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PRESS RELEASE MUSÉE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DE LAUSANNE
You are cordially invited
on Thursday 21 January 2016 at 11 am
to the press conference for the exhibitions
ACCROCHAGE [VAUD 2016] &
Anne Hildbrand. E pur si muove. Jury Prize 2014
ANNAÏK LOU PITTELOUD. THE PIECE OUTSIDE
Manor Prize Vaud 2016
22.1 – 6.3.2016
in the presence of the artists
Opening reception
Thursday 21 January at 6:30 pm
Media contact
Loïse Cuendet, [email protected]
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Thursday: 11 am – 8 pm
Saturday, Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
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Admission: free
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Bus 1, 2: get off at Rue Neuve
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ACCROCHAGE [VAUD 2016]
22.1 – 6.3.2016
This year the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne is presenting the 13th
edition of its annual exhibition devoted to the contemporary art scene in the canton of Vaud.
On show are recent works chosen by a jury of professionals from among submissions by
artists of all ages. Painting, sculpture, photography and video: the year is going to get off to
a great start with the museum spotlighting the art being made in the canton right now.
This time round 208 artists born or working in the canton of Vaud responded to the
Museum’s invitation, the result being a total of 495 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, performances, videos and installations. The members of this year’s jury were
Madeleine Amsler (freelance curator, Geneva), Damián Navarro (artist, Lausanne),
Samuel Schellenberg (cultural affairs editor at Le Courrier) and Judith Welter, director of
the Kunsthaus Glarus. The jury selected 39 works by 28 artists.
The artists
Natacha Anderes, Julien Berberat, Céline Burnand, Loucia Carlier, Frédéric
Cordier, Maëlle Cornut, Sylvain Croci-Torti, Anaïs Defago, Jacques Duboux, Guillaume
Ehinger, Gaël Epiney, Arthur Fouray, Frédéric Gabioud, David Gagnebin-de Bons, Elise
Gagnebin-de Bons, Tarik Hayward, Vincent Kohler, Sofia Kouloukouri, Mickaël Lianza, Line
Marquis, Nastasia Meyrat, Banu Narciso, Karim Noureldin, Nathalie Perrin, Virginie
Rebetez, Anne Rochat, Léonie Vanay
The Jury Prize 2016
The winner of the Jury Prize 2016 will be announced on opening day. Previous
winners are Robert Ireland, Bernard Voïta, Yves Mettler, David Hominal, Anne-Julie
Raccoursier, Jean Crotti, Elisabeth Llach, Pauline Boudry, Luc Aubort, Lukas Beyeler
and Anne Hildbrand.
ANNE HILDBRAND. E PUR SI MUOVE
Jury Prize 2014
22.1 – 6.3.2016
Born in Lausanne in 1985, Hildbrand trained at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL), then at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), where she took
out her Masters and the distinguished Ribordy Prize. For some years now she has been
investigating found objects in her installations and slides; the outcome has been an overtly
fragile, poetic body of work based on appropriation and rechanneling of objects, words and
images she has chanced on, refocused and personalised, and whose historical references
are often to be detected solely in their titles.
For her exhibition the artist has taken over a whole room in the museum and worked
with the data of space – its height, shapes and volume – to create an installation that plays
on movement and shadow theatre. Here the «found forms» of suspended stretched canvases take the place of her found objects in a response appropriate to the setting, with
intimations of pictures waiting to be painted or of projection screens. There are no projected
images here, however: it is in the catalogue that the artist offers her slides. The title of the
installation and the catalogue – E pur si muove – is a sentence attributed to Galileo, forced
by the Inquisition in 1633 to retract his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, rather
than the contrary. The artist plays on this uncertainty to create her own fiction.
Catalogue
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by the museum, with an essay
by Samuel Gross.
Price: CHF 25.-
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BIOGRAPHY
Anne Hildbrand
Born in 1985 in Lausanne, where she lives and works.
