Outcasts Inc., in collaboration with Jeff Rian, presents a group of works by French artist, Orion Giret.

“Orion Giret was a student of mine for four years at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Cergy-Paris. He was the rare one who knew how to “finish” a work. The deft sleight-of-hand of an artist, intuitively linking together subject matter and process like personality and appearance — exquisitely so. Orion, in a nutshell, transforms the materials of resistance and subversion common on city streets into iconic representations of those processes. I thought the experimental exhibition space recently created by Geraldine Postel and her company, Outcasts Inc., would be ideal to showcase Orion’s unique artworks.” — JR

This exhibition had been organized a few months ago. The contents might remind some of the troubles Paris has endured this year, but Orion Giret’s paintings, sculptures, and videos are never reflections of current events. He reprocesses informal social communications, the ones that culture questions, and makes art from such processes: fuse-lit drawings, which he will make on site; candle-smoke paintings, such as of a Molotov cocktail, a burned-out car; a rhinoceros head covered with a smoky surface — a reflection of the human treatment of animals; a video loop of perfectly made paper airplanes crashing into a wall like the numbing of endless repetition; photographs of the gallery façades he’d painted silver, a visual surface rather than a graffiti tag; a fire extinguisher filled with silver paint (his color of choice), the interpolation of 2 car jacks into a column of concrete blocks. Each work in its own way casts a reflective shadow on moral issues that affect everyone. Their strength resides in the way they are made.

JEFF RIAN

http://oriongiret.com/

PRESS:
http://ashadedviewonfashion.com/blog/orion-giret-backyard-wolf-intensions-outcasts-incorporated
http://ashadedviewonfashion.com/blog/orion-giret-tensions
http://henryroy.blogspot.fr/2016/02/art-une-oeuvre-incandescente-du-jeune.html