"Polars expeditions" Verbeke Fondation

The exhibition "Polars expeditions" is postponed from december 12 2009 to January 16 2010....
Sorry for that

« De l’espace sonore au littéral, du littéral à la littérature… »

VALERY GRANCHER

« De l’espace sonore au littéral, du littéral à la littérature… »

"J'ai sélectionné sur le web, les élèments sonores qui constituent mon environnement intellectuel en suivant l'axe suivant:
De l'espace sonore au littéral, du littéral à la littérature..."
Valéry Grancher 2009

Premières écoutes les : Vendredi 16 oct, Dimanche 18 oct et mercredi 21 oct à 23H00

Podcast de la playliste de Valéry Grancher disponible prochainement sur le site:

http://droitdecites.org/2009/10/02/valery-grancher-websynradio/

Valéry Grancher est actif dans le monde de l’ART comme artiste, théoricien, commissaire et
conférencier depuis 1992.
Il est diplomé de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris (master hypermedia) en 1995.

Websyn radio: A workshop for the review Droits de cité and a radio program hosted by Dominique balaÿ

Le 22, webSYNradio est invitée sur les ondes hertziennes de JETFM : http://www.jetfm.asso.fr/site/-MODULATION-DE-FREQUENCE-.html avec cette playliste.

"Polar expeditions"

"Poster serie" 2007 - 2009, Valéry Grancher


Verbeke Foundation
Westakker - 9190 KEMZEKE (Stekene), Belgium


Opening times
thursday to sunday, 11.00 - 18.00

The Verbeke Foundation, founded by art collectors Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens, is a private art site which first opened doors to the general public on June 1st of 2007.. As a ‘refuge of arts’ the domain offers chances to young / less renowned artists and holds an impressive collection of modern and contemporary art. Culture, nature and ecology go hand in hand in the Verbeke Foundation.

With 12 hectares (29.7 acres) of scenic area and 20,000 m² (4,9 acres) covered spaces, the Foundation is one of the largest private initiatives for contemporary art throughout Europe. The warehouses of the former Verbeke transport agency were transformed into unique exposition halls. One of the buildings was furnished to exhibit Verbeke’s extraordinary collection of collages and assemblages.

The Verbeke Foundation is subject to a continuous growth process. Artists have the ability to reside, larger and smaller exhibitions relieve each other… the Verbeke Foundation resembles a living organism and so looks different one day to another.

“Our exhibition space is not designed as an oasis. Our presentation is unfinished, in motion, unpolished, contradictory, untidy, complex, disharmonous, lively and unmonumental. In this manner it resembles the world outside the museum walls” Geert Verbeke

POLAR EXPEDITIONS!
(winter exhibition 2009-2010)

The real schedule of this exhibition is hereafter:
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12.12.2009 - 15.05.2010
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Artist list (it may evolve):

Raphael Opstaele, Waldo Bien, Caroline Coolen, Tom Liekens, Joachim Koeste, Guido van der Werve, Xavier Cortada, Didier Mahieu, Zoubeir Ben Hmouda, Laurent Tixador, Pierre Huyghes, Louis de Cordier, Lieven Standaert, Valéry Grancher

"Six Feet under" Glassbox, Paris, France. November 7

"Full moon" single video installation 1m29 sec.

"Six Feet under"
07.11.09


"Six Feet Under" Glassbox, Fondation Avicennes, Paris, France
November 7 to December 13 2009
Opening on November 7
Collective show with these artists:
Ursula Achternkamp, Fanny Adler et Vincent Madame, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Collectif DN,
Jean-Louis Chapuis, Matthieu Clainchard, Vincent Epplay, Charlie Jeffery,
Cécile Colle}{Ralph Nuhn, Nicolas Fenouillat, Aurélie Godard, Valéry Grancher, Sabrina Issa, Pierre Joseph,
Djamel Kokene, Bertrand Lamarche, Stéphane Magnin & Emilie Maltaverne,
Cyrille Maillot, Bruno Persat, Fabrice Pichat, Jérôme Poret, Santiago Reyes, Joël Riff,
Jean-Philippe Roux, Eric Stéphany, Veit Stratmann, Laurent Tixador, Christian Vialard.

"2009 Space Odysseus"

"Waning Gibbous Moon"
Shot on August 7 2009 20:08:41 UTC

As you may know I launched a new project called "2009 Space Odysseus"
You may read the description hereafter.

