VIVE LA FRANCE

Exhibition from the 1st to the 26th of October 2013

Works from Franck Scurti, Didier Marcel and Didier Faustino are presented in partnership with La Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard and La Galerie Michel Rein

Franck Scurti presents What is public sculpture ?#5, a work of art tagged and covered with graffitis. He created this sculpture with different rules of the 20th century reproducing the exact tags and graffitis found in the street. In the same time, the meticulous analysis of the sculpture – an unusual experience when referring to public art – makes us wonder about the concept of author, the origin and the role of the signature, because the street tag is by definition a signature. These interrogations are not new in art particularly in contemporary art but they find their legitimacy in today’s internet.

Franck Scurti was born in 1965 in Lyon (France), he works and lives in Paris. If we search the origins to his work, Franck Scurti would claim to follow conceptual art as well as Fluxus’ poetry, which taught him « to watch objects, to analyze them, to lose them in themselves, and then to reappraise them ». His work, inspired by everyday reality and internatihttp://villageroyal.com/wp-admin/edit.phponal news, makes good use of the shapes produced by consumption and urban civilization world. His work has been exhibited at the Musée d’Art contemporain of Strasbourg, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, at Grimaldi Forum of Monaco or at La Nuit Blanche in Toronto (2013).

Didier Marcel was born in 1961, he lives and works in Dijon (France). He borrows from reality and sculpts nature. Whether the imprint is taken from living things or from the mineral world, or the model is itself artificial, his choices always stem from a highly personal relathionship with banality – with all that is ordinary or invisible, all that melts into the scenery. These Cervidés are made of welded iron structures, a raw material used in building. Winner of the Ricard Prize 1999, his work has been seen at the occasion of personal exhibitions namely at MAMCO (Geneva, Switzerland) in 2005, at Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg in 2006, at MUDAM (Luxembourg) in 2009 or recently at Château d’Oiron (France).

 Didier Faustino was born in 1968 . He lives and works between Paris and Lisbon. The Wild Thing, wormholes made from stripped branches of chestnut trees, is the continuity of a project initiated in Japan with professional bamboo craftsmen. Another place, another technique, another culture. From this absurdity of creating a mathematical reproduction with the help of natural produces we clearly see the trinity of Faustino’s work : art, craftsmanship and architecture. Many of his works are part of institutions’ collections : MOMA, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Musée National d’Art Moderne/ Centre Georges Pompidou.

Curator : Patricia Keever