stanley brouwn 06.06 19.08.

.2012 institut dart contemporain villeurbanne/rhne-alpes 11, rue docteur dolard 69100 villeurbanne france tel. : + 33 (0)4 78 03 47 00 www.i-ac.eu

stanley brouwn exhibition from 6 june to 19 august 2012 press trip : tuesday 5 june 2012 press visit : 11 am

curator of the exhibition: nathalie ergino, assisted by anne stenne stanley brouwn has been invited by the institut dart contemporain for a solo exhibition in which he will fill the entire exhibition space with new works. A historical figure in conceptual art, stanley brouwn is still extremely active today. his approach generates discreetly a way of being in the worldfrom ones own body to the universethat is necessary more than ever today. stanley brouwns work is hinged on measurement and movement: measuring a pace, a route, a body, relations between persons, and between persons and where they are. after arriving in Amsterdam in 1957, he collected sketch maps drawn by passers by to whom he asked directions and then stamped each one with this way brouwn (1960). in the early 1970s, stanley brouwn started recording all his travels on foot as accurately as possible, using a system consisting of his own units of measurement related to parts of his body (foot, pace, cubit, etc.). his work takes the form of figures and units of measurement drawn both from his own body and from past* or present civilisations. stanley brouwn records his travels methodically using a conception of work defined by his relation to the world and to life. he thus wants the perception of his work to be concrete and immediate. with the same idea of the experience through the work, stanley brouwn keeps away from the public scene. he does not attend the openings of his exhibitions and refuses all iconography and the publication of any personal catalogue. this choice is coherent with the nature of his works, which mean no more than what they showthat is to say the experience of the relation between the body and space and time. stanley brouwn has created a specific project for his exhibition at the institut dart contemporain. it underlines both the coherence of the direction that he has taken for several decades and gives him a new extension. he is designing work by room and divides the exhibition space into 14 areas, with reference to the number 7 that is found in various physical, mathematical, philosophical and spiritual symbolism. the artist has traced a route that enumerates the various forms that the inscription of measurements can take in his works: an aluminium rule and text on a trestle table, text on a wall, text on wood, adhesive on the floor, wooden structure, drawing on the wall...

stanley brouwn addresses this exhibition using reflection and experiment in the space at the institute and its more overall setting in a local and universal geographic setting. he starts with the length of his foot (26 cm) and proposes several possible directions concerning movement, related to the four cardinal points but also to the speed of light and that of sound. the artist is at the same level as the visitor and wishes to examine the link between man and a spatial order, to highlight an experience of reality, an indication of presence in the universe. stanley brouwns project for the institute is particularly meaningful at a time when nobody really knows where to go and where simple but rigorous tracing of questions of spatial position, route and orientation means performing a radical artistic act. the latter thus seems appropriate for wandering or even becoming lost, a measured manner of (re)discovering the ever-renewed paths of freedom. * like the invitation card for the exhibition, designed as follows: format of the card 5/12 x 7/24 foot. an old Alexandrian foot = 360 mm press contact fanny martin: f.martin@i-ac.eu + 33 (0)4 78 03 47 72/06 76 14 59 16

stanley brouwn station study day thursday 12 july 11 am to 6 pm auditorium at the institute booking required within the framework of stanley brouwns solo exhibition, the institut dart contemporain is organising a period of discussion and transmission to put his work in perspective today. a major influence for numerous contemporary artists, his approach that is both personal and universal is also a source of inspiration for exhibition curators and art theoreticians. the meeting consists of artistic, theoretical and scientific contributions, discussion, projections, documents, etc. stanley brouwn says i am not an artist, i am a person among millions of other persons who makes something that other persons call artworks. he considers that the visitors activate the works in line with a very contemporary approach (among both neurophysiologists and philosophers) to the individual in his relation with space: perception means action. stanley brouwn has invented a spatial geometry whose development is at its broadest here and that is moving towards a cosmic dimension, thereby joining the preoccupations and stations of the institutes laboratory space brain. at the suggestion of: nathalie ergino, director of the institute marianne lanavre, director of the centre international dart et du paysage, vassivire

guests leonor antunes: artist jason dodge: artist hlne guenin: exhibition curator, head of programming at centre pompidou-metz batrice josse: director of frac lorraine hans ulrich obrist: co-director, exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects at the serpentine gallery, london paul-herv parsy: administrator of chteau doiron jean-louis poitevin: doctor of philosophy, writer and art critic evariste richer: artist jolle tuerlinckx: artist ...

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