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'

"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)

Ceci n'est pas une exposition !

justice stress (official video)
par 75_prod

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

Lee Cooper in association with the red cross and Designers against aids

"HIV: Time ends to death..." Oil and acrylic + gold powder on Lee Cooper Denim 116 * 90 cm

I was invited by Designers againts Aids as an artist to participate to a campaign organized by Lee Cooper:

Combined with the 100 th anniversary, Lee Cooper has developed a charitable program themed around Denim to raise as much awareness and money to the AIDS cause.

So designers againts aids, has invited me to create an art piece themed around Denim. This piece will be sold at a ceremony Gala auctions the Drouot Montaigne on the evening on 29th September 2008 that will be followed by international auctions in some of Lee Cooper's strongest market around the world...

Lee Cooper has invested 500 000 Euros to make this project possible....
Cherck this:
http://www.leecooper100.com/

So I decided to use Lee Cooper Denim as a painting canvas support, and I produced this painting (acrylic and gold powder on denim) called "HIV: Time ends to death..."

I invited to you to get this painting in auctions to support this great cause...

"Du Jardin au cosmos" Espace d'art Concret, Mouans Sartoux June 27 2008 to January 4 2009

"Lands works" valéry Grancher 2005 - 2008

"DU JARDIN AU COSMOS"

From June 30 2008 to January 4 2009

The nature is again in the target of our interests. The relationship in between nature and humans is not only fluctutative during the last centuries, but it is also regarding the world different cultures.

This exhibition is focusing through artist of our time the deep relation ship in between nature and humanities.

At the time of the global warming this exhbition is underlining our looking regarding our environment through works from the following artists:

Robert Barry, Valéry Grancher, Hamish Fulton, Jean-Luc Moulène, Melik Ohanian, Giuseppe Penone, Eric Poitevin, Robert Smithson....

Curator: Jean-Marc Avrilla

"Voyages horrifiques et espovantables en réseaux numériques" Musée des Beaux Arts de Nîmes June 7 to September 28 2008

The Fonds régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon is organizing this summer an exhibition which is focusing François Rabelais (16th century french author)works. It's called "La Dégelée Rabelais" from June 7 to September 28 2008.

This event will have over 30 exhibitions in Languedoc-Roussillon in South of France.

One of them in Nîmes a city of south of France at the Fine art museum "Voyages
horrifiques et espovantables: navigation en réseaux numériques" will focus about François rabelais obsessions regarding the 21 century obsessions with new media. The contemporary art work will be mixed up with permanent collection which is running from 14 th century to 19 th. It will host my pieces hereafter:

"Geopol 79.55° Nord / 12.35° Est" "Arctic pop",and "webscape" (internet installation 1998)

Others artists included in this exhibition
Michel Blazy, Alain Clairet et Anne-Marie Jugnet, Claude Closky, Miltos Manetas...

SKANK BLOC BOLOGNA at New Langnton Art Center, San Francisco USA. May 3 2008

SKANK BLOC BOLOGNA
Number Two

You are invited to the launch of the second issue of Skank Bloc Bologna part of Book It! a New Langton Arts (http://newlangtonarts.org/) event in San Francisco on May 3rd, 2008.

Skank Bloc Bologna is a Semina inspired collection of art and poetry which includes contributions from Dodie Bellamy, Bill Berkson, Anne Colvin, Leo Estevez, Valéry Grancher, Eric Doeringer, Skylar Haskard, Colter Jacobson, Pat Lenz, Erlea Maneros, Bernadette Mayer, Tucker Nichols, Larry Rinder, Allen Ruppersberg, Ubuweb and others. This is a special 'Langton Edition' as the contributing artists have either shown at New Langton Arts or have created a Langton-inspired piece for Skank.
Book It! is a one-day alternative publishing fair and panel discussion that brings together artist's books, zines, magazines and online publications from the Bay Area and beyond.

Book It! is organized in conjunction with the Alejandro Cesarco's Once Within a Room and Dexter Sinister's Phantom Rosebuds exhibitions which reconsider the place of text, narrative and reading in contemporary art and society. The artists and curators involved in these exhibitions examine the function of language and text in the artistic process and propose alternative models for publishing and production. The result is an innovative and timely reconsideration of the place of the word in the society of the spectacle.

"May Skank have the life that Semina did..." - Mark Beasley, Curator and Producer, Creative Time.

Hope to see you there, Anne Colvin.

