Tentatives de rapport avec la société, 1989-2004 |
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Tentatives
de rapport avec la société (Attempted contacts with society) Exhibition from 16th September to 6th November 2004 Private view : Wednesday 15th September from 6 pm Maisonneuve is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Alberto Sorbelli at the gallery. |
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Photographs,
drawings, working notes, official letters, administrative correspondance,
AFP wires, press articles, police cautions, court summons notifications,
notices of legal proceedings, invitation cards, various programs
: this vast selection of documents that explains the performance work
of Alberto Sorbelli came into being between 1990 and 1999. This original piece of work was first shown in 1997 at the Château Bionnay and is being presented in its definitive form at the Maisonneuve gallery. Over and above the traces of the actions of the artist or the events he orchestrated, the elements of which it is made up reveal the the issues at stake in an area of uncertainty, somewhere between art and reality, where the work is linked to places, systems and fields of authority. |
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From
his earliest works, Alberto Sorbelli raises questions about what art can
accomplish, what it can produce and what is expected of it. As a student
at the Paris Beaux-Arts school, he questioned the notion of artistic production
and its reception. He assumed the role of the secretary of Monsieur Alberto
Sorbelli, receiving individual members of the public with the aim of interesting
them in the work of an artist who did not yet exist and who had therefore
produced nothing. Having discovered his aptitude for specially tailored interviews, he radicalized his approach and appeared in galleries and museums dressed as a prostitute and distributing his visiting card to those willing to take it. Having disrupted the mechanism which generally governs the perception of art in an exhibition, the artist provoked violent reactions against him both on an individual and an institutional level, which led him to abandon the role of whore and stage his own attacks. While developing this trilogy (the secretary, the hooker and the victim of attacks), Alberto Sorbelli invented other models and fields of action that made art into a service and the artist an administrator of situations that would at first sight seem to have no relation to art, were they not shown in an art context. He organized and staged a symposium on prostitution, literally making work out of the intellectual stimulation that the school failed to provide. On several occasions he established a work team and the equipment necessary to produce a CD-Rom or internet site, assuming as much the role of editor as that of receptionist. Throughout his work, Alberto Sorbelli is engaged in an immaterial practice which does not just make comments about, or represent, the present, but which produces it. The artist has become a catalyst in situations where participation is not implicit but tangible. The viewer is an integral part of the work and it is his or her participation which determines it. The meaning of the work emanates solely from exchanges with the viewer. A new reading flows from each new observation : it could be said that the work is thus replayed to infinity. It acts as an event in real time and space, precisely the two coordinates which eliminate the white cube that by definition places the artwork in a supposedly neutral and timeless context. The piece Tentatives de rapport avec la société (Attempted contacts with society) will end by a judgment at the Paris Court on 29th October 2004, concerning a copyrights lawsuit for a photograph realized by Alberto Sorbelli at the Louvre Museum in 1997. |
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Photographies, dessins, notes de travail, courriers officiels, échanges administratifs, dépêche de lAFP, articles de presse, procès verbaux, notification dordonnance pénale, avis de poursuite judiciaire, cartons dinvitation, programmes divers : ce vaste ensemble de documents écrit de manière éclatée luvre performative quAlberto Sorbelli a développée entre 1990 et 1999. Cette pièce originale exposée pour la première fois en 1997 au Château de Bionnay est présentée sous sa forme définitive à la galerie Maisonneuve. Bien plus que les traces des actions de lartiste ou des évènements quil a orchestrés, les éléments qui la composent révèlent les enjeux dune pratique qui se joue dans une zone dincertitude entre lart et la réalité, où luvre est reliée à des lieux, des systèmes et des champs dautorité. Dès
