AUGUSTINE KOFIE
“TAKING SHAPE” SOLO EXHIBITION
27 November - 13 December, 2014

Public opening: Thursday 27 November at 6:30pm
November 27-30 at Bastille Design Center, Paris
December 2-13 at Galerie Openspace, Paris

OPENING 27 NOVEMBER AT 6:30 PM
Immersive, impressive, and scenographic at Bastille Design Center, Paris

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After the success of his first Paris solo show, “California Soul”, in April 2013, Openspace Gallery is delighted to invite Augustine Kofie again to exhibit in the French capitale. The Los Angeles-based artist is one of the leaders of the Graffuturism movement. Practising graffiti in the 90s, exhibiting his studio work in the early 2000s, 2009 marked a turning point in his career, laying the foundations for his current work.
His artworks full of lines and structured shapes are composed with a mastery of scale and movement. A vintage feel also pervades his work; from the 60s magazine illustrations he uses for his collages to the salvaged materials he uses as media, through his choice of colours.


COLLECTORS OPENING
Thursday 27 November at 5pm
PUBLIC OPENING
Thursday 27 November at 6:30pm
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The event
TAKING SHAPE is in 2 parts:
• IMMERSION
Friday 28 November and Saturday 29 November
open 11 am- 7 pm
and Sunday 30 November open 11 am- 5 pm
Bastille Design Center
74, bd Richard Lenoir
• EXHIBITION
2 - 13 December
Tuesday to Saturday
from 2 to 7 pm
Galerie Openspace
56, rue Alexandre Dumas

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THE EXHIBITION
Following the off site exhibition by the French artist Éric Lacan, the Openspace gallery is curating Augustine Kofie’s second exhibition in France, from 27 November to 13 December. Once again, the exhibition will take place in the architecturally monumental, majestic 19th-century setting of the Bastille Design Center, where wood reigns supreme (even on the floor),