Artist: Achraf Touloub
Exhibition title: CONT’D
Venue: Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Germany
Date: September 16 – October 29, 2016
Photography: Groupshow, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist, Galeria Plan B Cluj, Berlin
For those two circles
Where perceptions are mise en scène
Beginnings look like encore
One on the other, transparent and thin as layers
Real as one again/
Grey horizon for confused bro’
Drawing waves between eyes and mouth
Extended feelings emerge following
The cycle shadow leaves while responding
Cause God loves ironie
Les without ending dimensions
On the stage of your eyes
And as expected you show back/
Since the smell of variant scenarios
Genes proudly reappearing
By stunned links as those long and short chains
Then all visions count equally/
Now one is cropping the other
Making possibles greater
If you eat your tongue only
So by the european nights
Mixed moods are cutting the road
And a straight-line becomes fractal/
The new stuff for the news
Like rectangles making squares
Maybe for fifteen minutes or fifteen years
The tattooed faces will seem in advance
This is continued and so on
Galeria Plan B is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Achraf Touloub, to open on Friday, the 16th of September 2016, in the framework of the Berlin Art Week. For CONT’D, the second solo exhibition with Plan B, Achraf Touloub (b. 1986 in Casablanca, lives and works in Paris) develops a show as a sensorial experience, in which various layers of our reality merge into a loop. His drawings, sculptures and video works are based on the intuition that the conventional binary opposition between tradition and the modern mind is, in fact, a movement of convergence.
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – black portrait), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, stainless steel, metallic chains, 270x150x7cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (sight scenario), 2016
Gouache and copper ink on paper, 164 x 78 cm
Achraf Touloub, CONT’D, installation view, Plan B, Berlin, 2016
Photographer: Dacian Groza, Courtesy the artist and Plan B Cluj, Berlin
Achraf Touloub, Scène, 2016
Wood, paint, 780 x 415 x 55 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – the concert), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, metallic chains, 120 x 123 x 5 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – BBC business), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, metallic chains, 63 x 54 x 6 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – prime partition), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, metallic chains, 88 x 115 x 5 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – yellow Baghdad), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, metallic chains, 149 x 107 x 8 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – awakening), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, metallic chains, 50 x 145 x 7 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (continued – rendez-vous), 2016
Oil, video loop, screen on nylon textile, metallic chains, 180 x 97 x 8 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (reflets gravés III), 2016
Ink on paper, 45.5 x 33.5 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (reflets gravés VI), 2016
Ink on paper, 44 x 33 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (reflets gravés IV), 2016
Ink on paper, 44 x 33 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (reflets gravés II), 2016
Ink on paper, 44 x 33 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (sight scenario – horizon I), 2016
Copper ink on paper, 24 x 229 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (sight scenario – horizon), 2016
Copper ink on paper, 24 x 229 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (sight scenario – horizon II), 2016
Copper ink on paper, 24 x 229 cm
Achraf Touloub, Untitled (regulate), 2016
Found metal pieces, glue, incense sticks, 97 x 45 x 18 cm
