1. Statement Hoël DURET EN

Born 15 june 1988
Lives and works in Nantes and Paris
06 28 40 19 13
Website : www.hoelduret.com
Vimeo : www.vimeo.com/user26987084
Mail : [email protected]
Statement
Within a research about means of production and aesthetics, mainly through
alternative methods of making, Hoel Duret self-published two essays untitled - I
Can Do Anything Badly that somehow sounds like an introduction to his own
work method.
Through the critical recycling of design and architecture aesthetics, Hoël Duret
stages lyric and epic dramas which formal occurrences act both as art works
a n d a s critical tools. Thus, his installations, videos, sculptures and paintings
punctuate, build and inhabit his dramaturgies.
UC-98 Decompression, 2016
Video
- UC-98 Decompression, 2016 - is the nal opus of the project - UC-98 -. It is a
new lm combining two sequences. The rst one features two dancers of the
Opéra national de Paris ballet company dancing a co-written choreography by
Hoel Duret, artist, and Nicolas Paul, choreographer. The second sequence
features a sixty years old woman introducing herself as a retired professional
mermaid.
Body with erased identity to stand the 'ux of informations (the dancers), and
over-acted identity (the retired mermaid), the new characters staged by Hoël
Duret act like spooky incarnations of his new project about the liquid world to
come.
The rst sequence was shot during the performance’s rehersals of - UC-98
RGB, 2016 - and refers directly to the jellysh story. It illustrates the 'ux of
informations passing through them which make them unable to develop a
precise thought. The second sequence is based on the real aquatic theme park
in Weeki Wachee, Florida (USA), which has also been hosted a mermaids
courses program since 1947.
This sequence is designed to extend the plot of the movie to the phantasmagoric
relation of man to the aquatic environment even in the its weirdest pop culture
aspects.
Camera : Hoël Duret and Jules Hidrot
Choregraphy : Nicolas Paul
Music : Julien Perez
Sound : Pierre Bouglé
Costumes : Eloïse Mineo-Briand
Dancers : Juliette Hilaire, Adrien Couvez
Actor : Marie Christine Hergott
- UC-98 Decompression, 2016 - total duration is 15 minutes 49 seconds, HD
1080P, stereo sound.
UC-98 RGB, 2016
Palais Garnier, Paris Opera, Paris, France
Performance co-produced by le Pavillon Neuize OBC / Palais de Tokyo Paris Opera & l'INA, 17 & 18 June 2016
UC-98 RGB is a /ction featuring the observations of jelly/shes caughted in the
node of an optical /ber submarine cable through which pass our digital data s .
For many years their gelatinous, translucent and soft bodies have been passed
through by UC-98 cable's light that carries billions of informations. At the sound
of their dreary voices reciting an endless and meaningless text, two characters,
wearing grey uniforms, move facing a single wide video screen. Lighted up by a
single color whose intensity varies like a breathing. No other information are
displayed on the screen. The dancers' gestures, whether violent, whether tired,
perform an endless partition. Because of the lack of message sent by the
screen, they are trying to invest their body of a message, an emotion in the
interpretation of the choreographic score. Their attempts, their failures, their
exhaustions underscore the emptiness of an incomplete information already
drowned in the ux.
To go with this performance, several elements are spread in the Opera, like a
strange echo to those two isolated and desperate bodies. This begins in the
Rotonde des abonnés. In this underground and dark space, 8 tubular slender
sculptures on which cling strange lights stand with a low frequencies soundtrack.
The Bassin de la Pythie is /lled with enlightened plastic blue bags instead of
water underneath the statue. As a reminder of the screens facing the dancers, a
green screen, is hidden behind an amphora from the Opera Garnier.
Choreographic performance conceived in collaboration with Nicolas Paul,
choreographer from of the Academy program of Paris National Opera and
performed by Juliette Hilaire and Adrien Couvez, dancers from Opera national
de Paris ballet company.
UC-98 RGB Water lights, 2016 and UC-98 RGB, 2016 at Palais Garnier © C.Pele - OnP 2016
UC-98 RGB Water lights, 2016
Blue plastic bags, LED lights, electric wire,
electric box.
Variable dimensions.
UC-98 RGB, 2016
Choregraphic performance for 2 dancers,
soundtrack, 2 widecreens UHD 50'', color videos.
Duration 1h30.
UC-98 RGB from #1 to #8, 2016
Steel, acrylic lacquer, blue plastic bag, LED lights,
colored electric wire, fabric, sand.
Variable dimensions
UC-98 RGB Green, 2016
UHD 50’’ widescreen, 1h30 video, wallmount.