Education
2011–2013
Master of Fine Arts, major in WORK.MASTER, HEAD (Geneva University of Art and
Design)
2009
Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in visual arts,
ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne)
Exhibitions and performances
2016
Anne Hildbrand. E pur si muove, Musée
Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (solo
exhibition)
Totchic, exhibition with Elisabeth Llach at
CACY, Yverdon
2015
Swiss Art Awards, Messezentrum, Basel
1‘000‘052ème anniversaire de l’art, Le Mamco
sur les Mouettes Genevoises, Geneva
2014
Synallagma Show, Espace Quark, Geneva
Ask the Dust, properly, Duplex, Geneva
Accrochage [Vaud 2014], Musée Cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Head Gallery Awards, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva (solo exhibition)
Four Walls, curated by Francis Baudevin,
Franche-Comté Region Contemporary Art
Collection, Besançon
2013
Wonderlust, RadioLaptop, Embassy of
Foreign Artists, Carouge/Geneva
An Exhibition to Hear Read, Volumes I/II/
III/IV, MoMA, New York
2012
Magma, Biotop, Bienne
(Soluble), curated by the Anie Gold
collective, travelling event 22/9/12,
Museums Night, Lausanne
La Radio Siamo Noi, LiveInYourHead,
Geneva
An Exhibition to Hear Read, Volumes I/II/
III, ICA, Philadelphia PA
2011
Accrochage [Vaud 2011], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2010
Pecha Kutcha Night 4, Cinéma Atlantic,
Lausanne
Etat des lieux, Espace Tilt, Renens
Attouchement, La Dépendance, Renens
2009
Utopics, 11th Swiss Exhibition of Sculpture,
Bienne
Encore du papier, 1ère Dauphine, Renens
Les Voiles, 10th Riviera Museums Night,
Musée Jenisch, Vevey (solo exhibition)
Accrochage [Vaud 2009], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2008
Doris magico allume Anne Hildbrand,
performance with Anne Rochat, Café du
Simplon, Lausanne
2007
12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre
pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva
Awards
2014 Accrochage [Vaud] Prize, Musée
cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2013 Ribordy Prize – Head Gallery,
Geneva
2003 Visinand Prize, Lausanne
ANNAÏK LOU PITTELOUD.
The Piece Outside
Manor Prize, Vaud 2016
22.1 – 6.3.2016
Trained at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern (2002–2005), then a resident at the
Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2010–2011), Annaïk Lou Pitteloud achieved early recognition for the singular quality of her photography. Her images – large-scale compositions
shot through with narrative implications – were meticulously constructed fusions of different photographs: reality not captured by the image, but replaced by a simulation of
documentary which slips a flaw into the representational process.
Since those beginnings Pitteloud’s practice has taken a radically conceptual turn.
Resorting to a mix of different media, she directs viewers’ attention towards the unseen
elements involved in the construction of the image, the institutional exhibition space and
the creative process itself. In pared-down terms her work raises vital questions relating
to social issues, while at the same time probing the mechanisms of the art world and its
codes of perception, transmission and presentation.
For the exhibition being held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts to mark the awarding of
the Manor Prize Vaud, Pitteloud has come up with The Piece Outside, a work conceived
especially for our museum, which she describes as follows: «Open up a part of the skylight in the Palais de Rumine’s main room. Establish a meeting point between the interior
of the museum and the outside world. Let the elements impact the room. The museum
as a box with its lid removed. The museum as an object, as a material. The museum as
a political entity.»
The Piece Outside joins the long and varied history of exhibitions centring on the
empty space of a museum or a gallery, an idea pioneered in Yves Klein’s iconic exhibition, The Void, at the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris in 1958 and taken up by the Conceptual
artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Pitteloud’s stratagem consists in opening up two of the
panes in the skylight at a time of the year when the disparity between indoor and outdoor
temperatures is most tangible. Thus the chilly February air will take over one of the
museum’s rooms, with doors added by the artist serving to maintain the desired temperature. Through a minimal architectural measure involving addition (doors) and subtraction
(skylight panes), the artist modifies the parameters of the room, which is thereby offered
visually – or more precisely, experientially – as such. The void and the cold highlight the
museum’s architecture (it is all you «see») while simultaneously cancelling out its function (temperature stability being one of the indispensable preconditions for the museum’s
conservation role).
