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EXHIBITIONS
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SITE OVERVIEW
PROGRAMMATION IN
In the Maison de la Culture
Performance / Exposition « IN » « LOOPING » The projectsThe actorsThe protagonists The programme
Working Interior DesignShow-office Pierre GuaricheDesign furniture « La Table » by Féri Novak
In the church Saint-Pierre
Exposition "IN " « Rituals and Routines » Exhibition route PartnersAround the exhibition
Concert "IN" « POÈMES ETOILÉS »
Cinéma le Majestic
Cinéma "IN"
INFORMATION AND PRESS CONTACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRESS CONTACTGéraldine DABRIGEON [email protected]
+ 33 (0)6 13 71 65 19
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It is in Firminy, near Saint-Etienne, on the territory of the Communauté Urbaine de Saint-Étienne Métropole (Saint-Étienne Urban area), and in the heart of the new Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, that Le Corbusier built one of his major architectural complexes in France and Europe. The site of Firminy-Vert designed by the architect is truly unique. It is home to the largest number of modern architectural works by the master in Europe. With a Maison de la Culture (cultural center), a Unité d’Habitation (housing unit), a stadium and a church, Firminy is the ultimate utopia of Le Corbusier.
The Maison de la culture is listed as UNESCO World Heritage since July 2016 for its
significance in modern architecture, along with 16 other sites built by Le
Corbusier in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, India,
Argentina and Japan.
The site was made possible by the vision of Eugène
Claudius-Petit, mayor of Firminy and Minister of Reconstruction
and Urbanism after the war, and the ambition of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret,
aka Le Corbusier. Together, they decided to give the city a new start and implement the principles of modern architecture.
The architectural complex of Firminy built after Le Corbusier’s original designs, consists of:
The Maison de la Culture (cultural center), built between 1961 and 1965.
The stadium, built between 1966 and 1969, and only stadium listed as French Historic Monument in France.
The Unité d’Habitation (housing unit) inaugurated in 1967: a project managed by André Wogenscky, Le Corbusier’s executor after the sudden death of the architect in 1965.
The church inaugurated in 2006. The architectural project was a design by Le Corbusier, assisted by José Oubrerie, who oversaw and completed the work.
The swimming pool, part of the initial project and built by André Wogenscky.
In 1961, the Firminy-Vert district won the Grand Prix d’Urbanisme for its avant-garde and innovative remodeling. Built in accordance with the principles of the Athens Charter (1933), the site exemplifies an urban philosophy that answers the needs of the body, the soul and the mind in an environment where sun, space and vegetation prevail.
Saint-Étienne Métropole and the city of Firminy conduct an active preservation policy of the site. The Tourism Office of Saint-Étienne is in charge of developing tourism in the area, thus allowing inhabitants and visitors from everywhere to fully appreciate this outstanding architectural heritage.
SITE OVERVIEW
LE CORBUSIER IN FIRMINY:
LIVING, WORKING, RECREATING, AND
CIRCULATING
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Programme IN Site Le CorbusierAs part of the Biennale Internationale Design 2017, the Site Le Corbusier welcomes two new exhibitions and a whole program around movement, gesture and work in architectural space.
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PERFORMANCE / EXPOSITION IN
At Maison de la Culture
« LOOPING »WORK IN QUESTION: DIALOG BETWEEN A CHOREOGRAPHER AND A DESIGNER
JULIE DESPRAIRIES & DAVID ENON
In the middle, work and its mutations.
Around, objects that generate gesture that produce objects or gesture that produce objects that generate gestures.
A choreographer and a designer capture this Looping.
Theoretically, a choreographer who meets a designer, this produces one show and some objects.
But what brings Julie Desprairies and David Enon together is the same attention to the context of production of pieces, dance and design. And the same obsession of necessity: Let's not overwhelm the world with unnecessary objects and dances. Let's practice gesture and material economy, let's draw into what's already there to be useful to the interested people. Movements and infra-ordinary objects; dance and design in situ.
The Site Le Corbusier has welcomed them regularly. They collected dancing or designing behaviours among the Site workers. From this material, they made a hybrid project, half-choreographic, half-designed. With the Biennale visitors, they finally share this experience of danced design or designed dance.
They associated to the workers the students of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers (Fine Arts School of Angers) and the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers (National Centre of Contemporary Dance Angers).
