ni trompette Sans tambour
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ni trompette Sans tambour
/ Press kit / saison 2012/2013 le lieu unique scène nationale de Nantes Sans tambour, ni trompette 30th may 11th august 2013 around Roland Topor / Press release / Sans tambour, ni trompette Michael Dans, Erik Dietman, Benjamin Monti, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Daniel Nadaud, Roland Topor and Didier Trenet. 30th may – 11th august 2013 Press : Christelle Masure / [email protected] / t. +33 2 51 82 15 47 Aurélie Denis / [email protected] / t. +33 2 51 82 15 03 Le lieu unique is pleased to present the group exhibition, Sans tambour ni trompette (“Without drum or trumpet”) from 30 May to 11 August 2013. As an admirer of Roland Topor’s protean body of work, the exhibition curator and Director of the art centre, Bertrand Godot has organized a collective project at le lieu unique, bringing together seven artists around the great figurehead, who is both the guest of honour and the eighth artist. Being sensitive to all things nonsensical, a figure of excess and pleasure, subversive and provocateur, Topor makes fun of both mankind and himself. The invited artists peep behind the scenes, explore the backstage and shortcomings of the human race and eroticism and, like Roland Topor, question these very same notions. Sans tambour ni trompette presents over 200 works in the courtyard of le lieu unique that were either created for the exhibition or already exist. Every last one of them is a reason to (re)discover the artistic visions of Michael Dans, Erik Dietman, Benjamin Monti, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Daniel Nadaud, and Didier Trenet. In the wake of Topor, these contemporary artists continue to explore the cracks, the margins, whatever exists (or doesn’t) “on the other side of the page.” Artists Michael Dans Solo exhibitions / selection 2012 La Maison Dieu When You Came Back Home, B9, St Luc Liège, Liège, Belgium 2010 Dessins, Espace Uhoda, Liège, Belgium 2009 Superapocalyptisticexpialidocious, aliceday, Brussels, Belgium 2006 On casse tous notre pipe, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier Since his first “formulations” in the early 1990s, Michael Dans’s work has continued to escape any form of indoctrination, be it formal, aesthetic, conceptual or other. He deliberately chooses extremely different media (Indian ink, installations, photographs), often in reaction to the space where he is invited to present his work. Certain fundamental traits nevertheless appear to emerge throughout his exhibitions: humour that is both cynical and critical, an art of the contradiction and thumbing one’s nose at the world, and a taste for associating ideas and displacements that produce new meanings. Michael Dans, Serial Killer Erik Dietman Born in 1937, in Sweden. Died in 2002. Solo exhibitions / selection 2011 Erik Dietman, Monomental, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul 2010 Erik Dietman : dessins sans regarder, Mam, Saint-Étienne 2001 Éloge de l’envie, MAMAC, Nice 2000 Un nez dans le verre, un verre dans le nez, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy Erik Dietman, Le Général Although close to Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme, Erik Dietman always stayed on the fringes of any art movement. Playing with language and adding humour to the creative mix led to his first pieces in the 1960s, which he called objets pansés or pensés (“thought”, or “bandaged objects”). Inspired by concrete poetry (his encounter in 1953 with Oyvind Falhström, whose manifesto on concrete poetry would be seminal), he then explored words and images through his conceptual works. It is only in the 1980s that he returned to sculpture, while continuing to draw. Bronze, marble, iron, and ceramic became his materials of choice. However, he never stopped drawing and continued this practice to the end of his career, often in large format. Above all else, his art has established itself as one of the most original and personal contributions to contemporary sculpture. Benjamin Monti Born in 1983, in Liège. Lives and draws wherever he goes. Solo exhibitions / selection 2013 Benjamin Monti, Galerie Wittert, ULG, Liège, Belgium 2012 Benjamin Monti, Espace Bis, Centre Culturel de Tournai 2010 Perspecta, Galerie Nadja Vilenne “Hors les murs”, Brussels, Belgium 2009 Benjamin Monti, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, Belgium Benjamin Monti, Sans titre Benjamin Monti is an amazing collector of images and printed curiosities, a recycler of an iconographic corpus which he hybridizes, recomposes and revivifies between copies and originals, at the junction where text, graphic art, and visual art meet. Very active in the world of fanzines, he also draws using Indian ink or pencil to create what he calls “suspended instants.” For the past ten years, he has endlessly experimented, attempting new dialogues between drawing and text, especially with graphic novels and diaries. In 2012, he launched a new periodical fanzine called Obsolescence programmée (“programmed obsolescence”). He has already participated in roughly one hundred publications, essentially in “alternative” spheres, for fanzines or tiny publishers. Mrzyk & Moriceau Team consisting of Petra