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PHILIPPE LEPEUT
LISTEN TO THE QUIET VOICE
MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN
11 APRIL / 31 OCTOBER 2015
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PRESS FOLDER « PHILIPPE LEPEUT, LISTEN TO THE QUIET VOICE»
MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN DE STRASBOURG 11 APRIL – 31 OCTOBER 2015
1. PROJECT
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2. ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
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3. THE EXHIBITION
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4. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
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5. SERIES OF CULTURAL EVENTS
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6. "WINDOWS ON ART" 2015, AT THE GALERIES LAFAYETTE
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7. PHILIPPE LEPEUT AT THE CEAAC
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8. EXHIBITION PARTNERS
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9. VISITOR INFORMATION
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10. PRESS VISUALS
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1. Project
As well as being an artist, Philippe Lepeut, born in Nantes in 1957, is a publisher for the Écart Production
label, of which he is a co-founder, and a teacher at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin. In describing
himself he does not hesitate to use the cryptic phrase "I am many", and the exhibition now being held at
the Strasbourg Modern and Contemporary Art Museum is indeed many-sided. In a series of around forty
works including photographs, videos and audio installations, this former resident of the Villa Medici
(housing the French Academy in Rome), until 1991 a fervent practitioner of painting, invites visitors to
discover the visual and sound fields that he has been exploring for the last 30 years. Philippe Lepeut, an
aesthete, even a dandy, more concerned with intermedia than multimedia, has been developing work
that aspires to create beauty through the use of soundwaves, pixels or quite simply line. A butterfly wing,
a meteorite, reflections in cut glass, whispers or vociferations, all these can become starting points for
works glowing with a muted, unpretentious grace, like intimately whispered secrets. This is the "quiet
voice" that the exhibition's title prompts us to listen to, itself one of the instructions in the Oblique
Strategies card pack, a sort of contemporary I Ching created for other artists in 1975 by the musician and
producer Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt. Whether instruction or simply advice, it is the
cornerstone of the exhibition, the starting point of this project that brings together work from 1998 to the
present time, most of it new to the public. The artist has arranged the 600 m2 of the exhibition area like a
large cabinet of curiosities in which the visitor is invited to discover "created treasures". The material and
the immaterial are found side-by-side, seashells and roaring winds, sound frequencies conveyed by a
network of cables attached to imposing blocks of sculpted stone. The exhibition also provides an
interactive space, an artistic agora in which Philippe Lepeut will be inviting his esteemed fellow-artists to
participate in film screenings, performances and discussions in the presence of the public.
The exhibition will also be the occasion for a series of music and film events that should help to pin down
this practitioner of obliquity and author/composer of sculptural poetry, steering between traditional
techniques and the new technologies.
Exhibition: Philippe Lepeut, Listen to the Quiet Voice, from 11 April to 31 October 2015
Number of works presented: approx. 40
Exhibition curator: Estelle Pietrzyk, Heritage Curator, Directress of MAMCS
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2. Artist's Biography
Philippe Lepeut was born in Nantes in 1957. He lives and works in Strasbourg and Imbsheim.
As a child, he was taken on several occasions to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where
the Comparative Anatomy Gallery made a deep impression upon him.
• 1978-1984: degree in History of Contemporary Art and Fine Arts (Paris I, La Sorbonne and Institut d’Art
Saint-Charles)
• 1984-2002: Professor at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes
• 1991-1992: resident at the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medicis
• Since December 2002: Professor at Haute École des Arts du Rhin (Rhine School of Arts)
• 2003: Creates Écart Production, publishing and production of artistic videos. Begins work as publisher
for a label that includes more than 20 video artists (first issue in 2005).
