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ALFRED JARRY
ARCHIPELAGO:
THE WALTZ OF
THE PUPPETS - ACT I
FROM JUNE 5 TO AUGUST 30, 2015
PROJECT ROOM
WHILE WE WAIT..., / COLLECTION #6
A NEW SEGMENT OF PASSION DE L’ART EN FINISTÈRE:
PRESENTATION OF BERTRAND GODOT’S COLLECTION
OPENING
THURSDAY
JUNE 4
AT 6 : 30 PM
CONTENTS
– ALFRED JARRY ARCHIPELAGO:THE WALTZ OF THE PUPPETS - ACT I
– PRESS VISUALS
– THE PROJECT ROOM
– PRACTICAL INFORMATION
– WORTH SEEING IN BRITTANY
To organize a press visit or receive further information,
please contact: Sylvie Doré
[email protected] or [email protected]
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ALFRED JARRY ARCHIPELAGO:
THE WALTZ OF THE PUPPETS ACT I
JULIEN BISMUTH, PAULINE BOUDRY & RENATE LORENZ, PAULINE CURNIER JARDIN,
JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS, GOLDIN + SENNEBY, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE,
SHELLY NADASHI, DAN PERJOVSCHI, ROEE ROSEN, BENJAMIN SEROR, YOAN SORIN,
ANTE TIMMERMANS, EMMANUEL VAN DER MEULEN, KARA WALKER
CURATORS: KEREN DETTON AND JULIE PELLEGRIN
PROJECT
Alfred Jarry Archipelago is an enormous project initiated by Le Quartier, Centre for
Contemporary Art in Quimper (France), La Ferme du Buisson Centre for Contemporary
Art in Noisiel (France), and the Museo Marino Marini in Florence (Italy). The venture is
part of Piano, the Franco-Italian art exchange platform, in collaboration with M Museum
and Playground in Louvain (Belgium).
All most people remember of Jarry is the King Ubu furore, which overshadows a complex
body of work marked by radical experimentation and an unmannerly blending of genres. In
bringing together a remarkable group of one-of-a-kind international artists, Alfred Jarry
Archipelago demonstrates that an entire register of current art and performance is shot
through with potent, «Jarryesque» transgression.
«Because this boy – who wore size 36 shoes and who, brokenhearted, went to
his friend Mallarmé’s funeral wearing a lemon yellow pair stolen from his lady
friend Rachilde; who, when he was born at the age of 15, was already the child
he would be when he died at 34; who knew at once that «To live = To cease to
exist»; who spent his life yo-yoing at up to 300 km/h between the lands of «shitr»
and the absolute; who left behind wonders that would knock you flat; who
staked his entire existence on literature and played with a revolver, claiming that
it was «as beautiful as literature» – completely escapes the clutches of literature.»
Annie Le Brun
In his poetry, plays and drawings Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) shattered the boundaries of
the social, moral and aesthetic order of the late 19th century. Like a thunderclap, his King
Ubu’s famed «Shitr!» paved the way for for the modernity that was waiting in the wings:
from Marcel Duchamp to Harald Szeemann, and including the Futurists, the Surrealists, the
Conceptuals and all the many others indebted to this «proto-Dadaist ».
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Between the turn of one century and that of its successor Jarry’s work and ideas seem to
have breathed new life into society and art. The abolition of limits – to disciplines, identity,
good sense, good taste – that he explored in his life and his work, led him to a totally new
approach to drama, the body and language; as well as issues of domination, whether
related to desire, knowledge or power. Homing in a selection of Jarryesque motifs, Alfred
Jarry Archipelago sets out to pinpoint their reappearance in the visual arts, on the cusp of
theatre, dance and literature.
In his celebrated ‘pataphysical manifesto Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll, Pataphysician
Jarry describes an initiatory island-hopping voyage that abolishes factual geography in
favour of its artistic equivalent. Each chapter of Book 3 recounts a landfall on an imaginary
island dedicated to a writer or artist of the time. If he were sailing through today’s world,
what kind of landscape of the last century would Jarry orchestrate?
In the same spirit Alfred Jarry Archipelago invites him along as a posthumous curator: for a
string of islands embodying the works of various artists and sketching an uncompromisingly
subjective view of his heritage. Unfolding over several months, in different places and
in different shapes and forms – group and solo exhibitions, screenings, performances,
encounters – the project will be rounded off with a major catalogue.
