The Red Monkey Whispers

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Press release
AREA42, both a new venue and a new artists residency located in Brussels, keeps its policy of support and valuation of contemporary creation by hosting its first contemporary art exhibition :
The Red Monkey Whispers In The Ear Of Fear
Exhibition from october 13rd to 20th 2011
Fia Cielen, Reynold Reynolds, Link Leisure, June Peduzzi, Jerome Boutigny, Antoine Meyer, Quentin
Armand,
Piet.sO, Peter Keene (artists in residence since 2008)
and designers and architects Edouard Poullain and Gi Monseu.
The Red Monkey Whispers In The Ear Of Fear is a labyrinth of universes chosen by contemporary
artists that are able to meet and confront with an ambitious and strongly designed place. By bringing the presence of their enigmatic works, not only awarded artists and emerging, but also the Area
42’s creators are totally changing the smooth understanding of the place, initially dedicaded to
business events (a maze of 2500m2).
The visitors confront secrets, transformations, illusions, phobias, eccentricities, oddities... whispers to the ear of fear... throught :
The strange temporalities of filmmaker Reynold Reynolds ‘s movies,
the cutting and transgressive intelligence of Fia Cielen’s works,
the excentric science of Peter Keene’s « work in progress »,
the ghostly presences of french artist Piet.So’s installations,
the ambivalence of lights in Antoine Meyer’s photographs,
the multi-layer camouflages of canadian artiste Link Leisure,
the magnetic works of videomaker June Peduzzi
the forward imagination of Quentin Armand’s installations,
The incongruous innocence of Jérôme Boutigny,
The plastic world of Edouard Poullain,
And the multicoloured universes of Gi Monseu.
Editorial by Piet.sO
Let us imagine ourselves in one ear, a big ear rather deaf - the image, perhaps, of a world in multiple crises, with its population declined in tortuous furrows. Let us imagine a big crazy monkey,
detached from this world, now free to reach the air, extravagance or chaos.
There would be, in this world, lost machines looking for the “why”, an anxiety-provoking poetry
shiftily gesticulating. There would be crystals in the past anxiously hoping to see some sparks. Time
would gitter spasmodically or be trapped in a huge web. Fear...
Intelligent, sharp whispers, would tickle the ear. The monkey would have left its marks, his impertinence and secrets. It would be far more souple, in a groove of magnetic and colorful illusions.
This is the cryptic story that I can now tell about this group exhibition led by four voices.
Of course, all this has been built upside down, in the sensitivity of a wobbly in balance, as an ear
twisting in on itself like a Mobius loop. Everything coincides in the end. The 11 artists from different backgrounds are integrated simultaneously in all the different layers of this labyrinthine history.
They are all exploring in their own way some troubling questions of our contemporary world, and
their proposals open the way for a large maze that is AREA42.
Piet.So, french artist in residence at AREA 42 since 2009, co-curator with Peter Keene, Edouard Poullain and Antoine
Meyer.
Reynold Reynolds
(1966, Central Alaska, US) - artist, filmmaker –lives and works in Berlin
Secret Life. Two channel video projection, transferred from 16mm and stills, 5min. Germany, 2008
Award “Secret Life” won the 2008 EMAF Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany.
During his undergraduate schooling at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Reynolds studied
Physics receiving a Bachelor’s degree under the professorship of Carl Wieman (Physics Nobel Laureate 2001). Changing his focus to studio art he remained two more years in Boulder to study under experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. After moving to New York City Reynolds completed an
M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts.
Influenced early on by philosophy and science, and working primarily with 16mm as an art medium, he has developed a film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Detailed
evolving symbols and allusive references create a powerful pictorial language based on Reynolds’
analytical point of view. His depiction of people often makes us aware of the small frames we use
to understand reality. By subtly altering the regular conditions of life and watching their effects, he
transfers the experimental methods of science to filmmaking, where he frames reality in his laboratory and changes one variable at a time to reveal an underlying causality.
