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