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19/4/2011

Two exhibitions

Revue Noire, Paris

Pascale Marthine Tayou
An original installation by the artist where he spent years of friendship and cooperation trough its fetish Revue Noire

Pascale Marthine Tayou and Revue Noire is a common history that dates back to 1994 when he stormed the cover on Cameroon (RN 13 June 1994). Then in the years following the exhibitions "African artists and AIDS" in Benin and at the Dakar Biennale (1995), "African Suites" at the Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris (1997) and the movie "Looobhy" (Revue Noire Productions and Arte TV, 1997) sow small white stones of a common history from side to side in everyone's life, remembers another. Tayou seal it in this new work / installation on that paper printed a story of contemporary African art that is to pierce, to stack, impaled on a steel shaft, indecent, on multiple lines of steel ascend to heaven sharp-edged leaves with a reading becomes impossible.

Pascale Marthine Tayou shows long maze of his ravings, his fetishes invented that makes him an artist, although that comes from Africa, but also another sharer actually more urban, more focused on becoming more common likely to make other ways to watch. This is a time to say this without marrying contemporary art, not disdained, but merely understood as a stream of expressions, among others. For a little more than a decade, contemporary art includes expressions of artists from elsewhere. Some see a healing of Western art wearied by his "break" more and more artificial, others see the "duty" to repentance "looting" of African forms that modern art was in the early twentieth century. Regardless, this has Tayou lightness not to be locked up and play with the evidence to make mysterious or give them a meaning different every time according to a report from its manufacture and the ear of his career - curator or critic - the buyer - seller or collector - the viewer. Pascale Marthine Tayou is now in the Gulf Stream and the Contemporary Art market.

Each piece of PMT's truth, but it's been worth it may have shared sensitive and sensible whose proof is laborious absent as the reference set of critical references cultivated. Pascale Marthine Tayou likes to say he "makes things, done things. The Surrealists not know. The art of recovery, I do not care. The history of art ?"No way. Say it is not ignored, but affirm the autonomy of his own gaze and escape the reductive classifications.
And even though he quotes literally, it will do in the "kitsch" to fully affirm the freedom of thought. That did not stop to browse the universe of Western forms and the world, less to draw inspiration that lives long, only to multiply the opportunities for meetings which he will master the rules of the game

We shall then say that the current abundance of work Pascale Marthine Tayou (Venice Biennale 2009, «Traff Jam» Lille 2010, «Always All Ways» Malmö and Lyon 2011), there is this "The Abyss" pissing blood blasphemy, in the little house Montparnasse Revue Noire, between Lille and Venice, Lyon and Ghent, Shanghai and Douala.
Jean Loup Pivin, February 2011

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30 et Presque-Songes

30 artists / 30 perspectives / initiated by Joël Andrianomearosoa (architecture, photography, video, cooking, sounds, literature…) by Odile Decq, Mounir Fatmi, Moshekwa Langa, Rina Raly-Ranaivo, DPP, P.M.Tayou, Alain Polo, Lalaina Lartistika, :mentalKLINK… and J.J. Rabearivelo

The artist Joël Andrianomearisoa organize for the second edition in Antananarivo, Madagascar an ambitious event including contemporary artists accomplices and friends around the world and all disciplines (visual arts to architecture, cooking-art to video-art, literature to sound-art…
30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES (30 AND ALMOST-DREAMS) offers to the population, mobilized whenever, the forms of the invention, freer expressions of today, as few countries in Africa and the Indian Ocean can do this through this bond of sharing that brings together young and established artists.
The 30 art-works in the exhibition are designed specifically to focus in a box reproducible and transportable in the world. And so unfold place by place in different spaces. Audio-visual aids are important, their association with the performing arts can be made, the ambition of every place will more or less brightness at each step. Nevertheless, the heart remains initiator Antananarivo.

30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES – ARTISTS AND ACTORS

Artists of international events (Documenta in Kassel, Venice Biennale of Photography Encounters in Bamako...) as well as young artists have worked to create works specifically produced for this exhibition, given its criteria.
Art-works by Pascale Marthine Tayou, by French architect Odile Decq, by South African painters Moshekwa Langa… are exhibited with art-works by artists from Madagascar as art-video by Rina Ralay-Ranaivo, as photography by Malala Andrialavidrazana or Tojo Herinirina… The exhibition will inspire other freedoms and the public will discover new dynamics.
Each artist is determined in relation to the nature of relationships that everyone has with everyone, instead of the original place Madagascar, the fragility of the project and probably the simple feeling of friendship rooted in people and that extends to territories and cultures different each time ... and finally to the work ALMOST-DREAMS by the writer-poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.

30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES
REMEMBER THE FUTURE - HISTORY TODAY - DREAM OF THE PAST

The red thread 30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES is the poetry of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: ALMOST-DREAMS. Writer-fated - miserable existence, opium addict, anticolonial, committed suicide in 1937 in his thirties - he is considered the first African writer. It remains unknown outside the realm of specialists and Madagascar, despite its unquestionable membership narrow pantheon of "great writers" of African and Indian Ocean. Recent reissues (complete works, CNRS Editions 2011) should help out his work of the anonymous public. It is nevertheless omnipresent in every form of 30-DREAMS AND ALMOST.

30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES 30 artists / 30 projects / initiated by Joël Andrianomearisoa with :

ODILE DECQ architect
MOSHEKWA LANGA visual artist
RINA RALAY RANAIVO video artist
MALALA ANDRIALAVIDRAZANA photographer
ALAIN POLO photographer
DDP sound artist
SANDRA MOENS choregraph
MARIE VIC video artist
:MENTALKLINIK visual artist
LUDWIG KITTINGER video artist
MATHIEU DE GENOT DE NIEUKERKEN & PATRICIO AGUIRRE architects
FREDERIC DE CARVALHO sound artist
TOJO HERINIRINA RASOLOJAONA photographer
MAKSAENS DENIS video artist
HERVE YAMGUEN visual artist
VINCENT DUBOURG designer
LALAINA LARTISTIKA cooking art
TEMANDROTA visual artist
SADRAK sound art
PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU visual artist

and the xritings by :
JEAN JOSEPH RABEARIVELO
JEAN LUC RAHARIMANANA
JEAN LOUP PIVIN
SIMON NJAMI
STORM JANSEN VAN RENSBURG
GUY REGIS
VIRGINIE ANDRIAMIRADO
ERIC VAN HOVE
BÉRÉNICE GULLMAN
DOMOINA RANORO RAMAROZAKA
NABILA MOKRANI
ELIE RAJAONARISON
NJO
ELVIRA LONDONO

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[6 artists from Cameroon, Haiti and Madagascar - supported by Doual'Art, AfricAmericA and Tsipika - exhibit art-works trough _trans-, artistic transcontinental and transexpressions exchange project conducted under the program of group of States ACP funded by the European Union].

Image: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fétiches, Revue Noire 2011

Press contact: Catherine Philippot
+33 (0)1 40476342 cathphilippot@photographie.com

Opening Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | 4 pm – 9 pm

Revue Noire
8 rue Cels F - 75014 Paris
Opening during exhibitions: Monday to saturday 12.00 am / 7.00 pm

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