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- Titre
- Stéphane Thidet | Ceci n'est pas un Casino
- Intervenant
- Bruno Flash
- Durée
- 13:45
- Evénement
- Ceci n'est pas un casino
- Lieu
- Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain
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- Mission687
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- *1974 PARIS (FR)VIT ET TRAVAILLE À / LEBT UND ARBEITET IN / LIVES AND WORKS IN PARIS (FR)SANS TITRE (JE VEUX DIRE QU’IL POURRAIT TRÈS BIEN, THÉORIQUEMENT, EXISTER AU MILIEU DE CETTE TABLE […]), 2008BILLARD, PLAFONNIER, MATÉRIAUX DIVERS / BILLARDTISCH, DECKENLEUCHTE, VERSCHIEDENE MATERIALIEN / BILLIARD TABLE, CEILING LAMP, MIXED MATERIAL200 x 400 x 180 CMCOURTESY L’ ARTISTE / DER KÜNSTLER / THE ARTIST ; GALERIE ALINE VIDAL, PARISPARK #1, #2, #3, #4, 2006PHOTOGRAPHIES COULEUR SOUS DIASEC / FARBFOTOGRAFIEN AUF DIASEC / COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS ON DIASEC60 x 80 CM (ÉDITION DE 5 / AUFLAGE VON 5 / EDITION OF 5)COURTESY L’ ARTISTE / DER KÜNSTLER / THE ARTIST ; GALERIE ALINE VIDAL, PARIS.............. Stéphane Thidet’s installation is a dimly lit room with deep-red walls and carpet, reminiscent of a chic game room. But one thing disturbs this plush atmos-phere of a back room where men used to relax around a billiard table for a few games while sipping brandy and smok-ing cigars: in the middle of the table rises a mountain landscape that makes any game of billiards impossible.As though attracted by the light, these handsome peaks rise upward, creat-ing a dream-world on the green baize plateau, transporting us far from a closed, back room to the green slopes and wide-open nature of summer in the mountains. Behind these walls, the room and table seem to have been forgotten; passing time has allowed mountains to grow in the middle of a table that henceforth appears to be a mysterious, fantastic object. The subtitle of Thidet’s installation is all the more evocative for stimulating the imagination and offering a range of possibilities: Je veux dire qu’il pourrait très bien, théoriquement, exister au milieu de cette table […] (I mean that, theoretically, there may well exist in the middle of this table….) Given a grow-ing desire to escape to these bucolic summits, the game originally played on this table fades into oblivion.Sometimes the modi?cation of a single element is enough to alter our percep-tion of an overall scene. In the case of Stéphane Thidet’s series of photo-graphs titled Park, pictures supposed to show fun and entertainment are transformed into grim, sad images. A merry-go-round without lighting or ringed by thick white smoke, plunges the entire scene into troubling somb-erness. Similarly, a photograph of fair stands with shuttered fronts and deserted lanes gives the impression of a ghost town, abandoned and vulner-able to passing time—only overhead banners provide a reminder of the fun. In contrast to the festive atmosphere of amusement parks and fun fairs where music, laughter, and shouts of glee ring out against the bright, lively lights, Thidet’s silent, shady scenes inspire anxiety and unease. We are a long way from pictures of childhood memories in which public entertainments rhymed with fun and games.
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