• 2007: Creates PHONON-LAB, laboratory of sound practices, with Joachim Montessuis
• 2010 creates HORS-FORMAT with Pierre Mercier, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Eleanor Hellio and Joachim
Montessuis
Selection of projects for public spaces:
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2014, Syneson, commissioned by Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg for Neudorf, Place du
Marché (67)
2011, Entre ciel et sel, commissioned by Ville de Dieuze (57)
2008, Odonate, 1% artistique, LEGTA Le Chesnoy, Amilly, Conseil Régional du Centre
2006, PO66690, 1% artistique, Collège Pierre Mendès France, Saint André (Conseil Général des
Pyrénées Orientales)
2004, Amer 6, commissioned by Ville de Strasbourg for Jardin des Deux Rives
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Radiophony and sound art also occupy an important place in his work:
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La pierre solaire, 2010, Radio En Construction/Les géants du Nideck, Strasbourg
Radiophonic circus, 2008, Nuit Blanche de Metz
Radio poing pour radio, 2006, radiophonic installation for Ososphère, Strasbourg (regular
collaboration since 2006)
Radiotopie, 2005, radiophonic installation (Triangle FM 98.4), Galerie MicroOnde, Villeparisis
Les images à la légère, 2004, and Le son de l’image, 2005, on Radio Judaïca, Strasbourg
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Philippe Lepeut's works are present in many public and private collections including:
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Fonds National d’Art Contemporain
MAC/VAL, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne
Musée Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
Musée Goya, Castres
Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon
Fonds municipal de la Ville de Paris
FRAC Alsace
FRAC Aquitaine
FRAC Basse-Normandie
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Artothèque de Nantes
Artothèque de Strasbourg
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3. The Exhibition
PLAN
EXHIBITION POSTER
To open the exhibition, Philippe Lepeut has chosen for himself a setting which immediately sets the tone.
A devotee of multiple identities (he appears for example as a performer under the name of DoomBrain),
he offers us one of his many transformations, photographed here by Simon Laveuve. This cleverly
reworked, not to say "doctored" photograph was taken in one of the artist's cult settings, the Gallery of
Comparative Anatomy in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. The portrait lies halfway between
historical reference – one thinks of Joseph Beuys in "La Rivoluzione siamo noi" (and Lepeut has in fact
borrowed his pose) – and pop culture, the spirit of David Bowie in his Heroes period hovering close by. In
this image, which can be read like a film poster, everything is cult related: the place, with its age-old past,
steeped in history and ghosts, and the references, from Shaman Artist to glam-rock icon. From this
undergrowth of appeals to the collective memory, Philippe Lepeut succeeds in developing very personal
work. In fact we see here his own story: the hours spent haunting the Museum as a child and later with
his own children, his fascination with the great "handers-down" those who were to orientate his artistic
practice and his preference for working in different fields (through publishing, education etc.) or again his
use of the accumulated survivals of centuries – "real" objects, relics or beliefs – as material for his work,
drawing from them a new form of grace that resonates with our age.
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LES REPRISES (REPEATS)
These wall fixtures in rosewood and ebony each contain a series of stones chosen for their properties, or
in some cases for their proprietors. These curiosities from the mineral world (stone-fanciers will
recognize, among others, specimens of siderite, fluorite, pyrite, creedite or the desert rose ...) are
replicas of gifts made to friends and relatives, midway between a geologist's specimens and souvenir
photographs. Indirectly, or perhaps just modestly, Philippe Lepeut immortalizes his circle of family and
friends, each of them being matched to a particular specimen of stone, rock or crystal . Les Reprises is a
minimalist, sensitive work, at times alluding to art history (one of the "stones" has been carved like the
polyhedron in Dürer's Melancholy) or to questions with a metaphysical slant, an example being the
meteorite, an extraterrestrial object.
DANTE
With this series of six photographs, the artist evokes the author of the Inferno without however assigning
any of these "damned souls" to a particular circle of Hell. Using skulls from the large collection of the
Strasbourg Zoological Museum or scientific specimens, Lepeut has composed works owing more to
painting than to the reproducible image. Accentuating the contrast between the black background found
in 17th century still lifes from Baugin to Philippe de Champaigne and the play of reflections on the
framing glass, Lepeut instills a quality of strangeness into these contemporary vanities. The photographs,
with their unusual velvety, painterly quality, have been printed in the exact format of the display mount,
making these ambiguous objects all the more disturbing to the already tentative viewer. Painting?
