News about events and exhbitions regarding the french artist Valéry Grancher

mercredi 25 juin 2008

New pictures of my exhibition at Musée des Beaux Art de Nîmes

Here after some of the new pictures shot by Sabrina Ambre regarding my exhbibion at Musée des Beaux Arts de Nîmes in "La Grande dégelée rabelais" context...




Some close up of Arctic Pop...



On the left 'Arctic Pop' and on the right 'Geopol'

dimanche 8 juin 2008

"La grande dégelée Rabelais"



"Artic pop" Svalbard reindeer antlers with liquitex and glacier water (15000 years old). 2007






The single channel video installation "Geopol" with behind The museum of fine arts atrium with some Natoire Paintings...


In this picture , you may see at the middle top, through the windows "Artic Pop" which is in a room with a master piece of Andrea della Robbia (Virgin maternity from Renaissance). In the atrium where the public is, you can see on the left a beautiful Natoire...

I am coming back today from montpellier in South of France where the most sensitive and lovely art event is taking place this summer. I am talking about "La Grande dégelée Rabelais". Rabelais was a famous french writer from XV century, and he was called by Marcel Duchamp the first Dadaïst ! This event is organized by the FRAC Lanquedoc Roussillon who gave to us (artist) two lovely days from exhibitions to exhibitions (over 30 contemporary art collectives shows are organized in la Dégelée rabelais !)...
"Voyage horrifiques et espovantables en réseaux numériques..." where I am is one of them and it's taking place at the Museum of fine Arts of Nîmes.
Three of my pieces are exhbited "Webscape", "Artic pop" and "Geopol"...

Click on the pictures to enlarge them...

NB/ All of these pieces were produced with the support of IPEV (French Polar institute Paul Emile Victor)

jeudi 5 juin 2008

Ceci n'est pas une exposition !




A french band called 'Justice' is now facing huge reactions and suing process regarding their last video (above)
In fact this is a pure masterpiece. Think about Stanley Kubrick, this is a real movie with a real morality, the media compassion regarding violence is punished at the end: The cameran is...
This video is a masterpiece because it's facing a real social fact in our country. So people prefer to see black boys and talk about racism than to face the real fact... even in this movie you can see white boys doing the same shit, what about the cameraman...
And never a movie talked about this context with such black poetic way...
A movie by Romain Gravas son of Costa Gravas...

Valéry Grancher