VIDEO FOREVER 19 *Video Birds*
Wednesday, September 3rd, 7.30 pm
Venue : Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
rue des Archives, Paris 3è
Paul Ardenne, author of How I am a Bird (2014), will introduce the screening, which is linked to the exhibition “The Stolen Bird/The Bird Has Flown” (L’Oiseau Volé, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris 3è, opening September 6).
Venue : Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
rue des Archives, Paris 3è
Paul Ardenne, author of How I am a Bird (2014), will introduce the screening, which is linked to the exhibition “The Stolen Bird/The Bird Has Flown” (L’Oiseau Volé, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris 3è, opening September 6).
Animals have been part of artistic expression since time immemorial.
From the Palaeolithic age to the present day, animals have always
accompanied man’s aesthetic conceptions and representations of the
world. From the holy ibis of pharaonic Egypt to the winged companions of
Saint Francis of Assisi to Brancusi’s The Cock, birds have always
occupied a privileged position among the artistic forms inspired by the
animal kingdom, as they do in that kingdom itself. The animalisation of
artistic expression represents both a tribute and a strategy, with the
bird playing a role that is both cognitive and symbolic. Watching it
live, appropriating its images or its feathers, man works out his own
position among living beings, while consolidating his dominion.
The use of the bird figure by contemporary artists is like contemporary art itself: diverse, diffracted, multiform and open. Far from the traditional stereotypes of freedom, lightness, travel or romanticism associated with the bird, it now serves contemporary artists’ more general ambition to probe the essence of life, whether biological, ecological or political. And not to forget the music. Paul Ardenne
With videos by
Morteza AHMADVAND, Janet BIGGS, Charley CASE, Gino DE DOMINICIS, Cedrick EYMENIER, Laurent FIEVET, Shaun GLADWELL, Robert GLIGOROV, Joel HUBAUT, Abbas KIAROSTAMI, Léa LE BRICOMTE, Stephanie LEMPERT, Fernando PRATS, Jean-François ROBIC, Julien SERVE, Milja VIITA, Justene WILLIAMS.
Entrance is free - registration mandatory - please email : conf-expo@chassenature.org
Special thanks to : Isabelle & Conrad Lemaître
The use of the bird figure by contemporary artists is like contemporary art itself: diverse, diffracted, multiform and open. Far from the traditional stereotypes of freedom, lightness, travel or romanticism associated with the bird, it now serves contemporary artists’ more general ambition to probe the essence of life, whether biological, ecological or political. And not to forget the music. Paul Ardenne
With videos by
Morteza AHMADVAND, Janet BIGGS, Charley CASE, Gino DE DOMINICIS, Cedrick EYMENIER, Laurent FIEVET, Shaun GLADWELL, Robert GLIGOROV, Joel HUBAUT, Abbas KIAROSTAMI, Léa LE BRICOMTE, Stephanie LEMPERT, Fernando PRATS, Jean-François ROBIC, Julien SERVE, Milja VIITA, Justene WILLIAMS.
Entrance is free - registration mandatory - please email : conf-expo@chassenature.org
Special thanks to : Isabelle & Conrad Lemaître
