HELLO VANESSA
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September 28, 2006
HELLO PHILIPPE
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There's a bit of Vanessa Beecroft in the visuals of Philippe Katerine's latest album which is, by the way, pretty deliriously delicious for the ears.
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HELLO TRANSYLVANIA
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We ❤ Tony Gatlif latest movie! Asia Argento plays in this surrealist road-movie but don't be fooled by the title, she may be Dario Argento's daughter, there isn't any living deads in this film...
HELLO NOUVELLE VAGUE
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their latest...
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HELLO PHILIPPE
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Philippe Ramette revisits surrealcity...
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HELLO MUSICA
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We ❤ Grand Popo Football Club, Hot Chip, Felix da Housecat, Kings of Convenience, Jagga Jazzist amongst others...
September 27, 2006
HELLO REALIST-COLLAGE
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Realism, Photomontage and Socialist-Realism...
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La Crise, 1923
Rodtchenko
Couverture du catalogue Exposition du cinéma japonais, 1929
El Lissitsky
Le Citadin Solitaire, 1932
Herbert Bayer
Toujours plus haut, 193?
Serafima Vasil’evna Rjangina
Ils ne l'attendaient plus, 1884-88
Ilia Efimovitch Repine
Le Christ dans le désert, 1872
Ivan Nikolaevitch Kramskoï
HELLO AES
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Combining the art of photomontage invented by the Russian Constructivists in the 20s with the art of the Socialist Realism later edicted by Staline, AES is a group of artists whose target is the dictatorship of the image. Building up narratives, revisting the tondo format, they invent a true lie. We ❤ AES!
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HELLO LOST2
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"Though shrouded in mystery, this much is known about the Valenzetti Equation: it is a mathematical formulation designed to predict nothing less than the exact number of years left before the extinction of the human race [...]".
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HELLO LOST
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We ❤ not the over complexity of TV show Lost
Why the numbers? Spoiler below in French to make it even harder to decypher ;-)
le mystère a été résolu. C'est Alvar Hanso lui-même qui l'explique dans une vidéo de la DHARMA Initiative. Les nombres "4 8 15 16 23 42" représentent l'équation de Valenzetti, une formule mathématique censée établir le temps restant avant l'extinction de l'humanité ! Une étude commandée par les Nations Unies en 1962 avait abouti à cette équation, basée sur des hiéroglyphes égyptiens, chacun étant représenté par l'un des nombres.
La DHARMA Initiative, mise en place par la Fondation Hanso, avait pour mission de prévenir l'inévitable. Lorsque le projet s'est révélé être un échec, le Dr Thomas Mittelwerk, président de la fondation, a mis en place une autre solution radicale pour sauver l'humanité : éliminer un tiers de la population mondiale ! Pour y parvenir, il a testé dans deux villages l'inoculation d'un virus qui n'est mortel que pour 30% des personnes infectées. (Source Allo Ciné)
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HELLO BOOKS#5
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Lighter and for French only (sorry). Chaos de Famille, vous fera adorer le votre.
HELLO BOOKS#4
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Littell is the favorite for the Goncourt (French 'equivalent' of the British Booker Prize). It's a massive book which tells the story of a German. The main character is a Schutzstaffel (S.S), cold-hearted, mathematician in search of the most efficient way of killing masses, evil spirit, you name it. You may be disturbed by this impossibly calm accumulation of horrors. But it is the other reality of what Hitler called the Final Solution and one should be able to face it.
HELLO BOOKS#3
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what would the world be without Bourriaud?
HELLO BOOKS#2
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a good companion to the book below/
HELLO BOOKS#1
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must read 'imo'/
HELLO CINE16
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a EU, US, UK selection of short movies by big guns who once were young guns.
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September 26, 2006
HELLO CAMOUFLAGE
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We ❤ the work of Harvey Opgenorth! (thanks Work for the link)
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HELLO POCKET2
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Kraftwerk, Pocket Calculator
HELLO POCKET
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pocket books variations.
