Han Solo

Gravitation is a property by which all objects attract each other.

From 12 October until 9 November Gyz La Rivière will present Han Solo at Cokkie Snoei. It is his first solo exhibition since founding the HuMobisten in 2000. This show features La Rivière’s work consisting of photographs, objects, installations and a video focusing on ‘falling and letting go’.

‘Han Solo’ is the classic example of the adventurer with the golden heart in the movie Star Wars. In Han’s personality virtues like courage and companionship are combined with vices like cupidity and debauchery.

La Rivière’s work is about being restless, bored and saturated. He gets his inspiration out of the enormous daily amounts of images, infographics, logos and icons that reach our perception through our mediatic culture.

Gyz La Rivière arranges ‘time’ like a visual archivist. By cutting images from their original context and arranging them in a new autonomous one, he becomes the master of his own universe; using the images as schizoid puzzle pieces of hyper realistic media installations.

Gyz La Rivière (1976, Rotterdam), studied fashion design at the Willem de Kooning Academy. In 2000 he graduated as the first ever student without a collection. In 2002 he was awarded the Rotterdam Maaskant Prize. Recently he published Jan Hart, his fourth book.