La Cène - Guillaume Bardet
La Cène
Guillaume Bardet
2019
On the first floor of the Foundation, you can only see her.
Radiant, it vibrates, central and telluric, in the heart of the Ateliers, where art and design create new imaginations.
Black and oblong, massive and bronze, it has three feet, a tapered elegance.
Its iridescent bronze tray bears the traces of fire and prints of the hand of man.
Vertically, to create the moment, a suspended chandelier, a golden globe radiating from the night of time.
A table, ready to welcome creators and their creations, for a meal, or a sharing.
A table lit with a bronze sun to receive, to gather.
A receptacle of emotions and stories that will be written over time.
A table for New Suppers.
Samplerman !
Since June 20, 2019
Samplerman !
Samplerman
Yvan Guillo, aka Samplerman, is the winner of the 2019 EESI prize, École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image d’Angoulême. This year, this award is sponsored by the Martell Foundation, which proposed to the artist to create a dizzying installation for the building in Cognac. On all the windows of the monumental staircase, Samplerman made five custom-made illustrations, up to 4 meters high and 2 meters wide. The result: a series of colorful and unexpected stained glass windows. From the inside, these illustrations show the repertoire of motifs that the artist uses in his digital collages, from the comics of the second half of the 20th century. From the outside, when night falls, the illustrations turn into backlit signals that invite passers-by to climb to the panoramic bar, on the roof terrace of the Foundation, 24 metres high.
Samplerman is one of the pseudonyms of comic book author Yvan Guillo, born in 1971. After studying applied arts, he immediately self-published his comics in his own fanzine Crachoir, which has appeared randomly since 1992. He has also published under the pseudonym Yvang in numerous small-circulation journals such as Stronx (FR), L’Horreur est Humaine (FR), Gorgonzola (FR), Que Suerte (ES). Varying techniques and styles, favouring experimentation, he also tries to strip in the local press, or to publish in blog form from 2005.
Since 2013 his collages labeled «Samplerman», first presented on the Tumblr platform seem to attract the attention of the public. This parallel project gradually became his main artistic activity. These pages made digitally earned him orders for covers, posters, album covers, video animations.
From 20 to 22 September 2019, as part of the European Heritage Days, Samplerman will be at the Foundation to lead workshops and meet the curious !
On the programme
Friday, September 20, 2019
MEETING
Come and meet the artist and his works for the inauguration of this new exhibition. What were his inspirations, how does he make his collages … ?
His work and exhibition at the Foundation will have no secrets for you !
Saturday 21, Sunday 22 September 2019/ 3pm
WORKSHOPS
Samplerman will introduce children and teenagers to the Ninth Art during a workshop, they will be able to create comic strips.
The workshop will be followed by a snack provided by Biocoop.
Open to all public from 8 years, free on reservation (20 participants maximum), lasting about 1h30.
Friday 20, Saturday 21, Sunday 22 September 2019/ 17:30
VISITS TOLD
The Foundation will offer a free narrated tour at 5:30 pm every day of the JEP.
Yoga - Martell Foundation
EVERY TUESDAY AT 6:30
Yoga sessions
By Parmeet Kaur Tesson
The weekly sessions hosted by Parmeet Kaur take place in the Martell Foundation.
To participate in these sessions, simply show up at the Foundation with a gym outfit and a yoga mat.
12€ per session.
Conference - complementary local currencies: a tool at the service of the territory
Conference - complementary local currencies: a tool at the service of the territory
Thursday 23 February 2023 at 19:00
workshops, free entrance
Marine Grosset, co-administrator of the Bulle (Charente) and Yannick Lung, economist and professor of economic science at the University of Bordeaux will present the Bulle, the Local Complementary Mint Charentaise created in 2019.
For more than ten years, these new means of payment complementary to the Euro – currently 80 in circulation in France – have created a new economic map of cities, based on the local development of businesses and the promotion of short circuits, promoting the ecological transition.
This discussion will aim to measure the impact of MLC in the dynamisation of territories, the wealth of trade being preserved at the level of a given territory, irrigating exclusively the local economy. Speakers will discuss how these new tools work.
National Architecture Day
Exhibitions
From 14.10.2022 to 16.10.2022
“The End is in the beginning and yet we continue”
Citation de Samuel Beckett
On October 12 and November 2 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, meet Noémie Maresté for an exercise in sophrology, «the living of the 5 senses», in the preamble of this polysensory exhibition dedicated to the senses. An invitation to become aware of his sensory organs in order to fully experience the visit.
An exhibition where the spectator becomes an actor and finds himself immersed in the center of installations designed by the artists to excite his senses through a multitude of experiences inviting him to reconnect to his body.
With birth comes death, inevitable and intrinsic to the fact of existing. This mortality, linked to our human condition, makes us vulnerable, sometimes strong and resilient, sometimes weak and fragile. However, between the beginning and the end, there is life, the body in motion, this body that works thanks to the five senses that connect us to the world.
The title of this exhibition is taken from the play Fin de partie, written in French by Samuel Beckett in 1957. He challenges the principles of classical theatre by presenting a story without adventures, characters without history and a place without reference. Despite this absurd void, the only human condition of the characters is enough to create a moment of existence, where anything is possible.
This polysensory project approaches the human as a tool of perception and tracer of possibilities . From the natural perceptions delivered by our senses, the invited personalities, coming from various disciplines, reveal their own interpretation of sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste by giving themselves as a rule not to stop at a specific medium: they are designer, light designer, visual artist, sound artist, textile designer, dancer and botanist. Their experiments merge, complement each other in an organic continuum. Several inalienable dimensions of the body create the universal resonance of this narrative: movement and vulnerability, a means and an end, both represent the strengths and weaknesses of our body envelopes, our psyche and our position in this world.
At the level of The scenography, the senses unfold in monumental stainless steel tanks repainted in colors for the occasion. Rituals and choreographic performances will be added to this collective work by nine artists:
- The View by Odile Soudant
- The Touch by Rachel Marks
- Smell and Taste by Julie C. Fortier
- Hearing by Reto Pulfer (loan from the Frac
- Artothèque Limousin de Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- The Movement by Jeanne Vicerial and Julia Cima
- Vulnerability by Marc Jeanson and Atelier
- Marietalexandre
- Exhibition curator: Nathalie Viot
PARTNERS
PRODUCTION
Ingenuity: robotic engineering
Chalvignac Group: stainless steel tanks
Seigneurie Gauthier: paintings
The respectful gardens, Delicacies and chocolate and the Funny Goat
Association Cobble directed by Victor Dérudet:delegated production, design and manufacturing of structures
Arthur Destriat: handling and management
Barillet Menuiserie
Blomkal: wood cutting (Angoulême)
Stéphane Bottard: lighting and video creation
Laetitia Andrighetto and Jean-Charles Miot: glass craftsmen
Manon Clouzeau: ceramist
Guillaume Barbareau: ceramic 3D printer technician