Mrzyk, born in 1973, in Nuremberg, and Jean-François Moriceau born in 1974, in Saint-Nazaire. They live and work in Chatillon-sur-Indre. Solo exhibitions / selection 2012 Poppies Are Also Flowers 1,2,3,4/4, Air de Paris, Paris 2011 The Man With the Golden Gun, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA 2008 You Only Live Twice, Air de Paris, Paris; Casino Royale, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London, UK; The Living Daylights, AMT Gallery, Milan, Italy Since meeting at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, these two artists, best known for their black ink drawings, have offered both an offbeat perspective onto the world and on the art of drawing itself. Therapeutic and stupid, childish, X-rated, collectible, reproducible ad infinitum, original, and ephemeral… Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau’s drawings take their inspiration from popular imagery and avant-garde comic books. They portray our image-addled society and deform reality through the filter of disturbing fantasy, while transposing it into an exuberant and chaotic universe. Their characters, just as much as the context in which they appear, are subject to twisting and deformation. Mrzyk et Moriceau, Sans titre Daniel Nadaud Born in 1942, in Paris. Lives and works in Pré Saint-Gervais & Olivet. Solo exhibitions / selection 2011 Dessins & imprimés, Galerie de l’artothèque, Vitré 2009 Délicat désastre, Galerie Benoît Lecarpentier, Paris 2008 Le grand massacre, Galerie Remarque, Trans en Provence 2007 Tintinnabuler, Galerie le Salon d’Art, Brussels, Belgium; Partition fantôme, Château d’Olonne, Abbaye Saint-Jean de l’Orbestier Daniel Nadaud’s artistic universe takes its inspirations from multiple sources. History, fragments of his childhood, and farm equipment make up the backbone of his projects. Although his work was initially centred on using gouache, it became increasingly varied over time, ranging from artist’s books to installations. He has always seen human labour through the mediation of the tools that define it. His notebooks accompany his adventures and relate his moods, projects, curiosities and his intentions. These diaries are traces of his many inner travels. Daniel Nadaud, Rêve Roland Topor Born in 1938, died in 1997. Roland Topor was a genius of an exquisitely dark brand of humour. He developed his art through whatever medium he could get his hands on. In turns an illustrator, painter, writer, stage director, actor, decorator, songwriter, or even filmmaker, he left a body of work that is abundantly rich, and singular in our history. After leaving the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1964, he first published his drawings in the avant-garde review “Bizarre,” and later in the famed satirical magazine “HaraKiri.” In 1962, he founded the art movement, Panique, with Alexandro Jodorowski Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal. He wrote the novels The Tenant, Les masochistes, Mémoires d’un vieux con, directed the television shows, Palace and Téléchat, and created the animated film Fantastic Planet alongside René Laloux. The list is never-ending for this disciple of good living and well-being. His laughter and work will remain in our collective memory, along with his artistic world, which is full of amusement, and where every subject from sexuality to death were grist for his mill. Roland Topor, sans titre (Une des Neuf Grâces) Didier Trenet Born in 1965, in Beaune, France. Lives and works in Trambly. Solo exhibitions / selection 2012 Saône-et-Gloire, Esox Lucius, La Clayette Championne de Descente, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris 2009 Intempestives, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris 2007 Bon sang, Chapelle de Vâtre, Jullié 2006 Panthéon des astres, Abbatiale de Saint Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu and FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; Victoire!, Iconoscope, Montpellier 2005 Didier Trenet, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris Didier Trenet, YES With a body of work made up of drawings, texts, and sculptures, Didier Trenet’s art is marked by singular and timeless craftsmanship. He makes light of memory with rigour and discipline. His art is fully part of the world, lodged in the folds of reality that he patiently picks like petals from a flower. His choices also affirm his independence, as with his declared taste for the 18th century arts, steeped as they were in libertine philosophy. With references to classical and academic models (his work conjures up Fragonard, Hubert Robert or Watteau), his drawing transgressively and playfully marries the art of sketching with calligraphy. Didier Trenet’s work is based on three arts: writing, drawing and installation, resulting in an œuvre as complete as it is diverse. This exhibition is presented as part of Nantes’ literary festival, Atlantide (31 May - 2 June 2013). Echoing this exhibition, Michael Dans will take over one of the Galeries Lafayette (Nantes branch) shop windows from 3 to 31 July as part of the Vitrines de l’Art event. Informations pratiques : le lieu unique, quai Ferdinand-Favre, Nantes / www.lelieuunique.com hours : tuesday-saturday : 1pm-7pm // sunday 3pm-7pm free entrance Atlantide