"L'esthétique du présent"

"Twin Peaks"
huile sur toile
40x40 cm

Valéry Grancher 2011

Conférence à l'ESBA de Nantes dans le contexte du projet 'Plugins' le 8 Février 2011 à 14h
ESBA de Nantes, Nantes, France

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Conference, lecture and works presentation at ESBA in Nantes (Art University in Nantes France)
In the context of "plugins" cycle...
February 8 2011 14h
ESBA Art University of Nantes, Nantes, France

"Hors Oeuvres"

"Spitzberg Memory" Valéry Grancher 2010

"Hors Oeuvres"
26.11.10


"Hors oeuvres" collective exhibition curated by Jean Marc Avrilla:
Yan Géraud, Valéry Grancher, Ludovic Lignon, Fritz Stol Berg, Christian Vialard....

JTM Gallery, 40 rue Richelieu 75001 Paris

26/11/2010 until December 18 2010

lafiac.com

Concetto Nazionale performance September 7 2010

lafiac.com
20.10.10


Concept

Ceci n’est pas la Fiac, vous ne vous êtes pas trompé de lieu !
Lafiac.com est un espace rhizomatique qui étend les frontières de la Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain aux artistes qui utilisent le Web comme espace de création.

Lafiac.com : lieu de présentation de 29 artistes internationaux et 29 œuvres en ligne, accessibles par tous. Une galerie en ligne à l’heure où un grand nombre de galeries internationales se regroupe en un même espace pour exposer et vendre.
Ici, ces œuvres numériques abolissent les frontières, lafiac.com a une adresse mais pas de murs ni de droits d’entrée.

La galerie est accessible à tout moment par tous et à tout moment avec des oeuvres qui s’animent en présence de l’internaute. Lafiac.com rend visible un art généralement en marge des circuits de l’art contemporain qui se vend peu et dont l’absence de matérialité trouble nos habitudes.

Cet évènement, né d’une initiative spontanée et non lucrative, permet d’appréhender sous la forme d’un webring, la richesse de la création sur Internet en cette semaine consacrée aux « arts visuels du XXe et du XXIe siècle, de l’art moderne à la création émergente ».

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Curateurs & organisateurs
Margherita Balzerani, Florent di Bartolo, Julien Levesque

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Les artistes de lafiac.com
Annie Abrahams ~ Argote Ivan ~ Alain Barthelemy ~ Florent di Bartolo ~ Pauline Bastard ~ Christophe Bruno ~ Marco Cadioli ~Gregory Chatonsky ~ Thomas Cheneseau ~ Caroline Delieutraz ~ Constant Dullaart ~ Nicolas Frespech ~ Valéry Grancher ~ Lucile Haute & Nicolas Sordello ~ Olga Kisseleva ~ Alexandre Lard ~ Tobias Leingruber ~ Julien Levesque ~ Nicolas Maigret & Nicolas Montgermont ~ Miltos Manetas ~ Albertine Meunier ~ Mouchette ~ Angelo Plessas ~ Rafael Rozendaal ~ Antoine Schmitt ~ Systaime ~ Mark Veyrat

Ceci n'est pas la Fiac sur Internet:
Le site web (visible à partir du 20 octobre) : http://www.lafiac.com/
Le blog: http://www.lafiac.com/blog/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lafiac
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lafiac?v=wall

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Concept

This is not the FIAC, you didn't go to the wrong place!
Lafiac.com is a rhizomatic space that extends the boundaries of International Fair of Contemporary Art with artists who use the Web as a creative space.

Lafiac.com: Presentation place with 29 artists and 29 international online works, accessible by all. An online gallery at the same time than a large number of international galleries are together in one space
to show and sell.
Here, these digital works abolish borders, a lafiac.com address but no walls or entrance fees.

The gallery is accessible at all times by all people at all times with works that come alive in the presence of the user. Lafiac.com makes an art usually visible on the fringes of contemporary art that sells little and whose lack of materiality disorder habits.

