Loris Gréaud and DGZ Research (Dölger, Gréaud, Ziakovic), 2008, modelling of Cellar Door, Courtesy Yvon Lambert Paris, New York.
For the first time a French artist under the age of 30 has taken over the entire 4000 square metres of the Palais de Tokyo in this exhibition entitled 'Cellar Door' by Loris Greaud. The exhibition is described as 'a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time'. The ambition of the project perhaps reflects Gréaud's wide-ranging interests and experience - as well as being a cross-disciplinary artist, Greaud is an enthusiast of architecture and quantum mechanics, a graduate with a degree in graphic arts, a former student of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Cergy, the founder of a studio for experimental film, a producer at an electronic music label, and director of his own business.
Not surprisingly, Gréaud has blazed a career path that is in keeping with his art practice. Borrowing from the working procedures of a film director or orchestra conductor, he builds empirical machines in which the medium systematically follows the ideas, which are themselves exchanged, shared, negotiated and distorted. In 2004, with the architects Marc Dölger and Damien Ziakovic, he created DGZ Research, a multidisciplinary production studio that makes the realization of "utopian" projects possible. DGZ Research is in charge of the design, architecture and project management of the CELLAR DOOR exhibition.
Loris Gréaud has shown in Hong-Kong, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Milan, Los Angeles, New York and Paris (notably at Le Plateau, the Palais de Tokyo and the Centre Pompidou). He was awarded the Ricard Prize in 2005. He is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery Paris, New York.
Tonight Loris Gréaud will be at the Palais de Tokyo with Thomas Roussel, Raimundas Malasauskas,
Aaron Schuster, Marc Dölger, Damien Ziakovic. The event will start at 7:30pm.
Further events surrounding the exhibition as follows:
DES IMMATERIAUX
Legacy of Jean-François Lyotard, with Bernard Blistène, Stéphanie Moisdon, Orlan and Daniel Soutif. Debate preceded by the screening of Paule Zajdermann and Daniel Soutif Les Immatériaux (1985).
FEB 28, 2008 / 7:30pm
PULSAR
Screening of Klonaris and Thomadaki.
MARCH 6, 2008 / 7:30pm
FILMS / SLAMS / SONS
Lead singer of Diabologum in the 1990's and of Programme, Arnaud Michniak comes forward with a performance mixing videos, music, poetry and new songs from his last album Poing Perdu.
MARCH 13, 2008 / 8:30pm
GREY GOO
A talk on nanosciences of Christian Joachim and Laurence Plévert
On the occasion of Nanosciences, la révolution invisible (Editions du Seuil) publication.
MARCH 20, 2008 / 7:30pm
INTOX / GOSSIP / BLUFF
Une rumeur de l'esthétique
An idea of Claire Moulène and Mathilde Villeneuve.
MARCH 27, 2008 / 7:30pm
AUDIOGUIDE
A guided tour through Cellar Door with Bruno Latour and guests. By Jean-Max Colard,
in partnership with Les Inrockuptibles.
APRIL 3, 2008 / 8:00pm to midnight
GLOBAL PARANOÏA
Two days of lectures on surveillance technologies programmed by Eric Sadin and Ec/arts.
FRIDAY 11 APRIL - SATURDAY 12 APRIL, 2008 / 2pm to 8pm
BORDER LINE
Pascal Rousseau invites Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis - Myth, Magic and Mysticism
In the Age of Information.
APRIL 17, 2008 / 7:30pm
BUCKY
Posterity of Buckminster Fuller. Valérie Châtelet invites Antoine Picon, architecture teacher at Harvard and Michael Hays, the Buckminster Fuller exhibition curator, Starting the universe (Whitney, June 2008). Skylab programming.
TUESDAY 22 APRIL, 2008 / 7:30pm
CELLAR DOOR / CD
The recording of Cellar Door Opera, composed by Thomas Roussel, on a libretto by Raimundas Malasauskas and Aaron Schuster, performed by the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France (direction: Jean Deroyer. Soprano: Marie Devellereau). La Manufacture du disque.
CELLAR DOOR / LIBRETTO
Cellar Door booklet / published by JRP Ringier
CELLAR DOOR: AN EXHIBITION BY LORIS GREAUD
Until 27 April
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