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May 1994
: birth of attitudes with an exhibition of Eric Hattan and
a retrospective of films by Gordon Matta-Clark. May 2001,
inauguration of the new premises of attitudes, a space for
contemporary arts, with Megahertz, conceived by Hugh Reip
as a collective exhibition, two concerts and an evening of
film projections. May 2002, eighth anniversary of attitudes
which offers a deliberately multidisciplinary programme with
a personal exhibition of a French artist, Le Gentil Garçon,
The Dream Machine by the FDE (Ferrero - Delacoste - Empeyta)
architects' studio, the complete collection of the journal
Parpaings, a visual communication designed by the BLVDR graphists
for a theatre season, as well as the launching of the first
Hoio shop, which imports products from Santa Lemusa Island.
Le
Gentil Garçon creates a poetic, playful and fascinating
universe by means of a clever technology invented for each
project. By making the best possible use of cheap materials
and tools available in Do It Yourself shops, he makes spectacular
sculptures which challenge our environment with a child's
questions and a grown-up's know-how. In the main space of
attitudes, six works, mostly new creations, will make up a
kind of mental "building site", by operating as a construction/deconstruction
process, whether by their meaning or by their physical presence.
Each work will represent something inaccessible, be it energy,
motion, time, or the very definition of an object. This is
the first personal exhibition of Le Gentil Garçon outside
France..
At the same time of his exhibition at attitudes, Le Gentil
Garçon present a new work - Pendant ce temps-là
nulle part - at the Musée
international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge.
Le Gentil
Garçon "Light Board..."
The architects'
studio FDE (Ferrero - Delacoste -
Empeyta) will invite visitors to enter their Dream
Machine, i.e. a "habitable box" made of wood, stainless steel
and polycarbonate, designed and assembled according to a modular
structure. This architectural object, both simple and playful,
offering various modifications, uses and possible interpretations,
will be installed in the courtyard.
FDE "Machine
à rêver"
Our faithful
readers of the Journal could not fail to notice the
enigmatic presence of Hoio.
That little firm, directed in Basle by Samuel Herzog, holds
the import monopoly for Switzerland of Santa Lemusa's products.
On this occasion our visitors will have a choice of Creole
delicacies from one of the most typical Caribbean islands..
Hoio
The BLVDR
graphic designers (Geneva) will present the array
of visual communication they created for one year for the
Saint-Gervais theatre in Geneva. Visitors will be able to
see the posters periodically displayed in the public space,
and to discover other projects discarded by the producer.
BLVDR
Echoing
our programme, we shall also present the whole - as of today
- of the 34 issues of the journal Parpaings
(France). We feel very close to that publication which joins
together serious research, crossover interests such as art,
architecture, landscape, a simple formula and a very attractive
price. On June 4, Christophe Le Gac, one of the two editors,
will give a lecture on the options of that three-year-old
publication.
This sixth
issue of our Journal introduces two new headings. One
will be handled by Jérémie Gindre (Geneva), who will for some
time give his interpretation of the photo-novel. The other
is conceived in a spirit of humorous reactions, well-founded
criticism, ironical remarks or original ideas. To present
this new double page, we propose the encounter of two giants
: on one hand the artists Peter
Fischli and David Weiss (Zurich) with ten recipes
to improve your work, and on the other Jean-Christoph
Ammann (Frankfurt), the art mediator, with twenty
recommendations addressed to the curators. Worth thinking
over..
Last,
but not least, after eight years of activity in the field
of contemporary creation, we launch an appeal to all persons
prepared to support us by joining the
Association of the attitudes' friends. For, as
recalled in the collective General Document (Geneva), all
goes well, all goes always well....
Jean-Paul
Felley & Olivier Kaeser
(traduction: Antoinette et Bernard Béguin)
The Le
Gentil Garçon exhibition is realised with the support
of the AFAA (Association
Française d'Action Artistique), the City
of Lyon and the ambassy of France in Switzerland.
For
the programme of the year 2002, attitudes - space for
contemporary arts received the support of the
Swiss Federal Office for Culture, the
Migros Cultural Percent as well as support from private
donors.
The
daily newspaper LE TEMPS
and ImagineR Software, the
alternative data processing are attitudes' partners.
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