Yann Kersalé - Le Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc

Yann Kersalé
DOSSIER DE PRESSE
press c o n t a c t
DEC. 15 th 2012
> may 19 th 2013
YANN KERSALÉ
À DES NUITS LUMIÈRE,
LA VILLE, LA NUIT, LA MER
DU 15 DÉCEMBRE 2012
AU 19 MAI 2013
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Visuel de couverture
Le sillon dans le miroir, Pleubian, Côtes d’Armor
© AIK Yann Kersalé
Contents
I - The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
Fund for Culture
5 Introduction by Michel-Édouard Leclerc, Chairman
6 Operation, mission and goals
7 Les Capucins de Landerneau
8 The cultural goal
II - Yann Kersalé
À DES NUITS LUMIÈRE
LA VILLE, LA NUIT, LA MER
10 Introduction by Jean-Louis Pradel,
7 merveilles + une, en sept alinéas
12 The exhibition layout
14 Biography of Yann Kersalé
Appendices
17 The catalogue of the exhibition
18 The E. Leclerc Movement
19 Biography of Michel-Édouard Leclerc
20 Key dates
Visuals available to the press
21 Les Capucins de Landerneau, portraits of Yann Kersalé
22 Installations by Yann Kersalé
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Useful information and contacts
The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture contacts
Ticket prices
How to get there
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I — The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
Fund for Culture
Introduction
By Michel-Édouard Leclerc,
Chairman
The exhibition by Yann Kersalé, À des Nuits Lumière, la ville, la nuit, la mer is the second
adventure embarked upon by the Fonds Hélène & Edouard Leclerc for Culture, to be held
at Les Capucines centre in Landerneau. Another exceptional artistic event and a truly
wonderful encounter.
Yann Kersalé defines his artistic choices for us : «I chose the night as an area of
experimentation, and not through fear of the dark or fear of losing something. I believe it is
the locus of choice for what is perceived .»
Last year, he laid down the bases of his Sept Fois plus à l’Ouest installation. This involved
the illumination, repeated seven times for real before being filmed, of the Sillon Noir at
Pleubian, the Chaos du Diable at Huelgoat, the radome at Pleumeur-Bodou, a trading estate
in the suburbs of Rennes and the megalithic stones at Carnac. In brain cells, on film or on
digital media, he has captured a library of images, millions of chromatic variations and
light flows, through rediscovered spaces, providing an inexhaustible supply of narrative
material. He comes to the Capucins centre in Landerneau for this 2012-2013 winter season,
following on, from this work on Celtic nights.
The exhibition he has designed will require twenty or so technicians. There really is much
work involved in this amount of poetry. There is the construction of boxes measuring 7-12
metres across, a full electrical installation, cutting-edge technology, projectors to bring the
submarine landscapes from the bay of Brest to life, material for the Azénor and Océanopolis
divers and, of course, mixing desks, current controllers and so on.
The volunteers working for the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc have unearthed a truly
extraordinary talent. Kersalé is an internationally recognised artist. The exhibition at Les
Capucins in Landerneau, À des Nuits Lumière, la ville, la nuit, la mer, will run from 15th
December 2012 to 19 May 2013. Yann Kersalé is sharing not just a work of art, but a vision of
the world.
Michel-Édouard Leclerc
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I — The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
fund for culture
Operation, mission and goals
The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture, which was set up in the autumn of 2011, is
an endowment (governed by law 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 on economic modernization,
also known as the Lagarde Act) headed by a board of directors and chaired by MichelÉdouard Leclerc. Private sponsorship activities, on the initiative of several members of the
Leclerc family as well as members and former members of the E. Leclerc Movement, will
provide 100% of the fund’s financing.
The Fund’s goal is to support and carry out any cultural mission in the general interest by
helping to increase the spread of contemporary art in our society and make it accessible to a
broader public by organizing large-scale exhibitions.
A specific cultural program and a mediation system to welcome the public will
accompany the shows.
The E. Leclerc Movement has been involved in cultural sponsorship (the Angoulême
Festival, Etonnants Voyageurs, Folle Journée de Nantes and more) for many years. The
Fund carries on that commitment under a single signature and will help to increase activities
throughout France.
The Fund’s mission is to organize and co-produce exhibitions with French or foreign
institutions or to host projects designed by other organizations. It will work in partnership
with local authorities, museums, foundations or associations, consequently becoming part
of the national cultural network.
Patrick Jourdan, the Fund’s Managing Director, will be responsible for the institution’s
cultural and scientific project.
