• Dianna Settles Ribbon of Earth Booth S13 17 – 20 October 2024 Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006...
    Dianna Settles
    Again we're going to begin all of us against the great defeat of the world (blood from a stone), 2024 
    Acrylic and colored pencil on panel
    61 x 40.6 cm (24 x 16 in)
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    Dianna Settles
    Ribbon of Earth
     
    Booth S13
    17 – 20 October 2024
    Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris
     
    For the 2024 edition of Asia Now at Monnaie de Paris, Galerie Marguo is thrilled to present Ribbon of Earth, a series of new paintings by Vietnamese-American artist Dianna Settles (b. 1989), created during her summer residency at Casa Marguo in Menorca. Inspired by the collections of the Museu de Menorca and the island's Talayotic ruins, these works further her exploration of autonomy and communion with nature, delving into Menorca's rich agricultural history dating back to 1600 BCE.
     
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    Thursday 17 October, 2 – 7:30 pm
    Friday 18 – Sunday 20 October, 10 – 11 am 
     
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    Friday 21 October, 11 am – 9 pm
    Saturday 22 October, 11 am – 8 pm
    Sunday 23 October, 11 am – 7 pm
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  • Dianna Settles Menorca Sketchbook

    Dianna Settles Menorca Sketchbook

     

    Marguo Books is pleased to announce the publication of Dianna Settles Menorca Sketchbook, a facsimile of the artist's personal notebook from her month-long residency at Casa Marguo in Menorca this past August, on the occasion of her solo presentation Ribbon of Earth at Asia Now 2024.

     
    This limited-edition sketchbook offers an intimate glimpse into Settles' creative process, filled with sketches, drawings, grocery lists, and musings inspired by the island’s ancient Talayotic ruins and agricultural landscapes—capturing the moments that shaped her latest body of work.

     

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  • Drawing from her diverse experiences with communal living—whether working at a bicycle co-op, running an art space, or farming in Georgia for the past five years—Settles creates detailed narrative scenes that capture "moments of joyful stillness amidst the cascading crises of modern life."
     
    Her work, reminiscent of Dutch Golden Age group portraiture, collapses time and space, weaving together friends and communities from various periods into singular, cohesive compositions. In a world constrained by late capitalism and conventional ways of living, Settles’ paintings offer glimpses into alternative ways of life.
  • In these self portraits my body dissolves into the landscape, while figures of past and present struggles as well as tools for cultivation, adornment, and defence are given shape, woven together to form the larger narrative of a world in chorus against capture, elaborating life in common with that which is already living.
     
    – Dianna Settles
  • The land of Menorca is hard, ungrateful, hostile, but its spirit is the wind, the boundless, overwhelming, horizonless strength that comes and goes.
     
    – Writter Marius Verdaguer (1885 - 1963, Mahón, Spain), 1925
  • ABOUT THE ARTIST
    Portrait of Dianna Settles. © Dianna Settles. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Marguo.

    ABOUT THE ARTIST

    Dianna Settles’ practice examines what it is to exist as part of a collective, portraying how culture, politics, and ideologies intertwine in community. Forms are arranged symbolically in poetic compositions, placing portraits of friends into potent moments in time. Bathhouses, prisons, and gathering places are depicted in conversation, while blooming patterns, details, and colors are woven into the scenes. Settles draws from Western tradition, as well as from the art history of her father’s native Vietnam, mindfully synthesizing multiple lineages while recontextualizing marginalized bodies.

     

    Dianna Settles was born in 1989 and grew up in Blue Ridge, GA. She lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. Settles received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2014.

     

    Settles’ recent exhibitions include Ribbon of Earth at Asia Now fair with Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2024, solo); Kiaf SEOUL fair with Galerie Marguo, Seoul, KR (2024, group); Casa Marguo Summer Presentation, Menorca, ES (2024, group); New artworks from the Consortium Museum Collection, Consortium Museum, Dijon, FR (2024, group); A Thousand Paths Bloom, Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2023, solo); Home Run, Casa Marguo Inaugural Exhibition, Menorca, ES (2023, group); A Life Worth Living Would Be A Life Worth Living, MARCH, New York, US (2022, solo); Olly Olly Oxen Free, Institute 193, Lexington, US (2021, solo); 99 Flowers, Versa Gallery, Chattanooga, US (2018, solo), Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta, US (2018, solo), HI LO, Runaway Studio, Pittsburgh, US (2018, solo). She has also exhibited with MINT Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the High Museum (Atlanta, GA), Delaplane (San Francisco, CA), and the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA), among others.

     

    Her work is in the permanent collections of the Consortium Museum (Dijon, FR), X Museum (Shanghai, CN), Longlati Foundation (Shanghai, CN), Podo Museum (Jeju, KR) and the ICA Miami (Miami, US).

     

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