This event, born of a spontaneous, non-profit initiative, allows to understand the form of a webring, wealth creation on Internet this week dedicated to 'visual arts of the twentieth and twenty-first
century modern art emerging artists. '

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Curators & Organizers
Margherita Balzerani, Florent di Bartolo, Julien Levesque

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Artists lafiac.com
Argote Ivan Abrahams Annie ~ Alain Barthelemy Florent di Bartolo ~ Pauline Bastard ~ Christophe Bruno Marco Cadioli ~ Gregory Chatonsky ~ Thomas Cheneseau ~ Caroline Delieutraz Constant Dullaart ~ Nicolas Frespech ~ Valery Grancher ~ High & Lucile Nicolas Sordello ~ Olga Kisseleva ~ Tobias Alexander ~ Bacon Leingruber ~ Julien Levesque ~ Nicolas Maigret Nicolas & Montgermont ~ Albertine Meunier ~ Miltos Manetas ~ Miller ~ Mouchette ~ Rafael Rozendaal ~ Angelo Plessas ~ Antoine Schmitt ~ Mark Veyrat Systaime

This is not the FIAC on the Internet:
The web site (visible from 20 October):
http://www.lafiac.com/
The blog: http://www.lafiac.com/blog/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lafiac
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lafiac?v=wall

Ceci n'est pas la FIAC

"Concetto Nazionale 2010"

"Concetto Nazionale" a été peinte le soir de l'élection de Nicolas Sarkozy en tant que président de la république en 2007....
Cette peinture a été, réactivée lors des manifestations de la rentrée 2010, afin de dénoncer la xénophonie d'état et la corruption étatique apportés par la gouvernance de Nicolas Sarkozy...
Je ne suis d'aucun parti et bord politique, ma conscience et mon éthique me font réagir car tout geste artistique est un geste politique....

En voilà un....


Valéry Grancher 2010


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"Concetto Nazionale" was painted the day when Nicolas sarkozy was elicted as the french president on 2007.
This painting was reactivated on September 7 2010 to contest the xenophobia, corruption brought by the way of Nicolas Sarkozy is governing our country....

I don't susbrcribe to any syndicate, political party or side.
But I am considering every art act as a political act, and regarding my culture and ethic I had to do that...."

Valéry Grancher 201O

"Close up" series

Cet été j'ai commencé une nouvelle série de travaux sur papier, à la fois à l'encre de chine et l'aquarelle, en focalisant sur les thèmes de l'érotisme et de la pornographie....
Vous pouvez voir quelques travaux dans ce post, mais vous voir la totalité de la série sur:
http://www.valerygrancher.vg

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This summer I initiated a new works on paper serie done with watercolor and chinese ink: It's about erotism and pornography...
You may see in this post some works but you can see the complete serie on:
http://www.valerygrancher.vg

Editions d'accessoires sur Iphones ;-) Iphones accesories editions ;-)

Rebecca Bournigault




Valéry Grancher


J'ai le plaisir de vous montrer les prototypes des deux premières éditions d'artistes qui seront lancées à la rentrée par la marque d'accessoires pour technologies mobiles Romab.
Il s'agit d'accessoires pour Iphone 3 GS et 4 G

Les deux premiers artistes sont votre dévoué et Rebecca Bournigault.

Ils seront sur le marché à la rentrée 2010 dans les meilleures boutiques de Paris et de France ;-)

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I have the pleasure to show you the two prototypes of artist editions of the emerging brand Romab dedicated to mbile technologies accesories....
This is accesories for Iphones 3 GS and 4G which will be puted on the market in Paris on fall 2010....

The two artist are Rebecca Bournigault and me...

Valéry Grancher 2010

"Esthétique du présent" ISC - PIF

ISC-PIF Workgroups // ECEM
Les conférences du groupe « Esthétique, complexité, expérimentation et modélisation » (ECEM) de l’ISC-PIF.


