Description
Book SynopsisThe volume Nicolas Party L’Heure Mauve collects a vast visual epic in which Party plays a variety of roles, sometimes impersonating the artist, others the scenographer, the conservator, or the sculptor. His work, and the title of the show, are inspired by L’Heure Mauve, a piece created in 1921 by the Canadian painter Ozlas Leduc that highlights the different interpretations given to the relationship between man and nature throughout the history of art. The result is a constantly changing natural environment: it can be a place full of danger and catastrophe, a territory to be conquered, an expanse disseminated with ancient ruins, or even silences where there are no traces of human presence. Nature finally becomes the theatre for the Anthropocene, its connection with humanity by now inextricable, and the passing of time and the finiteness of existence make way for a feeling of melancholy.
Our artist interrogates the world’s image, and he does so by dialoguing very concretely with the spaces and the works belonging to the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The present volume reflects this personal evolution by employing a unique graphic framework and a packaging that is as precious as its contents.
Text in English and French.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS 18 NICOLAS PARTY : L’HEURE MAUVE UNE OEUVRE POUR TOUTES LES SAISONS STÉPHANE AQUIN 24 NICOLAS PARTY: L’HEURE MAUVE A WORK FOR ALL SEASONS STÉPHANE AQUIN 28 PEINTURES DE LEUR TEMPS : HISTOIRES DE L’ANTHROPOCÈNE BÉNÉDICTE RAMADE 38 PAINTINGS OF THEIR TIME: STORIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE BÉNÉDICTE RAMADE EN MUSIQUE / SET TO MUSIC PAR PIERRE LAPOINTE / BY PIERRE LAPOINTE 66 LE SERPENT QUI DANSE / THE DANCING SERPENT 67 LA DANSE DU CONQUISTADOR / DANCE OF THE CONQUISTADOR 82 L’HYMNE AU PRINTEMPS 83 L’HYMNE À L’AUTOMNE (POUR ROBIDOUX) / ODE TO AUTUMN (FOR ROBIDOUX) 98-99 SAG MIR WO DIE BLUMEN SING / OÙ VONT LES FLEURS / WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE 101 LES FLEURS D’UNE AUTRE DIMENSION / FLOWERS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION 116 L’HIVER / WINTERTIME 117 AUJOURD’HUI LA NEIGE REVIENT / TODAY IS BRUSHED IN SNOW AGAIN 136 NON JE N’AI RIEN OUBLIÉ / NO, I COULD NEVER FORGET 137 LE MÊME CAFÉ, LA MÊME RUE / SAME STREET, SAME CAFÉ 157 GNOSSIENNE NO 1 / GNOSSIENNE NO. 1 161 L’HEURE MAUVE 22 178 YOUKALI 179 PÉPIPHONIE / PEPIPHONY
