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5 PRESS RELEASE
9 Fredy Alzate — sculpture, installation
11 Chad Keveny — painting
13 Damien Marchal — installation
15 Natacha Mercier — painting, installation
17 Daniel Perrier — cinema, video
19 Yuhsin U Chang — sculpture, installation
20 ART TRAIL 2013 Map
21 Associated activities
22 ARCHIVES Portfolio 2005 - 2012
23 Previous editions and the artists
24 Some figures
25 THE MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU
26 THE TEAM
28 PRATICAL INFORMATION AND PARTNERS
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / 3 Chad Keveny, Snow on the Rooves, 2013. Oil paint and Indian ink on canvas 70 x 50cm. Photo credit. Courtesy of the artist.
4 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU PRESS RELEASE • 9th EDITION Contemporary “Art Trail” in the Lot Valley with Fredy Alzate, Chad Keveny, Damien Marchal, Natacha Mercier, Daniel Perrier, Yuhsin U Chang
Since 2004, contemporary art has spent part of the Summer holiday in the Lot Valley, between Cajarc and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
Art Trial invites artists to present works in natural sites and villages along this section of the valley. It thus connects the Maisons Daura, a laboratory of creation, with the Centre d’Art Contemporain, a focus for artistic experiment. The artists’ opinions on the environmental and cultural context, their relationships with the landscape and its inhabitants, and as a result, the works they present, create an ongoing dialog between heritage and contemporary art. Thus constantly renewing the map of this section of the valley.
This year sees several new places, off the beaten path, given the artistic ‘traitement’. Inventiveness and surprise are the keywords in this collective adventure where improvisation sparks thought and imagination and the artists energy and generosity brings the whole together.
Fredy Alzate (Medellin, Colombia) is interested in the relationship between nature and urbanization. He has developed several unique projects in echo of the diverse strategies deployed by the inhabitants of the valley. His installations in the valley are grafted on to elements of modern (disused railroad bridge) and traditional (barns) architecture which reveal the landscape from a different angle.
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / 5 Chad Keveny (Dublin, Ireland / Toulouse) uses painting as a way of meeting people. He invited the inhabitants of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie to pose in his studio, taking the opportunity to talk with them regarding ‘le patrimoine’ (heritage). In the ‘Favourite Village of the French’ and more largely in the tourist environment of the valley, this notion has bred antagonistic positions regarding the village’s identity. The artist situates his practice at the crossroads between two histories: the official history of the land and subjective stories about individuals.
Damien Marchal (Rennes, France) works on various problems related to sound and its potential influence. During his residence he has produced two pieces: a wall painting, in a cave - representing the fracture lines where the stone would break if a particular soundwave was emitted and an architectural installation, in the art center, evocative of an acoustic phenomenon in a conflict situation. Thus, the relationship with shelter and refuge lies at the heart of his problematic. The artist will stage a unique performance of pen plotters at the opening, the video of which will be shown during the exhibition.
Natacha Mercier (Lombez, France) is interested in vanitas. Under the umbrella title “Reduced Visibility,” her work as a painter is an invitation to take a closer look. Through a view that contrasts with many prejudices about the ostentatious world of car tuning she addresses the question of how to look at painting. Along similar lines, and so as to highlight the interface between affective and the rebellious, she customizes an entire car parked out in the middle of the countryside.
Daniel Perrier (Nantes-Paris, France) His center of interest lies in cinema and anthropology. In the village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie he directs a cast of teenagers from the area, restaging from memory a scene from Kurosawa’s movie ‘The Seven Samurais’. As well as replaying an almost mythical script, the exercise also spawns questions about otherness and fear that might stimulate reflection on these everyday issues. In addition, his multi- site installation suggests an unusual itinerary, in time as well as in space. These narrative variations produced by blending documentary and fiction, explore the possibilities of language and of the sign.
