David Lamelas
dal 10/6/2014 al 20/9/2014
Segnalato da
10/6/2014
David Lamelas
Frac Lorraine 49 Nord 6 Est, Metz
Sculpting time and space, his language summons absence, awaiting, and atmosphere... in order to better understand the instant. The retrospective features over twenty major pieces from 1960-70, including some previously never exhibited as well as some recent works.
RAC Lorraine presents the first in France retrospective of David
Lamelas Argentinian, born in 1946), featuring over twenty major
pieces from 1960-70, including some previously never exhibited as
well as some recent works.
A flashback on David Lamelas with a monographic exhibition devoted
to this pioneer of conceptual art and experimental cinema.
Sculpting time and space, his language summons absence, awaiting,
and atmosphere ... in order to better understand the instant!
What if time were nothing but a fiction? Time passes, time lasts,
time stops, time is an activity. Observing it, giving it material
presence—this is what David Lamelas’ experiment has been about
since the 1960s. He is one of the first artists to introduce per-
ception of real-time temporality into exhibition. A chronic trave-
ler, he works through his own itinerary, which he shows in a
context, in space and time.
Greatly impressed since childhood by Velasquez’s Las Meninas,
David Lamelas has developed a sculptural approach to media at the
School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires by using light and its dema-
terializing effects. Selected to represent Argentina at the Venice
Biennale in 1968, he subsequently settled in London. Frequently
traveling and often working in Paris, Anvers, Brussels, and Milan,
he frequented the young European conceptual milieu as well as
established authors. In that context, he developed disjunctive,
experimental cinema. David Lamelas captures, registers and diffu-
ses the instant—the smallest constitutive element of Time. These
are all ways of gaining access to the real, elusive. After a few
“Hollywood” films and a long stay in Los Angeles, he has returned
to forms closer to the preoccupations of visual arts.
Placing the viewer at the center of his work, David Lamelas lea-
ves a trail of clues for the viewer to follow in his or her own
way ... within a necessarily distended temporality!
This summer!
PERFORMANCE / THURSDAY JULY 24, 8:30 PM
Presented as part of Metz en fête
WEIGHTLESS DAYS [1]
A. Detanico, R. Lain, M. Matsumoto, T. Yazaki
Travel into the heart of fleeting landscapes, where images,
colors, sounds, light, and bodies seem suspended in
weightlessness.
PERFORMANCE / SATURDAY SEPT 20, 2:30, 4 AND 5:30 PM
Presented as part of the European Heritage Days
LE SILENCE DE L’ABANDON
Khouloud Yassine
Experience the presence and the absence of the other, in close
proximity, without eliciting it... The intensity of diverse perspectives.
Info & réservation : info@fraclorraine.org
Residencies 2014
WRITER’S RESIDENCY / Philippe Artières, historian [2]
The first residency extended, with the support of the Centre
National du Livre (CNL), to an atypical historian, Director of
Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS), who focuses on mining and forestry in the Lorraine region.
His research is going to be presented at the beginning of the aca-
demic year 2014 in the form of interdisciplinary seminars for col-
lege students, as well as in the form of an installation in the
FRAC Lorraine building.
AIR NORD EST RESIDENCY 2014 / Joséphine Kaeppelin, artist [3]
Dans le cadre du programme annuel de résidences interrégionales
destiné à la promotion et l’accompagnement des artistes vivant ou
travaillant sur le territoire du Grand Est, Joséphine Kaeppelin
sera en résidence au Frac Lorraine en octobre 2014.
Née en 1985, elle vit et travaille à Strasbourg. www.josephinekaeppelin.com
INTERNATIONAL WRITER’S RESIDENCY / Andreja Borin, curator
Curator of the Maribor Art Gallery in Maribor, Slovenia, Andreja
Borin will be writer-in-residence in August 2014 in order to
reflect on the FRAC Lorraine collection with the purpose of devel-
oping an exhibition featuring, although not exclusively, works from
the collection. This reflection will be the basis of an exhibition
in 2015 at the Maribor Art Gallery.
Image: David Lamelas, El Grito, 1962 © The artist
CLAUDINE COLIN COMMUNICATION / TÉL. : 0033 (0)1 42 72 60 01 / AVRIL BOISNEAULT avril@claudinecolin.com
Press conference: Wednesday June 11, at 2pm
Opening: Friday June 13, at 7pm
49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine
1 bis rue des Trinitaires - F-57000 Metz
Every Day, 11am- 7pm
Free admission