Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d’Amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008.
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Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer
For those of you traveling to New York tomorrow, here is a cool way to experience Times Square… a new cool video by the band Matt and Kim. via fubiz
Françoise Ellong
Check out the making of the film DADE directed by Françoise Ellong and shot by David Wolfer, they use print outs of my latest Defacing works.
Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d’amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008.
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Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer
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Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer
Trauma, colour video with sound (30 minutes), 2000, Courtesy Maureen Paley
Our UK friend Tom Cullen invited us to the opening reception Confessions: Portraits, Videos by Gillian Wearing at the Rodin Museum and we loved it. For this event, the artist created Secrets and Lies, a new version of the 1994 work entitled Confess all on video. Don’t Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued ? Call Gillian…. Secrets and Lies will be presented to the public for the first time during the exhibition. We also appreciated to casually walk the Museum without stepping on Japanese tourists. I had tried twice to go to this museum and each time I did something else because there was a very, very, very long line to get in.
Tate Triennial 2009, Photo by suziesparkle
Posted on Le Monde on 04/09/09
by Emmanuelle Lequeux
Le Français Nicolas Bourriaud aime les concepts et ce n’est pas ce qu’il fait de plus mal. Cet ancien directeur du Palais de Tokyo, le principal centre d’art en France, a profité de son exil londonien pour développer son nouveau credo dans le cadre d’une exposition à la Tate Britain.
Dans les années 1990, il a forgé l’idée d’”esthétique relationnelle” : voir les oeuvres pour les liens sociaux qu’elles tissent et produisent entre elles et non comme des objets d’art autonomes. Dans les années 2000, il a défini les plasticiens comme des “sémionautes” : navigateurs sur un océan de signes.
Sa nouvelle recherche est joliment intitulée “Altermodernisme”. Pour Bourriaud, les vingt-cinq dernières années du XXe siècle “furent un long épisode mélancolique. Les oeuvres d’art se sont définies comme un après : après le mythe du progrès, l’utopie révolutionnaire, la défaite du colonialisme, les luttes d’émancipations politiques, sociales et sexuelles”. Il faut revenir au présent. Le terme altermodernisme suggère “une multitude d’alternatives à une voie unique. L’alterglobalisation définit la pluralité des oppositions locales à la standardisation économique, et donc la lutte pour la diversité”.
Reste à illustrer ce propos avec des oeuvres d’artistes, tous “nomades culturels”. Un énorme champignon atomique érigé dans de la vaisselle en Inox par l’Indien Subodh Gupta dit le chambardement nécessaire à l’émergence de cette pensée nouvelle. La suite est plus confuse, et la pensée de Bourriaud s’avère difficile à suivre. Même si on y ressent que le déplacement, dans le temps et l’espace, vaut leitmotiv.
Citons les frappantes peintures inspirées à Franz Ackerman par ses voyages mondialisés, ou le sublime environnement de cristal liquide de Gustav Metzger, octogénaire qui fait chanter les murs en moirures et moisissures. Ou enfin Katie Paterson qui nous met en relation téléphonique avec un glacier en pleine fonte…
“Altermodern” : Tate Triennal 2009, Tate Britain, Millbank, Londres. Jusqu’au 26 avril.
Robert Rauschenberg Erased de Kooning Drawing 1953 © San Francisco Museum of Modern Art © Robert Rauschenberg/VAGA, New York and DACS, London 2006 Traces of ink and crayon on paper, with mount and hand-lettered ink by Jasper Johns 64.14x55.25x1.27cm
Pierre Huyghe’s work works!
Love the man…
There is a little webcam at Tate Modern in London where you can take little video sequences and send it to your friends… a bit hard if you really dont know your friends email addresses…
Checkout the Tate’s podcast of Jeremy Deller where he talks about the two works that helped him win the Turner Prize in 2004, “a wall drawing called The History of the World, a sort of mad-professor’s mind-map of the history of Britain through music; and a film called Memory Bucket that he made during a visit to Texas and which explores American paranoia”. check out other Tate shots videos here
©Shirin Neshat. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
Recently, I saw an exhibition by Shirin Neshat at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont where we can see two amazing new color cinematographic videos entitled Munis and Faezeh, these two videos were of an enigmatic beauty rare in contemporary art today. Those of you who saw her work at MAM may remember how most of her videos were black and white, youtube her here if you want to catch a few reminders, but these new color films are color corrected in such a fine and delicate way that I was surprised and immersed in it… like a boy with cartoons… The colors were soft pastels colors. The subject matter of the two videos are based on Women Without Men, a novel by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipu depicting the perception of a young Iranian woman during the summer of 1953 in Iran’s political unrest and a psychological breakdown of a Muslim woman following a sexual assault. The two videos are stuning and remain in my mind even a few days later. I recommend you try to see this recent works when it comes to your town.
The new large scale photographs, some seen here below, which mainly feature portraits of middle east men and women have been hand tagged in Persian calligraphy. The large images take a position of a face to face confrontation with a culture that remains covered by the Media and rarely seen in contemporary art. I liked them!
Take a look at the work of this painter and performance artist Benoît Pingeot.
youtube one of his performances here
