{"id":3073,"date":"2014-05-24T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2017-05-10T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:37:04","slug":"langue-des-oiseaux-et-coq-a-lane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=3073&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Langue des oiseaux et coq \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ne"},"content":{"rendered":"
Group exhibition around the work of Raymond Hains. Frac Bretagne, Rennes.<\/strong>
\n24th May to 7th September 2014.<\/div>\n
Curator : Marion Daniel.<\/div>\n
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Erica Baum, Julien Bismuth, \u00c9ric Duyckaerts, Fran\u00e7ois Dufr\u00eane, George Dupin, Jean Dupuy, Raymond Hains, Anabelle Hulaut \/ David Michael Clarke, Harald Klingelh\u00f6ller, \u00c9ric Maillet, Christian Marclay, Anne Marie Rognon, Yann S\u00e9randour, Anne de Sterk, Catherine Sullivan, Jacques Villegl\u00e9, Gil J. Wolman.<\/div>\n
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David Michael Clarke – Real-life Girlfriend (it’s no game]. C-type photograph. 75cm x 110cm. Pas de Jeu, France. 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Anabelle Hulaut – Jeu de pas, Bons Baisers On the Road. C-type photograph. 75cm x 110cm. Pas de Jeu, France. 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00abThere is something crazy that happens with language. Something not quite right. There are circumstantial effects that are extremely bizarre. That\u2019s why I became a structuralist moustachist, dialectician of \u00ablapalissades\u00bb. I try to put all that in order.\u00bb – Raymond Hains<\/em><\/div>\n
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From bulldog to butterfly, \u00abLangue des oiseaux et coq \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ne\u00bb is entirely conceived through associative logic, as it is constructed around the work of Raymond Hains (1926, Saint-Brieuc \u2013 2005, Paris), a major figure in the Frac Bretagne collection.<\/p>\n

In the early XXth century, Raymond Roussel and Alfred Jarry re-ignited interest in \u00abbirdspeak\u00bb, a fictional and cryptic language which consists of combining different types of word play in order to invent new literary compositions capable of transmitting coded messages. Following in their footsteps, Raymond Hains, a grand amateur of hermetic litterature and wordplay, transformed this language into true poetry. As a hommage, the Frac Bretagne presents a monographic exhibition of his work in the main gallery. Gains, an admirer of Pasolini in Uccellacci e Uccellini (Birds, great and small), became interested in these other languages, systems of logic and parallel thoughts : through approximative homonyms, he created new genealogies and theories, that took him from \u00abpalissades\u00bb to \u00ablapalissades\u00bb, he followed a sculptor from Lyon called Lemot and he made the link from \u00abla langue des oiseaux\u00bb to the ski manufacturing company \u00abRossignol\u00bb. Raymond Hains refused cartesian logic, preferring absurd reason, playing leap-frog from one word or concept to another.<\/p>\n

The remaining galleries are dedicated to other artists who invest their energies in field of language, its inadequacies, its incomprehensions, its humour. Many themes that run through the work of Raymond Hains can also be found in this part of the exhibition: cryptic languages, generative logic \u2013 Jean Dupuy, \u00c9ric Maillet, Christian Marclay, Gil J. Wolman; the phenomena of hazard and of encounters \u2013 Anabelle Hulaut \/ David Michael Clarke, George Dupin; language as a reservoir of signs \u2013 Erica Baum, Julien Bismuth, Harald Klingelh\u00f6ller, Jacques Villegl\u00e9 ; body language \u2013 Catherine Sullivan ; lost words, stuttering, other linguistic anomalies \u2013 Anne de Sterk, Fran\u00e7ois Dufr\u00eane, Christian Marclay ; language hoisted by its own petard \u2013 \u00c9ric Duyckaerts, Anne Marie Rognon.<\/p>\n

Anabelle Hulaut and David Michael Clarke live together. Each one has their own artistic practice, but sometimes they share their know-how, their tools etc. For example, one artist might serve as the cameraman in the work of the other. \u00abKisses on the road, (game of steps)\u00bb and \u00abReal-life girlfriend (it\u2019s no game)\u00bb are the fruit of this dual rapport. This time, so story goes, the two artists remarked upon the same image on a film that they had shared, each one thinking that they were the author. Unable to remember what really happened on the day the photo was shot, they decided to print two examples of the image. Each artists would entitle the image in their own way and inscribe it into their own practice. Playing with the duality and duplicity of the image as a couple, Anabelle Hulaut and David Michael Clarke find themselves on complimentary terrain, that of the viewpoint, and whisks the visitor into a fictional world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Also See:<\/strong>
\nPas de Jeu.<\/a>
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\nLinks:<\/strong>
\nAnabelle Hulaut website.<\/a>
\nFRAC Bretagne.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Group exhibition around the work of Raymond Hains. Frac Bretagne, Rennes. 24th May to 7th September 2014. Curator : Marion Daniel.   Erica Baum, Julien Bismuth, \u00c9ric Duyckaerts, Fran\u00e7ois Dufr\u00eane,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[119,39,111,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}