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Belgium Pavilion Catalogue, Xth Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2006
Jonathan Hares
Design Products Dpt Catalogue, Royal College of Art, London, 2006
Antoine&Manuel
La Comédie Saison 2006-2007, Clermont-Ferrand, 2006
HELLO LABEL ARCHI
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Label Architecture is an architectural practice based in Brussels. Its three partners, Jean-Didier Bergilez (b. 1974), Michel Lefèvre (b. 1978) and Thibaut Rome (b. 1977), officially opened their agency in October 2004...(read more on their website)
Label Architecture curated the Belgian Pavilion at the Xth Architecture Biennale in Venice. Their show is called La Beauté Ordinaire (Ordinary Beauty) and looks at the infra-ordinary in Belgian landscapes. PleaseLetMeDesign worked on the catalogue and it's gutgood. The idea, as mentionned on Renaud Huberlant's blog, was to create a pocket size catalogue to emphasize the big amount of texts. Is it a trend but the recent catalogue for the Design Products Department at the Royal College (designed by Jonathan Hares) and the catalogue for the Comédie Theater in Clermont (designed by Antoine&Manuel) also use the pocket size (11x17cm approx.).
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HELLO KINO
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Never stop going to the movies!
September 25, 2006
HELLO SIMILARITIES
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Catherine Breillat's Anatomie de l'Enfer (Anatomy of Hell) bares some similitudes with Eugene Delacroix's La Barque de Dante. Look at how the image on the movie poster is an echo to the corpses of the damned trying desesperatly to assault the dinky boat of Dante and Virgilio floating on the Styx. As if they too were doomed.
Visually, the poster is also an echo to the Rubenian way of 'color-coding' bodies. Pale for the female and dark for the male. Strong muscular bodies similar to the terribilita of MichelAngelo.
Delacroix was inspired and copied the masters at the Louvre. Breillat does a bit the same. It's not plain stupid carbon-copy, it's something else. I hope. I'm sure.
HELLO ERNESTO
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Ernesto Neto presents his installation Leviathan Thot at the Panthéon in Paris. Light masses of lavender powder holding in transparent fabrics and balancing from the uppers of the monumental interior of the Pantheon Chapel. A constant dialog between the contemporary and abstract forms of the Leviathan and the classicism of the Greek revival structure.
HELLO RETRO
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To stay in the mood, some French music from the 60s
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HELLO CINEDESIGN
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If you happen to be in Paris there's an exhibition at the newly 'refurbished-refurnished' Musee des Arts Decoratifs on Cinema and Set Design or how the films can be a source of inspiration, a playground and a time capsule for designers and design products.
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Entrance of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs
A collection of design products from the Middle Age to today...
Minority Report by Steven Spielberg, 2002
L'Inhumaine by Marcel l'Herbier, 1924
Set design by Mallet-Stevens
2001, a Space Odissey by Stanley Kubrick, 1968
La Piscine by Jacques Deray, 1969
Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati, 1958
Scoubidou chairs by Guariche, Michel Mortier and Joseph-André Motte
Oscar by Edouard Molinaro, 1962
Le Cerveau by Gérard Oury, 1969
Le Pacha by Georges Lautner, 1967
Lola by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981
set in 1957 Germany...
HELLO PARIS
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Paris and the return of sketches movies! Nothing really new altough older versions might be fresher than the latest one...
Paris vu par...
1963/ directed by: Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Douchet, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Jean Rouch
Paris vu par...20 ans après
1984/ directed by: Chantal Akerman, Bernard Dubois, Philippe Garrel, Frédéric Mitterrand
Paris je t'aime
2005/ directed by: Bruno Podalydès, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuaron, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Wes Craven, Tom Tykwer, Gérard Depardieu and Frédéric Auburtin, Alexander Payne
HELLO VALERIE
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Valérie Mréjen is a video-artist. I like to compare her work to the ethno-realism of Rouch. She would prolly disagree. She is less preoccupied in what people have to say than the malaise the camera creates while scrutinating them. The silence is an echo more vibrant than the word. In a way...
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©V.Mréjen
Dieu video, 12'
©V.Mréjen
Pork and Milk film
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Le Gouter 4'03''
©V.Mréjen
Chamonix 35mm
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HELLO JEAN
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Malle must have been a big afficionado of Ethno-Cineast Jean Rouch. Rouch was the theorician of the "Ciné-Transe" method. Back in the 60s when filmakers were able to hold the camera on their shoulder and record the sound in synchronization (la synchrone), Rouch coined (along with sociologist Edgar Morin) the word "Cinéma-Réalité". In the movie Chronique d'un été Rouch and Morin went to interview Parisians during a hot summer. The real-reality of the dialogues, the camera-doesn't-lie aspect of the film was a wake-up call to a lot of filmakers.
The camera sees the world not only through the eyes of the cameraman but through the ones who are filmed. The aperture simply being an extension in the most objectif sense of the term.
