Twenty years is the time that has passed since Fernando joined Air de Paris to do an internship.

A Sentimental Education: it is the story of a young man, he must have been eighteen, this romantic and sensitive anti-hero who arrives in Paris where lead by a coup de coeur he finds himself a rich new world that he barely understands, filled with questionable characters (like himself), where he negotiates (or dialogues) with past and future revolutions and his own desire.

This double title of novels was composed at eight hands by Air de Paris and House of Gaga as an exquisite corpse and could become the chorus of a song. House of Gaga is the name of the gallery later founded by Fernando Mesta with José Rojas in Mexico City (and now also in Los Angeles). And before Air Paris moves to Komunuma in Romainville, this is a community we wanted to celebrate.

Footnotes

(1) (1) Dalida, Il venait d’avoir 18 ans, 1973
(2) (2) Twenty Years Later, Alexandre Dumas, 1845
Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert, 1869

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Works

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)
House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Julien Ceccaldi
Hooded Corpse, 2018
Skeleton model, melted plastic, chicken wire, synthetic wig, hoodie, underwear, socks, slipper and woodstain and acrylic paint

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Julien Ceccaldi
Secret Base, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
61 x 45.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Julien Ceccaldi
Secret Base ~ 10 Years Later, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 inches
61 x 45.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Nicolas Ceccaldi
Untitled, 2017
Crucifix, mirror, plastic frame
23.62 x 15.75 inches
60 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Nicolas Ceccaldi
Untitled, 2017
Crucifix, holographic vinyl, plastic frame
23.62 x 15.75 inches
60 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Nicolas Ceccaldi
Moment On The Bridge, 2013
Glicee and acrylic on canvas
39.5 x 47 inches
100.3 x 119.4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Vivian Suter
Untitled, n.d.
Acrylic, glue and mud on canvas
71.65 x 89.76 inches
182 x 228 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Trisha Donnelly
Untitled, 2016 Stone
110 x 60 x 10 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Bruno Pelassy
Sans titre. Série Perles, 1995
glass beads, nylon, wood
220 x 90 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Bruno Pelassy
Sans titre. Série Créatures, 2000-2001
silk, silicone, beads, lace, in an aquarium on plinth aquarium
53 x 90 x 40 cm; plinth
122,5 x 90 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Bruno Pelassy
Sans titre. Série Créatures, 2000-2001
silk, silicone, beads, lace, in an aquarium on plinth aquarium
53 x 90 x 40 cm; plinth
122,5 x 90 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ 20 Years Later (A Sentimental Education)

Trisha Donnelly
Untitled, 2008
Digital video 6 min, looped
4/5, 2 AP