Art : Concept is delighted to present Corentin Grossmann’s 5th solo exhibition.
Opening on Saturday 7 September.
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Kate Newby’s Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission, Hours in wind (2024) is a three-part installation inspired by the site of the MCA and Warrane/Sydney Cove.
Hours in wind unfolds across three locations at the MCA: the entrance, a space on Level 2 and the Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace on Level 4. Made from locally sourced and recycled shipping and sailing ropes, cast bronze, and cast and hand-blown glass, Newby’s installation navigates thresholds between interior and exterior space. It captures a sense of place and the constantly changing conditions of the harbour, including unpredictable weather patterns and the shifting light.
Newby was born in 1979 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand and is currently based in Texas, US. She is known for sculptures and installations made from materials including glass and ceramics, as well as site-responsive works and architectural interventions. Attentive to natural phenomena such as light, wind and other weather conditions, Newby often blurs distinctions between public and private, and interior and exterior space in her works.
The 2024 Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission is generously supported by Lead Patrons Ginny and Leslie Green.
Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Place du jour, September 29th, 2023 – September 29th, 2025, set of 24 paper posters, rue Braque, Arras/FR.
Place du jour is a project by Pierre-Olivier Arnaud. It is part of a program launched by the CNAP in 2019 to commission temporary, reactivatable works for public spaces.
The artist presents a two-year billboard display on rue Braque, in Arras: each month a new image replaces the one from the previous month. This rotation on five panels features a total of 24 black-and-white photographs. Pierre-Olivier Arnaud works meticulously on his pictures, in particular their texture, and plays on the contrast with the simplicity and fragility of paper. His artistic approach is characterized by great spontaneity: he captures, immortalizes, and sublimates the objects he encounters on his travels.
This project was conceived in and for the urban space to propose a radical and democratic art form, accessible to the public outside institutional cultural spaces. At the end of the display cycles, a newspaper containing all these images will be printed and distributed to the city’s residents.
With Place du jour, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud invites us to reconsider the images we encounter in public spaces, often used for advertising or electoral purposes. By hijacking this tool of communication and influence, the artist transforms the poster into an artistic medium, exploring the aesthetic qualities that emerge from its fragility, ephemeral nature, and inevitable deterioration.
The former Chamet vacation center in Faux-la-Montagne, Creuse, France, has been abandoned since the late 2000s.
In 2018, it was taken over by a group of independent researchers who set up create and build a place for research and study.
In 2019, the group calls on CIAPV to accompany them in the commissioning of a work that questions the takeover of civilizational sites by new forms of life.
Chosen to respond to this commission, artist Michel Blazy is developing La Cantine, a garden of anticipation in the site’s former refectory. He treats the ruin as a living being in its own time, observing its movements and exchanges with other species. It becomes a new nurturing environment without human domination, a space of symbiosis and reconciliation between artifact and organic, between human, plant and animal.
Commissioned as part of the Nouveaux commanditaires program,
Lac du Chamet, Plateau de Millevaches.
Sponsors: Center for Forest Research and Study.
With the support of Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso Foundation, the Fondation de France and the volunteers who participated in the production of the work.
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Annabel Elston
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Annabel Elston
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Annabel Elston
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Angus Mil
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Angus Mill
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Angus Mill
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
“Before we had language and written stories we had images. There were ways of holding and communicating knowledge that did not require words; ways that had to do with the body and movement, like the form of a dance or a facial expression, or produced through drawing and images such as cave paintings. There is a language of the imagination and a life of the mind that predates logical reasoning and the urge to categorise. They are modes of thought deeply embedded in human culture and psychology.
Encountering the works of Caroline Achaintre is like taking a field trip to this different life of the mind. Her creations are full of idiosyncratic personalities and psychological resonances. They are at the same time majestic and absurd, transgressive and homely. Like artefacts of a lost civilisation or creatures that have wandered from the pages of an otherworldly bestiary, they challenge and play with our perceptions and emotions. They return our gaze, they get under our skin, they make us laugh, they hide secrets, they resist interpretation, and pose questions that do not have answers.”
Excerpt from the press release, Brian Cass