Julien Creuzet will represent France at the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024. [See our previous post Julien Creuzet will represent France at the 60th Venice Biennale.] Eva Nguyen Binh, director of the French Institute [Institut Français], which supports the production of the event in Venice said, “With him, we are choosing to decenter and open up to another French cartography.” After a childhood in Martinique, and art studies in Caen, Lyon, and Fresnoy, Creuzet settled in Paris, where he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
An exhibition in Grenoble, curated by Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho, is already offering glimpses of his captivating work at Le Magasin, Centre national d’art contemporain (CNAC). Here are excerpts from the article “New work from the artist Julien Creuzet six months before the Biennale di Venezia 2024.”
As a prelude to the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia (20 April-24 November 2024), where Julien Creuzet will be representing France, co-curators Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho are delighted to present a solo exhibition by the artist at Le Magasin, Centre national d’art contemporain (CNAC) in Grenoble, from 17 November 2023 to 26 May 2024. Also this month, Julien Creuzet’s performance piece Algorithm Ocean true blood moves [was] presented at the Performa Biennial in New York on 10 and 11 November.
We focus on these two new projects by the artist, six months before the unveiling of his French Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia.
Solo exhibition at Le Magasin CNAC, from 17 November 2023 to 26 May 2024
Le Magasin CNAC will be highlighting Julien Creuzet’s career from an original angle, emphasising the constant presence of the video medium throughout his practice, while revealing the multiple dialogues and resonances that make up his artistic universe: sound, voice, music, movement, and the body. A substantial portion of the artist’s video work is brought together for the first time, exhibited alongside work by Phoebe Collings James, Christina Kimeze, Manuel Mathieu, Bruno Peinado and Chloé Quenum.
Oh téléphone, oracle noir (…) was born of a desire to broaden the conversation around Julien Creuzet and to emphasise the importance of relationships and dialogue in his work. The exhibition, whose title is taken from that of a 2015 video work by the artist, is the fruit of exchanges between Céline Kopp, director of Le Magasin CNAC, and Cindy Sissokho, curator at the Wellcome Collection in London, as part of their collaboration with Julien Creuzet as co-curators of his project for the French Pavilion.
At the start of the exhibition in the Galerie Expérimentale at Le Magasin CNAC there will also be a group show highlighting the work of three artists (Thomas Besset, Sofia Bonilla Otoya and Nina Jayasuriya) who recently graduated from Julien Creuzet’s Atelier at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, curated by Alexia Pierre, a curator and art critic based in Grenoble, where she is also assistant curator at Le Magasin CNAC. Affiliated exhibition: Ailleurs est ce rêve proche, murmures d’eaux confiantes (…).
For full article, see https://www.institutfrancais.com/en/magazine/close-up/new-work-from-the-artist-julien-creuzet-six-months-before-the-biennale-di-venezia
Read more on his work at https://flash—art.com/article/julien-creuzet/
[Shown above: Screenshot of Julien Creuzet’s Zumbi Zumbi, 2023. Animation video HD ©Julien Creuzet.]
Julien Creuzet will represent France at the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024. [See our previous post Julien Creuzet will represent France at the 60th Venice Biennale.] Eva Nguyen Binh, director of the French Institute [Institut Français], which supports the production of the event in Venice said, “With him, we are choosing to
