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Lecture Series: Ron Haselden
Posted: November 15th, 2011
Ron Haselden is a British multimedia artist who works with light, sound, film and video, often within architectural projects. He taught sculpture in the Department of Fine Art, Reading University and founded the mixed media area in the early seventies. Haselden was awarded the Sargant Fellowship at the British School at Rome, Italy and has received awards, grants & commissions from The Arts Council of Great Britain, The Lorne Award, The Hamlyn Foundation, The Elephant Trust, The Esmée Fairbaim Foundation, The London Arts Board, The Henry Moore Foundation, The British Council, The RSA Art for Architecture Award Scheme, Alliance Française, Conseil Général Côtes d’Armor and le Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) de Bretagne, among others.
Haselden works and lives in London and Brittany.
Tue Nov 22, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: “When attitudes become forms” – François Aubart
Posted: October 21st, 2011
Since 1961 to 1969 Harald Szeemann was the director of the Kunsthalle Bern where he organised several shows including one of his most famous “When Attitudes Become Form” in 1969. Considered as the first presentation of art forms such as arte povera and conceptual art, this exhibition is, from another point of view the reason why Szeemann left the Kunsthalle with the intention to never work in an institution any more. Thus “When Attitudes Become Form” appears as a crucial moment for his career and for the history of exhibition curating. Indeed what is invented then is both a new approach of exhibition making, with the birth of the “author of exhibition” that considers the exhibition as his medium, and a new economical and social status. This conference will analyse both those inventions and try to demonstrate how they are linked one with the other.
François Aubart is a writer and curator. His texts have been published in journals and magazines such as Flash Art, Art Press, Art 21, 2.0.1, 02, 04, Frog, Nuke and in several catalogues. Recently he curated Cf. at galerie Art et Essai, Rennes and Résurrection at galerie Dohyang Lee, Paris
Tue Nov 1st, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: Oodaq
Posted: October 19th, 2011
Although its existence is scientifically proven, no one has ever seen the island of Oodaaq. Leading an existence somewhere between reality and imagination, it can be seen as a metaphor for video- and photographic images. Although their models are most of the time concrete and real, the image they produce of them is by definition artificial, immaterial, manipulated and manipulating. The gap between image and reality – no matter how this gap is produced – allows a poetic approach to our environment. But often, the subject – if there is a subject – becomes a pretext for a reflection on the medium of video and photography itself.
The “Sélection Oodaaq 2011” presents different ways of approaching video as a medium. Caption of simple but unusual actions, poetic narrations, superimposition of different temporalities and spaces, image synthesis, stretching or compression of duration, digital or analogue embeddings, cinematographic references ; an eclectic selection which defines a field of possibilities, and plays with the codes of an artistic and poetic language.
Tue Oct 25, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: Nathalie Stanguennec
Posted: October 14th, 2011
In my art work I use different means of expression: costumes, paintings and drawings. In my opinion sewing, drawing and painting are the same artistic gesture, the same movement of the hand. I am very interested in outsiders’ art because it deals with the society and making art is vital, obsessive. All my works are tinged with humour. My aim is to make people escape from the madness of the “normal life disease”.
I studied Art in Rennes Regional Fine Art School where I obtained my National Superior Art Degree in 2008.
http://www.nathaliestanguennec.com/
Tue Oct 18, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Contemporary Art History class guest lecturer
Posted: October 11th, 2011
Wednesday 12 october, Frédéric Paul will be the guest lecturer.
He proposes an open discussion about context as the one he had recently with Nicholas Knight on the occasion of an exhibition that was opened last week in Marfa, Texas.
Marfa – Pont-Aven a short trip.
See http://tableaux-parisiens.tumblr.com/
Frédéric PAUL
short CV
F. P. was born in 1959,
PhD in Art History (thesis : The Echo of hte Californian 70′s on the European Art Scene of the 90′s), graduate of École des beaux-arts de Lyon.
1988-2000, director of FRAC Limousin.
2000-2010, director of Domaine de Kerguehennec, Contemporary Art Centre.
He curated more than 100 exhibitions (such as, in Kerguéhennec, Glenn Brown, Aernout Mik, Sylvia Bächli, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, David Shrigley, Richard Monnier, Claude Closky, Richard Artschwager, Beatriz Milhazes, William Wegman, Michel François, Roman Ondak, Richard Wright, Jonathan Monk, Ernesto Neto, René Daniëls, Richard Tuttle, Harrell Fletcher, Ceal Floyer, Mel Bochner, Steven Pippin, Guillaume Leblon, Julien Prévieux, Giuseppe Gabellone, Shirley Jaffe, Jochen Lempert, Attila Csőrgö…).
Member of the AICA (International Association of Art Critics), he contributes regularly to the Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne.
