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21/9/2006

Printemps de Septembre

Different venues, Toulouse

Printemps de Septembre
Festival of Contemporary Images

With the tremendous growth in the numbers of galleries and museums and boom in biennials and festivals, and with the support of the market, the last ten years have witnessed a spectacular development in the resources, mediums and modes of production used by artists. While the conceptual horizon had been open for decades, it would seem that the astonishing diversity of forms and formats is a more recent development, one that very much characterises today's art.

In five years, and through 250 artist's projects presented in Toulouse, the Printemps de septembre, in its ongoing efforts to remain abreast of the newest issues arising from today's art, has of course adapted to these developments.
Historically grounded in photography, and with a solid ten years of experience in Cahors, the festival has been able to exploit its thoroughgoing knowledge of the image to become the great crossroads of the visual arts and the performing arts,
a place where rising young artists meet historic figures. Now open to all forms of art-making, every year the Printemps de septembre is like a blank page that is presented to the curators, whose role can be simply summarised thus: the freedom to create an original and coherent proposition.

This is Jean-Marc Bustamante's third and final year as artistic director of the festival. He has guided its development with real conviction, bringing out all the richness of today's art in “In extremis" and “VERTIGES", the first two in the triptych of festivals under his directorship.
Today, with his exhibition curators Pascal Pique and Mirjam Varadinis, and with Isabelle Gaudefroy programming the performing arts, he is continuing with this fresh approach and inviting us to discover “Lignes Brise'es / Broken Lines", a project articulated around the notions of order and disorder, with results that are both harmonious and dissonant, a bit like today's art scene.

Although conceived and planned as a long-term project, the Printemps de septembre functions rather like a laboratory: every year, it aims to bring out a new proposition, a prototype. This flexibility is possible precisely because of the stability and development of the festival structure. The Printemps' growing team now has offices in Paris and Toulouse, and behind them is a set of individuals, public institutions, patrons and partners whose support is of course the essential condition of the festival's existence. Also worthy of mention here is the importance of the varied sites that form the fabric of the exhibition sequence and give it both variety and unity. These may sometimes come as a bit of surprise to artists used to the white cube of the museum, but they are also a challenge and a source of magic.
Finally, the Printemps de septembre now enjoys a strong image with the public, the media and in the international
world of contemporary art.

This brief summary of the festival's “intangible assets" gives an idea of its heritage, of the expertise it has acquired over the years, and from which the “broken lines" of this year's programme were drawn.

Marie-The're'se Perrin
President of the Association du Printemps de septembre
and director of the festival


“Lignes Brise'es / Broken Lines"

After “In Extremis" and “VERTIGES", “Lignes Brise'es / Broken Lines" is inspired by the paradoxical relations between the notions of order and disorder. In chaos theory, the motif of the broken line corresponds to a strange, mysterious moment where everything suddenly changes and escapes,becomes intractable to known representations or images, to predictions and linear conceptions of time and space. In fact, chaos is everywhere. It is stable and structured, but in accordance with other logics. It intervenes at the moment when a line is broken, when an equilibrium is lost and becomes disrupted, giving way to an infinite field of fluctuations and the emergence of unknown worlds.
The project of this triptych and of this edition in particular, has been to experiment with and harness the potential and the dynamism of this paradoxical state through works that play on the displacement of values and frontiers. In their different registers, the artists and works selected here all share this very singular experience of the loss of coordinates, of bearings. This moment of instability and disorientation can be both frightening and emancipating. It can lead to the unknown or open up new perspectives and stimulate discovery.
That is why this programme brings together such a wide variety of propositions, with all kinds of forms and meanings covering an extended field that goes from perception and emotion to politics and social issues. Some of these works are very directly inspired by the progress or doubts of the day, others operate in a more abstract, aesthetic, or even oneiric and psychological sphere.
Thus, the eight exhibition venues and four performance stages constituting the festival itinerary offer a very diverse succession of worlds and situations. Here, the presentation concentrates on critical approaches and evokes the turbulence in the world in the throes of radical change. Elsewhere, it slips into the immaterial and the metaphysical.
Moments of silence and calm alternate - both in their content and form - with loud and proliferating phases.
It is at the meeting point of these broken lines, in their very articulations, that we can glimpse the new frequencies of our relation to the world.

Jean-Marc Bustamante
Artistic director

Isabelle Gaudefroy
Programmer of the Nomadic Nights

Pascal Pique
Curator of exhibitions

Mirjam Varadinis
Curator of exhibitions


Les Abattoirs

High level
Art & Language, Rodney Graham, Alex Hanimann, Runa Islam, Miguel Angel Rios, Cle'ment Rodzielski, Joe Scanlan, Tatiana Trouve', Lawrence Weiner

Low level
Anish Kapoor, Markus Schinwald, Dana Schutz, Nedko Solakov, Andro Wekua

Auditorium
Francis Alys

Espace EDF Bazacle
John Bock

Maison Eclusie're
Cathy De Monchaux

Chateau deau
Olivier Blanckart

Fondation espace e'cureuil
Margaret Salmon, Cathy Wilkes

Espace Croix-Baragnon
Laurent Montaron, Jules Spinatsch, Lonnie van Brummelen

Les Jacobins
Monica Bonvicini, Christoph Buchel, Erik van Lieshout, Sarah Lucas

Hotel Dieu
Julian Rosefeldt, Jan Vercruysse, Gert Verhoeven

Pont-Neuf
Peter Kogler

TLT_ Toulouse te'le'vision
Mircea Cantor

22-23 September and 29-30 September to 01:30 am
The Printemps de septembre a' Toulouse creates its own night-time trail of events through the centre of
Toulouse and along the River Garonne. The colour flooding the urban space guides spectators along the river banks and bridges and over the squares, immersing them in a surprising and very aesthetic atmosphere for the duration ofthe festival.
The usual landmarks and habits give way to other forms, other structures, and compel other ways of looking,
overturning logic and upsetting balance. These are the sensations that signal the presence of the festival for its three weeks.

Les Soire'es Nomades
During the "Nocturnes" (late nights)
22-23 September and 29-30 September 2006, from 6:00pm to 01:00am The Nomadic Nights programme is put on by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain to accompany “Lignes Brise'es / Broken Lines".
Whether they describe the world with a ferocious irony or immerse spectators in a strange, ambiguous atmosphere, the projects presented in this series of Nomadic Nights play on the perturbation of visual or auditory perception, but also on semantic and formal strangeness.
The CDC (Centre de De'veloppement Chore'graphique Toulouse/Midi-Pyre'ne'es) is joining the Printemps de septembre with a number of experimental propositions that move between dance, installation and performance. At the Saint-Pierre des Cuisines auditorium the emphasis is on shows that explore the relation to the other, whether based on empathy or cruelty. Several audiovisual projects, including two cine-concerts, have been specially commissioned by the Printemps de septembre. Finally, the musical programme includes concerts in the Raymond-VI garden with Le Mouv', but also a sound installation at the Jacobins cloisters.


Point Info
Fondation espace e'cureuil
3, place du Capitole 31000 Toulouse
T + 33 (0)5 6121 0547
Ouverture aux horaires des expositions

Point Presse et Professionnels
Fondation espace e'cureuil
3, place du Capitole 31000 Toulouse
T + 33 (0)5 3425 7908 / F +33 (0)5 6112 0605

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Fondation espace e'cureuil
3, place du Capitole 31000 Toulouse

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