From the 20th of March to the 20th of April 2016, at the suggestion of Jacques Py and Catherine Viollet, the Jean-Collet Municipal Gallery in Vitry sur Seine is presenting a broadly based, collective exhibition centred around burlesque. Entitled bOurlesque, it brings together a mixture of works of painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance of about twenty artists under the aegis of a photographic portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dressed in a kimono and severely cross-eyed.
In the beginning,burlesque was a style of writing, a game, both verbal and physical. It has since become a qualifier that is used to try to figure out the boundary that is applied, subjectively, to situations, people, and productions in fields of expression that are now very different, ranging from circus to cinema, from literature to the plastic arts, from performance to video… not forgetting music or television series.
For bOurlesque, the artists publicised it knowingly, amusing themselves with this clarity and decline of self, necessary to assume the part of self-mockery, carrying along in their wake the sympathy of spectators like much of the caustic and exhilarating process which takes the form of a communicative release. In playing with codes, refuting the serious and dynamiting good taste as established values, they would get closer to these anti-heroes in American comics whose posture they would embody momentarily, mimicking their exaggerated expressions or expressing disturbing situations of the social order.
Works by Michel Blazy, Anna et Bernhard Blume, Rémi Boino, Raphaël Chipault et Gilles Gerbaud, Erik Dietman, Anthony Duchêne, Richard Fauguet, Patrice Ferrasse, Jérémy Laffon, Loriot & Mélia, Saverio Lucariello, Philippe Mayaux, François Mezzapelle, Francis Montillaud, Valérie Mréjen, Simon Nicaise, Bernard Quesniaux, Alexandra Sá, Peter Saul and Patrick Van Caeckenbergh,
EXHIBITION
bOurlesque
From March 20th to April 30th, 2016
Curators : Jacques Py et Catherine Viollet
La Galerie municipale Jean-Collet
59, avenue Guy-Môquet
94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
France
01 43 91 15 33
galerie.vitry94.fr
[email protected]
Tuesday to Sunda 1.30pm – 6pm and Wednesday 10am – 12pm and 1.30pm – 6pm
Free Entrance
