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information pack - Fondation d`entreprise Hermès
EXHIBITION RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES April 21 to September 19, 2016 La Grande Place Musée du cristal Saint-Louis Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche Curated by 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz PRESSKIT RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES (‘DARK DREAMING: IN THE LAND OF THE ÉTOILES TERRESTRES’) APRIL 21 TO SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 Private view, Wednesday April 20 at 6.30 p.m. ARTISTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF 49 NORD 6 EST LA GRANDE PLACE MUSÉE DU CRISTAL SAINT-LOUIS Rue Coëtlosquet 57620 Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche France The Museum is open daily except Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Neal Beggs Benoît Billotte Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang Bill Henson Barbara & Michael Leisgen Éric Poitevin Katrin Ströbel Charwei Tsai The exhibition is open daily except Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission free with a valid museum ticket: 6 €, 3 € Information: +33 3 87 06 40 04 Exhibition curated by: 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz PRESS CONTACTS HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL MEDIA DIRECTOR Ina Delcourt LA GRANDE PLACE, MUSÉE DU CRISTAL SAINT-LOUIS Barbara & Michael Leisgen, The Light – The Person – The World, 1975 Coll. 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © B. & M. Leisgen FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE HERMÈS Philippe Boulet +33 6 82 28 00 47 [email protected] Véronique Doh +33 3 87 06 60 12 [email protected] CRISTALLERIE SAINT-LOUIS PRESS CONTACT Lorraine de Boisanger +33 1 42 61 09 09 [email protected] Annelise Catineau +33 1 40 17 48 23 [email protected] 49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE, METZ Valérie Audren-Guelton +33 3 87 74 20 02 [email protected] High-res images are available at: www.fondationdentreprisehermes.org/Phototheque (password available on request) RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 2 The group exhibition Rêve d’obscur: au pays des Étoiles terrestres at La Grande Place, Musée du cristal Saint-Louis, in Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche (Moselle), is produced by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of its continuing support for temporary exhibitions at the Foundation’s own art spaces (in Brussels, Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo), and in partnership with leading public institutions (Formes Simples with the Centre Pompidou-Metz). Each year, the Foundation presents two exhibitions of contemporary art at Saint-Louis, with a focus on artisanship and/or skilled expertise. The themed exhibitions are co-produced with leading cultural institutions in the Lorraine region, in association with the cristallerie Saint-Louis and La Grande Place, Musée du cristal Saint-Louis. Each institution co-curates a season of three consecutive shows. Following the inaugural season, co-produced with the Centre Pompidou-Metz, our guest institution for 2016 is the region’s public fund for contemporary art, 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, in Metz. Rêve d’obscur: au pays des Étoiles terrestres is the first exhibition of this new season. “The Sun encounters the Moon, the stars rendez-vous with Earth, the visible world with its dark side. This exhibition is designed to lead us on an exploration of the hidden, dark side of things… An extraordinary invitation to a journey beyond the land of the Étoiles terrestres. Hypothesis and fantasy are the key to this speculative theme, offering irrational but undeniable poetic tools for the apprehension of distant realms. What powers of the mind must we summon to contemplate unknown territories? What mechanisms stir and spark our projective imagination? Human beings have long scrutinised, studied and mapped the sky, and land masses and oceans here on Earth. Works from the collection of 49 Nord 6 Est and pieces by guest artists are presented here as a sensitive response to scientific and geographical data. From the experience of disorientation (Neal Beggs, Éric Poitevin) or spirituality (Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Charwei Tsai), to work with light (Bill Henson), and efforts to measure the world around us (Benoît Billotte, Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang, Katrin Ströbel) – works in the show invite us to apprehend reality, reinterpret our environment in new and different ways, and share the artists’ irresistible attraction to other possible worlds.” — 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 3 EXHIBITED ARTISTS NEAL BEGGS Born 1959 in Larne, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Lives and works in La Varenne, France Neal Beggs, Starmaps. High and Low Summits/Metz, 2006 Map, 57 x 78 cm Sponsored by 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz © Neal Beggs Exhibited work – Starmaps. High and Low Summits/Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, 2016 New work supported by the patronage of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of the exhibition Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz A representation of a starry sky, or the mapping of a territory? Artist Neal Beggs spreads black ink over a map of Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, picking out its high points with myriad white dots: a star for Grand Wintersberg peak, another for the hilltop castle of Ramstein. The brightest stars correspond to the highest summits. A former mountaineer, the artist lets his experience of high places shape his current practice, working across disciplines and blurring the boundaries between art and life. From La Grande Place, Musée du cristal Saint-Louis, to the CIAV (the international centre for glass-making arts) in Meisenthal and the Lalique glass museum in Wingen-sur-Moder — known collectively as the three Étoiles terrestres — viewers are invited to take a map and explore the region’s ‘heart of glass’. Neal Beggs’ work repurposes conventional cartography, guiding us to a ‘space of dreams’. BENOÎT BILLOTTE Born 1983 in Metz, France Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland Exhibited work – Sun Line, 2011/2016 New work supported by the patronage of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of the exhibition – Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz Benoît Billotte, Sun Line, 2011/2016 Installation in situ, variable dimensions © Benoît Billotte A schoolroom blackboard, chalked with curved lines: Sun Line seems to convey a truth, but which one? Using data collected since 1761, Benoît Billotte offers a reading of our Sun’s activity — an unchanging series of solar cycles, each lasting a dozen years. But could this regular sequence be threatened? The great Ice Ages on Earth were the result of solar activity, but some physicists claim their alternating pattern may decelerate in future years. Sun Line is an electrocardiogram of the Sun, drawn in chalk — an impermanent work addressing the impact of the heavenly bodies on our lives. RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 4 Exhibited work – Hollow Earth, 2015/2016 New work supported by the patronage of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of the exhibition – Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz Benoît Billotte, Hollow Earth, 2015/2016 Light projection, variable dimensions Courtesy of Galerie Sandra Recio © Benoît Billotte Like Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Benoît Billotte invites us to peer into the depths of our blue planet — to the underworld of the Greek god Hades, or the realm of the Dark Elves in Nordic mythology? Inspired by scientific theories developed in the late 17th century, the artist presents a hollow Earth, its interior accessed via the Poles, decorated with mountains, clouds and a Sun. Created especially for the exhibition Rêve d’obscur : au pays des Étoiles terrestres, the piece evokes the Sun and its shadows, with a play on voids and solids, the internal and external, inviting us to look at everyday reality from a different perspective, and transporting us to a mystical realm, the land of the Étoiles terrestres. JINGFANG HAO & LINGJIE WANG Born 1985 in Shandong, China and born 1984 in Shanghai, China Live and work in Mulhouse, France Exhibited work – Sun Drawings, April 2015 Jingfang Hao and Chin Ling jie Wang, Sun Drawings, 2015 – Drawings on thermal paper, 30 x 30 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Jingfang Hao & Ling jie Wang The Sun Drawings by artist couple Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang give physical expression to immaterial phenomena, capturing the light of the Sun and playing with its cast shadows. A magnifying glass is used to concentrate the Sun’s rays onto a sheet of thermal paper; the resulting series of fifteen drawings makes palpable the passage of time. Marking the daily progress of the Sun’s rays, the shaft of light leaves a dark, burnt trace as it moves across the paper. The resulting mark depends on the strength of the Sun’s rays: as such, the work also addresses the phenomenon of global warming. Beyond the finished result, the artists are fascinated by the mystery of the mark’s appearance on the paper, and its progression. Centred on the opposition of white and dark brown, the circle and the square, their work is rooted in the concept of the alliance of opposites, inherited from the philosophy of Yin and Yang. RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 5 BILL HENSON Born 1955 in Melbourne, Australia Lives and works in Sydney, Australia Exhibited work – Untitled, 1983-1984 – Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz Bill Henson, Untitled, 1983-1984 – Triptych, colour photographs, 74 x 99 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Bill Henson The triptych format, the use of chiaroscuro, over-exposed subjects, artistic soft-focus… all contribute to the work’s dramatic narrative impact. The scene takes place in a rocaille interior decorated with mirrors, crystal chandeliers and candelabra. Shell motifs, fleurons and scrolling curves fill the space, contrasting with the emptiness of the portrait. Gazing into the distance, the young woman opens up the photographic frame and transports us to another place. Henson writes that what matters most in a work is not what is most clearly defined, but what is subsumed by shadow. In these photographs, the artist uses light to penetrate the ways of darkness. MICHAEL & BARBARA LEISGEN Born 1944 in Spital am Pyhrn, Austria, and born 1940 in Gengenbach, Germany Live and work in Aachen, Germany Exhibited work – The Light – The Person – The World, 1975/2016 Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz The Description of