Un autre regard sur Paléo

Un autre regard sur Paléo
Musée de l’Elysée / Paléo Festival Nyon
Exhibition on the Asse plain
from July 20 to 26, 2015
The Musée de l’Elysée at Paléo Festival Nyon
Un autre regard sur Paléo: an exceptional
collaboration between the Musée de l’Elysée
and Paléo Festival Nyon.
In 2015, the Musée de l’Elysée is celebrating its 30th anniversary
and Paléo Festival Nyon its 40th edition. The two French-speaking
swiss institutions are joining forces to mount an ambitious and
unique photographic project, piloted by the Musée de l’Elysée.
Five photographers have been commissioned by the museum and
given carte blanche to take a new look at the Festival. Their work,
shot during the 2014 edition of the festival, will be presented from
20 to 26 July 2015 at Paléo in an exhibition mounted in a space
specifically conceived for the occasion.
"This project is a reflection of the Musée de l’Elysée’s ambition
in this anniversary year: create a resonance for a new audience
around an innovative artistic content of quality, at the crossroads
of two quite different professional environments", emphasizes
Tatyana Franck, who has just taken up her post as the institution’s
new director.
Claude Baechtold, Anne Golaz, Nicolas Haeni, Olivier Christinat
and Elisa Larvego, have all contributed their offbeat and surprising
views of the Festival. Each of the photographers proposes an
original vision of Paléo. Between immersion and enquiry, the
photographers go beyond the confines of mere reporting in order
to offer us a singular point of view from the margins of the Festival,
but which is fully revealing of the energy of the event.
Daniel Rossellat, president of Paléo Festival, adds: "By calling
on the Musée de l’Elysée, we wanted to offer our festivalgoers
another cultural dimension, the chance to live an intense
photographic experience in the context of the Festival and open
Paléo to other ways of seeing".
Paléo Festival Nyon is today one of Europe’s most important music
events. For its fortieth edition, the Festival has programmed events
over an entire week, with the added attraction of new projects
specially conceived for the occasion.
Musée de l’Elysée © Reto Duriet
Paléo Festival Nyon © Pierre Descombes
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Anne Golaz, Behind the Stage
Anne Golaz has focussed on the "roadies" who are responsible for
setting up and taking down the main stage at Paléo Festival Nyon.
She highlights the role of these shadow workers and propels them
to the forefront of the stage for the first time. The photographic
work underlines the importance of belonging to a group, for young
people who are often going through a transitionary stage in their lives.
In order to present a complete documentary work, the photographer
embedded herself in a team and shared the life of the "roadies",
even sleeping in a hammock under the stage.
Anne Golaz was born in Switzerland in 1983. After obtaining her
diploma from the Centre for vocational training in Vevey, she
continued her research with a Master at TAIK, the University of
Art and Design in Helsinki. Her work deals essentially with the
representation of the rural world, links with wild nature and animals.
She was among the photographers selected by the Musée de
l’Elysée for the exhibition and publication reGeneration2.
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Elisa Larvego, In the Field
The photographer pointed her lens at the campsite, the place
where "eveyrything is allowed". Elisa Larvego reveals its ephemeral
living structures, photographing open-air private life.
Her body of work contains several image typologies: portraits,
structures, living spaces, lost and found objects. This work bears
the mark of great sensitivity to colour and manages to transform
the forms of our daily life into quasi sculptural objects.
Born in 1984 in Switzerland, Elisa Larvega lives and works in
Geneva. She trained in photography at the Centre d’enseignement
professionnel in Vevey and obtained a diploma in Visual Arts at
the High School of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva. She has won
numerous awards including the Leenaards cultural scholarship,
Lausanne. She was also one of the photographers selected by the
Musée de l’Elysée for the exhibition and publication reGeneration2.
From the series Behind the Stage © Anne Golaz
From the series In the Field © Elisa Larvego
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Olivier Christinat, Histoires sans titres (Untitled Stories)
Olivier Christinat is fascinated by individuals, and by the relationship
between the crowd and the moments that take place in the
masses. He wanted to document this subject by immersing
himself in the Paléo audience in order to capture the various groups
that make up the Festival crowd, as they share intimate moments,
or caught up in mass movements or whilst relaxing.