110 x 62 x 10 cm
UC-98 Soft & fat (Seoul), 2016
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Group show, offsite project of le Pavillon Neufize OBC / Palais de Tokyo
April 5 - May 29, 2016
Hoël Duret’s paintings apply an abstract perspective to represent the fat and
soft aesthetics used in the representation of the fourth dimension in popular
Western culture. He recycles different sources such as low-resolution movie
scenes; colourful and transparent foating shapes referring to comic books of the
50s, and thicker lines of Italian designs from the 1960s (such as blow chair by
D’Urbino, de Pas, Lomazzi and Scolari). All of these historical elements,
combined with videos, are the second step of a larger narrative project called
UC-98 where Duret envisages a fctional underwater fber-optic cable in which
jellyfshes get stuck in. Held captive, their soft and translucent bodies are flled
with the light carrying our Internet data...
Focusing on our digital world for his new project, Hoël Duret has set on the
fgure of liquidity developed by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman as a metaphor
in which time becomes increasingly circular, like the endless waves of the sea .
If the paintings of Hoël Duret were worked in layers, the videos focus on
surfaces. As explained by Walter Benjamin, the fuidity is a component of the
process of movement and development of industrial goods. Re-enacting this
method, Hoël Duret flms stalls in Noryangjin,, the huge fsh market of Seoul to
focus on the transformation of all in raw materials and the dissemination of
capitalist values in the unconscious. It presents the present - the screen of our
permanent reality, writing the abstract script of an urban myth dedicated to the
city of Seoul, a new mythology.
UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #1, 2016 Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame,
48’’ fat screen, wall mount, 4’49’’ HD Video,
colored electric wire.
176 x 210 x 10 cm
UC-98 Soft & Flat (Seoul) #2, 2016 Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame,
48’’ fat screen, wall mount, 4’47’’ HD Video,
colored electric wire.
176 x 470 x 10 cm
Exhibition views of - Urban legends - at Seoul Museum of Art © Sangtae Kim 2016
UC-98 Sonar Souls, 2016
TORRI, Paris, France
March 14 – April 23, 2016
The exhibition UC-98 Sonar Souls presented at TORRI is the frst stage of this
new project. It constitutes the narrative beginning of a fction that depicts an
imagined societal state of the world.
Hoël Duret offers us a frst dive into the cosmogony he is establishing.
One by one, the elements of this fction reveal themselves and invite us to
wander through this three- dimensional history. Floating forms evoking the
swarm of jellyfsh enter into dialogue with soft bodies out of comic books on the
fourth dimension. Tubes in fowing lines—references to the mobile structures of
1950s’ design—support ecosystems whose light irradiates, enveloping
everything it reaches.
Imagining unexplored submarine landscapes, in the space of the gallery Hoël
Duret offers an environ- ment based on one of the key components of his new
narrative: transmission through light.
Exhibitions views – UC-98 Sonar Souls - at TORRI © Aurélien Mole 2016
UC-98 Sonar Souls #1, 2016
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame.
176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
UC-98 Sonar Souls #2, 2016
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame.
176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
UC-98 Sonar Souls #3, 2016
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame.
176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
UC-98 Sonar Souls #4, 2016
Steel, acrylic painting, plastic bac, fairy light, blue
electric cable.
200 x 75 x 55 cm
UC-98 Sonar Souls #5, 2016
UC-98 Sonar Souls, 2016
Steel, acrylic painting, plastic bac, fairy light, yellow
electric cable
45 x 35 x 18 cm
HD video, 12’.
UC-98 Sonar souls #5, 2016
UC-98 Sonar souls #4, 2016
UC-98 Sonar Souls, 2016
TORRI, Paris, France
March 14 - April 23, 2016
UC-98 Sonar souls #1, 2016
UC-98 Sonar souls #2, 2016
UC-98 Sonar souls #3, 2016
Un confort sans fn, 2015
L'Oeil de Poisson Art Center, Québec, Canada
October 30 - November 29, 2015
The exhibition - Un confort sans fn - can be seen as a critical archeology of
the modern forms. Hoël Duret tries to fnd out the symptoms of a glorious past,
reminding somehow an aesthetic conquest and a technological revolution, that
he reuses it in his sculptures, videos and paintings. Thus, driving behind a truck
in a canyon in the west of the USA, Hoel Duret sees in its load a geometric
painting looking like a Bridget Riley wandering in this specifc landscape. He
decided to transform this pattern into a painting and shows it next to the video. In
the same way, the artist flms in the Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India. Close to
Le Corbusier’s architectures, the Rock Garden is a typical example of tropical
raw art. Hoël Duret sees there the constructivist collusion of materials as diverse
as molded concrete, ceramic or broken electrical components. A fascinating
synthesis of advanced Modern techniques transformed by its re-use specifc to a
non-expert way. From it he will present totemic sculptures made of steel and
paper whose fragility echoes this precarious appropriationism.
