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Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille 6,5
le musée de sérignan
146 avenue de la plage
34410 Sérignan FRANCE

commissaire de l’exposition: Judicaël Lavrador

The couple I&W are only complete when painting together, with either two (or four) hands. For their first major exhibition in a museum the artists invite us to discover the extent of their talent under the enigmatic title “6.5″. This measure describes the average gap between the two retinas that our brain uses to determine depth.

The artists exhibit recent works based on the principle of ‘anaglyphs’, printed images to be viewed in 3D, using two different color filters (3D glasses) placed before each eye of the observer.

With the new Vintage 3D series, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille show us Pin-up’s with generous breasts, provocative without being vulgar, borrowed from Harold Lloyd, the great comic actor and a pioneer of 3D photography.

The Pin-up’s sexyness is reanimated thanks to this amazing technology. A pair of 3D glasses customized by the artists is available at the museum to enjoy this spectacular indulgence, a process applied for the first time using painting and engraving.

See also pictures of the great Hollywood villas on fire paintings and other painting experiments by the artists, with a commentary by the museum director Hélène Audiffren here:

during the festival des IDENTI’TERRES in
La Maison des Arts, Bages 26 september - 2november
Galerie L’Etang D’Art, Bages 04 october - 14 november
L.A.C. Hameau du Lac Sigean Narbonne 04 - 19 october

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Bages is the village of Corinne Mercadier’s grandfather. The parc naturel de la
Narbonnaise invited her this year for there festival les Identi’terres.

by Kathleen Burlumi

Corinne does not use the texture of paint nor the volumes of materials.
She uses neither the depths of the wood engraver, nor the expressivity of those
artists who work through the tactile senses. Nevertheless her photographs contain
much of what is considered to be their domain.
The feeling and the atmosphere in her work owes something to many periods of
painting and sculpture, photography and film making, even installation, and collage.
Photography is a difficult medium, it relies heavily on next to nothing, the effect of
light and shadow on a chemically treated flat surface. This puts enormous limitations
on the artist as everything must pass through a blind mechanical process interacting
with the intangible nature of light.
Corinne creates her photographs without them becoming “artful” or technical
complicated; Simple mechanical limitations are only the servants of her eye and her
mind. Her photographs contradict the idea of the ‘instant’ images, the suspension of
a captured moment is hung in time, they are contemplative visions with a quality of
agelessness, in common with the best art.

7ème festival des Identi’terres
Parc naturel régional de la Narbonnaise en Mediterrannée.
Territoires réels, imaginaires, rêvés
3-12 octobre 2008

English
The ‘parc naturel’ at Narbonne with it’s a large expanded lagoons, home to flamingos and a vast population of birds, situated in the beautifully wild region of the Corbières-Maritimes, represents one of the last preserved natural locations on the Mediterranean coast.

This is the seventh year that the park organized their festival “The Identi’ terres”.

All artistic disciplines, visual, dance, poetry, theatre, concerts and conferences were covered, which communicate the idea and ethos of the territory, either in reality, imagined or dreamed.

Many artists today are interested in the problem of identity. What does it mean to be ‘rooted’ within an area, in today’s time of Europe and Globalization?

The Curator Marion Thiba does not just praise the original, the past or the motherland but is interested in the idea of roots which can develop only through contact.

During the 10 day festival, the artists question themselves about the contemplative, hidden solidarity they have towards this territory.

Here a view of the Identi’ terres with comments, pictures and music:

deutsch
Das Gebiet des ‘parc naturel’ repräsentiert mit seinem ausgedehnten Lagunenkomplex mit Flamingos und vielfältiger Vogelbevölkerung, situiert in den wunderschön wilden Corbières - Maritimes, eines der letzten grossen bewahrten, natürlichen Geländes der Mittelmeerküste.

Zum siebten Mal organisierte der Park das Festival ‘des Identi’terres’.

Alle Disziplinen der Kunst: visuelle, Tanz, Poesie, Theater, Konzerte und auch Konferenzen wurden gezeigt und gehalten, welche sich von nah und von fern mit der Idee des Territoriums auseinandersetzen, sei es auf reelle, erfinderische oder träumerische Weise.

Viele Künstler sind heute an der Identitätsproblematik interessiert. Was heisst ‘verwurzelt’ sein mit einem Gebiet in der heutigen Zeit Europas und der Mondalisation .
Die Kuratorin Marion Thiba rühmt nicht nur das Ursprüngliche, die Vergangenheit oder das Mutterland sondern ist an der Idee einer Verwurzelung, die sich durch Kontakt entwickeln kann, interessiert.
Die Frage nach der inneren, verborgenen Verbundenheit mit diesem Territorium stellten sich der Naturpark und die Künstler während den 10 Tagen des Festivals.

meanwhile in Miami
A cultural documentary about street performers on Lincoln road (most famous street of Miami beach) who were recently banned from performing on this cultural center of South Florida after City Of Miami Beach passed street performers and art vendors ordinance which violates the First Amendment of US Constitution.

Discoveries ep2

by Kathleen Burlumi

Le Poisson Francoise Lescaut

Françoise Lescaut showed work in an exhibition called “art singulier” in the Maison Gibert à Lézignan-Corbières, France in july 2008.

We discovered these works, almost hidden away in the small room, the farest away from the main exhibition space.
I couldn’t accept the definition of the work as ” Singular Art ” (a form of Art Brut) although it shares
some qualities with that very personal, even private genre.
In many ways it fulfills the criteria proper to mainstream art. For example there is a feeling for space
form and balance, texture and surface akin to the collages of Kurt Schwitters, notably in the assemblage entitled “Fish” . This small work is resonant not only with the feeling of sea-change-
but has compositional tensions as subtle as in a Paul Klee - or textural intricacies as profound as in a Jean Dubuffet.

Zoë Redman

Mark Lockett

Stanley Adler

Les Rendez-vous de L.A.M.E. liens entre arts visuels Musique Ecriture

au Portail à Roulettes

66600 Salses le Château

19 - 28 september 2008

108 Portes intérieures

The english artist Zoë Redman, who was active in London during the 80’s with video, installation and performance escaped to France in 1990 where she devotes herself to painting.

For this Rendez-vous in Salses le château on the 19th of september, she surprised us with her first experiment in using video and painting together in a performance.

You could see her painting in a video projected on the floor, on which she put 2 canvases to recreate the activity at the same time as the video was playing. The filmed images mixed with the instant reality of painting, pigments on pixels, her virtual hand movements and her live work, creating fascinating images of a inner and outer world put into an image mixer.

At the same time Mark Lockett and Stanley Adler were improvising on piano and violin to create a harmonious compilation of expressive art.