His photographic work is made up of very rich images, which play,
in a formal way, with the photographic material. The result is a body
of work playing with focus effects of close-ups, that at moments
drifts towards abstraction and pictorial representation.
Olivier Christinat, born in Lausanne in 1963, trained as a
photographer in Vevey and Lausanne. After exhibiting his work on
numerous occasions in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe, he
has been exploring the different technical possibilities available to
his photographic art.
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Nicolas Haeni, The Paléo Diet
The photographer decided to take an interest in a very important
facet of Paléo life the food. For during the Festival, spectators have
access to numerous food stalls representing a multitude of culinary
traditions. The rich variety of dishes on offer reflects the diversity
of musical genres on the Festival’s programme. The theme of food
and its field of application are the starting point of this delicious
photo inquiry.
By observing the places where food is stored, prepared and
consumed, Nicolas Heani has produced a corpus of very varied
images, from portrait to still life. His photographs, which play with
colours and very hard-hitting effects, are situated at the crossroads
between dramatisation and field research.
Nicolas Haeni, born in Switzerland in 1984, lives and works in
Versoix. After studying history and German at the University of
Geneva, he took a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication,
photographic section, at the Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne
(ECAL) before pursuing his studies with a Master’s degree in Art
Direction at the ECAL between 2009-2011.
From the series Histoires sans titres (Untitled Stories) © Olivier Christinat
From the series The Paléo Diet © Nicolas Haeni
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Claude Baechtold, Paléopolis
An artist known for his offbeat approach and for his photo stories,
Claude Baechtold offers us a fiction rooted in an ephemeral
town he calls "Paléopolis", constantly under threat from dangers,
passions, and the fears of its inhabitants.
To mark the 40th edition of the Festival he has directed a
photographic film, of which the source of historical inspiration is
Ulysses, who dreams of coming home after a journey lasting
40 years. As he stands face to face with the inhabitants of
Paléopolis –in reality, the festivalgoers– the protagonist finds
himself transported to a strange and unsettling universe.
Claude Baechtold was born in Lausanne, in 1972. After studying
graphic design at the Cantonal School or Art in Lausanne, he
opened his own design office in Lausanne. With a number of other
photagraphers and journalists, he participated in the creation of
Riverboom editions.
Poster from the movie Paléopolis © Claude Baechtold
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Press Images
The following photographs are available for the press. They
must not be cropped and must always be accompanied by the
legends shown below.
Press contacts:
Julie Maillard
+41 21 316 99 27
[email protected]
Poster from the movie Paléopolis © Claude Baechtold
From the movie Paléopolis © Claude Baechtold
From the series Histoires sans titres (Untitled Stories) © Olivier Christinat
From the series Histoires sans titres (Untitled Stories) © Olivier Christinat
From the series Behind the Stage © Anne Golaz
From the series Behind the Stage © Anne Golaz
Michèle Müller
+41 22 365 11 42
[email protected]
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Press Images
The following photographs are available for the press.
They must not be cropped and must always be accompanied by
the legends shown below.
Press contacts:
Julie Maillard
+41 21 316 99 27
[email protected]
From the series The Paléo Diet © Nicolas Haeni
From the series The Paléo Diet © Nicolas Haeni
From the series In the Field © Elisa Larvego
From the series In the Field © Elisa Larvego
Musée de l’Elysée © Reto Duriet
Paléo Festival Nyon © Pierre Descombes
Michèle Müller
+41 22 365 11 42
[email protected]
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The Musée de l’Elysée is 30 years old!
In 2015, the Musée de l’Elysée is celebrating its 30th anniversary!
30 years of encounters, exchanges and photographic discoveries
thanks to a committed team of staff members and a loyal public.