Exhibition views - Un confort sans fn - at L'Oeil de Poisson Art Center © Yvan Binet 2015
Portant #1J, 2015
Steel, acrylic painting, blueback poster.
200 x 70 x 250 cm
Portant #2B, 2015
Steel, acrylic painting, blueback poster.
200 x 170 x 100 cm
Portant #3V, 2015
Steel, acrylic painting, blueback poster.
230 x 100 x 160 cm
Burning chair, 2015
Blueback poster, digital print, frame.
500 x 300 cm
La peinture qui roule, 2015
Canvas, frame, acrylic painting, TV, SD video 6'05''.
200 x 200 cm
Burning chair, 2015
Un confort sans fn, 2015
L'Oeil de Poisson Art Center, Québec, Canada
October 30 - November 29, 2015
Portant #3V, 2015
Portant #1J, 2015
Portant #2B, 2015
La peinture qui roule, 2015
Mood board, 2015
YISHU 8, Beijing, China
12 october - 15 november, 2015
Luca, 2015
Bingo, 2015
Gino, 2015
The exhibition - Mood board - presented at YISHU 8 is linked to the writing
process of a new movie scenario developed during a 3 month residency in
Beijing. As a premise, a way to follow, the show exhibit artworks as visual clues
like the mood board of this next movie, its storyboard in volume.
Lari, 2015
Seamless paper, squared frame, acrylic painting, pencil,
plywood, LED light, electric wire.
300 x 330 x 35 cm
Gino, 2015
Round canvases, acrylic painting, pencil, LED light, electric wire.
140 x 150 x 120 cm
Luca, 2015
Canvases, acrylic painting, pencil, plywood, seamless paper,
strap.
100 x 190 x 13 cm
Nanda, 2015
Bamboo, whoop, plywood, LED light, electric wire.
160 x 118 x 4 cm
Spaziale, 2015
Canvas, acrylic painting, pencil, dibond, plywood, LED light,
electric wire.
94 x 120 x 7 cm
Le night club, 2015
Digital print mounted on colored dibond.
40 x 60 cm
Le front de mer, 2015 Digital print mounted on colored dibond.
40 x 60 cm
Exhibition view - Mood board - at YISHU 8 © YISHU 8 2015
La plage, 2015
Digital print mounted on colored dibond.
40 x 60 cm
Bingo, 2015
Canvases, acrylic painting, pencil, plywood, round fuorescent
light, electric wire, strap.
100 x 160 x 12 cm
Mood board, 2015
YISHU 8, Beijing, China
12 october - 15 november, 2015
Lari, 2015
Spaziale, 2015
Le night-club, 2015
Nanda, 2015
Le front de mer, 2015
La plage, 2015
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en trois actes, 2013 - 2015
Video - can be seen on www.vimeo.com/129010177
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en trois actes, 2013-2015 - is a narrative
and critical epic drama depicting the investigation of the main character, an
industrial designer called B.S.. Aware of the issues of his day, he carries an
analytical look at the functionalist experiences of the twentieth century, from the
vanguards modern to the aesthetic foundations of the American Way of Life
through the Do It Yourself utopias. In the frst act he tries to make a fascinated
and passionated synthesis of them all, combining contradictory recipes to shape
a weird Design Land before being interrupted by a phone call. He receives the
mad commission to redraw a chicken egg to optimize packaging and transport.
He fnds himself having to contradict the laws of nature by trying to perfect an
ideal form. His inherited rational and unnatural certainties of modernist thought,
his insurance and his chronic lack of perspective on its objects of study makes
him confdent enough to take this impossible mission. His multiple attempts to
reach this impossible result drives him nowhere and his conquering spirit starts
to border to pathetism. Having defnitively lost his modern certainties on the use
and origin of forms, B.S. embarks in act III on a journey to Greece to understand
the conditions of appearance and conceptualization of the very frst
manufactured form : the Doric column. How in this arid region, only flled with
stones and dust, Man could have conceptualized a form as pure ? Thinking that
in that context a transcendental and universal truth on any form will appear to
him he will slowly loose himself to madness.
The frst act, flmed at the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, revives the flms archive
widely used in the second half of the twentieth century to praise the genius of an
era. The second act flmed at Mosquito Coast Factory is in between scientist TV
shows and Les Aventures de Tintin following B.S.'s team during the work on this
impossible commission while his voice over exposes the egg problem while
progressing towards its fnal failure. The third and last act, flmed at Zoo Galerie
in a desert landscape set follows B.S.'s desperate attempts to make sculpture
and ended up like a psychedelic experimental movie.