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HELLO LOUIS
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Time to rediscover the work of movie director Louis Malle. If the French Nouvelle Vague was a family, Malle would have been a distant cousin, more interested in running his own adventures than following in the footsteps of the Politiques des Auteurs. A magnificent story-teller, LM is also a great documentarist (if the word exists in English!). He directed some very fresh documentaries on various subjects; the Mystery of India, the Ethos and Mythology of the Tour de France and of course his famous World of Silence which depicted the life of Commandant Cousteau and his crew but was more of an ode to Malle's love of the sea.
There is something uterly seductive and provocative in his films. Something Jean-Claude Carriere have described has the work of an Enlightened Child.
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HELLO PIERRE
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Huyghe's solo exhibition at the Tate Modern is over, we liked it A LOT!
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HELLO MOIRE
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Moiré is one of Switzerland best studio, check it out.
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HELLO TMBSB
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Renaud Huberlant has a very interesting take on Brenner-Hares' layout for the book The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2005. In French only.
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HELLO FIAC
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Soon the opening of Paris' biggest Art fair
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September 11, 2006
HELLO ALEC
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Alec Soth is soon coming to France, in the meantime if you're in California check his exhibition at UC-Riverside (California Museum of Photography, Sleeping by the Mississippi, 5 August-7 October 2006, UC Riverside)
(au Jeu de Paume, Niagara du 16/04 au 13/06 2007, Paris)
HELLO YAEL
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Yael Mer also graduated from the Design Products Dpt at the RCA. Her work is amazingly narrative and poetic, love her bags—a witty homage to the story of Judith and Holopherne.
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HELLO OBLIQUE
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Robert Lazzarini and Gen Suzuki (RCA 2006) have something in common...Isometry and Obliqueness
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Gen Suzuki (RCA/ Design Products)
_Oblique coat hanger, 2006
_Oblique chairs, 2006
_Oblique vases, 2006
Robert Lazzarini
_sculptures
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HELLO CHRISTOS
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We really love the work of talented graphic designer Christos Lialios
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HELLO CHICKS
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'Girls Gone Wild'. Sometimes the web is full of surprises...
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HELLO DUKE
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ebony ads almost as good as blacksplotation movies...
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HELLO CARABINS
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In France school just started, some of my friends are about to finish med school this year and traditionally they throw a welcome party for freshmen. For some reasons it is always gross so this post is gross but check out how happy med students look...
(in French a med student is called a 'carabin' not to be confused with the English word 'carabin')
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HELLO JONATHAN&DAN
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Sweet animation, you'll enjoy An Eye for Annai
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HELLO GUS
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Mala Noche is Gus van Sant's first movie (1985). It's a take on Walt Curtis' notebook: the love story between a guy from Oregon and a mexican wetback. The movie had never been released on DVD so run for it! I still prefer the first version (left) of the movie poster, simply perfect!
September 10, 2006
HELLO NEW WAVE
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Speaking of Truffaut, here are a few must have or must see movies from the French Nouvelle Vague...if anyone has an idea of where i can put my hands on the Histoire(s) du Cinema dvd, please add a comment. Thanks.
HELLO ANTOINE&CHRISTINE
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Just watched Domicile Conjugal, not one of the best Truffaut movies but Jean Pierre Léaud is simply great!
HELLO GRAPHIS
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oldies but goodies...
HELLO SUICIDE
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Bill Thomas and the many ways to commit suicide...
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HELLO A&M
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A&M are cool clowns
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HELLO KEN
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Ken Garland and Associates are not clowns
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HELLO GYORGY
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A most clever, talented and passionate musician. G.Ligeti was a follower of Bartok; he met with Boulez, Kagel and Berio while working at the Westdeuscher Rundfunk's studio. His most famous work is the o.s.t of Kubrick's 2001, a space odyssey but you should also check Melodien (1971) and Nonsense Madrigals (1988-93): the summum of polyrhytmie!
September 07, 2006
HELLO READ
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What was, What is and What for...Read, Compare and Critic the pre, post and future history of Graphic Design.
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HELLO DOBs
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Peerspex's way of color-organizing their CDs collection made me think of this interesting article back at DOBs
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September 06, 2006
HELLO ANTONY
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We already mentionned the talented Mr Antony Hart. His website is now completed, pay him a visit and you'll be amazed once again.
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HELLO STEPH&SULKI&MIN
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Some goods links by Brice:
✺ Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet
Stephane Barbier Bouvet was born in 1981 in Marseille with the mediterranean sea as landscape and studied at the ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ecal) in the industrial design department. Interesting works, you can see the tools chairs at the international festival of design in Hyères-Villa-Noailles, exhibition from 8th of july to 17th of september 2006 (good exhibition), I particularly appreciate the process and the result of the tools chairs very simple, clear and creative.