6 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Yuhsin U Chang (Taïwan / Paris) has constructed a sort of gigantic vortex with pieces of collected bark. The forces at work in the sculpture convey the principles of its metamorphosis. She also invades the structured space of a poplar plantation with a new installation made from untreated wool shorn in the valley in the last two months. Each time, the artist seeks to foreground the cyclical and unstoppable transformation of materials and forms, from the inert to the living and back again. Here, this principle is dared on the scale of an entire landscape.
As in previous years, no collective theme has been imposed. The issue is more to make the individual concerns of the artists and their respective fields of investigation, resonate and reveal the territory. Beyond the tourist traps and the unmediated perception of its qualities in terms of aesthetic and heritage, the point is to discover a particular perspective on the environment, to promote a different, unstable, open visions, a potential field of action, a story with a future…
Martine Michard, exhibitions curator April 29 2013
A forthcoming publication over the course of the summer will feature a critical contribution by Caroline Hancock, www.carolinehancock.com
For Spring 2013, the artists were accommodated in the Maisons Daura (international artist residences of the Midi-Pyrenées Region), at Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, with aid from Tugan Sokhiev, musical director of the Orchestre National du Capitole, Toulouse.
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / 7 Fredy Alzate, Traza, 2013. Preparatory model. Courtesy of the artist.
8 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Fredy Alzate — sculpture, installation
As he discovered France and this Praxis Fredy Alzate — Born in 1975, region last April Fredy Alzate Painted wood, 2 (4m x 3m) he lives and works in Medellín was inspired by the diverse This intervention on the two (Colombia). A graduate of the traces of human activity in the “twin” barns which hug the National University of Bogotá valley. Along the lines of his most D41 road in the depths of the in 2006, he is an emerging recent sculptural pieces back in valley between Cénevières and artist on the contemporary Colombia and in keeping with Calvignac acts like a signal in Colombian scene. Parallel to his his interest in the links between the landscape. Fredy Alzate has work as an artist, he teaches at architecture and landscape, covered both their gables with the University of Antioquia at here he develops three singular a network of foliage, evoking Medellín. projects involving various a nature at once domesticated His research centers primarily strategies in the occupation of the and proliferating. To the far on architecture and on territory. edge of the arable plain, this landscape, focusing on screen appears like an ornament, topologies and constructing Traza thereby underlining the idea of narratives dealing with Plastic tubing, 135 m. the passage and bringing out the endangered natural Traza or Trace (from the Latin sculptor’s interest in the direct environments, climate tractiare) means line, drawing, experience of landscape and change, or unbridled urban sketch… The title here evokes the architecture as non-landscape and development. His drawings, drive to define a form, an act, a non-architecture*. sculptures, and installations gesture that might transform the seek to challenge the landscape. Mild Architectures contradictions of the Latin The yellow line that the artist has Various pieces of wood, glue American city and to highlight drawn through space in the form The geological backdrop to the the hidden if often ingenious of an agricultural drain burrows region could hardly have left processes that allow survival in into the tunnel and emerges into an artist whose life has been disadvantaged zones. daylight to sally forth against regularly affected by climatic and the metal bridge, there to unfurl ecological events in his native In partnership with the Institut its scroll-like form. This yellow Colombia indifferent. Here, it Français, under the aegis line reactivates the memory of is not mudslides or landslips, of the convention with the the railway and the richness but the structure of the layers of Midi-Pyrénées Region. of its legacy, to which so many the landscape that inspire two structures in the valley bear wooden sculptures comprised of *Rosalind Krauss in La sculpture dans le champ élargi in witness. The artist’s intention a conglomerate of abandoned L’originalité de l’avant-garde et autres mythes modernistes, MACULA 1993. is to celebrate the vestiges of an objects, discarded planks, etc., industrial project abandoned due to compose a kind of spell: all to profitability. destruction contains the seeds of its own regeneration.