Set lights and cameraman : Pierre Bouglé
Music : Pierre Lucas, Pierre Bouglé and Gil Méry
Costumes : Eloïse Mineo-Briand
Actors : Hoël Duret, Colyne Morange, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Vladimir Ritz,
Cécile Trichet
Voice over : Daniel Méry
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en trois actes, 2013 - 2015 - total
duration is 45 minutes 08 seconds, HD 1080P, stereo sound
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte I : As a tribute..., 2013
Installation at the Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
24 october 2013 - 19 january, 2014
Les chaises de Josef, 2013
Les proflés, 2013
Les marcels, 2013
Le vitrail, 2013
Exhibition view at the Frac des Pays de la Loire © Marc Domage 2013
Act I - La Vie Héroïque de B.S. : As a tribute..., 2013 - presented at the FRAC
des Pays de la Loire is the inventory of forms. B.S. attempts to summarize a
century of industrial and technical creation in a sprawling instalation but his
dandyesque demonstration, because of its precariousness, fnally looks more
like a Palais Idéal despite himself. The composite installation, bringing together
shapes and materials from post-war to today design in an typical exercise of
modern architects : the Pavilion, such as the Eames couple or Le Corbusier.
Objects, techniques and materials get deploys in the space with the intention to
reshape some design icons, from the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe,
to the encroachments of Autoprogettazione by Enzo Mari, the decorative motifs
of the American Craft Movement of the post-war, screens of Eileen Gray, Josef
Albers designs or facade details by Marcel Breuer...
This reference collage, which carries the limits of B.S. beliefs, forms a domestic
environment emphasizing the plethora of infuences in a way much more
precarious and pathetic than the technical effciency that each element is
supposed to be.
Artworks included in La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte I : As a tribute..., 2013
installation
Les chaises de Josef, 2013 Painted steel structure, elastic thread, mural painting.
268 x 81,5 x 50 cm
Les proflés, 2013
Wooden frame, acrylic painting.
200 x 200 x 5 cm
Les marcels, 2013
Painted steel, wood, cardboard painted with asphalt paint.
180 x 32 x 42 cm / 200 x 32 x 42 cm
175 x 32 x 42 / 175 x 32 x 42 cm
Le vitrail, 2013
Painted wood, steel, glass, black silicone, pencil.
130 x 90 x 4 cm
Eileen, 2013
Steel, wood, Formica, cork.
120 x 65 x 10 cm
Le tas de bois, 2013
Painted wood, logs, wood glue, clamps.
90 x 90 x 30 cm
La colonne, 2013
Painted wood, tiles, cardboard tube, cement.
90 x 90 x 13,5 cm
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte I : As a tribute..., 2013
Installation at the Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
24 october 2013 - 19 january, 2014
Eileen, 2013
Le tas de bois, 2013
La colonne, 2013
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte II : Le dilemme de l'oeuf, 2014
Installation at Mosquito Coast Factory, Campbon, FR
20 september - 20 october, 2014
B.S. is commissioned to redraw a chicken egg to optimize its packaging and
transport at large scale without loss. Working on this case, he is facing a
fondamental dilemma because the natural form of the egg is perfect so the
commission consists in fact to contradict the laws of nature against all logic :
improving a naturally perfect shape. Driven by his faith in industrial design
power, B.S. accepts the challenge with the certainty that any natural form should
necessarily be optimized by techniques.
B.S. research and development studio’s multiplies scientifc experiments and
remodeling attempts under its control without reaching any conclusive result.
Their repeated failures and his stubbornness will gradually destroy its repository
formal system which constitutes the foundations of his convictions and lead him
to madness.
Artworks included in La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte II : Le dilemme de l'oeuf,
2014 installation.
Les bancs, 2014
Exhibition views at Mosquito Coast Factory © Philippe Piron 2014
Les bancs, 2014
MDF, mosaic, coats, glue, acrylic painting.
2 pieces, 120 x 40 x 40 cms each
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte III : Les sirènes de Corinthe,
2015
Installation at Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
29 november 2014 - 24 january, 2015
Silvertop, 2014
Les bambous, 2014
Exhibition view at Zoo Galerie © Philippe Piron 2015
Having defnitively lost his modern certainties on the use and origin of forms,
B.S. embarks on a journey to Greece to understand the conditions of
appearance and conceptualization of the very frst manufactured form : the Doric
column. How in this arid region, only flled with stones and dust, Man could have
conceptualized a form as pure ?
