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Cinecito
Franois Piron
Debout les morts
Rousing the dead
Simo
Bernard Marcad
Les Villes
Anarchitekton
Marie-Ange Brayer
Prototipos
Papamovil
Babelkammer
Mario Flecha
La table de Monsieur Malik
Mr Maliks table
Un crime
Jacinto Lageira
Arabian stars
Christine Van Assche
Conversation entre
Conversation between
Jordi Colomer et / and Marta Gili
2 Av
Le Dortoir
Gloria Picazo
Fuegogratis
No Future
En la pampa
Marti Peran
Pozo almonte
Escenita Tocopilla
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tout un mobilier jaillit dun feu et fait le bonheur dun jeune couple qui
le charge dans sa camionnette pour une nouvelle vie; mont rebours,
le film inverse un rituel carnavalesque dedestruction desbiens, ivresse
de la perte et de lanantissement, conomie delexcs retourne
en joie de la dilapidation et de la dpense. DansPre Coco (2002),
le personnage, entre clochard cleste etmendiant brechtien, se
charge de la collecte des objets laisss pour compte, et les remet
encirculation, leur trouve des usages, lesdisperse de nouveau, trouve
et perd dans un mouvement perptuel. Le protagoniste du film
No? Future! (2006)dont le titre mme maintient ensuspension,
par sa ponctuation, la ngativit de son nonc, estunautre
decespersonnages colomriens lexistence fantomatique, comme
parallle au monde. Surgissant lafin de lanuit dans une voiture
quisemble chappe dune attraction foraine, arborant en gigantesque
enseigne lumineuse lambigu slogan qui donne son titre au film,
unejeune femme erre dans les rues aussi orthogonales que dsertes
dela ville du Havre. Jouant crnement delacaisse claire sous lesvolets
encore ferms, elle appuie sur toutes les sonnettes saporte, dans une
dpense gratuite dnergie jubilatoire et narquoise, unedambulation
sans but, dfinition donne par Guy Debord des drives
psychogographiques, qui proposait par exemple de parcourir sans
arrt Paris en auto-stop pendant une grvedes transports, sous le
prtexte daggraver la confusion en se faisant conduire nimporte o9.
Une autre phrase de la Thorie de la drive apparat dans
unedesquatre squences de son dernier film en date, En la Pampa
(2008). Un couple de jeunes gens dambule dans le dcor aride
de la pampa chilienne, portant un improbable sapin en plastique
progressivement dmantel et emport par les bourrasques de vent.
Apparemment indiffrents linhospitalit de lendroit, ilstentent
deseremmorer cette phrase que Debord, en dautres temps
etdautres lieux, crivit pour se moquer de lemploi du hasard dans
la posie surraliste: Lerrance en rase campagne est videmment
dprimante, et les interventions du hasard y sont plus pauvres que
jamais10. Lironie est ici retourne contre eux-mmes et propos
delasituation beckettienne dans laquelle ils se trouvent, tandis
queleurdtermination marcher contre le vent vient souligner que
limage romantique du bout du monde, de sa fin, masque avant tout
laralit dun monde laiss pour compte11. Le sociologue chilien
Sergio Gonzalez souligne de fait la diffrence entre pampa et
dsert12: le dsert est lendroit o il ny a rien, silencieux, et la
pampa est le dsert habit, le dsert o a parle. qui veut entendre.
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scatters them again, then finds and loses them again in a process of
perpetual motion. The protagonist of the film No? Future! (2006)
the punctuation of the title suspends the negative import of the words
is another of these ghostly Colomerian characters who seem to exist
in a world parallel to our own. Appearing at the end of the night in
a car that seems to have escaped from some fairground attraction,
toting a huge luminous sign whose slogan gives its title to the film, a
young woman wanders through the grid-patterned, deserted streets
of the town of Le Havre. Gallantly playing the snare drum below the
still closed shutters in the street, she rings on all the bells she can
reach in a gratuitous expenditure of jubilant and mocking energy, in
an aimless wandering, to quote Guy Debords definition of those
psychogeographicaldrives that might take the form, say, of
hitchhiking non-stop and without destination through Paris during
a transportation strike in the name of adding to the confusion8.
Another sentence from Debords Theory of the Drive appears
in one of the four sequences of Colomers most recent film, En la
Pampa (2008). A couple of young people are wandering through the
arid Chilean pampas, carrying an incongruous plastic fir tree that is
gradually torn apart and carried away by gusts of wind. Apparently
indifferent to the inhospitality of the place, they try to recall the
words that Debord, in other times and places, wrote to mock the
use of chance in Surrealist poetry: Wandering in open country is
naturally depressing, and the interventions of chance are poorer than
anywhere else9. Here, the irony is turned against them and related
to the Beckettian situation in which they find themselves, while their
determination to keep walking against the wind underscores the
fact that the romantic image of the end of the world masks the hard
reality of a forsaken place10. Chilean sociologist Sergio Gonzalez in
fact emphasises the difference between pampas and desert11.The
desert is a silent place where there is nothing; the pampas is the
inhabited desert, where people talk. To anyone who will listen.
Op. cit.
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simo
1997
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simodulor
Bernard Marcad
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les villes
2002
les villes
anarchitekton
barcelone, bucarest, brasilia, osaka
barcelona, bucharest, brasilia, osaka
2002-2004
Anarchie-Architectone / Anarchy-Architecton
Marie-Ange Brayer
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anarchitecton
inhabits both life and art, carrying a symbolic, almost magical load
on his shoulders which at the same time represents a weight and
necessitates an effort. For Colomer, his physical engagement has
a collective resonance. The maquette brings into play a whole set
of scales in which the values of large and small are perceived as
relative. For him, the maquettes are effigies, kinds of sculptures
endowed with a symbolic meaning, and the simple fact of carrying
them through the street produces an event, a collision between
the two orders of reality. The reduced maquettes are on a human
scale and their potentially monumental status is immediately
contradicted by their fragility. Set on the end of a wooden rod, they
become meaningful only when moved by the person holding them,
like puppets. Fascinated by burning stage sets, by objects that
are specially conceived and built for fiction, Colomer could not fail
to take an interest in simulacra, in these vectors of utopia that
are architectural maquettes, these being at once theoretical and
performative models, close in status to those false cities in the
middle of the desert found in Hollywood movies.
At once figurative and abstract, the architectural maquette
evokes the complex relations between object and word, between
narration and set. Colomer draws on this world of the analogy
and taxonomy of the real where representation whether festive
or knowledge is given as repetition11. Idroj could be a kind of
contemporary Don Quixote wandering through a world where
writing and things no longer resemble each other, endlessly
repeating his action. Thus the maquette can be read as both
a word and a thing; it is up to the viewer to recompose the
interlacing tangle of things and their representation. In these
scripts with a multiplicity of simultaneous viewpoints, the
actor can embody language, words can be seen as imprints of
representation and images as concretions of the real. If the model
becomes a tool for scenarising the real, by virtue of its specularity,
the passers-by encountered by Idroj are themselves drawn into
the fiction.
The better to avoid any form of linearity, the film is a sequence
of fixed images that reconstitutes the idea of movement. This
movement is of a dilated kind, since here a message remains on
the screen for nearly a second, as compared to the 24 images a
second in a standard film. Idroj thus runs with the jerky rhythm
of a sequence of still images depicting paradoxically endless
movement. In each film, the persons movements seem to be
repeated, bringing us back or projecting us further forward. It
is impossible to inscribe him in a delimited space-time. We are
constantly switching from one time to another, without a shred
of linearity. Or again, the figure performs an elliptical, slapstick
choreography which consummates the loss of all orientation, in
the middle of a waste ground or a crossroads. This mechanical
dimension of the moving body, revealed by Marey at the end of
the nineteenth century, evokes once again the loss of moorings.
As Ramon Tio Bellido has pointed out12, what Colomer gives us is
not narration but animation. In fact he prefers to disarticulate
codes of representation and privileges the iteration of time
allowed by animation, in which the temporality of the moment
is constantly being played and replayed. In this regard Colomer
speaks of proto-cinema, which combines economy of means with
minimalism of action. Procedures are laid out flat. The images
follow on from one another, their suture visible; the junction
between the real and the fictional is deliberately overt. The
images, like the maquettes, have no intrinsic value; sometimes
they become blurred, accelerate or slow down, following no
rational logic. The film has a beginning and an end, but repeats
itself. It is up to the spectator to decide when it ends. I want
to propose a tension between immersion in the story that is
proposed and the awareness that we are watching something.
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prototipos
2004
88
prototipos I&II
II
papaimovil
1997
98
papamovil
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babelkammer
chambre bavarde
shelf talker room
2007
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babelkamer
115
babelkammer
babelkammer
babelkammer
Interdit dinterdire.
Graffiti, Paris, mai 1968.
La lecture est antrieure
la parole.
Ernesto de Sousa
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Forbidden to forbid.
Graffiti,Paris, May 1968.
Mr Maliks table
Mario Flecha
Understanding is previous
to the word.
