Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire
Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire is a photographic installation that brings together the texts of five authors invited by the artist (Amilcar Packer, Derek Beaulieu, Jacques Roubaud, Shane Anderson, and Vincenzo Latronico). These texts evoking the rain were commissioned in their mother tongues. The artist inserted Guillaume Apollinaire's calligram entitled Il Pleut (1916). She then highlighted it with acrylic paint to bring out the design of the drops running over the writings, which she photographed on different coloured backgrounds. Illustrating the subject of the text, the motif underlines the question of semantics and the images generated by reading. By creating new ones through the orchestration of a profusion of words, the images are infinitely reproduced, appearing for some and disappearing for others in the intimacy of their own representations.
Text written by Camille Philippon as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (France)
from 16 Jun to 18 Sep 2016
KM - Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (Autriche)
from 12 Mar to 29 May 2016
ART BOOK FAIR, Berlin (Allemagne)
from 11 Dec to 13 Dec 2015
Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Brême (Allemagne)
from 22 May to 30 Aug 2015
Le Grand Palais, Paris (France)
from 23 Oct to 26 Oct 2014