Wandering in the desert landscapes, B.S. becomes mad and mystic. He fnally
abandoned the technical and precise tools of engineering and industrial
production and starts working only with what he can fnd on the spot.
Desperately throwing himself in the experience of the sculpture, he thinks that in
that context a transcendental and universal truth on any form will appear to him.
Artworks included in La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte III : Les sirènes de
Corinthe, 2015 installation
Silvertop 2014
Acrylic painting on awning fabric on canvas.
100 x 120 cm
Les bambous, 2014
Inkjet printing on paper mounted on canvas, acrylic painting.
80 x 100 cm
La jungle, 2014
Inkjet printing on paper mounted on canvas, acrylic painting.
80 x 100 cm
La fenêtre, 2014
Inkjet printing on paper mounted on canvas, acrylic painting.
80 x 100 cm
Le cactus, 2014
Acrylic painting on plywood.
80 x 130 cm
L'aloe vera, 2014
Acrylic painting on plywood.
60 x 50 cm
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte III : Les sirènes de Corinthe,
2015
Installation at Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
29 november 2014 - 24 january, 2015
La jungle, 2014
Le cactus, 2014
L'aloe vera 2014
La fenêtre, 2014
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en trois actes, 2015
Installation at Musée des Beaux Arts de Mulhouse, Mulhouse, FR
14 june - 20 september, 2015
Oslo bamboo, 2015
Mon ami l'atome, 2015
The video opera - La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en trois actes, 2013 2015 - is screened in a specifc installation evoking a Californian living room,
flled with 1950's style furnitures. If it is no longer a flm set, the status of the
elements is still troubled, in between installation, furniture and artwork.
Artworks included in La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en trois actes, 2013
- 2015 installation
Exhibition views at Musée des Beaux Arts de Mulhouse © Hoël Duret 2015
Oslo bamboo, 2015
Bamboo, polished metal, acrylic painting on
lampshade, lightbulb,electric wire with dimmer.
240 x 90 x 50 cm
Mon ami l'atome, 2015
Acrylic painting on awning fabric on canvas.
100 x 120 cm
La Vie Héroïque de B.S. Un opéra en trois actes, 2013 - 2015
Video HD 1080P with stereo sound.
45'08''
G couches, 2015
Polished metal, plywood, foam, fabric covers.
2 couches, 190 x 60 x 86 cm each
Coffee table, 2015
Painted metal, acrylic painting on plaster, PVC,
birch, hemp string, tainted glass.
89 x 53 x 40 cm
Ojinaga, 2015
Carpet.
150 x 200 cm
I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY volume I
Faire sans savoir est un sens commun, 2013
I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY volume II
Learning by doing is a shared responsability, 2014
- I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY volume I, Faire sans savoir est un sens
commun, 2013 - is an editorial adventure suggested by Hoël Duret to Wilfrid
Almendra, Alain Bublex, Julien Berthier, Mathis Collins, Aurélien Mole and
Frédéric Teschner. The brainchild of extensive research into the concepts of
amateur practices and of loss of traditional know-how, this project stands as a
manifesto of the young artist's approach. The book traces the social and
aesthetic history of DIY through the London bourgeois society of the nineteenth
century, the Arts & Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, the Craft Movement in the
United States, the standardization of tools, and fnally leads to the counter - and
Do It Yourself - culture.
Completely self-produced and self-fnanced, the text is completed by fve artistic
proposals.
- I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY volume II, Learning by doing is a shared
responsability, 2014 - is an editorial project consisting of interviews, which
focuses on the concepts of Do It Yourself as modes of production, as current
economic models of macro-production, macro-diffusion, knowledge transfer in
web 2.0 and as a legacy of punk adventure.
Starting with a conversation between Hoël Duret, Frédéric Teschner & The Big
Conversation Space (Clémence de Montgolfer & Niki Korth), it includes
interviews with
- Art Review and Preview (ARP!, Tiff Hockin, Ariel Pate,Troy Pieper), an
independent art newspaper published in Minneapolis, USA, from 2007 to 2010.
- Luca Antonucci and Carissa Potter, founders of COLPA Press, publishing
house based in San Francisco, USA, specialized in handmade artists' books in
limited editions.
- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, legal offcer for Creative Commons, an
organization offering a legal alternative to those wishing to release their works of
intellectual property.
- Fabien Hein, researcher, teacher and sociologist at the University of Lorraine,
also author of - Do It Yourself! Self-determination and cultural punk, 2012 (Paris : Le Passager clandestin).
- Kräftig Atelier, objects design studio created by Baptiste Mahé and Clément
Hayer in Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
- Stephen LaPorte, programmer and advocate for the Wikimedia Foundation
(non-proft foundation purpose of initiating Wikipedia) .
