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Livret I
 
8.1.2011 - 26.2.2011
OPENING: SATURDAY 8.1.2011 FROM 6 - 9.30 PM

For 2011, Irmavep Club is pleased to announce  the beginning of a new cycle of exhibitions taking place in several Parisian venues over the course of the year.

LIVRET 1, the first stop of this itinerant program, is hosted by schleicher+lange galerie, Paris.

This first chapter takes as a point of departure a work by Jordan Wolfson entitled The light switch 27th floor (1931-2007). The particularity of this light switch is to be able to turn the overall exhibition on and off. It also comes from the Empire States Building and recalls the very particular story of the artist's encounter with Mr Tortorelli, the building's chief electrician. The viewer is given the opportunity wether or not to bring light on the exhibition and to reveal its meaning. However, one can also chose to act like Bartleby who endlessly repeats "I would prefer not to"*.
This negative affirmation can be seen as the epigraph of this first Livret.
The works gathered in LIVRET I revolve around a common notion of avoidance. They consciously resist to the viewer's interpretation and confront them to the absence of a singular reading. Rather than being a renunciation, this absence however gives the opportunity to catch a glimpse of an hypothetical  origin. The works discretely reveal barely buried archeological traces of meaning.

* In Bartleby, Hermann Melville : ""I would prefer not to" is the never changing answer given by Bartleby, a modest scrivener in a Wall Street office, to any request that is asked to him. This soft resistance, yet absolute and irrevocable, gradualy leads him to complete isolation."


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Irmavep Club inaugure cette année 2011 avec un cycle d'expositions qui se tiendra dans différents lieux de la capitale. La première halte de notre projet s'ouvrira sur le LIVRET I, accueilli par la galerie schleicher+lange.


Ce premier chapitre prend pour point de départ l'œuvre de Jordan Wolfson intitulée The light switch 27th floor (1931-2007). Cet interrupteur provenant de l'Empire State Building a la particularité d'allumer et d'éteindre l'ensemble de l'exposition, et possède une histoire singulière liée à la rencontre de l'artiste avec Mr.Tortorelli, chef électricien de l'édifice. Le visiteur peut ainsi à son gré choisir de mettre en lumière l'exposition en prêtant un sens aux œuvres présentes ou  revêtir le masque de Bartleby lorsqu'il répète sans cesse : « I would prefer not to »*.
L'affirmation négative « Je préférerais ne pas ... » pourrait être l'exergue de ce premier livret. 
Les œuvres réunies ici ont pour caractéristiques communes d'esquiver l'interprétation du spectateur et de le confronter à l'absence d'une lecture singulière. Cette absence n'a pourtant rien d'un renoncement, puisqu'elle laisse entrevoir l'hypothèse d'une origine, les œuvres révélant  des traces archéologiques à peine enfouies.

* in Hermann Melville, Bartleby : ""Je préférerais ne pas" : telle est la réponse, invariable et d'une douceur irrévocable qu'oppose Bartleby, modeste commis aux écritures dans un cabinet de Wall Street, à toute demande qui lui est faite. Cette résistance absolue, incompréhensible pour les autres, le conduira peu à peu à l'isolement le plus total."



SAVE THE DATE:
Wednesday January 19th, at 7pm
South London Gallery

PARFUMS POURPRES DU SOLEIL DES PÔLES
Ulla von Brandenburg, Julien Discrit, Thomas Dupouy and Laurent Montaron

The SLG presents the UK premiere of a new performance of a work originally created for the New Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2009. Taking as their starting point the phenomenon of synaesthesia, a neurological process which automatically links one sense to another, the collaborating artists have made a new piece focusing on the idea of somebody seeing colours when they hear music. Working with a synaesthesist, a minimal and static music piece is played on three traditional reed organs and then translated into a colour system simultaneously projected into the space.

more information


galerie schleicher+lange
12, rue de Picardie
75003 Paris

tues-sat: 2pm-7pm
phone +33 1 42 77 02 77

fax +33 1 42 77 02 72
info@schleicherlange.com








represented artists:

Chris Cornish, Franziska Furter, Kristof Kintera, Maria Loboda,
Gintaras Makarevicius, Alison Moffett, Laurent Montaron, Timo Nasseri, Diogo Pimentao, Evariste Richer




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