[Oberlist] MD* VIDEOCHIOSC: Monumentul lui Deleuze / The Deleuze Monument de/by Thomas HIRSCHHORN - proiecție

[Vladimir US]

APARTAMENT DESCHIS / FLAT SPACE
18 iunie 2011, ora 21:30
str. Bucuresti 68/1, Chisinau

“The Deleuze Monument”

Thomas HIRSCHHORN

2000, 25 min.

audio: French


FR
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Depuis plus de vingt ans, Thomas Hirschhorn, artiste suisse résidant  
en France, réalise des sculptures à l’aide de techniques et de moyens  
précaires. Celles-ci sont conçues à partir de matériaux issus de la  
vie quotidienne : vieux papiers, bois, feuilles de plastique et  
d’aluminium, cartons, scotch. Cette esthétique du bricolage est mise  
au service de hautes ambitions culturelles. En effet, quelques-uns de  
ses travaux rendent hommage à certains des représentants de la culture  
la plus haute, qu’il s’agisse de philosophes comme Baruch Spinoza  
(Spinoza Monument, Exposition "Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers",  
Amsterdam, 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Deleuze Monument, exposition "La  
Beauté", Avignon, 2000), ou encore Georges Bataille (Documenta 11,  
Kassel, 2002). Si ce travail s’inscrit dans le cadre d’expositions  
collectives, le choix de ces libres-penseurs de l’occident revient  
essentiellement à l’artiste. En effet, ses sculptures sont souvent des  
"monuments" à des personnes que l’artiste admire. Véritables monuments  
de papier ou même l’excès de scotch utilisé dans son travail a du sens  
(pour l’artiste, une façon de dire avec insistance qu’il "faut que ça  
tienne »), la surenchère d’images, de textes, de documentations tient  
en haleine le visiteur. Nous nuancerons donc ici l’importance de la  
commande : on sollicite une œuvre de l’artiste, on ne lui commande pas  
un monument à un personnage célèbre.

http://arts-plastiques.ac-rouen.fr/grp/sculpture_commemorative/thomas_hirschhorn.htm



EN
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The "Deleuze Monument"

During the Avignon Festival, summer 2000, in the context of the  
exhibit on La Beauté [Beauty], the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn  
elected to install a "Deleuze Monument" outside the ramparts, in a  
likely quarter of the Avignon suburbs. This project was part of the  
artist's approach to a work made of multiple gatherings and  
recuperation [of objects], a kind of visual gleaning to which he  
invites everyone to participate. So at the end of May 2000, the  
Deleuze Monument was constructed, a precarious edifice built  
piecemeal, of parts that inhabitants of the quartier brought to enrich  
it with poems, drawings and various graffiti ("Come back, Gilles!"  
"G.D.: we love you"). Hirschhorn himself provided a sculpture of the  
philosopher on which he inscribed this offering: "Gilles, we miss you,  
but we are managing" [Gilles, tu nous manques, mais on se débrouille].  
This interactive installation also sheltered a library in which the  
philosopher's books were collected and in which his video interviews  
from the Abécédaire were broadcast. Open 24 hours a day, supervised by  
people from the quartier, the purpose of the Deleuze Monument was to  
juxtapose a certain idea of Beauty at the very base of the iron and  
steel HLM buildings [Note: HLM = habitation à loyer modéré, i.e. low- 
to-mid income housing]. Sadly, the Museum was demolished after two  
months, victimized by repeated thefts and acts of vandalism. Thomas  
Hirschhorn, who also developed a Spinoza Monument, outlined this  
Deleuzian experience in a voluminous dossier, juxtaposed to  
handwritten commentaries, some elements of which we have excerpted here.

[One handwritten comment: "Deleuze: Why I chose Gilles Deleuze:  
Because he is an important contemporary French philosopher, because he  
intervened on behalf of a philosophy at once offered to everyone,  
hence to people who have never had contact with philosophy, and at the  
same time to amateurs, from philosophers to "professionals" of  
philosophy. I chose Deleuze because his writings give me the courage,  
the strength and the pleasure to reflect."]

CJ Stivale

Magazine littéraire 406, February 2002 - Dossier: "L'effet  
Deleuze" [The Deleuze effect]





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