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / 9 Chad Keveny, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie 3, 2013. Watercolor 24x32 cm Courtesy of the artist.
10 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Chad Keveny — painting , sound
The artist invited inhabitants Chad Keveny — Born in 1981 of the valley to sit for their in Dublin, he lives and works in portrait: a dozen or so people Toulouse. sat and coversed. The principle With his double degree from of the portrait here combines a the École des Beaux-Arts conversation (the artist conserves in Toulouse and in political extracts from these conversations) science from Dublin, Chad with the realization of sketches Keveny is an artist ‘on the and watercolors, to finally move’. Formed by the love of with the painted pictures. The literature — James Joyce in results are articulated with particular — he knows how the landscapes to compose a to create situations, which narrative in which the problems require the other and question of how and why one should live our notions of individual and and exist here are juxtaposed collective identity. His practice with the representation of the is curious and open to the environmental backdrop to an world. “imaginary community”. His motivation to paint is Chad Keveny works as a painter: situated on a crossroads he paints. But he is also a kind of between history and subjective, anthropologist. Lending an ear to personal stories, with special stories, he decodes the meaning attention paid to the each inhabitant gives to life as it is (de)construction of discourse lived in the unusual surroundings and symbolic economic or of a ‘heritage village’, last year political power. He does not awarded the title of the ‘Favourite believe in an objective position Village of the French’ but in sharing experiences. “My work consists in exploring identity through painting, www.chadkeveny.com writing, and, especially, personal encounter. This is what gives the 1Agnew, John. 2011. Landscape and National work its strength: opening the Identity in Europe: England versus Italy in the Role of Landscape in Identity Formation. Landscapes, door to the other.” identities and development pp 37-50. Farnham: Ashgate.
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / 11 Damien Marchal, Réfugié, modèle de rupture, 2013 3D image of the model of the cave. Courtesy of the artist
12 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Damien Marchal — installation
For several years now Damien Retranchement, fin du deuxième Térahertz du spectre Marchal has been working on acte System: plotters, drawings, sound system; various problems related to sound Installation: plasterboard, net curtaining, drum duration variable. and to its potential influence. Sound ventilators; dimensions: 6 x 3 x 2.50 m Damien Marchal’s performance often has a disturbing effect on Forms made of old net curtains concept brings into play the sound of the environment. The artist uses and inflated with large fans prevent machines and, in particular, that of it as much as a material as a mere one from entering a space of what the tracers deployed to produce the reference: sound is the mainspring of appears at the outset like a normal drawings presented in Cajarc. The a practice that investigates concepts apartment. In fact, the obstruction performance at the inauguration such as error and acting out. represents the impact of stun- of the Art Trail constitutes the grenades used by the RAID special only acoustic piece here by the Réfugié, la chambre anachronique police unit against a structure’s outer artist. Throughout the summer, the Paint, charcoal on limescale-covered cave walls. visible operations of the piece will walls, dimensions: 25 x 7 x 3 m. Although evocative of quite a be represented by an installation of Damien Marchal developed his different, contemporary situation, these obsolete machines referencing painting protocol in collaboration this installation feels like a TV- a relatively ‘low-tech’, while a video with an acoustician. It is a process reality version of the painted cave: will retransmit the sound action that makes it possible to model here, a deviant view related to a played out on the opening evening. the deformations of a solid when probably poorly understood form subjected to one of its resonant of spirituality promulgated by Damien Marchal — born in 1977. frequencies: the elements of the incompetent guides, rather than the Lives and works in Rennes. substance undergoing shearing origin of a spiritual way of thinking His sound pieces make as much are represented in black, whereas (about) the world; there, retreating use of performance as of film, the static elements remain light- into an apartment’s bathroom, sculpture, new technologies, colored. The artist took over a rather than taking refuge in a and environment installation. cave, painting the