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présentation - 展览介绍 :
Acclaimed French video artist Pierre Coulibeuf’s first solo exhibition will be unveiled in April at YUAN Space in Beijing. As a highlight of the 2013 Sino-French Culture Spring, the exhibition presents the artist’s exceptional videographies to explore a humanistic search into the conflicting worlds of the internal and the external that captures a profound sense of “French melancholy”.
Pierre Coulibeuf has been engaged with video art over the last two decades. Having directed more than 30 short and feature-length films, Coulibeuf’s works are adaptations of other genres of artistic expression, including, drawing, dance, performance, photography and literature. The artist has presented his work on many international film festivals, as well as presenting them as video installations (video-graphs) on exhibitions through the contemporary art network. His artworks are widely collected by various art museums today, and have become a critical vehicle in exploring contemporary European culture.
In his creative process, Coulibeuf is keen on adopting the virtual and distorted image to represent the relationship between fiction and reality. Among his works, the mirror, the white wall or the tangled bodily games allows the audience to be quickly immersed in an introspective atmosphere. Moreover, other artists’ works are also his constant source of inspiration. For example, the artworks in this exhibition are inspired by Pierre Klossowski, Jan Fabre and etc.
This exhibition is YUAN Space’s continuous experiment to focus on contemporary artists and the emerging artistic genres since its solo exhibition by Peruvian artist, Grimanesa Amorós in China in 2012. After its premiere in Beijing, the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Sichuan Academy of Art, Chongqing, on June 10th.
Artworks
Dédale
This experimental fiction inspired by the universe of the Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo as well as Álvaro Siza's building in Porto Alegre. The particular, labyrinthine shape of the building conceived by Álvaro Siza for the Iberê Camargo Foundation determined the actual form of Dédale. In the film, this building represents a mise en abyme.
A Magnetic Space
Inspired by Canadian choreographer Benoît Lachambre’s universe, the work touches on the sphere of the supernatural. An interplay of multiple energies links the characters to the natural elements—air, water, plant and mineral—leading to strange, instinctual body movements. These characters move about in a magnetic space where corporal language takes the place of the verbal.
Le Demon Du Passage
The film reconstructs fictitiously the chain of mental images that surge up from the visions of photographer Jean-Luc Moulène.
Delectatio Morosa
The picture DelectatioMorosa has been created from a shot of Pierre Coulibeuf’s short film Klossowski, peintre-exorciste. It is emblematic of the artist’s works: as a matrix or a key concept for all the pictures made; the themes of double, becoming, multiple identity, play, work as a reflection or simulacrum, are the operators of Coulibeuf’s works.
About YUAN Space
“YUAN”, in traditional Chinese is referred to the origin of all beings. YUAN Space wishes to embrace art with passion of a newborn and to receive its visitors with the humility of a novice.
YUAN Space is a non-profit organization that aims to present art exhibition of the highest standard in order to offer its viewers rare opportunities of viewing masterpieces of art. Located at the city center of Beijing, its space occupies approximately 1,000 square meters. In order to guarantee an excellent viewing experience, the space has adopted the by-appointment-only model, to allow the beauty of the artworks be fully revealed in this outstanding exhibition condition. Besides its exhibitions, YUAN Space is also devoted to unveil the irreplaceable importance of these artworks in the history of art of the world through its series of public education programs.
展览介绍
法国著名影像艺术家皮埃尔·库力博夫的首次中国个展将于今年4月于北京元·空间揭开序幕。作为2013中法文化之春的重要项目，这一展览以艺术家不同寻常的摄影场面，展示出人类对于外部及内心世界的纠结探索，弥漫着一层浓重的“法兰西忧郁”。
皮埃尔·库力博夫从事影像创作二十余年，执导了包括短片和长片在内的30多部电影，它们改编自其他门类的艺术创作，囊括了绘画、舞蹈、表演、摄影、文学。艺术家在许多国际电影节上推出自己的作品，也在当代艺术的网络中借助展览的机会以装置（视频-照片）的形式呈现，而今他的作品被众多博物馆收藏，成为探讨当代欧洲文化的一项重要载体。
在创作中，库力博夫善于利用影像的模拟和变形呈现出虚构与现实之间的关联。在他的作品中，无论是镜子、白墙，还是纠缠在一起的肉体游戏，都让观众在短时间内沉浸到一种自我审视的氛围中。而一些其他艺术家的创作也在不断给予他创作灵感，比如本次呈现的作品灵感就来源于克洛索夫斯基（Klossowski）、让·法布尔（Jan fabre）等艺术家。
本次展览是元·空间自2012年举行秘鲁艺术家格里玛尼萨·阿莫罗斯的首次中国个展后，继续聚焦于当代艺术家与新锐艺术样式的一次尝试。继北京首站后，本次展览将于6月10日移师重庆四川美术学院美术馆。
作品介绍
Dédale
这个实验性虚构作品的灵感取材于巴西画家Iberê Camargo的精神构想世界和Álvaro Siza在Porto Alegre的建筑。由Álvaro Siza为Iberê Camargo基金会设计的这个建筑物迷宫一样的外观决定了Dédale的具体形式。在影片中，这个建筑物象征着谜一样的无尽空间。
A Magnetic Space
本片的灵感来自于加拿大籍的舞蹈指导Benoît Lachambre所编的《宇宙》，作品涉及了超自然的概念。超自然般的能量将电影人物与自然元素——空气、水、植物与矿物——联系在一起，引出了一整套奇怪而冲动的身体语言。这些人物在一个磁性的空间中活动，在这里身体语言代替了口头的语言。
Le Demon Du Passage
本片的灵感来源于富有想象力的艺术摄影师Jean-Luc Moulène的作品，艺术家重构了由其摄影作品所引发的一系列的精神图像。
Delectatio Morosa
DelectatioMorosa这幅照片取自皮埃尔•库力博夫的短片Klossowski, peintre-exorciste中的一个镜头。它是艺术家作品最典型的象征，是整部短片主题思想的起源和核心概念，是关于复制、演变、多重身份、游戏、工作等主题的反映和影像。
关于元·空间
“元”在中国古语中是万物起始的意思，元·空间正是希望以新生儿一般的热情来拥抱艺术，用初学者一般的诚恳来面对观众。
元•空间是一个非营利机构，致力于举办最顶尖水准的展览，让所有观众都有机会欣赏到难得一见的艺术精品。空间位于北京繁华市中心，占地约1000平米。为保证优良的观赏效果，空间采用国内少有的预约制参观形式，优异的展场条件最大程度地展现了艺术作品的魅力。展示之外，元·空间也致力于通过系列的公共教育活动，为大众揭示这些创作在世界艺术史上不可替代的位置。
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