Naoki Sutter-Shudo

Naoki Sutter-Shudo works in sculpture, installation, painting and photographic prints. His practice is shaped by his love for objects, developed during his childhood spent in Tokyo, surrounded by antiques. His composed works demonstrate a sharp understanding of colour, form and texture, presenting descaled universes and speculative worlds, organic and manufactured. The artist’s use of architectural models alongside objects – shrunk planetary systems, stuffed animals, shadowboxes similar to those by artist Joseph Cornell, fake flowers, dead bees – remind one of concrete poetry turned three-dimensional. Inspired by Georges Bataille and Soetsu Yanagi, Sutter-Shudo revisits a 1930s and ‘40s artistic tendency to de-functionalise objects and rewire their essence and use. The eloquence of his works lies in the simplicity of form and the rich mythicism of their substance. ...

Crèvecœur, founded in 2009 by Axel Dibie (born 1981) and Alix Dionot-Morani (born 1979), located in the Belleville area (eastern Paris) has, since its creation, presented artists from France and the rest of the world whose different practices question current conditions for producing images and objects. The gallery sees itself as a body that supports its artists in the various stages of production, demonstration and dissemination of their practice. Through its work inside 3 gallery spaces — a 160 sq.m. space in Eastern Paris (20e) with natural light that can host ambitious exhibitions; and two spaces in the historic centre of Paris (7e) through the co-creation, since 2015, of a new alternative fair called Paris Internationale; through a publishing house called oe publishing books by represented and invited artists; and through support for production of the institutional shows of the represented artists, Crèvecœur is an entity which aims to adapt, in an organic way, to the challenging systems that contemporary artists experience today. ...