Art, Fleur et Nature / You can have it All
Corentin Canesson and Damien Le Dévédec
Poster created by Corentin Canesson for the event You can Have it All which closes the project Art, Feur and Nature, June 2021.
Corentin Canesson in the window of the formal flower shop Art, Feur and Nature, transformed into a temporary workshop, mid-June 2021.
Corentin Canesson in the window of the formal flower shop Art, Feur and Nature, transformed into a temporary workshop, mid-June 2021.
Corentin Canesson in the window of the formal flower shop Art, Feur and Nature, transformed into a temporary workshop, mid-June 2021.
Shooting of the video September by TNHCH directed by Hilary Galbreaith in the former flower shop Art, Feur and Nature.
Artists: Corentin Canesson and Damien Le Dévédec, Flora Bouteille, Hilary Galbreaith, Tim Karbon, Cassandre Langlois, Marine Leleu, Jenny Stampa, Benjamin Swaim, Rose Vidal, Victor Villafagne, Xiao Wang, TNHCH
In collaboration with the city of Ivry and with the sponsorship of SODES, the lessor of a commercial space in the Jeanne Hachette mall, Crédac is setting up a temporary artist residency in a former florist’s store in the heart of downtown Ivry.
This action, entitled Art, Fleur et Nature by guest artist Corentin Canesson, is also a new form of access to contemporary creation for the public and passers-by who do not necessarily make the trip to Crédac and who can see the artist in action in his daily life.
This support to a young artist, who has exhibited at Crédac in 2017 (Retrospective My Eye), allows a follow-up and development of his work with access to a room acting as a studio and the possibility to experiment with new artistic devices in collaboration with other artists.
On this occasion, Corentin Canesson wished to invite the painter Damien Le Dévédec to intervene at his side on a daily basis for the realization of drawings and paintings with four hands.
This regular production transforms the studio space into a moving exhibition space. Their plastic practice is echoed by their involvement in the music group The Night He Came Home (TNHCH), for which Corentin Canesson invited the young American artist Hilary Galbreaith to make a video as a music clip. The room and the window occupied by the artists become, for the duration of the shooting, a performance hall open to a shopping mall.
The originality of the space - place of production and display - with the installation of a stage facing the shop window allows to experiment new devices for each of the artists.
Following their meeting during the exhibition La vie des tables at Crédac, Corentin Canesson and the artist Flora Bouteille (in temporary residence at Crédac) imagined a performance time for the passerbys in front of the window. Corentin Canesson produced paintings as artistic documentation of this performance.
The whole of the productions carried out during the month of June is presented to the public invited to penetrate in this room on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 June. The exchange and the meeting between the artists and the public ends this period of creation opened on the city.
Curator : Maëla Bescond.
With the collaboration of Mathieu Pitkevicht, Sébastien Martins, Ana Mendoza Aldana
Video(s)
During You can Have It All, passers-by in the Jeanne Hachette shopping center in Ivry-sur-Seine leave with works by Corentin Canesson and Damien Le Dévédec, June 2021. Filmed and edited by Mathieu Pitkevicht.
The video September of the group TNHCH directed by Hilary Galbreaith in the former flower shop Art, Feur and Nature, mid-june 2021.
Artists biography
Corentin Canesson was born in 1988 in Brest and lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the European Academy of Art in Brittany – the Rennes campus in 2011. His work was recently featured at the Passerelle Contemporary Art Center in Brest, the Jean Brolly Gallery in Paris, CNEAI in Chatou, and the Palette Terre Gallery in Paris. Along with his art activities, he codirected the STANDARDS exhibition space in Rennes from 2008 to 2014, and has continued this experience at DOC, an art residency and exhibition space in Paris.
Damien Le Dévédec was born in 1987 in Pontivy, and works frequently in Paris. He gratuated from the European Academy of Art in Brittany – the Rennes campus in 2011. He works essentially in the context of various and unspecified collaborations. Along with his art activities, he codirected the STANDARDS exhibition space in Rennes from 2008 to 2014, and has continued this experience at DOC, an art residency and exhibition space in Paris, from 2015 to 2018.