Patrick Jourdan is the head curator of local heritage. He was the director of the
Pierre André Benoît Museum in the Gard until 1992 and director of the Museum of
Morlaix until taking over at Landerneau in November 2011.
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I — The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
fund for culture
Les Capucins de Landerneau (Finistère)
Les Capucins © Hervé Ronné, 2012.
The Fund’s headquarters is located in a 17thcentury former Capuchin monastery in Landerneau
near the grocer’s shop Édouard Leclerc opened
in 1949. The complex has served many purposes
since the French Revolution, including a school,
linen mill, brewery and factory, before Édouard
and Hélène Leclerc bought it in 1965 and decided to
have the buildings renovated.
The main courtyard and chapel of the monastery
have been restored and approximately 1,000 square
meters of a recently refurbished 1,600-squaremeter hall will become the first museum space, with
the purpose of producing and hosting temporary
shows.
Like other art centers, Les Capucins will disseminate
culture and not curate it, because it will have no
permanent collection.
Les Capucins, which is in the heart of Brittany,
France’s second-leading tourist region, has an
exceptionally large hanging space, unprecedented
in the region, and will be able to host monumental
works of contemporary art.
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I — The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
fund for culture
L’ambition culturelle
The aim of the Hélène and Edouard Leclerc
Foundation is to offer the public an exhibition space
devoted to all forms of contemporary art in order to
encourage people to discover the works of modernday artists.
The foundation seeks to foster cultural debate
within the local community, including educational
establishments, thanks to pedagogical actions which
will accompany the artistic events, but also to give
the exhibition space of Les Capucins a national
dimension by jointly creating and organising
exhibitions alongside major French and European
institutions. The artistic programme of Les Capucins
also targets the thousands of tourists who visit
Brittany every year reaching out to a public from
many different horizons.
Each year there will be two or three major
exhibitions devoted to contemporary art,
approached from various angles. Above all, the
Foundation wishes to show the work of artists who
really represent today’s world and whose career path
is an example to others.
So, after Gérard Fromanger and Yann Kersalé,
Les Capucins will be presenting the works of Joan
Miró in an exhibition designed in partnership with
the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation. Olivier
Kaeppelin, the director of this foundation, is the guest
curator of this exhibition.
The foundation also wants to turn the spotlight on
the representation of figurative expressions which
have emerged since the 1940s in its relationship
with painting, through to the recent developments
extending to comic strip art. In the coming years, this
interest in all forms of modern figurative art will give
rise to thematic and monographic exhibitions along
the same lines as the inaugural exhibition devoted
to Gérard Fromanger, ‘the spearhead of narrative
figuration’ (J.L. Chalumeau, Lettre Hebdomadaire
3, Sept. 2012).
The Foundation will also focus on certain specific
disciplines such as sketching, photography and
graphic art. The programme of Les Capucins in
Landerneau also plans to welcome some major
European collections, and the Miró exhibition will
be the first to represent this spirit of partnership
alongside the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de
Vence and the Miró Foundation in Barcelona. It will
also be open to all artistic creation by young, up-andcoming artists.
The foundation’s philosophy of ‘Access for all’ is
a continuation of the underlying principle of the E.
Leclerc Movement founded in Landerneau, at Les
Capucins, by Edouard Leclerc. To encourage people
to come and see cultural works and broaden their
minds, the Foundation has given itself the means to
reach out to everybody. Its educational department
employs two pedagogical coordinators, assisted by
students from the Fine Arts Schools and History of
Art channels, to welcome youngsters and families
during instructive individual and group visits. History
of art workshops will also be offered, as well as
conferences, public readings and concerts. Access
for all is ensured by an affordable pricing policy (a full
price entry ticket at just 4 €).
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II — YANN KERSALÉ
Le sillon dans le miroir © AIK - Yann Kersalé
À DES NUITS LUMIÈRE
LA VILLE, LA NUIT, LA MER
The Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc for Culture will
welcome Yann Kersalé to Les Capucins in Landerneau
from 15th December 2012. For the occasion, the artist will
reproduce the luminous exploration work he carried out
in various parts of Brittany, and is inviting you to journey
through these previously unseen landscapes.
After the success of its inaugural exhibition dedicated to
Gérard Fromanger, the new hall has been transformed.
With the sound and light installations presented by Yann
Kersalé, the centre is placing contemporary work and new
production at the heart of its programme.