Ernesto de Sousa
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un crime
2004
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un crime
dont les
vritables
motifs
ne sont pas
encore
nettement
connus,
croyons-nous,
a t
rcemment
dcouvert
couville,
prs de
cherbourg
le chef de
gare, averti
par un
employ
quune odeur
nausabonde
schappait
dune caisse
laisse en
consigne, la
fit ouvrir
un cadavre
en
putrfaction
y tait
enferm une
surveillance
fut organis
et bientt
on arrtait
deux
personnes
venues pour
rclamer le
funebre
colis
ctait
aubertcastel et sa
compagne
marguerite
dubois.
lidentit
du mort fut
vite
reconnue;
on sut
quaubert
avait
assassin
mile
delahaef
pour lui
voler,
parat-il,
un
cran plasma
valant 1500
euros
aubert
prtend
avoir t en
tat de
lgitime
dfense
cest
insult,
menac mme
par sa
victime
quil lui
aurait bris
le crne dun
coup de
hache.
aprs quoi,
effar,
voulant
faire
disparatre
son corps, il
laurait
enferm dans
une malle
pour le
prcipiter
la mer.
a crime
whose
real
motives
are not yet
completely
known
we think
has been recently
discovered in
Couville
near
Cherbourg
The station
Master, alerted
by an
employee
that a nauseating
smell
was coming
from a box
placed in
the left-luggage
office, said to
open it. A corpse
in
decomposition
was
insidea
search party
was organized
and very soon
two people
were arrested
who came to
claim
the funeral
package.
It was
Aubert
Castel and his
partner
Marguerite
Dubois.
The identity
of the corpse was
immediately
discovered.
It turns out
that Aubert
had
murdered
Emile Delahaef
in order
to steal
it seems
a
plasma screen
valued in 1500
euros.
Aubert claims
to have acted
in legitimate defence
after being
insulted
by his victim
he cracked
herhead open
with one blow
of an axe
then
frightened
to make
the body
disappear
he had
hidden it
in a trunk
in order tothrow
it
into the sea.
faits divers
news in brief
Jacinto Lageira
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149
please dont
leave
baggage
unattended
unattended
baggage will
be removed
and may be
destroyed
tout bagage
ou colis
abandonn
sera
immdiatement
dtruit
nous vous
demandons de
nous
signaler
les colis ou
bagages qui
vous
paratraient
suspects
arabian
stars
2005
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161
the way it is shown, for the very genuine collaboration does not
rule out a deep difference. As the ambiguous title suggests, this
is a crossing of registers more than an unequivocal discourse. As
often in Colomers work, it is the shared consciousness of these
ambiguities that accounts for the burlesque aspect of the work,
with the effect of unresolved paradox producing a kind of absurd
humour.
Jordi Colomer belongs to the generation artists for whom the
whole world is becoming an open-air studio. This is where his
projects take place, be it in Romania, Brazil, Japan and Spain for
Anarchitekton, in Yemen for this installation, or in Chile for the
recent En la pampa. By measuring himself against these local
situations, he aims to achieve a certain idea of universality.
The three parameters combined here location, script,
actors are representative of the different modes of operation
that stand at the limits between art, the real and fiction. They
express a contemporary post-structuralist aesthetic. Shot as
they are in a real-life setting, Colomers works could be placed
in the documentary category. Presenting as it does characters,
in fact children who are asked to play a role, this work could be
considered a fiction, a short movie. Structuring Arabian Stars in
keeping with a personal rhythm and creating a specific set-up for
its presentation (walls echoing the light green colour of Yemenite
interiors, and as many unmatching chairs as there are panel
carriers), Colomer bestows a poetic role on this installation, a role
that emerges from the intertwining of the three registers. A certain
vision of the world (he did not choose his countries and cities
blindly), a personal relation to the false actors who are putting on
a performance more than acting, and the artists close attention
to the parameters of the installations reception in the museum,
interweave at the heart of Arabian Stars.
As Jacques Rancire writes in The Future of Images: What
might properly be called the fate of the image is the fate of this
logical, paradoxical intertwining between the operations of art,
the modes of circulation of imagery and the critical discourse that
refers the operations of the one and the forms of the other to their
hidden truth2.
arabian stars
entretien
Marta Gili Jordi Colomer
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massa justo eget leo. Donec erat. Duis sit
amet nulla in eros sollicitudin commodo.
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non lobortis lacus quam ac tellus. Suspendisse tempus cursus pede. Curabitur
sapien felis, venenatis ut, suscipit et,
mattis a, urna. Fusce scelerisque eleifend
felis. Morbi hendrerit tortor sit amet risus.
Donec nec lectus. Vivamus sit amet odio
eu lorem rhoncus vulputate. Curabitur
aliquet turpis ut pede. Fusce aliquet sodales tortor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec tincidunt est nec purus. Cras sit amet elit.
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viverra, nulla sapien luctus quam, ac placerat ipsum ipsum eget elit. Nullam erat
risus, imperdiet sollicitudin, fermentum
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interview
Marta Gili Jordi Colomer
173
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viverra, nulla sapien luctus quam, ac placerat ipsum ipsum eget elit. Nullam erat
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id, mattis vel, nibh. Pellentesque urna.
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luctus, odio diam vehicula libero, at mollis
massa justo eget leo. Donec erat. Duis sit
amet nulla in eros sollicitudin commodo.
Mauris felis tellus, vehicula vel, elementum ut, molestie vel, nulla. Suspendisse
potenti. Ut vel felis eu augue bibendum
consequat.
Vivamus dictum, odio vel porttitor accumsan, est libero laoreet nisl, sed adipiscing
lacus nunc vitae massa. Etiam at ante.
Duis luctus, mi non tincidunt dignissim,
est ante pellentesque massa, non adipiscing libero eros eget metus. Sed eget
quam. In ac risus scelerisque est facilisis
sodales. Nulla malesuada velit sed mi
tempor mattis. Suspendisse velit nunc,
tincidunt in, semper quis, interdum nec,
nunc. In tincidunt tellus ac risus. Proin
nec orci faucibus dui imperdiet porttitor.
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sem lorem, egestas a, lobortis vitae, ultrices vitae, lacus. Suspendisse potenti.
Fusce ut erat.
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arcu. Fusce posuere, massa auctor rhoncus cursus, tortor libero dictum diam,
non lobortis lacus quam ac tellus. Suspendisse tempus cursus pede. Curabitur
sapien felis, venenatis ut, suscipit et,
mattis a, urna. Fusce scelerisque eleifend
felis. Morbi hendrerit tortor sit amet risus.
Donec nec lectus. Vivamus sit amet odio
eu lorem rhoncus vulputate. Curabitur
aliquet turpis ut pede. Fusce aliquet sodales tortor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec tincidunt est nec purus. Cras sit amet elit.
Vivamus commodo est quis quam. Aenean tortor tellus, congue vel, luctus et,
eleifend et, neque.
Sed ut massa non orci posuere porta.
Donec vestibulum ante et sapien rhoncus bibendum. Aenean placerat purus
nec tellus. Aenean elementum enim sed
pede feugiat sodales.
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hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nulla facilisi. Pellentesque viverra, est non dictum
viverra, nulla sapien luctus quam, ac placerat ipsum ipsum eget elit. Nullam erat
risus, imperdiet sollicitudin, fermentum
id, mattis vel, nibh. Pellentesque urna.
Vestibulum aliquam, urna nec tincidunt
luctus, odio diam vehicula libero, at mollis
massa justo eget leo. Donec erat. Duis sit
amet nulla in eros sollicitudin commodo.
Mauris felis tellus, vehicula vel, elementum ut, molestie vel, nulla. Suspendisse
potenti. Ut vel felis eu augue bibendum
consequat.
Vivamus dictum, odio vel porttitor accumsan, est libero laoreet nisl, sed adipiscing
lacus nunc vitae massa. Etiam at ante.
Duis luctus, mi non tincidunt dignissim,
est ante pellentesque massa, non adipiscing libero eros eget metus. Sed eget
quam. In ac risus scelerisque est facilisis
sodales. Nulla malesuada velit sed mi
tempor mattis. Suspendisse velit nunc,
tincidunt in, semper quis, interdum nec,
nunc. In tincidunt tellus ac risus. Proin
nec orci faucibus dui imperdiet porttitor.
Suspendisse pede justo, semper a, scelerisque a, pulvinar at, quam.
Nam ultrices fringilla sem. Pellentesque
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Fusce ut erat.
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arcu. Fusce posuere, massa auctor rhoncus cursus, tortor libero dictum diam,
non lobortis lacus quam ac tellus. Suspendisse tempus cursus pede. Curabitur
sapien felis, venenatis ut, suscipit et,
mattis a, urna. Fusce scelerisque eleifend
felis. Morbi hendrerit tortor sit amet risus.
Donec nec lectus. Vivamus sit amet odio
eu lorem rhoncus vulputate. Curabitur
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consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec tincidunt est nec purus. Cras sit amet elit.
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eleifend et, neque.
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nec tellus. Aenean elementum enim sed
pede feugiat sodales.
Nunc sollicitudin hendrerit est. Phasellus sed leo. Donec elit pede, lobortis tincidunt, accumsan eget, mollis ac, leo. In
hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nulla facilisi. Pellentesque viverra, est non dictum
viverra, nulla sapien luctus quam, ac placerat ipsum ipsum eget elit. Nullam erat
risus, imperdiet sollicitudin, fermentum
id, mattis vel, nibh. Pellentesque urna.
Vestibulum aliquam, urna nec tincidunt
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pre coco
et
quelques
objets
perdus
en 2001
2002
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2 av
2007
2e Avenue
le dortoir
2002
vanit festives
festive vanitas
Glria Picazo
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fuegogratis
2002
fuegogratis
no future
2006
no future
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no future
no futur
en la
pampa
ciao, ciao en mara elena
cementerio santa isabel
christmas
vagar en campo raso es
2007
En la pampa
En la pampa
Mart Peran
Il nest pas vident de comprendre pourquoi Dostoevski fondit en
larmes en lisant Hegel en Sibrie1; cest un endroit, comme lAfrique,
situ hors de lHistoire cet instrument que la Raison a construit
pour affronter tout ce qui est dmesur, illimit. La Sibrie nest
peut-tre pas un endroit historique, mais il savra fondamental pour
Dostoevski car il lui a permis de goter lenfer hors du chtiment et
de la faute. La Sibrie ou le Dsert: des espaces idiots nobissant
aucune sorte de raison ou de finalit , qui apparaissent ainsi comme
des lieux de fiction. Un Thtre.