Photograph? What is intriguing in this series, beyond the technical aspect determining these trompe-l'oeil
images, is their theatrical presentation. Through the artist's lens, each photograph (or showcase), shot
frontally but otherwise left untouched, apparently becomes the scene of some episode – tragic or
farcical. Profiles, relics, hints of a sardonic chorus, all compose a sequence arranged to create a very
personal reading of Dante's epic, less a narration than a visual poem.
SILENCIO
While it may be unobtrusive, this work, specially revived and developed for Listen to the Quiet Voice, has
a presence that makes of it the real backbone of the exhibition. Visitors may indeed enter the room
without paying particular attention to these three speakers arranged in a triangle, each remaining silent
for long periods while being strangely connected to a stone. When they come to life, it is to utter a single
word: "Silencio". These three syllables become the starting point for a journey into a world of fiction, each
of the three voices embodying a situation, a character, or even a whole work. The first "Silencio!" is an
admonition, the authoritative voice of a supervisor in the Sistine Chapel imposing silence on the visitor.
The second "Silencio" comes from Fritz Lang, or to be precise from Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris, in
which Lang played the role of a film director. Silence descends on the film set just before the cry of
"Action!". The third "Silencio" is the name of a club, a place of dreams and fantasy in David Lynch's film
Mulholland Drive. The word is whispered by a mysterious woman in the film's closing scene.
These "Cries and Whispers" accompany the exhibition, murmurs or outbursts momentarily forgotten but,
in the end, deeply permeating our experience of it.
SUITE OUZBÈQUE (UZBEK SUITE)
Put together like a musical suite, with each piece "played" by a thematic cluster, this Suite Ouzbèque
comprising 22 photographs is here presented to the public for the first time. Three "scores", each
comprising several photographs (a single format for each series) are thus "played" simultaneously. The
artist distinguishes them as follows. First there is a series called « Les plans de coupe » (Cutting planes)
people and landscapes photographed during his trip to Central Asia, and also "staged" anatomical
models. Then comes « Le bord de choses » (The edge of things) which includes tracks, footprints,
shadows, all of them evidence of a disappearance. And, to end with, « Les images saisissantes » (Striking
images) show stones photographed as study models or held in the palm of the hand. This Suite
Ouzbèque, stretching for almost ten yards, is an invitation to embark on a simultaneous reading of
different time frames, different locations or different orders of magnitude. To the temptation of a micronarrative suggested by an image, Philippe Lepeut prefers a wall of images seen as though only fleetingly
recollected. Contextual elements progressively eliminated (absent faces, human figures replaced by
models, nameless landscapes, etc.), details emphasized (the hands holding the stones seen in close-up)
or a book that cannot be read, all are part of this mise en abyme photography, used here not as a means
to capture the real, but as a possible tool for the poetic creation of images.
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ATMOSPHÈRE, SÉRIE 2 (ATMOSPHERE, SERIES 2)
In this series of seven photographs, three of which are presented here, the artist unveils part of his "Locus
Solus", a cunningly reconstructed private world in which the viewer is invited to share. On a work surface
turned into a table by a change in perspective, we see a cabinet of curiosities made up of the "tools" of
Philippe Lepeut's trade. Here the artist yields facets of a many-sided artistic identity, summed up in his "I
am many" motto. Painter, sound artist, collector, reader, walker-gatherer ... all are summoned up by
objects staged in a manner worthy of a Spoerri "picture-trap".
Very different worlds co-exist in these photographs, from the most sophisticated technology to the
crudest ores, from the classic artist's gadgetry to objects of science. They form a far-reaching network of
interconnected references, pointing to creative methods that might well be termed "rhizomic" .
VIVRE AVEC (LIVE WITH)
Tondos, usually associated with allegorical scenes, were circular paintings, generally placed at the
highest point of an Italian Renaissance ceiling to suggest the grandeur of the characters represented.
Here Philippe Lepeut uses the formal perfection of these decorative paintings to compose a variation on
one of his favourite subjects, butterflies (also collectors' objects). In fact, the decorative patterns in these
photographs are simply enlarged details of lepidopteran wings, chosen with care and identified by their
scientific names. The veined, silky, powdery textures of these images become haphazard constellations,
abstract reflections seen in floating bubbles, capturing and magnifying what is too elusive ever to be
clearly seen.
