The Book by Pierre Coulibeuf

Edited and conceived by
Pierre Coulibeuf

Texts (French and German): essays by Pierre Coulibeuf and other authors Pages: 160 (25 x14 cm) Illustrations: 38 in color Box: 28 x 24,5 cm Published: 2006 ISBN: 3-03720-006-5

The Book by Pierre Coulibeuf is a book with no beginning and no end. It is an introduction to the artistic universe of Pierre Coulibeuf, describing his photographic and cinematographic work. The shape of the book clearly illustrates the concepts of infinity and eternal rehearsal, which are central in the work of Coulibeuf, in his films as well as in his artistic installations (photos and video).
The book will be presented on the 25th March 2006 on the occasion of Pierre Coulibeuf exhibition at PLAY-gallery fo still and motion pictures in Berlin www.pushthebuttonplay.com

Published by Fine Arts Unternehmen books
and Ambassade de France en République Fédérale dAllemagne, Bureau du Cinéma, Bureau des Arts Plastiques, AFAA
Concept: Laurence Lochu-Louineau, Vincent Julien Piot, Pierre Coulibeuf // Coordination: Anne-Sophie Lepicard // Texts: Pierre Coulibeuf, Stéphane Delanoë, Bruno Di Marino, Robert Fleck, Birgit Kohler, Laurence Lochu-Louineau, Franco Marinotti, Stephan Urbaschek // Translators: Laurin Dietrich, Anne-Pascale Frohn, Alexandra Krause, Anne-Sophie Lepicard, Vincent Julien Piot, Ina Schott, Jörg Taszman, Anne Vassevière // Photos: Pierre Coulibeuf // Design: vjp [cosyma.net] M// Printed by: Teichmann, Halle a. d. S., Box by Maren Thomsen Produkte, Berlin
Information: book@artisart.com
www.fineartsunternehmen.com About Pierre Coulibeuf:
Born in Elbeuf (France) in 1949, Pierre Coulibeuf lives today in Paris where he works as film-maker and artist. He was awarded a doctorate in modern literature with a dissertation on P. Klossowski and L. von Sacher Masoch.

Pierre Coulibeuf has achieved a cinematographic body of works that owns its originality to its close relation to other artistic disciplines (i.e. visual arts, choreography, literature). Crossing cinematographic genres (fiction, documentary, experimental) as well as always presenting the image with different supports (35mm projection, installation, photography) has given his simulacrum-movies the chance of inventing a place or a language closely related to other forms of art, criticising the more established ones and questioning the ways reality has always been presented.

After 1987 Pierre Coulibeuf shot several short and long length films based on the worlds of Pierre Klossowski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramovic, Michel Butor, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Jan Fabre, Meg Stuart.

His films have been long exhibited as installation (films, photos and videos) in contemporary art locations. Pierre Coulibeuf was invited in 2005 at the International Pavilion by the 5th International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. A 35mm retrospective and installations will be touring Germany starting from February 2006 (Kino Abaton and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kino Arsenal and PLAY_gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin; Leipzig Kino and Galerie in der Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst, Leipzig; Filmmuseum and Galerie Traversée, Munich; Black Box and Institut français Düsseldorf).