le confort moderne - dca / Association française de développement

le confort
moderne
Francis Baudevin / Stefan Brüggemann / Henry Codax
Philippe Decrauzat & Alan Licht / Gaylen Gerber
Kenneth Goldsmith / Marc Hurtado & Sébastien Vitré
Martina Klein / Jutta Koether / Sadie Laska
Franck Leibovici / Olivier Mosset / Charlotte Moth
Mai-Thu Perret & Ikue Mori / Stephen Prina
Florian & Michael Quistrebert / Claude Rutault
Giorgio Sadotti / Hugo Schüwer-Boss / Susan Stenger
& F.M. Einheit / Alan Vega / Jacques Villeglé
press
le confort moderne association l’oreille est hardie
185, rue du faubourg du pont-neuf
86000 Poitiers
Tel : +33 (0)5 49 46 08 08
www.confort-moderne.fr
EXHIBITION
Francis Baudevin / Stefan Brüggemann / Henry Codax / Philippe Decrauzat & Alan Licht / Gaylen Gerber /
Kenneth Goldsmith / Marc Hurtado & Sébastien Vitré / Martina Klein / Jutta Koether / Sadie Laska / Franck
Leibovici / Olivier Mosset / Charlotte Moth / Mai-Thu Perret & Ikue Mori / Stephen Prina /
Florian & Michael Quistrebert / Claude Rutault / Giorgio Sadotti / Hugo Schüwer-Boss /
Susan Stenger & F.M. Einheit / Alan Vega / Jacques Villeglé / le confort moderne
from may 16th to august 19th 2012
Gallery of le Confort Moderne
Exhibition
from wednesday to sunday
from 2pm to 7pm
and during gigs
free entrance
Opening
Wednesday may 16th at 6.30pm
Less Playboy is More Cowboy
Exhibitions / Gigs /
Performances / Videos
FREE ENTRANCE
Le Confort Moderne at Le Confort Moderne speaks for itself:
an exhibition named after the venue where it takes place
(both a mythic music venue and art center)
can only bring us back to these issues, its issues, our issues!
Mathieu Copeland
This exhibition arose from a meeting with Mathieu Copeland and from the common feel,
or rather the common listening, of the place. Le Confort Moderne has been a music
venue and art centre for over 20 years, and its space acts as a matrix of Le Confort
Moderne. These modern comforts slides between pictorial or conceptual, through
practical objects or receptacles, and is organized into five parts: actions, scores,
films, concerts and a painting salon. Paintings become screens, the concerts activate
the pieces, the films were made in collaboration between artists and musicians.
Envisaging the exhibition and its link between the 'practicable' and the 'object'
(the praxis and the objekt) - the art work and the action of the art work - Le
Confort Moderne asserts a reading of a gallery activated by the works within it,
while the corollary of the gallery provides the content as much as the form. So
to say, more than an exhibition showing comfortable objects, Le Confort Moderne
explores the topicality of the action and its continuous modernity. Seen through
a Giorgio Sadotti's rehearsal studio positioned in an environment by Claude
Rutault; or Olivier Mosset's stage; or a Japanese gravel garden, presented as both
a microcosm of the world and a final score of a mini-opera for non musicians, by
Franck Leibovici; or a salon de peinture, which gives a contemplative look at the
works of Francis Baudevin, Marc Hurtado & Sebastien Vitré, Jutta Koether, Sadie
Laska, Stephen Prina, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Hugo Schüwer Boss, Alan
Vega, or Jacques Villéglé; or a continuous cinema of 300 hours, that is to say the
total length of the exhibition, conceived in collaboration with Kenneth Goldsmith;
or a section constructed with a series of films commissioned for the exhibition,
which include a short film by Philippe Decrauzat projected onto one of his black
monochromes with a soundtrack by Alan Licht; a 1972 unreleased film by Alan Vega,
who also composed its soundtrack, projected onto a Martina Klein monochrome; a film
EXPOsITION
Francis Baudevin / Stefan Brüggemann / Henry Codax / Philippe Decrauzat & Alan Licht / Gaylen Gerber /
Kenneth Goldsmith / Marc Hurtado & Sébastien Vitré / Martina Klein / Jutta Koether / Sadie Laska /
Franck Leibovici / Olivier Mosset / Charlotte Moth / Mai-Thu Perret & Ikue Mori / Stephen Prina /
Florian & Michael Quistrebert / Claude Rutault / Giorgio Sadotti / Hugo Schüwer-Boss /
Susan Stenger & F.M. Einheit / Alan Vega / Jacques Villeglé / le confort moderne
from may 16th to august 19th 2012
by Stefan Brüggemann projected on a piece of Gaylen Gerber pined up on the wall; a
film by Susan Stenger & F.M. Einheit projected on a metal screen performed by F.M.
