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SUMMARY:Recycle Group: Too Much
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nGalerie Suzanne Tarasieve in Paris presents “TOO MUCH!” by Russian collective Recycle Group\, with invited guests Blue Noses\, running April 4 through May 23\, 2026 at the gallery’s Marais location. The exhibition opened on Saturday April 4 with a vernissage from 6 to 9pm. \nTOO MUCH! is Recycle Group’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery\, following “Novus Ordo Seclorum” (2016)\, “0.0” (2019)\, and “Expired Reality” (2023). The collective’s practice sits at the intersection of contemporary art and design research\, working with digital structures\, religious iconography\, material excess\, and the relationship between analogue tradition and algorithmic culture. The exhibition includes new works produced specifically for this presentation alongside work from 2025. \nFocus\nThe exhibition takes as its subject the condition of the human being caught in a world of excess: an excess of data\, signals\, meanings\, and of one’s own creations\, which begin to live autonomous lives. The project’s central phenomenon is the work that outgrows its author\, from ancient myths to contemporary digital structures that reshape reality faster than human perception can follow. \nRecycle Group positions artificial intelligence not as a new phenomenon but as the latest iteration of a recurring human predicament: the cultural form that escapes its creator and becomes an autonomous force. This framing connects the exhibition to a longer arc of civilizational anxiety about making things too powerful to control\, from Frankenstein to the Golem to contemporary machine learning systems. \nThe collaborative element with Blue Noses adds what the press release describes as a precise and ironic accent\, revealing the fragility of perception and the inherent absurdity of attempts to keep everything under control. The overall register of the exhibition is described as “punk classicism\,” a phrase that captures the collision between archaic material languages (burned wood\, carved inscription\, sacred text) and the vocabulary of digital design and overloaded information systems. \nTOO MUCH is a space of punk classicism and digital structures\, where the human being tries to preserve itself in a world that has long since become more than it can contain.\nRecycle Group / Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve\, Press Release\, 2026 \nWorks\nBurn Series (2026)\nThe exhibition’s anchor works are large-scale pieces in burned wood\, polyurethane resin\, silicone\, and LED light. “Burn” (200 x 200 cm) is the largest\, presenting a surface of cracked\, scorched wood covered in incandescent writing drawn from nine languages simultaneously: Latin\, Italian\, French\, German\, Russian\, Greek\, Arabic\, Japanese\, and English. The words are fragmentary\, incomplete\, blending into one another to form a polyglot palimpsest. The assembled texts circle around a single idea from Ecclesiastes 1:18: “For in much wisdom is much grief\, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” The work enacts its subject directly: it is Too Much made literal\, a universal warning about excess rendered nearly unreadable by its own density. “Message 1:13-18” (60 x 60 cm) and “I still have many things to say to you\, but you cannot bear them now” (60 x 90 cm) are smaller panels in the same material language. \nInformation Jungle Series (2026)\nThree large sculptural works in thermoformed plastic mesh\, “Information Jungle 2.0\,” “3.0\,” and “4.0” (each 210 x 110 x 40 cm)\, extend the excess theme into three-dimensional form. The mesh structures function as physical analogues of information overload: dense\, layered\, partially transparent\, simultaneously structural and entrapping. \nResistance from AI (2025)\nA four-panel installation in thermoformed plastic mesh (220 x 470 x 75 cm total) representing the resistance\, or attempted resistance\, to AI’s autonomous development. The work’s physical form\, a barrier-like mesh that is both permeable and obstructing\, embodies the ambiguity of that resistance. \n3D Print Series (2025)\n“Madonna” (30 x 30 cm) and “All Saints. Vortex” (30 x 60 cm)\, both in 3D-printed recycled plastic with LED lighting\, continue the collective’s practice of reprocessing religious iconography through digital fabrication techniques\, placing sacred imagery within a material and production context that is entirely contemporary. \nThe Blue Noses Collaboration\nBlue Noses is a Russian conceptual art duo known for their ironic\, often absurdist engagement with political and cultural symbols. Their presence in the exhibition functions as a counterweight to Recycle Group’s more technically elaborate and materially dense practice\, introducing irreverence and humour as analytical tools for examining the same conditions of excess and loss of control. \nReference: Das Rheingold in Salzburg\nThe press release draws a direct parallel between the exhibition and the Salzburg production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold directed by Kirill Serebrennikov\, running almost simultaneously. The connection is conceptual: a classical work that demonstrates its capacity to exist as a self-sustaining entity and to project an image of the future pushed to absurdity\, a world governed by human fantasies and their consequences. This serves as a mirror to the exhibition’s central argument about autonomous creations. \nAudience\nThe exhibition is open to the general public at Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve\, Tuesday through Saturday\, 11am to 7pm. It addresses a broad art and design audience interested in contemporary media critique\, the intersection of spatial and material practice with digital culture\, and the use of religious and classical references as frameworks for understanding technological transformation. \nEvent Details\n\n\n\nExhibition Dates\nApril 4 – May 23\, 2026\n\n\nOpening\nSaturday April 4\, 2026\, 6–9pm\n\n\nVenue\nGalerie Suzanne Tarasieve\, 7 rue Pastourelle\, 75003 Paris (Marais)\n\n\nHours\nTuesday–Saturday\, 11am–7pm\n\n\nAdmission / Fees\nFree entry (standard gallery admission)\n\n\nArtists\nRecycle Group\, with invited guests Blue Noses\n\n\nGallery\nGalerie Suzanne Tarasieve\n\n\nContact\ninfo@suzanne-tarasieve.com / +33 (0)1 42 71 76 54\n\n\n\n\n✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight\nRecycle Group’s practice has been consistent enough across four exhibitions at this gallery to make the thematic framing of TOO MUCH! feel like a continuation rather than a departure: the collective has long worked at the intersection of digital excess and archaic material form. What is sharper in this exhibition is the specificity of the AI argument\, which avoids both utopian and dystopian clichés by positioning artificial intelligence within a much older pattern of creations that outgrow their creators. The Ecclesiastes citation is not decoration; it is the conceptual core\, and the decision to render it in nine languages simultaneously\, in burned wood\, nearly illegible\, is a precise material decision. The warning against excess is itself presented in excess. The collaboration with Blue Noses introduces a necessary tonal counterweight: irony and absurdism are better analytical instruments for this subject than solemnity\, and their inclusion prevents the exhibition from mistaking its own gravity for insight. \n\n\nClosing Note\nTOO MUCH! runs through the end of May 2026\, giving it a seven-week window in one of Paris’s most active gallery districts. For those interested in how contemporary art engages with questions of digital culture\, material memory\, and the limits of human comprehension\, the exhibition offers a carefully constructed argument in object form. The press release’s description of the show as “punk classicism” is the most useful single phrase for understanding what Recycle Group is attempting here.
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LOCATION:Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve\, 7 rue Pastourelle 75003 PARIS\, Paris\, Paris\, -\, France
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