Loris Greaud
dal 13/2/2008 al 26/4/2008
Segnalato da
13/2/2008
Loris Greaud
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Cellar Door is an ambitious artistic enterprise: a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time. The exhibition is a mutant form, one that has crystallized around an obsession, the production and manufacturing of a studio. The common version of the artist's studio, the dream factory, isn't on display; rather, the studio is featured as a dreaming factory, a delirious object endowed with thought and speech that constantly reinvents itself.
"Once upon a door the future came before"
Cellar Door is an ambitious artistic enterprise: a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time. The exhibition is a mutant form, one that has crystallized around an obsession, the production and manufacturing of a studio. The common version of the artist’s studio, the dream factory, isn’t on display; rather, the studio is featured as a dreaming factory, a delirious object endowed with thought and speech that constantly reinvents itself. With Cellar Door, for the first time a French artist under 30 is taking over the Palais de Tokyo in its entirety.
4000m square, 30 Years old, 3 Months
Loris Gréaud’s Cellar Door marks a unique occasion in the history of the Palais de Tokyo. For the first time, its entire 4000 square meter surface will be occupied by a French artist under 30. This daring wager demonstrates the Palais de Tokyo’s commitment to emerging artistic creation in France and to Loris Gréaud, who has considerably upped the ante with his already impressive body of work.
Loris Gréaud is a cross-disciplinary artist, an enthusiast of architecture and quantum mechanics, a graduate with a degree in graphic arts, a former student of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Cergy, the founder of a studio for experimental film, a producer at an electronic music label, and director of his own business. Not surprisingly, Gréaud has blazed a career path that is in keeping with his art practice. Borrowing from the working procedures of a film director or orchestra conductor, he builds empirical machines in which the medium systematically follows the ideas, which are themselves exchanged, shared, negotiated and distorted. In 2004, with the architects Marc Dölger and Damien Ziakovic, he created DGZ Research, a multidisciplinary production studio that makes the realization of “utopian” projects possible. DGZ Research is in charge of the design, architecture and project management of the Cellar Door exhibition. Loris Gréaud has shown in Hong-Kong, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Milan, Los Angeles, New York and Paris (notably at Le Plateau, the Palais de Tokyo and the Centre Pompidou). He was awarded the Ricard Prize in 2005. He is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery Paris, New York.
Opening February 14, 2008 8pm to midnight
THURSDAYS /
ON THE IMMATERIAL
CELLAR DOOR
Meeting with Loris Gréaud,Thomas Roussel, Raimundas Malasauskas,
Aaron Schuster, Marc Dölger, Damien Ziakovic.
FEB 21, 2008 / 7:30pm
DES IMMATERIAUX
Legacy of Jean-François Lyotard, with Bernard Blistène, Stéphanie Moisdon, Orlan and Daniel Soutif. Debate preceded by the screening of Paule Zajdermann and Daniel Soutif Les Immatériaux (1985).
FEB 28, 2008 / 7:30pm
PULSAR
Screening of Klonaris and Thomadaki.
MARCH 6, 2008 / 7:30pm
FILMS / SLAMS / SONS
Lead singer of Diabologum in the 1990’s and of Programme, Arnaud Michniak comes forward with a performance mixing videos, music, poetry and new songs from his last album Poing Perdu.
MARCH 13, 2008 / 8:30pm
GREY GOO
A talk on nanosciences of Christian Joachim and Laurence Plévert
On the occasion of Nanosciences, la révolution invisible (Editions du Seuil) publication.
MARCH 20, 2008 / 7:30pm
INTOX / GOSSIP / BLUFF
Une rumeur de l’esthétique
An idea of Claire Moulène and Mathilde Villeneuve.
MARCH 27, 2008 / 7:30pm
AUDIOGUIDE
A guided tour through Cellar Door with Bruno Latour and guests. By Jean-Max Colard,
in partnership with Les Inrockuptibles.
APRIL 3, 2008 / 8:00pm to midnight
GLOBAL PARANOÏA
Two days of lectures on surveillance technologies programmed by Eric Sadin and Ec/arts.
FRIDAY 11 APRIL - SATURDAY 12 APRIL, 2008 / 2pm to 8pm
BORDER LINE
Pascal Rousseau invites Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis – Myth, Magic and Mysticism
In the Age of Information.
APRIL 17, 2008 / 7:30pm
BUCKY
Posterity of Buckminster Fuller. Valérie Châtelet invites Antoine Picon, architecture teacher at Harvard and Michael Hays, the Buckminster Fuller exhibition curator, Starting the universe (Whitney, June 2008). Skylab programming.
TUESDAY 22 APRIL, 2008 / 7:30pm
CELLAR DOOR / CD
The recording of Cellar Door Opera, composed by Thomas Roussel, on a libretto by Raimundas Malasauskas and Aaron Schuster, performed by the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France (direction: Jean Deroyer. Soprano: Marie Devellereau). La Manufacture du disque.
CELLAR DOOR / LIBRETTO
Cellar Door booklet / published by JRP Ringier
Palais de Tokyo
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