Les Ateliers de Rennes
dal 15/5/2008 al 19/7/2008
Segnalato da
15/5/2008
Les Ateliers de Rennes
Different Venues, Rennes
Biennale d'art contemporain. An ambitious event to bring together contemporary art and the corporate world. With a European scope, it will bring together over sixty French and foreign artists at the Couvent des Jacobins and in various emblematic sites in the city. The angle adopted is that of crossed looks between the subject artist taking part in art's real and symbolic economy on the one hand, and on the other the subject working in an organization that is part of the general economic system (company employee, entrepreneur).
An ambitious event to bring together contemporary art and the corporate world.
On 16 May 2008, the cultural life in Rennes will be enriched by an important rendez-vous with artistic creation: a biennale to enhance the relation between art and the corporate world. With a European scope, it will bring together over sixty French and foreign artists at the Couvent des Jacobins and in various emblematic sites in the city.
Resident artists
This first edition, Valeurs croisées, is the result of an initiative by a private patron, the food- processing group Norac, combined with support from the State and the local authorities and help from the FRAC Bretagne (Regional Fund for Contemporary art). Designed and carried out by the Art to be association, it focuses on the creation of value, a problem that is common to artists and corporations. In a first phase, from November 2007 to April 2008, research and creation internships -called SouRCEs according to the initials in French- ranging from five weeks to six months, have allowed some fifteen artists to elaborate a project by looking into a problem experienced
Cross values
The second phase with the exhibition Valeurs croisées, presents works by more than sixty French and foreign artists. Productions resulting from SouRCEs, as well as works specifically made for this event, public commissions and works lent by public and private collections are presented at the Couvent des Jacobins and in most of the cultural venues in the city. The angle adopted is that of crossed looks between the subject artist taking part in art's real and symbolic economy on the one hand, and on the other the subject working in an organization that is part of the general economic system (company employee, entrepreneur). Through different prisms (the artist considering his own production, or reacting to the industrial production modes, the employee artist, the artist employee, the artist entrepreneur, etc.), Valeurs croisées questions the value creation parameters, whether economic, social or symbolic, put at risk in the act of production.
From Abdessemed to Vilmouth
Among the artists chosen, some are interested in the fundamentals of work or of non-work. Jean-Luc Vilmouth questions the essence of technique by turning man's first tool, the pick, away from its first use. Claude Closky takes a try at the impossible task of exhausting the probabilities of lottery games, and underlines the absurdity of wanting to win the right to no longer work. Others take a stance in regard to a given order that would be the subordination to a need of labor. Adel Abdessemed presents his resignation -which is impossible for an artist - and the act itself becomes a work of art, and Julien Prévieux gives the reasons for his refusal to enter the nomenclatures of work. Jean-Luc Moulène, Charles Mazé or even Simon Starling reinterpret the process and the results of industrial production, by modifying for example a manufacturing process to give birth to an object that has become a work of art. Jean-Marc Chapoulie, the collective group Au travail/At work or Ludovic Burel & Noëlle Pujol explore forms of production of oneself at work that can go through the use of the «wig», that is the use of corporate production means for artistic or subversive objectives. A theoretical extension of the artistic experiences will be stimulated by the Générateur de problèmes (Problem generator) by artist-consultant François Deck and will nourish a rich program of conferences, workshops and slide shows.
Venues:
Couvent des Jacobins
4, rue d’Échange - 35000 Rennes
Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
20, quai Emile Zola - 35000 Rennes - Tél. : + 33 (0)2 23 62 17 45
La Criée centre d’art contemporain
Halles Centrales - Place Honoré Commeurec - 35000 Rennes
Centre Culturel Colombier
5, place des Colombes - 35000 Rennes
Le Grand Cordel
18, rue des Plantes - 35700 Rennes
Le Triangle
Bd de Yougoslavie - BP 90160 - 35201 Rennes cedex 2
École Régionale des Beaux-Arts
34, rue Hoche - 35000 Rennes
Université Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne
Programmes de films : Le tambour, auditorium de l’université
Place du Recteur Henri Le Moal - 35000 Rennes
Les Champs Libres
10, Cours des Alliés - 35039 Rennes
Faculté des Sciences Économiques de l’Université Rennes 1
amphithéâtre n° 3 - 7 place Hoche - 35000 Rennes