Tag: Michel Blazy
Michel Blazy will present several works in the exhibition
Miroir du ciel
from July 4 to October 10, 2021
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, the eac. has been invited by the ADIAF to join the celebration of this event. The event will bring together throughout France more than a dozen events and exhibitions through the networks of the Frac and art centers.
eac – Espace de l’Art Concret
Château de Mouans
06370 Mouans-Sartoux/FR
Further information: www.espacedelartconcret.fr
Caroline Achaintre, Michel Blazy & Ulla von Brandenburg
La Couleur crue
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
12.06.21 – 29.08.21
From June 12 to August 29, on the occasion of the summer art event “Exporama” and in echo to the exhibition at the Couvent des Jacobins “Beyond Color. Black and White in the Pinault Collection”, the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes presents “La Couleur crue”.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
20 Quai Emile Zola
35000 Rennes/FR
Further information : mba.rennes.fr
In extenso has the pleasure to present “On loop”, an exhibition by the artists Michel Blazy (Monaco, 1966) and Enzo Mianes (Toulouse, 1988). Proposing a multidisciplinary artistic intervention that spreads out in several places in the city centre of Clermont-Ferrand, the artists seek to make the public aware of the survival of ecosystems, the link between life and death, the dichotomy between nature and culture.
Exhibition until July 15, 2021
Photo Guy L’Heureux
Mur de double concentré de tomate, 2009-2024
Double concentré (28 %) de purée de tomate sans sel
Dimensions variables
Food coloring E133, food preservative, salt, water, on cardboard
25 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.
Photo: Claire Dorn
Biography
Born in 1966 in Monaco, Michel Blazy lives and works in Saint-Denis (Ile-de-France/FR).
Since his studies at the Villa Arson in the ‘90s, the artist has worked on the use of unusual materials as well as living matter. Showing preference for humble materials, generally issued from his everyday life, objects and substances that can be found in kitchens (plastic-cups, papertowels, food colorings, detergent products, etc.)
or live organisms extracted from his own garden, Michel Blazy’s use of materials concurs to show the evolution and freedom of projects aiming to underline the passage of time. From his very first experiences with lentils, to his “peeling walls” and all the way to his foam-fountains, Michel Blazy’s pieces spotlight transformations of matter and leave a prominent place to chance and unpredictability. The artist gives the first impulse, and matter takes over, evolving and transforming during the space-and-time of the exhibition, according to its intrinsic properties as well as the showing conditions. Often criticizing nowadays consumerism, but always making use of poetry and humor, his work not only questions the status of artwork but also proposes alternatives to reconcile artificiality and nature, the world of technology and the world of living organisms.*
His work has been purchased by numerous public collections among which: The National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou; the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania; the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France; the New Museum of Monaco; the National Contemporary Art fund, Paris, France; and several regional funds for contemporary art (FRAC).
Several personal exhibitions have been consecrated to his work in the last years, among them: Six pieds sur terre, Le portique, Le Havre (2022); Multiverse, La Loge, Brussels (2019); We Were The Robots, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX (2019); Living Room II, Maison Hermès, Tokyo (2016); Pull Over Time, Art : Concept, Paris (2015); Bouquet Final 3, National Gallery of Victoria; Melbourne White Night (2013); Le Grand Restaurant, Frac Île-de-France, Paris (2012); Post Patman, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007). Michel Blazy’s work was part of the exhibition Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel during the 57th Venice Biennale.
*Text by the Victoria National Gallery/AU
At the gallery
- Michel Blazy – Solo Show, 2017
- Pull Over Time, 2015
- Débordement domestique, 2012
- Bagna Cauda, 2010
- Cinématique, Esthétique, Politique, Hermétique, 2010
- Comment faire avec les crabes, les coléoptères, les fourmis, les lézards, les oiseaux et les souris ?, 2009
- Vanity Case, 2005
- Les succulentes, 2003
- Les animaux en voie de disparition, 2000
- Nées de la dernière pluie, 1994
- Fiasco, 1992
- L’escargorium n°1, 1992
Videos
- Voyage à Nantes, 2018 / Images and installation
- Interview with Michel Blazy on his solo show, Pull Over Time, 2015
Projets d’artistes
- The God-Trick, 2018. PAV – Parco Arte Vivente, Torino/IT
- Bouquet Final, 2012. Collège des Bernardins/FR, Mairie du 4ème arrondissement/FR
- Noël en août, 2009. PAV Turin/IT
Downloads
Catalogues
Michel Blazy, 2015
Frac Île-de-France, Manuella Éditions, Paris
24 × 32 cm, 704 pages
ISBN : 978-2-917517-54-2
Michel Blazy, Solarium, 2014
Frac Corse, Silvana Editoriale, Milan
21 x 30 cm, 64 pages
ISBN : 978-8-8366247-8-2
Falling Garden, 2007
[Exposition au Kunstraum de Dornbirn, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2007]
31 pages
Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN : 978-3939738503
La Toilette de Blacky – Nature molle à la barquette, 2005
Coédition : Ville de Tours, Eternal Network, Tours et Art : Concept, Paris
17 cm, pages
Michel Blazy/Preparation book, 2003
[Exposition Michel Blazy: Le voyage fantastique
Wüttembergischer Kunsteverein Stuttgart, 2003] 66 pages
ISBN : 3-930693-21-6
Michel Blazy, 2003
Coédition Cimaise et Le Portique, Albi, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, CCAC Wattis Intitute, San Francisco, Galerie Art : Concept, Paris
ISBN : 978-2-9130420-4-9