frequencies natural shelter. And there are more The imaginary worlds he creates capable of making the rock vibrate points of contact and distortion that are ambiguous places where and even split. Echoing the Cro- tighten the strands of the narrative the urban, political, and human Magnons active nearby in the caves and reveal Damien Marchal’s realities merge with fictional in Pech Merle, Marchal draws the audacity in dealing with thought in strata. wave representing the moment sound. His projects integrate an ongoing immediately before the breakpoint critical analysis of the production of the rock directly on the wall. La connaissance par l’obstacle of information concerning Recent studies undertaken by ethno- Drawings in Indian ink on pure cotton paper, geopolitical events and their acousticians have revealed that 85.5 x 67.5 cm, framed. circulation in the media with the certain Paleolithic paintings might Executed with a pen plotter these emergence of sound spaces have been executed in acoustically drawings represent a view of five and phantasmatic images that interesting places in term of echo stun grenades thrown into a space question the construction of and/or reverberation, and might that form geometrical compositions contemporary space. attest to the onset of a form of dislodged when they encounter spirituality. a built structure. The drawing www.marchal.biz underlines the distance from the action, as well as portraying the physical echo of the grenades. Natacha Mercier, LIBERA NOS A MALO, Series Visibilité réduite, 2013 Acrylic resin on car bonnet, 150 x 125 cm. Courtesy and photo credit: Natacha Mercier
14 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Natacha Mercier — painting, installation
Natacha Mercier pursues her Mercier, bowing out with one last Natacha Mercier — aged researches into the limits of visible challenge to the leisure society. 36, and originally from the and the aporia of ostentation. north of France, she now lives Laced with references to the Lonely and works in the Gers. Her Flemish “Vanities” of the 16th Wreck of a DS car, paint and installation. ongoing research probes the and 17th centuries, her painting The Citroën DS (Citroën interface between the edges forces viewers to approach these Goddess) here performs one last of disappearance and the monochrome surfaces, but which, pirouette in the hands of the borderland of reading, in the under closer examination, reveal artist. Spotted in a scrapyard, very heart of the dichotomy figures. By masking a mastery of Natacha Mercier here completely between attraction and detail beneath the veil enveloping revamps one of the legendary repulsion, apogee and decline, her subjects, she distances the saloons favoured by French not only in painting, but through product from the standardized political bigwigs in the 1960s-70s, installation and performance and gaudy motifs of automobile exhibiting it on a mound which as well. She still remains true customization. The surfaces serves as a podium. Once again, to her childhood dream of on which her expert hand has to appreciate the painting detail becoming a truck-driver to her exercised itself in this new series and the distortion that always passion for motorbike chapters are car body parts that she accompanies the emphasis on and car tuning. found in the middle of nowhere, beauty by this artist, one has to Natacha Mercier starts out with salvaged and set up in selected come up close. The flashy, eye- images that she photographs spaces. catching aspects are tuned down or finds on the internet. She by its situation near a landfill has photographed facades Le Dit and the flow of time evoked by of houses emblazoned with 4CV car body, paint. the unstoppable clock that is the eagles or lions, of limousines The shell of an abandoned 4CV river. parked out on waste ground, (4 Horses) car in the woods in like arrogant beasts of the Calvignac has become the site for Visibilité réduite road… Why try to shine when an encounter between a medieval Series of paintings on canvas and car bonnets; decomposition lurks on the legend, Le Dit des trois morts et dimensions variable. horizon? This is the paradox des trois vifs (“The Three Living All the painted motifs come that haunts her… and the Three Dead”)1 — in from the world of hunting: which three noble knights cross wild animals (some of which www.natacha-mercier.com paths with a trio of threatening are represented on the walls in skeletons who invite them to the caves), hunting trophies… 1A performance at Carennac is tabled each year on reflect on the vanity of earthly Appearing together in the art the occasion of the European Heritage Days. things — and its contemporary centre in Cajarc, these pieces reinterpretation by the artist. echo the in situ installations in Everything remains in situ, a museum display environment nothing has changed; except that confers on them the status of for the colorful surface of the a fully-fledged artwork. wreck, personalized by Natacha
