About
the exhibition inspired by
the adaptation of Too Loud A Solitude
In
the wake of his recent adaptation in comic form, this ambitious
exhibition based on the great work of the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal,
includes drawings, texts, photographs and new media.
The exhibition/installation covers 200 square metres at the CNBDI.
Conceived
as an extension of the multidisciplinary album by Ambre, Tran and
Berge, it takes the form of a creative experiment which explores
the notion of artistic overlapping, mixing texts, drawings and photos.
Over a hundred original pages and photographic prints are displayed
in a "cemetery" of thousands of books (a symbolic recreation
of the pulping machine, a taboo and mythical place, the central
element of Hrabal's book), with in counterpoint the contribution
of modern media (projections and electronic sound creations).
Visitors
will be literally plunged into Hanta's mental universe, and invited
to explore the intense vertigo in the heart and work of the Czech
writer and its bold adaptation to comics.
"It
is a very paradoxical form of fetishism that has grown from and
around our book culture. Under the pretence of protecting the book,
the latter is often made impossible to access – to express our love
for the book, we often had to mutilate it. The exhibition that comes
with the book Too Loud A Solitude consists of a graveyard of books
: but all this accumulation is a trick of the eye for the books
are hollow and emptied-out.
We
took "real" books that we gutted out, from which the pages
were torn, or cut away with cutthroat razors. The spectator thinks
he or she is faced with a crushing amount of books, an impossible
sum of knowledge. In fact there is a lot of ambiguity in this installation
which both means : the book culture has to be defended because it
is mortal, and, at the same time, this culture has already vanished,
unawares.
Don’t
say this is an act of faith for culture, an autodafé in others
words, because many books have been maimed, disfigured, defaced
and injured during the process and, besides, they have all been
made fire-resistant."
Lionel
Tran
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pictures of fews elements of the exhibition
(clic
to enlarge)
EXHIBITION
Too Loud A Solitude - From 23rd January to April 5th
2003
Location CNBDI, 121 rue de Bordeaux, 16000 Angoulême
– Tel : 00 33 5 45 38 65 65
Person
in charge Olivier Roche
Scenography Lionel Tran and Eric Terrier
Photography Valérie Berge
Produced by the 'Festival International de la Bande Dessinée'
and Terre
Noire
Partners : Policrom,
6 Pieds Sous Terre éditions
