Symposium : Sculpter

In this context, bringing together the works of sixty artists since the 1980s, we wanted to invite artists and critics to address a few themes that run through the field of contemporary sculpture.

-- The studio - is it still essential, how is it being reinvented?
-- The links and connections between sculpture and decor, illusion and mimesis.
-- What gestures and (im)materials are used in contemporary sculpture?

Wednesday, 4 April 2018

-- The workshop without walls  
moderated by Catherine Elkar and John Cornu
9:45 a.m. Laurent Tixador, artist
10:15 a.m. Christian Alendete, exhibition curator
11:15 a.m. Richard Leydier, art critic
11:45 a.m. Nicolas Floc'h, artist

-- Changing scenery and other scenes
moderated by Odile Le Borgne
2:30 p.m. Hélène Bertin, artist, Camouflaged Sculptures
3:00 p.m. Thomas Golsenne, lecturer in the history of images, Ornament and Revolution. From William Morris to Lamarche Oviz.
3:45 p.m. Lise Lerichomme, lecturer in visual arts, artist, Voluptuous, Deceptive, Impeccable. Historical Overlays in the Work of Shanon Bool, Chiara Fumaï and Lucy McKenzie

Thursday, 5 April 2018

-- Mimetic truths or fatal illusions
Moderator: Christophe Viart
9:30 a.m. Virginie Yassef, artist, Anything that had feathers was a bird
10:00 a.m. Jean-Marc Huitorel, critic, exhibition curator, Towards a mimesis of distinction
10:45 a.m. Gilles Barbier, artist, Exchange with...
11:15 Corinne Charpentier, critic, exhibition curator,  Inner States

-- Gestures and (im)materials in sculpture
moderated by Sophie Kaplan and Nicolas Floc'h
2:30 p.m. Grégory Gicquel, artist
3:00 p.m. Ingrid Luquet-Gad, art critic
3:45 p.m. Dominique Blais, Breathing Life into Matter
4:15 p.m. Claire Kueny, art historian, Gold Leaf, Caresses and the Crackling Sounds of Yesteryear. Sculpting to Approach Time