Full Description
The volume Nicolas Party | L'Heure Mauve collects a vast visual epic in which Party plays a variety of roles, sometimes impersonating the artist, others the scenographer, the conservator, or the sculptor. His work, and the title of the show, are inspired by L'Heure Mauve, a piece created in 1921 by the Canadian painter Ozlas Leduc that highlights the different interpretations given to the relationship between man and nature throughout the history of art. The result is a constantly changing natural environment: it can be a place full of danger and catastrophe, a territory to be conquered, an expanse disseminated with ancient ruins, or even silences where there are no traces of human presence. Nature finally becomes the theatre for the Anthropocene, its connection with humanity by now inextricable, and the passing of time and the finiteness of existence make way for a feeling of melancholy.
Our artist interrogates the world's image, and he does so by dialoguing very concretely with the spaces and the works belonging to the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The present volume reflects this personal evolution by employing a unique graphic framework and a packaging that is as precious as its contents.
Text in English and French.
Contents
CONTENTS
18
NICOLAS PARTY : L'HEURE MAUVE UNE OEUVRE POUR TOUTES LES SAISONS
STÉPHANE AQUIN
24
NICOLAS PARTY: L'HEURE MAUVE A WORK FOR ALL SEASONS
STÉPHANE AQUIN
28
PEINTURES DE LEUR TEMPS : HISTOIRES DE L'ANTHROPOCÈNE
BÉNÉDICTE RAMADE
38
PAINTINGS OF THEIR TIME: STORIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
BÉNÉDICTE RAMADE
EN MUSIQUE / SET TO MUSIC
PAR PIERRE LAPOINTE / BY PIERRE LAPOINTE
66
LE SERPENT QUI DANSE / THE DANCING SERPENT
67
LA DANSE DU CONQUISTADOR / DANCE OF THE CONQUISTADOR
82
L'HYMNE AU PRINTEMPS
83
L'HYMNE À L'AUTOMNE (POUR ROBIDOUX) / ODE TO AUTUMN (FOR ROBIDOUX)
98-99
SAG MIR WO DIE BLUMEN SING / OÙ VONT LES FLEURS / WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE
101
LES FLEURS D'UNE AUTRE DIMENSION / FLOWERS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION
116
L'HIVER / WINTERTIME
117
AUJOURD'HUI LA NEIGE REVIENT / TODAY IS BRUSHED IN SNOW AGAIN
136
NON JE N'AI RIEN OUBLIÉ / NO, I COULD NEVER FORGET
137
LE MÊME CAFÉ, LA MÊME RUE / SAME STREET, SAME CAFÉ
157
GNOSSIENNE NO 1 / GNOSSIENNE NO. 1
161
L'HEURE MAUVE 22
178
YOUKALI
179
PÉPIPHONIE / PEPIPHONY