ses premiers travaux, Alberto Sorbelli soulève la question de
ce que lart accomplit, ce quil peut réaliser et ce
que lon en attend. Encore étudiant à lEcole
des Beaux-Arts de Paris, sinterrogeant sur la notion de production
artistique et sa réception, il incarne le rôle du secrétaire
du secrétariat de Monsieur Alberto Sorbelli recevant le public
en entretien individuel dans lobjectif de lintéresser
au travail dun artiste qui nexiste pas encore et na
rien réalisé. |
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Alberto
Sorbelli, Rome 1964, lives and works in Paris. Graduated of the ENSBA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts) in Paris, Alberto Sorbelli has taken part to number of group exhibitions. In 1994 at the Musée dArt Moderne de la ville de Paris, his Club hiver de l'amour is censored. In 1995 he worked with Broadcasting Agency for the exhibition Fémininmasculin at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Just for Cynthia CD Rom). Then in 1998 he performed the Agressé (the victim of attacks) at the Guggenheim in New York and also at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. In 2003, he created Esthétique de la spéculation in the program "Pas vu pas pris " at the Hôtel de l'Industrie in Paris, also performed in 2004 at Ménagerie de Verre. He recently produced his second theater piece, Tragedia con intervallo, at the Laboratoires dAubervilliers. At the same time, Alberto Sorbelli has created his own production and performances. At the ENSBA: Secrétariat du secrétaire de Monsieur Sorbelli et Bureau d'accueil (1990); Symposium esthétique de la prostitution (1993); Monument à la gloire de 15h à 17h30 (1994). In 1997, Bob l'éclipse, Le pavé dans la mare, in Besançon; Au Bois dormant au Capc, musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux. Bob bing at the Caisse des dépôts et consignations de Paris. L'audition at galerie Public (1999). ça se voit que j'écoute, Festival Belluard Fribourg (2002). Since 2000, Alberto Sorbelli has been producing series of two-hands drawings, that he sometimes did blinded. These mental projections seem to be an extension of the imaginary of the artiste, made of insects, flowers, erotics or abstracts.. |
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Alberto
Sorbelli, né à Rome en
1964, vit et travaille à Paris. Diplômé de l'ENSBA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts) à Paris, Alberto Sorbelli participe à de nombreuses expositions collectives. En 1994 au MAM de la ville de Paris, son Club hiver de l'amour est censuré. En 1995 il intervient avec Broadcasting Agency pour Fémininmasculin au Centre Georges Pompidou (Just for Cynthia CD Rom). Puis en 1998 c'est l'Agressé au Musée Guggenheim de New York et, en 1999, à la 48e Biennale de Venise. En 2003, il crée Esthétique de la spéculation dans le cadre de "Pas vu pas pris " à l'Hôtel de l'Industrie à Paris, repris en 2004 à la Ménagerie de Verre. Il a récemment présenté sa deuxième pièce de théâtre, Tragedia con intervallo, aux Laboratoires dAubervilliers. Parallèlement il présente ses propres formes et performances. A l'ENSBA notamment, Secrétariat du secrétaire de Monsieur Sorbelli et Bureau d'accueil (1990); Symposium esthétique de la prostitution (1993); Monument à la gloire de 15h à 17h30 (1994). En 1997, Bob l'éclipse, Le pavé dans la mare, Besançon; Au Bois dormant au Capc, musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux. Bob bing à la Caisse des dépôts et consignations de Paris. L'audition à la galerie Public (1999). ça se voit que j'écoute, Festival Belluard Fribourg (2002). Depuis 2000, Alberto Sorbelli produit des séries de dessins, réalisés simultanément à deux mains, parfois les yeux fermés. L'artiste nous propose un univers imaginaire d'insectes, de fleurs ou d'autres compositions érotiques ou abstraites, comme de véritables projections mentales. For the FIAC in Paris (Oct. 21-25 2004), Alberto Sorbelli created in public drawings on the booth of the Maisonneuve Gallery (booth B1, Hall 5.1) Wednesday 20th October at 8 pm and Sunday 24th October at 6 pm. |
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