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II — Yann Kersalé
À des nuits lumière
La ville, la nuit, la mer
7 merveilles + une, en sept alinéas
7 wonders + one, in seven segments
By Jean-Louis Pradel, september 2012
Yann Kersalé’s installation plunges the vast hall of
the Capucins centre in Landerneau into the twilight
of a summer’s eve, where visitors are invited to
navigate their way through a labyrinth created by
seven black boxes of varying dimensions, forming
a kind of Cyclopean set of cubes. Some are wider
than others, like houses in a ghostly town inhabited
by unique worlds of light, sensations and emotions,
where the enigma is built on some very specific
details, gathered out in the field, in this underwater
prairie, in this Finistère dear to the artist, actually
known by the Celts as Penn-ar-Bed, or the beginning
of the world.
Nothing has ever taken place, except the place,
and it is the place that is the very object of Yann
Kersalé’s art. Whether it is near or far, whether it is
the destination of an expedition to the antipodes
or contained within the contours of a very urban
building, whether it is sumptuously manufactured
or perfectly natural, the place is the object of
metamorphosis, a transfiguration even. You can
have marble sculptures, but these are sculptures
carved out of the night. Freed from any notion of
gravity, they are elusive and fluid, they slightly shift
all the conventions of contemporary art to get to
grips with its origins where, almost a century ago,
with Marcel Duchamp and his found objects, the act
was the art, to the detriment of the use made until
then of the objects, and where Kazimir Malevitch’s
Yann Kersalé, 2011
photo JM Priol © AIK Yann Kersalé
« ... these are sculptures
carved out of the night. »
black square framed in white turned the page
of representation to reveal a prodigal night and
dreams of immaterial adventures.
This place is all that is left to occupy. It is a place
of memory or of thought, evanescent to varying
degrees. The dream factory set up by Yann
Kersalé breathes life into forms that, because they
are made from pure spatiality combined with
pure temporality, are all the more perturbing.
Regardless of the actual scale, things always appear
extravagant. Like the most tenuous perfume or the
sound of a voice surging suddenly from the deserts
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II — Yann Kersalé
À des nuits lumière
La ville, la nuit, la mer
of oblivion to offer, during the fleeting moment of
an encounter, a sense of eternity, the “revelations”
Yann Kersalé makes, draw evidence of a presence
from the confused negligence our eyes often
neglect, as they are drawn to the darkness.
Conspicuous and genuinely infinite, they escape all
measurement.
Here, the seven wonders of the world referred to by
Yann Kersalé are, quite naturally, seven wonders
from around Landerneau, to which this travelling
artists remains proudly attached. The faraway
is suddenly brought to the here and now of a
bewitching closeness, regardless of whether it can
be traced back to before the Flood or is resolutely
modern. Reality, whether mineral, vegetable,
aquatic or technological, forms part of the principle
of uncertainty found in the night, which it crosses
with a form of lightness that befits the legendary
tales dressed in their robes of light.
The seven houses in this dreamlike town are
furnished with in situ installations and recordings
poetically entitled Depth of the waves, home
to the underwater prairies of Océanopolis,
Horizontal Vertical for the Ile Vierge lighthouse in
Plouguerneau, Backbone of the Wind for the Sillon
Noir at Pleubian, Chaos of Fire for the Chaos du
Diable at Huelgoat, Rockfill in the Shadows for the
Carnac alignments, Scree of World Images for the
radome of the Télécoms complex at
Pleumeur-Bodou, and Chrysalis Structure for
the three ruins at the Courrouze trading estate in
Rennes. Presented during a special preview last
winter at the Fondation EDF Space in Paris, here
the installations are given a whole new scale, with
enhancements and new grace, really making them
feel at home, here at the heart of a town that has
conserved the last inhabited bridge in Europe, under
which you can feel, here inland, the movement of
the tide and the nostalgia for days gone by, when
this crossing was far from being just a passageway,
but a place full of life, with all its social, human and
political complexity.
Finally, an eighth house, open day and night on to
the street, with its large window, housing five brand
new installations which are perpetually renewed,
immersed in the bay of Brest, testifying to how
«darkness moves» in the words of Henri Michaux,
another poet who explored a perilously thin line,
weaving his way between reality and dreams with
fragile balance.
