RENNES-ODESSA ROAD TRIP |
PART 1 |
location ^ Rennes. France
date ^ 30 mai 2017
special ^ knappy kaisernappy ( https://soundcloud.com/equintin1) and me were leaving Rennes on Nissan Micra, which was full of our things (600 vinyls, 2 vinyl turntables, mixer, various hardware, modular and other music instruments, books, clothes, art works etc) for cross 3500 km and reach Odessa and Black Sea.
location ^ Paris. France
date ^ 30 mai - 2 june 2017
We needed first to reach Paris and work on last preparations before the official opening eve of Ukr-Fr Discuss art show. It should have been collective exhibition of french and ukrainian underground artists researches at the space of Le Centre culturel et d’information de l’Ambassade d’Ukraine with official organisation by Karpa Irena - First Secretary for Culture of the Embassy of Ukraine in France, and us, as curators of this project. We were responsible for all the conception, art content, mediation, communications, selection, curation etc. Except one room which was curated and selected by Karpa Irena. This exhibition was cancelled and vandalized two days after the official opening, one week before the official end. Artists and curators still wait for official explanations
and excuses from the Cultural Center, but silence on this question brings us to the idea that we are invited to shut up about what happened there.
Opening was a great moment, people who visited exhibition were interested and glad to see progressive art show in this place, and it was cool to
see these art practices together in one place. Civil Stratos (music project of Pierre Louis Thomas/Rituel 111) and FZR (music project of artist Manuel Peraud) were Djing experimental selections, Knappy Kaisernappy was making sound collages through sampling, and some friends visitors of the show were playing piano, repeating isolated notes. White piano was cohabiting with Eugor paintings, and Mardi Noir map, these corrosive works were reverberating in this room, which was the most rich looking one. Under this room, another one was presenting MNPL Workshop researches through the form of three large size paintings : prolongation of their investigation work about urbanism, architecture and composition. Artists were thinking this project like canvas, on wood. But transportation through borders was turning this wish in something difficult to do (we were working without any material support), we took the decision to present
them without, because it was a way to express their reality like artworks which cross borders when some people cant. It was important to talk about the question of circulation of works and bodies in the actual world in an official place like Centre Culturel Ukrainien en France. These bodies of paintings, who were travelling from so far, were now sharing space with Manuel Peraud plaster sculptures serial installation (36 sculptures, uniques and similar in the same time). This room was the bigger by size, and in presence of these two art researches, space was becoming a kind of meditative zone, dealing with the opposition between horizontality of Manuel Peraud research, and verticalization of painting by MNPL Workshop. Another little room was turned into meta installation project, featuring works by Giorgi Gangalove, Victor Ronné, Vincent
Capmartin, Elsa Quintin, Ivan Samokrutkin, combining different elements from design object to reduced formats series, volumes, sculptures and paintings.