Awards
First Prize - Jury’s Choice 2)Secret Machine Black Maria Film Fest. 2009
Distinction Award 09 for Six Apartments at the Transmediale Berlin, Germany
EMAF Festival Award, Secret Life European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, 2008
Third Place, After The Vernissage, Kansk International Video Festival, Russia: 2007
Runner up, Experimental, Stadtplan SXSW Film Fest. 2006
First Prize - Jury’s Choice Burn Black Maria Film Fest. 2003
First Place, Experimental The Drowning Room SXSW Film Fest. 2000
Honorable Mention The Drowning Room Sundance Film Fest. 2000
First Place, Experimental Seven Days Til Sunday SXSW Film Fest. 99
First Place, Experimental Seven Days Til Sunday NY Underground Film Fest. 98
First Place, Experimental Seven Days Til Sunday New Jersey Film Fest. 99
Third Place, Experimental The History of the Future Central Florida Film Fest 97
First Place, Audience NYC-Symphony US S-8mm Film Fest 96
Grants
Stiftung Kunstfonds Arbeitsstipendium Deutschland 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts 2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2003
Jerome Foundation Grant 2003
New York Foundation for the Arts 2003
Creative Capital 2001
Paula Rhodes Graduation Award 1995
Residency
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Poland), three months, 2011
Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), eight months, 2010
Impakt Utrecht (The Netherlands), two months, 2009
Sacatar (Brazil), six weeks, 2006
Yaddo New York (USA), eight weeks, 2005
American Academy in Berlin (Germany), one year, 2004
Eyebeam New York Residency (USA), 2003
Education
1995 Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Related Media. School of Visual Arts NY
1991 Film Studies with Stan Brakhage, Bill Stamets, University of Colorado, Boulder.
1991 Bachelor of Arts in Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Fia Cielen
(1978 Belgium) - drawing, video, installations and sculptures – lives and works in Antwerpen
‘Gespooklichkeit’. Fia Cielen - pencil on paper, A1.
Fia Cielen graduated at the HISK in 2008. Ever since she has been exhibiting her works in Belgium
and abroad. Her work consists of drawings, video-works, installations and sculptures. The artist has
a true feeling for the absurd setting and a dark sense of humour in her work, often countered by an
eerie, almost sinister atmosphere.
Her work can be regarded as a Wunderkammer, a hybrid oeuvre that raises questions about the
uncanny nature of everyday things, transgression and metamorphosis.
Her latest works are inspired by science fiction and the monstrous. Monsters exceed boundaries,
reconfigure forms and are always horrible and wonderful. They exist as a state of becoming, rather
than as a false marker of fixity. In this way, works which can use this form as both image and process
participate in embodied theory, the corporeality of knowledge and the promises of monsters for
the articulation of identities outside the norm.
In 2010 she started working on an extensive experiment with sculptures containing live spiders. This
series is called ‘Myths of the Near Future’. The spiders complete the sculptures with their webs over
a course of several weeks.
2011
Uncommon Places
Reinventing the Everyday - Group exhibition ICI, New York, Fall 2011.
Curated by: Pieter Vermeulen, in collaboration with Anselm Franke, Extra City.
2010
Hareng Saur - Group exhibition, Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K. and MSK Ghent, Curated by:
Ronald Vandesompel, Philippe Van Cauteren.
Realms of the Unstable - Group Exhibition, Super Deluxe Galery, Tokyo.
Second show at Forest Limit Galery, Tokyo. Curated by: Wouter Vanhaelemeesch & Ryo Kuramoto.
Dark Decades - K+K Galery Brussels. Curated by: Matthias Wille and Delphine Somers.
The Perseids - Group exhibition, The Custer Observatory, New York. Bat 10 - Group exhibition
Anti-tankkanaal Antwerp. Curated by: Flor Bex.
Bad Moon Rising 5 - Group exhibition, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo. Curated by Jan Van Woensel.
