L’ECLAT & La Villa Arson present as part of the event
Contemporary Art and the Côte d’Azur, a territory for experimentation (1951-2011) – from June 27 to 29 & from October 5 to 6
Founded on the idea of a place for experience, L’ECLAT ensures circulation between distribution, training, and creation by placing cinema in relation with other artistic forms.
Its programs are developed on a combination of cinema creation / visual art / contemporary art in a close relationship with guest artists and the audience.
L’ECLAT and the National School of Art of Villa Arson offer a selection of artist videos developed in the Côte d’Azur territory over the last 20 years.
This new collaboration with the Villa Arson results in a program that tests the large screen with works by video artists working with constraints and codes of perception related to installation, temporality, or the plastic parameters of the image.
A teaching place dedicated to contemporary art, the Villa Arson has enabled the creation of videos noted for their quality and viewed outside the study setting in exhibitions or festivals.
Following L’ECLAT’s proposal, Gauthier Tassart, artist and video teacher at the Villa Arson, collaborated on the selection and programming of videos from artists emerging from his teaching.
Programs “Artists from the Villa Arson”
Rising to the challenge of projecting art videos on the big screen, Gauthier Tassart, artist-teacher of video at the Villa Arson, (with Eric Duyckaerts), offers an original journey based on a principle of chaining plastic or narrative motifs, themes, or rhythms, like Thread’s End / Horse Saddle, etc.
Perhaps, is the primary status of these works designed for installation or exhibition in art centers or galleries here regained?
The three proposed journeys further highlight exploration of concepts such as self-filming, found footage, performative act, editing, narration…
Special Programs
Alongside these programs dedicated to Villa Arson, L’ECLAT has taken an interest in other local references – Jean Dupuy, Taupe Films, and Georges Sammut – video artists who particularly work with film material according to the narrative or temporal functions of the story, the shot.
Embracing the idea of “territory and experimentation” encourages exploration through a geographical prism that outlines some paths: passageway for Jean Vigo or host for Jean Dupuy, land of origin for Taupe film and Georges Sammut, ground for first steps for young artists from Villa Arson.
Schedule of screenings/meetings with the artists
First cycle: from June 27 to 29
Monday, June 27 at 9:30 PM
Outdoor screening in the gardens of the Villa Arson
About Nice by Jean Vigo (Music by F. Paris, composer and director of CIRM-Manca)
Tuesday, June 28 at 6:30 PM – presented by Gauthier Tassart and the artists
Artists from the Villa Arson (program No. 1): Julie Bena, Denis Brun, Anna Byskov, Nicolas Clair, Antoine Donzeaud, Sandra Gabel, Hannah Hallermann, Florian Pugnaire
Tuesday, June 28 at 8:30 PM
Special Taupe film (Eric Antolinos and Richard Prompt) in the presence of the artists
Wednesday, June 29 at 8:30 PM
Cinema-concert World Films by Richard Prompt (music by Fingers On You – Arnaud Maguet, Richard Prompt and Julien Tibéri)