Face au Thtre, un groupe de femmes fait ses adieux avec effusion
une jeune fille. Les corps, fusionns et compacts (une nouvelle
accumulation, comme celles de travaux antrieurs qui prsentaient
des caisses empiles ou des tas de botes de conserve et de
matelas2), appuient, dans le mme registre, sur le fictionnel: un rcit
construit travers lentassement dlments, une runion de choses
disparates dont lune des composantes peut sindividualiser tout
moment: ladieu. Ciao, ciao en Mara Elena. La jeune femme (lactrice,
la parcelle de fiction dgage du premier corps du rcit3) savance
dans le dsert. ce moment prcis, quand elle sy incorpore et envahit
la scne du dsert, celui-ci devient pampa: un dsert dsormais
occup par qui y prend la parole4. Le dsert se transforme donc en
pampa, comme si les projecteurs du Thtre sallumaient: quand
un corps et son langage y apparaissent et habitent la scne. Ainsi,
dans En la pampa, Jordi Colomer interroge-t-il nouveau les faons
possibles dhabiter, dans la prcarit, la fiction. Cependant, si dans des
travaux antrieurs cette exploration se concrtisait dans le processus
mme de construction scnique aussi bien pour les protagonistes
que pour les spectateurs5 , ici le double jeu pour habiter le fictionnel
se traduit purement et simplement par la dcision de situer lactrice
dans le milieu dsertique. Dans un endroit situ hors de lHistoire,
une prsence vulnrable, dpourvue de bagages, devra construire
(improviser) de petites histoires travers ses gestes, ses mots et ses
parcours. La narration dbute, nouveau.
En la pampa est luvre de Jordi Colomer qui se rapproche le plus de
la logique dun road movie; tout ce qui arrive sorganise lintrieur
dun dplacement. Toutefois, nous ignorons compltement la
destination possible du voyage; cette carence dobjectif lhorizon
de ce qui est historique libre la fiction de toute fonction au-del
delle-mme. Ce qui est racont noscille mme plus entre le succs
ou lchec6, mais se dploie partir dune simple errance en rase
campagne7. Autrement dit, le rcit navance qu la manire dun flux
de temps lintrieur du plan, et ralise ainsi lexpectative, si proche
de Tarkovski, de transformer ce qui est cinmatographique en une
laboration sculpturale dans laquelle le temps est model par de petits
vnements8.
Le petit vnement, ou leffort plastique qui occupe lespace central
du rcit, consiste laver une voiture. Laver une voiture dans le dsert
peut sembler une absurdit (Pianito combattait aussi la poussire
sur un piano), mais permet de mettre laccent sur trois lments
cruciaux: cette action souligne le caractre voyageur de la fiction
ainsi que la mobilit permanente des affrontements taquins entre
les personnages; elle srige comme une paraphrase du travail de
sculpture travers lequel lobjet doit apparatre, une fois que la
matire en trop a t limine (la sculpture per via di levare); et,
finalement, elle force la prise de conscience de la difficult de la
gestion des maigres ressources disponibles (leau, ou la duret du
paysage) pour la ralisation de lobjectif (laver la voiture, ou construire
tension is not between life and death but between reality and fiction.
It is no longer a matter of denouncing the banality of invention in
the face of destiny, but of celebrating the autonomy of fiction, which
can happen and never conclude. Within the cemetery no morality
lies hidden; it is merely a fragile city, an architecturally flimsy set,
designed, as on so many other occasions8, to clothe fiction. Thus the
narrative the journey is authorized to continue.
Act III. Since the aim is to inhabit a fiction constructed in the most
adverse conditions, the scarcity of material resources requires
the intensification of time-specific strategies: Christmas exists in
the desert (the recording was made in December). He is amusing
himself with the remnants of the car, while She is playing around
with colourful Christmas decorations. An improvised choreography of
games on a fixed plane turns a stretch of wild country into a location
for the performance. Even after it is empty, the scene endures thanks
to the theatrical potential of the spot: a burst tyre slithers along the
ground as though it (too) were a sculpture. The tale, by this time,
could go on for ever without History , though this would involve
using those few "interventions of chance" which could occur in the
"obviously depressing" severity of the desert9.
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- que jamais!
- Alors, cest quoi une intervention du
hasard? Explique!
- are poorer
- get poorer
- You are an interruption in my way.
- NATURALLY DEPRESSING!
-...and the interventions of chance are like
this tree
- Pauvre!
- they are poorer
is naturally depressing!
pozo
almonte
2008
Pozzo almente
Jordi Colomer
au pays de Gulliver.
chelle, rve et nature
Jos Luis Barrios
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In the city which is being demolished or rebuilt, neorealism makes any-space-whatevers proliferate -urban cancer,
undifferentiated fabrics, pieces of waste ground- which are opposed
to the determined spaces of the old realism.
Gilles Deleuze1
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monster, and with the giant and the monster. Hence perhaps it would
be appropriate to speak of an aesthetic naturalism that reinstates
the carnal and vital order of the body in the public space and thus,
releases impulse as a factor of subversion and criticism. Colomers
video-installations are interruptions of the public space and its
function of lending significance and meaning. On the basis of an
aesthetic construction built upon an aesthetic of the take, stylistics
of scale, a symbolism of the body and a Brechtian dramaturgy, his
production combines cinema, sculpture and iconography to configure
a strategy of interpreting the landscape that goes beyond utopia and
the ruin of modernity. He invites the viewer to approach the site of
the vital impulses underlying life in modern cities. He does this using
a certain aesthetic register of the grotesque, where the body and
objects interrupt, or at least interfere for a moment in modern urban
and architectural utopias. In sum, in Colomers work, they operate via
a dual artistic mechanism: the visual moment of transition from one
cinematic shot to another and the actors performance moment, which
disalienates the situation.
If anything defines Jordi Colomers work, it is his clear relationship
with cinema as an aesthetic strategy. Built upon the dialectic between
takes and montage, and upon the relationship between shot and
reverse shot, his work could be considered a twist on neorealism.
Whereas realism sought a landscape epic based on the correspondence
between the idea of progress, urban space and open form, neorealism
heightens these elements to call ones attention to the any space
whatever, where the open form shows the ruin or failure of modernity.
In addition, upon this background, it inscribes the accident, failure
and malaise of a society in deep crisis, namely, the Italian post-war
society; a disruption of reverse shot over shot that deconstructs the
utopian nature that early cinema conceived itself as having.
Jordi Colomers videos make more profound and complex the
qualities that Gilles Deleuze attributes to Italian neorealism. Of the
five characteristics that the philosopher lists2, all of them, except
the condemnation of the plot, are fully present in the videoinstallations of the Anarchitekton series (2002-2004): the dispersive
situation, deliberately weak links, a voyage form, consciousness
of clichs. But Colomer achieves these elements through a shift
in the plane of reality in which this kind of takes is supposedly
functioning. In Anarchitekton, the relationship between shot, action
and the performance intervention(s) of the actor(s), combined with
a dislocation and visual and semantic disruption of the scale done
through the models of emblematic buildings of Osaka and Brasilia, for
instance, produce a disruption of the plane of reality. Something that
not only allows the deconstruction, in the neorealist manner, of the
fallacy of architectural modernity, but also shifts it towards a certain
aesthetic of the impulsive that lies somewhere between the monster
or the deformed that defines naturalism and the oneiric world of
surrealism.
Ive insisted on the concept of a shift between realism and
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generique
No Future
2002
Vido et salle de projection, dimensions
variables, master en Betacam digital, copie en
DVD, 5 min., dite en boucle, dition de 3 ex. et
1 copie HC.
/ Video and projection room, variable size, master
in Betacam digital, copy on DVD, 5 min., edited in
buckle, edition of 3 copies and 1 copy RS.
2006, vido et XX
Prototipos
2004, Carton, pltre, aluminium, mtal,
ampoules,table (120 x 400 x 70 cm);
dimensions variables.
Collection de lartiste
XX
Papamovil
2004, Carton, pltre, aluminium, mtal,
ampoules,table (120 x 400 x 70 cm);
dimensions variables.
Collection de lartiste
XX
Pre coco et quelques objets trouvs en 2001
2002
Vido et salle de projection, dimensions
variables, master en DV-CAM, copie en DVD, 5
min., dite en boucle, dition de 3 ex. et 1 copie
HC.
/ Video and projection room, variable size, master
in DV-CAM, copy on DVD, 5 min., edited in buckle,
edition of 3 copies and 1 copy RS.
Idroj Sanicne: Pre Coco
Marc Viaplana (Ramone): Photographie /
Photography
In-Audiovisuals: Post-production vido / Video
post-production
Production: Le Grand Caf (Saint-Nazaire, France)
- Maravills (Barcelona, Espaa)
Avec le soutien de / In collaboration with: Bureau
des objets trouvs de la Ville de Saint-Nazaire
(France).
2002-2004
Vido et salle de multi-projection, master en
DV-CAM, 4 DVD, dite en boucle, dition de 5 ex.
et 1 copie HC.
/ Video and multi-projection room, master in DVCAM, 4 DVD, edited in buckle, edition of 5 copies
and 1 copy RS.
Idroj Sanicne: Interprtation / Performer
Marc Viaplana (Ramone): Photographie /
Photography
Barry Paulson, Alberto Peral, Jordi Colomer, Jordi
Encinas: Maquettes / Models
Radu: Production Bucarest / Bucarest production
Luis Fernando Campiello: Production Brasilia /
Brasilia production
Adolf Alcaiz/Metronom-Lab: Post-production
image / Image post-production
Production: Maravills (Barcelona, Espaa)
Avec le soutien de / In collaboration with:
Embajada de Espaa en Brasilia, Generalitat de
Catalunya-Departament de Cultura (Barcelona,
Espaa), Fundacin Marcelino Botn (Santander,
Espaa).