He has written books and essays on Douglas Huebler, Robert Cumming, William Wegman, Allen Ruppersberg, David Shrigley, Toni Grand, Claude Closky, Hubert Duprat, Richard Monnier among others…
Recently on Robert Barry (Bruxelles, éd. Michèle Didier), Richard Wright (Paris, revue 20/27), Isabell Heimerdinger (Zürich, éd. JRP Ringier) et Augustin Lesage (Lyon, Fages éditions), Allen Ruppersberg (Santa Monica Museum of Art)…
To be published shortly : Allen Ruppersberg (Les Carnets du Bal #2, Paris), Steven Pippin (20/27), Beatriz Milhazes (Milan, Electa), Jochen Lempert (Cologne, König), Guy de Cointet (after the solo exhibition he curated this year at Le Quartier, Quimper Contemporary Art Center).
Lecture Series: Jeffrey Gibson
Posted: October 4th, 2011
Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He was born in the United States but moved frequently and lived abroad as a child in Germany and Korea. He is also a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique combination of cultural perspectives and exposure are essential to understanding Gibson’s artworks that combine and transform seemingly disparate references drawn from both Western and non-Western sources. Gibson received his Master of Arts degree from The Royal College of Art (UK) in 1998 and moved to New York in 1999. His paintings and sculptures have been shown nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and art fairs. Selected exhibitions include No Reservations at The Aldrich Museum (2006), Off the Map at The National Museum of The American Indian (2007), SONOTUBE at The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (2007), Solution at Diverseworks (2009), and Totems at Sala Diaz (2009). His work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, ArtNews, Art Lies and The Brooklyn Rail.
He currently teaches at The California College of Art in San Francisco and is a Visiting Critic at Cornell University. Jeffrey will exhibit his art works at The Museum of Art and Design (NYC), The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Peabody Essex Museum, and have a solo exhibition at Participant Inc. (NYC), all in 2012. He has recently been named a 2012 TED Foundation Fellow.
Tue Oct 11, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: Michael Hall
Posted: September 26th, 2011
Concerned with the contemporary reinterpretation of history and historical artifacts, Michael Hall creates multidisplinary projects that examine the struggle between control and protection, nostalgia and the mythic image. Whether recontextualizing California coastal landscape painting to reveal it’s hidden and deteriorating military past or documenting the excess and loss of the physical photographic object, Hall’s work explores our pathos for the past while investigating our relationship to it in the present.
Hall, who was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2010, has held recent solo exhibitions at venues including Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Southern Exposure, and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Rental Gallery, San Francisco; and Blankspace Gallery, Oakland. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, at venues including Swarm Gallery, LoBot Gallery, 21 Grand, Oakland; Ore Projectz, San Francisco; and New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Hall received his BFA from the California College of the Arts, and his MFA from Mills College. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tue Sept 27, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Without Limitations
Posted: September 21st, 2011
pictures from yesterday’s class, Without Limitations (Rune Olsen and Jeffrey Gibson)
Images by Jeffrey Gibson, Students are in costumes of their own creation.
Lecture series: Rune Olsen
Posted: September 19th, 2011
Through conceptually driven sculpture projects Rune Olsen conducts sociologically informed investigations that explore the intricate connections between desire, power structures and society. From a life-size child suckling on a goat’s teat to sculptures of children in brat straps, he confronts complex and emotional subjects while experimenting with the audience’s responsiveness to becoming participators in the sculptural space. Seduction is an important tool in the creation and realization of Rune Olsen’s sculptures – from the concept and image, to the choice of materials and the construction process.
“Rune Olsen’s beautifully composed, often shocking, masking tape-covered sculptures are some of the most visually seductive and physically intriguing figurative works being produced today. His three-dimensional tableaux, representing man and beast in various positions of sexual dominance and compliance, interweave personal narrative with mind-expanding revelations about natural-science.”
Francine Koslow Miller Sculpture Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2009
Tue Sept 20, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Faculty Lecture: EG Crichton
Posted: July 8th, 2011
E.G. Crichton uses a range of art strategies and media to explore social issues, history, and site-specific subject matter. She often works within community settings and collaborates across disciplines with other visual artists, performers, writers, scientists and composers, to name a few. Her work has been exhibited in art institutions and as public installations in Europe, Japan, Australia and across the US. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Santa Cruz and the first Artist-in-Residence for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society of Northern California.
July 12, 18h (6:00PM), Lecture Hall
Alias
Posted: May 3rd, 2011
Exposition au CIAC, centre d’art contemporain
Vernissage : Vendredi 6 mai 2011 de 18h à 20h ouvert samedi 7 et dimanche 8 mai de 14h à 18h
Portes ouvertes des ateliers des étudiants: Vendredi 6 mai de 18h à 20h Samedi 7 mai de 14h à 18h
La Dérive
Posted: April 27th, 2011
Announcing “La Dérive” , an art walk and reception to be held on May 1 2011 from 4- 6pm in Pont-Aven. “La Dérive” showcases four exhibitions organized by students of Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in collaboration with three Pont-Aven galleries. Participating galleries and artists include:
Galerie IzArt 13 Rue du Port
“Image/Imago”: Danielle Dillon, Christopher Lee, Sarupa Sidaarth, Ray Zarnowitz, Nathan Zeidman.
and
“Simplicité”: Mac Ballentine, Allison Fontaine-Capel, Ethan Sherman.
