{"id":4994,"date":"2017-06-03T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2019-06-19T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:12:17","slug":"madame-orain-and-the-magic-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidmichaelclarke.com\/?p=4994&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Madame Orain and the magic bean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social sculpture, 2017-2019. <\/strong>
Plywood, OSB, PVC. 
240 cm x 750 cm x 320 cm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group exhibition.
La Cuisine, N\u00e8grepelisse.<\/strong>
3rd June until 17th September 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n

David Michael Clarke with Marie Angel\u00e9, Neal Beggs, Herv\u00e9 Beurel, Florence Carbonne, Christelle Familiari, Maxwell James Farrington, Yohann Gozard, Bonella Holloway, Anabelle Hulaut, David Kidman, Victoria Klotz, Xavier Krebs, Roger Le Flanchec, Guillaume Pinard, Marianne Plo, Philippe Poupet, Babeth Rambault, Anne Santini, Katharina Schmidt, Bertrand Segonzac, Laurent Tixador, Elsa Tomkowiak, B\u00e9atrice Utrilla and Juliette Wouth.<\/div>\n
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View of the group exhibition, \u00ab\u00a0Madame Orain and the magic bean\u00a0\u00bb. La Cuisine centre d’art, N\u00e8grepelisse. 2017. Photo Herv\u00e9 Beurel. \u00a9 The artists & David Michael Clarke ADAGP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The exhibition<\/strong>

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The origins of this exhibition by David Michael Clarke lie in a fascination and shared passion with Yvan Poulain, director of the art centre, La Cuisine, for the work of architect Roger Le Flanchec (1915 \u2013 1986). An encounter with Madame Orain, who lives in one of his architectural utopias : the famous \u00ab bean house \u00bb developed into an artistic process, alive and convivial.<\/p>\n

In DMC’s world, borrowing a formula from Robert Filliou, art isn’t about message, it’s about sharing. The artist brings together human and artistic relations, playing on many different registers of intervention: plastic gestures, popular references, modernist architecture, performative acts, games, music …<\/p>\n

Here at La Cuisine, David Michael Clarke articulates his exhibition around a museographic structure inspired by Madame Orain’s house. Taking up it’s contours, DMC imagined the construction Clarke as a sinuous box into which the public could enter. Playing the role of artist-curator, DMC set up his stall in the marked steel and stone architecture of the art centre. Acting a little like a host, he invited many artists to come and share, cooperate, collaborate in this new architectural utopia.<\/p>\n

Amused as he is by both minute details and approximative DIY construction techniques, DMC invites the public to come in and wander around his real-false architecture or to settle down in his alternative furniture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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