✺ Sulki and Min Choi
Sulki and Min Choi two designers reseachers at the Jan van Eyck academie amazing
works ..... (check their design of another Entre-Deux exhibition)
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HELLO PEERSPEX
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Perspeex are good friends Mariina and Jean-Michel. Video artists and crazy musicians. JM lately decided to classify his 207 CDs using a color coding system based on the rainbow.
Thanks PhilB for the image.
HELLO HANS&TOM
HELLO SABINE&HELMUT
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Since 1993, Vienna based artists Bitter/Weber have cooperated on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. Their artistic works focus on emergent sites and overlaps of architecture, urban developments, communications systems and modes of artistic and cultural production as they are mediated through photography, video and new media technologies.
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HELLO LISTEN
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M/M Paris have recently done the video for Jean Louis Murat's latest single Taormina. Check it out on the French designers' website but i'd rather listen to the album first. Fab as always.
Another good one to hum to is the lost album by Thom York.
HELLO RAM
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© Studio Ram Katzir is fun and prolixe!
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HELLO LIBIA&OLAFUR
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Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro (Spain 1970) and Ólafur Árni Ólafsson (Iceland 1973) live in Rotterdam NL and have collaborated and exhibited internationally since 1996. The work of this artist duo is always on the move. Sometimes taking elements from earlier projects with them to the next place, they once again enter into a relationship with the current surroundings. By means of portraying, mapping, intervening and informally collaborating with people they meet, they explore space, the environment and it’s dynamics in different possible and impossible ways.
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HELLO MICHAEL
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Michael Schmelling makes interesting photos.
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HELLO CYRIAC&DONALD
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I❤The Sunny Boys!
Cyriac Allard and Donald Abad have been collaborating with each other since they met at the Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Neo-romantism, sporting rules, performance and guineapiggism highlight their video works which is in turn fun, ironic and fresh.
Entre Deux est un espace symbolique d'expérimentation et de rencontre de nos deux univers artistiques. Un terrain loin de la civilisation, où la confrontation directe de nos corps d’Hommes avec la Nature, l'apesanteur, la hauteur d’un rocher, la pente d’une montagne, un arbre isolé sont autant d'évasions symboliques. Les notions d'effort, d'endurance, de contemplation, de défi, de dualité, d’entraide et d'absurdité habitent chacune des scènes.
L’Entre Deux est également géographique, l’ensemble des performances ayant été tourné dans deux lieux différents, à Ikaria (île d’Icare), et dans la chaîne des Aravis (Haute Savoie).
Tel un voyage initiatique, chacun a investi un lieu en fonction de ses thématiques, comme autant d’épreuves:
Ikaria devient pour Cyriac Allard une recherche d’ascension impossible où la chute apparaît comme inéluctable. L’élévation comme moyen de dépasser sa condition humaine, sortir de l’entre terre et ciel, pour effleurer un soleil.
Quant aux Aravis, la montagne se transforme en terrain de jeu pour Donald Abad. L’occasion de transposer des gestuelles sportives, de symboliser l’entraide, la lutte, la recherche du geste parfait face à l’immensité de la Nature inclinée.
Chacune de nos vidéos est un plan séquence, brut, à l’image de nos espaces de jeux.
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Diplômé en 2001 et post-diplômé en 2002 de l’ENSAD, Donald Abad définit son univers artistique comme du «multimédia néo-romantique», qu’il matérialise à l’aide de la vidéo, l’interactivité et la performance.
Diplômé de l'ENSAD en 2005, Cyriac Allard travaille la vidéo et la photographie pour rendre compte de ses performances. Tour à tour danseur, support et co-auteur, sa collaboration avec Donald Abad remonte à plusieurs années.
Entre Deux est la poursuite d'un projet amorcé par Cyriac Allard en 2004, qui trouve dans la dualité de nouvelles règles du jeu.
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infos/ Entre deux est une série de photos et de vidéos (un vidéo différente projetée chaque jour) exposée à la Galerie NoGoodWindow du 14 septembre au 27 octobre 2006, au 16 rue de la Tour d’Auvergne 75009 Paris, tous les jours de 15h à 19h.
September 05, 2006
HELLO RUSSIAN POSTERS
HELLO CHARLOTTE
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After Serge, after Jane we give you Charlotte. Listen to 5.55 (pronounce fa'fa'fa NY style), the fresh solo album by Gainsbourg's daughter. Collabs with Air and Jarvis Cocker. Sublime and so tendance!
HELLO VINCENT
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We ❤ the work of Vincent Olinet
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