The Piece Outside, however, is not solely a space: it is also an opening and is
defined as a «connection point» between the museum and the world. Calling attention to
the skylight by the removal of the panes, the work conjures up – while at the same time
sabotaging – the long history of the window in Western art. Here Alberti’s notion of the
painting as an «open window» collides with the absence of any image: The Piece Outside does not open onto another world and does not frame a landscape or even a white
monochrome; it exists as an absence (the missing panes) opening onto a mental projection space (we imagine the outside without seeing it). The sense of sight is confronted
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with its limitations: the sensation of coldness means that touch is apprised before sight of
the presence of what the window opens onto: the outside, the world. The title has a builtin ambiguity, too, with its implication that the work is in fact not this empty architectural
space and this here-and-now volume of air, but is situated elsewhere in a time and place
to come: on the roof, or in the city or on another occasion.
Catalogue
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud. Dossier, with essays by Madeleine Amsler, Marie-Eve
Knoerle, Federica Martini and Nicole Schweizer, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de
Lausanne & edition fink, Zurich 2016.
Price: CHF 28.
This publication is the second in a series of three devoted to Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
and published by edition fink: the first, Mappe 1, is in German (Kunstmuseum St Gallen,
2015), and the third, Folder 3, currently in preparation for 2016, will comprise English
translations of all the essays in French and German of the two first volumes.
Prize Manor
The Manor Prize was founded in 1982 by Philippe Nordmann as a launch pad for
emergent young Swiss artists. Awarded every two years by a jury of art professionals
from twelve cities in Switzerland – Aarau, Basel, Bienne, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, Schaffhausen, Sion, St Gallen and Winterthur – the prize can represent
a pivotal moment in the career of a young artist: first exhibition in a major museum, first
publication of a catalogue and the possibility of a crucial impetus in terms of his or her
work. In the canton of Vaud the Manor Prize has been awarded to the following artists:
Laurent Huber (1989), Alain Huck (1990), Laurence Pittet (1991), Bernard Voïta (1994),
Ariane Epars (1996), Anne Peverelli (1998), Nicolas Savary (2001), Philippe Decrauzat
(2002), Didier Rittener (2005), Catherine Leutenegger (2006), Aloïs Godinat (2009), Laurent Kropf (2011) and Julian Charrière (2014).
Jury
This year’s winner was chosen from among four candidates proposed by the
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts to a jury comprising Pierre André Maus, Maus Frères
Inc.; Silvie Defraoui, artist; Federica Martini, freelance curator and director of the Masters
in Visual Arts at the Ecole Cantonal d’Art du Valais (ECAV); and Chantal Prod’Hom, director of the Musée de Design et d’Arts Appliqués Contemporains in Lausanne (mudac).
BIOGRAPHY
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
Born in Lausanne in 1980. Lives and works in Antwerp. www.annaikloupitteloud.com
Education
2010–2011
Residency at the Rijksakademie van
Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam
2002–2005
Haute École des Arts, Berne
Selected solo exhibitions
2015
Working Title, Kunstmuseum St Gallen
Monologue for an Interior (with Steve van
den Bosch), Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich
H x L x P, Piano Nobile, Geneva
2014
Exercise in the Present State, Museo
Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
White Between the Darlings, Barbara
Seiler Gallery, Zurich
2012
The Receptionist, Second Room, Antwerp
1 + 7 = 1’, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich
Two Works, Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne
Projects, Amsterdam
2009
Procedure, Bernhard Bischoff & Partner,
Bern
Setting Up The Process, Espace des
Télégraphes, Lausanne
2007
What We Talk, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh,
Lausanne
Selected group exhibitions
2015
Bern Baby Bern, Kunstmuseum Thun
2014
Van de sokkel, Park Hof De Bist, Ekeren
Here and Now. Und die Ferne wird zur
Nähe, Perla-Mode/Winterhalder Areal,
Zurich
Dall’ apice al fondo, Galerie Apice for
Artists, Amsterdam
The Excluded Third, Included, Galerie
Emanuel Layr, Vienna
2013
Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunsthalle Bern
Feu sacré. Zum 200-jährigen Jubiläum der
Bernischen Kunstgesellschaft, Kunstmuseum Bern
Reality is not a commonplace,