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À des nuits lumière
La ville, la nuit, la mer
Plan de l’exposition
Sketch of the in situ installation
/ Mise en abyme
L’écho des pierres 1
/ Enrochements d’ombres
Les phares de la forêt 2
/ Chaos de feu
La lune télévisuelle
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/ Éboulis d’images du monde
L’appel du large
4
/ Verticale allongée
Le sillon dans le miroir 5
/ Dorsale des vents
Chrysalide 6
/ Structure Chrysalide
Les prairies de la mer 7
/ Profondeur de lames
Sous l’eau 8
/ Profondeurs
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Biography
of
Yann Kersalé
Yann Kersalé
Key biographical information
Yann Kersalé is a sculptor who
uses light to create his art, in
the same way that others use
solid materials to express
themselves. He has chosen the
night, the locus of choice for
what is perceived, as his «testing
ground». As he brings spaces
and buildings to life, he creates
new stories in the contemporary
city.
Yann Kersalé, 2011
photo JM Priol © AIK Yann Kersalé
Using specific sociological,
historical, geographical or
architectural elements,
Yann Kersalé seeks a base for
creation, from which he draws a
narrative theme. This is how he
creates luminous fiction in urban
environments, weaves
geopoetical paths through nature
and develops his own
light-materials. This is how most
of his projects are designed.
SELECTED WORKS
For thirty years now, Yann
Kersalé has travelled the world,
exploring different kinds of
landscape from dusk to
dawn. He was born on 17th
February 1955 in France.
Sept fois plus à l’Ouest, expeditions in
Brittany and exhibition at the Fondation EDF, espace Récamier in Paris. La
Nuit des liens, Montpellier town hall,
architect: Jean Nouvel.
Sous-Jacence, Briey, installation to
mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Cité
Radieuse, architect: Le Corbusier.
L’autre lieu, path of lights through
Salengro park, Bruay-la-Buissière.
Lumière matière, creation of a film and
launch of the Brittany region brand.
http://www.ykersale.com
2013
Mer-veille-Marseille-Mucem. Bacalan
Bridge, Bordeaux. The old docks,
Marseille.
2012
Dome + Chrysalide light adornment for
Galeries Lafayette, architects: Djuric +
Tardio Architects.
RBC Showroom, Montpellier.
2011
2010
La rivière verticale, Weser Tower,
Bremen, architect: Helmut Jahn.
La vague, homage to Gustave Cour-bet,
Le Havre embankment
Jallum, creation of an object in light and
crystal for use indoors and outdoors,
Baccarat, France.
Angles de vue, Ile Seguin Jardin de
Préfguration, with Michel Desvigne.
2009
Ligne d’ondes, creation of a luminous
universe for the Transilien transport
network, Bombardier Transport.
La Petite maison dans la prairie,
Washington, office block, K street,
architect: Helmut Jahn.
2008
Le sept des sorcières, geopoetical
path through the gardens of Editions
Gallimard, Paris.
Convergence, light sculpture, GrandPlace Brussels.
L’acte de l’onde blanche, luxury space
at Galeries Lafayette Paris with Bruno
Moinard.
En Rives, Docks de Paris, France,
architects: Jakob+MacFarlane.
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La Nuit des liens, support act (Opera,
Arceaux).
Échos opposés, Cours Victor Hugo,
Bordeaux, architect: Fabien Pédelaborde.
Laboratoire des Lumières, concert hall
in Copenhagen, Denmark, architect:
Jean Nouvel.
Lu-Mignon, Cité manifeste, Mulhouse,
June (design of lighting for streets
within the Cité) architects :
Jean Nouvel, Matthieu Poitevin,
Lacaton & Vassal, Duncan Lewis,
Shigeru Ban.
2007
La fausse vraie enseigne, Monoprix,
Porte de Châtillon, Paris (long-term
lighting of the façade).
Trichromatic Allegory, Deutsche Post,
Bonn, Germany (lighting of a glass
tower, architect: Helmut Jahn.
Métaphore, creation of a candelabra,
Chaville.
L ’Amorse du Bleu, «Art in the City»,
long-term installation for Avenue
Jean-Médecin, following the Nice Côte
d’Azur tramway – Nice, France.
Papa Kub, Gennevilliers theatre with
Patrick Bouchain and Nicole Concordet.
Contours and Contrasts, Langenscheidt
Building, Munich, Germany, architect:
Helmut Jahn.
Garden of secrets, Romaneira,
Portugal (creation of an outdoor visit).
On the Shore, long-term installation
Busan ART Museum, South Korea
Allumouette, object designed for the
Moulins de Tolbiac, Paris, architect:
Rudy Ricciotti.
2006
2004
2003
À blanc, Canal Saint-Martin, Nuit
Blanche event 2003, Paris.
Trichromatic Allegory, Deutsche Post,
Bonn, Germany.
Barrage bridge and Marexhe bridge,
Liege, Belgium.
