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mercredi 31 décembre 2008

# Tara is in Paris

Sailboat Tara is in Paris (on the Petit Palais' bank) until january 11st. This boat has been doing a lot of expedition around the world (for example in 2005, French artist Pierre Huyghe and some friends of his went to Antartica doing some research) and now exhibit its last journey in Artica.

Tara was built in 1989 after having beeing designed by Luc Bouvet et Olivier Petit, architects for Jean-Louis Etienne, a client passionnate in Antartica. Principle was to create a solid boat able to slip - with rudders and fins obviouly removed - on icefield in order to stay on it just in the same way that norvegian navigator Fridtjof Nansen did with his boat, Fram in the XIXth century.

This last exhibition last one year and half between 2006 and 2008 and consisted in a drift on the north pole's ice field while scientific research were achieved.

More informations, pictures and videos on Tara's official website





vendredi 28 novembre 2008

# Francis BACON @ the Tate Britain

Amazing exhibition of one the most interesting modern painter, Francis BACON at the TATE Britain (until 4 january 2009) .

This painter establishes a spacial dimension , in most of his artwork, and sometimes he's also dealing with the architectural space, giving some detail of a real scene, like doors or stairs.

His way to create a composition really amazing like the triptychs, thanks to a mix between painting and graphic design the composition is telling a story..

In his serie of self portrait he's depicting three sides of his own face almost in mouvement, the mix of colours create a real effect of motion, an the three pictures seems to be three dimensional object.

Go to the TATE and judge by yourself !

dimanche 23 novembre 2008

# Paul Virilio & Raymond Depardon in La Fondation Cartier

English version is lower

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail (Paris 14)

TERRE
NATALE
AILLEURS COMMENCE ICI
21 nov. 2008 › 15 mars 2009

« Avec Raymond Depardon, on se retrouvait sur la même question : que reste-t-il du monde, de la terre natale, de l’histoire de la seule planète habitable aujourd’hui ? » Paul Virilio

Tandis que le monde est à un moment critique de son histoire, où l’environnement conditionne ce que l’homme fait et ce qu’il va devenir, l’exposition Terre Natale, Ailleurs commence ici propose une réflexion sur le rapport au natal, à l’enracinement et au déracinement, ainsi qu’aux questions identitaires qui leurs sont attachées.
Alors que Raymond Depardon donne la parole à ceux qui, menacés de devoir partir, veulent demeurer sur leur terre, Paul Virilio expose la remise en cause de la notion même de sédentarité face aux grands phénomènes de migrations. La pensée de Paul Virilio est illustrée par la mise en scène des artistes et architectes Diller Scofidio + Renfro et Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan et Ben Rubin.
L’exposition est ainsi conçue comme une confrontation, un dialogue contradictoire et complémentaire, entre Raymond Depardon, cinéaste et photographe, dont on connaît l’attachement à la terre, à la parole, à l’écoute, au monde des paysans et qui depuis toujours a fait le choix du politique et du poétique, et Paul Virilio, urbaniste et philosophe, qui depuis longtemps travaille sur la vitesse, l’exode, la fin de l’espace géographique, la pollution des distances.

Terre Natale
« Écoutons ces gens, qu’ils soient Chipaya, Yanomami, Afar, écoutons ces gens, et donnons-leur un peu la parole afin qu’on puisse les entendre s’exprimer dans leur langue, avec leur façon de parler, leur expression du visage. »
Raymond Depardon

L’enracinement, la relation qu’entretient une population avec sa terre, sa langue, son histoire s’incarnent dans la monumentale projection d’un film de Raymond Depardon spécialement réalisé pour cette exposition. Avec Claudine Nougaret, qui a accompli la prise de son, ils ont voyagé au Chili, en Éthiopie, en Bolivie, en France et au Brésil à la rencontre de nomades, de paysans, d’îliens, d’Indiens tous menacés de disparaître ou vivant en marge de la mondialisation. Ils prennent la parole dans leur langue maternelle, langue ancrée dans la terre – « je suis née dans ma langue » dit une femme – et déclarent leur colère et leur douleur face aux menaces et aux craintes qui pèsent sur leur existence.


