Chez Giselle (2003)
“In Chez Giselle Matthew Rose pays homage to the great photographer who lived above
him (in the penthouse) in Paris for many years, the photographer Giselle Freund (1912-2000), as well
as the artists she portrayed with flair and élan. He gives a nod, too,
to his late-friend from Long Island, the artist Ray Johnson, who would
often create lists of artists or friends and sometimes combine them
with found objects.
An
American artist living and working in Paris, Matthew Rose, in the course
of his work, one day discovered a wealth of effluvia on his sidewalk
on the Rue Lalande in Paris 75014: The ephemeral remains of Freund's
photographic archives. Here were slide holders, tables, chairs and magazines.
Most interesting were the slide draw labels for Freund's photographic
subjects: Pierre Bonnard, Simone Weil, Henri Matisse, Simone de Beauvoir,
Vladimir Nabokov and a half dozen other stars of the arts and letters
from the 1930s and 1940s. Around the same time, the door buzzer was
being changed and Rose asked for the old one. Unconnected, it seemed,
logical and poetic to bring these two bits of Paris history together:
Rose inserted their names in the door buzzer slots and recreated an
art household that puts French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet in the basement
(on the same floor with André Malraux) and Max Ernst and Frida Kahlo
sharing the penthouse view. Here is a marriage of two found objects
that create a deep and somewhat comic-surrealist silence.”
BIO:
Matthew Rose is an American artist living and working in Paris. Known for large
scale collage installations, text works, and his global project A Book About Death, an unbound collaborative book on the subject
of death (http://abookaboutdeath.
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