Trilogie, private garden, Saint-JeanCap-Ferrat.
Azur, Bangkok airport, long-term
lighting installation for Bangkok airport,
architect: Helmut Jahn.
L’Ô, lighting for the Quai Branly
museum, Paris, architect: Jean Nouvel,
landscaper: Gilles Clément.
Seasons, Singapore, January 2006
(long-term lighting of the
Hermès façade).
2002
2005
La Difa, Berlin, Germany.
Crachet site, Mons, Belgium. Kaufhoff
Gallery/Tunnel, Chemnitz, Germany.
In Out, Sony Center, Berlin, Germany.
Light in the Shadows, Tunis (ephemeral
lighting of Avenue Bourguiba, Porte de
France).
Impressions, long-term installation,
municipal art schools, Vitry.
Diffraction, Torre Agbar, Barcelona,
Spain, September (long-term lighting
of the tower), architect: Jean Nouvel.
Metamorphose of Transparencies,
Sparkasse, Pforzheim, Germany,
October (long-term lighting of the
Sparkasse headquarters and jewellery
museum).
Thessaloniki cinema festival, Greece.
Barge lifts, Canal du Centre, Mons,
Belgium.
Arte Plage, 2002 exhibition, Biel,
Switzerland.
Le 2 de la tête, municipal library for the
region, Nice.
2001
2000
Allegories, Esplanade du Roi Albert,
Liege, Belgium.
Nocturnes, Nestlé head office, Vevey,
Switzerland.
Life Ring, London 2000, UK.
Memory of the Day, Lichtenberg,
Germany.
Les dessus des d’sous, Braunschweig,
Germany.
Vaps, Peace Bridge, Seoul, Korea,
architect: Rudy Ricciotti.
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1998-1999
Basilique Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis.
Courant d’âges, Beez mills, Namur,
Belgium.
Ardennes bridge, Namur, Belgium.
Fragnée bridge, Liège, Belgium. La Plate
Taille barrage, Belgium. Barge lift, Thieu,
Belgium. La Belle jardinière, Paris.
Viaduc d’Echinghen, A16 motorway.
Atocha station, Madrid, Spain. Dynamic,
Hong Kong.
1996-1997
3 Primaires perpétuelles, Melle. A837
motorway, Saintes-Rochefort. Allum,
Tae Chang Steel, Taegu, Korea. Cirque
d’hiver, Paris.
Amarée 4, Cherbourg.
1995
Pour une blanchisserie survoltée : beyond
the object, beyond space, time relived,
secret gardens, Charles Foix hospital,
Ivry-sur-Seine.
Virgin Mégastore, galerie du Carrousel,
Le Louvre.
300 000 km/s, La Villette, Paris.
1994
Résonance, avenue des ChampsÉly¬sées, Paris.
Analogies, L’Art à la plage, Ramatuelle.
Vauban tower, Camaret-sur-mer.
Encounters, El Solar de la Abadia,
Bue¬nos Aires, Argentina.
Entre 2, Pont de Normandie.
1993
Étendards, Bry-sur-Marne.
Théâtre Temps, Lyon Opera house.
Portsall, Portsall.
Pointe du Castel-Coz, Beuzec-Cap-Sizun.
1992
Hypothèse, Euralille.
Eurotunnel, Calais.
La Ville fleuve, Nantes.
Europole, Grenoble.
Port-Rhu, Douarnenez.
Translation, Bruxelles, Belgique.
L’Écume de Pentélique, Athènes, Grèce.
Brest 92
70 ans de l’AFAA, ministère des Affaires
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Hypothèse, Euralille.
Eurotunnel, Calais.
La Ville fleuve, Nantes.
Europole, Grenoble.
Port-Rhu, Douarnenez.
Translation, Brussels, Belgium. The
Seaspray of Pentélique, Athens,
Greece.
Brest 92
70th anniversary of the AFAA, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Paris.
CX vivant, IMAX Dome, Paris-La
Défense.
1991 -1990
La Nuit des docks, Saint-Nazaire. Rayon
lumière, Dijon.
INSTALLATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
2012
Exhibition at Fortin de l’Ile Tristan with
the foundation Ici l’Ombre,
Douarnenez.
Le pic en rose, Pic du midi,
Midi-Pyrénées, installation as
part of Octobre Rose.
À des Nuits Lumière, la ville, la nuit,
la mer, exhibition at Les Capucins in
Landerneau.
2011
Sept Fois plus à l’Ouest, Fondation EDF,
Espace Récamier in Paris.
