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21/6/2012

Seven exhibitions

Musee D'art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne

MAURIZIO NANNUCCI

Maurizio Nannucci (born in Florence, 1939) is a major figure of the international artistic scene of recent decades. Until the mid-1960s, his artistic development was characterised by deep reflection on the relationships between art, language and society. After experiments with concrete poetry and electronic music, he started personal research combining various materials and media: neon lights, photography, sound, video, publications and artist’s books. Nannucci was one of the first artists to experiment with the combination of neon lighting and “Alfabetofonetico” writing (1967) to create an analysis of the phenomenon of communication, but also to establish a new perception of the physical space in which the work is placed. Maurizo Nannucci will present a new installation consisting of a white neon light, created specially for the large main room of the Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art:” There is another way of looking at things" (12 x 6 m).


JESSICA STOCKHOLDER

Jessica Stockholder was born in 1959 in Seattle; she lives and works in Chicago. Since the 1980s, her work has been the subject of several publications and of public acquisitions. Her works have been shown internationally, notably in the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, in the Whitney Museum of American Art, London, in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and at the 47th Venice Biennial.
Jessica Stockholder’s work can take the form of monumental or smaller installations, but they are all constructed with everyday objects that are retrieved, assembled, taped together and sometimes covered with fabrics or with flat tints of paint.


CHAMPION METADIER

Champion Métadier, a French artist born in Tours in 1947, lives and works in Paris and New York
On the occasion of her personal exhibition in the Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art, Champion Métadier will present paintings and drawings from the Timetrackers series, which were exhibited in 2006 in the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, and a series of Captures and Dessins numériques [Digital Drawings]. The Timetrackers series consists of 18 paintings of identical format, in bright, acidulous colours. Her title stresses the importance of time and a certain idea of dreaminess. These paintings cultivate mystery, paradox and contradiction. At first sight, they may appear to belong to a known world, but then they can immediately refer to their opposites.


MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS

Miguel Angel Rios was born in 1953 in Catamarca, Argentina.
The Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art will present Miguel Angel Rios’s video piece, Aqui, which metaphorically depicts the ancestral struggle between good and evil, through a ballet of white and black spinning tops.
Miguel Angel Rios, steeped in South American culture, born in Argentina, lives and works in New York. He is deeply concerned by the social and political conflicts that trouble the world. Therefore another interpretation of his work is necessary. Aqui emanates a feeling and a solemnity that gradually affect the onlooker. Eros and Thanatos confront each other in this apparently innocent play of spinning tops. As in the struggle for survival, obscure forces are let loose and try to brutally impose their law.


LUCA CACCIONI

Luca Caccioni was born in 1962 in Bologna, Italy, where he currently lives.
He is a graduate of the secondary arts school and the Academy of Fine Art, Bologna (1985).
His first major exhibitions took place in the early 1990s.
His artistic research then focussed on painting, on unusual contemporary materials such as acetates, on which he painted shapes, signs and places based on his personal memory and influenced by various cultures and various periods of history. After exhibitions dedicated to the graphic works of Pizzi Cannella and Omar Galliani, the Museum’s graphic arts section will present Luca Caccioni’s works.


Min Jung-Yeon
WINNER OF THE 3RD CLUB DES PARTENAIRES AWARD

The 3rd Club des Partenaires Award by partners of the Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art has been unanimously awarded to Min Jung-Yeon (born in 1979 in Gwang Ju, South Korea).
The panel particularly appreciated the originality and authenticity of her creative world and the coherence of her graphics and painting work since she left the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts art school in Paris in 2006. The work of this young artist, which is already present in contemporary art fairs and shows, will now have its first museum exhibition.


Sarajevo Sing Sing
LOCAL LINE 11

The Saint Etienne Museum of Modern Art is continuing its exchanges between various local contemporary art scenes. After hosting artists from Budapest and Daejeon (South Korea), this year, we are hosting the Sing-Sing artists collective from Sarajevo, which transformed from a music group to a multidisciplinary artistic collective after the war in Sarajevo. The performances, photographs and videos presented in the Museum evoke the critical power of art in relation to the past and the present, and the sociological watch signal that it can embody in relation to the future.

Image: Luca Caccioni

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