Concept:

Deep field hubble telescope images are re-worked. These images are revealing pictures from the deep universe where the light has took over 10 billions years to come to us...
That's mean, we're seeing pictures from the past over 10 Billions years ago, at the time galaxies (made of billions suns, and solars systems) emerged. We can qualify these pictures as the oldest fossils we know. These images are surpassing human time conception and are revealing inside us, a kind of anguish based on the fact that we are less than a dust in universe...

This serie is called '2009 Space Odysseus'
The point is to make a virtual journey through solar system and deep universe, with our daily technologies (telescopes, computerized telescopes, online-telescopes)...
Today Scientist don't use anymore to study universe in the Visible field, but in specific ray like Gamme, X, UV, IR, Radio-frequences...
The visible field is now dedicated to the amator use. It's defining a new aesthetic dimension of aliens geographies...
This is a new definition of landscape in Art.

I have the pleasure to announce that the serie "2009 Space Odysseus"

Is now available as an edition of 100:

I hope that you will enjoy it

Have a great summer

Best regards

Valéry Grancher

PS/ It is also available as unic piece on 300 gr/m2 arches paper on my official website:
http://www.valerygrancher.vg

"A book about death"

"A book about Death" Resin skull painted with gold dust and liquitex. The skull is on a svalabard reindeer fur...



A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 500 POST CARDS EACH TO CREATE AN UNBOUND BOOK ABOUT DEATH. EXHIBITION AT THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY. OPENING: THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009. EXHIBITION: 10 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2009.
address: The Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway #2
New York City, New York 10012 USA
Tel: Tel 1-917-331-2960

"Concrete concept 6" on auction on EBAY starting price 1 euros with no reserve price

'Concrete concept 6' acrylic on clay 43 x 24 x 17.5 cm

Concept: I'm making a kind of concrete meditation, by focusing on nothing and printing my fingers and the space in between my fingers in clay...
That's why I am calling them 'concrete concept'

Valéry Grancher 2009


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I have the pleasure to put on auction on EBAY for 3 days one of my last production: "Concrete Concept 6".

This piece was produced a few weeks ago and is a part of a new project serie called "Concrete concept". To celebrate it I decided to put on auction the last piece produced until today for 1 euros with no reserve price !!!!
I hope that you will have fun and enjoy it, and I wish you a good luck !!!

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180366966671

Valéry Grancher

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J'ai le plaisir de mettre aux enchères sur EBAY pour trois jour une de mes dernières production: "Concrete Concept 6"

Cette pièce a été produite, voilà quelques semaines et fait partie d'un nouveau projet d'une série nommée "Concrete conept".
Pour célébrer cette nouvelle série, j'ai décidé d'offrir pour 1 euros et sans prix de réserve la dernière pièce produite "Concrete Concept 6"

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180366966671

J'espère que vous apprécierez ce geste et vous souhaite de très bonnes enchères et une bonne chance.


Valéry Grancher

ITW by Myartspace.com

I have the pleasure to publish hereafter my last interviwe done by myartspace.com:

Q. What can you tell us about your academic background concerning art? Did you study art formally? Tell us about your art studies in general-- any influential instructors?

VG: I discovered myself as an artist and it has became my main focus in life when I was 8 and at this time I produced my first oil painting... Then of course, I followed my studies both in scientist university and art University.

Regarding my academic art background, I sutided 4 years Art History and then I finished in Beaux Arts de Paris where I got my master of hypermedia art. At this time my most influential instructor was a canadian artist called Tony Brown

Q. Tell us about yourself. At what point did you gain an interest in creating visual art?

Since I was very young, the farest my memory can jump in the past was when I was 3.... I always focus about visual, it was my door to understand my environment... My parent were thinking that may be I was autist when I was children because I was staying sometimes hours just focusing something by not moving or saying anything: What they didn't know that I was contemplating a light game, or the moving of shadows on an object and the environment changes regarding the light changes...

I was able to formalize these kind of feelings when I was 8 by painting and I am still painting. But I have to say that in my Last video project like the 24H00 surround shot in North pole broadcasted on Souvenirs of Earth TV on last April 12 2009, I was re-activated these kind of feeling...

Q. Can you tell us about your art? Give us some insight into the thoughts behind your art.

VG: I can say that mainly my art is focusing on time concept as I am defining 'time ready made'...

The time is the main reference of our life, it's defining our past, present and future, our memories and so on so on...

Our world has been globalzed and hypertechnologized and the relation in between time and our existence is now filtered by the global network and our hypermedia world which is defining a global 24H00 present moving from seconds to seconds. This is what I am calling cybertime...

When you are surfing on the web you're bringing screen from the past (if they are coming from the west, or from the future if they are coming from the east. In Fact this is the different temporailities for one present (the 24 Meridians)... And this is defining a global 24H00 present...

