20/5/2002
Multidisciplinary programme
Attitudes, Geneve
Eighth anniversary of attitudes which offers a deliberately multidisciplinary programme with a personal exhibition of a French artist, Le Gentil Garçon, The Dream Machine by the FDE (Ferrero - Delacoste - Empeyta) architects' studio, the complete collection of the journal Parpaings, a visual communication designed by the BLVDR graphists for a theatre season...
Le Gentil Garçon
FDE architectes
Parpaings
Hoio
BLVDR
May 1994 : birth of attitudes with an exhibition of Eric Hattan and a retrospective of
films by Gordon Matta-Clark. May 2001, inauguration of the new premises of attitudes,
a space for contemporary arts, with Megahertz, conceived by Hugh Reip as a collective
exhibition, two concerts and an evening of film projections. May 2002, eighth
anniversary of attitudes which offers a deliberately multidisciplinary programme with a
personal exhibition of a French artist, Le Gentil Garçon, The Dream Machine by the
FDE (Ferrero - Delacoste - Empeyta) architects' studio, the complete collection of the
journal Parpaings, a visual communication designed by the BLVDR graphists for a
theatre season, as well as the launching of the first Hoio shop, which imports products
from Santa Lemusa Island.
Le Gentil Garçon creates a poetic, playful and fascinating universe by means of a
clever technology invented for each project. By making the best possible use of cheap
materials and tools available in Do It Yourself shops, he makes spectacular sculptures
which challenge our environment with a child's questions and a grown-up's know-how.
In the main space of attitudes, six works, mostly new creations, will make up a kind of
mental "building site", by operating as a construction/deconstruction process, whether
by their meaning or by their physical presence. Each work will represent something
inaccessible, be it energy, motion, time, or the very definition of an object. This is the
first personal exhibition of Le Gentil Garçon outside France..
At the same time of his exhibition at attitudes, Le Gentil Garçon present a new work -
Pendant ce temps-là nulle part - at the Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du
Croissant-Rouge.
Le Gentil Garçon "Light Board..."
The architects' studio FDE (Ferrero - Delacoste - Empeyta) will invite visitors to enter
their Dream Machine, i.e. a "habitable box" made of wood, stainless steel and
polycarbonate, designed and assembled according to a modular structure. This
architectural object, both simple and playful, offering various modifications, uses and
possible interpretations, will be installed in the courtyard.
FDE "Machine à rêver"
Our faithful readers of the Journal could not fail to notice the enigmatic presence of
Hoio. That little firm, directed in Basle by Samuel Herzog, holds the import monopoly
for Switzerland of Santa Lemusa's products. On this occasion our visitors will have a
choice of Creole delicacies from one of the most typical Caribbean islands..
The BLVDR graphic designers (Geneva) will present the array of visual
communication they created for one year for the Saint-Gervais theatre in Geneva.
Visitors will be able to see the posters periodically displayed in the public space, and
to discover other projects discarded by the producer.
BLVDR
Echoing our programme, we shall also present the whole - as of today - of the 34
issues of the journal Parpaings (France). We feel very close to that publication which
joins together serious research, crossover interests such as art, architecture,
landscape, a simple formula and a very attractive price. On June 4, Christophe Le Gac,
one of the two editors, will give a lecture on the options of that three-year-old
publication.
This sixth issue of our Journal introduces two new headings. One will be handled by
Jérémie Gindre (Geneva), who will for some time give his interpretation of the
photo-novel. The other is conceived in a spirit of humorous reactions, well-founded
criticism, ironical remarks or original ideas. To present this new double page, we
propose the encounter of two giants : on one hand the artists Peter Fischli and David
Weiss (Zurich) with ten recipes to improve your work, and on the other Jean-Christoph
Ammann (Frankfurt), the art mediator, with twenty recommendations addressed to the
curators. Worth thinking over..
Last, but not least, after eight years of activity in the field of contemporary creation, we
launch an appeal to all persons prepared to support us by joining the Association of
the attitudes' friends. For, as recalled in the collective General Document (Geneva),
all goes well, all goes always well....
Jean-Paul Felley & Olivier Kaeser
(traduction: Antoinette et Bernard Béguin)
The Le Gentil Garçon exhibition is realised with the support of the AFAA (Association
Française d'Action Artistique), the City of Lyon and the ambassy of France in
Switzerland.
For the programme of the year 2002, attitudes - space for contemporary arts received
the support of the Swiss Federal Office for Culture, the Migros Cultural Percent as well
as support from private donors.
The daily newspaper LE TEMPS and ImagineR Software, the alternative data
processing are attitudes' partners.
Image: Le Gentil Garçon
opening May 21 from 6 pm
with micro-concert by Gentil Garçon 7.30pm
May 21 - July 6, 2002
from Wednesday to Saturday from 3 to 7 pm, and on appointment
lecture by Christophe Le Gac, Tuesday June 4 at 8 pm
attitudes
espace d'arts contemporains
4 rue du Beulet
CH - 1203 Genève
tel +41(0)22.344.37.56
fax +41(0)22.344.37.57