VOGEL
Suspended by a cable attached to the ceiling, an elongated, tapering rock crystal diffracts light. Philippe
Lepeut has given this mobile feature a central position in the exhibition room. With its multiple
connotations, from the most scientific to the most secret, it leaves a faint aura of instability in the
visitor's wake. The work is fascinating and hypnotic. While its title immediately suggests the German
word meaning "bird", it also alludes to Marcel Vogel (1917-1991), a scientist known for his work on
quartz crystals. Having worked for IBM, he later turned to esotericism and occult studies. Oscillating
between the poles of earth and sky, the crystal can also be read as a metaphor for the work of art which,
in Lepeut's world, is constantly torn between the "hard" sciences and the esoteric tradition, both of which
require initiation.
ON AIR
On Air, a particularly poetic new sound installation specially created for the exhibition, brings together the
beginnings of radio reception (in early 20th century "crystal sets", radio waves were picked up by galena
stone) and the sound of the sea, here produced using a stereolithographically moulded seashell. Using
nature's offerings (the sound of the waves, the energy of the stone and the beauty of the shell), Philippe
Lepeut proposes a new work which, resisting any temptation to be showy, offers visitors the chance to
share a moment of listening together as we might share a secret. Only when we come very close to it do
we fully apprehend this piece with its intriguing shape, its meaning becoming clear when we ourselves
have fallen silent.
UN AUTRE MONDE, LE MESSAGER (ANOTHER WORLD, THE MESSENGER)
A static shot looped for endless playback shows a hand twirling a pen. The scene is repeated again and
again, without change, without surprise. Yet the contemplation of this micro-event, repeated ad infinitum
soon causes a strange, even disturbing feeling. While the child's game in slow motion acquires a
mechanical ballet effect, the soundtrack accompanying the scene, also slowed down, is a series of
mysterious noises. The slightest impact has the intensity of a thunderbolt and the images acquire
unexpected drama from a continuous roaring sound interspersed with very low frequency rumbles. The
viewer, prompted by the strangeness of the sound to reconsider the ostensibly innocuous nature of the
film, can then lose himself in a less literal reading of the images. The pen in movement thus takes on the
appearance of an insect opening its wing cases.
C’EST DU VENT (IT'S WIND)
Also created especially for the exhibition, this sound installation immerses visitors in a reverie. In the
twilight of a windowless room loudspeakers broadcast a faint, repetitive, enfolding murmur of wind. This
sound, familiar, yet recorded thousands of miles away, becomes the background to a voice in its turn
encircling the visitor and whispering words, snatches of stories or fragments of poems. C’est du vent is a
mysterious, intimate work that may be heard as a secret softly murmured, revealed yet barely divulged.
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INTERACTIVE SPACE
Philippe Lepeut, the president of the Écart Production Association which he founded in 2003, has worked
since then to produce and publish the work of video artists. Today there are more than 20 artists for
whom Philippe Lepeut has taken over the task of collecting, archiving and editing, thereby helping to
circulate and promote understanding of these works.
His editorial approach is wholly a part of his artistic work, and he has proposed to include as part of the
exhibition a room devoted to his "guests". In this interactive space designed by design option students of
the Haute École des Arts du Rhin, artists are being invited by Philippe Lepeut to propose readings,
performances, film screenings, etc., as part of a dialogue with him and with the public.
