Valerie Snobeck & Oscar Tuazon - Catherine Bastide
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Valerie Snobeck & Oscar Tuazon
an exhibition by
Valérie Snobeck and Oscar Tuazon
at Brasserie Atlas
Curated by Catherine Bastide
Opening on April 23
Exhibition from April 24 to May 19, 2019
BA ST I D E P R O J E CT S
Chaussée de Forest 62 - 1060 Brussels - Belgium
office@catherinebastide.com - www.catherinebastide.org
THE EXHIBITION
Bastide Projects is a contemporary art platform founded in 2018. Based on Catherine Bastide’s long
international contemporary art expertise as a gallery owner and producer, the platform aims to promote
social entrepreneurship in the art world.
Bastide Projects connects artists, curators, galleries and foundations with NGOs and associations com-
mitted to the protection of the environment by organizing benefit exhibitions. These exhibitions help
highlight various local environmental initiatives and support them by donating a share from the sales.
The first initiative of Bastide Projects in Brussels is an exhibition of artists Oscar Tuazon and Valérie
Snobeck in support of Oscar Tuazon’s project ‘Los Angeles Water School (LAWS)’.
On the invitation of En Silence collective, Catherine Bastide will bring together Oscar Tuazon and
Valerie Snobeck works for the first time at Brasserie Atlas, a post-industrial building where the artists
will show new works produced for the exhibition.
View of Brasserie Atlas
Practical information : Opening: Tuesday 23th of April, from 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition: From April 24 to May 19, 2019
Hours: April 24-28 from 11 am to 7 pm
May 1-19 by appointment
by e-mail: office@catherinebastide.com
Location : Rue du Libre Examen, 15 - B-1070, Belgium
Contact: office@catherinebastide.com
THE PROJECT WE SUPPORT
Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Downtown LA
Los Angeles Water School (LAWS) is a functional artwork, an experimental school
for students of all ages to engage in dialogue and collaborative work about water.
Located adjacent to the Los Angeles River, in a structure inspired by Steve and Holly
Baer’s self-sufficient passive solar Zome House (1969-72), LAWS is the first of four
Water Schools planned by artist Oscar Tuazon, with locations in Minnesota, Michi-
gan, and Nevada.
Through this collaborative process tracing how water connects diverse communities
within Los Angeles and across the continent, working from a micro to macro under-
standing of policy and infrastructure, the artist and LAND are excited to continue
this constitutive dialogue and create a setting for the exchange of cross-disciplinary
ideas and learning.
Beginning October 12th, and continuing through Spring of 2019, Oscar Tuazon
and LAND will present to the public a series of events at Los Angeles Water School
(LAWS). This series of events builds a genealogy of the complex life of water in Los
Angeles, through the lens of local history, architecture, politics, and art. By creating
this genealogy, Tuazon and LAND hope to highlight the dialogue about water and
infrastructure in Los Angeles and bring it to a new audience.
Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Downtown LA
THE ARTISTS
OSCAR TUAZON
Interested in building and creating forms meant to be social works rather than dec-
orative objects, the artist’s sculptural practice revolves around an elemental under-
standing of simple models and complex spaces. Tuazon uses the vocabulary of archi-
tecture to investigate the humanistic potential of the occupation of quotidian spaces.
Tuazon predominantly works with architectural techniques and materials, creating
structures and spaces using building supplies such as steel, glass, and wood and a
simple do-it-yourself approach. Tuazon’s sculptures, built by hand, are often qua-
si-functional objects or models of other spaces. The construction process itself can
often be seen as a performative part of the work, applying the techniques of Land Art
and Minimalism in improvised collaborations with designers, engineers, and build-
ers to produce large-scale installations and public projects.
Oscar Tuazon, Burn the Formwork (Fire Building), 2017
© Skluptur Projekte 2017, Foto: Henning Rogge
Oscar Tuazon, Sun Riot, 2017, one of four elements in the Colonne d’Eau, 2017
Thermoplastic hoses, tree trunks, 268 x 210 x 996 cm
Installation view, Pace Vendôme, Paris, 2017
Photograph by Marc Domage
Oscar Tuazon was born in Seattle, USA and he lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
He is currently represented by Luhring Augustine (New York), Eva Presenhuber (Zu-
rich/New York) et Chantal Crousel (Paris).
He has shown his work extensively in the United States and Europe, including solo
exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016) ; Le Consortium, Dijon
(2015); deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts (2014); the
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2014); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
(2013); the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2013); Kunsthalle Bern (2010) and Centre Inter-
national d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivière (2009).
Tuazon’s work has been featured in several important international group exhibitions,
including in 2017, the Skulptur Projekte in Münster and Documenta 14 Athen. As
well as the 5th Beaufort, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Oostende, Bel-
gium (2015); the 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York; and ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale (2011). He has been selected for
several public commissions, among them: Un Pont, Nouveaux Commanditaires -
Fondation de France, Belfort, France (2016) and People, Public Art Fund, Brooklyn
Bridge Park, New York (2013). In October 2017, FIAC gave him carte blanche to
present an in-situ project on the prestigious Place Vendôme, Une colonne d’eau.
Oscar Tuazon, Zome Alloy, 2016. Installation view at Art Basel. Courtesy Chantal Crousel, Paris; Luhring Au- gustine, New York; Eva Presenhuber Zurich/New York © Oscar Tuazon. Photo : Stefan Altenburger Photography
VALERIE SNOBECK
Valerie Snobeck’s sculptural practice uses the modes of entropy, loss, accumulation
and displacement as if they were techniques. The work is a diagram within the cor-
relation between natural environment and synthetic material culture. Snobeck’s im-
agery and materials are layered into one another: plastic, tar, burlap, denim, Depres-
sion Era glassware, measures for repairing movement in wristwatches, twenty-first
century inkjet printing and cardboard shipping containers are soaked in a previous
era’s recession and oil crises.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C also
finds a recurring interest in her work - throught the use of images from « Documerica
», a project which aimed to report the environmental state of the country during the
70’s or more recently in her show at Le Consortium (Dijon, FR) which concentrates
on its uneasy relationship with industrial lobbies, especially under the current ad-
ministration with its rollback of previous regulatory measures.
Her work constructs a framework through which to gauge the impacts and co-de-
pendency of a range of political, economic and aesthetic concerns.
“Build of a Nearby Valley While Looking Afar”, Le Consortium, Dijon, 2018, installation view
Bag House, 2015 Bag House, 2015
Synthetic polymer paint and baghouse filter Synthetic polymer paint and baghouse filter
Valerie Snobeck was born in Wadena, MN and she lives and works New York, NY.
She is currently represented by Simon Lee (New York/Londres/Honk Kong).
She has shown her work in several important exhibitions at Le Consortium, Dijon
(2018), Catherine Bastide Gallery, Bruxelles (2017), Lafayette Anticipations - Fon-
dation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris (2016), Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
(2016), Aishti Foundation, Beirut (2016), Essex Street Gallery, NY (2015), etc.
Her works are in the collections of Le Consortium, Dijon; FRAC Champagne FRAC
Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Las Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse; Fonda-
tion Lafayette, Paris; University of Chicago Booth School, Chicago.
“Build of a Nearby Valley While Looking Afar”, Le Consortium, Dijon, 2018, installation views
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