Available documents
Exhibition
Landscape, map, territory, topography, pathways… In a text entitled Frontières et pensée interprétative [Frontiers and Interpretive Thought], Christophe Kihm underlines the extent to which spatial references are often called upon to describe certain contemporary visual forms (readymade, minimal art, land art, the site-specific) that “reflect” space and use it to question the conditions of their own definition as much as those of their exhibition. A fortiori, he continues, this vocabulary adapts itself particularly well to sound forms that are concerned with the diffusion and the spatialization of sound. From the “furniture music” of Erik Satie and the “ambient music” of Brian Eno, by way of musique concrete and sound design, the spatial dimension has become an essential composant of sound.
The group exhibition GSM Geo Sound Map replays this geographical and cartographical inscription as the principle of a generic approach: organic works (Rolf Julius, Dominique Blais) manifesting a quasi-geological presence, technological installations generating landscapes (Detanico & Lain, Dominique Blais), matiérist drawings and lexical spatializations of sound phenomena (Dominique Blais, Rolf Julius, Pascal Broccolichi)… A number of specific approaches towards the medium of SOUND posing questions of displacement and transcription, encoding and poetry, deviations and territorial mutations.
Artworks
Courtesy Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris
Courtesy Xippas Gallery, Paris
60 framed drawings
42 × 52 cm each
Courtesy Cortex athletico Gallery, Bordeaux
Centre national des arts plastiques - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication's collection, Paris
Variable dimensions
Courtesy Xippas Gallery, Paris
LEXICON is a LECSonic Laboratory project created in 2000 by Pascal Broccolichi (www.lecsonic.net)
99,5 × 128,5 × 4 cm (framed)
Joëlle et Bernard Descamps's collection, Dunkerque
99,5 × 128,5 × 4 cm (framed)
Eric Mouchet's collection, Paris
99,5 × 128,5 × 4 cm (framed)
Jean-Paul Guy's collection, Bourbon-Lancy
Approximately 130 cm
Courtesy Cortex athletico Gallery, Bordeaux
65 × 56 × 12 cm
Courtesy Cortex athletico Gallery, Bordeaux
55 × 55 × 9 cm
Courtesy Cortex athletico Gallery, Bordeaux
43 × 43 × 3 cm
Courtesy Cortex athletico Gallery, Bordeaux
Biographies
Dominique Blais
Born in 1974.
Lives and works in Paris.
He is represented by Xippas gallery, Paris
Pascal Broccolichi
Born in 1967 in Antibes.
Lives and works in Nice.
He is represented by Frederic Girous Gallery, Paris
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
Born in 1974 and 1973 in Caxias do Sul (Brazil).
Live and work in Paris.
They are represented by Martine Aboucaya, Paris.
