FRANCE / PARIS: SCOTT KING, "TUBULAR BELLS"

until Saturday February 25 2012
8 rue Saint-Bon
8 rue Saint-Bon
75004 Paris
France

Clément Dirié
T : +33 (0)1 58 30 39 38
clement.dirie@jrp-ringier.com
www.jrp-ringier.com

On the occasion of his monograph Art Works issue published by JRP|Ringier, Scott King is invited for a solo show at 8 rue Saint-Bon, featuring a recent painting and his edition of overprinted records’ sleeves.

Scott King's work adopts an idiosyncratic approach that simultaneously embraces the worlds of art, advertising, graphic design, semiotics, and popular culture. Using the languages of commerce, visual communication, and bureaucracy (charts, statistics, etc.), his works, always imbued with a deadpan humour, aim at a complex of psychological, sociological, and political content.
Using his positions in pioneering British-style magazines such as i-D and Sleazenation in the early 1990s, King developed a form of hi-jacked public communication to spread his stories, ideas, and comments.
King’s work has been exhibited widely in the USA and in Europe including the ICA, London, KW Berlin, Portikus, Frankfort, White Columns, and The MoMA, New York.

Opening of "Tubular Bells" on February, Thursday 2nd, 6-9 pm.