- Victor Grigas, videographer, photographer and columnist for the Wikimedia
Foundation (non-proft foundation initiator purpose of Wikipedia).
50 pages book, printed on RISO, A4 format, 400 ex.
Content : Hoël Duret with Wilfrid Almendra, Alain Bublex, Julien Berthier, Mathis
Collins and Aurélien Mole
Graphic design : Frédéric Teschner
- I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY volume I & II - can be purchased at
http://naica-editions.com/en/multiples.html
- I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY volume II, Learning by doing is a shared
responsability, 2014 - online version : http://icdab.club/
200 pages book, printed on RISO, A5 format, 200 ex.
Content : The Big Conversation Space (Clémence de Montgolfer & Niki Korth)
and Hoël Duret
Graphic design : Frédéric Teschner
ICDAB série, 2013
Drawings
Petite histoire du bricolage, 2012
Video - can be seen on www.vimeo.com/132243319
Excerpt, 13 risograph prints, 42 x 29.7 cm, 100 signed and numbered series.
In addition to - I CAN DO ANYTHING BADLY, Faire sans savoir est un sens
commun, 2013 - the 13 risograph prints, of the - ICDAB série, 2013 - illustrates
the story of the book.
Screenshots, HD video with sound, 42'03''
The - Petite histoire du bricolage, 2012 - video shows the dismanding of a
budget jigging saw bought in an hardware store. Each component is sorted by
category on the table. This very tool is kind of an icon of a postmodern and
global DIY.
The voice over by Pierre Giquel tells an history of crafting from the political
approach it used to be to the nowadays middle class hobby it is.
Schön und modern series, 2012
Sculptures
- Schön und modern series, 2012 - analyses 4 major modern buildings through
their structure.
It fgures models made of reclaim wood and materials.
Dʼaprès Walter, 2012
- Dʼaprès Walter, 2012 - is the model of 1926 Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus Dessau
building.
- Dʼaprès Mies, 2012 - is the model of 1929 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s
Barcelona Pavillion.
- Dʼaprès Oscar, 2012 - is the model of 1951 Oscar Niemeyer’s United Nations
building in New York City.
- Dʼaprès Charles-Edouard, 2012 - is the model of 1931 Le Corbusier’s Villa
Savoye in Poissy.
Dʼaprès Walter, 2012
Wood, screws, nails and glue.
60 x 42 x 11 cm
Dʼaprès Mies, 2012
Wood, screws, nails and glue.
58 x 28 x 6 cm
Dʼaprès Oscar, 2012
Wood, screws, nails and glue.
61 x 45 x 35 cm
Dʼaprès Charles-Edouard, 2012
Wood, screws, nails and glue.
60 x 45 x 27 cm
Dʼaprès Mies, 2012
Dʼaprès Oscar, 2012
Dʼaprès Charles-Edouard, 2012
Build your own landscape, 2011
Video – can be seen on www.vimeo.com/131432013
Colored Fields, 2012
Paintings
Screenshots, SD video with sound, 11'52''
This didactic video is made as one of those that can be found in hardware stores
like The Home Depot in the U.S. but instead of a classical one here are the
technical explanation on how to build an American landscape. It presents four
desperate attempts to build different ways to see the American landscape
through four theoretical points of view on the U.S. territory (the private property
perspective, the Beat Generation perspective, the Hollywood perspective and
the National Park perspective for political purposes).
This video has been shot during a one month residency in Marfa, TX, USA in
2011.
Installation of 18 canvas, 60 x 60 cm each, scratched acrylic painting, variable dimensions
The 18 canvas of - Colored Fields, 2012 - use the shape of a pivot agriculture
feld satelite view. Those monochroms, refering to the Color Field art movement,
are scratched to fgure those cinetic shapes of the man altered landscape.
Etabli Rietveld, 2012
Sculpture
Left-Overs (Les Restes), 2012
Sculpture
Etabli Rietveld, 2012, several materials, 102 x 200 x 53 cm
This sculpture is an incomplete copy of a sideboard drawn by the Dutch
designer Gerrit Rietveld in 1919 which I use as a workbench in the studio. The
particularity of this furniture is that it is constituted by a very simple assembly of
brackets which make it easily reproducible.
Etabli Rietveld, 2012, view of detail
Left-Overs (Les Restes), 2012, several materials, 202 x 220 x 45 cm
- Left-Overs (Les Restes), 2012 - is an installation realized with falls of
materials found in the studio shaped to evoke the - Proun - by El Lissitzky. A way
of envisaging in a ironic way the reference to the modern and the fascination
which it’s generate.
