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Les Nouveaux Explorateurs
- Dates: 29 November 2011, 29 January 2012
- Venue: Crypte Sainte-Eugénie, Biarritz
- Country: France
- Type: Group Exhibition
- Artwork: see the project
Cette exposition présente des artistes contemporains qui ont choisi de mettre l’exploration au centre de leurs démarches.
Les nouveaux artistes explorateurs, éprouvent les différentes cultures, appréhendent des territoires nouveaux, cherchent de nouvelles façons de voir, d’habiter la planète, tout cela est source d’expérimentations et de sensibilité. Il s’agit souvent de sortir du contexte occidental et d’aller se confronter physiquement à des situations non conventionnelles, hors de toute dimension pittoresque ou touristique.
Il est question de géographie. Aller loin, arpenter concrètement le territoire pour s’en imprégner. Et retranscrire par des dessins, par des cartes, des maquettes, des films ou des pierres cette réalité que constitue la surface de notre planète. Il est aussi question de comportement. Quelle est notre place!? Quelle est notre influence!? Quelles sont les traces que nous laissons!? Comment considère-t-on des contrées lointaines comme l’Antarctique ou l’Afghanistan!? Au-delà de la simple appréhension physique du territoire, ce sont aussi ces relations à l’environnement et aux autres qui sont évoquées et bousculées dans l’exposition Les Nouveaux Explorateurs.
Explorer le monde nous confronte à l’impact de nos civilisations. L’aventure est loin d’être anecdotique. -
Clouds | Nuages - Lucy + Jorge Orta
- Dates: 17 September 2011, 10 December 2011
- Venue: La Maréchalerie – centre d’art contemporain | Ensa-v
- Country: France
- Type: Solo Exhibition
- Artwork: see the project
The new body of work Clouds | Nuages is co-commissioned by Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles énsa-v and La Maréchalerie for an exhibition in the contemporary arts centre and the Galerie des Moulages of the Louvre museum in Versailles.
Clouds | Nuages draws from the artists previous research on issues effecting our environment, in particular the theme of water. Leading from their project OrtaWater, the artworks pose questions about the scarcity of this natural resource, the exploitation, purification and the distribution networks. The recycling communities in Cairo inspire the artists as well as the lifespan of the water bottle that gradually disintegrates to create the enormous floating islands in our Oceans. In Versailles, these environmental threats radiate with an unexpected lightness and hedonism. Waste materials undergo metamorphosis. Technological processes, exuberant metallic colours and Baroque shapes confront us with a bright and optimistic world.
La Maréchalerie - centre d’art contemporain | énsa-v
5, avenue de Sceaux, 78 000 Versailles, France
http://lamarechalerie.versailles.archi.fr
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Antarctica
- Dates: 3 September 2011, 29 October 2011
- Venue: galerieofmarseille
- Country: France
- Type: Solo Exhibition
- Artwork: see the project
For their first solo exhibition at galerieofmarseille, the artists present a series of work from the Antarctica project.
Antarctica embodies the hope for a neutral peaceful land, free of conflict. Dome Dwelling, Drop parachute, Window on the World, as well as preparatory drawings are some of the emblematic artworks referring to the right of freedom of movement exhibited alongside the Antarctica World Passport - Delivery Bureau.
The Antarctica World Passport proposes an amendment to Article 13 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 13 :3 “Every human being has the right to move freely and cross frontiers to their chosen territory. Individuals should not be deemed of an inferior status to that of capital, trade, telecommunication and pollution, all of which have no boundaries".
Passports are distributed during the exhibition to new citizens wishing to join the online community developed by MIT at http://antarcticaworldpassport.mit.edu/citizens/news -
You are not alone
- Dates: 1 July 2011, 18 September 2011
- Venue: Fundació Joan Miró
- Country: Spain
- Type: Group Exhibition
- Artwork: see the project
The Fundació Joan Miró and the ArtAids Foundation present You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde Teerlinck together with Irene Aristizábal.
In You Are Not Alone fourteen contemporary artists from around the world are invited to respond with their individual artistic visions to the causes, consequences and current context of Aids, and to suggest ways of fighting it.
Lucy + Jorge Orta present 70 x 7 The Meal act XXVI, a table set with 7 beautiful limited edition Royal Limoges porcelain plates each with different motifs: the artichoke is the artists' symbol of the heart; the spectrum contains contextual colours that represent specific places or events that have moved them and the graphic measurements propose different symbolic levels to gauge social behaviour.
The printed table linens, also limited editions, are hand-embroidered by Fine Cell Work, a charity that rehabilitates prisoners by giving them the opportunity to earn and save money and rebuild their lives through craft and achievement.
As part of the ongoing 70 x 7 The Meal project, on the 8th September 2011 Lucy + Jorge Orta will host a dinner for 77 guests at the Fundació Joan Miró. Through the daily ritual of dining, the artist aim at raising public consciousness and at encouraging involvement in artistic projects with the intention to prevent and fight Aids. -
70 x 7 The Meal act XXVI, ArtAids Foundation
- Dates: 8 September 2011, 8 September 2011
- Venue: Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona
- Country: Spain
- Type: Event
- Artwork: see the project
70 x 7 The Meal act XXVI is the 26th act in Lucy + Jorge Orta’s ongoing banquets in support of the ArtAids, to raise public consciousness and to encourage involvement in artistic projects aimed at preventing and fighting Aids.
The artists were inspired by the work of Padre Rafael Garcia H. (1909-1990) who initiated a series of benefit banquets to set in motion a major urban social development program entitled El minuto de Dios. The artist’s base their banquets on the symbol seven, which represents infinity in numerous ancestral cultures and in particular the biblical signification ad infinitum.
On the 8th September 2011, a dinner for 77 guests will be staged at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, a fragment of which is exhibited in the exhibition You Are Not Alone.
The table on exhibition is set with 7 beautiful limited edition Royal Limoges porcelain plates each with different motifs: the artichoke is the artists' symbol of the heart; the spectrum contains contextual colours that represent specific places or events that have moved them and the graphic measurements propose different symbolic levels to gauge social behaviour.
The printed table linens, also limited editions, are hand-embroidered by Fine Cell Work, a charity that rehabilitates prisoners by giving them the opportunity to earn and save money and rebuild their lives through craft and achievement.