The first event in Quimper, the group show The Waltz of the Puppets – Act 1 (5 June – 30
August), is a joint curatorship venture by Keren Detton, director of Le Quartier, and Julie
Pellegrin, director of the Ferme du Buisson art centre, the venue for Act 2. The exhibition
includes films, installations, drawings and paintings, arranged in a series of time frames
which are made to overlap by the lighting and sequencing, while at the same time highlighting
groups of works by individual artists. Echoing William Kentridge’s appropriation of the Ubu
character to point up abuses of power in post-apartheid South Africa, Yoan Sorin and Kara
Walker use a procession of puppets to address inter-body relationships in the context of
the colonial issues so important to Jarry. Roee Rosen’s alter ego derides political tyranny
in a domestic fable that blends the caustic and the dreamlike. Dan Perjovschi comes up with
a new wall drawing whose handling of current social, political and cultural issues smacks
of a contemporary version of Ubu’s almanac. Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz offer a
queer dandy whose critique of capitalism flirts with the future status of animals. Further
along, abuses of the financial system are parodied by Goldin+Senneby in a performance
and a mini-theatre. Benjamin Seror uses his own series of models to write a novel about
the capacity of language to generate unprecedented situations. Meanwhile works by
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Shelly Nadashi and Ante Timmermans are driven by black
humour that uses a mix of theatre, language and drawing to challenge our relationships
with the Other, money and work. Emmanuel Van der Meulen’s paintings are simultaneously
decorative and heraldic, while deeds of war morph into hallucinatory circuses in the work
of Pauline Curnier Jardin. Here and there along the way a series of photographs by Julien
Bismuth telescopes quotations in a way that provides a new understanding of the Jarry
oeuvre. The spirit of the father of ‘pataphysics hovers over these artists, as they offer
a critical vision of modernity via the untimeliness of their subject matter and diffracted
narrative procedures shot through with devastating humour.
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ARTISTS
(those taking part in the Le Quartier exhibition are mentioned in bold type)
William Anastasi, Julien Bismuth, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Paul Chan, Guy de
Cointet, Hugues de Cointet, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Rainer Ganahl, Dora Garcia, Goldin
+ Senneby, Petrit Halilaj, Thomas Hirschhorn, Naotaka Hiro, William Kentridge, Mike
Kelley, Tala Madani, Nathaniel Mellors, Ieva Miseviciute,
ˇ ¯ ˙ Shelly Nadashi, Henrik Olesen, Dan
Perjovschi, Jimmy Robert, Roee Rosen, Benjamin Seror, Yoan Sorin, Cally Spooner, Jos
de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Ante Timmermans, Emmanuel Van der Meulen, Sarah Vanhee,
Kara Walker, Julian Weber, Adva Zakai…
PLACES / CALENDAR
Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain de Quimper
10 esplanade François Mitterrand
29000 Quimper
Tel. +33 (0)2 98 55 55 77
www.le-quartier.net
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: The Waltz of the Puppets – Act 1
June 5 - August 30, 2015
---------------Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
Allée de la Ferme Noisiel
77448 Marne-la-Vallée
Tel. +33(0) 1 64 62 77 00
www.lafermedubuisson.com
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: The Waltz of the Puppets – Act 2
October 18, 2015 – February 14, 2016
Performance day
February 7, 2016
----------Museo Marino Marini
Piazza San Pancrazio
Florence, Italie
Tel. +39 055 219432
www.museomarinomarini.it
October 8 - 9 - 10, 2015
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Museum M Leuven
Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28
3000 Louvain, Belgique
Tel. +32 (0)16 27 29 29
www.mleuven.be/fr/
Guy de Cointet
September 17, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Jimmy Robert
November 19, 2015 - January 31, 2016
Playground to Museum M et STUK centre d’art, Louvain
November 19-22, 2015
www.playgroundfestival.be
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PRESS VISUALS
William Kentridge Shadow Procession, 1999
Video
Centre national des arts plastiques
© William Kentridge / CNAP
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Charming for the Revolution, 2009
Video loop, 11 mn / Courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects,
Amsterdam et Marcelle Alix, Paris
Shelly Nadashi A Good Bowl of Soup, 2013
Installation
Benjamin Seror Mime Radio, notes pour les chapitres I à IX,
2013 / Installation, Crac Alsace
Yoan Sorin Si j’existe je ne suis pas un autre, 2014
Performance
Roee Rosen Vladimir’s night, 2011-2014
Gouache on paper, framed, 63 x 45 cm
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Pauline Curnier Jardin Blutbad Parade, 2014
Video, 35 mn
Julien Bismuth Alphabet, 2015
Photography
Dan Perjovschi Europe Scare 2012
Drawing
Ante Timmermans Der Souffleur des Ichts, 2015
Installation / Barbara Seiler, Zurich
Photo © Stefan Altenburger Photography
Courtesy: Barbara Seiler, Zurich
Kara Walker Untitled, 1998
Ink on paper, framed under Plexiglas, 39 x 31,3 cm
Collection Frac des Pays de la Loire
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WHILE WE WAIT...,
COLLECTION #6
A NEW SEGMENT OF "PASSION
DE L’ART EN FINISTÈRE": PRESENTATION
OF BERTRAND GODOT’S COLLECTION
FROM JUNE 5 TO AUGUST 30, 2015
Opening : Thursday June 4 at 6:30 pm
Maybe waiting is all there is to do. Waiting rooms most often have a definite purpose: an
appointment with the dentist, the doctor, a job counsellor, or what have you. Here the
appointment is you. There’s no specific point, just all the usual ingredients: chairs, plants,
a poster, lighting, etc.
I suggest being there as a way of waiting for different things: the future of humanity, of the
Le Quartier art centre, of art in general and life in particular.
