AVIGNON: At the Grenier à sel, exhibition Light, Space, Time
The Lumière Espace Temps exhibit 14 artists of today in homage to Nicolas Schöffer *, a pioneer of cybernetic and electronic arts.
With Elias Crespin, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves, Olivier Ratsi, Adrien Lucca, Etienne Rey, Antoine Schmitt, Pe Lang, Anne-Sarah Le Meur, Santiago Torres, LAb (au), Justine Emard, Ronan Barrot – Robbie Barrat, Maurice Benayoun and Niko de la Faye.
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Kinetic art, light installations, video art, films, robotics, interactive works …
While paying homage to this visionary genius through the presentation of films and visual experiments, the exhibition reflects the umbilical link that rests it to a whole generation of artists, at the crossroads of technology and science.
All have in common a fascination for this anticipatory spirit which finds a new topicality in the age of digital cultures: research on time and space via movements of light (Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves, Etienne Rey, Anne-Sarah Lemeur, Adrien Lucca, Olivier Ratsi) to kinetic vibrations and expansions of the work in space (Pe Lang, LAb[au], Elias Crespin), programmed or real-time works (Antoine Schmitt, Maurice Benayoun, Barrat-Barrot, Santiago Torres) to the interaction between machine and man (Justine Emard, Niko de La Faye).
This exhibition is presented at Salt cellar, historic monument rehabilitated by Jean-Michel Wilmotte and today dedicated to new forms of artistic expression, those which depend on the art, science and technologies of the contemporary world.
The Grenier à sel exists thanks to the fEDIS endowment funds, a general interest organization created by philanthropic patron Régis Roquette and whose vocation is to support and disseminate emerging artistic practices.
SOME ARTISTS FROM THE SELECTION:
ELIAS CRESPINVenezuelan artist living in Paris, a major figure in contemporary creation, Elias Crespin is in line with kinetic art with a form of visual poetry offered by the use of the most current technologies. By the undulation of its red circles in plexiglass, the work Circular inception takes us on a ballet of celestial objects, whose rhythms and forms express contemplation and wonder.
FÉLICIE D’ESTIENNE D’ORVESArtist whose favorite material is light, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves invites us to look further or higher than our terrestrial horizon. Among the works presented at the Grenier à sel, the Martian Sun series, made of elegant bas-reliefs in embossed paper, takes up the topography of three Martian sites, with lighting whose intensity is reproduced in real time at the height of the sun on the horizon of each of the sites. Also to see: Eclipse II, Sun (8 ‘) and 2 works from the series Light stallion.
LAB (AU)Founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb[au], laboratory of architecture and town planning, is an interdisciplinary artistic studio composed of architects and multimedia designers. He presents at the Grenier à sel a work from the series of Origami : programmed work whose colored faces bend and unfold in a random fashion, capturing our gaze by the mysterious rhythm of its forms, between appearance and disappearance.
ETIENNE REYEtienne Rey’s work explores the notion of space, the multiple dimensions of which he questions through the construction of mobile or static forms that capture light and reflect their environment. Presented in the hall of the Grenier à sel, Air is a kinetic sculpture whose glass panels project a play of colored lights on the walls, drawing a strange ballet according to the air movements caused by the passage of the public.
Police station: Véronique Baton, with the precious collaboration of Éléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer who will have supported this project until the end of a fascinating existence and committed to promoting the work of her husband.
* Major artist of the second half of the 20th century, Grand Prize of the 34th Venice Biennale in 1968, Nicolas schöffer was one of the precursors of cybernetic art, electronic arts and above all encounters between artistic disciplines. Researcher, thinker, and visual artist, he was one of the first to marry art and technology, reinventing creative processes and exploring new avenues that have paved the way for multiple contemporary artistic experiments.
While paying homage to this visionary genius through the presentation of films and visual experiments, the exhibition reflects the umbilical link that rests it to a whole generation of artists, at the crossroads of technology and science.PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Light, Space, Time
October 9 to December 19, 2021
Free entry
THE SALT ATTIC
2 rue du Rempart Saint-Lazare – 84000 Avignon – 04 32 74 05 31