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lundi 21 avril 2014
Les Ruines Circulaires / The Circular Ruins 1/3
The Circular Ruins / Les Ruines Circulaires
With the artists :
Lara
Almarcegui (ES), Daniela Baráčková (CZ), The Bells Angels : Simon Bernheim
& Julien Sirjacq (FR), Louidgi Beltrame (FR), Émilie Benoist (FR), Nathalie
Brevet_Hughes Rochette (FR), Wojtek Doroszuk (PL), Barbora Klimová (CZ), Djamel
Kokene (FR), Svätopluk Mikyta (SK), Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič
(SK), Michal Moravčik (SK), Nicolas Moulin (FR), Florian Neufeldt (DE), Marketa
Othova (CZ), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ), Jiří Polaček (CZ), Florian Pugnaire & David
Raffini (FR), Nikolai von Rosen (DE), Christophe Sarlin (FR), Pavla Sceranková
(SK), Dušan Šimánek (CZ), Valentin Souquet (FR), Eric Stephany (FR), Fritz
Stolberg (DE), Ivan Svoboda (CZ), Adam Vačkař (CZ), Jaro Varga (SK), Sergio
Verastegui (PE).
Curated by Jean-Marc Avrilla
With the support of Institut Français, Goethe Institut and
Laboratoire Flair-Paris
April 3rd – May 24th at Institut Français de Prague
April 3rd – May 18th at Meetfactory
The Circular Ruins
A dream woke up in the
dreamer’s dream…
J.-L. Borges, The
Circular Ruins
The representation of ruins have a long history in Western
art. Their new appearance last ten years shows not
so much importance that the same
plasticity of this topic whose causes have never stopped changing. Panegyrics of the greatness of ancient
civilizations during the Renaissance, critics of Enlightenment rationalism in
the eighteenth century, iconic images of romanticism, or painful frontal of
political upheaval of the 20th century, the ruins are an iconography of great
complexity where belong tensions of world and humans face their destiny.
The exhibition The Circular Ruins, borrowing its title from Jorge Luis Borges, paints a contrasting picture where the psychic darkness of certain works meets a bright abstraction of others, reflecting the role of ruins in the representation of a constantly changing and violence of the contemporary. The memory of the ruins is a ghostly presence that opens a new query of modernity through all our society. And constant is going through time and history of their representation in articulating within them a combination of images as nested, where a dialectic between diachrony and synchrony seats.
The exhibition The Circular Ruins, borrowing its title from Jorge Luis Borges, paints a contrasting picture where the psychic darkness of certain works meets a bright abstraction of others, reflecting the role of ruins in the representation of a constantly changing and violence of the contemporary. The memory of the ruins is a ghostly presence that opens a new query of modernity through all our society. And constant is going through time and history of their representation in articulating within them a combination of images as nested, where a dialectic between diachrony and synchrony seats.
The project consists of two independent and yet
communicating units. In the Institut Français, a choice of photographs and
videos by Czech and Slovak artists will be presented, from the 1980s to the
present. These works make use of the phenomena of appearances, their changes in
time and their transience. It’s not about melancholy, but rather the poetry of
simple and immediate things, that paradoxically illustrate the depths of
history.
The other part of the exhibition is taking place at the
MeetFactory Gallery and will introduce works of European or Europe-based
artists. The selected works or site-specific installations analyze within a
kind of journey the subject of ruins and how pictures are operating. The
exhibition intends to provoke thinking about the ways of depiction, the
complexity of contemporary views of references to the past and oblivion, and
about the different possible approaches to European history. Beyond, the
exhibition suggests the necessity of reconsidering the multiple modernity of
the world, as a return imposed by the artistic, historiographical,
anthropological thought, from non-Western modernities that have transformed the
approach of our memory and the world in last twenty-five years .
The ruins of the eighteenth century were part of a universal process of thinking centered on Europe and its history. Representations of contemporary ruins are built within a global thinking which forces us to question the singular to think in difference.
The ruins of the eighteenth century were part of a universal process of thinking centered on Europe and its history. Representations of contemporary ruins are built within a global thinking which forces us to question the singular to think in difference.