Pen to Paper - Exhibition and Booklaunch Pen to Paper, Pictoplasma.
March 25 - April 2010, Concrete Hermit Gallery, London
April 8 - 24 2010, artSPACE Berlin
May 1 - 26 2010, Galerie LJ, Paris
Kaoz Lily - Group exhibition organized and curated by Fia Cielen, VVB82 Gallery, Antwerp.
Jenny Watson/ Fia Cielen - Duo Show at CIAP, February 20 - April 2010, Hasselt.
Curated by CIAP.
2009
New Kids on the Block - Upcoming artists from Belgium, The Netherlands and Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nicc/Extra City Antwerp. Proposed by Philippe Vancauteren, curated by Guillaume Bijl
Hetzelfde en het Andere - Group Exhibition, Zebrastraat, Ghent. Curated by Willem Elias
The Last Session - Group Exhibition concerning Endism, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam Landscaping - Group Exhibition, Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.
Matchbox Project - Mobile Exhibition Project, Z33, FLACC, S.M.A.K., MUHKA, 2009 Belgium
Error #13 - Error One at Cultuurcentrum Brugge
Last Day of Magic - Videoscreening & exhibition Scalamata Gallery, 2009 Venice Biennial Satelite
Program, Venice, Italy
Artist Project Art Brussels - Exhibition Project Art Brussels Art Fair 24-27, April 2009, Brussels, Belgium
Menhir - Solo Exhibition, in collaboration with Joost Schouppe at Second Room & Recyclart, Brussels Belgium. Curated by Christophe Floré
Pictopia - Exhibition and Conference Pictoplasma at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, March 19th - May
3th, 2009, Berlin, Germany
Isomopolis - Exhibitionconcept of Danai Anesiadou, Etablissement d’en Face Projects, March 6th April 4th, 2009, Brussels, Belgium.
Pencil Towers, Stone Fish, Rising Suns, Ghosts, Auras and other Deliciously Emerging Entities - Exhibition at Rossi Contemporary Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2008
Pen to Paper - CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Perché realizare un’Opera Quando è Cosi Bella Sognarla Soltanto? - Final Exhibition Show, HISK,
Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Postgraduate Program, Ghent, Belgium. In collaboration with
S.M.A.K., Ghent
HISK at Art Brussels - Curated by Hans Martens.
Onbegonnen Zoektocht naar het Feminiene - Exhibition VUB Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. Curated
by Willem Elias
Peter Keene
(1953 GB) - installations and sculptures – lives in Paris, works in Brussels
big video Light Bulb Petre Keene 2010
in a constant flux electronic chemical electromedical high voltages forgotten sciences... are at the
service of his work always experimental, which oscillates without restraint between art and science in a “work in progress” for several decades.
The universe of Peter Keene is populated by the men and women who spent most of there lives
in the obsure borderlands of science, contemporary music and art, Tesla, Lakhovsky, Chandra
Bose, Arman Barbault, Bruce Lacey , Roger Spear, Cleve Baxter, Theremin, Raymond Scott, la
Monte Young, Gustave Lebon, to name but a few.
2010
LOST SCIENCE REVISITED - Nuit des Musées - Ingo Maurer show room - Munich (De)
TEKNIIKAN MUSEO - Helsinki, Finland.
SPAZIO KRIZIA guest of Ingo Maurer - Milan, Italy.
Pornolettrisme KÄÄMER 12 - Bruxelles, Belgium.
MUSEE DE LA MAIN, Fondation Verdan - Lausanne, Suisse.
2009 Poésie sonore, avec Jacques Donguy. LE CUBE - Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
Vous avez dit radioprotection, pile ZOE, CEA, IRSN - Fontenay-aux-roses, France.
2008 CASA DE LA CULTURA - Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 Summer Exhibition group exhibition. ROYALE ACADEMY - London, England.
Mécanique poétique group exhibition. UNIVERSITE DE LILLE1 - Lille, France.
