apotheosis of the everyday sky. Rothschild enhances the documentary reality of his shots with notions
of prophetic mystery. His refined method of burning the cotton paper support demonizes the landscape by proposing
the disturbing aesthetics of real, three-dimensional consuming heat, orchestrated as fairy-like lace inspired by the
foliage. Impressive cumulus clouds are heralding the catastrophe they will come to cause. Only the fluffy white areas
of the clouds remain unspoiled, but they too could succumb to the temptation of becoming dangerous and self-
destructive.

The photographs would seem to be burned by incandescent and yet invisible flames; our imagination turns the real
burnings into the cause of the smoke on the photograph. A pattern of shadows that varies according to the ambient
light adds to this illusion.

Here, the enchanting spectres of the forest, embodied in the immaterial but devastating smoke, escape the earth.
There, the baroque, romantic, stormy skies are the good hosts who receive these demonic and seductive souls. These
visions are ambiguous. Deceptive sublimity is awaiting the opportunity to strike.

The forest and the sky push us to think about our relationship with nature: a vital and spiritual nature. This romantic
concept pays tribute to the supreme value of nature by identifying it as a central source of creativity and complicity
with eternity while respecting the forces of the supernatural. This powerful intuition of our seductive environment
beautifully evokes the extreme fragility of nature. Given Rothschild’s leitmotivs, a friendly wink at religious depictions
of apparitions and ecstasies is permitted.

Helen Adkins,
Berlin, July 2021

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Miguel Rothschild (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1963) lives and works à Berlin, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection) : «Le Spectre», Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, France (2019) | «Camera Chiara», Evangelisches Zentrum, Berlin,
Germany (2018) | «Contre vents et marées», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2016) | «Images de la Mélancolie», Bendana |
Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2012) | «The Messiah Fights Back», Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2009) | «Le Ciel qui a vu
des étoiles», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2008) | «Le 10 neuf», Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France
(2005) | «Paradis», Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France (2005) | GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection) : «Oil, Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age»,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2021) | «PATCHWORK, L’expression du textile dans l’art contemporain», Le Radar - Espace d’art actuel,
Bayeux, France (2021) | «Sur les chemins du paradis», Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France (2021) | «WAVELENGTH: AT THE MOMENT», Beijing Times Art
Museum, Beijing, China (2021) | «In aller Munde - Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman», Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2020)
| «United we rise», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2020) | «SEE STÜCKEFAKTEN UND FIKTION», Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr,
Germany (2020) | «Sea of Desire», Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France (2018) | «3654 Days after», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris,
France (2018) | «Evidences du réel : la photographie face à ses lacunes», Musée d’art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland (2017) | «Northbound / Southbound»,
Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2016) | «Du Sud au Nord», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain c/o Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm,
Sweden (2014) | «1825 Days», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2013) | «365 Days», Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
(2009) | «Subtil Textil», Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France (2008) | AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENCES (Selection)
: Residence at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, United States (2010) | Residence at Civitella Ranieri Center, Italy (2008) | Grant from the Civitella
Ranieri Foundation, New York, United States (2008) | Grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany (2008) | Grant from the Department for Economy,
Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Berlin, Germany (2007) | PUBLIC COLLECTIONS : Berlinische Galerie, Museum für moderne und
zeitgenössische Kunst, Germany | Staatliche Musee zu Berlin, Germany | Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina | DZ Bank
Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, Spain | Jüdisches Museum, Berlin,
Germany | Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France

                                                                                                                                          UPCOMING :
                                            > Lake Verea’s exhibition «Argent», 6 November > 18 December 2021, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain
                                                                                                     > Paris Photo, 11 > 14 November 2021, Paris

Artists : Francisca Aninat | Irit Batsry | Débora Bolsoni | Thomas Broomé | Dias & Riedweg | Maria Friberg | Mauro Giaconi | Niklas Goldbach |
Lake Verea | Alejandra Laviada | Steven Le Priol | Pablo Lobato | Pedro Motta | Christiane Pooley | Matthias Reinmuth | Caio Reisewitz |
Olivier Richon | Florencia Rodriguez Giles | Julio Rondo | Miguel Rothschild | Giancarlo Scaglia | Sandra Vásquez de la Horra

Invited Artists : Daniel Alcalà | Giulia Andreani | Ernesto Ballesteros | Iulian Bisericaru | Cathy Burghi | Alberto Cont | Luca Cutrufelli |
Arnaud Dezoteux | Pablo Hare | Hirofumi Isoya | Adam Jeppesen | Lunga Kama | Aspasia Krystalla | Jarbas Lopes | Niccolò Montesi | Ronald Morán |
Bernardo Ramalho | Thiago Rocha Pitta | Dineo Seshee Bopape | Camila Sposati | Peter Stridsberg

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                         Apocalypse IX, 2020
Fine art print on Hahnemühle Paper with burns
                                 86 x 120 cm
                                      Unique
        COURTESY BENDANA I PINEL ART CONTEMPORAIN

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                     Apocalypse XIV, 2019-2021
Fine art print on Hahnemühle Paper with burns
                                   85 x 120 cm
                                        Unique
         COURTESY BENDANA I PINEL ART CONTEMPORAIN

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             Spirits in the Woodland, 2019-2021
Fine art print on Hahnemühle Paper with burns
                                    90 x 130 cm
                                         Unique
         COURTESY BENDANA I PINEL ART CONTEMPORAIN