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“Grand Triptyque aux 3 vides n°1.” © Mâkhi Xenakis |
Name: Mâkhi Xenakis
Bio: Mâkhi Xenakis, daughter
of Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, was
born in Paris in 1956, where she lives
and works. Drawing has always been part of her life. She
studied architecture with Paul Virilio and create sets
and costumes for theater, especially with Claude Regy. In
1987, she moved to New York to paint until 1989. There
she had a damascene meeting with Louise Bourgeois. In
1998, she published a book with her, Louise Bourgeois, the blind
leading the blind, published by Actes Sud. In 1999, she had
her first sculpture exhibition along with the book Parfois
seule (Actes Sud). In 2001, she exhibited her drawings and
sculptures and published Laisser venir les
fantômes (Actes Sud). In 2004, invited to
exhibit sculptures at the Salpêtrière, she discovered in the
public archives the hell experienced by thousands of women incarcerated
there since Louis XIV and published Les folles
d’enfer de la Salpêtrière that
presented a parallel set of 260 sculptures in the
Salpêtrière chapel.
(The Salpêtrière was originally a
gunpowder factory ("saltpetre or saltpeter" being a constituent of gunpowder),
but in 1656, Louis XIV had a hospital built a on the site, founding
the Hospice de la Salpêtrière. This became a dumping ground for the poor
of Paris, serving as a prison for prostitutes, and a holding place for the mentally
disabled, criminally insane, epileptics, and the poor; it was also
notable for its population of rats. By the eve of the 1789 Revolution, it
had become the world's largest hospital, with a capacity of 10,000 patients
plus 300 prisoners, mainly prostitutes. From La Salpêtrière they were paired
with convicts and forcibly expatriated to New France (Louisiana). This was
the fate of Manon Lescaut—immortalized in the novel of Abbé Prévost and by the
opera of Puccini.)
In 2010, she chaired
a film festival on ceramics and glass at Montpellier.
In 2012, an exhibition from the archives of her father
Iannis Xenakis, is planned, on the theme: "the dawn of
work" in MUBa of Tourcoing.
Xenakis’ work is in private and
public collections, including those of FNAC, the Centre
Pompidou, the National Sèvres Factory, the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris and
Bibliothèque municipale of Lyon, Musée Zadkine, Artothèque, and the Musée des
beaux-arts de Brest.
Xenakis has been exhibiting since
1993.
Medium:
Pastel. Oil, Acrylic, Sculpture
Subjects: Organic,
but scarcely representational.
Style: Not
easily categorized. See for yourself!
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Gallery:
Œuvres – Peintures – Dessins ; subgalleries too numerous to list.
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