Anri Sala, Noli Me Tangere, Esther Schipper, Seoul, 2024 Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul © The artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Photo © Andrea RossettiEsther Schipper Seoul presents “Noli Me Tangere,” a solo exhibition by Anri Sala, the artist’s second with the gallery and first in Seoul. On view will be a new series of frescoes and a work from the artist’s series of animated modified snare drums.
Anri Sala is best known for his films and cinematic installations that interweave the properties of one medium with that of another—filming music, editing film according to musical compositions, employing architecture to structure content, form and presentation of art works and entire exhibitions. Sala has had solo exhibitions at major institutions such as the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Serpentine Galleries, Centre Pompidou, Mudam Luxembourg and The New Museum and has participated in major biennials such as the Venice Biennale (where he represented France in 2013), the São Paulo Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, and Documenta. His work is held in many prestigious art institutions, among them Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Gallery, London, Fondation Luis Vuitton, and Pinault Collection.
The new body of work, presented for the first time in Korea is conceived with the al fresco technique, combining different geological and historical temporalities, once again creating a lush interweaving of formal, historical and conceptual associations. A technique practiced in Italy for centuries, the frescoes are painted on specially prepared panels using the ancient method of painting with pigment dissolved in water onto wet plaster (intonaco). Set into the intonaco are also pieces of marble that are integrated into the compositions, flush with the surface of the plaster. Varying in size between 63 x 41 cm and 120 x 102 cm, the works are hung on the wall.