Throughout the past 30 years, photography has not only received
recognition as an art form, but has also succeeded in imposing its
own specificity. Since 1985, the Musée de l’Elysée has contributed
to the strengthening of its local commitment and to its international
reputation, made sure that it is accessible to new publics,
supported creation by young people, participated in research,
imagined new forms of exhibitions and launched a number of
ambitious digital projects. The medium has undergone a dramatic
evolution, never ceasing to reinvent itself –and with it, the Musée
de l’Elysée.
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In 2015, the Musée de l’Elysée is revealing itself and celebrating
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• novel exhibitions: including one about a great figure of
photography, William Eggleston (from January 28 to May 3),
another around the new generation of international artists
(reGeneration3 from May 29 to August 23). It will also be
presenting the treasures of its collections (La Collection
iconographique from September 18, 2015 to January, 3 2016) ;
• exciting events such as the Nuit des images, Saturday June 28,
a highlight of this year’s celebrations, when visitors will be able
to discover the museum’s favourites and the winner of the
Prix Elysée;
• and also ‘revisited’ openings, highly colourful closing events
and guided tours behind the scenes at the museum.
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In 2015, the Musée de l’Elysée also has its sights set on the future
with the appointment of a new director who is going to inject new
dynamism into the institution and the organising of a first common
exhibition involving the three museums affiliated to the Pôle muséal
project, of which the second phase will be realised this year.
Images of the Musée de l’Elysée © Reto Duriet / View of the Collections’ Viewing Room © Catherine Leutenegger / Nuit des images
© Yann Marchesi et Reto Duriet / Charles-Henri Favrod with his friends photographers, opening of the first exhibition of the
museum, 1985 © Candid Lang, Archives of the Musée de l’Elysée / Yves Tanguy, 2011 © Selfportrait in a photobooth, Collection of
the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, ProLitteris, Zurich / René Burri © Archives of the Musée de l’Elysée
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The 40th edition of Paléo Festival Nyon
Since 1976, the date of its first edition, which, under the name
"First Folk Festival", was held in front of a crowd of 1800 people
in the community centre in Nyon, Paléo Festival has today
established itself as a major European cultural event. Since its
creation, the Festival has undergone steady, managed growth,
including a process of professionalization and other developments.
Every year, the Festival is host to 250 concerts and shows, which
make up the offer to the 230,000 spectators roaming across the
84 hectares site on the Asse plain, just above the town of Nyon.
As of today, nearly 6 million people have contributed to a popular
success that shows no sign of failing.
Paléo Festival Nyon is a halfway house between party and concerts,
an eclectic event that aims to satisfy the curiosity of the audience
and encourage new discoveries. Both a springboard for new
young talent and a stage for celebrating artists with international
reputations, the Festival has gradually opened up to all styles of
music, as well as to circus arts and street theatre.
It has also made clear its determination to host and promote other
forms of art and culture, including some quite unexpected ones,
such as architectural installations, photo exhibitions and sculpture,
all of which add to the rich artistic variety of Paléo. Each year, the
organisation sets itself the target of reinventing and innovating as
well as surprising its audience.
In 2015, the Festival is celebrating its 40th edition with an extra day
and a variety of projects specially conceived for the occasion.
Paléo Festival Nyon is looking forward to a future bright in innovative
colours and to broadening its artistic horizons in order to propose
to its public a cultural offer whose theme is discovery.
The full line-up will be announced at a press conference on
Tuesday April 14, 2015.
Images of the Paléo Festival Nyon © Pierre Descombes / © Dany Gignoux / © Etap / © Maelle Gross
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Practical Information
Un autre regard sur Paléo
Musée de l’Elysée / Paléo Festival Nyon
Exhibition on the Asse plain from 20 to 26 July 2015
Press conference
Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 10am
Presentation of the projet at m4music
Saturday 28 March, 2:30pm
Schiffbaustrasse 4–6
8005 Zürich
www.m4music.ch
Press contact Paléo Festival Nyon
Michèle Müller
+41 (0)78 894 67 25
[email protected]
Press contact Musée de l’Elysée
Julie Maillard
+41 (0)21 316 99 27
[email protected]
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Musée de l’Elysée © Reto Duriet
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