Collection: frac Bourgogne (Dijon, France), macba
(Barcelona, Espaa).
Sculptures/installations:
Anarchitekton Barcelone (Torre Agbar), 2004,
carton, bois, 305 x 60 x 60 cm.Collection de
lartiste.
Anarchitekton Bucarest, 2003, carton, bois, 190
x 62 x 60 cm.Collection de lartiste.
Anarchitekton Barcelone 1 (Sta. Coloma), 2002,
carton, bois, 207 x 61 x 41 cm.Collection frac
Centre, Orlans.
Anarchitekton Barcelone 2 (Diagonal mar), 2002,
carton, bois, 295 x 82 x 54 cm.Collection frac
Centre, Orlans.
Anarchitekton Barcelone 3 (Bellvitge), 2002,
carton, bois, 155 x 134 x 27 cm.Collection frac
Centre, Orlans.
Arabian Stars
2005
Vido et salle de projection. Master: HD-CAM.
dition de 5 ex. et 1 EA. 38 min. Couleur. Stro
(LR)
/ Video and projection room. Master: HD-CAM.
Edition of 5 copies and 1 AP. 38 min. Colour,
stro (LR).
David Amell: Camraman / Cameraman
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Babelkammer
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Le Dortoir
2002
Vido et salle de projection, master en Betacam
digital, copie en DVD, 10 min., dite en boucle,
dition de 3 ex. et 1 copie HC.
/ Video and projection room, master in Betacam
digital, copy on DVD, 10 min., edited in buckle,
edition of 3 copies and 1 copy RS.
graphicdesign
Marc Viaplana (Ramone): Photographie de
plateau / Still photography
Tatiana Thaurin: Maquillage / Make-up
Luis Bisbe, Serafn Rodriguez, Walter Friedrich,
Alexandra Filiatreau: Construction des dcors /
Set construction
Oscar Isaach, Franco Jacometti: lectriciens /
Electricians
Julio Barbod, Daniel Correa, Jess Pages:
Machinistes / Key grip
Arte y ruido, Nono Ruiz: Production audio / Audio
production
July Ortiz: Effets sonores / Sound effects
Dreamall Orchestra: Musique / Music
Alts Forns: Studio / Studio
Eduardo Oliv: Arrangements / Arrangements
Sophie Goupil: Productrice dlgue / Production
Supervisor
Marta Figueras: Productrice excutive /
Executive Producer
Cesar Merino, Sergio Olivares, Alexandra
Filiatreau, Barry Paulson: Assistant / Assistant
La Truka / In-Audiovisuals: Post-production vido
/ Video post-production
Mas Madera: Studio / Studio
Servicevision: Machinerie / Equipment
Amalgama: Lumire / Lighting
Solidana: Accessoires / Set and props
Orus: Bires / Beers
Production: Les Poissons volants (Paris)
Avec le soutien de / In collaboration with: Atelier
Jean Nouvel (Paris), Expo 02 (Suisse), Agence
dartistes du Centre culturel contemporain (ccc,
Tours, France), Maravills (Barcelona, Espaa),
Generalitat de Catalunya-Departament de Cultura
(Barcelona, Espaa).
Remerciements / Acknowledgements: Frederic
Page, Hangar, Quico Rivas, Galeria Carles Tach
(Barcelona, Espaa), Galerie Michel Rein (Paris,
France).
Collection: fnac (Fonds national dart
contemporain, Paris), caam (Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Espaa), Museo de arte contemporneo
de Castilla y Len (Len, Espaa).
Les Villes
2002
Vido et salle de projection, master en DV-CAM,
double projection, 2 DVD, deux fois 2 min. en
boucle., dition de 3 ex. et 1 copie HC.
Video and projection room, master in DV-CAM,
double projection, 2 DVD, two times 2 min. in
buckle, edition of 3 copies and 1 copy RS.
Adeline Dini.
Give me sound: Son / Sound
Tracking: Post-production image / Image postproduction
Production: cole nationale des Beaux-Arts de
Lyon (France) - Le Grand Caf (Saint-Nazaire,
France) - Maravills (Barcelona, Espaa)
Remerciements / Acknowledgements: Frdric
Namiand
Orden nuevo
[Lordre nouveau]
2000Acier, bois, suspension luminaire, toile
de coton crue. Table: 120 x 140 x140 cm; 2
lments: 86 x 70 x 70 cm chacun.
Collection prive, Porto.
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Simo
1997
Vido et salle de projection, dimensions
variables, master en Betacam SP, copie en DVD,
12 min., dite en boucle, dition de 3 ex. et 1
copie HC.
Video and projection room, variable sizes, master
in Betacam SP, copy on DVD, 12 min., edited in
buckle, edition of 3 copies and 1 copy RS.
Pilar Rebollar: Simo
Toni Andreu: Assistant la direction / Assistant
director
Rosa Novell: Direction des acteurs / Direction
of actors
Marcos Pasqun: Directeur de la photographie /
Director of photography
Pep Duran, Nina Pawlowski: Costumes / Costume
design
Joan Alonso: Maquillage et coiffure / Make-up
and hair styling
Connie Mendoza, Jaume Parera: Accessoires /
Set and props
Yamand Canosa: Assistant aux accessoires /
Set and props assistant
Paloma Unzeta: Assistant la production /
Production Assistant
Manolo Cortina: Chef machiniste / Key grip
Ana Mendoza: Restauration / Catering
Enric Berenguer: Photographie de plateau / Still
photography
Sayago: Post-production vido / Video postproduction
Give me sound: Production audio / Audio
production
Figuration / Extras:
Ahmed Ahrad, Carmen Balcells, Enric Berenguer,
Mercedes Borges, Agustina Calsina, Yamand
Canosa, Alex Jlia, Josep i Jordi Colomer Jr,
Montse Cuchillo, Pep Duran, Jordi Encinas,
Csar Giravent & Cella, Anna Guarro, Nacho
Hernando, William Jeffett, Josep Llobell, Roc
(un crime)
2004
Vido et salle de projection, master en HDCAM vido, copie en DVD, 440, 5 exemplaires
numrots de 1/5 5/5 et i HC.
Commande publique du Centre national des
arts plastiques (cnap, Paris, France).Tourn
Cherbourg (France), juillet 2004.
/ Video and projection room, master in HD-CAM
vido, copy on DVD, 440, 5 numbered copies
from 1/5 to 5/5 and i HC.
Public order of the cnap (Paris, France). Shooted in
Cherbourg (France), July 2004.
Antonio Corts: Camera
Alexandra Filiatreau, Le Point du Jour Centre
dart/diteur: Equipe de production / Production
team
Sergi Olivares: Photographie / Photography
Claire Le Breton: Production des lettres / Letters
production
David KDual: Vtr??????
Franois Potier, Viviane Liaudet: Making Of
Christine Cenent, Daniel Couppey, Marie Christine
Lebourgeois, Liliane Vannier, Allice Dourlen,
Bartolom Sanson, Aurlien Le Peutrec, Martin
Smith, Daniel Andr, Jacques Mielnicki, Julie
Quer, Grard Philippe Bihina: Interprtation /
Performer
Franois Paillaute: Gardien sncf / sncf guard
Adolf Alcaiz (Metronom-Lab): dition vido /
Video edition
Infinia: Post-production vido / Video Postproduction
Viuda Xing pirata: Post-production audio / Postproduction audio
Production: cnap (Centre national des arts
plastiques, Paris) - Maravills (Barcelona,
Espaa).
Remerciements / Acknowledgements: Brittanie
Ferries, Commandant Kernoncuff, Commandant
Qur, Johann Schulz, David Prunier, cole des
Beaux-Arts de Cherbourg, Galerie Michel Rein
(Paris).
BIOGRAPHIE / biography
2008
Jordi Colomer, Jeu de Paume, Paris (France)
2007
Prototipos, Chteau de Roussillon, Roussillon (France)
2006
The Prodigious Builders, Galerie Traverse, Mnchen
(Deutschland)
Mas estrellas, Centro cultural de Espaa, Montevideo
(Uruguay)
Anatopies, Cimaise et Portique, Htel de Vivis,
Castres (France)
No Future, Le Spot, Le Havre (France)
2005
(un crime), frac Basse Normandie, Caen (France)
Arabian Stars y otras estrellas, Galera Juana de
Aizpuru, Madrid (Espaa)
Arabian Stars, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (France)
Arabian Stars, Traces, Salvador Dal Museum, St.
