J'ai pleuré devant la fin d'un manga
- Chapitre 2
Julien Ceccaldi
Tianzhuo Chen
Natacha Donzé
Ram Han
Youri Johnson
Rachel Maclean
Ad Minoliti
Le Château
- Centre d'Art Contemporain et du Patrimoine d'Aubenas
16.11.2024 - 30.03.2025
Opening: 15.11.2024
exhibition curated by CRO - Félicien Grand d'Esnon
& Alexis Loisel-Montambaux.
With the support of Fluxus Art Projects
and:
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, Aubenas, 2024. "Nans de Pomurolt" / avatar design / texts: CRO. Movement & voice of the avatar: Ariane Kiks & Alexandre Teiller. Graphic & font design: Zoo. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
"Nans de Pomurolt" / avatar design / texts: CRO. Movement & voice of the avatar: Ariane Kiks & Alexandre Teiller
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, Aubenas, 2024: Tianzhuo Chen, "19:53", 2015. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, Aubenas, 2024. Works by Ad Minoliti; Natacha Donzé, co-produced by Le Château. Courtesy of the artists.
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, 2024: Rachel Maclean, "Don’t Buy Mi", 2022. With the support of Fluxus Art Projects. Courtesy of the artist & Jupiter Artland. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, 2024: Ram Han, "<Do Not Disturb : Director Wang’s Last Prayer>", 2024. Co-produced by Le Château. "Bowl 01" & "Bowl 02", 2023. Courtesy of the artist & Whistle. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, 2024: Youri Johnson, "L’enseignement du démon", 2024. Co-produced by Le Château. "Secret Book Altar", 2020-2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
Exhibition view, “I cried at the end of a manga”, Le Château, 2024. Works by Julien Ceccaldi. Courtesy of the artist, Jenny's, Gaga. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
Following a first chapter presented at the École municipale des beaux-arts / galerie Édouard Manet in Gennevilliers, and with works produced for the occasion, this new chapter reveals our complex relationship with the characters who populate our imaginations. The proliferation of avatars, fur and pixels, allows us today to communicate emotions that are more powerful than the limits imposed by our flesh bodies. From these relationships inscribed in popular culture, new collective rituals are born, blending past and present. “J'ai pleuré devant la fin d'un manga” celebrates these alter egos and their importance in our personal and communal construction.
Through its intimate notebook, its living rooms, bedroom and donjon, the home of a mysterious inhabitant is revealed as you visit. Each room becomes a portal to worlds populated by manga avatars, magical chimeras and folk-tale characters. Like an echo of the transition from childhood to adulthood, or from the cute to the strange, this wander invokes our capacity for empathy and perpetual transformation.
This immersive exhibition features some 40 works (installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, textiles, VR) by 7 contemporary artists from Argentina, Canada, China, South Korea, France, the UK and Switzerland.
Exhibition title: from the lyrics of Lundi, by Johan Papaconstantino.
Poster image: Julien Ceccaldi, Secret of Polichinelle, 2018 (détail). Peinture acrylique sur plexiglass et toile, 130×100 cm. Courtesy Jenny’s, New York et Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
Graphic design: Zoo