The following artists are published by Écart Production and their videos can be viewed in this space:
Céline Ahond
Younès Baba-Ali
Vincent Bernat
Nicolas Boone
Robert Cahen
David Michael Clarke
Clément Cogitore
Alain Declercq
Alain Della Negra
Marcel Dinahet
Christelle Familiari
Pierre Filliquet
Lou Galopa
Francis Guerrero
Eléonore Héllio
Anabelle Hulaut
Philippe Jacq
Robin Lachenal
Philippe Lepeut
Pierre Mercier
Joachim Montessuis
Anna Plotnicka
Ramona Poenaru
Jean-François Robic
Francisco Ruiz de Infante
Manfred Sternjakob
Arnaud Tanguy
Céline Trouillet
Maja Wolinska
Jacek Zachodny
Philippe Zunino
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4. Selected Exhibitions and Publications
(*group exhibitions)
2014
Je suis là, vous êtes ici, a creation by Bernard Lallemand, « Vous êtes ici », Haubourdin*
Commissariat pour un arbre #5, exhibition curator Mathieu Mercier, Bézard-Le Corbusier, Piacé le
radieux*
Lumière noire (Drifting photography), FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux*
Sound Surrounds, cur. Nicoletta Torcelli, E. Werk, Freiburg im Breisgau*
Hémisphères vaudous, cur. Thibault Honoré, galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg*
2013
Home Sweet Home, cur. Hélène Lapeydère, Au carré public, Albi*
Si proche, Maison de la Région, Strasbourg*
La collection impossible, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis*
Commissariat pour un arbre #4, exhibition curator Mathieu Mercier, Jardin botanique de Bordeaux in
collaboration with Zébra3*
2012
Commissariat pour un arbre #2, Paris, exhibition curator Mathieu Mercier, for the 7,5 Club (Isabelle Suret,
Bernard Chenebault et Olivier Brachat)*
Nature et paysage, a selection of works from the FRAC Alsace collection, Lycée Sainte Clothilde,
Strasbourg*
2011
L’ironie et la mort, Apollonia, Strasbourg*
Régionale 12, Le Wacken, Accélérateur de particules, Strasbourg*
2010
Principe d’inconsistance, radioactive performance for 5 voices (Claire Serres, Marine Angé, Antoine
Chanteloup, Maylis Cerbelaud, Philippe Lepeut) as part of l’Europe des esprits 11 December at Musée
d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
Autour d’Optical Sound, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris*
Déplacements de compétences, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal (CH), Accélérateur de particules, Strasbourg ;
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat*
2009
WRO 09 Expanded City, XIII Biennale Sztuki Mediów, Wroclaw, Poland*
Danslelacestlefeu, Apollonia/Accélérateur de particules, Strasbourg
2008
Signe des temps, Centre of National Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan*
2006
Radio poing pour .radio, radiophonic installation (streaming media, internet) for Festival de l’Ososphère,
29-30 September, Strasbourg
2005
Radiotopie, Microonde, galerie de l’Onde, Villeparisis with Nicolas Michelin, Jean-Luc Brisson, Claire
Guézengard, Jacques Leenhardt, Yves Gillen
2003
Les 20 ans des FRAC, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg*
2002
Playtime, centre culturel français, Johannesburg, South Africa *
Festival vidéo arts plastiques, CAC, Hérouville Saint-Clair (cat.)*
Robinson et fils, Centre d’art contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel
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2001
On the spot, Centre culturel français, Rome
In situ, Frac Alsace, Sélestat*
Paysages d’entre-villes, Musée Zadkine, Paris*, with: Stalker, J. Koop, D. Courbot, E. Pinnard, C. Le Prado,
Th. Cuisset, Ph. Lepeut
2000
Le jardinier, l’artiste et l’ingénieur, Espace Électra, Paris *
La ville, le jardin, la mémoire (La Folie), Villa Médicis, Rome (cat.)*
Habiter, un lieu, Centre d’art de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair*
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS :
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Naturel et domestique – Drop zone, text by Jacques Leenhardt, Jean-Pierre Greff and Pascal Neveu,
La Chaufferie, Frac Alsace, 2000
Le jardinier, l’artiste et l’ingénieur, text by Jean-Luc Brisson, Les éditions de l’imprimeur, collection
