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17/4/2013

Les modules + Le Dictateur

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

LE DICTATEUR Un homme juste est quand même un homme mort

Date: 18/04/2013 - 23/04/2013

Un homme juste est quand mème un homme mort is a five days long special project (April, 18th– 22th) by Le Dictateur, featuring works, publications, performances in a unique stream.

Every night, starting from 7 pm, a solo show opening is taking place, for which every artist invited is designing a special project. The artists involved are Roger Ballen, Julius von Bismarck, Mattia Biagi and Alberto Tadiello, while Saturday 20th night will be dedicated to the presentation of Le Dictateur n° 4 and to artistic collaborations between Le Dictateur and artists Federico Brugia and Luigi Pane (abstr^ct:groove), invited to design new works together with LD dictators: Federico Pepe and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Every day, from Noon to 6pm, a bookshop of artists’ zines, independent art publications and the fourth edition of Le Dictateur will occupy the balcony space. Invited contributors include : Jacopo Benassi, Diego Bianchi, Elisabetta Claudio e Sebastiano Mastroeni, Lorenzo D’Anteo, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Diego Indraccolo, Laboratorio Miniera, Matteo e Christian Miccoli, Matteo Nuti, Federico Pepe, Pro Club, Lady Tarin, Francesco Van Straten, Massimiliano Verdesca, Lorenzo Vitturi, Alberto Zanetti, Zoavo/Fontana/Piccinini.

LE DICTATEUR AND LE DICTATEUR PRESS

Le Dictateur, the magazine// Le is the highest expression of the dominion of personal will: it is to be thought of as a state, a space where artists, photographers, fashion world protagonists live together, arbitrarily selected and invited. Some are famous, some are extremely famous, some are totally unknown: they earned their citizenship because they have been wanted there, and they each became dictators of their own pages.

Among the others contributors to the first three issues have been: Micol Assael, Roger Ballen, Francesco Barocco, Jacopo Benassi, Lorenza Boisi, Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Riccardo Cavallari, Roberto Cuoghi, Martin De Thurah, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Kim Jones, Nadav Kander, Liz Magic Laser, Paola Manfrin, Alda Merini, Federico Pepe, Dan Perjovschi, Luigi Presicce, Lady Tarin, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Arturo Schwarz, Nico Vascellari.

Le Dictateur, the project space // Since 2009 Le Dictateur is also a space in Milan with the same statement of the magazine: in total freedom and lack of rules the artists were called to present a new or custom project for the space: the result are unique event with an extreme spirit.

Le Dictateur Press // Le Dictateur Press is an editorial platform publishing various artists' books and other projects.

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Roger Ballen's exhibition Le Dictateur : Un homme juste est quand même un homme mort
Date: 18/04/2013 - 18:00

Born in New York in 1950 and based in Johannesburg since 1980, Ballen creates unique pictures (strictly in black and white) that explore and revisit imagery of people, skeletons, animals, nature and faces through a nightmarish and uncanny gaze that takes inspiration from South African mythology and ancestor worship.

In occasion of Un homme juste est quand mème un homme mort Ballen has designed and printed a new series of photos to be presented at the Palais de Tokyo.

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April's Modules - Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent

In April three news artists exhibit in the context of The Modules Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent : Gauthier Leroy, Jean-Michel Pancin, Marcos Avila Forero.

April 19 2013 until may 20 2013 - Free access

Since it first started in September 2006, the Modules program has become a tremendous tool for experimentation, the promotion of young artists and emerging French creativity, thanks in particular to the support of the Fondation Pierre Berge' - Yves Saint Laurent since 2010. They are held in public areas that are accessible free of charge. Small and large rooms, corridors, and secret thoroughfares are the setting for small-format exhibitions, daring interventions and experiments. They represent both a laboratory for creative artists and the building of surprises offered to connoisseurs and amateur art enthusiasts alike. This program, a real hub of activity, creates the atmosphere of amazement and permanent discovery that allows the public to share in the continual quest by the Palais de Tokyo teams in search of new talents.

