Spiritofboz

JULIEN FRIEDLER’S SPIRIT OF BOZ EXHIBITIONS

WHO IS J. B. ?

April 17 to May 24, 2009

Curator : Gabrielle Bryers

Christopher Henry Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street
NEW YORK, NY 10013

www.christopherhenrygallery.com

DIALOGUES 

May 17 to June 14, 2009

The National Gallery for Foreign Art
St. Alexander Nevsky Square
1000-SOFIA — Bulgaria

www.foreignartmuseum.bg

SPIRIT OF BOZ

October 15 to November 15, 2009 

Mube (Museu Brasileiro da Escultura)
Av. Europa, 218
CEP : 01449-000
SAO PAULO—Brasil

www.mube.art.br

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

« SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS »

May 28 to July 4, 2009
Curator : Isolde Brielmaier

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 west 20th street
NEW YORK, NY 10011

www.jackshainman.com

« BILLION OF ZEALS »   

August 2009
Curator : Ariel Roger-Paris

De PURY & Luxembourg
Limmaststrasse 264
CH-8005 ZURICH

www.depuryluxembourg.com

Julien Friedler, Demoiselles
Fiberglass, 110×65x91

Exhibitions

> The Demoiselles Revisited, Francis Naumann Gallery, New York, 2007 (collective exhibition)
> In Quest, Galerie Boz 38, Ostende, August 2007

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This feature was shot in september 2005, documenting the performance "The End of Time", during the Festival of Flanders. This haunting performance was the meeting between Olivier Messiaen’s music (Quartet for the End of Time) , Primo Levi’s  words (If this is a man) and Julien Friedler’s installation The Innocents.

The Innocents could be Julien Friedler’s most emblematic work. Created in 1999, it has been exposed in Milan (2003) and Paris (2004). It’s currently settled in Julien Friedler’s atelier.

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Julien Friedler, Autoportrait 3, 1998
Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 200

Exhibitions

> In Quest, Galerie Box 38, Ostende, August 2007.
> De leur temps, French private collections,  Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, 2004.
> L’infanzia dell’ Arte, Mudima Foundation, Milan, 2003

Julien Friedler

The Shaman (2000)

Mixed Media
200 x 150

Exhibitions :

> In Quest, Galerie Box 38, Ostende (Belgium), August 2007
> Mudima Foundation , Milan (Italy), 2003

The logo of Spirit of Boz is derived from this painting.

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On May 8th,2008, "BeBOZ : Rund Um Boz In 80 Jahren" opened, in the Heilig-Kreuz Church, in Munich. It’s the first art show about Julien Friedler’s "Around the Boz In 80 Years" art project. The interior of the church, waiting for restoration, is overrun with scaffoldings, offering a unusual place for an exhibition and deeply contrasting with the neo-Gothic exterior.

In this network of metal, the visitor finds 4 giant panels hanging above his head, describing the 4 continents covered by the project (Africa, America, Asia and Europe).  Behind the altar, hangs a fifth panel with the 6 questions of the project). Above the choir hangs an helicoidal installation, "L’Envol", created with "Around the Boz" questionnaires.  Finally, photos and questionnaires from all round the world are showcased. The sound designer Cornelia Faist created a sound installation for the occasion.

Alongside the show, in May and June the Sunday church services will refer to the above mentioned questions. In June there will be several evening lectures with different speakers, treating these themes : Art and Church, Art and Spirituality, Art and Mission, Art and Therapy. These lectures will be moderated by reverend Gereon Kühr and Erno Vroonen, the curator of the BeBOZ trilogy in Munich.

This show, the first one in the "BeBoz Trilogy in Munich" series, will end on June 29, 2008.

The installation "L’envol" and the panel with the 6 questions of the project, in the choir of the church.

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On March 4, 2008, Stella Rouskova was interviewed by Vladi Sevov, for "4+1", a TV show on the national Bulgarian network Eurocom. She presented Julien Friedler and his workl, with a focus on the "Around the Boz in 80 Years" art project. The interview includes images of  the  "Innocents" installation.

Read also :

> Around the Boz in Bulgaria

> "Around the Boz in 80 Years" : details and highlights

> The Innocents, une installation de Julien Friedler