Société Réaliste

Société Réaliste is an art collective founded by Ferenc Grof (1972) and Jean-Baptiste Naudy (1982).

Their work consists in appropriating and distorting the tools of communication of power structures (maps, emblems, signs, architecturs). Société Réaliste creates symbolic and visual confrontations to critically examine such structures without resorting to easy denunciations.

They operate in subtle comparisons, extrapolations, and statistic interpretations, shedding light on historical evolutions and trends and producing tools for reading the contemporary world.

Société Réaliste's work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in France, at the Biennale de Lyon in 2009, at the Jeu de Paume (their solo show "Empire, State, Building") in 2011, and at the Fondation Kadist, but also in numerous exhibits abroad, at Budapest's Ludwig Museum in 2012, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Bucarest in 2011, at the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum in 2012, at the Dunaujvaros Institute of Contemporary Art in 2012, the Sheila C. Johnson Desing Center in New York in 2012, at the Leon MUSAC in 2012, at the TOP Contemporary Art Center in Shanghai in 2011, at the University of Maryland Baltimore Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, at the Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella in 2010, and others. Recently, several exhibitions were dedicated to their work : Tender Pixels (London), P! (New York), Salon de Vortex (Athens) and Tranzit.ro (Cluj). During the 2013 edition of the FIAC, along with their solo booth, they presented the monumental work U.N. Camouflage, comprising 193 flags on the Passerelle de Solferino, Paris.

Spectral Aerosion, 2010
engraved wood
Edition of 3 ex

Esprit, Priest, Tripes, 2011
Light boxes
24 x 23,5 cm
Edition of 3 ex + 2 AP

Mercy, 2012
31 white marble plates engraved in golden letters
30 x 23 cm each

Limes New Roman, 2009-2010
Enamel plate
15 x 30 cm for each plate
Edition of 4 ex + 2 AP
Galerie Jerome Poggi Paris

U.N Camouflage, 2012
193 flags of the united Nations'members converted in camo pattern
each 100 x 150 cm
Edition of 4 ex

Archiscripton, 2011
Aluminum sculpture on stone base
185 x 60 x 32 cm
Edition of 4 ex + 2 AP
Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

The Fountainhead, 2010
DVD video, 111 mn, produced by the Jan van Eyck Academy of Maastricht and directed by Greg Langlois
Edition of 6 ex

U.N. Camouflage, Map of the World, 2012
Impression numérique sous diasec, caisse américaine
193,5 x 128 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 2 AP
Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Liberty x 4,043, 2011
Enamel plate
70 x 90 cm

Courtesy Galerie Jérome Poggi, Paris

Cosmopolitans of all countries, yet another effort, 2010
Engraved aluminium
180 x 180 x 35 cm

Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Mare Nostrum, 2010
Enamel plate
97 x 80 cm
Edition of 3 ex + 2 AP
Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Ad Vitam Ætheram, 2013
Engraved and painted aluminium
Edition of 3 ex + 2 AP
Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Anthem for a Reunited Korea, 2013
digital print on mat paper 180 gr
63 x 103 cm
Edition of 5 ex + 2 AP

Time of Thelema, 2013
engraved aluminium, black painting
54 x 122 cm
Edition of 3 ex + 2 AP
Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Universal Position, 2012
Extruded Steel
(2 x) 123 x 26 cm
Edition of 3 ex + 2 AP

A Gift from Birobidzhan, 2011
Steel sculpture
Diameter : 60 cm
Edition of 3 ex + 2 AP
Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Commons to Kommerz back to Commons, 2014
Perforated wood bench
45 x 137,5 x 38 cm

Galerie Jérôme Poggi
Crédits photographiques: Aurélien Mole