the Sun, 1975/2016 Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz Three Sun Figures, 1977/2016 Collection Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Barbara & Michael Leisgen, The Light – The Person – The World, 1975 – Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper, mounted on Dibond®, 80 x 120 cm The Description of the Sun, 1975 – Black and white photograph, 84 x 124 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Barbara & Michael Leisgen Man and Sun come face-to-face in Barbara and Michael Leisgen’s work, in a re-examination of the Greek etymology of the word photography — literally, ‘sun writing’. Here, the sun is an accessory: Barbara is haloed in light in the first photograph, and carries the Sun under her arm in the second. In The Description of the Sun (Die Beschreibung der Sonne), sunlight traces symbolic marks, like a calligraphy brush. As in many world mythologies, the Sun — a source of extraordinary energy — appears as an object of creation and destruction alike. Part dreamlike celebration of light, part dark meditation, the photographs offer a sublime vision of Nature. Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Three Sun Figures (detail), 1977 Triptych, colour photographs, 100 x 300 cm Collection Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims © Barbara & Michael Leisgen RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 6 ÉRIC POITEVIN Born 1961 in Longuyon, France Lives and works in Mangiennes, France Exhibited work – Untitled, 1993-1994 Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz Éric Poitevin’s photographs have an impenetrable quality: despite their sharp, descriptive clarity, they convey only the surface of the visible world. Are these spherical forms mineral, vegetable or human? Should we read them as planets in the dark matter of space? The human skeleton and celestial bodies are closely connected: when a star disappears, a vast quantity of calcium, exactly the kind found in our bones, spreads across the universe. Traditional symbols of death, the skulls seen here are sources of light. The use of repetition, the plain black ground, the geometric motifs, the association of dark and light, all contribute to a creeping sense of doubt as to the nature of the forms before us, freeing the imagination for new possibilities. Éric Poitevin, Untitled, 1993-1994 Colour photography, 41 x 41 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © ADAGP RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 7 KATRIN STRÖBEL Born 1975 in Pforzheim, Germany Based in Stuttgart, Germany, Nice, France and travelling Exhibited work – Pole, 2008/2016 New work supported by the patronage of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of the exhibition Collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz Katrin Ströbel, Pole, 2008 – Installation, gouache, diameter 350 cm View of the exhibition at Heike Strelow Gallery, Frankfurt © Katrin Ströbel This map of the world is surrounded by coordinates, and crowded with territories and parallels. Searching for a point of reference, the viewer’s gaze is lost in the mass of information, and struggles to pick out the familiar continents. Only the title suggests a way in: situated on the Earth’s axis of rotation, the Pole marks the axis of our own reading. Ströbel created this work after studying Arab maps during a trip to Morocco. As on an 11th-century mappamundi, there are multitudinous seas, fragmented land masses and a dedication inscribed in a central cartouche. But the artist draws on contrasting sources to create a personal cartography, too, questioning our Eurocentric perspective, the notion of frontiers, and the relative nature of cartographic representations. CHARWEI TSAI Born 1980 in Taipei, Taiwan Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, and Paris, France Exhibited work – Plane Tree Mantra, 2014/2016 Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz Form is emptiness and the emptiness is form. The Heart Sutra, painted by Charwei Tsai on a tree in the village of Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, explores the fleeting nature of material things. Charwei Tsai, Plane Tree Mantra, 2014 – Performance The natural bark support, and the ink used to write Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Charwai Tsai the inscription, resonate with the meaning of this celebrated Buddhist text. Just as the Chinese characters will disappear over time, just as the tree will become covered in lichen, so nothing is fixed, nothing lasts. This work combines the memory of a thousand-year-old piece of philosophy, the artist’s memory, the memories of people living in the Bitche region, and the memory of an ancient tree, crossing cultures and transporting us to unknown lands. RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 8 PRESS IMAGES High-res images are available at: www.fondationdentreprisehermes.org/Phototheque (password available on request) Views of the exhibition will be available after the preview. Neal Beggs, Starmaps. High and Low Summits/Metz, 2006 Map, 57 x 78 cm – Sponsored by 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Neal Beggs Barbara & Michael Leisgen, The Light – The Person – The World, 1975 Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper, mounted on Dibond®, 80 x 120 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Barbara & Michael Leisgen Barbara & Michael Leisgen, The Description of the Sun, 1975 Black and