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Julien Nédélec
Météore
19.11.2016 - 14.01.2017
Exhibition view, 2016
Météore, Praz-Delavallade, Paris
FRANÇAIS
De prime abord le garc?on semble se?rieux, empreint d'une bonhomie certes, mais qui soupc?onnerait derrie?re cette
crinie?re en bataille un professeur Nimbus en embuscade? Julien Ne?de?lec sachez-le une bonne fois pour toute c'est
l'homme orchestre, un de ces artistes touche-a?-tout, seul devant la page blanche de son ?uvre. Il revendique cette
approche romantique et classique de la pratique de l'atelier, mai?trisant sa production artistique dans sa totalite?, il y a
de l'acharnement a? ge?rer chaque de?tail, a? remplir chaque interstice, loin de lui l'ide?e de mise a? distance, il
remplit son office, il ?uvre voire il usine, a? l'image de ces compagnons du devoir jusqu'a? la tentative du ze?ro de?faut
sur l'?uvre finie. Justement, venons-en a? l'?uvre, le premier qualificatif qu'elle e?voque : paradoxal. Julien Ne?de?lec
est un fieffe? manipulateur, il de?tricote les signes et questionne la repre?sentation en jonglant avec le langage, les
images, le son dans un jeu de transpositions dont il mai?trise les codes, ses codes, car il construit ses propres re?gles,
souvent empiriques mais que nenni, il joue avec les limites pre?existantes. Il n'aime rien tant que multiplier les lectures
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de son travail, celles pre?vues et aussi les autres, de?montrant que les images mais aussi leurs signifiants, sont bien
des actes et non pas seulement des objets de?coratifs ou des interpre?tations fantasme?es.
Dans cette premie?re exposition chez Praz-Delavallade, avec la se?rie Someday we will foresee obstacles Julien
Ne?de?lec questionne la peinture en manipulant la photographie cre?ant des pie?ces hybrides, a? mi-chemin entre les
deux pratiques. Dans l'oeuvre Sun and Rain repre?sentant les bases du spectre d'un arc-en-ciel ou dans ses peintures
sur miroirs Mirage, il se joue cette fois des dimensions dans l'espace et de certaines lois physiques relatives a? la
lumie?re brouillant les frontie?res entre sculpture et peinture.
De quoi en perdre le nord. Ne?de?lec est droit dans ses bottes, le nez dans son utopie de la mai?trise artisanale a?
produire ses objets sans de?faut, pour faire disparai?tre l'artiste derrie?re sa pratique et acce?der ainsi a? un univers
ludique et poe?tique.
ENGLISH
At first glance he seems sensible enough, albeit imbued with bonhomie, but who could suspect that behind this unruly
mane of hair, an absent-minded professor lies in ambush? Let's start by making it quite clear for once and for all: Julien
Ne?de?lec is the artistic version of a one man band, a jack of all trades who faces alone the blank page of his oeuvre.
He lays claim to a romantic and classical approach to studio painting, where he can control his entire artistic production,
relentlessly manage every detail and fill in every crack. Don't talk to him about detachment: he does his duty, he
labours, you could even say he slogs away like a ?compagnon', one of those master craftsmen who aim for perfection
in everything they do. Speaking of which, let's take a look at his work. The first word that comes to mind is paradoxical:
Julien Ne?de?lec is an out-and-out manipulator. He unravels symbols and questions representation by juggling with
language, images and sound in a transpositional game whose codes he controls. Hardly surprising seeing as they are
his own codes, because he invents the rules, often empirical ones, that play with existing limits. There is nothing he
likes more than creating multiple interpretations of his work, those that are planned from the start to which he adds
others. In so doing, he proves that both images and their signifiers are actions and not just decorative objects or illusory
interpretations.
In this first exhibition at Praz-Delavallade, Julien Ne?de?lec questions painting by manipulating photos to create hybrid
works, part painting, part photo, in his series Someday we will foresee obstacles. In Sun and Rain, which portrays the
basic spectrum of a rainbow, or in his paintings on mirrors Mirage, he plays with spatial dimensions, as well as the laws
of physics concerning light, to blur the borders between sculpture and painting.
It's enough to lose your bearings, however Ne?de?lec is utterly sure of himself, fully-focused on his utopian vision of an
artisanal mastery that enables the production of flawless objects, objects so perfect that the artist can disappear behind
his practice and reach a world of amusement and poetry.
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