ELISABETH BALLET
SEPT PIÈCES FACILES [SEVEN EASY PIECES]
Exhibition from February 8 to April 22 2007
Curator: Sophie Legrandjacques
Private View: Wednesday February 7 2007, at 7pm.
Hours: Daily (except Monday) 2PM to 7PM, Sunday 3PM to 6PM
Conversation with ELISABETH BALLET and ELISABETH LEBOVICI,
art critic, former journalist for Libération. Free
Sunday March 11 at 3pm.
A View of the Exhibition by CATHERINE MILLET,
art critic, writer, editor of Art Press magazine. Free
Sunday April 1 at 3pm.
Continuing its exploration of different contemporary practices in sculpture, Le Grand Café welcomes Elisabeth Ballet from 8 February to 22 April. Recognised as an important artist of her generation, she has been invited by the art centre for a new large-scale solo project.
Look up; see into the distance. At Le Grand Café, Elisabeth Ballet’s proposals effectively surpass the architecture; the site becomes a material upon which sculpture works. The seven pieces making up the exhibition function as an ensemble of combinations, of language games, within which the ideas of splitting and repetition are operating. They evoke effort, making reference to the world of work (manual, industrial, intellectual), but also its counterpart, idleness and reverie, as metaphors of the creative process.
LE GRAND CAFÉ, Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire (F)
Place des Quatre Zhorloges
44 600 Saint-Nazaire – FRANCE
T 33 (0)2 40 22 37 66 – F 33 (0)2 40 22 43 86
grand_cafe@mairie-saintnazaire.fr
www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr
