PLAYTIME, the Rennes Biennale

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(poster for Alfred Palestra, 2014; Katarina Šević & Tehnica Schweiz)

Play Time, the 4th edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes, biennale d’art contemporain.

27.09. – 30.11.2014

“Play is a thing by itself. The play-concept as such is of a higher order than is seriousness. For seriousness seeks to exclude play, whereas play can very well include seriousness. […] Play may rise to heights of beauty and sublimity that leave seriousness far beneath.”
–Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens (1938)

Appropriating the title of Jacques Tati’s masterpiece, the fourth edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes – biennale d’art contemporain takes a Hulotesque stroll through the field of contemporary artistic practice. Exploring notions of work, play, idleness and the time we devote to each, PLAY TIME is structured around three international group shows that take place at La Halle de la Courrouze (a former military arsenal), at the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts and at the FRAC Bretagne. PLAY TIME approaches the exhibition simultaneously as a playground and a place of work, a space and time of possibility in which artists and audience can play together.

Artists
Michael Beutler, Cosima von Bonin, Nicolas Chardon, François Curlet,* Sam Curtis, Dewar & Gicquel, Jimmie Durham, Priscila Fernandes, Robert Filliou, Marianne Flotron, Fucking Good Art, Ane Hjort Guttu, Gaspar Libedinsky, Erik van Lieshout, Maider López, Erwan Mével, Gareth Moore, Oscar Murillo, Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães, Bruno Peinado, Hans Schabus, Katarina Šević & Tehnica Schweiz, Pilvi Takala, Jay Tan, Koki Tanaka, Thomas Tudoux

Associated exhibitions
The biennale also comprises six monographic exhibitions in contemporary art spaces across Rennes and the region of Brittany:

–Oscar Murillo at 40mcube (Rennes)
–Gareth Moore at La Criée centre d’art contemporain (Rennes)
–Fucking Good Art at Le Cabinet du livre d’artiste (Rennes)
–Priscila Fernandes at Phakt Centre Culturel Colombier (Rennes)
–Koki Tanaka at Passerelle (Brest)
–Ane Hjort Guttu at Le Quartier (Quimper)

Organization: Art Norac
Curator: Zoë Gray
Implementation: le troisième pôle

 

 

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