Survivre.

the profession of artist

  • Exhibition

17.10 - 22.12.2019

  • Strasbourg

Jordi Colomer Medina (Tetouan), 2013 FNAC 2015-0659 © Adagp, Paris, 2019 / Cnap

FREE ENTRY
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY
14 p.m. - 18:30 p.m.

Press Release

Exhibition presented by Stimultania in the framework of The Commitment, a national event organized by the Diagonal Network.

In partnership with the Cnap and the support of the Ministry of Culture-DGCA and ADAGP.

Support by the DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est region and the City of Strasbourg.

To survive. is an exhibition built on a narrative structure, in which the artist appears by turns conjuring, provocative, rebellious, deeply empathetic, narcissistic and vulnerable. This thousand-faceted portrait allows us to address a pressing question: what will become of the artist, weakened by the uncertainty of his condition? What will become of the paperless artist, "Mistoufle specialist / Emigrant who pisses for visas / Adventurer of the slipper / Under the table of Nirvana / Starving on the front page"? *

To survive. tells the insane artist who devotes himself to loss-making activities: he does not speak "purchasing power", his profit comes mainly from the enjoyment provided by the impression of accessing truth or beauty.

To survive. tells the avant-garde artist who has less digital success than the rearguard because his complex and demanding works are appreciated by too small an audience. (He may, however, decide to abandon the search for simpler and less original works.)

To survive. tells the hyperflexible artist who connects odd jobs: he has a feeling of intimate urgency which leads him to give up everything (housing, inheritance, social protection…) to pursue his subject and produce an exhibited work.

To survive. questions the uncertainty of success and praise - peers or the market - of people already famous.

To survive. questions the artist's profession.

* “Poet… your papers! »By Léo Ferré, 1956
Celine Duval


Curator: Céline Duval

With Adel Abdessemed, Elina Brotherus, Dieter Appelt, Sarah Charlesworth, Yunchang He, Jorge Molder, Marc Pataut, Jordi Colomer, Christophe Boutin, Pilar Albarracin and Teun Hocks


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