From February 25 to June 11, 2010, at the Module, the art space of Cap3000.
To start the year 2011, the Module ventures into the digital universe by presenting a selection of creations by two artists: Régis Cotentin and Thomas Israël, who are developing works at the intersection of the latest developments in video art and digital creation—one in Lille and the other in Brussels.
These singular works, which play with spatial and temporal codes, exude a sense of voluptuousness and pleasure. This impression goes against the cold aesthetics of all things pixelated. Come to the Module to immerse yourself in this “Imaginarium,” a breeding ground for our contemporary wanderings and phantasmagorias.
Régis Cotentin and Thomas Israël are each creating works in Lille and Brussels that are at the crossroads of the latest developments in video art and digital creation. For a few decades now, digital creation, a product of the intersection of interdisciplinary artistic practices and multimedia tools, has been disrupting not only our notion of the image but also our relationship with the world around us. Artists are seizing these technologies to lead us into parallel universes.
With Imaginarium, which, as its name suggests, opens the doors to other imaginations of today and tomorrow, recent works by Régis Cotentin and Thomas Israël, whose work is supported by Transcultures, the Interdisciplinary Center for Electronic Cultures in Mons, Belgium, are now gathered at the Module.
This space dedicated to contemporary arts at Cap3000 opens, for the first time, to these new artistic audio-visual forms. Régis Cotentin’s video installations, nurtured by a vast cinematic culture (from Stanley Kubrick to David Lynch), are as many waking dreams filled with grace and mysterious sensuality. Thomas Israël’s interactive works and “electronic sculptures” share this attraction to the female body and a certain skin-deep poetry that occasionally allows for humor. These two internationally recognized creators offer a distinctive perspective on these metamorphoses that fascinate us at the beginning of the 21st century. Unclassifiable, their hybrid works seduce and intrigue, inviting us to immerse ourselves in a unique “Imaginarium.” Both lead us back to our intimacy, with sensuality and subtlety. These singular works, which disregard spatial-temporal codes, exude a sense of voluptuousness and pleasure that goes against the cold aesthetic concepts of all things pixelated.
Enjoy your plunge into this “Imaginarium,” a breeding ground for our contemporary wanderings and phantasmagorias.”
Philippe Franck, Artistic Curator.
A proposal by Sandrine Mons for the Module.
Mediatheque Space:
On the occasion of the Imaginarium exhibition, the Module offers its visitors a library and a reading area. This space will allow those interested to learn more about sound and digital arts: the birth of this artistic movement, its ambassadors… The library/media space will also be a place for information on cultural and artistic activities in the region. A certain number of magazines, agendas, and event guides will be available to the public, so everyone can continue their visit after leaving the Module! Free space, open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 1 PM to 7 PM at the public’s disposal.
THE MODULE
Exhibition space
The Module is a 250 m2 exhibition and expression space recently inaugurated at Cap3000, a high-end shopping center on the Côte d’Azur. The Module takes advantage of this originality by offering a peripheral artistic perspective on contemporary creation in the region. The Module’s programming and location are the two pillars of its uniqueness.
By creating the Module, Cap3000 aims to support local cultural life by proposing original projects that promote and encourage the region’s artistic activities. As a space for art and mediation, the Module has two missions:
To offer a new perspective on contemporary creations and the diversity of their artistic expressions. Through its new programming, the Module attempts to look at and showcase various practices such as design, illustration, dance, ceramics, fashion, comics, video, and scenography…
The Module advocates all forms of artistic activities, particularly those nestled in peripheries, at the crossroads, the byways of contemporary art, those forms of expression not typically found in galleries and other art centers in the region. To offer a vision that is both eclectic and specific of contemporary creation is the artistic project of the Module and its creators.
To propose a new, open space oriented toward the public: The Module’s main objective is to bring the arts closer to the public. Aiming to reach a broader audience of connoisseurs, amateurs, and the curious, the Module has come to situate itself in proximity to Cap3000, an essential commercial hub of modern life and Nice.
The Module has decided to adapt to new behaviors and habits of the public. Its programming also reflects a desire for interaction with the public: artists and creators who invest in the Module will be involved in this quest for proximity, exchange, and encounters. Each new exhibition will establish a bridge between the discipline, the artist, and the public. In this spirit, each project will be paced by conferences, meetings with artists, youth workshops… and documentation on the subject will also be available to visitors.
