Exhibition - "Shortcuts and parables" - Atelier Claude Closky

Jules Bernagaud, Matthieu Brion, Laurie Briche, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, Thelma Cappello, Alexis Chrun, Vincent Deleplanque, Caroline Delhom, Pierre Delmas, Arthur Dokhan, Alexandra Eguiluz, Evelyn Plaschg, Gabriel Gauthier, Jonathan Joux, Boris Kurdi, David Richter, Winnie Rielly, Lucas Semeraro, Goscha Steinhauer

Curator: Boris Kurdi

Bétonsalon — Center for Art and Research invites stu­dents from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris working at the Atelier Claude Closky to con­ceive an exhi­bi­tion in its space for an evening and a day.

The studio, directed by Claude Closky, aims to develop stu­dents thinking and prac­tice through inten­sive, con­crete exper­i­men­ta­tions that involve com­paring the approaches of all stu­dents, regard­less of their level of study, to make use of art his­tory and the imme­diate envi­ron­ment of the art­works in pro­cess. There are approx­i­mately twenty hang­ings throughout the aca­demic year. Each stu­dent pre­sents to the group a piece of their own work that they con­sider fin­ished, whether it be an old or new art­work. A dif­ferent stu­dent is respon­sible for exhibiting their studio mem­bers work. It is up to the col­leagues in the studio to sug­gest a direc­tion for the group and design the hanging of the exhi­bi­tion in response to the answers received.

Shortcuts and para­bles

In 1972, the space probe Pioneer 10 was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida). In an attempt to com­bine sci­en­tific and artistic research, Carl and Linda Salzmann Sagan (astronomer and writer) pro­posed to NASA to etch a drawing on the struc­ture of the probe. The drawing was etched into an anodized gold and alu­minum plate. It rep­re­sented the posi­tion of man in the solar system and the var­ious rela­tion­ships to scale between objects and fig­ures.

The desire and the pre­cise cal­cu­la­tions per­mitted the mea­sure­ment of the expe­di­tion—whether through the amount of fuel required, the number of kilo­me­ters trav­elled, or the mate­rial strength of the space­craft. Alongside addi­tional fac­tors, born of con­tin­gen­cy—the prob­a­bility that they will reach extrater­res­trial life or, fur­ther­more their under­standing of the engraved sym­bols. Yet, the most impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion was pre­sent at the takeoff: the deter­mi­na­tion of the tra­jec­tory of infor­ma­tion.

This tra­jec­tory of infor­ma­tion is also the objec­tive of the stu­dents of Claude Closky’s work­shop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the frame­work of an invi­ta­tion by Bétonsalon — Center for Art and Research.
For one month, var­ious aspects of the pro­ject will be devel­oped to become full objec­tives. The arrange­ment of the work in the space is defined in func­tion to its impli­cated move­ments. The first move­ment is that of thought, which allows for us to under­stand the work as a unity, as a strength, the second one leads the pro­cess and tra­jec­tory of the work in the space.

Without hier­archy or pri­ority of time, the two pro­gram schemes of move­ment are cod­i­fied as hooks with each artistic approach in rela­tion to the body and its aspi­ra­tions. Outside of con­sid­ering levels of edu­ca­tion or the quality of the treat­ment or value of the employed mate­rials, the exhi­bi­tion invites us to con­sider the body and its propen­sity for knowl­edge through artistic approaches.

Boris Kurdi

Opening exhibition "Raccourcis et paraboles" - Studio Claude Closky. Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2016

"Raccourcis et paraboles" - Studio Claude Closky. Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2016

Jules Bernagaud, "Naked Voice (you make the effect)", 2016, audio device, promontory, prise de parole, Mercredi June 1 at 19h

Lucas Semeraro, "AIOIA", 2016, mixed media.

Matthew Brion, "Flower! you are like synthetic feelings", 2016, bouquet of craspédias and other flowers, table.

Goscha Steinhauer, "Irrational exuberance", 2016, brass, polymethylmethacrylate, cotton.

Jonathan Joux, "Mieux vivre", 2016, toilet paper and paper towel.

Thelma Cappello, "Awakening of the samurai /dangerous matin set up", 2016, mixed media.

Alexis Chrun, Filiation Baba, 2016, foam, metal and digital printing, variable dimensions.

Pierre Delmas, "B-29 / 1945", 2016, aluminium.

Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, "Lineage", 2016, mixed media