2010
L’Opéra débastillé, Bastille Opera
house, Paris.
Lumière liquide, Rennes.
Mouvance de pierres, Limoges.
Douarnenez 88, Britanny.
3 Chapelles, Pont-Scorff in Britanny,
installation for the Estienne workshop.
Juste une étincelle, installation around
a work by Julio Le Park at the Maison
des Arts in Bagneux.
Un jardin sous la lune, installation as
part of Designers Days, Baccarat, Paris.
1987 -1986
2009
1989 -1988
Irréversibles lumières, Grand Palais,
Paris.
Les Lumières du parc, Strasbourg. Les
murs ont des images, Brest town hall.
Le Songe est de rigueur, pointe de la
Torche, Britanny.
Le Puits du duel, panorama installation,
Le Fresnoy.
Creation of a geopoetical path as part of
Outdoor Design, Jardins des Tuileries,
Paris.
1985 -1984
L’Amer, long-term installation at
the museum of contemporary art in
Monaco.
Re-Flexion-s, Hermès Gallery,
Singapore Personal exhibition
Partiprisme, Verrière Hermès, Brussels,
Belgium. Personal exhibition
La Soute, Printemps de Septembre,
Toulouse.
Auditorium, Quimper.
Siderxénon, société métallurgique de
Normandie, Caen.
1983
Eiffel Tower, prototype for interior
lighting, Paris.
2006
2004
Electricos, Luzboa first Biennial of Light,
Lisbon.
2002
Le Diaphane et l’obscur, a history of
slides in contemporary art, Maison
Européenne de la Photographie
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2001
La Relique de la Calotte, galerie Baudoin
Lebon, FIAC 2001, Paris. Personal
exhibition
1998
Lightjack, Ma gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Personal exhibition
1995
Parabole, Printemps de la Photo, Cloître,
Cahors.
1994
Expéditions Lumière, Espace Electra
(Fondation EDF), Paris. Personal
exhibition
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sept Fois plus à l’Ouest, Editions
Archibooks, 2011.
Yann Kersalé, Editions Gallimard, 2008.
Manière noire, Editions L’une & l’autre,
2008.
Jardins à Secrets, Sens & Tonka, 2005.
Yann Kersalé, Jean-Pierre Curnier, Henri
Jeudy, Monique Sicard, Editions Norma,
2003.
Yann Kersalé, Lumière Matière,
Jean-Louis Pradel, Gallery Ma Books,
1998.
Yann Kersalé, text by Philippe Curval,
followed by L’Instant Lumière by Paul
Virilio, Editions Hazan Monotypes, 1994.
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Appendices
The exhibition book
The exhibition book is published by Editions
Textuel (distributed UD)
C’est dans une lumière crépusculaire d’une nuit d’été
que Yann Kersalé met en scène cette Bretagne qui lui est
chère. Recréant dans un jeu de sculpture et d’éclairage un
univers végétal, minéral ou aquatique, l’artiste voyageur
nous fait partager émotions et sensations émanant d’un
territoire dont il n’a jamais cessé de se réclamer avec fierté.
Et plutôt que de nous délivrer les secrets d’une technologie
qu’il manie avec maestria, il dévoile ici les magnifiques
croquis préparatoires, préludes à son œuvre éphémère.
Prairies sous-marines, Océanopolis, Finistère
Phare de l’île Vierge, Plouguerneau, Finistère
Sillon noir, Pleubian, Côtes d’Armor
Chaos du diable, Huelgoat, Finistère
Alignements de mégalithes, Carnac, Morbihan
ZAC de la Courrouze, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine
Radôme de la cité des Télécoms, Pleumeur-Bodou, Côtes d’Armor
Sous l’eau dans la rade de Brest, Finistère
yann kersalé
A richly documented work,
prefaced by Michel-Édouard Leclerc
yann kersalé
à des nuits
lumière
la ville / la nuit / la mer
Prix : 29 €
ISBN : 978-2-84597-460-9
Yann Kersalé
À DES NUITS LUMIÈRE
La ville, la nuit, la mer
Published on 9th January 2013,
hardcover, 205x 270mm
160 pages
978-2-84597-460-9
€29
This book is published to coincide with the
exhibition À des Nuits Lumière, la ville, la nuit, la
mer. This exhibition catalogue is illustrated with
images from behind the scenes of the artist’s
work, with preliminary sketches, light experiments
(recordings), and images of the installations set up
for the exhibition, including the eight black boxes
where Yann Kersalé recreates a mineral, vegetable,
aquatic and technological universe using sculptures
and light.