Petersburg, Florida (usa)
Arabian Stars, Espacio uno, Museo nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Espaa)
Jordi Colomer, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
(Espaa)
2004
Jordi Colomer, Institut dart contemporain, frac RhneAlpes, Villeurbanne (France)
2003
Anarchitekton, Ecco, Brasilia DF (Brasil)
Anarchitekton & Les Villes, Atheneum, Interface, frac
Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
Le Dortoir, Project Room, Centre de cration
contemporaine, Tours (France)
2002
Le Dortoir, Murten, Expo 02, Fribourg (Suisse)
Pre Coco, quelques objets perdus en 2001 et autres
histoires, Le Grand Caf, Saint-Nazaire (France)
Les Jumelles, Villa Arson, Nice (France)
Fuegogratis, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (France)
Le Dortoir, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (France)
Les Villes (vraies), Le Hall, cole nationale des Beaux
Arts, Lyon (France)
2001
Alfabet, Galera Carles Tach, Barcelona (Espaa)
Noves habitacions mentals, Espais obrats del macba ,
Museu comarcal de Manresa, Barcelona (Espaa)
Alfabet, Klnischer Kunstverein, Kln (Deutschland)
2000
Algunas Estrellas, Galera Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
(Espaa)
1999
La Chambre ct, Le Creux de lEnfer, Thiers (France)
La Chambre ct, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel
(France)
1998
Simo, Project Room, arco, Madrid (Espaa)
1996
(Perfecte), Galera Carles Tach, Barcelona (Espaa)
1995
Para chicos y chicas, Galera y ediciones Gingko,
Madrid (Espaa)
Nueva geografia dorada, Studio Meyetta, Barcelona
(Espaa)
Perfecto und andere arbeiten, Galerie Mosel und
Tschechow, Mnchen (Deutschland)
1993
Gandy Gallery, Stredoceske Museum, Praha (Czech
Republic)
Alta Comedia, Tinglado 2, Tarragona (Espaa)
Entre Cajas, Galera Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid (Espaa)
1992
Detalles, Galera Juana de Aizpuru, Sevilla (Espaa)
De particular a particular, Galera Carles Tach,
Barcelona (Espaa)
Gold-Fishes, Shedhalle Rotefabrik, Zrich (Schweiz)
De particulier particulier, Galera Carles Tach, fiac
92, Paris (France)
1990
Schlafende (Opereta), Galerie Mosel und Tschechow,
Mnchen (Deutschland)
Como en casa, Museo Pablo Gargallo, Zaragoza
(Espaa)
1989
Penses y self-penses, Galera Juana de Aizpuru,
Madrid (Espaa)
Diamants tatous, Muse Rimbaud, CharlevilleMzires (France)
Liraelastica, Galera Rafael Samper, Valencia (Espaa)
1988
La Ruta natural, Galera Carles Tach, Barcelona
(Espaa)
1986
Prototips idals, Espai 10, Fundaci Joan Mir,
Barcelona (Espaa)
2008
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice
(France)
Wandering in contemporary video art, Magazzini del
Sale, Musei Civici, Siena (Italia)
2007
Continuous temporality, Israeli Center of Digital Art,
Holon (Isral)
Ida e volta: fico e realidade, Fundao Gulbenkian,
Lisboa (Portugal)
Faades, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana (usa)
Instant City, Abbaye de Fontevraud, Fontevraud
(France)
No Future, Bloomberg Space, London (England)
Existencias, musac, Len (Espaa)
Utopies quotidiennes, La Centrale lectrique,
European Center for Contemporary Art, Bruxelles
(Belgique)
Barcelona 1947-2007, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul
de Vence (France)
Luxe, calme et V, La Panace, Montpellier (France)
Brasilia-Chandigarh-Le Havre, Muse Malraux, Le
Havre (France)
Video Spain Phe07, Cuenca (Espaa)
brxlbravo, fnac City 2, Bruxelles (Belgique)
La Ricarda/Appropriation temporaire, Cultuurcentrum
Mechelen/ La Raffinerie, Kunstenfestival, Bruxelles
(Belgique)
Repeat all, Centro cultural Matucana 100, Santiago
(Chile)
Escenaris transitables, Museu dArt de Girona, Girona
(Espaa)
Reflections, Galerie Traverse, Munich (Deutschland)
2006
What happens?, Dispari & dispari Project, Reggio
Emilia (Italia)
La Vision impura, Centro de Arte Museo Nacional Reina
Sofia, Madrid (Espaa)
Repeat all, Vevey (Switzerland)
I Bienal de arquitectura arte y paisaje de canarias,
Fortaleza del Tostn, El cotillo Fuerteventura (Espaa)
Dinamicas de la cultura urbana, 9a Bienal de la Habana,
La Habana (Cuba)
La Vie, la ville, Biennale du Havre, Le Havre (France)
Modernicit, Le Grand Caf, Saint-Nazaire (France) /
Stroom den Haag, Den Haag (Nederland)
Archipeinture, Le Plateau, Paris (France) / Camden
Arts Center, London (England)
Trilhas na mata digital, Videocraao contemporanea
na Espanha, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi,
Niteroi (Brasil)
Nuit blanche, La Goutte dOr, curateurs Jrme Sans et
Nicolas Bourriaud, Paris (France)
Picasso to plensa. A Century of Art from Spain, The
Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico (usa)
Videodyssey, Parkers Box, Brooklyn, New York (usa)
Communicating Vessels: video works by seven spanich
artists, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
(Japan)
Passages en villes, Le Bellevue, Biarritz (France)
Dormir. Rver et autres nuits, capc Muse dArt
contemporain, Bordeaux (France)
Identidades criticas, Sala Puerta Nueva, Cordoba
(Espaa) / Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid,
(Espaa)
La Mirada breve, Centro cultural de Espaa, Buenos
Aires (Argentina)
La Vidothque mobile, cole nationale suprieure
darchitecture de Paris-Belleville, Paris (France)
a souvre? a souvre pas?, Ateliers dartistes de la
Ville de Marseille, Marseille (France)
2005
Statement, Galerie Traverse, Munich (Deutschland)
Insens Espagne, Chez Colette, Paris (France)
Terra infirma, Espai art contemporani, Castello
(Espaa)
Richard Hamilton, Carlos Pazos, Hannah Collins, Jordi
Colomer, Galeria Cadaques 2, Cadaques (Espaa)
Fantasmapolis. La ville contemporaine et ses
imaginaires, Universit de Rennes, Rennes (France)
Avenir des villes, Site Alstom, Nancy (France)
Discursos interrumpidos, Sala Puertanueva, Cordoba
(Espaa)
2004
Brooklyn Euphoria, Volume, Parkers Box Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York (usa)
Poesie, Galerie Mosel und Tschechow, Munich
(Deutschland)
4a Biennal Leandre Cristfol, La Panera, Lleida
(Espaa)
Ficcions documentals, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
(Espaa)
Your private sky, Xing, Bologna (Italia)
Dispersions, Bass museum of art, Miami (usa)
N(e)oretratos, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
(Espaa)
Climats, cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national
de lart et du paysage, Vassivire (France)
Romanian artists (and not only) like the palace,
Muzeul national de arta contemporana, Bucuresti
(Romania)
Arquitecturas del sueo, Centro atlntico de arte
moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Espaa)
Jordi Colomer-Kristina Solomoukha, Chapelle Saint
Jacques, Vendme (France)
Situations construites, Attitudes, Centre dart
contemporain, Genve (Suisse)
Colecci macba, Museu dart contemporani, Barcelona
(Espaa)
2003
Anarchitekton, Art unknown, arco, Madrid (Espaa)
Espces despaces, Espace Vox, Montral (Canada) /
Tinglado 2, Tarragona (Espaa)
Dust memories, Swiss Institute, New York (usa)
Micro-Utopias, Atarazanas, iia Bienal de Valencia,
Valencia (Espaa)
La Ciudad radiante, Bancaixa, Valencia (Espaa)
Monocanal, mncars, Madrid e itinerante por Espaa
(Espaa)
25 H., Palau desports del Raval, Barcelona (Espaa)
Singuliers voyages, Domaine de Chamarande,
Chamarande (France)
Forum de limage, Salle Bleue, Espace Croix-Baragnon,
Toulouse (France)
Festival Media and Architecture, Graz (sterreich)
2002
Conceptes de lespai, Fundaci Joan Mir, Barcelona
(Espaa)
quivoques, Ecole Rgionale des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
(France)
Desesculturas, Crculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
(Espaa) / Fundacin Capa, Castillo de Sta. Barbara,
Alicante (Espaa)
2001
Vostestaqu, Barcelona Art Report 2001, Palau de la
Virreina, Barcelona (Espaa)
Spanish Tapestry, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
(Taiwan)
Movimientos inmoviles, Museo de Arte Moderno,
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Mad 01, Recinto Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid (Espaa)
Sculpture contemporaine, Les Subsistances, Lyon
(France)
Nouvelles acquisitions, frac Corse, Corte (France)
1994
Anys Noranta, Distncia zero, Centre dArt Santa
Mnica, Barcelona (Espaa)
Sembla til, La Sala Vinon, Barcelona (Espaa)
Europa 94, moc, Mnchen (Deutschland)
1993
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Iluminaciones profanas, Arteleku, San Sebastin
(Espaa)
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid (Espaa)
El lloc enlloc, Galera Toni Estrany, Barcelona (Espaa)
1992
Colomer, Woodman, Zimmermann, Shedhalle
Rotefabrik, Zrich (Switzerland)
Barcelona abroad, Christchurch Mansion, European
Visual Arts Centre, Ipswich (England)
Galeria Ursula Krinzinger, Innsbruck (sterreich)
5e Sculpture Triennal Fellbach, Schwabenlanhalle,
Fellbach (Deutschland)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (Deutschland)
Na Miro, Hedendagse Catalaanse Kunst, De Nieuwe
Kerk, Amsterdam (Nederland)
Los Ultimos dias, Salas del Arenal, Sevilla (Espaa)
El doble Hermetico, Centro atlntico de arte moderno,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Espaa)
The Misteries occcur in central station, Galerie Mosel
und Tschechow, Mnchen (Deutschland)
Tropismes, Fundaci La Caixa, Barcelona (Espaa)
1991
Arte espanol actualidad y tradicion, Staatliche
Kunsthalle, Berlin (Deutschland)
Changement de direction, Htel des Arts, Paris
(France)
Emergences, Centre culturel espagnol, Paris (France)
Constantes del arte catalan, Museo Rufino Tamayo,
Mxico df (Mxico)
Colecciones pblicas, Museo de Bellas Artes de lava,
Vitoria (Espaa)
1990
6 Katalanische Kunstler, Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg
(Deutschland)
Ceci nest pas une sculpture, Galerie Mosel und
Tschechow, Mnchen (Deutschland)
A quatre mans, Galera Benet Costa, Barcelona
(Espaa)
1989
Promises, promises, Serpentine Gallery, Londres
(England)
Promises, promises, cole des Beaux-Arts de Nmes,
Nmes (France)
Euroarte, Camara municipal de Guimaraes, Guimaraes
(Portugal)
La Sonrisa de Brian de Palma, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
(sterreich)
iii Premio de Escultura Pablo Gargallo, Espacio
Pignatelli, Zaragoza (Espaa)
ix Salon de los 16, Fundaci La Caixa, Barcelona
(Espaa)
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis, Universitat Autnoma de
Barcelona, Barcelona (Espaa)
Pintura de Escultura, Galera Ciento, Barcelona
(Espaa)
(Belgique)
mncars , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa,
Madrid (Espaa)
Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, La Caixa, Barcelona
(Espaa)
mumok , Museum moderner kunst stiftung Ludwig,
Vienna (sterreich)
macba , Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona
(Espaa)
ivam, Instituto valenciano de arte moderno, Valencia
(Espaa)
musac , Museo de arte contemporneo de Castilla y
Len, Len (Espaa)
caam, Centro atlntico de arte moderno, Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria (Espaa)
Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid (Espaa)
Coleccion Rafael Tous, Barcelona (Espaa)
Collection Dobe, Zrich (Schweiz)
mnam, Muse national dart moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris (France)
fnac , Fonds national dart contemporain, Paris
(France)
Les Abattoirs, Muse dart moderne et contemporain,
Toulouse (France)
frac Centre, Fonds rgional dart contemporain,
Orlans (France)
frac Bourgogne, Fonds rgional dart contemporain,
Dijon (France)
frac Limousin, Fonds rgional dart contemporain,
Limoges (France)
frac Rhne-Alpes, Fonds rgional dart contemporain,
Lyon (France)
frac Corse, Fonds rgional dart contemporain, Corte
(France)
frac Basse-Normandie, Caen (France)
frac Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny (France)
frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (France)
2005
Scnographie pour / Stage design for Fin de partie,
Samuel Beckett, Greek Festival, Barcelona (Espaa)
Catalogues / Catalogues
Catlogos /
2007
Marie-Ange Brayer,Les Questions sans rponse(s) de
lart contemporain, mac /val, Muse dart contemporain
du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, mac /val (France).
