Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) - Le Grand Café

Exhibition

Biography

Guillaume Désanges is curator and art critic, founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency for curatorial projects.
He coordinated the artistic projects of Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers between 2001 and 2007.

He was guest curator at Le Plateau FRAC Ile-de-France between 2009 and 2011 where he curated the program Concrete Erudition. Since 2013, he is running the curatorial program of La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Brussels.

Last projects: Ma’aminim / Les Croyants, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Saint-Denis, France & Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Rep. Czech, 2015, Poésie Balistique, La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Brussels, 2016, L’Esprit français. Contre-cultures, 1969-1989, La maison rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, with François Piron, 2017, L’ennemi de mon ennemi, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018, Spolia, Le Grand Café – centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, 2018.

 

François Piron is an independent exhibitions curator, art critic and editor. He is now in charge of the post-Graduate programme of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and co-founder of the publishing cooperative Paraguay in Paris.

From 2000 to 2005, he co-directed Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. From 2007 to 2012, he co-directed the independent art space castillo / corrales in Paris.

He curated Incorporated !, 5th edition of the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Rennes in 2016, and curated, with Guillaume Désanges, the exhibition L’Esprit français. Contre-cultures, 1969-1989, La maison rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, 2017. In 2017 he published Guy de Cointet, Complete Theater, monograph dedicated to the writings of the artist Guy de Cointet.

Last projects: Nouvelles Impressions de Raymond Roussel, Palais de Tokyo, 2013 ; Raymond Roussel. The President of the Republic of Dreams, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, 2013 and New York, 2015 ; In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 2014 ; Mangelos, Miroirs noirs, Frank Elbaz Gallery, Paris, 2013 and Peter Freeman Inc., New York, 2016, Odradek, Konsthall Malmö (Suède), 2018, Poésie prolétaire, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, 2019.

He has collaborated on numerous collective publications, including the catalogue of the 10th Biennale of Lyon 2009, the Spanish pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale and the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. He recently contributed to the publications Thomas Hirschhorn, Critical Laboratory, MIT Press, 2013, and Michel Leiris et Cie, Gallimard-Centre Pompidou, 2015.

Sponsors

Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) — Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) — Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) — Grand Café
Countervailing Winds (working class, students and rural solidarities in the West of France : a genealogy) — Grand Café