Jardins et Paysages, Espace Electra, Paris, 2000
Philippe Lepeut, Localisé, Castres, texts by Jean-Marc Prévost and Samia Cynthia, 1998
Philippe Lepeut, Tenir Ensemble, Musée Buffon, Montbard, text by Michel Weemans, 1996
Agrégat (Principe), Villa Médicis, texts by Fabrice Hergott and Olivier Kaeppelin, Rome, 1992
Philippe Lepeut, Principe, Galerie Édouard Manet, text by Xavier Girard, 1991
In preparation :
Was / is / will, publication 17 September 2015
Texts by: Janig Bégoc, Laure Limongi et Estelle Pietrzyk
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5. Series of Cultural Events
Guided tours
Saturday at 3 pm (July 18 to August 29)
presentation of the "Interiors" display
Sunday at 11 am (from September 27 to November 1)
presentation of the "Tristan Tzara" exhibition
Une heure / une œuvre (An hour / a work)
Friday, May 29 at 12.30 pm
Silencio
Temps d’une rencontre (Meet the Artists), « Je suis nombreux » (I am many)
Saturdays at 2.30 pm
11 April: Pierre Mercier
18 April: Philippe Lepeut
23 May: Tiphaine Larroque
30 May: Alain. Declercq
6 June: Alain Della Negra
13 June: Manfred Sternjacob
20 June: Dinahet
26 September: Patrick Javault
3 October: Pierre Filliquet
24 October: David Legrand
Events
Museums Night
Saturday, 16 May at 8 pm and 9 pm
Performance Claire Serres
Heritage Days
Sunday, 20 September at 3 pm
Philippe Lepeut
Parallel to the exhibition, a large cultural programme is being offered at the Auditorium around important
figures in Philippe Lepeut's world: Brian Eno, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Werner Schroeter and Bertrand
Bonello.
Cinema:
April 21 2015 à 7 pm Bertrand Bonello 1
Some of Bertrand Bonello's early films
Cindy, the doll is mine, 2005, 15 '
Inspired by Cindy Sherman, Bonello shows two women whose role is played on either side of the camera
by the same actress Asia Argento.
Where the boys are, 2010, 22 '
Le bus d'Alice (Alice's bus), 1995, 18 '
Juliette + 2, 1994, 33 '
Seat prices € 6; reduced: 4,50 €. In partnership with Star cinemas
April 28, 2015 at 7 pm Bertrand Bonello 2
Some of Bertrand Bonello's early films
My New Picture by Bertrand Bonello, 2006, 65 '.
This film "for the ears" goes through four "movements" of a landscape: electronic, romantic, dancing and
intimate.
Seat prices € 6; reduced: 4,50 €. In partnership with Star Cinemas
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Cinema - Readings:
May 12, 2015 at 7 pm Werner Schroeter and Jean-Jacques Schuhl
Philippe Lepeut convenes two figures who have marked his work: Werner Schroeter and Jean-Jacques
Schuhl. A screening of Schroeter's cult film is followed by the actor Conrad Cecil reading texts by Schuhl.
Neurasia by Werner Schroeter, 1968, 41 '
Four characters engage in a ritual celebration of the theatre, music and dance. In addition to his many
interpretations as an actor, Conrad Cecil has also been a director and has assisted Werner Schroeter in
staging a play.
Seat prices € 6; reduced: 4,50 €
Performance:
June 10, 2015 at 7 pm « Seulement une partie, pas l'entier » (Only a part, not the whole)
"Oblique Strategies", the game created in 1975 by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, lies behind this
evening's event. Each participant must create a sound piece with imposed use of the voice: solo, duo,
musical or not, amplified or unaccompanied, spatialized or monaural. The game is open.
Philippe Lepeut, Lucie Euzet, Melanie Giraud, Evan Renaudie, Lola-Ly Canac, Elena Guérin, Lena
Hiriartborde, Adeline Fournier, Elsa Klee, Malgorzata Rabczuk, Mathilde Barbey and Emma Kerssenbrock
Ticket prices: € 7 In partnership with HEAR / Phonon-Lab
Film screening at Star Saint-Exupéry cinema
18, rue du 22 novembre - 67000 Strasbourg. www.cinema-star.com
May 5, 2015 at 8 pm Quelque chose d'organique (Something Organic) by Bertrand Bonello, 1998, 1 30 '
The love between Paul and Marguerite constantly swings from real to absolute and from absolute to
tragic. Paul belongs to the everyday, to a world of repetition. Marguerite, a romantic dreamer, is helpless
to avoid her destiny.
