Terrains Vagues

l’ÉSAD • Grenoble et l'’École du MAGASIN

25 rue Lesdiguières

Grenoble, France

30 novembre au 18 décembre 2014

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Dans le cadre du partenariat pédagogique entre l’ÉSAD •Grenoble et l’École du MAGASIN, Betty Biedermann, Martina Margini, Asli Seven et Chloé Sitzia de la Session 24 de l’École du MAGASIN ont conçu une exposition à partir de la collection S.B. du Veyrier, de laquelle une série d’oeuvres a été sélectionnée !

Les différents médiums exposés servent la construction d’un propos autour des déplacements humains et des traces qu’ils laissent dans notre monde. Seize oeuvres comme seize façons de construire une mémoire individuelle et collective, seize stratégies de survie pour exister dans son environnement Capturer ou reconstruire ? Sédentariser ou s’exiler ? Comment capter ces mouvements et mesurer leur impact global ? Quels récits en découlent et comment les inscrire dans une cartographie ? De ces tensions, attaches et ruptures, un espace se crée…

In the framework of the educational partnership between ÉSAD Grenoble and the École du MAGASIN, Betty Biedermann, Martina Margini, Asli Seven and Chloe Sitzia from Session 24 of École du MAGASIN have conceived an exhibition with a series of works selected from the private collection of S.B. du Veyrier.

Focusing on humankind’s geographical movements and the traces these movements leave on our world, the exhibition proposes 16 works, 16 ways of building individual and collective memory, 16 strategies to survive in one’s environment. Capture or reconstruct? Remain sedentary or go into exile? How can these movements be seized and their global impact be measured? What narratives emerge and how can they be inscribed in a cartography? A space is created from these tensions, attachments and ruptures.

for more information, please visit ... l’ÉSAD • Grenoble

In June 2014, the BNSC Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine will hold its national event with an international component, with the chosen theme of perdrePIED or lostFOOTING. perdrePIED/lostFOOTING, is to lose one's physical support, one's usual perspectives, one's aesthetic values, one's physical anchors, whether in a corporal manner, metaphorical, emotional, mental, or creative.

The central event, bringing together eleven national and international artists, professionals and fresh faces, is presented at six exhibition venues in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The guest artists are:

Pierre Bruneau, Montréal ..... Cooke-Sasseville, Québec

..... Paul de Guzman, Vancouver ..... Krijn de Koning, Amsterdam

Jannick Deslauriers, Montréal ..... Marla Hlady, Toronto

..... Guillaume Labrie, Montréal ..... Francois Mathieu, Lotbinière

Carolane Saint-Pierre, Trois-Rivières ..... Bathèlèmy Toguo, Paris-Cameroon

Please visit www.bnsc.ca for further information, or you may click on this link for a short preview of the biennale artists produced by La fabrique culturelle

for more information, visit http://villaempain.com/en/exhibition/13

for more information, visit the link below:

http://ionmagazine.ca/event/art/burnaby-art-gallery-outreach-exhibitions

The short interview above was conducted at the Tommy Douglas Library in Burnaby, BC (Canada) with Olsy Sorokina for a local television network.

As part of the Burnaby Art Gallery's Outreach Program in the public libraries, a selection of six bookworks from the "Invisible Cities" series is currently on display at the newly constructed Tommy Douglas Library in Burnaby, BC, Canada. The books are installed in a wood and plexiglas vitrine with a Kromekote silver foil backdrop.

Inspired by Italo Calvino's collection of short stories "La citta invisibili", this series of works uses the structure of the book to create sculptures that reference architectural plans and drawings. By carefully slicing through the pages of art books, de Guzman creates multi-layered constructions, transforming the nature, purpose, and function of the book.

This is the first in a series of Outreach Exhibitions by the Burnaby Art Gallery focusing on artist books related to maps and topography. The exhibition runs from April 23 to July 8, 2013.

For more information on the series "Invisible Cities", please visit http://pauldeguzman.com/gallery/invisible-cities

a new outdoor public art project by Paul de Guzman

where: CBC Plaza at 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, Canada

time: launch is from noon to 1pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The exhibition will be up until Fall 2013.

The WALL, located at the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre Plaza at 700 Hamilton Street, is a Vancouver Heritage Foundation public art initiative. Made possible through a partnership between VHF, JJ Bean Coffee Roasters and the CBC, the WALL features a new artist every year. All exhibits are an artist’s interpretation of the theme “Vancouver’s built environment”.

the people are the city

the people are the city

the people are the city, a new large-scale, outdoor, image-and-text-based work by Paul de Guzman, relies on a vernacular experience of architecture and is composed of two distinct elements: an archival image and a text component, both retrieved from the CBC’s Vancouver archives. The image is from the CBC Archive’s collection of photographs by Franz Lindner and shows an instructor with his students at the Vancouver Vocational Institute in 1963. The text "The people are the city" was a headline taken from a copy of the CBC Times, a weekly programming guide published during the 1960's. "The people are the city" was the title of a radio program covering a winter conference which aired on January 28, 1966 about the practice of local democracy and was a joint venture between the CBC and the Canadian Institute on Public Affairs.

From personal experience, the artist has held the belief that in order to remember something -  a place, a name, an idea - it needs to be said three times. Similarly, “the people are the city …” appears three times almost as a reminder that architecture is informed by our experiences of it, and is an attempt at creating significance out of our banal and daily interactions. “the people are the city …” comments on architecture’s social responsibility, that architecture and social spaces are fundamentally conceived and built from personal and vernacular histories that ultimately builds communities and contributes toward collective and official historical memories.

Paul de Guzman, February 2013