What's on ur mind
Grégory Cuquel, Nicolas Hosteing, Sam Mapp, Damien Mazières, Hugo Pernet, Aurélien Porte, Simon Rayssac, Aldéric Trével
curated by Benoit Ménard
part of Biennale de Belleville
Exo Exo, Paris
September 25 - October 2, 2014
press release
What's on ur mind, 2014
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris
What's on ur mind, 2014
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris
What's on ur mind, 2014
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris
Sam Mapp,
Are they the workings of one mind?, 2014
Acrylic on hunter’s jacket Camo Fire 3d
Damien Mazières,
Untitled, 2014
Digital print on tarp
What's on ur mind, 2014
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris
Aurélien Porte,
EarthFireTreeFire EarthTreeEarthTreeFire TreeEarthFireFire TreeEarthTreeFireEarth, from the Incantatory Combinations series, 2014
Acrylic and varnish on canvas
Aldéric Trével,
Capture the flag, 2014
Digital prints on fabric, cabinets, towel hangers
Grégory Cuquel,
À tant rêver du centre, 2014
Video
Nicolas Hosteing,
L’homme qui a vu l’ours (3éme récit), 2014
Clay, wood, audio file, inkjet print
Aldéric Trével,
Capture the flag, detail, 2014
Digital prints on fabric, cabinets, towel hangers
Simon Rayssac,
{ } Comme (mon nom est ensemble), detail, 2014
Acrylic on MDF
Sam Mapp,
Are they the workings of one mind?, detail, 2014
Acrylic on hunter’s jacket Camo Fire 3d
Hugo Pernet,
Souvenir de pisse chaude dans la neige, detail, 2014
Oil and acrylic on canvases
What's on ur mind, 2014
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris
The exhibition project WHAT'S ON UR MIND invites participating artists to entrust the realization of an exclusive work to Benoit Ménard from written exchanges. Following the example of one of the last series by Martin Kippenberger, entitled Jacqueline : des tableaux que Pablo n’a pas pu peindre – in which he imagines the continuity of THE painter’s work – (*) it produces, around an epistolary correspondence, a remote show placing curating, delegation, collaboration, imitation and plagiarism at the heart of the challenge.
Ideally excluding any image exchanges, and working from descriptions and notes the artists sent, Benoit Ménard proposes an esthetic vectorization, as his hand becomes a sort of mechanical extension of their project.
Interpretation, ambiguities triggered by language and exchange, trust, respecting an intention, and especially the execution form are the parameters that are at work here, and considered as a potential form of collaborative production.
(*) or the project Do It : The Compendium – publication on Hans Ulrich Obrist’s initiative including the works notices especially designed to be seen out (renewed) endlessly by a third.
cuquel@gmail.com
so I picture a movie
with lots of combinations.
lines and curves,
for example a dike which goes far away on the sea with cubist pebbles and puddles of strawberry ‘yop’ and
soft smartphones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTzDONk9oeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way6gtxLMOY
the projection of this animated gif (the wave) on the belly of a white animal
like a horse
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/e9/72/93/e972931545b8e48e4ca7f844d508758f.jpg
white iPad tablets dancing
with a lot of basinski type loop music
lots of meditation, not any 3d but why not some salt dough or some clay,
some rust on the image
I imagine also so many flames, some burning plastic
some crying men
lots of cubism
https://www.google.com/search?q=un+homme+qui+pleure
tears digestion
some make-up
gloss shower
https://www.google.com/search?q=pluie+de+gloss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjGMeJ9spRc
maybe sometimes morning car rides with this record and cigarette smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhTrvIs7aas
