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Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche et l’Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 présentent avec le soutien de Albert-Kahn, musée et jardin, propriété du Conseil général des Hauts-de-Seine :

Récits d’un lieu

Un projet des étudiants de l’atelier Master 1 « Pratique artistique du cinéma », réalisé dans le cadre des Ateliers Cinéma (UFR LAC) de Paris Diderot, sous la direction de Marie Preston, artiste.

Exposition du 24 au 26 avril 2013 - Projections : 11h - 12h30 - 15h - 17h

Vernissage : mardi 23 avril 2013 - Projections à 18h et à 20h30

Cinq films qui explorent, sous les formes les plus diverses, le musée et le jardin Albert-Kahn – lieu palimpseste où se côtoient et se superposent images, légendes, archives et Histoire.

Avec les réalisations de : Vadim Alsayed, Sarah Bastide-Carrière, Alexandra Conihl de Beyssac, Aurélie Donval, Stéphanie Ghaemian, Maguelonne Harang, Marie Lamiable, Johanne Licard, Justine Mathieu, Vincent Mayos, Olivier Patron, Henri Solignac

Image du film Corps muets (2013), réalisé par Marie Lamiable, Vincent Mayos et Olivier Patron

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Wouldn’t It be Nice …
Wishful Thinking
in Art and Design
September17-
December 7, 2008

Contemporary culture is witnessing one of the most significant shifts of recent times. The old dividing lines between artists and designers appear to be dissolving into one another. Indeed the breadth and range of investigation and inspiration they share is possibly the widest to date. The exhibition Wouldn’t it be nice … hopes to present a series of projects emerging from these lines of dissolution, which reflect the current spirit of cultural production internationally.

The commonalities between artists and designers are partly due to the reconsideration by designers of the modern tradition and its utopian hopes for universal, simple and mechanistic solutions. Since then there has been the realization that form can never be neutral. Pioneering design historians such as Reyner Banham and later Dick Hebdige have pointed out that even those most pared down and simple of modernist forms are suffused with cultural meaning. In turn, there has been a concomitant recognition that the consumer / user is a complex cultural, social, political and economic being, and that his or her needs are not purely mechanistic. This represented a loss of faith with the notion of pure function. Indeed, as early as the 1950s Jan Tschichold recognized that the rules he established in his earlier book The New Typography intended to render typography perfectly functional, smacked of fascist authoritarianism. Rather than leading designers to despair, this questioning of the modernist design orthodoxies has rendered them more ambitious.

Recognising that form carries meaning, many designers (working on graphics, fashion and products) have chosen to investigate the messages they create. This shift of parameters has enabled designers to think in terms of a concept. Partly this is related to self-expression, but more importantly it concerns taking responsibility for the broader ramifications of design. The works of the best of today’s designers display self-awareness and, at times, political intent. Above all designers have developed a keen sense of critique, and work within what is best described as a culture of ideas.

If historically artists from Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons and Heim Steinbach questioned the threshold between art and the everyday, between the work of art and the quotidian object, today’s artists are going one step further. The work of this new generation reflects, on the one hand, a pop sentiment of the kind expressed by Warhol when he said: ‘the world fascinates me. It’s so nice; whatever it is…I accept things. I’m just watching, observing the world’. In line with this, artists today demonstrate a greater interest in other disciplines, such as design per se and how it has penetrated our popular — and our visual culture. Added to this there is also a keen desire to explore the “situational” and “relational” aspects of the object, installation and environment making. Such works rely heavily on the designed object and require the direct participation of the public, be it in such seemingly banal tasks as eating, playing pool or learning to make paper flowers; or in resolving quite serious issues such as prostitution and the lack of fuel in African villages.

In this moment of cultural fluidity so-called artistic and design strategies are being explore by each other’s counterparts. To further compound matters some practitioners work in collaboration with each other’s disciplines, and others simply do not wish to be categorized in any one camp. Over and above any questions of definition, what is shared by these creators is an interest in questioning life, by exploring and experimenting with contemporary culture at all levels.

Wouldn’t It Be Nice… Wishful Thinking in Art and Design is a major exhibition that addresses the application of wishful thinking in art and design today. It explores the thinking processes and working methods, that fall into the gap between various attitudes, forms of behaviour and creative practices. On one hand, there’s the dichotomy between activism and acceptance, as well as social concern and social control. On the other hand, the juxtaposition between grand plans and harsh realities, between the benign and the confrontational.

This project conceived by design historian and art historian Emily King and director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Katya García-Antón in collaboration with Christian Brändle, Director of the Museum of Design Zurich, will present art and design alongside one another, undifferentiated. As the former barriers between artists and designers — but also graphic designers, stylists and architects — has become uncertain, the breadth and range of investigation and inspiration they share is possibly the widest to date. The exhibition hopes to present a series of projects emerging from these lines of dissolution, which reflect the current spirit of cultural production internationally.

Among the creators invited to participate: Dexter Sinister (UK/US), Jurgen Bey (NL), Bless (F-D), Dunne&Raby and Michael Anastassiades (UK), Alicia Framis (ES), Martino Gamper (IT/UK), Ryan Gander (UK), Martí Guixé (ES), Tobias Rehberger (D) and Superflex (DK).

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