28 avril 2010 : 18h00
Esthétique du présent

Valéry Grancher

Artiste du net et artiste-installateur

Depuis 1992, je m'intéresse aux liens entre l'identité, l'espace et le temps... L'avènement du web allait m'amener l'opportunité de focaliser sur ce triangle, en effet le web représente des instants de 24h00 mouvant de secondes en secondes. Seul le présent de l'interaction avec l'interface représente une temporalité, point de durée, point de passé ni de futur... Juste un présent plasmatique sur lequel des liens sociaux se tissent (forum irc, emails). Cependant à cette époque, le web interface entre une intériorité et un extérieur globalisé allait révéler ce qui peut être comme des variants (une forme de subjectivité), comme un invariant (objectivité) basé sur une dominance sexuelle (masculine à cette époque) et un nivellement social par le haut...
Ce présent du web, allait aussi redéfinir à mes yeux ce que l'on nomme 'image', ou encore 'l'image temps' ou 'l'image espace'.... Ces préoccupations 'deleuziennes' allaient nourrir toutes mes productions dans les années qui ont suivie. L'enjeu alors à mes yeux, n'était pas de trouver une forme plastique invariante (définisssant une oeuvre) mais de décliner et de traverser différents médias afin de construire une ligne de lecture esthétique tournant autour des trois sommets du triangle initialement défini. Ainsi de mes pièces de net art, à mes dernières installations vidéo faite à l'issu de déplacements aux limites de notre monde (Amazonie et poles), l'espace et la durée du présent ne cesseront d'être questionnés....
Einstein ne disait il pas du temps, que le futur et le passé étaient une vue de l'esprit ? que la seule dimension du temps qui existe est le présent ... Ces translations (d'un media à un autre) et ces déplacements (d'un monde à un autre) ne peuvent nourrir une forme plastique homogène, la cohérence se fera au travers de l'hétérogénéïté des formes générées et leurs cohésions viendra de déplacement de pratiques hors de leurs champs habituels:
- faire de l'art en dehors du monde de l'ART
- Appliquer des méthodologies scientifiques en dehors des sciences et à des fins artistiques
Ainsi de l'étude du langage individuel (ethnométhodologie) dans mes premières pièces de net art, à l'étude des écologies humaines (dans mes derniers projets liés à des déplacements aux limites de notre monde (anthropologie), je tirais des méthodolgies de recherche afin de nourrir la production de mon travail plastique...


Les conférences sont organisées les mercredis,
à 18h00,
à l'ISC-PIF (57-59, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris)
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IMPORTANT :
15 mai 2010 :: 15h-19h
Workshop "Bases Neurales de la Créativité"


John Stein
"Dyslexia and Creativity"
Dept. Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics - Oxford University

Richard Levy
"Creativity in frontal-lobe dementia"
Neurologue Hôpital Saint-Antoine,

Number of sits limited
Please confirm
Contact (zoi.kapoula@egp.aphp.fr)



26 mai 2010
Stratégies pour une métaphysique contemporaine
Bruno Pinchard
Université Lyon 3


9 juin 2010
L'intentionnalité phénoménale
Denis Seron
Université de Liège



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Institut des systèmes complexes ISC-PIF: Esthétique, complexité, expérimentation et modélisation

"Geopol" single channel video installation. 2007

Institut des systèmes complexes ISC-PIF
57-59 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris
April 28 2010 18h00 - 21H00

Presentation of two recent projects:
- Amazon Project shown at the Palais de Tokyo in 2005
- Project Arctic produced under the International Polar Year
in May 2007 with a facility that will be shown in September 2011
Jeu de Paume.

For these two projects, scientific methodlogies have been applied
in visual research (anthropology). It will also be the subject of a planned conference in Oslo as part of the International Polar Science Conference 2010 (June 8 to 12) where all tops scientists of polar science will share their results regarding research during the International Polar Year.

