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This Belgian visual artist, author and storyteller, has been investing in the field of live arts since 2007 with musical performances and performances giving pride of place to his plastic objects and creations.

In this new exhibition, the first in a place of contemporary art for over ten years, the artist invites us to appreciate the air we breathe in an exhibition space. Entitled The Zero Degree of Images, it brings together 16 showcases of objects, 2 videos, a series of drawings and an animated film, enriched by two conference-shows, plunging the viewer into a singular fictional universe overflowing with imagination.

The Degree zero of images and the conference-show Le Zéro absolu were selected by the patronage commission of the National Foundation of Graphic and Plastic Arts of autumn 2015, which gave them their support. The exhibition is produced in partnership with La Diagonale Paris-Saclay and CORRIDOR.

Patrick Corillon crosses borders and has been building for thirty years a work linked to speech, nourished by texts, photographs, books, objects, animated images, shows, developing a close relationship between literary fictions and plastic installations. Presenting himself as a memory smuggler, he has at heart to question the spirit of the place, to glean the stories preciously and to evoke them by discreet installations.

In this new exhibition, Patrick Corillon poses this very surprising question: what is the load of the air we breathe in an exhibition space? Even if the phenomenon is invisible to the naked eye, some particularly radiant pictures are surrounded by a cloud of tiny colored dust. Painting lovers, in their close proximity to these paintings, are generally covered with them. Sometimes they spread them around them, making big, animated gestures in front of their friends to describe the masterpiece they just saw.

Through a journey of traces, written testimonies, exhibits from the exhibition site itself, the artist strives to bring out all the imagination that we carry in us during the visit of a place of art. Color particles suspended in space from the paintings that inhabited the life of the nails on which they were suspended; from the marvelous history of the picture rails still carrying vibrations to the poetics of the cartels, all of the objects gathered in the 16 windows of the exhibition suggest an absence which favors the emergence of mental images.

In the Rue Traversante of the art center, Patrick Corillon offers a series of 32 drawings by Oskar Serti (1881-1959), a fanciful character whom he has constructed through texts over the past twenty years and who has thus could imagine over the exhibitions, through bits of biography. His drawings are thus put in parallel with those made by his partner Catherine de Selis, during their long telephone discussions, and whose connection translates strange coincidences of forms.

In La Boîte de la Rue Traversante, and in parallel with this journey, an animated film tells the life of a fish out of its bowl in search of the colors it has lost. His crossing of an art place will gradually teach him about himself and make him regain his colors.

Conferences Shows

The artist prolongs the visual experience with two conference-shows: The Floating Images on Tuesday January 24 at 20:30 p.m. and Le Zéro absolu on Tuesday March 7 at 20:30 p.m., followed by Regards Croisés at 21:30 p.m. with physicist Julien Bobroff who will speak about popularization of science and new ways of presenting science to the general public. During his Lives in himself, Patrick Corillon draws on his own childhood and mixes autobiographical elements with fiction. If each story explores a specific theme, all speak of a quest for identity. It is about travel - real and interior -, meetings, wandering from one city to another. These (im) mobile adventures establish a dialogue between individual history and the world. Lives in itself is made up of six shows accompanied by six artist books which each develop in their own way a singular, intimate and sensitive universe, erudite and unusual, combining learned culture and popular culture, conceptual art and childlike plastic expression.

Patrick Corillon takes the viewer on an odyssey rich in plastic discoveries and philosophical questions. It makes us rediscover the magic of a simple narrative and the pleasure of manipulating objects, thus renewing in a resolutely contemporary way with forms borrowed from various traditions of oral narration (benshi, kamishibai, cantastories).

Pratical information

Free admission

• Tuesday - Friday: 13 p.m. - 18:30 p.m.
• Saturday: 11 a.m. - 16 p.m.

The art center is also open on show evenings, one hour before the performances.

Access / parking:

• Tram T6, L'Onde stop.
• A86 towards Versailles, exit Vélizy center.
• Parking Saint-Exupéry located next to the Onde, free for 3 hours, levels 4 and 5.
• Autolib 'station on avenue Robert Wagner in front of the sports center, and avenue du Capitaine Tarron in front of the Hôtel de Ville.

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