Brice Dellsperger
Biche
Title: Brice Dellsperger, Biche, 2024
Year: 2024
Material: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 18 x 12,5 cm, museum glass
Edition: Unique
Price: sold
Biche is part of a series of gouaches by video artist Brice Dellsperger (*1972 in Cannes, lives in Paris), which complement the visual references of his cinematic work: scenes from Hollywood films, pop culture, music videos, and a range of queer icons, trans personalities, and drag queens. Jean Biche is a prominent performer and artist in the Paris and Brussels nightlife scenes and has appeared multiple times in Brice Dellsperger's video works in the Body Double series—a continuous reenactment of film history with a camp and queer interpretation since 1995. Biche was featured in Body Double 39, which was filmed in the spaces of the Dortmunder Kunstverein and site-specificly presented during Dellsperger’s solo exhibition in the summer.
Brice Dellsperger (born 1972 in Cannes, France, lives in Paris) is a visual artist based in Paris. A graduate of Villa Arson, Nice, he has taught photography and video at ENSAD Paris since 2003. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Villa Arson (2019), Marsèlleria, Milan (2018), and FRAC Alsace (2011), and in group shows at institutions including Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg (2023); Kölnischer Kunstverein (2018); Haus der Kunst, Munich; Swiss Institute, New York; MACBA Barcelona; Centre Pompidou-Metz; Palais de Tokyo; and MoMA New York. His works are held in major public collections such as the Sammlung Goetz and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Jalousies was the artist's first major institutional solo exhibition in Germany.
Monopol | Magazin für Kunst und Leben, 12/2024