Les ruines Circulaires / The Circular Ruins 2/3
Les Ruines Circulaires / The Circular Ruins in Institut Français de Prague and Meetfactory. With the support of Institut Français, Goethe Institut and Laboratoire Flair-Paris
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| Official invitation card |
| General view. |
| General view. Left
to right : Dušan Šimánek, Ivan Svoboda, Markéta Othová, Barbora Klímová, Jaro Varga, Jiři Polaček.
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Left
to right : Daniela Baráčková, Dušan Šimánek.
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| Left
and center : Dušan Šimánek, right : Ivan Svoboda.
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| Dušan Šimánek. |
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Ivan
Svoboda.
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| Markéta Othová. |
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Jiři
Polaček.
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| Jiři Polaček. |
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| Foreground : Jaro Varga, background : Barbora Klímová |
| Jaro Varga (details). |
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| Jan Pfeiffer. |
Les Ruines Circulaires / The Circular Ruins 3/3
Les Ruines Circulaires / The Circular Ruins in Institut Français de Prague and Meetfactory. With the support of Institut Français, Goethe Institut and Laboratoire Flair-Paris
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| Official invitation card |
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| Left to right : Djamel Kokene, Adam Vačkář. |
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| On wall : Adam Vačkář, on ground : Sergio Verastegui. |
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| Left to right : Florian Neufeldt, Nikolai von Rosen, Nathalie Brevet_Hughes Rochette, Eric Stephany. |
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| Left to right : Nikolai von Rosen, Nathalie Brevet_Hughes Rochette, Eric Stephany. |
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| Foreground : Sergio Verastegui, background : Eric Stephany, Christophe Sarlin (perfume) and Lara Almacergui (slide show). |
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| Foreground, left to right : Sergio Verastegui, Eric Stephany, background left to right : : Jarmila Mitríková & Dávid Demjanovič, Valentin Souquet, Sergio Verastegui. |
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| Sergio Verastegui (details). |
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| General view second room. Left to right : Michal Moravčík, The Bells Angels, Sergio Verastegui, Fritz Stolberg (audio), Pavla Sceranková. |
| The Bells Angels (details). |
| The Bells Angels (details). |
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| Émilie Benoist. |
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| Lara Almarcegui. |
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| Video Room with Louidgi Beltrame, Wojtek Doroszuk (picture), Nicolas Moulin, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini. |
jeudi 6 septembre 2012
Závíslí Pozorovatelé / Dependent Observers
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| Karlin Studio |
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| Video still Jan Pfeiffer (Prevision III) |
Futura est une association dont l’objectif est de promouvoir l’art
contemporain en République Tchèque. Elle dispose de plusieurs lieux
d’expositions ainsi que d’un nombre important d’ateliers d’artiste. Hier s’ouvrait
une exposition à Karlin Studio, l’un des quatre espaces dont elle dispose ( http://www.futuraproject.cz/en/ ).
Deux jeunes curatrices, Zuzana Stefkova et Klara Zaludova, présentaient une
exposition de groupe autour de la relation entre l’observateur et l’objet
observé. Des six artistes réunis, je retiens principalement le travail vidéo de
Jan Pfeiffer, « Prevision I-III » (2009) : une série de 3 vidéos
très différentes les unes des autres mais dont le point commun est la prévision
d’un devenir. Dans la première, la caméra glisse et s’arrête sur les détails de
l’image, objets (plantes, voiture …) ou personnes, alors qu’une voix d’expert les
décrit et établit une estimation de leur futur ; la seconde est une
magnifique confrontation entre l’artiste préparant dans son studio praguois une
visite calculée au pas près de Singapour et la visite réelle, superposant
projection et réalité ; la dernière est la prévision immédiate que donne
l’artiste dans son environnement urbain, de l’arrivée d’une jeune femme au coin
d’un immeuble à la réaction d’un pigeon. La froideur que l’on peut ressentir au
départ face à ces observations et à ces prévisions se transforme assez vite en
un jeu plein l’humour né de cette confrontation à la réalité d’un devenir qui
est autre que ce qui est annoncé. Le site de l'artiste : http://janpfeiffer.info/
Futura is an association whose aim is to promote contemporary art in the Czech Republic.