Gauthier Leroy SMOKIN'O.P.'S

Winner of the Prix Grolsch du Off 2012

"My work process is an inner voyage left to the vagaries of wandering, like a mental road movie.”

The territories visited by Gauthier Leroy (b. 1967, lives and works in Valenciennes) are of all kinds, from American rock ‘n’ roll to the ashtray, from the Fallingwater House by Franck Lloyd Wright to the comic book, from the peanut motif to design.

Working with samples, the artist eschews any notions of a scholarly or popular culture repertoire, more interested in the signs of a collective memory that he reinterprets through subjective rewriting with new compositions and new scenarios. Using a heuristic approach, he attempts to expose the genesis of daily objects.

In keeping with the Arts & Crafts movement, Gauthier Leroy has developed a practice that subverts mass consumption products and the cultural industry in order to extract the symbols contained within them and integrate them into a system, freed from the productivist cycle and market logic. By reintegrating craftsmanship mixed with the creation of new fictions, he is effectively “repackaging”.

Jean-Michel Pancin Everything depended on the time

For the last two years, Jean-Michel Pancin (b. 1971, lives and works in Avignon and Paris) has dedicated himself to preserving the memory of the now-abandoned prison Sainte-Anne. The prison was built in 1865, behind the Palais des Papes, below the Jardin des Doms.
The artist initiated the project with the Pelotes (2010-2012). These “bundles” would be thrown up to the prisoners by their family from this garden. Having found a number of them, abandoned on upper ledges, photographed them and recorded their location, Jean-Michel Pancin presents them as though they were sealed relics, reluctant witnesses of the social relationships that the prisoners maintained with the outside world. Attentive to the paradoxes inherent in prison life, Jean-Michel Pancin produced a series of rubbings of the hearts carved into the walls of the courtyard (Champs d’amours [Fields of Love], 2010-2011).

His installation «Tout dépendait du temps...» [«Everything Depended on the Time…»] (2012) also includes prison cell doors, fitted into a cement block made to size, like steles commemorating the creativity of the detainees. Jean-Michel Pancin creates art whose construction can’t be reduced to one form and which reveals the symbolic complexity of prison. As in his series of photographs, Lumières (2010-2012), in which he captures the rays of light on the walls of the prison cells, he intends to remind the viewer of the suffering caused by these walls to prisoners used to darkness.

Marcos Avila Forero

Winner of the Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2012

Marcos Avila Forero (b. 1983 in Paris) is Columbian. He lives and works in Paris. In 2010 he graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA, Atelier Giuseppe Penone) with the congratulations by the jury.

He showed his work in several group shows like Le vent d’après, ENSBA Paris, 2011, Jeune Création 2012, 104, Paris. For the Nuit Blanche Paris 2012 he presented the nomadic performance Cayuco. In his actions, installations, videos, sculptures, drawings and performances, Marcos Avila Forero often refers to political, social, economic and historic contexts, but he always transforms them in esthetic and poetic gestures and representations.

Since 2008, the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo Association in partnership with Pictet, has been awarding a prize yearly to an emerging artist of the French scene, as part of its goal of promoting the work of young artists. This initiative’s originality resides in its involvement of all members of the Association, who both suggest artists and choose the finalist, in collaboration with art world personalities and with the Palais de Tokyo’s managerial staff. The winner of The Discovery Prize is invited to a solo show in one oft he spaces of the Palais de Tokyo.

Curator: Daria de Beauvais

Public opening on Thursday, april 18th at 8 p.m.

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Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson - 75 116 Paris
OPENING HOURS
Daily, except on Tuesdays
From noon to midnight
It closes on 1 January,1 may and 25 december.
And at 6pm on 24 and 31 december.
ADMISSION
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Reduced fee: 6 EUR
(under 26 years-old visitors, holders of France’s Carte Famille Nombreuse, teachers)

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