Nils Alix-Tabeling
Gendarmes
Title: Nils Alix-Tabeling: Gendarmes, 2023
Year: 2023
Material: cotton
Edition: 50 + 10 AP
Price: 40 €, for non members: 65 €
Nils Alix-Tabeling's works draw on a symbol-rich visual vocabulary of science fiction, fashion, history, furniture, shamanism and witchcraft. With a pinch of camp and humor, Nils Alix-Tabeling addresses social grievances and exceptional psychological situations.
The baseball cap in police green shows two copulating fire beetles, borrowed from a picture shown in the exhibition But Who is Ulrike Mandrake? On closer inspection, the backs of the beetles, called gendarmes in French, form the word "Police".
Nils Alix-Tabeling (*1991 in Paris, lives and works in Montargis, FR) studied Fine Art at the Academy La Cambre, Brussels (BA, 2014) and at the Royal College of Art, London (MA, 2016). His works have been shown in international exhibitions, most recently Fleur de peau, terre à vif, Le Parvis, Tarbes, FR (2023); Planet B: Climate Change & the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, IT (2022); Futur, Ancien, Fugitif, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2019); Le Bétyle d'Ail, Kunstraum, London, UK (2019). As an artist curator he organized exhibitions at Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, FR (2021); Galerie Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf (2019) and Galerie Nadine Feront, Brussels, BE (2017).