Lincart gallery solo show: The opening reception

The opening reception, hereafter the video :





1- "Infopower"


The typical american flag with its eagle as an american power.
This sign is mixed with a google logo and all of this visual collage is called "Info power"
Google has defined the new capitalism of 21st century. This is capitalism is not anymore dealing with industry, selling, object, like Ford has defined.
But Google has defined a new capitalism based on language capitalism, by selling keywords and acces to information.
By doing this Google has became one of the most powerful media in our globalized world, so powerful that now he are making new lobbies for the american presidential campaign to help the differents candidates with their google tools.
This painting is focusing this matter

2- "Google boat versus info ranking"


This painting is quite in the same line than the "infopower one"
We can see an halloween logo (2206) from google, a cuban boat people facing a gold skyline (miami) and floating on the american flag strip...
Every day illegal immigrants to US risk their life to reach their dream land with small boats, many of them are seeing miami as a gold land.
Many people in our globalized world are running after investment, and are focusing nasdaq as the new capitalism dream land.
Both of these phenomenons are happening at the same time.
This painting is focusing this hyper-capitalist "epiphany" (James Joyce was calling epiphany a kind of poetry done with concomitant conversation collected in Dublin streets)

3- "Polar liberal landscape"


This painting is showing an air view of the polar sea pack in north pole:
This sea pack is melting under global warming pressure. We can also see two bloody human foot prints facing a small Iceberg which has diamond and gold.
The Globalization has accelerated the global warming and we can perceive the consequences today. Our environment is dying and bleeding under our modernism steps.
But the major company like TOTAL, GAZPROM and many others are seeing this sea pack melting as a huge new opportunity: We will be able to reach the new diamonds, golds and gaz reserves which were inaccessibles undtil today.
This painting is talking about this matter.

4- "Google July 14 200"


This is a google painting showing the french google screen on July 14 2006: The french national day
Google has became the new door of the 21 century capitalism model as Ford has became on 20 century.
As Andy Warhol was painting campbell soup because everyday he was eating this soup, every day I am opening my laptop and I am facing the google screen. So regarding to me it has became the new 21 century still life.
I had to paint it.

5- "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday - May 22, 2006"


This is the google screen show on May 22 2006: Conan Doyle birthday

6- "Google Halloween 2007"


This is the google screen show on Halloween 2007

7- "Google miro"


This is the google screen shown on Joan Miro birthday on 2006

8- "80 Hg."


This painting is showing the kongsfjorden fjord landscape in Spitzberggen (Svalbard Arctica).
It is situating on 79° North and 12° East.
The 80 HG is the mendelev table symbol of mercury. This is the 80th element in the mendelev table.
And in this supposed virgin land we are founding a huge pollution of mercury which is a direct consequence of our globalized economy.
This mercury has contaminated all the food chains, from animals to local humans. In the inuit community new diseases are appearing.
Some birds by flying are falling like stone (They became so contaminated that they are dying by flying because this pollution).
I wanted to show this beautiful landscape by revealing this pollution as our work.

9- "FLICKR: North Pole horizon 80° North"


When I was in North pole I shooted the north pole horizon. When I was back to my home I puted this photo on my flickr online album.
By doing this I got the conscioussness that as the web has defined a new kind of still life, it has also defined a new kind of landscape so I decided to paint this internet screen as a landscape.

10- "Dioxyne in Lowenbreen"


We can see in this paintings scientist with their skidoos in a beautiful and lightful landscape in Lowenbreen in Spitzberggen (svalbard). They are looking like small playmobile in a huge landscape.
They are making examination on the ice. They discovered that this ice and snow is also contaminated by dioxine.
This dioxine has also contaminated all the food chain from animals to humans and are causing new diseases in arctica area in some local human communities (greenland).
That's why we can see at the bottom of this painting the chemical sign of Dioxine.

11- "Jivaros soul at north pole"


On 2005 for my solo show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on November 2005, I had to make an expedition in deep amazon to make an art project with a Jivaro community who's using the internet to make the world knowing them.
When I was in deep amazon on the equator line at the boder in between Peru and Ecuador in a jivaro community called Tanguntsa (shiwiars groups); I was living and sharing their daily life.
I became very closed to the shaman because I was spined by a huge spider (mygal) on my back (I still have pain sometimes), he curated me and certainly saved my life.
Then he knew that I will go after this journey in his community to North Pole. So he told me that he has to be there with me to expand his spiritual land and to establish a spiritual link in between two top of the world:
The pole and the equator line. So he explained me that his further crown was his soul and asked me to bring it there in north pole and to wear it.
So When I was on the 80 degrees north line (North Pole is running from 80 to 90 ° north) I did it and this is the picture !

12- "Google mother's day 2005"


This is the google screen shown on the mother's day on 2005

13- "Aibo"


This is the three aibo dogs: Robot produced by Sony.
The computer world has affected everything, the way we are perceiving our environment, the social relation ship, the capitalism and the way that we are trading.
Now we are able to substitute our affective relation ship to animals with robots. And it has became very fashionable.

