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21/11/2014

Opening of Le chateau de Rentilly

Chateau Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin

On 22 November, Le château de Rentilly will re-open on a brand-new scale. Now completely enveloped in stainless steel plates, the building will act as a mirror for the beautiful park in which it stands. The metamorphosis was presided over by internationally renowned artist Xavier Veilhan, architects Bona-Lemercier and set designer Alexis Bertrand.

This new contemporary art space, carried out by Communauté d'agglomération de Marne et Gondoire*, as a part of the Parc Culturel de Rentilly, will act as a unique and singular window open to the world.

The frac île-de-france**—which is already present in Paris with its own temporary exhibition space, le plateau—will exhibit its collection (and will also invite other collections, public or private, French and international) in le château de Rentilly, thus playing with the status of the building: it is at once a sculpture and an exhibition space freely accessible to the public.

The new château de Rentilly is an expression of the revived focus on the historical legacy and the enthusiasm of the Communauté d'agglomération for art and public commitment.

*The urban community of Marne et Gondoire
**The Regional Contemporary Art Fund of Île-de-France

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Explore
Dove Allouche, Pierre Bismuth & Michel Gondry, Philippe Decrauzat, Mark Geffriaud, Laurent Grasso, Caroline Mesquita, Ulla von Brandenburg, Xavier Veilhan

Curated by: Xavier Franceschi

Explore , the second part of a triptych of exhibitions devoted to the collection of the FRAC Ile - de - France*, is the opening exhibition at Rentilly castle, rehabilated by Xavier Veilhan, the architects Bo na/Lemercier and the set designer Alexis Bertrand, and no w the second premises of the FR AC Ile - de - France as part of its multi - site project.

In this particular context, with regard to a new building to be discovered, the decision of the exhibition was to take this idea of discovery and exploration as a point of departure for making a selection of works within the collection. In this respect, it is especially the notion of space that these works broach in a very diversified way for novel experiments.

A large loft linking up with the ‘white cube’ but defying explanation (Pierre Bismuth & Michel Gondry ), flying over a seascape against a backdrop of ghostly evocations (Laurent Grasso), sombre representations of the black sea in its cardi nal points or particula rly hazy abysses (Dove Allouche), it is actually often a question of confronting reality in its spatial dimension as if the better to grasp it.
But like these ever anonymous figures, in spite of all attempts to recognize them (Ulla von Brandenburg), or lik e these images that a solar light beam intermittently lightens (Mark Geffriaud), reality tends to endlessly elude us when we try to circumscribe it, making way for so many unresolved mysteries.
Circumvolutions, cycles and rotations: another feature of the show lies in the fact of presenting a number of pieces very formally incorporating the figure of the circle and the loop. From the gesture of bypassing which is the basis of Ulla von Brandenburg’s film ( Around , 2005) — in a loop -- , to the 360 o revolutions ad opted by both Pierre Bismuth’s and Philippe Decrauzat’s pieces, this figure and its many different forms stake out the exhibition like so many footholds in the space.
There is also a figure of movement: beyond an eternal return and the reflexive form it sy mbolizes, it corresponds to this idea of displacement suggested by the exhibition and the overall proposal. Explore , or the need to walk around the different spaces of the new Rentilly castle...

Image: Mark Geffriaud, Polka Dot, 2008, Collection frac île-de-france, Photo Martin Argyroglo © Mark Geffriaud

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Opening Saturday, 22 November 2014, 2:30–5:30pm

Château, Rentilly
Parc culturel de Rentilly 1, rue de l'Etang 77600 Bussy-Saint-Martin France
Hours:
Wednesday to Sunday, 2–7pm
Free Admission
Late Night Opening : the 1st Wednesday of each month, until 9 pm : Plateau-Apéro

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