calendario eventi  :: 

X

17/10/2011

Diane Arbus / Audrey Cottin

Jeu de Paume, Paris

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (New York, 1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.

Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land, photographing people she discovered during the 1950s and 1960s. She was committed to photography as a medium that tangles with the facts. Her contemporary anthropology—portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities—stands as an allegory of the human experience, an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, theater and reality.

In this first major retrospective in France, Jeu de Paume presents a selection of two hundred photographs that affords an opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of a wholly original force in photography. It includes all of the artist’s iconic photographs as well as many that have never been publicly exhibited. Even the earliest examples of her work demonstrate Arbus’s distinctive sensibility through the expression on a face, someone’s posture, the character of the light, and the personal implications of objects in a room or landscape. These elements, animated by the singular relationship between the photographer and her subject, conspire to implicate the viewer with the force of a personal encounter.

----------------

Audrey Cottin: Charlie & Sabrina, Who Would Have Believed?
Satellite 4. Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas

Audrey Cottin, a young French artist based in Brussels, enters Jeu de Paume space as a crowd. Her appearance is colorful, sculptural and spinning. She shares comfort and uneasiness of being in the company of people who don’t stop keeping this world as a continous creative experiment. Thus Audrey Cottin’s exhibition completes a set of subjectivities that were intentionally displayed throughout the series of Satellite 4.

Inspired by Robert Filiou’s belief that “everybody is perfect” Audrey Cottin has been searching for a perfect collaboration with people she encounters. This search may include experts of various knowledges, skills and perspectives. The methods of collaboration are often defined by what kind of resonance is created between those people (writers, sculptors, all kinds of impressarios, etc.) and Audrey herself. The realm of resonance is continuously explored in Audrey Cottin’s Clapping Groups. These performances that last around 20 minutes engage a group of people into a collective exercise of shared rhythm. It is pre-individuation patterns that are being played back and forth in these groups.

For Satellite series Audrey started several collaborations with her peers engaged in notions of authorship, form and performance. As a first gesture to assess what this potential collaboration may entail Audrey carried a series of lifting exercises: she shifted the position of object in space suspending it in air for a second and becoming like an antenna between several parallel presences. Those several presences will form the flexible core of her exhibition.

Image: Diane Arbus, A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N.Y.C. 1966

Press contact: Carole Brianchon: 33 (0)1 47031322 carolebrianchon@jeudepaume.org

Opening October the 18th, 6 pm

Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
Hours: Tuesday: 12:00 - 21:00 Wednesday - Friday: 12:00 - 19:00
Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 - 19:00 Closed Monday
Admission: : 8,50 € , Concessions: 5,50 €

stampa

permanent link