Held
by Pierre Leguillon, presented by Emmelines

Held is presented in partnership with the MTA’s Vacant Unit Activation Program, which finds new creative uses for underused space within subway stations.

Emmelines is pleased to present Pierre Leguillon’s Held. The exhibition excerpts three series.

Pamphlet is a triptych of mid-century posters advertising Münz-Brauerei Günzburg’s Humbser Alt beer, Thomy’s mustard, and the Swiss newspaper Die Tat.

Mérida is named for the Mexican city where Leguillon encountered a small bar with walls painted in thick strokes of red, blue, yellow, and black. In the Japanese city of Yame, the artist reproduced the mural in the distinctive brushed patterns of kasuri textile with master craftsman Kyōzō Shimogawa (下川強臓).

Marina Abramović, Givenchy, 2013 and Seth Price, Brioni, 2015 are selected from Leguillon’s ongoing collection of advertisements in which artists have posed, featuring Marina Abramović for Givenchy and Seth Price for Brioni.

In 2011, Renwick Gallery presented Teatrino/Palermo by Pierre Leguillon and Clément Rodzielski, who presented contributions from Martin Beck, Isabelle Cornaro, Moyra Davey, Jean-Luc Moulène, Conny Purtill, and Ricardo Valentim.

Held is Pierre Leguillon’s first one-person exhibition in New York.

Artist bio(s): Pierre Leguillon (*1969, Nogent-sur-Marne, France) lives and works in Brussels, where he established the Museum of Mistakes in 2013. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; MRAC Sérignan, France; Wiels, Brussels; Moderna Museet, Mälmo; Mamco, Geneva; and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, among others. He participated in the 2017 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; in The Artist’s Museum at ICA Boston in 2016; and in the 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He has held performances and lectures in Kamoshika, Ōita, Japan; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Murray Guy, New York; Raven Row, London; Artists Space, New York; Musée du Louvre, Paris; and elsewhere.

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