Minute Papillon

"Minute Papillon" (Butterfly Moment) is the first large-scale exhibition devoted to the internationally recognised artist and designer Florence Doléac, whose perforated tables, languid seats and masked light fittings inject a touch of the zany into the world of the domestic. For over twenty years Doléac has been producing objects - generally functional, often useless, sometimes ephemeral - that pop up inopportunely, as if to halt time's arrow: a "Butterfly Moment"!

"My creations are meaningless as series. What I like is helping construct a collective imaginary realm." After starting out with the Radi Designers group (1993 to 2003), Doléac decided to shake off the constraints of mass production by going into teaching: firstly at ECAL, the university of art and design in Lausanne, in 1999, then at ENSAD, the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Work begun in the early 1990s led to a collaboration with a medical research laboratory on plantar stimulation surfaces, after which she worked with specialists of all kinds - researchers, artists, scientists, artisans - in situations that enabled her to develop a personal aesthetic at once unadorned, composite and whimsical. Quoting and tweaking, in her workshop she cobbles together projects in a minor mode. Exploring the possibilities of transforming and recycling industrial materials, and looking into traditional skills (ceramics from Vallauris, carpets from Kirghizstan, etc.), she negotiates for each item either the invention of new forms or deliberate non-intervention.

"Butterfly Moment" takes a retrospective look at the Doléac oeuvre. The exhibition revolves around La chambre des rêves (Bedroom of Dreams; 2017), an environment whose curtained-off bed transposes the artist's world into a magical space inspired by Maurice Sendak's book for children Where the Wild Things Are (1983). The curtains are printed with images of earlier creations and symbolic landscapes, some serious, some amusing. Disrupting the high culture/popular culture hierarchies, Doléac invites us to open up to the mysterious world of dreams. Conceived as a place where memory is reconfigured, Bedroom of Dreams asks us to opt for undirected perception - an approach that pervades the whole exhibition.

Curators:

Keren Detton (FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France), Anouk Wies (Cercle Cité - Luxembourg)

This exhibition was produced in 2017 by the FRAC Grand Large - Hauts de France and is organized in 2018 in collaboration with the Cercle Cité in the frame of the fifth edition of Design City LX Festival.

The exhibition is supported by the Institut français du Luxembourg.

 

OPENING on THURSDAY 27.09.2018 AT 6pm

In the présence of the artist Florence Doléac and the curators Keren Detton (Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France), Anouk Wies (Cercle Cité - Luxembourg).

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE EXCEPTIONALLY CLOSED FROM THE 12TH TO THE 15TH OCTOBER INCLUDED

FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME:

MEETING WITH FLORENCE DOLEAC AND THE GRAPHIC DESIGNERS ERICANDMARIE

28.09.2018 - 12pm > 2pm - Ratskeller, rue du Curé

Presentation of the graphic object produced as part of the Cercle Cité exhibition.

WORKSHOP WITH FLORENCE DOLEAC

SATURDAY 29.09.2018 from 10am to 12pm

This workshop is proposed in the framework of the Cité Bibliothèque's birthday. The thematic « Dream beds » refers to the practice of the art pieces presented by the designer in the exhibition. This workshop is meant to be for all ages, participants will develop models by using different materials.

Free on registration (tuffi@vdl.lu)

Cercle Cité - Bel étage, main entrance, Place d'Armes

SCREENING « WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE » Vo 07.10.2018 - 3pm -From 8 years old Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg, Place du Théâtre

FREE GUIDED TOUR

Every Saturday at 3pm

Saturday 29 september (FR)

Saturday 6 october Family visit (FR/EN)

Saturday 13 october (EN)

Saturday 20 october (LU)

Saturday 27 october (EN)

Saturday 3 november (FR)