14- "UML sequence diagram"


this painting is showing two hookers and an UML sequence diagram.
A UML sequence diagram is a software storyboard for programmers (java developpers).
This is the diagram of an ATM machine software:
Thess machines are working like electronic bitch: we are puting in their electronic pussy an electronic penis (visa card) and we are getting cash !
So this painting is showing the relation ship we have with an ATM machine:
We are junky with money, we cannot afford our life without it, this is a real addiction and everything is dealt as a sexual relation ship with an atm machine.
Of course this is a joke painting, don't take it too much seriously

15- "Info origin"


Gustave Courbet has painted the "Origine du monde": http://www.desordre.net/invites/jacky_chriqui/divers/courbet.htm
But today the world has became an information world !!!!
This is the new version of it !

Conclusion:
As you can see the main topic of my work is to paint specific matters from 21 century that was never painted before.
But as matters I am focusing on the Human ecology with technology:
How technology has affected our envirionment, our perception and our phenomenology.
As we can see it has also affected the indigeneous people perception in amazon...

Solo show at Lincart gallery in San francisco

"Internet painting" solo show Lincart Gallery

"Internet paintings" solo show January 8 - Fébruary 9 2008
Opening reception on January 10 6 to 8.00 pm
- Lincart Gallery, 1632 C Market Street. San Francisco, CA 94100-5910, USA.
tel: USA(415)-503-19821

"Biome" Lincart Gallery San Francisco, USA

I have the pleasure toi announce my participation at this collective show:
- October 23 - December 1 2007: "Biome" collective show, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Lincart
1632 C Market Street.
San Francisco, CA 94102-5910

"RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA" at Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive

Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California USA

I have the pleasure to annonce my next show at The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, USA:

- "RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA" is curated by Rick Rinehart October 26 2007- March 8 2008, Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA.

This show is a kind of project where Ken Goldberg and me who have sold a few years ago our pieces (mine is called 24H00 and was sold on 1999) to BAM, is remixed as open source by young artists:
Our pieces from the BAM permanent collection is shown with the new works done with the code from them.
This a kind of 'open source' show and I like very much the concept...

Congratulations to the curator

Palais de Tokyo

100 artists are supporting The Palais de Tokyo site de création contemporaine in Paris this year. How do they support it ?

By giving one or a few of their art pieces !

These pieces are shown from October 16 to 19 at the Palais de Tokyo and they will be puted on auction by Christies, Sothebys and Drouot.
I gave two of my pieces, my painting here-after:

Come to buy them and to support Palais de Tokyo for their great works and projects !!!

"Concetto Nazionale"

New Museum of Contemporary Art New York USA

Finally the show is now scheduled:
"Google art how to hack google" opening on October 4 2007
My piece google alphabet is shown:
http://www.nomemory.org/alpha/
curator: Ana Otero and Marysa Olson
http://www.newmuseum.org

Valéry Grancher

Nuit blanche 2007 paris

This is the fifth time I am invited by the curators for the "Nuit blanche" of contemporary art in Paris.
This year on next saturday october 6 at Hôtel d'Abret 31 rue des Francs bourgeois 75003 Paris, a huge show dealing with second life will be up.
The curators are Christophe Bruno and Daniele Balit, the artists are Miltos Manetas, Chritsophe Bruno, Etienne Cliquet, Yona Freedman, Andreas Angelidakis and some others.
My project "le bureau des délations" done during 2004 nuit blanche will be re-activated on a new version as a virtual office in second life focusing the SL crimes, and as a performance in the physical place where everything will move around two paintings:

"Concetto nazionale"


Name of this new version of thios project "Le bureau des délations 2"

ARTE TV Metropolis

- Arte TV (Germany and France) in metropolis on July 28 2007 at 20H00 will show a 12 minutes report about my arctic polar art project:
http://www.ny-aelsund-pole0.org
"How to define a new art ecology ?"



And if you are closed to Nice in South of France to hesitate to visit the Espace d'Art Concret de Mouans Sartoux: "On fait le mur !" collective show, where "Geopol", a video installation produces at 79 North and 12 East is shown ;-)

Have a good summer !!!

- Arte TV (France et Allemagne) dans metropolis le 28 Juillet 2007 à 20H00 diffusera un reportage de 12 minutes sur mon projet artistique en arctique polaire:
http://www.ny-alesund-pole0.org
"Comment définir une nouvelle écologie de l'ART?

Et si vous êtes en ce moment pas très loin de Nice dans le sud de la France. N'hésitez pas à visiter l'espace d'Art Concret à Mouans Sartoux. Exposition "On Fait le Mur !" où mon installation vidéo "Geopol" produite au 79° Nord et 12° Est est montrée

Ayez un bel été !!!

Valéry Grancher