PASKUA
98730 BORA BORA - TAHITI
http://www.paskua.net
Vita / Lebenslauf:
\\\"The work of Paskua is wonderful : Expressionism became Cult. His very strong plastic accomplishment is equivalent to the major modern and contemporary artists since his work position itself in occidental art by testifying of the extraordinary antipodic culture that he integrate in a very personal way that he teaches us to love.\\\"
Arnau Puig - Art critic and co-founder of the \\\"Dau al Set\\\" Movement with Antoni TÃ pies
Paskua\\\'s paintings deal with the wilderness of his time and question about impermanence and frailty of human condition in front of nothingness. His work that seems violent, bewitching and disturbing ascends not only memories of the dark springs from his own crossed past but also the past of any humanity. By confronting sacred horror of the immemorial loathes, his work shares a common denominator with his illustrious predecessor, Paul Gauguin.
In these prerequisites that are hardly stemmed from chaos, the allusive forms of human or animal body get mixed in residues of social identities as if marking the stencil with an iron. The origin of darkness is driven by the latent possibilities of the man, history and civilizations.
Essentially even in this AD post-metaphysical contemporary, Paskua proclaims the time of enjoying and of making enjoyment, the presence to the world and to the energy of body incandesced of reality where the life does not get separated from itself, the art from the aesthetics. The art of Paskua is not representation, but presence.
Like a boatman in open sea, a tightrope walker on the horizon, a traveler and a magician of the chaos, Paskua builds his work under the terrifying shadows of a fatal fate and the casting light in the
possibility from sensual delight.
Paskua is \\\"Tahua\\\", the wizard, the Shaman, literally \\\" the one who sees.\\\" His work transforms in receptacle of the sacred as the Polynesians call \\\" To\\\' o.\\\" In the fraying canvas, it weaves the links
that allow us to reach the incandescence of the reality and to see \\\" in things more than things \\\" as poet Arthur Rimbaud said.
Espace Contemporain des Arts du Pacifique
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Born in 1959
Currently lives and works in Bora Bora Island, French Polynesia and Brooklyn, New York, NY.
Education
1977 Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris
1973 Académie Libre de Peinture et de Dessin Laszlo MindZenti
Selected Exhibitions
2009 - Official Selection Biennale Internazionale dell\\\'arte Contemporanea di Firenze, Italy (december)
2009 - Galerie des Tropiques, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia - Solo (April/May)
2008 - Marumo Gallery, New York, USA - Group
2008 - Hank Zhong Gallery, New York, USA - Solo
2008 - Musée de Tahiti & ses îles - \\\"Mana Exhibition\\\", Tahiti, French Polynesia - Group
2008 - ArtExpo New-York - Espace Contemporain des Arts du Pacifique - Solo
2007 - Outside in Tahiti - Galerie Winkler, Tahiti, French Polynesia - Solo
2007 - Upside Down Movement - Palau Pignatelli - Reial Cercle Artistic - Barcelona, Spain – Solo
2007 - Interstices - AntigAlerie du Centre Beaubourg, France – Solo
2007 - Biennale de Lyon - Festival International d\\\'Art Hors-les-Normes, France - Solo
2007 - Thierry Ehrmann’s Abode of Chaos - Performance
2006 - Primal Art - Galerie Winkler, Tahiti, French Polynesia – Solo
2006 - Galerie Anuanua, Raiatea, French Polynesia – Solo
2006 - Screaming Theater – Sidney Australia - Group
2001 - Viva Santa Lucia – Galleria Arco e la Fonte, Syracusa-Italy - Solo
2000 - Les gens de l’eau - Espace Vivendi - Paris Photo - Solo
2000 - Vodo Kanal - Almaty - Kazakhstan - Solo
1999 - Piazza degli calvalieri di Malta - University of Rennes, France – Solo
Selected Collections
Royal Salvador Dali Museum - Barcelona, Spain
Joan Abello Museum - Barcelona, Spain
Europa Museum - Schengen, Luxemburg
Reial Cercle Artistic - Barcelona, Spain
Tahiti Museum - Papeete, French Polynesia
Awards
Ilford photographic Black & White Award 2000
Polaroid Award 2003
Bibliography
Paskua : Expressionism became Cult, Ricardo Pineri – Preface by Arnau Puig - Ed. Equateur, 2008
Paskua - TNTV \\\"Oeil pour Oeil\\\" 26\\\', by John Mairai 2008/09/11
Dictionnaire Larousse des Peintres - Drouot Cotation, 2008
Bible de l’Art Singulier, 2008
Paskua Outside In Tahiti, Ed. Le Livre d\\\'Art, 2007.
The Upside Down Manifesto, 2007
Les Gens de l’eau, Ed. Vivendi, 2000
Paskua, Les Nouvelles de Tahiti, 2006, 2007, 2008
Paskua, La Dépêche de Tahiti, 206,2007,2008
Les stratèges de l’Improbable, Le Monde diplomatique, 2003
ContreCiel, 1984-1985, Paris, France
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