THE PROTAGONISTS
For about twenty years, I have been creating in situ choreographic projects. My work is based on the plastic, architectural, topographic and natural site characteristics and their uses by engaging the local inhabitants, workers, students. I claim an « applied dance ». Applied to architecture, to landscapes. A dance depending on its elaboration context.
Some say my approach is the one of a designer. I accept it if design is meant as a radical process that is not only attached to form, that does not necessarily add objects to a world that is already overwhelmed, but instead fades behind relationship to others, to environment. An activist design that enlarges its own acceptation, fights against the notion of progress, slows down, accepts a decrease and deframings in the collective construction of lifestyles. In my practice of choreography I use space another way, I transgress the use, I create plastic merging, I decontextualize work gestures, I draw from the place my accessories and my scenography. The body becomes furniture and tools. The landscape, the dancing partition.
In Firminy, with David Enon, we met people who are linked to the Site Le Corbusier through their work. We interviewed them on their relations to gestures and objects . We observed situations that are about dancing as well as designing. From this investigation we wrote our Looping.
Julie Desprairies
Julie Desprairies, choreographer,
was born in 1975.
She lives in Paris and her company
is in Lyon (Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne).
She creates contextual choreographic projects.
By closely studying the sites and their requests, she writes
an « applied dance » that implies users and inhabitants. Her creation scale
is variable: a building, a district, a city, a landscape. Her goal is to show the movement of a space.
She made a radiophonic creation for the French radio station France Culture and three films (Autour du parc in Villeneuve de Grenoble, Cinq points de vue autorisés sur les Courtillières and L’Architecte de Saint-Gaudens). She wrote Manuel d’entraînement régulier du danseur urbain (Textbook for the urban dancer’s regular training) and is currently working on Danser l’architecture, to be released in 2017.
www.compagniedesprairies.com
The Compagnie des prairies is accompanied by La Magnanerie.
1. Olivier Peyricot, Design : « décadrage et ralentissement à l’œuvre dans et autour », revue Cree n°373, oct-nov 2015.2. What are your work gestures? Are there any movements that are specifically linked to this architecture? What solutions, tricks, arrangements to reduce the arduousness of you work? To simplify them, rationalize them, work faster? To get some rest? Will you show us the personal content of your professional equipment? Does your body exist in your work? When and how? Are there any changes between yesterday and today, concerning actions, movements, tools and furniture?
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David Enon, independant designer, was born in 1973. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle de Paris (National School of Industrial Creation Paris).
His work oscillates between:
- Commands: exhibition scenography, furniture creation for the industry, interior design
or advice for individuals.
- Research: He currently works on the production of furniture
in artificial reefs with seabed as a new factory.
- Teaching: Teacher at École Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts d'Angers (Fine
Arts School Angers) and
regular workshops.
His contribution consists of :
- creating with an economy of gestures and means, letting
things exist, sometimes being against the flow and against time,
always with a demanding nature.
- Drawing much in order to draw the least possible. Drawing in another place.
- Moving, playing, installing and looking where you think there is nothing left, but look anyway.
David Enon was edited by the Tools Galerie in Paris and the Galerie MICA in Rennes.
His work is part of the FNAC collections (National Foundation for Contemporary Art).
www.davidenon.net
When we’re interested in design (whether we are producers, amateurs or users) we look at the object, its shape, its material, its lines and we appreciate what it tells us. We often underestimate what is around the object: how it dialogs and interacts with other objects that are around until this creates a system. How it influences the space it’s in, the bodies it contacts.
The use of objects generates gestures. Gesture of use, stories of use more or less predetermined. The question of gesture is a design matter. This is even truer since objects were produced by gestures. The potter shapes, the smith hammers, the baker kneads… The gestures of the « makers» were reproduced, amplified and multiplied by the industry in order to bring comfort and progress for the largest number.
But today our environment is overwhelmed by objects. Too many of too much.
As a designer my first « gesture » is to un-design, to think backwards. To think of the necessary and just gesture, the one that precisely answers the needs or the problem that was presented to me. My work is based on these requirements in creative gesture (drawing) as well as in the productive gesture (producing). I try to apprehend this environment with mischief and hypothetically think that we can sometimes replace objects with a gesture, favour human, individual, collective and shared implementation.