Anette Haudiquet, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Le Havre.
Portraits de villes, Le Havre, Muse Malraux, Paris,
Somogy (France).
Antonio Zaya, Jordi Colomer. 1 Bienal de Canarias,
Gobierno de Canarias (Espaa).
2006
Larisa Dryansky, Festival photo et vido de Biarritz,
Paris, Isthme(France).
Novena Bienal de la Habana 2006, Centro de Arte
Contemporneo Wilfredo Lam / Consejo Nacional de
las Artes Plsticas, La Habana (Cuba).
Mario Flecha, Miradas breves. Una seleccin de videos
de Espaa, Centro cultural de Espaa en Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires, cceba (Argentina).
Claude Gosselin, Arts: Le Havre 2006, Biennale dart
contemporain, Gent, Snoeck, (Belgique).
Franois Poisay, Dormir, rver et autres nuits, capc,
Muse dart contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux,
Fage (France).
2005
Linda Belliot, La Mattoli, David Perreau,
Fantasmapolis. La ville contemporaine et ses
imaginaires, Rennes, Presses universitaires de
Rennes, coll.Mtiers de lexposition (France).
Jordi Colomer, LInsens Photo, Espagne, Paris, vvz
Presse, avril 2005 (France).
Estrella de Diego, Octavio Zaya, Agustin Perez
Rubio, Coleccin, Vol. 1, musac, Lon, Museo de Arte
Contemporneo de Castilla y Len (Espaa).
William Jeffett, Eduardo Mendoza, Jordi Colomer,
Arabian Stars, mncars, Madrid / Salvador Dal Museum,
St. Petersburg, Florida (usa).
Jean-Louis Maubant, Avenir des villes / Future for
cities, Paris, Le Moniteur (France).
Berta Sichel, Terra Infirma, eacc, Castell (Espaa).
2004
Ruxandra Balaci,Romanian artist (and not only) love
Ceaucescus palace?!, mnac, Bucarest (Romania).
David Benassayag, Le chur mouvant de la ville,
Commande Publique, Journal n4, Centre Rgional de
la Photographie de Cherbourg-Octeville, Cherbourg
(France), p. 28-33.
Miguel Cereceda, La Gauthier, David Benassayag,
Itinerarios 03/04, Fundacin Marcelino Botn,
Santander (Espaa).
Jean-Louis Maubant, Malices, Institut dart
contemporain, Villeurbanne (France).
Glria Picazo, Jordi Colomer, 4a Biennal dart Leandre
Cristfol, Lleida (Espaa).
Miguel Pons, Le Dortoir, in Arquitecturas del sueo,
caam, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Espaa).
Jean-Pierre Rehm, Ficcions documentals, Caixa
Forum, Barcelona (Espaa).
2003
Achille Bonito Oliva, La Ciudad radiante, Generalitat
Valenciana, Bancaja, Valencia, Skira (Espaa).
La Gauthier, Anarchitekton, (Brasilia), Ambaixada de
Espanha, Espao Ecco, Brasilia (Brasil).
Marie-Jose Jean, Chantal Grande, Espces
despaces, Tinglado 2, Ajuntament de Tarragona
(Espaa) / Espace Vox, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres
du Qubec, Montreal (Canada).
Mart Pern, Pilar Bonet, Glria Picazo, Jordi Colomer,
Noves habitacions mentals, Espais obrats del MACBA,
Diputaci de Barcelona, macba , Barcelona (Espaa).
Montse Badia, Berta Sichel, Monocanal, mncars, Madrid
(Espaa).
Manuel J. Borja Villel, Itinerari, Colecci macba, Museu
dArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona,
(Espaa).
Fernando Castro, Espacios y modos, Mas all de los
lmites, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Espaa).
Olga Fernandez, Cuatro Dimensiones, Escultura
en Espaa, 1978-2003, Museo Patio Herreriano,
Valladolid (Espaa).
La Gauthier, Anarchitekton (Brasilia), Ambaixada de
Espanha, Espao Ecco, Brasilia (Brasil).
Jean-Pierre Rehm, Ramon Tio Bellido, Jordi Colomer,
Quelques stars, Algunas estrellas, Some stars, 19972003, Villa Arson, Nice / La Galerie de Noisy-le-Sec / Le
Grand Caf, Saint-Nazaire (France).
Cline Saraiva, Jordi Colomer, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec
(France).
2002
Miguel Cereceda, Desesculturas, Fundacin Eduardo
Capa, Alicante (Espaa).
Hlne Chouteau, Claire le Restif, Fuegogratis,
Entretien avec Jordi Colomer, La Galerie, Noisy-leSec, (France).
Jordi Colomer, Anarchitekton, (Barcelona) Galera
Carles Tach, Barcelona (Espaa).
Rosa Ferr, Chus Martnez, Vostestaqui, Barcelona
Art-report 2001, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona,
Barcelona (Espaa).
Lorand Heigyi, Conceptes de lespai, Fundaci Joan
Mir, Barcelona (Espaa).
Vicen Altai, Els Germans, Retrats dartistes, Destino,
Barcelona (Espaa).
Glria Picazo, Fragments, Coleccin Rafael Tous dart
contemporani, Museo de la Universitat dAlacant,
(Espaa).
1993
Halldor Bjrn Runulfsson, Jordi Colomer, Alta comdia,
Tarragona (Espaa).
Jordi Colomer, Valre Novarina, Iluminaciones
profanas, La tarea del arte, Arteleku, Diputacin Foral
de Gipuzkoa, San Sebastin (Espaa).
Luis Francisco Prez, La frrea estructura de la
intemperie (como un tango), Alta commedia, Tinglado
2, Tarragona (Espaa).
2001
William Jeffett, Spanish Tapestry, Taipei Fine Arts
Museum, Taipei (China).
Alain-Julien Laferrire, Laura Buccellato, Pascal
Beausse, Movimientos inmviles, Museo de Arte
Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aire (Argentina).
Collectif, Action on tourne, Nice, Villa Arson / Paris,
Runion des muses nationaux (France).
2000
Montse Badia, Parfrasis del mn real Mostra dArts
Electrniques, Centre dart Santa Mnica, Barcelona
(Espaa).
Fernando Castro Flrez, Formas de habitar la
discontinuidad. Colomer y Badiola, Dialog Kunst im
Pavillon, Pabelln de Espaa, Expo 2000, Hannover
(Deutschland).
Agustn Perez-Rubio, Trasvases, Artistas espaoles en
vido, Centro de Cultura Espaol en Lima, Museo de
Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina)/ Museo de
Arte Carrillo, Mxico DF (Mxico).
1999
Jos Luis Brea, Entretien avec Jordi Colomer, Le Creux
de lEnfer, Thiers (France).
Alicia Murria, Jordi Colomer, Futuropresente,
Consejera de Cultura, Comunidad de Madrid (Espaa).
1998
Juan Antonio lvarez Reyes, Ciudades sin nombre,
Comunidad de Madrid (Espaa).
Manel Clot, Lugares del sentido El punto ciego,
Kunstraum, Innsbruck (sterreich).
Jos Lebrero Stals, Desfiguracions contempornies
Jordi Colomer Artificial, macba , Barcelona (Espaa).
Karine Vonna, Multiplier les points de vue, entrevista
con Jordi Colomer, Ct Sud, Entschuldigung / IAC,
Villeurbanne (France).
