18.01 - 10.02 Opening
Thursday, January 17, 2008 from 18:30
cocktail & electro mix of backslash (Circus) & Dolibox (Karat)
The contemporary art space hosts Eugene Beaudouin, 18 January to 10 February 2008 Saved by the Bell, a group exhibition of nine artists: Gaëlle Boucand, Boursetty Valentine, Joan Braun, Laurence Cathala, Lukas Hoffmann, Christophe Lemaitre, Jean-Francois Leroy, Olivier Yu Matsuoka and Severus.
Bayside School for the Fine Arts, the title refers to a cult television series years 90: the group of high school friends - Zack, Kelly, Slater, Screech, Lisa and Jessie are always found for the prom at the end of the year. The exhibition is a pastiche of the series: the artists were all about the same age, all summer ENSBA teenager and all shared the same enthusiasm for the TV series.
Nevertheless the quotation is not trivial. There is today a nostalgia for the aesthetics of teen years 80-90, as manifested by the present triumph of neon and glitter, fashion American Apparel, for example (similar to the aesthetics of Fame series) , the return of pop and house sounds of the 80s and 90s, the wave of a very colorful and vintage graphics (as SO ME) and a rush for the series and cartoons through Youtube.
Artists from Saved by the Bell show to turn in their work a more complex form of nostalgia. The memory is a recurring theme contemporary home. But far from an aesthetic fluorescent, their works are treated in terms of shape and / or color. What has happened to Zack, Kelly, Slater, Screech, Jessie and Lisa that they no longer dress in gray, black and white?
Tales "video" Gaëlle Boucand put in perspective of an allegorical nature of the spaces in which man is absent and gathering spaces euphoric, like free parties.
Valentine Boursetty presents large-scale photographs of engagement rings, magical element treated clinically. The festive atmosphere
photographed by Joan Braun are tied up and emptied of their contents and their spatiality.
Through a mixture of texts from Proust and Beckett, Laurence Cathala question the language and memory in a sculptural form.
Lukas Hoffmann brings micro-events form of portraits. The cabinet of curiosities
Christophe Lemaitre from work on the relationship between Duchamp and fashion a form of nostalgia primer of conceptual art.
carving linoleum rolled by Jean Francois Leroy tells the workspace of the workshop into a form that approximates the material used in its pre-worked.
Yu Matsuoka's paintings are cohabiting kitsch and bucolic landscapes.
Olivier Severe transposes unstable objects of the marine world of dense material, ceramics.
Commissioner Barbara Sirieix
(copy & paste the press release)