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THE PARTNERS
Production Compagnie des prairies – with La Magnanerie.
Coproduction Office du Tourisme de Saint-Etienne, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne with the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts TALM - Site d’Angers and Ville de Firminy. The artists thank all the inhabitants of Firminy that took part in this project.
PROGRAMME
Exhibition opening
March 31th, from 12am to 3:30pm.
Two days during which Looping will propose the visitors to participate a series of SERVICES. Le Corbusier biscuits tasting, guides ‘aerobic, Sweep dance learning, indoor athletic training, testing the Firminy-map-together-folding, Xenakis’ pans ondulatoires played by the electro-drumming group Humbros (Charles Dubois and Simon Puiroux), sandcastles in the shape of the church Saint-Pierre, physical visits in the exhibition, dance of the masons, making of the first articulated Modulor.
PERFORMANCES WEEKEND
March 31st, from 12am to 3:30pm.
April 1st from 2pm to 6pm
Two days during which Looping will propose the visitors to participate a series of SERVICES. Le Corbusier biscuits tasting, guides ‘aerobic, Sweep dance learning, indoor athletic training, testing the Firminy-map-together-folding, Xenakis’ pans ondulatoires played by the electro-drumming group Humbros (Charles Dubois and Simon Puiroux), sandcastles in the shape of the church Saint-Pierre, physical visits in the exhibition, dance of the masons, making of the first articulated Modulor.
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WORKING INTERIOR DESIGN
SHOW-OFFICE BY PIERRE GUARICHE (1926-1985)
In this office, the furniture was designed by the interior designer Pierre Guariche (1926-1995), a leading creator in the 50s and 60s. This ensemble shows how the designer cared about how the Modulor-size furniture would blend into the interior design.
PRESENTATION OF THE DESIGN FURNITURE « LA TABLE » DE FERI NOVAK (1906-1959)
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CONSULATE OF SLOVENIA
« The Table » is presented in response to the Pierre Guariche’s office, an exceptional design furniture created by the Slovenian architect Feri Novak, Le Corbusier’s coworker in Paris in 1938.
Conference « Le Corbusier and his disciples, the example of Feri Novak and Marko Zupancic, two Slovenian architects » presented by Matej Fisher, architect and teacher, Le Corbusier expert at the European Commission.
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EXPOSITION "IN"
At the church Saint-Pierre
« RITUALS AND ROUTINES » A HISTORY OF GESTURE[S]
Scientific curation by Géraldine Dabrigeon, Director/curatory of the Site Le Corbusier
Installation/scenography/logistics : Site Le Corbusier
Transportation : Bovis Fine Art
Muséographism : Anastasia Margie
Communication : Kaksi Design
In the middle, work and its mutations.
Around, the gesture as a body movement aiming the execution of something. A gesture that is learned, repeated, lost, interiorized, and becomes familiar a nd natural like a ritual, a routine.
« Evoking gesture is evoking life » since it separates animated from unanimated, alive from dead. Work is a central part of life to which men and women have been giving most of their time since the beginning of the world.
Considering work gestures may lead us to examine all aspects of life, from woman’s everyday life to the worker’s technical
gesture, from the architect’s conception gesture to the artist’s creative gesture.
About thirty modern and contemporary works reveal
working gestures, simple gestures of life, productive
or not, transforming the reality or responding
to simple needs.
EXHIBITION ROUTE
The exhibition route revolves around gesture and its representation or evocation in art from the Neolithic era up to now. This functional gesture aims the execution of a task. It can be efficient, useful, destined to the production of an object, a message, an order, or participate to the transformation of reality.
THE LARGE AUDITORIUM shows the definition of gesture as a body exterior movement seen as an expression of the way someone does or is. It can be essentially seen or read through the hands, the face, the look and the general body attitude.
THE LITTLE AUDITORIUM shows work gestures, may they be artistic or productive. Man may have forgotten them, stopped practice them or tried understanding them in order to find them back or still get inspired by them.
Le Corbusier, The Hands Woollen tapestry, 1951,
Coll. of the Cité Internationale de la Cité de la tapisserie d’Aubusson.
Armand Bloch, The Miner Bronze, 1905
Coll. Puits Couriot / Parc-Musée de la Mine /
Saint-Étienne Métropole.