1997
Manel Clot, Dies Irae, Museu de Granollers, Granollers,
Barcelona (Espaa).
Gloria Picazo, Biennal de Lleida, Lleida (Espaa).
Lorand Hegyi, Abstrakt/Real, Museum Moderner Kunst
Stiftung Ludwig, Wien (sterreich).
1996
Victria Combalia, Arte Espaol para el fin de siglo,
Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Hospitalet del Llobregat,
Barcelona (Espaa).
1995
Manel Clot, Esto y lo otro (House of love). Para chicos y
1994
Jos Luis Brea, Los noventa: cambio de marcha en el
arte espaol, Galera Juana Mord, Madrid (Espaa).
Jos Luis Brea, Anys 90, Distncia zero, Centre dArt
Santa Mnica, Barcelona (Espaa).
1992
Jordi Colomer, 15 Avenue Junot, Los ltimos das,
Salas del Arenal, Exposicin Universal, Sevilla
(Espaa).
Jordi Colomer, Una casa de cristal, Historia natural,
El doble hermtico, caam, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
(Espaa).
Collectif, Na Mir, Hedendaagse Catalaanse Kunst, De
Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (Nederland).
Collectif, Tropismes, Fundaci La Caixa, Centre
Cultural Tecla Sala, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
(Espaa).
Florenci Guntn, El castell dels destins creuats, quam
1991, Diputaci de Barcelona, Barcelona (Espaa).
Andrew Renton, From one place to another, Barcelona
abroad, European Visual Arts Center, Ipswich,
(England).
Ramn Ti Bellido, Jordi Colomer, des positions, De
particular a particular, Galera Carles Tach, Barcelona
(Espaa).
1991
Jos Luis Brea, Como en casa, Museo Pablo Gargallo,
Zaragoza (Espaa).
Manel Clot, Onze escultures, Museu de Granollers,
Barcelona (Espaa).
Colectivo, Recopilacin bibliogrfica, Onze escultures,
Museo de Granollers, Barcelona (Espaa).
Pablo Rico, Conversaciones a medianoche, Como en
casa, Museo Pablo Gargallo, Zaragoza (Espaa).
Michael Scholz-Hnsel, Jordi Colomer Kunst, Europa,
Spanien, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin (Deutschland).
1990
Manel Clot, Penses y self-penses, Galera Juana de
Aizpuru, Madrid (Espaa).
Glria Picazo, Liraelstica, Galera Rafael Samper,
Valencia (Espaa).
1989
Julin Ros, IX Saln de los 16, Fundaci La Caixa,
Barcelona (Espaa).
Adrian Searle, Promises, promises, Serpentine Gallery,
London (Espaa).
1988
Julin Ros, La Ruta naturel, Galera Carles Tach,
Barcelona (Espaa).
2001
Jorge Lpez Anaya, En busca del tiempo detenido, La
Nacin, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
William Jeffett, Jordi Colomer, NY Arts magazine, vol.
6, n9, New York (usa).
Ana Maria Battistozzi, En busca del tiempo
suspendido, Informacin general, Clarn, Buenos
Aires (Argentina), 07/2001.
2000
Fernando Castro Flrez, Escenas desmontables,
ABC, Artszin.net, 05/2000.
Jos Jimnez, Jordi Colomer, el teatro de la vida, El
Mundo, Madrid (Espaa), 01/07/2000.
Alicia Murria, Jordi Colomer, Lpiz, n164, Madrid
(Espaa).
Anne-Laure Even, Thtre magique, Mouvement, n7,
Paris (France), 02-03/2000.
Jean-Marc Huitorel, Jordi Colomer, Art Press, Paris
(France), 01/2000.
Jos Luis Brea, Blindness ans insight. Entretien
avec Jordi Colomer, Documents sur lart, n12, Paris
(France), 01/2000.
1999
Jos Luis Brea, Ceguera y visin. Conversacin con
Jordi Colomer, Zehar. Arteleku, n46, Diputacin Foral
de Gipuzkoa, San Sebastin (Espaa).
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Jordi Colomer, illusionniste,
Aden. Le Monde, Paris (France), 13-19/10/1999.
Jos Luis Brea,Blindness ans insight. Produit
dentretiens, n0, Le Journal des Arts, n93, Paris
(France).
Philippe Regnier, La vido-coup de thtre, Le
Journal des Arts, n93, Paris (France).
1998
William Jeffett, Artificial: contemporary figurations,
Untitled, London (England), 03/06/1998.
Luis Franco Prez, Lo artificial. Se opone o se niega
a lo natural?, Lpiz, n141, Madrid (Espaa).
1997
Pia Jard, Abstracciones despus de la utopa, Lpiz,
n128/129, Madrid (Espaa).
Frederic Montorns, Se alquila, Untitled, n13,
London (England), 03/06/1997.
1996
Manel Clot, Jordi Colomer, Perfecte, Untitled, London
(England), 06/09/1996.
William Jeffett, An afternoon in Badalona: reflections
on Jordi Colomers Perfecte, Connect-arte revista
electrnica, 11/1996.
Amparo Lozano, Cambiar lugares y nombres, Gua
del Ocio, Barcelona (Espaa), 07-13/06/1996.
Angela Molina, La perfeccin azarosa de Jordi
Colomer, ABC, Barcelona (Espaa), 12/06/1996.
Glria Picazo, 5 aos despus. Una entrevista con
Jordi Colomer, Accin Paralela, n2, Madrid (Espaa),
02/1996.
Manel Clot, Schlafende: la palabra no dicha, Accin
Paralela, n2, Madrid (Espaa), 02/1996.
Jordi Colomer, En slumberland, Accin Paralela, n2,
Madrid (Espaa), 02/1996.
Jordi Colomer, Un nom fora de lloc, Mai badem, AAVC,
Barcelona (Espaa).
Jordi Colomer, El model dor dels nens, Cave Canis,
n4, Barcelona (Espaa).
1995
Emilio Manzano, Otras voces, otros mbitos, La
Vanguardia, Barcelona (Espaa), 08/12.
Julin Ros, La route naturelle, ou les artifices de
Jordi Colomer, La vie sexuelle des mots ibriques,
Paris (France), Jos Corti.
Miriam Rosen, Tranches de lart dans les jardins de
lonu, Libration, Paris (France), 25/08/1995.
1994
Enriqueta Antoln, Nuevos Rumbos, El Pas. Babelia,
Madrid (Espaa), 12/02/1994.
Jos Lebrero Stals, Distancia Zero, Flash Art, n178,
ed. Internacional, 10/1994.
Jordi Colomer, Juan Muoz, Arte espaol, Lpiz,
BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHIES
Marie-Ange Brayer
Ne en Belgique en 1964, historienne de lart,
diplme de lUniversit libre de Bruxelles,
Marie-Ange Brayer est directrice du Fonds
rgional dart contemporain de la rgion
Centre (Orlans), o elle dveloppe une
collection centre sur les rapports entre lart
et larchitecture de recherche. Elle a cofond
avec Frdric Migayrou en 1999 Archilab,
Rencontres internationales darchitecture
dOrlans, dont elle est directrice artistique
depuis 2004. Critique dart et darchitecture,
elle est lauteur de nombreux articles dans des
revues et catalogues, et mne actuellement
une recherche sur le statut juridique
de la maquette darchitecture depuis la
Renaissance.
Mario Flecha
N en 1949 Buenos Aires, Mario Flecha est
diteur, crivain, commissaire dexpositions
et artisan doreur depuis 1977. Il a anim la
Mario Flecha Gallery Londres entre 1987
et 1992, et ensuite le Mario Flecha Space
jusquen 2003 Jafre (Espagne), o il coorganise depuis lors une Biennale dart
contemporain. Parmi les expositions quil
a conues, Miradas breves runissait des
uvres de vidos contemporaines espagnoles
au Centro cultural de Espaa de Buenos Aires
en 2006. Critique dart, il crit rgulirement
pour la presse spcialise et dite les revues
Bastn Blanco depuis 2004 et Untitled
contemporary art depuis 1993.
Marta Gili
Ne en 1957 Barcelone, Marta Gili est
directrice du Jeu de Paume Paris. Elle a
auparavant dirig, entre 1991 et 2006, le
dpartement Photographie et Arts visuels de
la Fondation La Caixa Barcelone. Diplme
de lUniversit centrale de Barcelone en
philosophie et psychologie, elle a particip,
entre 1983 et 1988, lorganisation de la
Primavera fotografica Barcelone, et a
assur la direction artistique du Printemps
de Septembre Toulouse en 2002 et 2003. Elle
crit rgulirement dans la presse espagnole
et a publi plusieurs ouvrages dont, en
2006, Joan Colom. Raval (Steidl) et Graciela
Iturbide (Phaidon).
Jacinto Lageira
Jacinto Lageira est matre de confrences hdr
en esthtique luniversit Paris i PanthonSorbonne et critique dart. Il a en particulier
travaill sur les uvres de Gary Hill, Jan
Kopp ou Jean-Marc Bustamante, et dit les
crits de Michael Snow. Il a collabor des
catalogues, encyclopdies et anthologies, dont
Du mot limage et du son au mot et Le Livre
et lartiste (Le Mot et le reste, 2006 et 2007).
Il a aussi rcemment publi LEsthtique
traverse. Psychanalyse, smiotique et
phnomnologie luvre (La Lettre vole,
2007).