It has several exhibition places and a large number of artist’s
studios. Yesterday opened an exhibition at Studio Karlin, one of the four places it have (http://www.futuraproject.cz/en/). Two
young curators, Zuzana Stefkova
and Klara Zaludova, curate a group show about the relationship between the observer and the observed objects.
Among the six artists gathered, I remark mostly
the video work by Jan Pfeiffer, "Prevision I-III" (2009): a
series of 3 very different videos but have in common point the prediction of a
future. In the first, the camera glides and stops on the details of the image objects (plants, car ...) or people, while an expert voice describes and provides an estimate of their future; the second
one is a magnificent confrontation between the artist in his Prague’studio preparing
a visit step by step of Singapore, and
the real visit of the state city,
superimposed projection and reality; the last one is
the immediate prevision that gives the artist in his urban environment,
the arrival of a young woman in the
corner of a building or the
reaction of a pigeon. Face the observations and
previsions, the coldness we can feel turns in a game full of humor because of
this confrontation with the reality of
a becoming different from what is announced. The artist's website : http://janpfeiffer.info/
mardi 4 septembre 2012
Hungarian artists : Jozsef Tamas Balazs and Tamas Szvet
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| View to the Mozart Museum Park from the appartment. |
Samedi était la journée relais entre les résidents. À peine
arrivé, tous les résidents étaient donc invités à fêter le départ de deux
artistes hongrois, Jozsef Tamas Balazs (http://www.bajota.com/)
et Tamas Szvet (http://szvet.blogspot.cz/).
Je regrette de ne pas avoir pu voir leur travail, d’autant que nos échanges ont
été très riches sur la situation artistique en Hongrie. Nous avons parlé de la
situation politique hongroise qui mériterait vraiment que nous nous inquiétions
pour nos libertés. L’Europe est bien évidemment une réalité politique tangible
pour ces artistes, même sans l’euro, mais une réalité qui s’avère parfois très
flexible dans les faits… L'Europe de la Pensée est une réalité, bien plus que l'Europe financière.
Saturday
was the relay day between residents. Upon
our arrival, all residents were invited
to celebrate the departure of two
Hungarian artists, Jozsef Tamas Balazs (http://www.bajota.com/) and Tamas
Szvet (http://szvet.blogspot.cz/).
I regret to have not been able to see their work, as well as our discussions were very rich on the artistic
situation in Hungary. We talked
about the Hungarian political
situation that needs we care really about our freedoms. Europe is obviously a tangible political
reality for these artists, even without the euro, but a reality that is sometimes very flexible in practice ... Europe of the Thought is a realty, rather than financial Europe.
lundi 3 septembre 2012
Résidence Praha-Paris
(english below)
Premiers jours à Prague depuis samedi 1er septembre. L'Institut Français et Meetfactory m'ont invité pour une résidence de commissariat du 1er septembre au 31 octobre. Sur ma table de travail, deux projets : finaliser l'exposition "Les Ruines Circulaires" pour la Klatovy Galerie à Klenova (République Tchèque), l'été 2013, et imaginer une exposition sur la scène tchèque contemporaine. Les conditions de travail sont idéales avec un studio /bureau de plus de 25m2 et un appartement que je partage avec l'artiste Marcel Mieth. La vue et le rythme des trains et des tramways sont idéales pour travailler.
First days in Prague from arriving Saturday 1st September. The French Institute and Meetfactory invited me for a curatorial residency from September 1rst to October 31rst. On my desk, two projects: finalizing the exhibition "The Circular Ruins" for the Klatovy Galerie, Klenova (Czech Republic), presenting on next summer 2013, and imagining an exhibition about the contemporary Czech art scene. Working conditions are ideal with studio / office over 25m2 and an apartment that I shared with the artist Marcel Mieth. The view and the pace of trains and trams are ideal for work.
Libellés :
art contemporain,
art tchèque,
contemporary art,
Czech art,
Institut Français,
Klatovy Galerie,
Klenova,
Meetfactory,
Prague,
Praha,
résidence,
residency
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