The two expeditions blogs:

Ny Alesund Pole 0:
http://www.ny-alesund-pole0.org

The shiwiars project:
http://theshiwiarsproject.blogspot.com

DRIFTING IDENTITY STATION

"Where is our mind ?" Valéry Grancher 2007

Drifting identity station
16.03.10


Participating researchers:

John Davis/media artist, Veceslav Druta/visual artist, Octavian Esanu/artist, art historian, Tilmann Meyer-Faje/visual artist, Petru Negura/sociologist, Ilya Rabinovich/visual artist, Mark Verlan/visual artist, Valéry Grancher/Visual artist

Designed and curated by Stefan Rusu, Drifting Identity Station was developed over the course of residency at Centre des Récollets and was supported by the City of Paris and the French Foreign Affairs Office.
From March 16 to March 26 2010

Centre International d'Accueil et d'Echanges des Recollets
150-154 rue du Faubourg St Martin
75010 Paris
France

Contact:
Stefan Rusu
Phone: +33 6 18 86 58 48
Fax: +33 1 53 26 21 83


The Station is modeled after former Soviet polar stations, which were used the 1950s to explore the arctic environment in extreme cold. Drifting Identity Station operates in the harsh climate associated with neo-liberal winter, while researchers interested in the socio-political environment use various devices and methodologies to collect and monitor the identity data relevant in the given context. While exploring the frozen landscape, researchers analyze old trajectories for the formation of identity and attempt to determinate the intensity and temperature of the recent political debates, which have polarized the issue of the identity of the state and its inhabitants. Within the context of Moldova, the urgency behind this exploratory stance toward the discourse of identity has become all the more relevant after the protests following recent parliamentary elections on April 7, 2009. The subsequent new elections in July 2009 produced an important shift in the political spectrum from the extreme left to the neoliberal right. This has precipitated important changes in the political orientation of the country: it has initiated the process of an associate EU partnership, restarted negotiations for NATO membership, and has contradicting the policy of Moldovan 'neutrality' which has historically been dictated by Russian geopolitical interests in the region.

In the video 'Gomenidan is alive' by Mark Verlan we found the artist himself exiled in an individual research unit, which is, buried underground. Located in the woods next to his studio right in the middle of Chisinau, the unit is where he concentrated daily on analyzing the data received from outside world.

While meditating on the symbolic function of the museums in various contexts Ilya Rabinovich confronted a society that is constantly rewriting its history by gradually rejecting elements of its recent past. In this context he decided to investigate the representation of dichotomous structures: he visually juxtaposes idyllic paintings from the Ethnography Museum in Chisinau, which depict Moldovan landscapes as existing since the genesis of science and myth-a potential Garden of Eden- with images of the apocalypse, i.e. photographs and material proof of the Soviet catastrophe. He thus makes a clear statement about the timeline of modern and recent Moldovan history, about the dream and its disastrous realization.

Tilman Meyer-Faje explored a series of elements typical of the former Soviet structure in the Republic of Moldova. He chooses to remix images that have been made by someone else in an attempt to find a specifically Moldovan pattern.

Veaceslav Druta presents a film titled 'GPS for you' in which he questions French and Moldovan citizens in an attempt to survey their knowledge of Moldovan identity. A GPS device, a symbol of globalization and a navigational aid, appears throughout discussions. The GPS also 'talks' in various languages, some of which are unknown to the navigators. As a result, the device creates disorientation and causes a loss of destination.

Octavian Esanu excavated 'Strashilki' ('sadistic little poems,' or simply 'little horror poems') from the Soviet past. This is a children's literary genre that emerged anonymously in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. For his artist book he translated, interpreted, and wrote original couplets following the poetic style of this literary form little known in the West. He also designed and illustrated the book, which aims to provide two perspectives on the socialist-capitalist polarity, which the author considers to have shaped his worldview.

Using polarity as a departure point in his film 'Mark You Make Believe My Dear, Yes' media artist John Davis resurrected Soviet propaganda films from the 1980s as a means of animating specters from recent history. Commenting on the nature of Moldovan identity, Davis states that shifting identities are nothing new in the wake of major political and social upheaval, yet Moldova is a particularly complex case study.

In his text Petru Negura analyze the position and role of writers under the Stalinist regime, who operated on the one hand as social engineers of a faked 'Moldavian' identity, who preserved and defined its characteristics over the extended period of socialist modernization. On the other hand, these writers also developed a very professional tool, i.e. the Romanian language, which is perceived today as an achievement and an important mark of Romanian identity, an outcome that transcended the process itself.

