ART NUE

thursday night, pNeuMatiKos  performed at the gallery. what was experienced goes so far beyond words that it is no obvious task to describe. the internally liberating effect of their performance came from the direct, pure, intense and totally instinctive and natural way they performed. it felt to me like this was art stripped of all artifice, art concentrated into a pure energy coming from breath (which is life force), and the body's movements. this was ART NUE (which i like as a term because it contains the same letters as NATURE ). i love the idea that they performed naked art - the pure essence of how the body's mind expresses itself....breath, body, sound energy

luna montenegro, martin bakero and adrian fisher were each emanating strange beautiful animal raptures in the sounds and movements their bodies made which were enhanced and in close relation to dan charles dahan's sound poetry interventions. they were not choosing with their minds what to do, how to move, what sounds to make, the energy circuitry in their bodies was let loose and allowed to manfiest and express itself in whatever way it wished. this was primal grace. there was a rhythmic, ritualistic, primitive, sacred, wild, unleashing of breath, sound, and body. the performance took us all into a new unknown, it was a place that felt pure and free.

BAL MUSETTE samedi 13 juin à 21h30 au Laboratoire des Suppositions

LE SAMEDI 13 JUIN À 21H30 AU LABORATOIRE DES SUPPOSITIONS

LA BARONNE SE RAPPELLE LES BALS…

MARLOUS ET GIGOLETTES…

Quelques années ont passé depuis que la musique a envoûté le plancher
parisien… Le bal est devenu le lieu de toutes les intrigues et de tous
les règlements de comptes des stratèges du trottoir...

Imaginez un peu le tableau : gros durs tatoués, gigolos, petites
frappes… S’ils sévissent en séducteurs au dancing, c’est pour mieux
attirer leurs gagneuses en maison. Leurs proies ? Danseuses,
gouailleuses, marchandes de fleurs ou de poissons, amoureuses, filles
perdues, chanteuses des rues...




LE BAL DES VERTUS

Certains soirs, lorsque les derniers clients ont déserté les boutiques
et que l’obscurité règne à nouveau sur le quartier, on croit entendre,
venant d’on ne sait où, la voix plaintive d’un vieil accordéon… Là,
dans le secret d’un passage étroit, à deux pas de cette rue des Vertus
autour de laquelle fleurissaient jadis les plus fameux bals musette de
Paris, un accordéoniste trop sentimental chante ses rêves d’amour et
sa passion déçue à une indifférente qui s’est jetée à corps perdu dans
le tourbillon fatal de la danse et du plaisir. Et de tangos passionnés
en valses musette hypnotiques, le mélodrame immémorial vous saisit et
vous entraîne jusqu’au bout de la nuit.


 avec

Louisa Valdor (chant)
Philippe Corbin (accordéon et chant)
Jean Carrive (violon)
Vincent Laîné (guitare)

Mathieu Mitéran (contrebasse)

Balapaname-infos
balapaname@yahoo.fr
www.myspace.com/la_baronne
06 64 74 82 48

Le Laboratoire des Suppositions
Galerie Deborah Zafman
3-5 passage des gravilliers
75003 paris

RECITAL DE PIANO DE OLIVIER MAZAL 14 JUIN

Le dimanche 14 Juin à 18h le laboratoire des suppositions accueillera OLIVIER MAZAL pour un récital de piano..voilà le programme:

Bach (1685-1750): Prélude et fugue en fa majeur BWV 856 1er Cahier du Clavier bien tempéré.

Beethoven (1770-1827): Grande Sonate n°4 op. 7 en mi bémol majeur Allegro molto e con brio. Largo con gran espressione. Allegro. Rondo Poco Allegretto e grazioso

Chopin(1810-1849): Scherzo n°3 en do# mineur op. 39.

Debussy (1862-1918): Étude pour les arpèges composés.

Fauré (1845-1924): Nocturne n°2 en si majeur op. 33 n°2, n°7 en do# mineur op 74, n°13 en si mineur op. 119.

a most enchanted evening

last saturday night was a most enchanted evening. it began with a piano concert given by the lovely eunice chen who dazzled us all with her interpretations of beethoven, chopin, schumann and liszt. we were especially privileged to have her friend, guest star sopranist fabrice di falco, join her with his divine voice performing 'cinco canciones negras' by xavier montsalvaltge. 

after the concert, dr. sketchy's anti-art school held its first drawing class at the laboratoire des suppositions (the first of hopefully many to come). the models, isadora gamberetti, sucre d'orge and lada redstar were exquisitely dressed, (one can't help but fall in love with isadora). the atmosphere was dreamy and we all spent a magical evening together, cozy and content with a musical 'after' into the wee hours of the morning.

pommes libertines - richard conte

last thursday evening the gallery celebrated the opening of its first-ever photography exhibition. after richard conte described his collaborative process working together with the gardners of versailles at the park balbi and showed me the performance that preceded the photographs (videos of both are shown at the gallery), i had to admit that those juicy erotic apples were far too irresistable! a wonderful little book "les pommes libertines" accompanying the project with images of the apples and texts by emmanuel pierrat is also available (editor: bernard pascuito).

besides the obvious cider and apple juice, arletty abadi concocted a fresh apple, ginger and cucumber juice and prepared apple chips with cinammon salt for dipping into special apple-based wonders.

what's more, wallpapering the gallery had always been a secret fantasy of mine and when richard suggested we wallpaper the exhibition space to better bring out the 'pommes libertines' with their pristine white backgrounds, i was enthused to say the least! the exhibition will be up until mid-july so i hope to see you all there.

programmation LABORATOIRE DES SUPPOSITIONS juin

Voila une liste des soirées à mettre dans vos agendas car il y a beaucoup de vie actuellement au laboratoire des suppositions:


samedi 6 juin 19h : Dr.Sketchy's Anti-Art School, Paris & classical piano concert 10/15€ http://www.myspace.com/drsketchysaparis

jeudi 11 juin 19h - 22h: performance de pNeuMatikos

samedi 13 juin 21h30 - minuit: Bal Musette 5 € 

dimanche 14 juin 18h: Recital, pianiste Olivier Mazal 5 €

mercredi 17 juin 20h: ACBN (anti-cosmétique body noise) Yukiko Murata (free dance, voix) - Mebae (bruits ) live sound/dance.

samedi 20 juin 20h: Mio Chibo, piano performance 5€

beep! & timosaurus

we were so privileged to have beep! and timosaurus play last friday night. they are the sweetest young guys from oakland, california and unbelievably talented musicians. it was an intimate crowd, the lights dimmed, some of us seated on the floor with a glass of wine.  how smoothly their music lulled us into an internal journey through the intelligent and interesting sounds of improvisational experimental jazz. michael coleman, composer and pianist of beep! impressed even the most critical jazz aficionados.

and of course, i, who love nothing more than to imagine the music nourishing the art on the walls, took special delight in watching the paintings listen to the concert together with me as we took that inner journey together into dimensions of experience that sometimes reach so deep that they can only be expressed by tears instead of words.