Nationality residence studies in France

In the documentary "Long live the France", the dialogue writer and film director Michel Audiard observed already in 1973: "there is a masochistic predilection of the French for two years in which they prove unsuccessful: war and football." The reply, with the arrival of the football World Cup, still seems to the taste of the day. But if Audiard had listened to the current art critics, it would have been added to the list of French masochistic predilections contemporary art. Since the post-war period and the seizure of power evident of the American scene, the France does not stop of UCMJ on the creators of the avant-garde. Articles continue to denounce the injustice of yankee hegemony and the weakness of the hexagonal offer.

But this is an event which changes the gives and slaughters the ideas about an aged France: "Dynasty". This is the title of the large scale exhibition occupying 5.000 m2, the decision of the spaces of temporary exhibition at the Museum of modern art of the city of Paris and the Palais de Tokyo. The two institutions have chosen forty artists who have between twenty-five and thirty-five years and are at a title or another related to the France. Nationality, residence, studies in France... They were evicted in art centres, art schools, the regional contemporary art funds or selected with any burgeoning reputation. The majority of them is even not Gallery to represent. Also, the title of "dynasty" was chosen to sum up the concept of this new generation. Here is the succession. It is vigorous, informal, quite delirious and finally its.

"Curious" and unpublished works

Each of the artists has a piece in both institutions. "It is a principle of stereo," observed at the Palais de Tokyo Marc - Olivier Wahler. "Show both aspects of a same work." Choices have been made by mutual agreement from thousand records. Our principle: do not promote such chapel, and do not focus on the existing trend of art both conceptual, romantic and nostalgic. We show of individualities. France today, there is an incredible energy and activity is entirely consistent with what happens at the international level. The past is fully digested.

If "the past make Tabula Rasa", will begin the installation audio and Visual of two experts in music, Robin Meier, Switzerland installed in France, here associated with the American Ali Momeni. At the Palais de Tokyo, their work that opens "dynasty" is the observation to the scrutiny of an actual mosquito stuck for 24 hours on the glass with a drop of wax. Scientific experiments have noted that the mosquito fits in its roar the noise environment in which it is immersed. The two designers put highlight the song of the mosquito, in this case to Indian music. For the story, the mosquitoes are provided daily by the Pasteur Institute.

There are many works that can be described as "curious" or novel. Yuhsin U Chang is a Taiwanese who studied at the Beaux-Arts de Bourges and she now lives in France. In the two spaces it shows further and invasive forms, a language and a tree, consisting simply of dust. She collected for several months the dust of the two museums to make ephemeral sculptures supported by a metal carcass. One can see a paranoid digression on a deaf threat of elements that are part of our daily environment. As many of these artists in "dynasty" Yuhsin U Chang works with paltry materials. Laurent the Deunff, a graduate of the Ecole des beaux-arts in Bordeaux made a mammoth cardboard used in the Museum of modern art and a skull, in other words a vanity, from scrap of nail together for a year, at the Palais de Tokyo. It is interesting to note that, at the time the market of contemporary art continues to be thriving for a few stars on the international scene, young designers practice them voluntarily "poor" art by the choice of materials.

There is also the painting in "dynasty" and even the figurative painting. It is further developed at the Museum of modern art in the city of Paris. A native of the Zimbabwe, Duncan Wylie made his studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris under the direction of the painter Jean-Michel Alberola. Wylie is a painter to the ruins of the 21st century. It represents the destruction in large format, disasters, buildings collapsed following earthquakes of Earth and other wars by a system of successive layers, which suggest architectures that he painted earlier. A telescoping of powerful images.

Jean-Xavier Renaud lives in a small village in the Vosges and he is a graduate of the school of decorative arts of Strasbourg. His large paintings are stories of human relationships, for comments on social conventions. Family dinners, mother Army its infants and ammunition around the belt... The curator of the Museum of modern art in the city of Paris, Angeline Scherf speaks as of a "Daumier of today". By far the canvases are spectacular and provocative. Up close, there is also the taste of the detail in the painter, who takes care of "carving" representation of a flower or a decoration.

There is something for everyone with the "dynasty" new French contemporary art.