The data gathered and presented by researchers within the framework of the Drifting Station represent an attempt to visualize the current state of different Moldavian identities, starting with the identity imposed by Soviet propaganda and social engineering campaigns between 1940-1992 in a territory widely known as the Republic of Moldova (formerly the 16th Republic of USSR). The ideologists of the Soviet Union embarked on a campaign to fundamentally alter the behavior and ideals of Soviet citizens, to replace old social frameworks of a previously existing culture with a Soviet model, and to create the New Man.

With the new course taken by history after dismantling of socialist system there was a lack of a clear identity parole, and the 1990s evinced a pervasive shift and drift in identity. In the last decade the former Soviet concept of Moldovan identity was resurrected by new political players ranging from the extreme left (CPRM - Communist Party or Republic of Moldova) to the extreme right (PPCD – Popular Christian Democrat Party) of political spectrum. Following external and internal political agendas, political and social leaders, i.e. 'engineers,' used the issue of identity as a political weapon against the threat of 'Romanization' but also against integration into the EU community-with the purpose of preserving the 'neutrality' of Moldova. What we have today, a result of speculations and past political games, is a society trapped between the Russian military influence in the region and the EU expansion process, situated between Romanian nationalism and the nostalgia for a mixture of communist regime and socialist utopia, between the expansive development of the open market and the aggressiveness of neo-liberal establishment.

Through a picture of a meteo station and a video performance called “Where is our mind” Valéry Grancher is questioning the perception of our environment at our world limit though rationalism and subjectivism. “Where is our mind?” is a sentence written on the paper by watercolor mixed with 30 000 years old glacier water. The message was attached to a meteo balloon which was sent to stratosphere of 35 000 meters altitude, where the balloon exploded and fail on to the ground. Through his video Valery Grancher is questioning the status of scientist approach ‘Does Science deal with Icarus myth ?’

Drifting Identity Station was initiated to monitor and preserve the data related to the evolving state of identity in a given context, here the context of Moldova. Visual art projects and written contributions that are on display in the Station comment on the evolution of the social engineering project and 'Moldavian' identity at its current state. At the same time the artists assume the posture of researchers that collect the samples from the field in order to preserve the residual traces that rearticulate the post-socialist condition in Moldovan society now 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of Eastern Block.

Link to the project:
http://driftingidentitystation.com

IPY science conference Oslo 2010

"Arctic Nature" C-print on altuglass, 2007 - 2010


IPY science conference Oslo 2010
08.06.10 - 12.06.10


The IPY Oslo Science Conference will demonstrate, strengthen, and extend the International Polar Year's accomplishments in science and outreach. The conference is an essential opportunity to display and explore the full breadth and implications of IPY activities. The international and interdisciplinary science conference will in particular highlight the global impact of the changes that have been observed in the Polar Regions.

My abstract called “Ny alesund Pole 0”
An artist life in a scientist community in Polar context" is included in this program.

Valéry Grancher (artist) part of the project “Arts aux Pôles” IPEV (institut Polaire Paul Emile Victor) France (May 2007 – May 2008)



In this abstract I will try to share my art experience in Polar context and to talk about the crossing of our an artistic way of seen and a scientific one, by lecturing some of my thoughts and showing some of my productions…

I’m interested in this topic for over a decade (since the beginning of the world wild web) specially by focusing the globalization consequences on extreme territories statutes in the collective unconscious ...
I thought from 2005 to produce projects questioning our planet extrems:

- For example, at Palais de Tokyo site de création contemporaine in Paris, I tried to establish a cultural link between a Jivaros community in deep Amazon, named Shiwiars and living on the Equator line at the border in between Ecuador and Peru. This community has expressed a desire to establish contact with the world by publishing on Internet. This project was named "The Shiwiars project" who posed a look beyond the West ...
- As an archival project, a blog was created :
http://theshiwiarsproject.blogspot.com