2005 Light art from artificial Light group exhibition. ZKM - KARLSRUHE, Germany.
FESTIVAL EMERGENCES Maison de la Villette - Paris, France.
FESTIVAL ARBORESCENCE - Aix-en-Provence, France.
2004 Sons et Lumières group exhibition. CENTRE POMPIDOU - Paris, France.
Biiip LA MÉNAGERIE DE VERRE - Paris, France.
MUSEE ROMAIN ROLLAND exp. personnelle - Clamecy, France.
2003 Installation Moulin de Gouaix, Journées du patrimoine. ACT’ART, France.
Lumière subjective exp. coll. ARTELAB Square Vergennes. Paris, France.
FESTIVAL GERARDMER - Vosges, France.
2002 Machines à communiquer. personal exhibition. LE GYMNASE - Besançon, France.
FESTIVAL REBOND exp.coll. Scène nationale d’Albi - France.
2001 Electric light lunch performance GALERIE ART TECHNO - Paris, France.
Festival Virus GALERIE ARTEKNO / GALERIE ROUGE 44 - Paris, France.
2000 Electrico Domesticos Les rendez-vous électroniques CENTRE POMPIDOU - Paris, France.
Paroles d’avenir group exhibition. LA LAITERIE - Strasbourg, France.
Making waves avec Paul Gittin MUSEA DE ELECTRIDAD - Lisbonne, Portugal.
1999
Low tech personal exhibition. GALERIE J+J DONGUY - Paris, France.
Wind ups personal exhibition. JUNO GALLERY - New york, USA.
Strange emissions avec Paul Gittin THE LAB - Londres, England.
Savants fous personal exhibition. ELECTROPOLIS - Mulhouse, France.
1992 -1998
Sound group exhibition. MUSEE D’ART MODERNE DE BOLZANO - Italy.
Les années Via group exhibition. MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS - Paris, France.
personal exhibition. MUSEE ELECTROPOLIS - Mulhouse, France.
automates & robots group exhibit. MUSEE D’ART MODERNE- Salonique, Grèce.
Robot Orchestra CITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE L’INDUSTRIE - Paris, France.
Link Leisure
(Vancouver, CA) - installations, objects – lives and works in Brussels
Born and raised in Canada I began my love affair with form and space by rejecting an artistic education. Instead I fled to London UK to learn my trade by working hands-on, immersing myself in
the stimulating and challenging underground art / fashion / club scene from late 1980’s to 2001.
Starting with doing art department on pop music videos and performance stage design with artists such as Leigh Bowery and Vivienne Westwood, moving on to a career as an art director in the
advertising and fashion industry. In 2001 I left London and began an extensive globe trot which
lasted several years. Landing in Brussels more time than I have fingers and toes.
“Developing installations of multi-layered sculptures and images that challenge your erotic assumptions., Link will investigate the camouflaging of deceit and what this very act reveals about
the artist and his subject, and also about the viewer and his perception.
It is disturbingly attractive, aesthetic, delicate, subtle, and tremendously sexual. It is a little degrading, definitely exciting, and elegantly perverse.“ Thomas Klau Journalist
2010 Act Art 8 - London, UK “No matter how many time you finger me, I won’t forget”
2009 Act Art 7 - London, UK “Where once there was nothing, then there was one, now there are many.”
Site-specific installation
2008
Brussels Biennial Vernissage “Pinnicles”, site-specific installation
Plastic White Hotel, Brussels
2007 Design’art Designers weekend Musée Belvue Brussels. “Smeg-a-lon 7”, sculpture
2004 Beursschouwburg opening Brussels “Little white liar”, sculptural installation
2003 Diamant Usage Externe Brussels “Load Bearing Structures #1”, site-specific sculpture
“Load Bearing Structures #2”, sculpture
1999 Mint tea rooms ICA London, UK “Osmosis institute”, performance and installation
Black and White, Young Unknown Gallery, London, UK “Ball and chain”, sculpture
Quentin Armand
(1978, FR) - drawings, installations – lives and works in Bayonne
His drawings take their strength from the simplicity of the line. His sculptures take us along winding paths which question the subtle and poetic understanding of everyday life. Privileged witnesses of his relationship with the world, the works of Quentin Armand rely on his joyful sassy and
, while blithely titillating ours. At once comic and strange, they entertain and question, baffle and
delight.