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU /15 Daniel Perrier, Maisons Daura_en service, mai 2013. Digital composition, 21x29,7 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
16 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Daniel Perrier — cinema, video
At first glance, Daniel Perrier’s Umgebung - Entourage La grande Enseignée investigations might be defined 2013, DVD Pal, 4/3, b&w, sound, 30 mins 2008-2013, acrylic spray, 7440 x 320 cm. as an attempt to apply a vision Daniel Perrier here juxtaposes a This piece features a new version simultaneously on and with, contemplative if deliberately far from of a mural drawing representing a incorporating both within a non- angelical vision of the morning in Cambodian neon sign. Treated this professional anthropological agenda. the village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie time in color, the artist incorporates His projects pertinently originate with readings from a Chinese a window opening over the valley in the shared intent to describe the text of the 19th century recalling and investigates how to read a signs that represent us, the languages the author’s astonishment at the landscape to tease out a viable by which we are identified, the behavior of Westerns. In a kind of semantics. bodies, attitudes, and gestures that collage, this process deliberately characterize us. shortcircuits our view of the … contrasting perceptions of one of the Daniel Perrier — born 1961, he Les autres most beautiful villages in all France lives in Paris and works in Paris 2013, DVD Pal, 4/3, b&w, sound, 10 mins by locals and day-trippers. and Nantes, where his teaching This new short forms part of an centers on performance and film. For Perrier, stories of every ongoing series Scene from Movie, which Umwelt – Milieu kind have long been enigmas, deals with the artist’s approach to 2013, Site-specific installation, skis various objects of extreme curiosity. It is, he says, through cinema cinematographic memory, with all brands and vintages, cement, variable that he has gained a handle on this brings in terms of confusion, dimensions reality and its fictions. Flaherty, vagueness, and even fantasy. Discovering the region under the Eisenstein, Oshima, Bresson, Pasolini, Godard, Cavalier, and Using lightweight amateur tools, snow last January, Daniel Perrier Kurozawa, as well as Rouquier, here four short emblematic scenes embarked on a work of in situ Rouch, Rogosin, the Bayles from the movie The Seven Samurai, sculpture. Setting up pairs of skis Brothers, Klein, Van Keuken, and a few others finally taught him made by Akira Kurosawa in 1954, in absurd positions evoking not how to read. Thoreau, Melville, are reenacted. Since the lion’s share only the image of spectacular and Traven, Beckett, Bachelard, of the action occurs in a 16th- hilarious falls, but also, between Borges, Segalen, Kawabata, Bhaba, Begoult, Toledo and a century village in the countryside the lines, the idea of a kind of film: few others taught him how to rather reminiscent of Saint-Cirq- the succession of movements, the see… Privileging no particular Lapopie, the artist films his remake striving for balance, the elastic limit media, he selects materials according to the subjects and in the village, transposing the of the body, then the accident… projects envisaged. Nevertheless, subject into a contemporary context. together constitute a sort of script in- a significant proportion of his Casting twenty teenagers from progress that each of us can imagine current output has appeared in a widening field of the image in the region, their experiments in unfolding. movement and sound. Its creative stagecraft and improvisation are potential and venerable history centered on questions of otherness, These new productions will be joined more precisely and more roundly corresponds to an interest in fear, and the stigmatization of the by recent works by the artist that forms of documentary narrative, foreigner. explore other semiotic and linguistic but also revisits places of fiction, documentary, montage, shifts : and rearranged time schemes. All in all it speaks of a shifting imagination. www.lachatregalerie.com Yuhsin U Chang, Transit, 2011. Sculpture, deadwood and various materials, 6 x 2.5 x 3 m Courtesy SKOR| Foundation for Art and Public Domain, Netherlands. Private Collection, France. Photo credit Yuhsin U Chang. And, for Transit 2, coproduction Cahors Juin Jardin
18 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU Yuhsin U Chang — sculpture, installation