Regarding my art, I am dealing with these concepts:

For example to paint with oil on canvas Google screen it's a way to challenge the global speed of internet with the painting history and temporality and the result is a kind of an "alien" an hybrid "artwork"...

"Google koons" oil on canvas 116 cm x 89 cm 2008



By the way I am also producing figurative painting, but they are compilating and mixing our global signs issued from our recent art history and present signs we can find in any kind of media...

"Burberry painting" 90 x 116 cm 2006



Or when I am producing a 24h00 video by scanning the horizon by following the sun, I am producing a kind of time and space ready made that I can plug somewhere else, by synchronizing the video temporality with the exhbition space temporaliry:

The video started to be shot on 00h00, it will start in the exhbition at 00H00...

"Geopol": The robot scanning during 24h00 North Pole horizon



Other Paintings series are trying to define what is nature today. I am capturing by video a time and pace somewhere, them I am painting the places captured to document throught the painting media the video....

"Dioxine in Lowenbreene" Oil on canvas 110 x 81 cm 2007



And it is very interesting to see how media are hybridating and challenging each others...

Today our main challenge as an artist is to define a new kind of art ecology in our global world. How to live in this world, and not how to describe it like 100 years ago..

Q. Can you discuss your process in general? Are there any specific techniques that you utilize?

VG: It depends of the media I am using to produce my art piece. It's very different from Digital artwork to paintings...

I guess that regarding my painting practice, only my subject is new, but I am deeply classical by the way I am Painting. But the subject I am painting are not...

Regarding my internet painting, my process is very simple: I am selecting the most well know internet screen which are defining a new kind of iconology in our present world. Google is really the most iconic and well known of all of them. And what is funny, Google has started to mix their logo with modern art masterpieces... By painting them something very post-modernist is happening...

Or sometimes I can see that signs brought by past modernist masterpieces, if they are mixed in between them they can define a new hybrid artwork with its own meaning... I Like very much to mix and mutate them..

For example "Concetto nazionale" Liquitex on canvas, 130 cm x 97 cm. 2007:



Regarding for example my video installation: Before producing them I am making scientific research about the place I choosed to capture: History of this place, Political history, social history so on so on...

And I am trying always to go to our world limit border: like North Pole, Deep Amazon on the Equator line where finally we can find: Hyper occident in North Pole, and Out of Occident in Amazon

Q. What about other influences? For example, are you influenced by any specific artists?

VG: I have to say that I am influented by many artists such like Michael Snow, Jasper Jhons, Warhol, mainly from 60's, 70's artists...

Q. So what is the specific message you strive to convey to viewers? Do you adhere to a specific philosophy as far as your work is concerned?

VG: I guess that the main focus of an art production is not to produce a specific message, but to open new door and windows to our environment which is evoloving with our civilizations

May be we can say that I am talking about How to live in our world, and not to describe it, or to define a new kind of art ecology, all of that may be like this because I am a buddhist... I don't know... May be that's why I am mainly focusing on phenomenology... than topology...

Q. What are you working on at this time? Can you give our readers some insight into your current work?

VG: My main project at this time is to produce a global video capture of our world as I did in North Pole. I want to produce a video installation which is displaying our 24H00 present "Geopolis"...

TQ. What are your thoughts concerning the internet and utilizing the World Wide Web in order to gain exposure for your art? In your opinion, why is it important for artists to embrace the internet?

VG: In my case yes, just Because as an international artist I was born through internet by producing internet art on 1994 and being shown at Documenta X Kassel on 1997....

In my case Internet is a way to mediatize my studio and to define a kind of social ecology around my art

Q. Will you be involved with any upcoming exhibits?

VG: Now I am including in the "Splashback" collective show by Rhizome at New Museum in New York.

I am also included in a collective show in south of France called "Version 01.Beta" with Cory Arcangel, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huygues, Daniel Firman, Bruno Peinado, Damien Aspe, Djamel Kokene, Serge Comte, Claude CLosky...


Q. Do you have any concerns about the art world at this time?

VG: I am very curious to see how the art market will evolve in this huge depresssion Time. May be it's time to find a new energy to write new pages of our Art world

Q. There has been several stories involving copyright infringement in the mainstream press as of late. What is your stance on copyright? Do you see strong copyright as a reflection of artist rights in general? Or do you feel that copyright restricts creativity? Do you have a stance on this issue?

VG: I guess that we cannot do anything, the main point is to be honest by quoting your references, copyright is a way to feed the artists and to maintain this ethics and honesty

Q. As you know, the economy has been hard. Have you had to change-- or should I say adapt-- your practice due to the economy?