Left-Overs (Les Restes), 2012, view of detail
Sans titre (L'information est une vocation), 2012
Drawings, installation
1/300 000, 2012
Drawing
1/300 000, 2012, drawing, frame and inkjet printed photo, 51 x 71 cm
The anastylose is a technic used in archaeology consisting in drawing every
element of a building before unsettled it to understand its assembly and rebuild it
after having solidifed its foundations.
- Baphuon - is a temple-mountain located on the site of Angkor, in Cambodia,
who's the archaeologist in charge of its repair, Bernard-Philippe Groslier,
decided to unsettle, to draw and to number the 300 000 stones which compose it
between 1960 and 1970. The arrival of the Khmer Rouges to the power in
Cambodia in 1975 will end the construction work. They will burn the drawings,
leaving 300 000 stones scattered in the jungle.
View of the installation and view of detail, 132 drawings 21 x 29,7 cm each.
Total dimensions of the installation : 326,7 x 252 cm.
This series of 132 drawings fgures the technical manual to transform an
advertising billboard into a living shelter. Designed by using tools and materials
available in any hardware store. Each drawing points out each step of the
construction process.
Notes, 2012
Drawings
Note#7 A power-primer, 2012
Note #5 Principe sur lesquels repose la
construction de divers ponts, 2012
All infos about the - Notes, 2012 -
Note #2 Power Saw Blades, 2012
Note#11 Batterie, 2012
Note#8 Aircraft Engine, 2012
Note#9 Painter Needs, 2012
The - Notes, 2012 - are an ungoing serie of line drawings.
Borrowed from books, textbooks, packagings, internet, posters,
movies, murals... they constitute a set of images of research.
Note #1 About Putting Pieces Together, 2012
Framed drawing.
50 x 70 cm
Note #2 Power Saw Blades, 2012
Framed drawing.
50 x 70 cm
Note #4 I make illogical logical, 2012
Framed drawing.
40 x 30 cm
Note #5 Principe sur lesquels repose la construction Framed drawing.
de divers ponts, 2012
40 x 30 cm
Note#6 Cabane, 2012
Framed drawing.
29,7 x 21 cm
Note#7 A power-primer, 2012
Framed drawing.
29,7 x 21 cm
Note#8 Aircraft Engine, 2012
Framed drawing.
29,7 x 21 cm
Note#9 Painter Needs, 2012
Framed drawing.
29,7 x 21 cm
Note#10 Weight of air, 2012
Framed drawing.
70 x 50 cm
Note#11 Batterie, 2012
Framed drawing.
40 x 30 cm
Born 15 june 1988
Lives and works in Nantes and Paris, France
06 28 40 19 13 / [email protected]
Website : www.hoelduret.com
Vimeo : www.vimeo.com/user26987084
Represented by TORRI, Paris, France
Diplomas
Group shows
Awards
2016
- La rumeur des naufrages - curated by Fabien Danesi and Ange
Leccia, collaboration between the Palais de Tokyo the National Opera
of Paris, Palais Garnier, Paris, FR
Yishu 8 2015 award, Beijing, China / Visual Arts award 2014 of the
City of Nantes, FR / Production grant 2014, DRAC des Pays de la
Loire, Nantes, FR / Production grant 2013 Conseil Régional des Pays
de la Loire, FR / Young Creation award 2012 of the Mulhouse
Biennal, FR
- Lazy Susan - curated by Ichiro Irie et Kio Griffith, Titanik, Turku,
Finland
- Urban Legends - curated by Gahee Park and Fabien Danesi, in
collaboration with the Palais de Tokyo at the Seoul Art Museum,
Seoul, Korea
2011 - MA - ESBA Nantes Métropole
2009 - BA - ESBA Nantes Métropole
2015
- La fabrique de l'homme moderne - curated by Images Passages,
Salomon Foundation, Annecy, FR
Solo shows / events / screenings
- Visio, Next Generation of Moving Images - curated by Leonardo
Bigazzi, during Lo Schemo Dell'Arte Film Festival 2015, Palazzo
Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
2016
October 20 - 23 (upcoming)
FIAC 2016 with TORRI – Lafayette Sector, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
- Crédakino - La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en 3 actes, Le
CREDAC Art Center, Ivry-sur-seine, FR
- Saison Vidéo 2016 #40 - La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en 3
actes, www.saisonvideo.com
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en 3 actes - European Media
Art Festival (EMAF) 2016, Osnabrück, Germany
- UC-98 Sonar souls - TORRI, Paris, FR
- Lundi du Pavillon - Cheezy Display - Hoël Duret invites Mathias
Delplanque and Jochen Denh, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2015
