Programming
Jean-François Courtilat
Psychopompe
Psychopompe's exhibition is a reflection on recurring questions in art: death, humor, the body.
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Photo : Paul Litherland -
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Photo : Jean-François Courtilat -
Photo : Jean-François Courtilat
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Psychopompe's exhibition is a reflection on recurring questions in art: death, humor, the body. Violent and burlesque videos, sculptures made of plastic bags, manipulated drawings: the whole will propose an aestheticism that is racy but that underlies a malaise. A choreographic piece by David Rolland will take over the exhibition during the opening. Courtilat invites us to the amused and loving laughter of a tenderized mocker.
Performance from David Rolland.
After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, Jean-François Courtilat entered the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique in Paris (session IV). He was then laureate of the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes in Bratislava (Slovakia) and then did an artist residency in Porto (Portugal). In Nantes, he founded the artists' collective ipso facto which opened a dynamic gallery by inviting young French artists to exhibit within and outside its walls. Among Jean-François Courtilat's personal exhibitions, we can note those at the Bond de la Baleine à Bosse in Toulouse (2001), at the Tohu-Bohu gallery, Marseille (2001), and at the Musée de l'Abbaye de Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne (2002). His videos are programmed in Paris in events such as Station stationnement stationner or Broadway at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris. He will soon exhibit at the Cité Universitaire Internationale (Paris) and at La Borne (Orléans).
During all his studies of pharmacy (Nantes - France) and management (Paris), David Rolland studied contemporary-jazz dance and classical dance. After obtaining his state diploma as a dance teacher, he worked as an interpreter at the Paris-Palais Garnier and Bastille opera houses for Blanca Li, Denny Sayers, Laura Scozzi, and then for Mié Coquempot at the Musée National d'art moderne-Centre Pompidou in Paris. In parallel, he works at the ipso facto gallery in Nantes and in January 2000 he founded the dance company of the same name with Angela Fagnano, which proposes a work based on the transversality between dance and visual arts.