Yuhsin U Chang’s sculptures Hymen Yuhsin U Chang — Born in 1980 and installations are made out of Untreated wool; dimensions variable in Taiwan, she has been living in materials collected in the natural In the poplar plantation at the France for nine years. environment, or with links to it. river’s edge the artist places A graduate of the École They are generally transformed bundles of untreated sheep’s Nationale Supérieure d’Art in in situ, demonstrating the wool shorn recently in the Bourges in 2008, she pursued artist’s concern with space and valley. Rather than the myth her studies at Paris University I landscape. It is the transitory state of the Golden Fleece, the artist in 2009. of these raw, residual, organic here initially concentrates on She has participated in materials as they change, as they evoking age-old local practices: several group shows, become, which interests Yuhsin among rural families, poplar including “Dynasty” at the U Chang. Each piece evokes a plantations—unsuitable as they Palais de Tokyo and Musée fragmentary movement, captured were for agriculture—were d’Art Moderne de la Ville de at various instants in a unique traditionally dowries planted for Paris in 2010, and “Afterlife,” process of change. girls.. at the Tot Zover Museum, Amsterdam, in 2011. She Transit 2 Infiltration tries to invent new forms with Lengths of wood, bark, resin Linen fiber; dimensions variable a relationship to space and diam.180 x height 250 cm Vegetable fibers here call to place; hence the majority of her Composed of decomposing bark, mind the shape of a body or a pieces are carried out in situ. this monumental sculpture adopts landscape. Crumpled or twisted, Recalling their fictional self- the dynamic shape of a vertical Yuhsin U Chang’s sculptures transformation, the ambiguous vortex. The pieces of bark were are inhabited by the desire for or or abstract appearance of the collecting from sawmills close destiny of a metamorphosis, as sculptures lays bare the bonds to the residence. Consolidated might be experienced by a Buto between the inert and the living. in resin, they are assembled into dancer. Evocative of ostensibly Mutable, her works evolve an upward form that reminds ritual objects, they form a and move through a process viewers of a tree and of the fiction concentrate of the drive of life. of transformation related to of its own metamorphosis. the cyclical yet inescapable dimension of time. Coproduced with the “Cahors Juin Jardins” festival, this piece www.yuhsinuchang.com debuts in Cahors in June 2013.
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20 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / dossier de presse / Parcours d’art contemporain en vallée du Lot / 7 juillet — 1er septembre 2013
Associated activities
1 - Concert 38’54 out of time, Jacky Mérit 3 - Atelier POM*POMpidou ! To coincide with the launch of the guest project M le Creative activities for all the family ! mammouth by Éric Manhes. This electroacoustic triptych inaugurates the first leg of the 2013 M le mammouth Wednesday July 17 tour, which in 2014 will pass down the Canal du Midi to Model-making the creeks of Sormiou and the cave at Cosquer, before Place du Foirail, Cajarc, organized in partnership with the bringing some penguins buried at sea back to the Tourist Office of the Pays de Figeac. prehistory center at Pech Merle… Tuesday June 4, at 9 p.m. Wednesday July 24 The lock at Ganil, the towpath, Bouziès. Artistic expression Centre d’art contemporain, Cajarc 2 - Guided tours Against a backdrop of a remarkable architectural and Wednesday July 31 natural heritage, a mediator accompanies you to each Artistic expression site on the Art Trail, exchanging ideas on the works. The Centre d’art contemporain, Cajarc exhibit invites you to develop a new vision of this stretch of the valley. Wednesday August 7 Every Wednesday and Friday. Artistic expression The visit leaves from the Centre d’Art Contemporain at 10 Centre d’art contemporain, Cajarc am to the Maisons Daura, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, length: 3 hours. Wednesday August 14 Price: 2€ per person. Motor vehicle required. Booking Model-making advised. Place du Foirail, Cajarc, organized in partnership with the Tourist Office of the Pays de Figeac. 2 - Exploration trail: “Discovering contemporary art!” To solve the puzzle of the contemporary Art Trail in the Wednesday August 21 Lot Valley, follow the clues and play “POM*POMpidou”! Artistic expression A fun day out for all the family that combines discovering Centre d’art contemporain, Cajarc contemporary art exploring the Lot Valley. Every Thursday. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Age from 5 up; limited to 15 Departure from the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Cajarc, children. Price 5€/child, booking with the MAGP 3 p.m. to the Maisons Daura at Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, on 05 65 40 78 19 / 05 65 14 12 83, [email protected] duration: 3 hours. From 7 up Price 5€ per family. Unaccompanied visit. Vehicle required. Refreshments on arrival. 4 - Fringe activities (program pending) See our website.