Einheit; a film by Mai-Thu Perret with soundtrack by Ikue Mori, projected onto a
Henry Codax … Enclosed with a curtain by Charlotte Moth that asserts its reality as
a partition, both a score and a means of dividing the spaces.
The works of Claude Rutault and Giorgio Sadotti unite to create a rehearsal and
recording studio. Rutault reproduces in paintings (frames and canvas) the spaces
and partitions of the Rolling Stones recording studio as filmed by Jean-Luc Godard
in the One + One (1968). Two works by Olivier Mosset coalesce to form a stage. On
the ceiling, a monochrome rectangle hangs perpendicular to a pedestal, itself a
monochrome of the same size, to portray a tridimensional white cross. Invited by
Le Confort Moderne, and making use of Mosset's scenary, Rhys Chatham will perform
a creation specially composed for the space. Together, the two works represent the
philosophy of the exhibition - a confrontation of dialectic time/practice/object
to a conceptual learning of music set to live performance. This common selection
of works and artists crosses art and music practices, between the exhibition's
ideal soundtrack, a concept album, a score, and live performance, each shown in an
exhibition situation.
Le Confort Moderne creates a dialogue between the works of almost thirty
international artists. From the stage to the salon de peinture; from the score
to the live performance, and from the garden to the cinema, a total work is
constructed.
WEDNESDAY
MAY 16TH
less playboy is more cowboy
Gallery, Garden, Parking,
Concert hall and bar
of le Confort Moderne
From 6.30pm to 02.00am
FREE ENTRANCE
galLLERY / OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
Le Confort Moderne /
PARKING / OPENING OF THE RESIDENT EXHIBITION
Nicolas Milhé /
galLLERY /
Susan Stenger & F.M. Einheit /
performance / GERMANY - united states
garden /
Laetitia Sadier /
pop / France
galLLERY /
Rhys Chatham /
performance / united states
parking /
Nico Vascellari & John Duncan /
performance / italy - united states
concert hall /
Martin Rev /
Synth-music / united states
bar /
James Chance /
Punk & no wave / united states
LE CONFORT MODERNE / GIORGIO SADOTTI
Giorgio Sadotti,
1...2, 1993, City Racing Gallery, Londres
3...4, 1993, Whitechapel Gallery 200 exhibition Protest and survive
LE CONFORT MODERNE / CHARLOTTE MOTH
Charlotte Moth
Behind every surface there is a mystery: a hand that might emerge, an image
that might be kindled, or a structure that might reveal its image.
Version 6 (left), 2011
courtesy carlier | gebauer and Charlotte Moth
LE CONFORT MODERNE / MAI-THU PERRET
Mai-Thu Perret, In Darkness Let Me Dwell, 2010,
Bande sonore d’Ikue Mori, Courtesy Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
LE CONFORT MODERNE / francis baudevin
Francis Baudevin, Hey Joe, 2009,
© Rebecca Fanuele, courtesy art: concept, Paris
LE CONFORT MODERNE / olivier mosset
Olivier Mosset, Sans titre, 2008, exposition Olivier Mosset,
Black Box Bruxelles, Galerie Guy Ledune,
© Vincent Everarts
LE CONFORT MODERNE / marc hurtado & sébastien vitré
Marc Hurtado et Sébastien Vitré, CRUX 1, 2010
Courtesy Marc Hurtado
LE CONFORT MODERNE / hugo schüwer-boss
Hugo Schüwer-Boss, Black Flag 3D, 2011 et Black Flag, 2007,
vue d’exposition chez Néon, 2011
© Cécile Meynier
LE CONFORT MODERNE / martina klein
Martina Klein, The anarchic Turtle salon, 2006
LE CONFORT MODERNE / sadie laska
Sadie Laska, Adult Goth, 2011
LE CONFORT MODERNE / alan vega
Alan Vega, Jacinto, 2008,
Courtesy Alan Vega
LE CONFORT MODERNE
invited curator : mathieu copeland
exhibition
from may 16th to august 19th 2012
opening / LESS PLAYBOY IS MORE COWBOY
wednesday may 16th at 6.30pm
performances & concerts
Susan Stenger & F.M. Einheit / Laetitia Sadier / Rhys Chatham
Nico Vascellari & John Duncan / Martin Rev / James Chance
following exhibition
elke krystufek / harmonie 8
Curator of le Confort Moderne
Yann Chevallier, [email protected]
Press relations of le Confort Moderne
Emma Reverseau, [email protected]
le confort moderne association l’oreille est hardie
185, rue du faubourg du pont-neuf
86000 Poitiers
Tel : +33 (0)5 49 46 08 08
www.confort-moderne.fr