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Lecture: “Body and Landscape—between Earth and Sky”

* in English with Japanese translation

Date:
Saturday, March 24th, 2007  2:00PM-4:00PM
* numbered tickets distributed 11:00AM-

Place:
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto  1F auditorium

Admission/Maximum Capacity:
free; 100 (first come first serve)

Lecturer:
Catherine GROUT (profile)
École nationale supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille
Art historian, art critic.  Associate professor at Lille.
Publications: L’art en milieu urbain, etc.


“Body and Landscape.  Between Earth and Sky”

Christophe GONNET (2006)
Watershed Bed The content of the lecture will be the landscape as an experience of a body in motion and not as a representation.  It will present some works of contemporary art (sculpture, installation, video and performance) done by Marcel Dinahet, Christophe Gonnet, Bethan Huws, Giuseppe Penone and George Trakas.
     Those works express or propose different kind of inter-relations to the ground and the sky, including sense of verticality and horizontality and contact with the elements (air, water, earth, stone…).
(Catherine Grout)


Catherine GROUT
A doctor in art history and aesthetics, holder of a residency at the Villa
Kujoyama, Kyoto (1994-95), Catherine Grout is an associate professor
at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage in Lille
(since 2005).  She has been visiting associate professor at Keio University
(2002-2003) and at Tokyo Geidai University (2003-2005).  She is the
author of books in French and Chinese and in Japanese Des œuvres
en milieu urbain published by Kajima in 1997.  She was the editor of a
book about landscape published by TN Probe (Tokyo) in 1998.  She has
been artistic director of numerous urban art events: the biennial of
Enghien-les-Bains (1994-2004), the Chu-wei Festival (2002, Taiwan),
Artists in Akiya with Keio University in Tokyo (2002), and in Bolzano
(Italy, with Ar/ge Kunst Gallerie Museum).  She was chargée de mission
for the City of Strasbourg for artworks in the Jardin des deux Rives
(2003-2004).


Please note that admission for the exhibition and Collection Gallery is not included.

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