Photographs and Videos from the Julius
Bär Art Collection, Museo Cantonale
d’Arte, Lugano
Last Exit to Ordalia, LJ Gallery, Paris
2012
Surplus Authors, Witte de With Centre for
Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
La jeunesse est un art’ – 30 Jahre Manor
Kunstpreis, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Drôles de gens, Musée Jurassien des
Arts, Moutier
Sentieri erranti. Arte svizzera dalla
collezione della Mobiliar, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
CLOSED BECAUSE OF THE GOINGSON, Gallery Dukan Hourdequin, Paris
2011
Edition, Deuxpiece, Basel
Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van
Beldeende Kunsten, Amsterdam
X Years, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff &
Partner, Bern
On not to, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto
After Dark, La Filature, Mulhouse
2010
Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van
Beldeende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Je ne vois que le soleil (La lumière dans
les collections du musée), Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
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Innuendo, Villa Dutoit, Geneva
Echoic Objects, SO Gallery, London
Des seins à dessein, Espace Arlaud,
Lausanne
Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus
Langenthal
2009
L.P. Hendriks, Bloemfonteinstraat 9C-9D,
Rotterdam
I Called This Number Three Times Already Today, Marks Blond Project, Bern
Inbetweenout, Les Abris (Arsenic),
Lausanne
The Conspiracy / Die Verschwörung,
Kunsthalle Bern
Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus
Langenthal
Accrochage [Vaud 2009], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2008
Mémoire d’objets, Latham Gallery,
Geneva
Teen City, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Noleftovers, Kunsthalle Bern
Make Believe, Photoforum PasquArt,
Bienne
Accrochage [Vaud 2008], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2007
Ein Zweites Leben, Stadtgalerie, Bern
Eau Sa(u)vage II, Fieldgate Gallery,
London
A Fantasy For The Moment, Kunsthalle
Bern
Panorama, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff &
Partner, Bern
Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus
Langenthal
Accrochage [Vaud 2007], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2006
Eau Sauvage, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh,
Lausanne
Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus
Langenthal
Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunsthalle Bern
Prix photographique du Canton de Berne,
Photoforum PasquArt, Bienne
Frost, Art One Galerie, Zurich
Recess/Recreation, Galerie Lucy
Mackintosh, Lausanne
Accrochage [Vaud 2006], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2005
Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunstmuseum
Bern
Elixiere, Kunsthalle Bern
Accrochage [Vaud 2005], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2004
Plugged, Plug-in, Basel
Accrochage [Vaud 2004], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Selected Biennials
2013 Moscow Biennial
2012 Shanghai Biennial
Awards and grants
2016 Manor Prize, Vaud
2012 Kunst 2012 Zurich, «ZBK Kunstpreis»
2010 Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium,
«Förder Preis»
2008 Prix Culturel Vaudois, Lausanne
2007 Swiss Art Awards, Basel
2006 Swiss Art Awards, Basel
CALENDAR
Guided tours
Friends of the Museum tour
Thursday 28 January at 12:30 pm
Guided tours for the public
Thursday 4 February at 6:30 pm, with Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
Thursday 11 February at 6:30 pm
Thursday 18 February at 12:30 pm
Presentation of the Annaïk Lou Pitteloud catalogue
Young visitors
Together at the Museum
Thursday 3 March 2016 at 6:00 pm
Conversation: Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, Georg Rutishauser (edition fink) and Nadia Veronese (Kunstmuseum St. Gallen)
Wednesday 17 February, 3 – 5 pm
Adults and children talk about art and make up stories based on the works on show. Part of the «GaM Live – Generations at the Museum» project. Followed by a snack.
Age 8 and up (advance booking required)
Discovery booklet
Exhibition activities for the 7+ age bracket.
Free
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PRESS IMAGES
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Exhibition views downloadable from www.mcba.ch/presse starting 21 January 2016
Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
Sharp Dressed Woman, 2014
semi-baroque white freshwater pearl, pierced dropped in a textile store
© Annaïk Lou Pitteloud
Anne Hildbrand
From the series E pur si muove, 2010–2015
Colour transparency
© Anne Hildbrand
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