THE TRANSITION SPACES focus on productive gesture showing its roots in the local agricultural and industrial history since the Industrial Revolution of the « Glorious Thirty » (1940s – 1970s) until the closing of these factories that are now considered as industrial heritage.
David Philippon,
Numeric print
Coll.Private
LES PARTENAIRES
AVEC LE SOUTIEN
AROUND THE EXHIBITION Guided Tour
Visits in English in the Biennale exhibitions accompanied by a Site Le Corbusier’s guide.
RDV on Wednesdays March 15th, 22nd, 29th March and April 5th et 3pm. 3€ / 4€.
THE POEM OF THE RIGHT ANGLE ROOM
approaches woman’s gesture in the everyday life, a technical and ritual gesture that lead designers to the creation of objects and to the development of home economics industry.
André Fougeron,
Woman peeling vegetables
1948-1949 Coll. du Musée d'Art Moderne
et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole
THE PANURGE ROOM AND THE MODEL ROOM
end this route with the evocation of the artist’s and the architect/designer’s gesture oscillating between technical or crafts savoir-faire, between hand drawing and technology, between concept and production.
Gabriele di Matteo, Il Giardino della pittura,
1993-1994 Oil on canvas
Collection IAC Rhône-Alpes
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CONCERT "IN" « POÈMES ÉTOILÉS »In partnership with FESTYVOCAL
At the church Saint-Pierre
Discover the gesture of a choirmaster in a place with a unique acoustic created by the international architect Le Corbusier! Under the direction of Geneviève Dumas, the choir will sing « Poèmes Etoilés ». (Starry Poems) creation of Pascal Descamps (opening concert of the first Biennale FestyVocal in 2016)
RDV March 25th 2017 at 5pm (Gate opening at 4:30)
Contact for presale : Association FestyVocal : [email protected] 06 11 81 69 29
Entrance : 13€ On preale : 10€ Free under 12
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Au cinéma le Majestic
CINEMA "IN"In partnership with the theater le MAJESTIC in Firminy,
A series of films linked with the Biennale theme « work mutations » is proposed by the theater Le Majestic in Firminy every Monday for one month at the unique rate of 4€ (All films are in French).
Ressources Humaines by Laurent Cantet French-English Drama (realeased in 2000)
RDV March 13th at 8:30pm
Merci Patron ! by Francois Ruffin Documentary (realesaed in 2016)
RDV March 20th at 8:30pm
Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré by Jean-Marc Moutout Comedy drama (realeased in 2004)
RDV March 27th at 8:30pm
Ils ne mourraient pas tous, mais tous étaient frappés by Marc Roudil et Sophie Bruneau Documentary (realeased in 2006)
RDV April 3rd at 8:30pm
USEFULL INFORMATIONS
PRESS CONTACT
Géraldine DABRIGEON
+33 (0)4 77 61 61 03 +33 (0)6 13 71 65 19
OPENING HOURS
Open every day From 10am to 12:30am and 1:30pm to 6pm
ACCESS
By train : gare SNCF de FirminyBy bus : ligne 1 Firminy / Saint-Étienne, arrêt « église Le Corbusier »By car : N88, sortie Firminy-Centre, 2 parkings
Accompanied disabled access only
GPS Adress: Boulevard Périphérique du Stade 42 700 Firminy
GPS Coordinates :Latitude : 45.38239414073881Longitude : 4.288389269836443
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RATES
Site Le Corbusier entrance fee : 5,50€ / 6,50€PASS Biennale temporaire : 8€ / 12€ PASS Biennale permanent : 22€PASS Biennale « Guided tour » : 11€ / 15€ *All Pass Biennale are sold on site.
GUIDEDTOURS
Guided tours : 4€ / 10€ + Site entranceUnité d’Habitation every Saturday at 2pm and 3:30amVisit of Maison de la Culture and church every Saturday at 10:30am
For Groups :Contact our Reservation ServiceReservation « Adults and students » : [email protected] « School groups » : [email protected]
FREE BUS
SATURDAY 11th, 18th, 25th March / 1st, 8th AprilSUNDAY 12th, 19th, 26th March / 2nd, 9th April
Departure at 2pm - Stop TIL rue Javelin Pagnon, Saint-ÉtienneReturn at 4:30pm - in front of the church Saint-Pierre - Firminy
