Star Rider

Starrider, rider, rider
Take me to the stars
Starrider, rider, rider
Show me where you are
…
Speed increasing
All control is in the hands of those who know
Will they help us grow
To one day be starriders
…
Starrider, rider, rider
Take me to the stars
Starrider, rider, rider
Show me where you are

Laleh June Galerie presents its upcoming exhibition entitled “Star Rider” which takes its title from the British-American band Foreigner and Star Rider in 1977. The exhibition features works by five Swiss and international artists: Cris Faria, Reza Panahi, Marine Provost, Marc Rembold, Philippe Zumstein. They use a range of techniques, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media and photography. They not only draw inspiration from their experiences and personal history, but also from their imagination.

Cris Faria was born in 1975. BA at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, (HEAD) Geneva in 2005, Faria lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. His work was featured in various solo and group exhibitions at Laleh June Galerie in Basel since 2009.

Reza Panahi was born in 1981. In April 2001 at the age of twenty, his work was featured in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA). Panahi’s work was included in more than 20 group exhibitions and 8 solo exhibitions in Iran, Spain and Germany. The subjects of his paintings seem either to be rooted in private myths or in Persian miniature. They include bizarre creatures with huge totemic heads attached to plants or to the bodies of animals or human beings, and sprouting snakes, wings, and other forms. Panahi’s recent paper works now on view at Laleh June Galerie in Basel are more inspired by relics of archaic and ancient civilizations. Fantastically interpreted by Reza Panahi to express universal archetypes. They also seem to be purely imaginative include creatures and animals. The artist has a fascination for the symmetry and repetition of the same. This fascination for double may come from la nature duelle de l’homme.  Artist’s fascination with Carl Jung cannot be ignored.

Marine Provost was born in 1987. Provost has attended l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Her work was featured in various exhibitions at Laleh June Galerie in Basel since 2015.

Marc Rembold was born in 1963. Admired for his living colours, changing spectral colours, Marc Rembold has always developed a protean aspect to his art. His career features a constant dialogue between paintings, sculptures, mixed media, installations and objects. His worked is organized by series.
The artist invents his own colours since 1980s. Marc Rembold has started with his colour invention «Light in Colour Changing Colour» and artist’s paintings series named after this in 1980s «Light in Colour» paintings the colour changes lives moves. Artist’s latest invention in colour named after the Scarabaeus and is titled «Gold Green Scarabaeus». @STAR RIDER will be on view a new installation in artist’s «Gold Green Scarabaeus».

Philippe Zumstein was born in 1973. BA in Art History at the University of Geneva in 1997 and BA at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, (HEAD) Geneva in 2002. Philippe Zumstein has started to exhibit his first «Fat Paintings» and «Crash» and «Damage» sculptures in very early 2000s. Since then Zumstein’s work was part of significant Swiss exhibitons and Swiss Art Awards. In 2003 he was lauréat of Prix Kiefer Hablitzel and Swiss Art Awards. The artist’s work since 2008 was feautred in various solo and group exhibitions at Laleh June Galerie in Switzerland and internationally.