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Hors Pistes 2012

kvdb — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:45:21 +0000

Opening on Friday is the 7th edition of this international festival dedicated to art films. Hors Pistes exists to showcase visual works investigating the world we live in by challenging narrative forms and remapping the borders between film genres (fiction, documentary, essay…). Hors Pistes presents in the cinemas of the Centre Pompidou a program of more than 30 films exploring the new tendencies of contemporary image, and an exhibition with the theme ANIMALS takes place in the exhibition space on the lower floor.
Fri 27 Jan-Sun 12 Feb.

HORS PISTES 2012, Un autre mouvement des images… par centrepompidou

Pictoplasma Paris

kvdb — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:49:29 +0000

The Berlin based Pictoplasma project is acclaimed for its unique focus on contemporary character design and figurative art. The annual festivals in Berlin and NYC have evolved to be the meeting points for an international audience of illustrators, designers, filmmakers and fine and urban artists. Now, the world’s leading festival of contemporary character culture celebrates its premiere in Paris, with the theme “Post Digital Monsters”, and a comprehensive program of installations, exhibition, artist conferences, performances and screenings… Why “Post Digital”? In reference to the fact that character design came to the fore with the rise of digital culture at the beginning of the noughties. The Internet and new technologies have revolutionised image re-interpretation and exchange. “Monsters?” Because the digital era has broken new ground in terms of virtual reality. Now the new territories just have to be peopled with attractive characters! These new icons make us feel we’re being watched by unknown entities from a parallel universe. Okay, so they’re cute, but aren’t they just a little too cute?…
Wed 7-Sat 31 Dec. 2-8pm. Closed Mon.
Gaîté Lyrique, 3 bis rue Papin, 3rd. http://paris.pictoplasma.com/

Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin at the MAM

kvdb — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:26:37 +0000

‘Any Ever’ is the first major exhibition in France by the young LA based art duo Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin. For over five years now the pair ‘s videos, installations and sculptures have been blowing consumer culture and intergenerational relations up to absurd proportions. Any Ever is an expanding universe, one you can enter only by consenting to reconsider the codes of the real world and the rules of language. The outcome of two years’ work with the artists, the exhibition has been designed as a protean environment, involving the viewer in a joyous, endlessly anarchic cut-and-paste process.
Until Sun 8 Jan 2012. am-6pm (10pm Thu). Closed Mon.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, 11 av du Président Wilson, 16th. M° Iéna. 01.53.67.40.00. www.mam.paris.fr/

‘L’Oeil sur les Rues’ at La Villette

kvdb — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:59:53 +0000

Opening tomorrow at La Villette is this group show of video art dealing with the theme of the colorful, noisy, surreal or just plain mean streets of our cities. An international group of young and emerging artists take us to Mexico, Paris, China, Stockholm…, to put us face to face with our urban condition.
Until 15 Jan. Wed-Sun, 2-7pm (9pm, Thu). Free entry.
Pavillon Paul Delouvrier, Parc de La Villette, 211 av Jean Jaurès, 19th. M° Porte de la Villette or Porte de Pantin. 01.40.03.75.75. www.villette.com

Vanessa Bruno Spring/Summer 2011

kvdb — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:20:20 +0000

A new poetic video ‘Miracle’ from Stéphanie Di Giusto stars house muse Lou Doillon and LA it-girl Jessica Joff wearing the Vanessa Bruno summer collection.

Hors Pistes at Centre Pompidou

kvdb — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:26:26 +0000

The 6th edition of this international festival dedicated to new and experimental ‘moving images’ opens today at the Centre Pompidou. Forty films from 20 different countries are on the program, but there’s not only ‘art’ films, but also images taken from science, TV, or amateur films, all demonstrating new ways to tell stories. In the basement section of the Forum an interactive exhibition explores sport in contemporary images via interactive sculptures, soundscapes, videos and performance.
Until 6 Feb. Centre Pompidou, rue Beaubourg, 4th. www.centrepompidou.fr/

THE PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2010

kvdb — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:40:22 +0000

The shortlist for the tenth edition of the French contemporary art prize has been finalised:
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (Galerie Xippas). Born 1961, installation.
Cyprien Gaillard (Galerie Bugada&Cargnel). Born 1980, video.
Camille Henrot (Galerie Kamel Mennour). Born 1978, installation.
Anne-Marie Schneider (Galerie Nelson Freeman). Born 1962, painting.
An exhibition will be presented of the four artists’ work during the FIAC next October, from which the winner will be selected by an international jury. On top of the 35,000€ prize, he or she will also be honoured with a solo show at the Pompidou Centre (Espace 315) next year.

Here’s a video interview with Cyprien Gaillard by the Tate (London), explaining his electronic opera Desniansky Raion presented at the Tate Modern last July, to music by Koudlam:

Souvenirs from Earth

kvdb — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:03:54 +0000

Art TV! Souvenirs From Earth is an exciting new international cable TV station, currently broadcasting in France (and Germany), and presenting a 24h program of film and video art. The channel functions as a platform where artists can find a quality environment to experience new forms of distribution and presentation of film and video art. The digital revolution in television broadcasting has freed up bandwidth for special interest programs. Souvenirs From Earth turns your TV into the biggest museum for video art in the world.
(The channel is available as part of the standard bouquet for the Freebox, Alice and neufbox/SFR.)
www.souvenirsfromearth.tv/

new clip from Michel Gondry for Mia Doi Todd

kvdb — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:24:34 +0000

A curious new offering from Michel Gondry for LA singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd for her single ‘Open Your Heart’; the colourful clip features 100 or so non-professional dancers in an elaborate urban choroegraphy on the streets of LA. Gondry explained to Entertainment Weekly that he’s had the idea for years, and when he discovered Todd’s ‘fragile, personal, and very elevated’ music, he knew he’d found the right match.

Keren Cytter at the Plateau

c.rossiter — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:13:27 +0000

It’s been a good year for Berlin-based Israeli artist Keren Cytter. As well as appearing in New York’s New Museum exhibition Younger than Jesus, a show of contemporary artists born after 1976, and this year’s Venice Biennale, she also made number 2 on Flash Art magazine’s most promising artists list, and won the 2009 Absolut Art Award! Her first solo show in France is now on at the Plâteau. The space has been reconfigured to create a maze of video projections, reflecting their fragmented and perplexing narratives, which seem violent or tragic even if it’s not quite clear why. The pieces on show include Repulsion (2006), Der Spiegel (2007) and Four Seasons (2009). Shown on multiple screens or on a continuous loop, the stories have no beginning or end, and the films leave the viewer feeling destabilised and trapped.
(Until 14 Feb)
It’s worth noting too that her 75 min film The Great Tale of The Devil’s Hill and The Endless Search for Freedom (2007-2009) will be screening at the Pompidou Centre, as part of their Prospectif Cinema cycle, on Thu 28 Jan, 8pm.
www.fracidf-leplateau.com/

Keren Cytter – “Continuity” (2005)