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Evolutions Elastiques

Johann Le Guillerm

France

Installation
Ages 6 and up

Free

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Presentation

In the framework of its partnership with the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque that began in 2015, the MuCEM has invited a major contemporary artist to revisit his varied and original collection. With a must-see installation at the Fort Saint-Jean, Johann Le Guillerm enters into dialogue with the diverse objects from the MuCEM collection that document past European and Mediterranean civilizations. Starting from a painting entitled Évolutions Élastiques, Johann Le Guillerm plays with the unusual threads that link the objects that are kept at the museum. These links are created through a pile-up of shapes, associations, and connections. In this game of mental billiards, a new whimsical, personal and unexpected map comes about. It is a delight.

Johann Le Guillerm’s Installations will also be on display at the Friche la Belle de Mai from January 21 to February 19; his show Secret (Temps 2) will be on at the Tent Village from January 26 to February 18.

Distribution

Concept: Johann Le Guillerm

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/evolutions-elastiques-65?onglet=distribution

Biography

Johann Le Guillerm is a member of CNAC's first graduating class. He has worked with Archaos, has participated in the creation of the Volière Dromesko and co-founded the Cirque O. In 1994, he created his own company, Cirque Ici, and had a first solo show, Où ça?, which ran for 15 years. He won the Grand Prix National du Cirque in 1996 and the Prix des Arts du Cirque SACD in 2005.

In 2002, he embarked on Attraction, a research project that looks into balance, form, points of view, movement, and impermanence. Attraction smashes traditional circus disciplines to pieces. It revolves around a ring show (Secret), installations (La Motte, Imperceptibles, Sculptures en Mouvement, Les Architextures), self-supported sculptures (Imaginographes), and a performed conference (Le Pas Grand Chose, created in 2017).

In 2013, he created La Déferlante for the Espace Chapiteau at La Villette in Paris, a long-term piece that joins the monumental work of Attraction. Since 2011, Johann Le Guillerm has received the support of the City of Paris, who also welcomed him as a resident artist at the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale.

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/evolutions-elastiques-65?onglet=bio