« Venant de parcourir le monde pour ‹ donner la parole › aux […] minorités menacées […], j’ai éprouvé le besoin d’affronter le monde qui est le mien, celui de ‹ la maladie de la vitesse › que dénonce Paul Virilio. »

Raymond Depardon

Après avoir « donné la parole » et célébré ceux qui veulent demeurer, Raymond Depardon fait ainsi l’expérience de la globalisation et du rétrécissement des distances, qu’il raconte sous la forme d’un journal filmé sans parole. En 14 jours, d’est en ouest, seul avec sa caméra, il a fait le tour du monde en passant par Washington, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hô Chi Minh-Ville, Singapour et Le Cap.

Ailleurs commence ici
« Parce que moi j’ai la nostalgie de l’ampleur du monde, de sa grandeur. »
Paul Virilio

Le journal de voyage de Raymond Depardon – dialogue à distance avec Paul Virilio – nous conduit vers la seconde partie de l’exposition, Ailleurs commence ici, réalisée sous la direction de Paul Virilio et scénographiée par les artistes et architectes américains Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan et Ben Rubin.

« La sédentarité et le nomadisme ont changé de nature. […] Le sédentaire, c’est celui qui est partout chez lui, avec le portable, l’ordinateur, aussi bien dans l’ascenseur, dans l’avion, que dans le train à grande vitesse. C’est lui le sédentaire. Par contre, le nomade, c’est celui qui n’est nulle part chez lui. »
Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio expose la remise en cause du pouvoir de demeurer. L’accélération des mouvements, « la grande mobilisation migratoire », remet en cause la notion même de sédentarité, puisqu’on estime que plus de 200 millions de personnes seront forcées de se déplacer d’ici 2050. Cet exode, sans précédent dans l’histoire humaine, intimement lié à la mondialisation et au changement climatique, rencontre la finitude de l’espace géographique, « la disparition de la grandeur du monde » avec la révolution des transports et des télécommunications. L’exode urbain succédant à l’exode rural, la réurbanisation du monde, ainsi que la nomme Paul Virilio, annonce l’apparition de « l’outre-ville », la ville de l’exil urbain, la ville du départ, à l’instar des gares, des aéroports et des futurs spatioports.
Ainsi, c’est l’avenir même de la notion de terre natale qui est questionnée par Paul Virilio. Cet « ailleurs commence ici », qui préfigure la mobilisation globale, est donné à voir dans l’exposition sous la forme d’un ouragan visuel d’images d’actualité, littéralement chorégraphiées sur une cinquantaine d’écrans.
L’ultime salle de l’exposition est entièrement consacrée à une cartographie inédite, qui offre une visualisation dynamique des migrations de population et de leurs causes à travers une projection circulaire créant un environnement immersif. Le visiteur se voit entouré par la projection d’une sphère tournant autour de la salle et qui, à chaque orbite, traduit et retraduit les différentes données migratoires sous forme de cartes, de textes et de trajectoires.
L’exposition bénéficie de la collaboration de François Gemenne, chercheur et enseignant à Sciences Po (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales) et à l’Université de Liège (Centre d’études de l’ethnicité et des migrations) sur les mouvements migratoires liés aux changements de l’environnement.

Commissaire général de l’exposition :
Hervé Chandès, Directeur Général de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

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NATIVE LAND
STOP EJECT
Nov. 21, 2008 › March 15, 2009

“Raymond Depardon and I both came around to this same question: what is left of this world, of our native land, of the history of what so far is the only habitable planet?” Paul Virilio

While the world has reached a critical moment in its history, where the environment conditions what humans do and what they will become, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a reflection on the notions of being rooted and uprooted, as well as related questions of identity. Whereas Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to live on their land but are threatened with exile, Paul Virilio examines and challenges the very idea of sedentariness in the face of the unprecedented migrations taking place in the contemporary world. Paul Virilio’s concepts are given form in a design by the artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, as well as Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin.
The exhibition is, therefore, a confrontation. It is at once a contradictory and complementary dialogue between filmmaker and photographer, Raymond Depardon, and urbanist and philosopher, Paul Virilio. Depardon’s work has often explored native lands, and, particularly, the world of farmers, giving value to speaking and listening. His capacity to combine both the political and the poetic is clear to anyone familiar with his work. Through his writing, Paul Virilio has spent much of his time working on notions of speed, exodus, the disappearance of geographic space, and the pollution of distances.