Samantha Deman
Solo Shows
2011
2010
2007
2006 2007
2004
2002
Sidetracker Galerie E.G.P, Paris
The art of freedom fighting Veranda, Grenoble
Pour raisons sentimentales productions 138, Grenoble
Les tapis volants normaux n’ont rien d’exceptionnel Atelier Pont St Jaime, Grenoble
Hooligans in Heaven Galerie In and Out, Grenoble
Save the dernière danse Scène ouverte, la Nouvelle Galerie, Grenoble
Buddha and Juliette Galerie de l’Ecole supérieure d’art de Grenoble, Grenoble
Group Shows
2011 Wor(l)ds Galerie E.G.P, Paris
Swab Barcelone
2010 Beyond Shibuya Li-Po, Tokyo, Japon
Easy Kamer Laakkwartier, La haye, Pays Bas
Montagnes Galerija 10m2, Sarajevo
2009
Radical Autonomy Le grand Café, St Nazaire
Loser Festival pluridisciplinaire, Québec
Ce qu’il s’est passé Salle Lesdiguères, Grenoble
Willem St Microelectronics, Crolles
2008 Doloréane Productions 138
Le revolver à cheveux blancs Musée de l’objet, Blois
Nébuleuse Centre d’art Bastille, Grenoble
Ecology Galerie Spacejunk, Grenoble
2007
L’homme nu (troisième volet) Maison populaire de Montreuil
Holiday inn Gasworks, Londres, CAC, Vilnius, Triangle, Marseille
The fidjian residence, no phone, no internet The ghost residence, Taïpeï
Harold Rosenberg Oui, Grenoble
2006 Extraits Lieu d’images et d’art, Grenoble
La ville qui lisait à l’oreille des plantes Maison de la danse, Lyon
2005 Maison témoin Galerie the Store, Paris
2004 Acces(s) Festival pluridisciplinaire, Pau
2003
Printemps de Septembre Les abattoirs, Toulouse
GNS Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Summertime Festival pluridisciplinaire, Villefranche-sur-Saône
Slippery Diffusion vidéo, Espace croisé, Roubaix
2002 2001
2000 Hardcore Palais de Tokyo Paris
Each Year a new sea Diffusion vidéo, le Polygone étoilé, Marseille
Mulhouse 002 Parc des expositions, Mulhouse
Jim Pac des Ouches, Nevers
Combinazione Diffusion vidéo, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon
Piet.sO
(1969 FR) - installations and sculptures – lives in Paris and works in Brussels
Mets ta forme rose 2009 Piet.sO - photo Piet.sO
The universe of Piet.sO is populated with little girls bogged down in coloured matter, ghost like
dresses, ornaments crystallised by salt and luminous swings.
Her work reveals the need to fall and then the metamorphosis, the ritual of the transmission feminine to arrive at an osmosis with the elements of the forest that has become the city with her performance installation, the quantum walks.
Here the marvellous has become worrying, the luminosity of fairies to buffer the fall. Then, the culmination, the knowledge of how to pass through the forest, the world, in serenity.
2011 LE HANGAR À BANANES - Nantes, France
2010 LOST SCIENCE REVISITED - Nuit des Musées - Ingo Maurer show room - Munich - Allemagne.
TEKNIIKAN MUSEO - Helsinki, Finland.
SPAZIO KRIZIA guest of Ingo Maurer - Milan, Italy.
Pornolettrisme KÄÄMER 12 - Bruxelles, Belgium.