- Un confort sans fin - L'Oeil de Poisson Art Center, Québec, Canada
- Mood board - Yishu 8 Art Space, Beijing, China
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Un opéra en 3 actes - Fine Arts Museum
of Mulhouse, Mulhouse, FR
in - Catalogue des Ressources - group show catalog, ESBA Nantes
Métropole editions, 2015
- I Can Do Anything Badly volume II - self-published book, 2014
- Instantané 84 - solo show catalog, FRAC des Pays de la Loire
editions, 2014
- I Can Do Anything Badly volume I - self-published book, 2013
in the group show catalog of the Mulhouse Biennal 012, Ville de
Mulhouse editions, 2012
Exhibition of the awarded artists of city of Nantes award, L'Atelier,
Nantes, FR
Press
- Atomic Pictures #6 - public projection curated by Atomic Pictures
(Matylda Taszycka & Antoine Scalese), Atelier ANA, Paris, FR
- Le club des aventuriers, première équipée pour un tournage Initiales #08 NDP, september 2016 (upcoming)
2014
- Opening Dulcie 2 - ESBA Nantes Galerie, Nantes, FR
- Top 5 des expos de la semaine : Hoël Duret, UC – 98, Sonar SoulsLes Inrocks.com, march 2016
- Scripted Spaces - curated by Cecelia Stucker, Martos Gallery, Los
Angeles, USA
- Nouvelle tête, Hoël Duret - Les Inrocks n°1060, 23 march 2016
2013
- Suite et fin - Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
2012
- Artothèque of the Belleville Biennal - CENTQUATRE, Paris, FR
- Electroshield, projet/réplique - Mélanie Rio Galerie, Paris, FR
- Gala Triangle France - Château Ricard, Marseille, FR
- Mulhouse Biennal 012 - Convention Center of Mulhouse, FR
- LOOP Video Art Fair 2015 - Catalonia Ramblas Hotel, Barcelona,
Spain
2011
- Ailleurs, si j’y suis - ESBA Nantes Galerie, Nantes, FR
Public release of - I Can Do Anything Badly volume II - Park Life
Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- Rough out - Owen Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
2014
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte III : Les sirènes de Corinthe - Zoo
Galerie, Nantes, FR
Publications
Residencies
- VISIO. Next Generation Moving Images at Palazzo Strozzi in
Florence - NERO Magazine, dec 2015
- Extérieur nuit ou les nouveaux storyboards - revue 303, exclusive
portfolio, text by Mai Tran, nov 2015
- Hoël Duret : le design moderne revu dans un “opéra vidéo” - Les
inRocks Lab, interview by Anna Hess, jun 2015
- Hoël Duret : la révision du design moderne - video by L'atelier A,
ARTE Creative Channel by Hugues Gemignani, jan 2015
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - 02 point 2 n°3, exclusive portfolio, dec
2014
in - Dossier spécial FIAC 2014 - Beaux-Arts Magazine n°365 by
Emmanuelle Lequeux, oct 2014
in - Scripted spaces, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles - Purple.fr, portfolio
and review of the group show by Natalie O'Moore, oct 2014
YIA Art Fair #04, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
November 2015 - june 2016
Residencie at The Pavillon Neuflize OBC research lab of the
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte II : Le dilemme de l'oeuf - Mosquito
Coast Factory, Campbon, FR
July - october 2015
Production residencie at Yishu 8 Art Space, Beijing, China
Public release of - I Can Do Anything Badly volume II Castillo/Corrales & Section 7 Books, Paris, FR
April 2011
Production residencie at Marfa, Texas, USA
in - Les chemins de l’émergence 1 : Les salons - 02 n°63, text by
Patrice Joly, oct 2012
February - july 2010
Residencie at the Athens School of Art, Athens, Greece
Public and private collections
2013
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. - Acte I : As sa tribute...- FRAC des Pays
de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
Public release of - I Can Do Anything Badly volume I - Chez Treize
invited by Le Commissariat, Paris, FR & Galerie RDV, Nantes, FR
in Slash Paris, mar 2014
- La Vie Héroïque de B.S. : Acte 1 - As a tribute..., Frac des Pays de
la Loire - 02 point 2 n°2, review by Eva Prouteau, dec 2013
in - Dossier 30 ans des FRAC - Le Quotidien de l'Art n°505, dec 2013
National Foundation for Contemporary Art (Design), FR / Myriam &
Jacques Salomon collection, FR / Private collections, Paris, FR / City
of Nantes public collection, FR / Fine Art Museum of Brest collection,
FR / Private collections, Beijing, China