Native Land
“Let us listen to these people, be they Chipaya, Yanomami, or Afar. Let us listen to these people and give them a chance to speak, so we can hear them express themselves in their language, with their own way of speaking, their own facial expressions.”
Raymond Depardon

This notion of being rooted—the relationship that a population nurtures with its land, its language, and its history—finds its full expression in the monumental projection of a film by Raymond Depardon, made especially for this exhibition. Accompanied by sound engineer, Claudine Nougaret, Depardon travelled to Chile, Ethiopia, Bolivia, France, and Brazil to meet with nomads, farmers, islanders, and indigenous peoples, all of whom were either threatened with extinction or living on the periphery of globalization. They express themselves in their mother tongue languages, anchored in their native soil (“I was born in my language,” says one woman), and voice their anger and pain in view of the numerous threats and fears that plague their lives.

“After travelling all over the world to ‘give a voice’ to […] endangered minorities […], I felt the need to confront my own world, one that is suffering from the ‘disease of speed’ denounced by Paul Virilio.”
Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon thus goes on to share his first-hand experience of globalization and the world’s shrinking distances in the form of a silent filmed journal. After celebrating and “giving a voice” to those who wish to remain on their land, he travelled to cities around the world from East to West in 14 days—Washington, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Cape Town—accompanied solely by his camera.

Stop Eject
“I’m nostalgic for the world’s magnitude, of its immensity.”
Paul Virilio

Depardon’s travel journal—a long-distance imaginary dialogue with Paul Virilio—brings us to the second part of the exhibition Native Land, curated by Virilio, and designed by American artists and architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin.

“The nature of being sedentary and nomadic has changed. […] Sedentary people are at home wherever they go. With their cell phones or laptops, [they are] as comfortable in an elevator or on a plane as in a high-speed train. This is the sedentary person. The nomad, on the other hand, is someone who is never at home, anywhere. »
Paul Virilio

Virilio questions one’s capacity to settle somewhere and take root. The acceleration of movement or, using his terms, “the great migratory mobilization,”—it is estimated that roughly 200 million people will be forced to relocate by the year 2050—challenges the very notion of sedentariness. This exodus, unprecedented in human history, linked to globalization and to climate change, encounters the end of geographical space, or “the disappearance of the world’s vastness,” created by the current transportation and telecommunications revolution. The current urban exodus replacing the rural exodus of the past, the re-urbanization of the world, as Paul Virilio describes it, are factors that announce the emergence of the “ultracity,” the city of urban exile, the city of departure, similar to the train or bus stations and airports of today, or the spaceports of the future.
In this way, Paul Virilio questions the future of “native land” as a notion, reflected in the literal translation of the French exhibition title, Terre Natale, Ailleurs commence ici [Native Land, Elsewhere starts here]. This elsewhere that begins here prefigures global mobilization, and is illustrated through a visual tornado of news clips that are literally choreographed on almost 50 screens.
The exhibition’s final room is entirely dedicated to cartography, proposing a dynamic visualization of global human migrations and their causes via a circular and immersive projection. The visitor is surrounded by a sphere that circles the room, leaving behind a new imprint of migratory data in the form of animated maps, texts and trajectories with each orbit.
This exhibition has benefited from the participation of François Gemenne, researcher and professor of migratory movement linked to climate change at Sciences Po (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales) and at the University of Liege (Centre d’études de l’ethnicité et des migrations).

Chief curator: Hervé Chandès, General Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

mercredi 19 novembre 2008

# Aqua Garden by EcoLogicStudio


Here is one of the several research projects that EcoLogicStudio is currently trying to develop.

Presentation text:
Aqva Garden – Fuorisalone – Milan (ecoLogicStudio) AG is an artificial garden that functions as a distributed rain collector and as a water storage system. Unlike conventional recycling system AG doesn’t hide its functional apparatus; rather it embodies it in its structural matrix, the branching system. Moreover AG operates by expanding the climatic effects latent within the management of water and its transitional states (e.g. evaporation). Rain water becomes the protagonist of perceptual games and gardening processes, opening now potentials in the conception of ecologic infrastructures for the built environment.





jeudi 30 octobre 2008

# Aperiodic Vertebrae v2.0 by The Very Many


Here is an installation created by Marc Fornes & Skylar Tibbits for The Very Many in Francfort's Node 08. According to them, installation assembly "took less than 24 hours & 2 people & 2 laptops to (re-)assemble the 360 panels and 320 nodes".


jeudi 23 octobre 2008

# Dusseldorf's photography academy exhibition

Objectivités. La photographie à Dusseldorf is a quite interesting exhibition in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris about Dusseldorf school of photography since 1976 when Bernd Becher arrived to the head of the department.
Artists are Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Klaus Mettig, Simone Nieweg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Katharina Sieverding, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich.