VG: I guess yes, If I am not selling my art, how can I produce it ? the equation is very simple. We need to raise money to go forward. For sure If I not getting back my investment the form of my art would evolve to be much more conceptual I guess...

Q. Finally, is there anything else you would like to say about your art?

I would say that to be artist is a human being. We are not becoming artist. We are artist born or not...

This is not a social position. Artist may be Chess masters like Duchamp, Engineer like Da Vinci, or architect like Corbusier...

They may be any kind of social identity, that's why being artist is a human state and being...

TLT TV "Agenda culturel" April 2009, Toulouse, France

- TLT TV "Agenda culturel" April 2009, Toulouse, France:
Reportage about "Version 01.Beta" exhbition at Lieu Commun contemporary Art Center in Toulouse, France.

"Souvenirs from Earth TV"

Pictures of the showroom of Souvenirs from Earth TV with the diffusion of my 24h00 video "Geopol", April 12 2009 Palais de Tokyo, Paris France.

“Splashback” Rhizomes at New Museum New York April 2009

"Reflex" Gif animation, Valéry Grancher 1995

I have the pleasure to invite you to the exhibition Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages, 1998-2002." organized by Rhizomes at New Museum New York on April 2009
“Splashback” is organized by Brian Droitcour, Rhizome Curatorial Fellow
Site built by Elise Roedenbeck, Technology Assistant

http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/

http://www.rhizome.org/art/exhibition/splashback/letter.php

Statement:

“Splashback” is organized by Brian Droitcour, Rhizome Curatorial Fellow
Site built by Elise Roedenbeck, Technology Assistant
April 2009

Rhizome introduced splash pages to its web site in 1998 in order to display artwork with greater immediacy. Splash art occupied the entire browser window, and the works were not indexed by prefaces, links, and thumbnails as art usually was on Rhizome and other sites. When the artwork appeared, the only clue to its authorship was in an extension of Rhizome’s URL, a structural necessity that also served a community-building function. Not only did the splash project create a more direct platform for showcasing work, it also defined a circle of artists by connecting their name to Rhizome’s in the location bar and forging a direct bond between their art and Rhizome’s home page.

"Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages, 1998-2002" is an online exhibition featuring 39 splash pages commissioned over a four-year period. “Splashback” offers a brief overview of online art and design practices from ten years ago through a nearly obsolete medium, the splash page.

Artists include: Annie Abrahams, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Ben Benjamin, heath bunting, Gregory Chatonsky, Shu Lea Cheang, Andrew Childs, Curt Cloninger, David Crawford, Mark Daggett, Joshua Davis, entropy8zuper, Andrew Forbes, Valery Grancher, Matthew Hoessli, Olia Lialina, David Lindeman, jimpunk, JODI, Yael Kanarek, Lucas Kuzma, Antonio Mendoza, Mouchette, MTAA, Robbin Murphy, Nettmedia, Scott Paterson, Pavu, Waldemar Pranckiewicz, Reinis, Satellite01, Sigma6, Starry Night, Eugene Thacker, Jake Tilson, Maciej Wisniewski, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

Share it around

All the best

valéry Grancher

ITW France 3 Ile de France

Extract of French national TV news "France 3 19-20". The artist Valery Grancher explains his 24h film GEOPOL,




a 360° scan of the north pole, shown on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH TV on Easter Sunday 2009.



Valéry Grancher

FRANCE 3 île de France 19/20 April 10 2009 18h40

I had already the pleasure to invite you to the event "Pâques aux Tisons"
which will take place on April 12 2009 from 00h00 to 24h00 on Souvenirs from Earth TV (Free channel 129) with a brunch at The Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Eat) on sunday 12 at 13h00...

Now I have the pleasure to invite you to connect to the French TV Channel France 3 île de France for their TV News 19/20 on friday 10 april 2009. I will be interviewed in direct for my project "Geopol" and my motivations during 15 minutes...

Enjoy it

Valéry Grancher

V.01 β show: the first pictures

Left: Claude Closky "It's okay"
Center: Serge comte "Jive the 50 lives of the firefly"
Right: Valéry Grancher "Click on screen start on..."






Valéry Grancher:
Left: "Google Pollock"
Right: "Google Koons"






Left: Valéry Grancher "Google Koons"
Right: Miltos Manetas "Computer screen"






Right: Valéry Grancher "Google Lego"
Left: Serge Comte "Dessin millémètré"






Bruno Peinado






Left: Cory Arcangel "Nintendo road"
Center: Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huygue "Ann lee"
Right: M/M "No ghost just a shell"






Daniel Firman and Valéry Grancher

V.01 β opening, Lieu Commun Contemporary Art Center, Toulouse, France.