My surname has involved me in waiting. No getting away from Samuel Beckett in my
personal history. Over and over again, when I have an appointment, I’m confronted with
same old joke: «We’ve been waiting for you, Mr Godot. Well, yeah, you’ve probably already
heard that one…» Having no geographical roots – except maybe in Audierne, here in
Finistère, now – I cling to the territory provided by my name.
As an art student in Angoulême I very soon found myself wondering about the point of
making works of art – or anything else, for that matter. What for? Who for? Why? Isn’t
there already enough repetition in art? In life?
And so, with the passing of time, I decided to show art rather than make it – not to add any
more.
After a brief career in politics, showing art in all its shapes and forms was all I felt capable
of. The rest hardly mattered.
I didn’t actually want this collection. It imposed itself on me in the wake of gifts from artists
I’d shown who went on to become friends.
I’m not a collector; I became one by force of circumstance.
This proposition from Le Quartier art centre is my first opportunity to assemble a puzzle
which, obviously, is a reflection of the way I think.
In this waiting room the visitor has a part to play!
Bertrand Godot, 8 April 2015
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ARTISTS
Saâdane Afif, Pierre Ardouvin, Neal Beggs, Pierre Besson, Fred Biesmans, Etienne Bossut,
Lilian Bourgeat, Olaf Breuning, Jean-Baptiste Bruant, David Michael Clarke, Philippe Cognée,
François Curlet, Michael Dans, Denicolaï & Provoost, Eric Dietman, Florence Doléac, Marcel
Dinahet, Christelle Familiari, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Michel François, Bertrand Gadenne,
Paul-Armand Gette, Jef Geys, Henri Guitton, Jacques Halbert, Hippolyte Hentgen, Joël
Hubaut, Anabelle Hulaut, Guillaume Janot, Ann Veronica Janssens, Yann Lestrat, Claude
Lévêque, Jacques Lizène, Capitaine Lonchamps, Gilles Lopez, Benjamin Monti, Jasper
Morrison, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Daniel Nadaud, Claes Oldenburg, Jean-Luc Parant, Bruno
Peinado, Charles Pennequin, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Pascal Rivet, Jean-Michel Sanejouand,
Joe Scanlan, Alain Séchas, Christophe Terlinden, Roland Topor, Didier Trenet, Christophe
Vigouroux, Vuillemin
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
EXHIBITION OPENS FROM JUNE 5 TO AUGUST 30, 2015
Until June 30: from Tuesday to Saturday, 1-6 pm / Sunday, 2-6 pm
NEW SUMMER HOURS: continuously open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am-18 pm
in July-August
Sundays and public holidays, 2-6 pm
Closed Mondays
NEXT EXHIBITION: « 4/4 »
From Septembre 19 to October 25, 2015
4 rooms / 4 curators
Carte blanche to Marie Bechetoille, Laetitia Gorsy, Michela Sacchetto, Veronica Valentini
In partnership with Generator (a residency program initiated by 40mcube and École
européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne)
Réseau : Le Quartier est membre de ACB - Art Contemporain en Bretagne et de d.c.a. Association française de développement des centres d’art.
Mécènes : Appart City, Quimper ; Keolis-Qub, Quimper ; Kik photographie, Quimper.
Avec le soutien de la ville de Quimper, du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication,
du conseil général du Finistère et de la Région Bretagne.
Partenaire presse :
WORTH SEEING IN BRITTANY
FINISTÈRE
QUIMPER
Musée des beaux-arts
40 place Saint-Corentin – 29000 Quimper
T : 02 98 95 45 20
« Alexandre Séon, la beauté idéale » / 19 juin - 28 septembre 2015
Mai-juin, tous les jours sauf le mardi, 9 h 30-12 h et 14 h-18 h
Juillet-août, tous les jours, 10 h-19 h
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BREST
Centre d’art Passerelle
41 rue Charles Berthelot – 29200 Brest
T : 02 98 43 34 95
Laura Aldridge, Cécile Paris, Guillaume Pellay, Luis Ernesto Arocha
6 juin - 29 août 2015
Du mardi au samedi 14 h-18 h 30, le mardi jusqu’à 20 h
LANDERNEAU
Fonds Hélène&Édouard Leclerc pour la culture
Les Capucins - 29800 Landerneau
T. : 02 29 62 47 78
Alberto Giacometti
14 juin - 25 octobre 2015
Tous les jours de 10 h à 18 h
CÔTES D’ARMOR
TRÉDREZ-LOCQUEMEAU
Galerie du Dourven
Domaine départemental du Dourven
22300 Trédrez-Locquemeau
T : 02 23 62 25 10
Martin Le Chevallier « Le jour où ils sont arrivés »
27 juin - 1 novembre 2015
Samedi, dimanche et jours fériés de 15 h à 19 h
Vacances scolaires : tous les jours sauf lundi
ILLE-ET-VILAINE
RENNES
La Criée Centre d’art contemporain
Halles centrales
Place Honoré-Commeurec – 35000 Rennes
T : 02 23 62 25 10
Jérémie Gindre « Camp Catalogue »
12 juin - 16 août 2015
Du mardi au vendredi de 12 h à 19 h, samedi, dimanche et jours fériés de 14 h à 19 h
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