{"id":4697,"date":"2014-04-05T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T13:54:14","slug":"dogs-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=4697&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Dogs’ Entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the complicity of Michel Fran\u00e7ois.<\/strong>
\nInstallation, 2014.<\/strong>
\nPoster, sign, wooden ramps (plywood and pine), curtain.
\nProduction La Galerie du Dourven.<\/div>\n
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Dog’s Entrance, 2014. Kennel (La ricarda) by Michel Fran\u00e7ois, 2007, poster 180\u00d7120cm adapted by David Michael Clarke through the addition of two ramps and a tunnel to allow for the passage of dogs, 2014. Photo: Herv\u00e9 Beurel. \u00a9 David Michael Clarke ADAGP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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During my first discussion with Didier Lamand\u00e9 about a future exhibition at the Galerie du Dourven, I told him that I would like to conceive the exhibition as a \u00abcrossroads\u00bb for everybody who frequents the park … the fisherman, the hikers, the swimmers, the joggers, the dog-walkers etc.<\/p>\n

– This will be difficult, he replied, because dogs aren’t allowed in the gallery.
\n– Then my first artistic gesture must be to modify the house rules, so that we can welcome our canine friends.<\/p>\n

After taking a few days to think about it, Didier showed me the green light. I started to imagine a rather sculptural way to announce the rule change to the concerned community.<\/p>\n

J’ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de prendre contact avec Michel Fran\u00e7ois afin de l\u2019inviter \u00e0 participer \u00e0 cette exposition. Je lui ai propos\u00e9 d’enlever le verre de la fen\u00eatre, de le remplacer avec une planche de contre-plaqu\u00e9, coller son affiche, et de d\u00e9couper la porte pour que les chiens puissent entrer, assist\u00e9s par une rampe.<\/p>\n

Some years before, I had seen an exhibition by Michel Fran\u00e7ois at the Chapelle du Gen\u00eateil, Ch\u00e2teau-Gontier. As is often the case, he printed a large photographic poster for the occasion. For this exhibition he chose the image of the dog’s kennel at the Villa Ricarda, designed by the architect Antonio Bonet for the Gomis Family on the outskirts of Barcelona. I decided to contact Michel Fran\u00e7ois and to invite him to participate in my exhibition. I propose to him that we remove the glass from the window and replace it with a sheet of plywood, paste his poster into position, and cut out the door so that the dog’s can enter, assisted by a ramp.<\/p>\n

Generous as he is, he responded in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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