This is a collector’s book that has been carefully
put together with three different papers, with silver
marking for the title and silver marbling on three
sides to give it a luminous effect when it is opened.
Yann Kersalé, an architect of light, has chosen the
night, the locus of choice for what is perceived, as
his «testing ground». He creates luminous fiction in
urban environments and geopoetical paths through
nature.
The texts are by Michel-Édouard Leclerc, Chairman
of the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc for Culture,
Jean-Louis Pradel, French historian and art critic,
Alain Fleischer, French filmmaker, photographer,
visual artist and writer, Anne de Vandière, artist,
photographer and journalist for fifteen years.
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Appendices
The E.Leclerc Movement
In 1949 Édouard Leclerc founded the E. Leclerc Movement to promote the independence
of entrepreneurs, who own their shops, and the autonomy of each store. It encourages
individual initiative at the service of the business project, which is to make goods and
services accessible to as many people as possible. Today the E. Leclerc movement has 530
members in France. It is the only group in Europe that offers young employees the chance
to become owners of their stores. The business is growing internationally with the goal of
creating a cluster of independent European store owners. Today it has 110 stores outside
of France.
The Movement’s organization is based on three main structures. The AC-DLec
(Association des Centres Distributeurs E. Leclerc, or Association of E. Leclerc Distribution
Centers) attributes the franchise to members, monitors them to ensure that they comply with
the rules of the members’ charter and spells out the business’s main strategic directions. The
GALEC, which stands for Groupement d’achat des centres Leclerc (Leclerc Buying Centers
Group), lists the main suppliers on behalf of the stores. Lastly, 16 regional cooperatives
carry out the stores’ logistical activities, negotiate with national suppliers to gear offer to
the specific features of consumption in the various regions, and work closely with local
suppliers. In addition to the cooperatives, specialized companies have been set up by the
business to manage certain specific sectors, such as fuel, jewellery, meat and travel.
Among its various areas of activity, the E. Leclerc Movement has forged a strong
commitment to making it easier for as many people as possible to have access to culture.
The first step in that process took place in 1973, when the Movement developed the cultural
scene in Tarbes. In 1989 it set up the first Cultural Space, in Pau. Today there are 200 all over
France, 40% of them in towns of fewer than 15,000 people with the goal of reducing cultural
isolation. In its attempts to offer cultural goods at lower prices, the company has always
come up against the Lang Law on the single price for books, eventually losing a three-year
court battle to overturn the bill. Nevertheless, today the books on offer in E. Leclerc stores
are systematically sold at the maximum allowed discount of 5%. The Cultural Spaces are
deeply committed to providing access to culture and host many events (meetings, panel
discussions, readings, lectures and book signings), including the Landerneau Prize, whose
aim is to promote French-language writers.
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Appendices
Michel-Édouard Leclerc
In 1952 Michel-Édouard Leclerc was born in Landerneau, a town in Finistère, Brittany,
where he witnessed the early days of the "distribution centre" that his parents had set
up in order to experiment with a new sales method. But Michel-Édouard decided that he
wanted to be a journalist and started studying literature and economics, which eventually
led him to the Sorbonne in Paris, where he enrolled in the political science and philosophy
department and defended a Ph.D. thesis in economics in 1975. Then the young man
embarked on a career as a journalist and teacher before joining the family business as
a technical advisor in E. Leclerc centers three years later. He was responsible for the fuel
sector and in 1979 founded Siplec, which stands for the Société d’Importation E. Leclerc
(the E. Leclerc Import Company), and cut his teeth in the E. Leclerc Movement. In 1982
the ACDLec (Association des Centres Distributeurs E. Leclerc, or Association of E. Leclerc
Distribution Centers) was set up with the mission of managing the E. Leclerc brand. In 1988
Michel-Édouard Leclerc became its co-president alongside his father.
Michel-Édouard Leclerc has been involved in all the battles of the Movement, where he
also developed more personal passions, such as his interest in comic books. In 1991 he
took part in the Angoulême Festival, which he sponsored until 2007. He even published a
book of interviews with around 50 authors entitled Itinéraires dans l’univers de la bande
dessinéé (Itineraries in the World of Comic Books), which came out in 2005.
In 2005 Michel-Édouard Leclerc, a father of four and a great communicator, created a
blog, De quoi je me M.E.L., which roughly translates as "mind your own business" but is
also a pun on the French word for e-mail and the three initials of his name. It deals with
issues in the news and matters involving the economic and social aspects of consumption.