22 / MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU [ARCHIVES] Portfolio 2005-2012
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1. Cédric Jolivet, Water Walk, 2010 6 2. Art Orienté objet, Veilleurs du Monde, 2009
3. Jagna Ciuchta & France Vallicionni, Water Walk, 2010
4. Myriam Mechita, Flux-S, 2006
5. Alexandra Sà, Lever une carte, 2012
6. Romain Pellas, Veilleurs du Monde, 2009
7. Boomerang, 2008
8. Monika Kulicka, Flux 2, 2007
9. Philippe Cazal, Boomerang, 2008
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2012 Lever une carte RENAUD BÉZY, SUZANNE HUSKY, FRÉDÉRIQUE LOUTZ & ERNESTO CASTILLO, PHILIPPE POUPET, GUILLAUME ROBERT & JULIEN CLAUSS, ALEXANDRA SÀ
2011 Histoires non encore racontées JOSÉ ARNAUD-BELLO, SANTIAGO BORJA , JONATHAN HERNANDEZ
2010 Water walk JAGNA CIUCHTA, DAVID COSTE, CÉDRIC JOLIVET, JULIEN PASTOR, FRANCE VALLICCIONI , CLOTILDE VIANNAY
2009 Veilleurs du monde AOO (LAVAL-JEANTET & MANGIN), AMY BALKIN , SEAMUS FARRELL, GILLES BRUNI , ROMAIN PELLAS , AKIRA SUNRISE (catalogue c/o Blackjack éditions)
2008 Boomerang WALTER ALVAREZ QUISPE, BASSERODE, PHILIPPE CAZAL, JEAN DAVIOT, JIMMY DURHAM, CHRISTOPHE MAGAL, JÉRÔME ROBBE, JEAN -LOUIS POITEVIN (catalogue c/o Archibook)
2007 Flux-2 IVANA ADAIME -MAKAC , VEACESLAV DRUTA, VALÈRE COSTES, CYRIL HERNANDEZ, MONIKA KULICKA, MURIEL RODOLOSSE (catalogue c/o Analogues)
2006 Flux CONSTANCE OUVRIEU, JEAN-DANIEL BERCLAZ, THOMAS LANFRANCHI, MYRIAM MECHITA, GREGG SMITH (catalogue c/o Analogues)
2005 SABINE DELCOUR, PATRICIA FERRARA , PAUL-ARMAND GETTE (catalogue c/o les Abattoirs) JÉRÔME MAUCHE , ROBERT MILIN Some figures
The Contemporary ‘Art Trail’ in the Lot Press review valley summed up in a few figures . around 10 announcements or articles per . 26,000 visitors in 2013 season in the national press . 9th edition in 2013 . More than 50 articles in the regional press, . 6 artists 20 on the Web, and 10 radio features . 13 exhibition places . 7 villages involved in the venture
LE MONDE 16 August 2013
ELLE 27 August 2010
LES INROCKUPTIBLES 26 August to 1 September 2008
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The Maison des arts Georges Pompidou
Maisons Daura, Centre d’art International artist residencies contemporain Saint-Cirq-Lapopie Cajarc
The Maisons Daura are an international The Centre d’Art Contemporain laboratory of creation for all artistic Georges Pompidou is dedicated to disciplines. bringing together the audience of the best of contemporary creation, be it Located in one of the prettiest villages in emerging or advanced, of the French and a medieval compound of a rare beauty, international scenes. they are a place of life and research for international artists. In a unique setting in the Lot Valley, the Centre d’Art Contemporain offers The residencies are held over two exhibition all year round and the periods: a residence in the springtime Contemporary «Art Trail» throughout with a collective project exhibited the summer. throughout the summer in the Lot Valley, and in the autumn the artists invest this The Centre d’Art is part of the regional space of artistic creation for individual network of art centres and is a member projects. of dca, the French association for the development of art centres.