white photograph, 84 x 124 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Barbara & Michael Leisgen Barbara & Michael Leisgen, Three Sun Figures (detail), 1977 Benoît Billotte, Sun Line, 2011/2016 Installation in situ, variable dimensions © Benoît Billotte Triptych, colour photographs, 100 x 300 cm Collection Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims © Barbara & Michael Leisgen Benoît Billotte, Hollow Earth, 2015/2016 Light projection, variable dimensions Courtesy of Galerie Sandra Recio © Benoît Billotte Katrin Ströbel, Pole, 2008 Installation, gouache, diameter 350 cm View of the exhibition at Heike Strelow Gallery, Frankfurt © Katrin Ströbel Jingfang Hao and Chin Lingjie Wang, Sun Drawings, 2015 Drawings on thermal paper, 30 x 30 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Jingfang Hao & Lingjie Wang Charwei Tsai, Plane Tree Mantra, 2014 Performance – Collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz © Charwai Tsai Bill Henson, Untitled, 1983-1984 Triptych, colour photographs, 74 x 99 cm Collection 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz © Bill Henson La Grande Place, Musée du cristal Saint-Louis Photo : Jean-Claude Kanny RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 9 THE FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE HERMÈS The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès supports men and women seeking to learn, perfect, transmit and explore the creative gestures that shape our lives today and into the future. Guided by our central focus on skills and innovation, the Foundation’s activities follow two complementary paths: know-how and creativity, know-how and the transmission of skills. The Foundation develops its own programmes in the contemporary visual arts (exhibitions and artists’ residencies), photography (Immersion), performing arts (new settings), design (the Prix Émile Hermès) and craftsmanship (the Skills Academy), together with international calls for projects promoting biodiversity and solidarity. At the same time, we support the activities of organisations in these areas, around the world. The Foundation’s unique, diverse activities are governed by a single over-arching belief: Our gestures define us. • www.fondationdentreprisehermes.org THE CRISTALLERIE SAINT-LOUIS Founded in 1586, the Münzthal glassworks became the Verrerie Royale de Saint-Louis in 1767 and finally the cristallerie Saint-Louis following the discovery of the secret of lead crystal-making in 1781. The cristallerie became part of the Hermès Group in 1989. Today, Saint-Louis creates internationally renowned crystal pieces for the home, in lighting, tableware and decoration. • www.saint-louis.com LA GRANDE PLACE, MUSÉE DU CRISTAL SAINT-LOUIS Inaugurated in 2007 and located at the heart of the manufacture, La Grande Place, the manufacture’s museum, offers a journey of discovery of its permanent collection of 2000 ancient Saint-Louis crystal piece, each more fascinating than the next. Guided visits of the Saint-Louis crystal manufacture are also available upon request. • www.saint-louis.com/fr/musee-manufacture/grande-place THE 49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE, METZ As a hybrid public institution, 49 Nord 6 Est defines itself as a platform for reflection, and an open, accessible forum for exchange at the heart of France’s exciting, rapidly evolving eastern region. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, 49 Nord 6 Est invites thought leaders, artists, militants, therapists and philosophers of all stripes and none, to stimulate and encourage new thinking on the issues confronting us today. 49 Nord 6 Est gathers and implements ideas and protocols, with a particular focus on women’s perspectives. We seek to hold up a mirror to a society undergoing profound change, as an incitement to dream, rather than suffer our world! • Follow our latest news at: www.fraclorraine.org • Discover our permanent collection: http://collection.fraclorraine.org 49 Nord 6 Est - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain is supported by Région Alsace - Champagne-Ardenne - Lorraine and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication - DRAC. RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 10 SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FONDATION D’ENTREPRISE HERMÈS — Know-how and creativity IMMERSION: A FRANCO-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMMISSION Alessandra Sanguinetti in France in partnership with the Aperture Foundation residency from January to June 2016 EXHIBITION: CHARLES FRÉGER YOKAÏNOSHIMA Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan February 19 – May 8, 2016 EXHIBITION: DOUG DUBOIS Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA March 23 – May 19, 2016 EXHIBITION: POESIE BALISTIQUE La Verrière, Brussels, Belgium April 23 – July 2, 2016 EXHIBITION: SAÂDANE AFIF Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea May 6 – July 10, 2016 EXHIBITION: DAWN NG HOW TO DISAPPEAR INTO A RAINBOW Aloft at Hermès, Singapoure May 15 – July 31, 2016 PRIX EMILE HERMÈS INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARD: PLAY Exhibition of finalists’ prototypes and award ceremony Espace Commines, paris May 30 – June 5, 2016 DANSE ÉLARGIE International call for projects Paris / Seoul June 11 – May 16, 2016 — Know-how and transmission of skills SKILLS ACADEMY #3 LE MÉTAL Call for entries May 2 – July 10, 2016 RÊVE D’OBSCUR AU PAYS DES ÉTOILES TERRESTRES 11