Today, as president of AC-DLec, he has embarked on a new campaign: responsible
consumption.
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Appendices
E. Leclerc…
Key figures
(as of late 2011)
556 stores in France
Key dates
1949 Édouard Leclerc opens up
his first store in Landerneau
1959 The 60th Leclerc Center opens
in Issy-les-Moulineaux
1964 The store in Landerneau expands,
becoming the first E. Leclerc hypermarket
112 stores elsewhere in Europe (Poland, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Slovenia and Andorra)
528 E. Leclerc service stations
(of which 10 are located alongside highways)
209 Espaces Culturels E.Leclerc
279 E. Leclerc Le Manège à Bijoux jewellery
stores
530 members
96 000 employees
1970 Creation of GALEC, the Groupement
d’Achats des centres E. Leclerc (E.
Leclerc Buying Centers Group)
30 milliards d’euros de chiffre d’affaire
en France hors carburant
1979 Leclerc sets up the SIPLEC oil company
A 18 % market share in France on all products
1986 Creation of the Le Manège à Bijoux
jewellery spaces
2 710 281 m2 square meters of commercial
space
A 5,5 % growth rate
1987 Launch of the E. Leclerc Travel concept
1989 The first perfume store, Une Heure pour Soi
(A Time for You), opens
1992 The first Leclerc store outside France
opens in Pamplona, Spain
1995 Launch of the concept of the returnable bag renewable for life
2006 Launch of quiestlemoinscher.com, the first Internet site that compares prices between major retail chains
Corporate giving
Creation of the Landerneau Prize in 2008, which
has since been spun off into the Landerneau
Discovery Prize, Landerneau Crime Novel Prize and
Landerneau Comic Book Prize
Sponsor of the Etonnants Voyageurs (Surprising
Travellers) Festival since 1999 in Saint Malo and
abroad, and initiator of a short story contest
2007 Launch of the Express Drive service
Sponsor of the Angoulême Festival from 1991 to
2007
2008 Launch of "Bio Village",
Leclerc’s first line of organic products
Supporter of the Folle Journée de Nantes (Crazy
Day in Nantes) since 2001
2012 Inauguration of the
Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture
Sponsor of several public television cultural
broadcasts
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Visuals available to the press
Le couvent des Capucins ,
Landerneau
© Hervé Ronné, 2012.
Yann Kersalé, 2011
Yann Kersalé, 2011
photo JM Priol © AIK Yann Kersalé
photo JM Priol © AIK Yann Kersalé
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Visuals available to the press
Enrochements d’ombres
Chaos de feu
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
Structure Chrysalide
Dorsale des vents
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
Profondeur de lames
Verticale allongée
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
Éboulis d’images du monde
Profondeurs
© Laurent Lecat,
installation Yann Kersalé
© AIK Yann Kersalé
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Visuals available to the press
L’écho des pierres
Les phares de la forêt
© AIK Yann Kersalé
© AIK Yann Kersalé
Chrysalide
Le sillon dans le miroir
© AIK Yann Kersalé
© AIK Yann Kersalé
Les prairies de la mer
L’appel du large
© AIK Yann Kersalé
© AIK Yann Kersalé
La lune télévisuelle
Sous l’eau
© AIK Yann Kersalé
© AIK Yann Kersalé
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Annexes
Useful information and contacts
The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
Fund for Culture
Admission
Full price : €4
At Les Capucins
29800 Landerneau
Tel : +33 2 29 62 47 78
contact@fhel.fr
www.fonds-culturel-leclerc.fr
……
Reduced price : €2
(For any group of 10 people or
more or any group of four people
18 to 25 years or according to an
agreement with social or tourist
organizations)
……
Free of charge upon presentation
of proof for children under 18,
teachers, students, job seekers,
ICOM card holders and anyone
accompanying a group of more
than 10 people
Opening times
2012 / 2013
……
15 December 2012 to 19 May 2013
The Yann Kersalé exhibition
Open every day
from 10am to 6pm
Closed Mondays except during
school holidays
Closed the dec. 25th and the
january 01st
How to get there
……
Services to the public
Guided tours, educational
services, art history workshops,
lectures and activities. To find out
more send an e-mail to
contact@fhel.fr
The Hélène & Édouard Leclerc
Fund for Culture is located in
Landerneau in Finistère between
Morlaix and Brest.
……
By the four-lane RN12
motorway from Rennes
……
By the Paris-Brest TGV
high-speed train (the railway
station is 200 meters away)
……
By plane (Brest Guipavas Airport
is 19 minutes away)