So, I had to design a project on one of our other planet clusters:
The opportunity was offered to me by a call to a residence by the french Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor (IPEV) for one month at the Arctic or Antarctica.
This call was organized through the International Polar Year (March 2007 - March 2008) and organized by the IPEV, Le Palais deTokyo, Arts aux Pôles and le Plateau (FRAC Ile de France). I chosed North Pole and more precisely the Rabot base at Ny Alesund in Spitzbergen because it is loaded with a rich history (as the starting point of Amundsen Zeppelin expedition to North Pole from Ny Alesund) and the large number of nations involved in the scientific community.
On the other hand, if Amazon was beyond the Western culture Ny Alesund is the Hyper - West, because of strategic issues, energy, economic, and political will are present ...
Ny Alesund is located at 79 ° N 12 ° E is 1 ° north of 80 ° representing area of the North Pole (80 N to 90 N)
So this project was the logical continuation of my Amazon project forming in my work, a sort of current diptych of 5 years ...
Throughout this project as for the Amazon Project, an archive was published online by creating a blog down all project phases throughout its chronology:
http://www.ny-alesund-pole0.org

Being based for a month to the Polar Base at Ny Alesund, this represents stay with one of many expeditions to the 80 ° North, for tracking the production and filming of my installation named Geopol. A trailer may be seen on this link :
http://www.vimeo.com/7863829

I performed this residence during on one month on May 2007, and I was part of the scientist team for summer campaign on 2007. That brought to me a great opportunity to apply scientitific methodology in the way I am producing my art. Scientist and artists have on fact in common that they’re dealing with the way they’re looking the world subject :
Scientist are doing it on objective way
Artists are doing that on subjective way
A film was produced to show that, it may be seen on this link :
http://www.vimeo.com/8590645 « Ny Alesund Pole 0 » video installation 38 minutes

That’s giving a new way to produce art not on a planified and scheduled way as we use to do during our productions, but on an opportunistic way, by following scientists in their Works to get new focus to deal with…
I can say that’s the main reason why I produced specially videos for videos installations which were shown in different contemporary arts institutions in Europe such like Espace d’Art Concret de Mouans Sartoux, Musée des Beaux Art de Nîmes, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Verbeke Fondation in Belgium and Jeu de Paume on 2011… This new way to produce art has brought me to think about how to define art ecology outside artworld and studios ? On a certain way, it’s tuning back to a form on romantism issued from 19Th century when artists wanted to escape cities to face nature like Caspar David Fiedrich.
The best is to quote my blog to illustrate what I am meaning, it illustrates perfectly the feelings and impressions that I crossed:

« In cities, the destination without wanderings lead to very Joycian epiphanies not devoid of beauty, poetry. But
what about a polar wandering? This is totally surreal, because walk requires a leave go, and inner calm. But is this possible with a rifle scarf and 306 balls in his pocket? This cross of hell will finally overshadow ...
But it all starts, when, after hours of walking on the banks of a fjord, we sit on a driftwood failed allowing water to leave lick the tip of my shoes. It was Bandalpyten. The rifle resting on my side, horizon leads the ballet. The lead curtains clash under clouds with very low curtains very white lights declining shades of purple and azure. The water is smooth as a sheet of steel, not a flood. A black scarification appears around the islands on slicks white (opposite sides) and vanish into the white sky.
Then a black comma strokes the water surface, a deep breath cleaves the silence, and then this thing goes to the bank and leads a ballet to ten meters away. Eiders fly tidal water, are circled above this small Orqual and time stretching ... 20 good minutes that seem to ten ... We dream, then getting up, you realize that if one verbalizes this experience, it becomes a cliché worthy of the 'lonely planet'.... Everything has already been seen and experienced, and this contemplation can not single be shared, but selfishly lived with a shy smile ... "

Valéry Grancher 2010

"Polar expedition" Fondation Verbeke, Belgique

Some videos footage of the collective show curated by Simon Delobel at Verbeke Fondation in between Gend and Antwerp in Belgium.
This collective show is dealing with artists who has been to the Poles since the seventies.
It's running from January 16 to May 15 2010.


Valéry Grancher

Bonne année

Je vous souhaite une bonne année faite d'harmonie, de paix et de santé....
I wish you an happy new year with harmony, peace and health...

Valéry Grancher 2010

"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