MUSEE DE LA MAIN, Fondation Verdan - Lausanne, Suisse.
2009 CHÂTEAU DE TALCY exp.coll. - Talcy, France.
Vous avez dit radioprotection, pile ZOE, CEA, IRSN - Fontenay-aux-roses, France.
2008 CASA DE LA CULTURA - Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2ANGLES Centre de création contemporaine exp.coll. - Flers-de-l’Orne, France.
2007 LE GYMNASE exp.coll. - Besançon, France.
Mécanique poétique group exhibition. UNIVERSITE DE LILLE1 - Lille, France.
2006 CHÂTEAU DE FOUGERE SUR BIEVRE - Loire, France.
GALERIE DIALOGOS exp.coll. - Cachan, France
2005 SALON JEUNE CREATION La Bellevilloise - Paris, France.
FESTIVAL EMERGENCES Maison de la Villette - Paris, France.
FESTIVAL ARBORESCENCE - Aix-en-Provence, France.
2004 ESPACE LUMIERE exp. personnelle - Hénin-Beaumont, France.
Biiip LA MÉNAGERIE DE VERRE - Paris, France.
MUSEE ROMAIN ROLLAND exp. personnelle - Clamecy, France.
2003 Installation Moulin de Gouaix, Journées du patrimoine. ACT’ART, France.
Lumière subjective exp. coll. ARTELAB Square Vergennes. Paris, France.
2002 FESTIVAL REBOND exp.coll. Scène nationale d’Albi - France.
PARC DES MOUTIERS exp.coll. - Varengeville-sur-mer, France.
2001 Festival Virus GALERIE ARTEKNO / GALERIE ROUGE 44 - Paris, France.
FESTIVAL LE PRINTEMPS DES RUES Paris, France.
Hors Pistes II exp. personnelle et performance LA GUILLOTINE. Montreuil
THÉÂTRE 347 Sensorial exhibition exp.coll. - Paris, France.
2000 SOM’ART Light Daze performance et exp. coll. - San Francisco, USA
Hors Pistes I exp. personnelle et performance LA GUILLOTINE - Montreuil, France.
1999 GALERIE ARTIST GUILD SPACE exp. personnelle - Paris, France.
GALERIE PUBLIC avec Agathe Gizard - Paris, France.
LE TRIANON performance avec D.Castagnet - Paris, France.
1998 UNIVERSITE D’AUTOMNE PEUPLE ET CULTURE exp.personnelle - St-Prix, France.
TUNNEL DE BAGNOLET installation - Paris, France.
Festival les femmes s’en mêlent LE DIVAN DU MONDE. Paris
1997 THEATRE DE NESLE Salon d’automne exp. pers. Paris
LE RHINOCEROS BLANC Expo d’urgence exp.coll. Paris
June Peduzzi
(1978, FR) - video and paintings - lives and works in Brussels
June Peduzzi realizes documentaries, art-videos and dance videos, performatives installations. She
worked into production societies like Télé-image and Partizan-midi minuit as a film editor and
post-producer. In her creations, the experiment of picture’s potential prevails overt the narration.
She creates the frame in order to let the picture appear with all its particularities. And the picture
becomes it own event.
2009
2008 Villaggio Della Danza Festival Mostra d’Oltremare Napples
Art & Philosophie, conférence CNRS. PARIS
Collection ÉTÉ en collaboration avec la jeune styliste Sandrina Fasoli_
Tinckle en collaboration avec Ciro Carcatella.
Mixed Season Nosbaum & Reding- Art Contemporain Luxembourg
Festival de Lodz Pologne
2007
80% d’eau 20% de rêve. Academie des Arts Visuels de Molembeek Bruxelles
2006 P.O.D. petites oeuvres dansées, en collaboration avec le danseur et chorégraphe Ciro Carcatella
Nouvelles Rencontres EXPO 3 Atelier 13 Valenciennes
2005 EXPO 1 Atelier 13 Valenciennes
Antoine Meyer
(1978, FR) - vidéos, photographs, installations – lives and works in Brussels
La villageoise, 2009.