Galerie Galerie 8 Rue Louis Lomenach
“Bleu ou Vert”: Julia Caston, Abigail Drapkin, Allison Fontaine-Capel, Elizabeth Garon, Kaity Hord, Jee Hye Kim, Ellen Mariano, Jillian Robinson, Ethan Sherman, Natalie Wohlstadter.
Idées Vertes 5 Rue Bois D’Amour
“Les Fées de la Forêt”: Natalie Wohlstadter
Lecture Series: Elizabeth Whalley
Posted: April 25th, 2011
Elizabeth Whalley is a Canadian artist based in Quebec (Canada) and NYC. She uses painting, drawing, and printmaking as tools to gather and study phenomena from the natural world. Experimental projects that result, influenced by science-based imagery, performance, or narrative, evolve in response to site, materials, and technologies. She received an MFA, as well as an Advanced Certificate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York after studies in fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Her grants and fellowships include a FIPSE faculty grant from Pratt Institute, a McNair Scholar’s research fellowship, and a Canada Council Travel Grant as well as artist’s residencies in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland and at the Etay studio in Montreal. She shows regularly in the New York and Montreal areas and is represented in many private collections. She has participated in numerous collaborative and interactive events including the Conflux Festival and the Science Fair at Flux Factory in NYC. Elizabeth Whalley has taught at Haverford College, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn College, and Adelphi University.
April 26, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: Alex Hirsch
Posted: April 3rd, 2011
Alex Hirsch paints watercolors and works in fused glass. In both media, she plays with color, texture and light and employs spare and enigmatic imagery to evoke mood, emotion and atmosphere. Much of her fused glass work is commissioned, and is designed in response to the particulars of the site, client and audience. Her work can be found in many private, pubic and corporate collections including the United States Embassy (Bulgaria), US Aid (Uganda), Hallmark Corporation (Kansas) and Umpqua Bank (Oregon). Currently represented by Printworks Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, she received her BFA from the University of Michigan and her MFA from Washington University. Ms. Hirsch lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
April 5, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: TANITOC on Ben Katchor
Posted: March 28th, 2011
TANITOC is a French bande dessinee artist, writer and lecturer. He is the author of 2 graphic novels and a scholar on comics criticism and theory. Tanitoc is curating an exhibition of work by Ben Katchor that opens in May at the Institut Franco-Americain in Rennes.
For an interview with Tanitoc see http://us.macmillan.com/author/tanitoc
BEN KATCHOR is an American cartoonist—Among other things, he won an Obie for his ‘comic book opera’, The Carbon Copy Building, a collaboration with Bang on A Can. He is also the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur award.
Tanitoc will talk about the Katchor exhibition and his own work.
Wednesday March 30, 2011, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Lecture Series: Ron Haselden
Posted: March 28th, 2011
Ron Haselden is a British multimedia artist who works with light, sound, film and video, often within architectural projects. He taught sculpture in the Department of Fine Art, Reading University and founded the mixed media area in the early seventies. Haselden was awarded the Sargant Fellowship at the British School at Rome, Italy and has received awards, grants & commissions from The Arts Council of Great Britain, The Lorne Award, The Hamlyn Foundation, The Elephant Trust, The Esmée Fairbaim Foundation, The London Arts Board, The Henry Moore Foundation, The British Council, The RSA Art for Architecture Award Scheme, Alliance Française, Conseil Général Côtes d’Armor and le Fonds Régional d’Arts Contemporain (FRAC) de Bretagne, among others. Currently joint curator for Aller À Ouessant, a video biennial on the Isle of Ouessant, France, Haselden works and lives in London and Brittany.
March 29, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Into the Trees: Selected work from faculty of Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art
Posted: March 11th, 2011
VERNISSAGE: lundi 14 mars a 18h
EXPOSITION: Du 15 au 26 mars 2011
Join us this Monday night at L’Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes for the opening of Into the Trees, a selection of artworks by the faculty and staff of Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is a display of the diversity of this group of international artists who work in a wide variety of styles and media but who are united in their commitment to arts education in a global context. ‘Into the Trees’ refers both to a common encounter with the inspiring landscape of Brittany and to the immersive and exhilarating experience of teaching, learning, and artmaking in a new environment. Work includes paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture.
Check out our special exhibition website for a preview of the work:
www.pontaven.org/intothetrees
L’Institut Franco-Américain
7 Quai Chateaubriand
35104 Rennes
Madrid/Paris photo gallery
Posted: March 7th, 2011
features photos by Susan Working, Horatio Law, Elizabeth Whalley, Alex Heilbron.
Lecture Series: Horatio Law
Posted: March 4th, 2011
Horatio Hung-Yan Law is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. In studio work, public art and community residencies, Law deploys common cultural artifacts to explore issues of identity, memory and the loss and gain of cross-cultural struggle in the evolving global community. His work often tackles weighty subjects with ephemeral and unexpected materials, creating quiet, conflicting, meditative and evocative works. An assistant professor in Intermedia and Photography at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, Law received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.
March 8, 18h15, Lecture Hall