To see photos of the exhbitions click here

V.01 β opening on April 2 2009 at Lieu Commun Contemporary art center in Toulouse, France...
Video done with a FLIP cam Zi6 by Kodak

Valéry Grancher

"Minutes from Universe"

"Night in Splitz"
Valéry Grancher 2002


I have the pleasure to launch my online project:
http://www.minutes-from-universe.vg

Concept:

By using a flip camera (HD digital camera for blogger), I am making small capture of daily life scene. I am using them as a post on a blog, and this blog is becoming a kind of video sketche book....
These videos are no longer than a few minutes, and are a kind of time and space capture...
This is a kind of a visual haiku

Enjoy it ;-)

Valéry Grancher

"Pâque au tison" on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH TV

Photo: "Geopol Ny Alesund POle 0" shooting scene 2007

On next april 12, I have the pleasure to invite you to connect your TV on the channel 129 of FREE
This is the first TV channel totally dedicated to Art Video "Souvenirs from EARTH TV". This TV channel has been founded by the german artist Marcus Kreis whose making me the great honor to create a special event dedicated to my Polar project and 24H movie produced with the support of The french Polar Institute IPEV, Paula Productions and Arts aux pôles..

You will find hereafter the english translation of the Press text sent by Souvenirs from EARTH:


"Pâques au tison on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH TV

SCOOP ! SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH, the channel which is transforming your TV screen as a huge contemporary art museum, will screen on easter sunday April 12 2009 a piece produced by the french artist Valéry Grancher.

This is a 'mondial première', never a 24 hours movie has been screened on a TV channel before.

Valéry Grancher has made a 360° travelling with his camera during exactly 24 hours by scanning the seapack in North Pole during the Polar summer.

The landscape seems to be artitificial, crystalline, unreal, an illusion caused by the extrem purity of the atmosphere on the top of the world

This movie "Ny Alesund Pole0" is a living canvas. It is matching deeply with This channel TV philopshy which is so different from others...

The SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH TV program is changing your screen as a futuristic painting and transmits the consciousness of the immense diversity of creation and some notion of "globality" intellectually accepted by many, but rarely actually lived.

Television thus becomes a window into a hidden spirituality in the media so far defined as superficial

Easter sunday April 12 2009, 0-24H, channel 129 on FREE network.

To know more about SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH TV:
www.souvenirsfromearth.tv

Press informations and photos: on demand
Contact:
Agence 14 Septembre - Laetitia Vignau laetitiavignau(at)14septembre.fr +33 1 55 28 38 28
press(at)souvenirsfromearth.tv www.souvenirsfrom earth.tv +49 221 168 466 93"

V.01 β, Lieu Commun Contemporary Art Center, Toulouse, France.

'Google Koons', oil on canvas 116*90 cm 2008


V.01 β
An exhbition proposed by Valéry Grancher, Damien Aspe, Jean-Marc Avrilla and Lieu-Commun Contemporary Art center, Toulouse, France.

In partnerships with 'le Centre Culturel Bellegarde' in 'the Festival Empreintes Numériques, “Paradis Artificiels”' and the 'Forum de L’Image «Frémissements»' context.

Exhibition from April 3 to 25 2009
Opening on Thursday April 2 at 20H00


During "Paradis artificiels", Lieu Commun is positionating himself as a relationship to reality by reducing the digital tangible.
The paradise offered by the network of parallel universes are as promises of a brighter future and a present where the fun takes precedence over reality.
With the exhibition V.01 ß, under which sounds like that of a software which we will present an exclusive version 01 and what is more beta (test version), Lieu-Commun consciously positions itself in opposition to works New technology sometimes favor more effects than substance. The exhibition planned by a team and not by a single curator demiurge, offers a panorama fragmentary (beta), one of the new trends in contemporary art, digital materialization.
While the web grows and computers are expanding, both in terms of speed of memory in the art, the 0 and 1 take form and matter. Reverse this trend is not an exaggerated traditionalism, but we notice that the e-digital territory despite its exponential growth, is possible in a relationship to reality, highlighting its ability to return to the concrete.

With :
Cory Arcangel, Damien Aspe, Claude Closky, Serge Comte, Daniel Firman, Valéry Grancher, Pierre Huyghe, Space Invader, Djamel Kokene, Miltos Manetas, M/M, Philippe Parreno, Bruno Peinado.

See you there

Valéry Grancher

THANK YOU !!! OBAMA !!!

"L'espoir plutôt que la peur"
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