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Chantal Akerman

Art Center

Fri 19 Nov 2016 and Sat 19 Feb 2017

Maniac Shadows

exhibition

Opening Sat 19 Nov at 4pm

 

Creator of unforgettable films, Chantal Akerman is one of the great artists and filmmakers of the last fifty years. This exhibition, envisaged with her before her death, brings together historic works and recent installations as a tribute to her importance in the field of contemporary art.

Chantal Akerman's work in film brought her international recognition. From her beginnings until her death last year she ceaselessly reinvented her formal vocabulary and way of looking at the world, moving with unparalleled freedom between genres: feature-length fiction and documentary, comedy and drama, and video installation. Her influence on the cinema's most famous directors is indisputable, but her legacy to the visual arts, while less known, is just as fundamental.

 

In her host of different projects Akerman blazed a trail – between reality and fiction, the narrative and the experimental, history and memory – that artists of all kinds are exploring more and more. Summoning up all the possibilities of the cinema image and of vision, space and performance, her singular approach to so many issues – frontiers, changes of place, racism, identity, the relationship between personal and public space – has played a crucial part in the evolution of the visual arts.

 

The exhibition is built around one of her last video installations, Maniac Shadows, presented here for the first time in France. Bringing together filmed images of places she has lived in, photographs and a reading by Akerman of her novel Ma Mère rit (My Mother Laughs), Maniac Shadows is the core element in an exhibition that helps us discover little-known sections of her oeuvre. Ranging from her first short feature, made when she was eighteen, to a sound work for radio in 2008 and an experimental film, this immersive experience is accompanied from time to time by the cello of special guest Sonia Wieder-Atherton.

 

Space, time, the image, music, the intimate, politics: through these multiple points of view the exhibition speaks eloquently of the relevance of Akerman's practice and ideas.

 

 

 

                             

 

in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles International and with the support of the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris also with the backing of Marian Goodman Gallery and Vidi Square

Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 4 pm

Exhibition opening

2:30 pm : Visit of Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles exhibition Images et mots depuis Magritte

3 pm : Shuttle from Paris departure to La Ferme du Buisson - reservation required +33 1 64 62 77 77

4 pm : Opening at La Ferme du Buisson

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Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 8:15 pm

Discussion with Claire Atherton around No Home Movie

7:30 pm : Guided tour of the exhibition "Chantal Akerman : Maniac Shadows"

8:15 pm : No Home Movie screening at the Ferme du Buisson cinema

10:30 pm : Discussion with Claire Atherton, Chantal Akerman’s film editor

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Sat 3 Dec 2016 from 2 to 7 pm

Performance by cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Sonia Wieder-Atherton composed the music of several films of Chantal Akerman. She will make discreet appearances in the exhibition "Chantal Akerman : Maniac Shadows".

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Tues 13 Dec 2016 at 6 pm - at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris

Talk by Sébastien Rémy

Explorant l'héritage de la cinéaste dans l'art contemporain, le Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson associé à l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris proposent une conférence de l'artiste Sébastien Rémy : "Tant que je vous parle ce n'est pas une frontière" [As long as I’m talking to you there’s no border between us]

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Sat 14 Jan 2017 to 2 pm from midnight

An entire day dedicated to Chantal Akerman 

À l'occasion de l'exposition "Chantal Akerman : Maniac Shadows", le Cinéma de la Ferme du Buisson et le Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson proposent une journée de lectures, de performances et de projections de longs et courts métrages autour de l'oeuvre de Chantal Akerman et de son héritage dans l'art contemporain.

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Sun 19 Feb 2017 from 2 to 7 pm

Performance by cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Sonia Wieder-Atherton composed the music of several films of Chantal Akerman. She will make discreet appearances in the exhibition "Chantal Akerman : Maniac Shadows".

Elsewhere

from 4 to 15 Nov 2016 : Je, tu, il, elle nous manque. Regards sur l’oeuvre de Chantal Akerman.

Screenings, meetings, lectures, concert, performance ... a tribute to Chantal Akerman proposed by 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine in different institutions in Metz : 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Arsenal, Bibliothèques et médiathèques de Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Ciné art, Ferme du Buisson, Java, les Journées Européennes de la Culture Juive (JECJ), Librairie la Cour des grands, l’oeil à l’écran, Osez le féminisme, Synagogue de Delme, Université de Lorraine.

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infos pratiques

exhibition Opening Sat 19 Nov at 4pm
meeting point at 2:30 pm for the visit of Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles exhibition Images et mots depuis Magritte
shuttle at 3 pm - reservation required +33 1 64 62 77 77

 

free admission

from Wed to Sun from 2 pm to 7:30 pm, open to 9 pm on event days

 

guided tours every Saturday at 4 pm

exhibition tour + afternoon tea: Sun 4 Dec, Sun 8 Jan and Sun 5 Feb at 4 pm

group tours available daily: book on rp@lafermedubuisson.com