De Renava Biennale is now closed, we thank you very much for your visits and see you soon for De Renava OFF

De Renava Biennale is now closed, we thank you very much for your visits and see you soon for De Renava OFF

De Renava Biennale is now closed, we thank you very much for your visits and see you soon for De Renava OFF

La Notte

De Renava OFF #1
29 June - 29 September2023

For this exceptional collaboration, De Renava OFF dived into the mediterranean DNA of the Centre Pompidou's collections, to extract 13 artworks by artists from the "inland sea" or inspired by this artistic landscape. La Notte - named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s famous film – is, based on its model, a walk through a Mediterranean night, filled with encounters and offering a nebulous, diffracted, oneiric and non-exhaustive vision of a certain Mediterranean imaginary. The itinerary proposes to explore its representative motifs, which extend beyond this geographical space, transcribing a Mediterranean essence with a universal radiance. Detaching from any cliché, La Notte offers a free and surprising depiction of this imaginary. The night is here indeed synonymous with freedom. By its inspiring dark light, it is a space where the borders between reality and dream are blurred, a place of reunion between the sacred and the profane, a territory where the bodies wander, melt, fade away, at times leaving only the ghostly traces of their passage. The exhibition seeks to embody a Mediterranean perfume rather than a tangible, chronological or aesthetic vision. As eternal as it is ephemeral - from classical mythology to popular codes - as plural as it is singular - like the countless cultures coming together under the dome of the Mediterranean identity - it is a perfume that often escapes from us, but from which we cannot escape.

Artists
  • Luc Zangrie
  • Marwan Rechmaoui
  • Cerith Wyn Evans
  • Nil Yalter
  • Kenneth Anger
  • Mohamed Bourouissa
  • Neïl Beloufa
  • Zoulikha Bouabdellah
  • Mona Hatoum
  • Leandro Erlich
  • Ange Leccia
  • Jean Genet
  • Kader Attia
  • Pipilotti Rist

For this exceptional collaboration, De Renava OFF dived into the mediterranean DNA of the Centre Pompidou's collections, to extract 13 artworks by artists from the "inland sea" or inspired by this artistic landscape. La Notte - named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s famous film – is, based on its model, a walk through a Mediterranean night, filled with encounters and offering a nebulous, diffracted, oneiric and non-exhaustive vision of a certain Mediterranean imaginary. The itinerary proposes to explore its representative motifs, which extend beyond this geographical space, transcribing a Mediterranean essence with a universal radiance. Detaching from any cliché, La Notte offers a free and surprising depiction of this imaginary. The night is here indeed synonymous with freedom. By its inspiring dark light, it is a space where the borders between reality and dream are blurred, a place of reunion between the sacred and the profane, a territory where the bodies wander, melt, fade away, at times leaving only the ghostly traces of their passage. The exhibition seeks to embody a Mediterranean perfume rather than a tangible, chronological or aesthetic vision. As eternal as it is ephemeral - from classical mythology to popular codes - as plural as it is singular - like the countless cultures coming together under the dome of the Mediterranean identity - it is a perfume that often escapes from us, but from which we cannot escape.

Information

Launch of De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, 2023

Marwan Rechmaoui, Veni Vidi Vici, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Neïl Beloufa, Tonight and the People, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Pipilotti Rist, À La Belle Etoile, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Leandro Erlich, The View, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Cerith Wyn Evans, Pasolini Ostia Remix, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Kader Attia, Ghost, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Kader Attia, Ghost, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Kenneth Anger, Lucifer Rising, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Jean Genet, Un Chant d'Amour, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Pipilotti Rist, A La Belle Etoile, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Félicia Sisco, 2023

Mohamed Bourouissa, Shadows, De Renava OFF_Centre Pompidou, exhibition view by Florent Lopez, 2023

Exhibitedworks

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    Luc Zangrie

    Perséphone

    16 mm black and white film, 20 min, 1951, Centre Pompidou
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    Marwan Rechmaoui

    Veni Vidi Vici

    992 blocks of marble, gift of Robert Matta, 2013, Centre Pompidou
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    Cerith Wyn Evans

    Pasolini Ostia Remix

    Super 16 mm film, 15 min, colour, silent, 1998-2003, Centre Pompidou
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    Nil Yalter

    Circular Rituals

    Video, 1,08 mn, 1992, GALERIST
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    Kenneth Anger

    Lucifer Rising

    Super 16 mm film, 30 min, colour, sound, loan from the artist, 1973, Centre Pompidou
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    Mohamed Bourouissa

    Shadows

    Pigment inkjet print, 2017, Centre Pompidou
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    Neïl Beloufa

    Tonight and the People

    Video, colour, sound, 80 min, 2013, Centre Pompidou
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    Zoulikha Bouabdellah

    Dansons

    Digitised mini-dv video, colour, sound, 5 min, 2003, Centre Pompidou
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    Mona Hatoum

    Measures of Distance

    Digitised analogue video tape, colour, sound, 15,30 min, 1988, Centre Pompidou
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    Leandro Erlich

    The View

    Wooden structure, 13 monitors, 13 railings, 13 video tapes, colour, silent, 1997-2005, Centre Pompidou
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    Ange Leccia

    Fumées

    2 digital betacams, colour, silent, 1995, Centre Pompidou
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    Jean Genet

    Un Chant d’Amour

    Digitised 35 mm film, black and white, silent, 26 min, 1949-1950, Centre Pompidou
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    Kader Attia

    Ghost

    Compressed aluminium sheets, 2007, Centre Pompidou
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    Pipilotti Rist

    À la Belle Étoile

    Audiovisual installation, digital betacam, colour, sound, 2007, Centre Pompidou