Bernard Marcad
Bernard Marcad est critique dart,
commissaire dexpositions et professeur
desthtique et dhistoire de lart lcole
nationale suprieure dArts de ParisCergy. Il a notamment publi un essai sur
Isidore Ducasse (Seghers, 2002) et une
biographie de Marcel Duchamp,La Vie
crdit(Flammarion, 2007). En 2006, il a t
linitiative du projet Je ne crois pas aux
fantmes, mais jen ai peur loccasion
deLa Force de lart au Grand Palais Paris,
et a donn des confrences dans le cadre
de Chauffe Marcel, en hommage Marcel
Duchamp aucracde Ste, pour lequel il a
galement ralis lexposition On dirait le
Sud en 2007.
Mart Peran
Mart Peran est critique dart, commissaire
dexpositions et enseignant lcole dart
de lUniversit de Barcelone. Il a contribu
de nombreuses publicationset crit
rgulirement pour le quotidien El Pas et
pour des revues spcialises, comme Exit
Express et Artforum International. Il dirige le
programme international dchanges culturels
Roundabout, mis en place par la ville de
Barcelone. En 2006, il a conu lexposition
Glaskultur au Koldo Mitxelena San
Sebastin, et il prsente en 2008 le projet
Post-it city. Ciudades ocasionales au Centre
de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelone.
Glria Picazo
Ne en 1950, licencie en histoire de lart
lUniversit de Barcelone, Glria Picazo est
directrice, depuis sa cration en 2003, du
centre dart La Panera Lleida, en Catalogne.
Elle a fait partie du service des expositions
au capc Bordeaux, de 1993 1995, puis a t
responsable du dpartement de recherches
au macba Barcelone jusquen 1998. Elle a
ensuite travaill la ralisation dexpositions
et de livres pour la Ville de Lleida o elle avait
dj, en 1997, particip la cration de la
Biennale dart Leandre Cristfol. Elle publie
rgulirement dans des revues telles que
Transversal, LAven et Exit Express.
Franois Piron
N en 1972, Franois Piron est critique
dart et commissaire dexpositions. Entre
2001 et 2006, il a codirig les Laboratoires
dAubervilliers. Il participe actuellement la
programmation de la galerie castillo/corrales
et lagence curatoriale indpendante Work
Method Paris. Il a organis rcemment
les expositions Intocable, el ideal de la
transparencia, avec Guillaume Dsanges,
au Museo Patio Herreriano Valladolid
(Espagne) et la Villa Arson (Nice) en 2007,
et Where the lions are Hong Kong en 2008.
Il enseigne lhistoire et la thorie de lart
lcole nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Marie-Ange Brayer
Born in Belgium in 1964, a graduate of
Brussels Free University, art historian MarieAnge Brayer directs the Fonds Rgional dArt
Contemporain of the Centre region (Orlans,
France), where she is building up a collection
specialising in the relations between art
and avant-garde architecture. In 1999, with
Frdric Migayrou, she co-founded Archilab,
the international architecture festival in
Orlans, which she has directed since 2004.
As an art and architecture critic she has
published numerous articles in journals and
catalogues. She is currently researching the
legal status of the architecture model since the
Renaissance.
Mario Flecha
Born in 1949 in Buenos Aires, Mario Flecha
has been a publisher, writer, exhibition
curator and gilder since 1977. He directed
the Mario Flecha Gallery in London between
1987 and 1992, then the Mario Flecha
Space, to 2003, in Jaffre (Spain), where he
organises from that time a contemporary
art biennial. Among the exhibitions he has
conceived, Miradas breves brought together
contemporary Spanish video works at the
Centro Cultural de Espaa in Buenos Aires
in 2006. As an art critic he writes regularly
for the specialist press and has published
the journals Bastn Blanco since 2004 and
Untitled contemporary art since 1993.
Marta Gili
Born in 1957 in Barcelona, Marta Gili is
director of the Jeu de Paume in Paris. She
previously directed the Photography and
Visual Arts Department of the La Caixa
Foundation in Barcelona, between 1991
and 2006. After graduating in philosophy
and psychology from Barcelonas Central
University, from 1983 to 1988 she helped
to organise the Primavera fotografica in
Barcelona. She was artistic director of the
Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse (France)
in 2002 and 2003. She writes regularly in
the Spanish press and has published several
books, including Joan Colom. Raval (Steidl)
and Graciela Iturbide (Phaidon), both in
2006.
Jacinto Lageira
Jacinto Lageira is a lecturer in aesthetics at
Universit Paris i Panthon-Sorbonne and art
critic. He has worked on the art of Gary Hill,
Jan Kopp and Jean-Marc Bustamante, and
edited the writings of Michael Snow. He has
contributed to catalogues, encyclopaedias
and anthologies, including Du mot limage
et du son au mot et Le Livre et lartiste
(Le Mot et le reste, 2006 and 2007). He
recently published LEsthtique traverse.
Psychanalyse, smiotique et phnomnologie
luvre (La Lettre vole, 2007).
Bernard Marcad
Bernard Marcad is an art critic, curator
and professor of aesthetics and art history
at the cole Nationale Suprieure dArts in
Paris-Cergy. His publications include an
essay on Isidore Ducasse (Seghers, 2002)
and a biography of Marcel Duchamp,La
Vie crdit(Flammarion, 2007). In 2006
he initiated the project Je ne crois pas aux
fantmes, mais jen ai peurat the exhibition
La Force de lart at the Grand Palais in Paris,
and gave talks as part of Chauffe Marcel,
an event in homage to Marcel Duchamp at
thecrac, Ste (France), for which he also
organised the exhibition On dirait le Sud in
2007.
Mart Peran
Mart Peran is an art critic, curator and
teacher at the University of Barcelona art
school. He has contributed to numerous
publications and written regularly for
the newspaper El Pas and specialist
journals such as Exit Express and Artforum
International. He directs the Roundabout
international cultural exchange programme
set up by the city of Barcelona. In 2006 he
conceived the exhibition Glaskultur at the
Koldo Mitxelena in San Sebastin, and in
2008 he presents the project Post-it city.
Ciudades ocasionales at the Centre de
Cultura Contempornia in Barcelona.
Glria Picazo
Born in 1950, Glria Picazo holds a degree
in art history from Barcelona University
and has directed the La Panera art centre in
Lleida, Catalonia, since its opening in 2003.
She was a member of the exhibitions service
at the capc in Bordeaux from 1993 to 1995,
then ran the research department at macba,
Barcelona, up to 1998. She then worked on
organising exhibitions and books for the town
of Lleida, where she helped set up the Leandre
Cristfol art biennial in 1997. She publishes
regularly in journals such as Transversal,
LAven and Exit Express.
Franois Piron
Born in 1972, Franois Piron is an art critic
and curator. Between 2001 and 2006 he
codirected the Laboratoires dAubervilliers
(France). He is currently involved in
programming for the castillo/corrales gallery
and the independent curating agency Work
Method in Paris. He recently organised
the exhibitions Intocable, el ideal de la
transparencia, with Guillaume Dsanges,
at the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid
(Spain) and at the Villa Arson (Nice, France)
in 2007, and Where the Lions Are in Hong
Kong in 2008. He teaches art history and
theory at the cole Nationale des Beaux-Arts
in Lyon (France).
Remerciements
Pour Le Jeu de Paume
Nous remercions chaleureusement Jordi Colomer
pour son engagement dans la ralisation de cette
exposition et de ce catalogue.
Nous tenons galement tmoigner toute notre
gratitude Michel Rein pour laide apporte tout au
long de llaboration de ce projet, ainsi qu toutes
les institutions et les personnes qui y ont apport
leur concours:
Fonds rgional dart contemporain de Bourgogne
Fonds rgional dart contemporain du Centre
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Galera Carles Tach, Barcelone
Institut dart contemporain de Villeurbanne
Loc Chambon, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Charles Gohy, WIELS, Bruxelles
Aude Merquiol, IAC, Villeurbanne
Lna Monnier, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Vincent Schmitt, IAC, Villeurbanne
Joseph Spinelli, IAC, Villeurbanne
Mlanie Tebb, Hollywood Classics, Londres
Nous souhaitons aussi remercier:
Hugues Aubry, directeur gnral de Neuflize Vie
et Franoise de Ville dAvray, directeur
communication de Neuflize Vie.
Le Jeu de Paume
Direction: Marta Gili
1, place de la Concorde 75008 Paris France
www.jeudepaume.org
Centre dart La Panera
Direction: Glria Picazo
Pl. de la Panera, 2 , 25002 Lleida Espaa
www.lapanera.cat
Institut dart contemporain
Direction: Nathalie Ergino
11, rue docteur Dolard
69100 Villeurbanne - France
www.i-art-c.org
Le Spot Centre dart contemporain
Direction: David Perreau
32, rue Jules Lecesne
76600 Le Havre France
www.le-spot.org
Le Point du Jour, Centre dart / Editeur
Direction: David Barriet, David Benassayag
et Batrice Didier
109, avenue de Paris 50100 Cherbourg-Octeville France
www.lepointdujour.eu
Conception du livre: Jordi Colomer et Yann Rondeau
Conception graphique: Yann Rondeau
Suivi ditorial: Aurianne Cox
diteurs: David Barriet, David Benassayag et
Batrice Didier, Le Point du Jour
Traductions: Nathalie Bittoun-Debruyne, Charles
Penwarden, Camilla Balmer-Flecha, Jacqueline Hall,
Catalina Girona, Annie Bats
Relecture: XXX, Nathalie Bittoun-Debruyne, XXX
Photogravure: Les Ateliers du Regard (Paris)
Impression: EBS (Vrone, Italie)
Le Point du Jour / ditions du Jeu de Paume
Jordi Colomer
Jos Luis Barrios, Marie-Ange Brayer, Mario Flecha, Marta Gili,
Jacinto Lageira, Bernard Marcad, Mart Peran, Glria Picazo, Franois
Piron, Christine Van Assche, pour les textes.
ADAGP, Paris 2008