Des artistes et des villes HOTEL DES ARTS, Toulon
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Des artistes et des villes HOTEL DES ARTS, Toulon
EXPOSITION VILLISSIMA ! Des artistes et des villes (artists and cities) HOTEL DES ARTS, Toulon 4 JUILLET> 27 SEPTEMBRE 2015 4 july > 27 september 2015 Villissima brings together artists that leave us free to qualify , critique or flatter the city. How these cities suggest that we perceive only fragments ? The course does not follow a thematic logic but rather affinities and resonances between the works Nicolas Aiello Brian Alfred Philippe Apeloig Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil Neal Beggs Mohamed Bourouissa Andrea Branzi Armelle Caron Thierry Cohen Jordi Colomer Tony Cragg Alain Declercq Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige Mazen Kerbaj Bodys Isek Kingelez Rem Koolhaas Julia Montilla Rajak Ohanian Nigel Peake Mathieu Pernot Francesco Pignatelli Francesc Ruiz Patricia Shannon Greg Shaw Alexey Titarenko UG Hema Upadhyay Chris Ware Mehdi Zannad Ground Floor / Reception The city directory colorful shapes . Once row , the town she has disappeared ? Are just « souvenirs » ? Ground Floor Room 1 and 2 Rooms 1 and 2 have two opposing visions : unbridled city on one side , the other more austere Ground Floor / Vestibule Colorful hopes of large housing oppose their willful destruction , frosted bud and beautiful while in front , three large horizontal panoramas deplore the standardization of glances and speeches Ground Floor / Room 3 (bottom on the left) For Andrea Branzi or Rem Khoolas , who are " starchitects " it begins with a mixture of real and ironic. Whereas for 2 drawers city plays of reflections and images st 1 Floor / Vestibule Photos oppose extinct towns to cities reversed: night ? day ? black and white? color? ... no one can watch the front and back simultaneously ! 1rst Floor / Room 4 (on the left) The order placed for Villissima ! Give also to see the uncontrollable nature of the city that seems to produce printed without purpose, images and information. 1rst Floor / Room 6 (bottom center) Mumbai overweening , Chicago cradle , Beirut tormented ... 1rst Floor / Room 5 and 7 (bottom left and right) These two rooms are in the dark to to honor the "city by hand" and value the small shapes in it 1rst Floor / Room 8 (right after stairs) 12 10 8 1 colonne 2 colonne 3 colonne 6 4 2 0 Ligne 2 Ligne 4 Ligne 1 Ligne 3