Preceded by two short films:
Le bus d'Alice (Alice's bus), 1995, 18 '
Juliette + 2, 1994, 33 '
Ticket prices: € 8.90; reduced € 6.90; Carte Culture and Carte Atout Voir 5 €; cinema subscription cards
accepted
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6. « Vitrines sur l’Art » (Windows on Art) 2015 at the
"Galeries Lafayette"
Vitrines sur l’Art
From 3 to 30 July 2015, the Galeries Lafayette chain will be organizing the event "Windows on Art" in the
windows of its five department stores, located in Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Strasbourg and Toulouse.
In the Strasbourg, store a different artist is being invited to design a site-specific installation for each of
three windows, devoted respectively to the CEAAC, the FRAC and the Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art.
For the MAMCS window," Philippe Lepeut has designed a new installation in the shape of a cabinet of
curiosities as an echo to his exhibition "Listen to the Quiet Voice".
L a mél anc oli e de l 'oi seau de pi erre
(Melancholy of the stone bird)
In these " Chinese boxes of still lifes", Philippe Lepeut closely interweaves several of his favourite subjects
and references: Nature, Poetry, Art History and also a taste for Mystery and even the Supernatural. The
"Mirabilia" shown to us here (literally "things that are amazing and worthy of admiration") by this former
resident of the Villa Medicis are either placed on a support or suspended in the air, thus forming a
contemporary cabinet of curiosities.
Among the artefacts selected by the artist are several carved quartz crystals, a piece of marquetry with a
geometrical design, equally suggesting a galaxy (macro) or a snowflake (micro), or again a forged metal
object, an enigmatic polyhedron that is a distant relative of Dürer's Melencolia. Above these curiosities is
poised a levitating mask, its distorted features recalling Pinocchio's grotesquely elongated nose or
Giacometti's nose sculpture. Nature reasserts itself on this facial object and we can easily imagine the
wood sprouting foliage, like Bernini's marble sculpture of Daphne changed into a laurel in Ovid's
Metamorphoses.
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7. Philippe Lepeut at the "CEAAC"
Philippe Lepeut presents « À une autre vitesse » (At Another Speed) from 17 September to 18 October,
2015, at the "CEAAC"
There are occupations that are unobtrusive without actually being secret. In other words, they are rarely
seen in public. This is often the case with drawing. It is this aspect of the work of Philippe Lepeut that is
being shown at the "CEAAC" from 17 September to 18 October, 2015. His watercolours and inks
encapsulate a singular timeframe, a kind of combined alacrity and repose where anything is permitted.
Here is a selection made from the drawings of 25 years, evoking the quality of work that can be held in
the hand or slipped between the pages of a book.
Exhibition visit:
Downstairs room
On the walls: Watercolours and inks
In display cases: "life" drawings in ink on Ingres Fabriano paper, 24 x 32 cm (2 400 drawings approx.),
1991-2010.
Video display: "another world, life" video loop, 5'16, 2008
Upper room
"Croatan", a video begun in 2005 and whose starting point was the destruction of ten years of work
following several house movings. The main body of the images was filmed by Peter Filiquet, duration
unspecified, 2005-2015.
Founded in 1987, the "CEAAC" aims to develop contemporary art in Alsace, giving support both for
creation and for the circulation of works.
Exhibitions have been hosted at the Art Centre since 1995.
In addition, the art installations presenting numerous artists' projects and found throughout the region
contribute to increased visibility for contemporary art. Educational events and interpretation for
exhibitions and art installations are also an essential part of the CEAAC's activity. Accompanied visits to
workshops are organized for school groups and the CEAAC's educational team also hosts adult groups
wishing to receive support in their discovery of contemporary art.
The Espace International presents the work of young international artists in residence at the CEAAC and
Alsatian artists supported during their stay abroad. Lastly, the publication of exhibition catalogues and
books dealing with installations on external sites continues the work of awareness raising and circulation.
Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines – CEAAC
7 rue de l’Abreuvoir
67000 Strasbourg
Telephone: +33 (0)3 88 25 69 70
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8. Exhibition Partners
Exhibition organizers:
With the support of:
In partnership with:
Cultural Programming Partners:
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9. Visitor information
Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg
Getting to the Museum
1 place Hans Jean Arp, Strasbourg
Tel. +33 (0) 3 88 23 31 31
Tram: Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain.
Opening times
Open every day except Monday 10 am - 6 pm
Special times are available for group visits organized by the Service Éducatif des Musées or accompanied
by guides from the Strasbourg Tourist Office.
Groups
Telephone booking is essential for groups of more than 10.
Please call +33/(0)3 88 88 50 50 (Monday to Friday 8.30 am - 12.30 pm).
Tickets
7 € (reduced € 3.50 €) .
Admission free
visitors under age 18
carte Culture card holders
Atout Voir card holders
Museums Pass Musées card holders
Édu’Pass card holders
visitors with disabilities
students of art, history of art and architecture
persons seeking employment
recipients of social assistance
badge-holding CUS employees
Admission free to all
1st Sunday in the month
1 day pass: 12 €, reduced 6 € (access to all Strasbourg museums and temporary exhibitions),
3 day pass: 18 €, reduced 12 € (access to all Strasbourg museums and temporary exhibitions),
Museums Pass Musées – 1 year, 300 museums. More at www.museumspass.com
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PHILIPPE LEPEUT
Listen to the Quiet Voice
Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain
11 avril - 31 octobre 2015
LISTE DES VISUELS TÉLÉCHARGEABLES SUR LE SITE
WWW.MUSEES.STRASBOURG.EU
1. Philippe Lepeut, La Suite ouzbèque :
Les Images saisissantes, l’Aigue-marine , 2015
Impression sur Hahnemühle Photorag 308 gr, procédé “Ditone“,
format encadré 27,8 x 37,8 cm © Philippe Lepeut
2. Philippe Lepeut, Listen to the Quiet Voice, 2015.
Affiche, 500 X 700 cm.Photo : Simon Laveuve
Graphisme : Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié et Yohana My Nguyen.
Collection de l’artiste. Production : Les Amis du Musée d’Art Moderne
et Contemporain de Strasbourg © Philippe Lepeut
Demande à adresser à :
Service communication
des Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg
Julie Barth
2 place du Château, Strasbourg
julie.barth@strasbourg.eu
Tél. + 33 (0)3 88 52 50 15
Les Images saisissantes, la Fluorite , 2015
format encadré 27,8 x 37,8 cm © Philippe Lepeut
6. Philippe Lepeut, Vivre avec, Brintisia circe, 1999
Cibachrome sous diasec et aluminium, diamètre 43 cm.
Collection particulière © Philippe Lepeut
7. Philippe Lepeut, Dante III, 2011 (n°1/5)
(tirage à 5 exemplaires et 2 épreuves d’artiste)
tirage jet d’encre, procédé “Ditone” sur papier Hahnemuhle Photorag 308 gr
format 45 x 66 cm, contrecolage sur Aludibon 2 mm,
encadrement boite américaine, tilleul, format encadré 47 x 68 cm
© Philippe Lepeut
Les Plans de coupe : le Livre imparfait, 2015
format encadré 44 x 55,5 cm © Philippe Lepeut
4. Philippe Lepeut, Un autre monde, Le messager, 2008
Vidéo-projection, 11’ (en boucle)
Collection de l’artiste (screenshot) © Philippe Lepeut
8. Philippe Lepeut, Atmosphère, série 2-1, 2009-2014
Tirage Lightjet RA-4 avec collage Diasec G , 125 x 175 cm
Collection de l’artiste, production du FRAC Alsace © Philippe Lepeut
9. Philippe Lepeut, Atmosphère, série 2-2, 2009-2014
Tirage Lightjet RA-4 avec collage Diasec G, 125 x 175 cm.
Collection du FRAC Alsace © Philippe Lepeut

DP _EN_Lepeut3103 - Musées de Strasbourg

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