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BERNARD GIGOUNON
(videos)
Opening 13 October 2005, 18-21h // EXHIBITION 14.10 > 23.12
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DOC & IMAGES: http://paoloboselli.biz/artists/bernardgigounon
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ARGOS: http://www.argosarts.org/festival/catalogue.do?event=7&production=57
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GALERIE PAOLO BOSELLI
RUE DES EPERONNIERS 59
B-1000 BRUSSELS
By appointment.
Tel: +32 (0) 477 20 50 52
Mail: galerie@paoloboselli.biz
Site: http://paoloboselli.biz
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PRESS RELEASE:
For his first solo exhibition in a gallery, Bernard Gigounon will present two videos as a diptych: "Prélude n°3" and "Standing Ovation".
Prélude n°3
video | 00:02:37 | col. | sound
“It all happened one evening. I was in a bar, quietly having a drink. A man sat down beside me and as we were alone, we started talking together. We spoke about red wine, women and music and at this moment, I realized that this man was Claude Debussy. I told him that I made videos and explained my work to him. Suddenly, his eyes sparkled and he asked me if I was interested in making a video clip of his 3rd prélude 'Le vent dans la plaine' and I agreed.”
In Prélude n°3 Gigounon plays a graphical game with musical onomatopoeia, he lets them dance and interact within the limitations of the white screen. The minimal chords and melodies of Debussy are tied together by surreal observation more than by logic. Here they find a visual counterpart in a pallet of connected letters in constant movement, shifting colours and changing formats. In the same way as the composer paints an impressionist musical world with warm tones and sound images, Gigounon creates an idiom of his own from sterile, achromatic graphical elements. The letters do not merely derive their existence from the music, but their meaning as well.
Standing Ovation
video | loop 00:01:41 | col. | sound
The original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir ’s (Une partie de campagne) and picturing a river under heavy reaning has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are now figurating the sound of the rain.
The video was originally edited as part of a in situ installation during a concert by Martha Argérich at the Royal Music Academy.
The audience was confronted with its own picture.Recorded and real times applauses were mixed during a magic instant when the audience were confronted with themselves as a full dimension of the installation aesthetically and formally.
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PORTFOLIO [PDF-8,1Mb]
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Bernard Gigounon, "Prélude n°3", DVD 2'45", 2004. Courtesy Galerie Paolo Boselli
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Argos, Brussels
Montevideo, Amsterdam
Film Festival Rotterdam |
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