Bernd & Hilla Becher

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

Andreas Gursky (see here a short portfolio about how Gursky modifies subtly his photographs in order to reveal a new space).

lundi 13 octobre 2008

# Jorge Luis Borges' Atlas in La Maison de l'Amérique Latine (Paris)

Jorge Luis Borges' Atlas is a current exhibition in La Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris showing travels pictures and texts by Borges and Maria Kodama.
Exhibition is running until november 6th

La Maison de l'Amérique Latine
217 Boulevard Saint Germain
75007 Paris

dimanche 12 octobre 2008

# Exhibition Urbanités in Paris

As you can see, Oz Collective's Abri 177 (older posts 1&2) is still rolling on and stoped this time in a pretty good exhibition in the Galerie des Filles du Calvaire in Paris. Other artists exhibited are Mohamed Bourouissa, Stéphane Couturier, Thibaut Cuisset, Denis Darzacq, John Davies, Paul Graham, Karen Knorr, Gilbert Fastenaekens, Erwin Olaf, Bill Owens, Georges Rousse, Frank Van Der Salm.
Yesterday was the opening but the exhibition is running until october 25th.

Galerie Les filles du calvaire
17 rue des filles du calvaire
750003 Paris

Oz Collective (Gaëtan Kohler & Alexandre Pachiaudi) / Abri 177

Denis Darzacq / Série La Chute

Stephane Couturier / Série Chandigarh(couldn't find the right picture)

Karen Knorr / Série Villa Savoye

lundi 29 septembre 2008

# Jeff Koons' exhibition in Chateau de Versailles

Here is last Jeff Koons' exhibition in the most visited appartments in Chateau de Versailles. I would say it is a very humourous one (here is the vaccum work in a room decorated by paintings of women) even if a lot of people does not understand it like this, grumble all along the exhibition and exclaim how disgraceful this within a so important architecture !
Exhibition will run until december 14th.

# Tadashi Kawamata in Versailles

After this post about Tadashi Kawamata's workshop in Versailles' school of architecture, here is his own installation in La Maréchalerie. Like the students' work, Kawamata uses crates and little plastic joints. In the inside, in order to create a new volume, crates are linked to a net hung by cables to Maréchalerie's wooden beams.
Exhibition is open until december 13rd but the outdoor installation will be took apart on october 6th.






dimanche 21 septembre 2008

# Oz's Abri n°177 exhibited in Ivry

Remember this article about DESA, Gaëtan Kohler and Alexandre Pachiaudi awarded in Le Festival des Architectures Vives de Montpellier ? Their abri n°177 is exhibited in Ivry for the week end. You can still see it for Pleins Feux 2008 today at 31st rue Raspail (200m south of City Hall). You can also visit their website OzCollective.com
Anyway, one more time, congratulations to them for managing to achieve this object with very low budgets.





mercredi 17 septembre 2008

# R-O-B by Gramazio & Kohler in Venice's biennal

Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are going more and more into details in their reseach about robotic aided construction. After Gantenbein Winery (see the movie) and their Seroussi Pavilion's Competition entry, they invaded Switzerland's Venice's Biennal Pavilion with their bricks walls assembled by R-O-B (he's a robot by the way !).
I would say qualities and faults are quite the same than for other projects; notably, bricks are ugly and the space created could have been much more interesting... In addition it would have been great to see the machine assembling the walls LIVE !
Anyway, interesting people are too rare to be devaluated so let's thank and congratulate Switzerland for its choice !



mardi 16 septembre 2008

# Tadashi Kawamata's Gandamaison in Versailles

Here is last Tadashi Kawamata's last work in La Maréchalerie in Versailles achieved after a workshop in l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles. Result is a ten installations exhibition built with only one material: market crates
Gandamaison comes from Japanese word for Transformers (Gandam) and French word for House (Maison).
Opening will be on September 18th and exhibition will run until december 13rd (except for the outdoor installation until october 4th)

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