Réactivation
Ouest-Lumière
09.03.18 - 05.05.18
immanence
http://www.art-immanence.org
Artist : Yann Toma.
Abstract :
For the first time, Yann Toma exposes a large number of documents, objects and traces from the first period of his approach that began in the 90s. In 1991, Yann Toma occupied an EDF substation in
Puteaux and discovered the old Ouest-Lumière electricity
powerplant that produced hundreds of thousands of volts and provided public distribution of electricity to municipalities in west of Paris til 1903 to 1946. The old building of Ouest-Lumière's factory has beengradually
demolished. Yann Toma was the witness of this long destruction.
He saved his archives, some objects: bulbs, counters or administrative records of workers, in the perspective of "staging a new reality of the object became waste".Inspired
by Michel Journiac, he officially bought the name and the brand at the INPI, thus founding his own artist-company, and reactivated the place, the archives and the former electricity company
Ouest-Lumière by reassigning it to a new function, that of producing and distributing
Artistic Energy (AE).
Group Exhibition at La Poste Headquarters
Curated by Alice Audouin and Vanessa Vancustem
From 13 January to 23 January 2015 - Paris
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Exposition personnelle à la BOUROUINA GALLERY
Du 31 octobre au 29 novembre 2014 - Bourouina Gallery Berlin (Allemagne)
La Grande Veilleuse, œuvre-lumière pérenne en collaboration avec Philippe Prost
À partir du 11 novembre 2014 - Ablain Saint-Nazaire (France)
Nouvelle série de portraits réalisée lors de sa mission d'observation au siège des Nations-Unies. Œuvres sur papier, fusain et aquarelle.
Participation de Yann Toma à la foire d'art numérique
Du 20 au 26 octobre 2014 - Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris
France 24 / 30.09.2014 - Par Sophie Pilgrim
LE MONDE CULTURE ET IDEES (French newspaper) | 04.09.2014 by Roxana Azimi