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Management Offices
Director Maison des arts Georges Pompidou Martine Michard BP 24 [email protected] 46160 Cajarc T 00 33 (0)5 65 40 78 19 Administration F 00 33 (0)9 70 61 12 65 Séverine Cabrol www.magp.fr [email protected] Centre d’art contemporain Production (Exhibition rooms) Clément Schmitter 134, avenue Germain Canet [email protected] 46160 Cajarc T 00 33 (0)5 65 14 12 83 Education and Projects Marie Deborne Maisons Daura [email protected] International artists’ residencies Le Bourg Visitors Relations 46300 Saint-Cirq-Lapopie Catherine Henrye [email protected]
Press relations and Communication Hélène Maury [email protected]
MAISON DES ARTS GEORGES POMPIDOU / 27 PRATICAL INFORMATION AND PARTNERS
Presse Maison des arts Georges Pompidou In order to get the press kits and press releases, images 134 avenue Germain Canet, BP 24, 46160 Cajarc for the press, or interview the artists, and to join in the T 00 33 (0)5 65 40 78 19 / 00 33 (0)5 65 14 12 83 press visits, please contact Hélène Maury, F 00 33 (0)9 70 61 12 65 [email protected] [email protected] / www.magp.fr T +33 (0)5 65 40 78 19 Access The Contemporary ‘Art Trail’ in the Lot valley Centre d’art contemporain The ‘Art Trail’ will take place from July 7 Route de Gréalou, 46160 Cajarc to September 1 2013 Airport Toulouse/Blagnac Press Conference held in Toulouse Train Stations Figeac or Cahors Tuesday 25 June, 10:30 am, Maison Midi-Pyrénées, . from Figeac D 19 1 rue de Rémusat, Toulouse . from Cahors D 911 (Causse) or D 653 and D 662 Art trail 2013 + Launch of the new website . from Toulouse A20 exit 59 direction Caussade, cross the city, then D 17 Monteils, D 19 Bach, Limogne Presse visit held in Cajarc Thursday 27 June, 10:30 am, at the Centre d’art contemporain, Cajarc
Opening exhibition Saturday 6 july 2013 at 2 pm, followed by the visit of the exhibitions in the villages. Free shuttle, departure from Cajarc at 3 pm, return around 10 pm, booking advised.
Admission Free entry to all exhibitions of the ‘Art trail’.
Opening times All sites 11 am - 7 pm, everyday except Monday (closed)
Associated activities Guided tours, exploration trail, readings… see page 22
La Maison des arts Georges Pompidou bénéficie du soutien de l’État, Préfecture de la région Midi-Pyrénées, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, de la Région Midi-Pyrénées, et du Conseil général du Lot. Et pour le Parcours d’art contemporain : l’Institut français, les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées et Cahors Juin Jardin 2013. La Maison des arts Georges Pompidou est membre de Air de Midi, réseau art contemporain en Midi-Pyrénées et de dca / association française de développement des centres d’art.