His practice is similar to hunting: he stays on the lookout, and most often in urban areas. Generally
a photographer, his shots create unexpected stagings, where light and construction of pictorial
space is primordial. Both radical and libertarian, Antoine MEYER shows something strangely traditional. He sometimes uses other mediums but it is always about the reality and what it hides. His
works navigate between fictions and documentaries, as alternating cloudy and sunny times.
2003 École supérieure d’art de Grenoble, DNSEP.
2005 post-diplôme Art en 2005, à l’ENBA Lyon avec le critique de cinéma Jean Pierre Rehm (FID Marseille).
2004 Post-Diplomatique, exposition aux Subsistances, Lyon.
2010 Flux Video Wall, Cooper Design Space, Los Angeles.
Jérome Boutigny
(1960 , FR) – paintings, robotics, design - lives and works in Paris
Multidisciplinary artist and designer, Jerome Boutigny offers a singular, moving look on the technological world as it is nowadays, a return to primitive innocence, populated with a sassy wildlife
which appropriates the machine.
Exhibitions in France since2000.
Creator of solar robots, since 1998.
Edouard Poullain
(1966, FR) - artist, designer – lives in France et works in Bruxelles
Surface reflections, movement and light are the main springs of his resin on plexiglass paintings.
Design, installation, painting, architecture, Edouard Poullain is an explorer of spaces that he invests
in these multiple tracks.
Designer for ISADORA, ATELIER DINAND (flacons Jin ABE, shu uemura, eau de Selz Victoria secret...),
Personal creations : lounge chairs, resin on floor, meeting tables...
Creator and director AREA 42, Belgium, Creator and director of Connected France Space.
Gi Monseu
(1952, BE) - artist, objects and space designer - lives and works in Paris
From a very early age receptive to the vibration of colors and shapes that offered the tropical nature in which he grew up, he composed polychrome symphonies, making the colors resonate on
unexpected music ranges, he shapes dreams in the material in order to make lights bounce and
a often playful poetic sensibility shine. We can recognize the transcript of sharing his emotions in
numbers of this baroque contemporary composer.
Architectural achievements of public and private spaces, furniture in Sweden, France and Belgium.
Design exhibitions in Stockholm, Prague and Paris. Prime Contractor and designer of AREA 42
AREA 42
46 a rue des palais 1030 Bruxelles
Area4 : Glass blocks room with robotic lights
Located in the neighborhood of Sainte-Marie, Schaerbeek, in the old prestigious building of the
RTT signed by the architect Michel Polak in 1935, the AREA 42, settles on two levels with a total
available area of approximately 2500 m2.
A Team led by, Edouard Poullain (designer - France) and Gi Monseu (architect - Europe and the
USA) and joined by two artists Peter Keene (GB) and Piet.sO (Fr) have created a place with a very
strong identity. From the opening in 2007, their initial project was to create a place able to host
all types of events and to develop and invent a particular host for the artistic sector in Schaerbeek,
open to international artists and exhibitions.
As the first event initiated and edited by the team, the exhibition The Red Monkey Whispers in the
Ear of Fear is a platform of thinking about future partnerships art / institutions / companies for the
following sessions inside AREA42’s walls.
References: Marie claire, Lee, Recoding Event, Human Inte-raction design 2010, 2nd Mambo
retro Convention 2010, Ecolo, Welcome Fair, La Maison des Architectes, NPLD conférence sur
la diversité liguistique européenne, agence Guava Mini GUAVA MINI, Le CDH, group of the
27 European Union Finances Ministers, Agence TIPIK, L’industriel Marine Harvest, Les Cuckoo
Awards organisés par l’agence BdmA, Les Baudouin Elleboudt Awards de Béditique, Astra
Zeneca, Cap Gemini France.