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Alan Schmalz

Press kit

52 semaines d’oisiveté

Le Lait

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Press Release p. 4

Works Selection p. 7

Press Selection p. 9

Biography p. 11

Rendez-vous /Practical Information

Exhibition

52 semaines d’oisivetéd’

Alan Schmalzfrom to

12|10|19 26|01|20Opening on at

October 11, 2019 6.30 pmCurated by : Antoine Marchand

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Within a context of extreme productivity, in which our relation to work is more complex than ever, and where the fact of being active and “useful” usually qualifies our place in this world, the title of Alan Schmalz’s exhibition seems a tad provocative. 52 Weeks of Idleness is a project specifically developed for the Le Lait Contemporay Art Centre in Albi, which questions the very notion of work, what the fact of being active—or not—represents nowadays, and the way in which our different activities—paid for or otherwise—structure our daily round. Working against current trends, the artist in fact invites us to slow down the pace, wonder about the frantic rhythms sometimes imposed upon us, and take time off to think about--and let go of--things. A slightly utopian attempt, when all is said and done, to re-think—rather than upset—the established flawed order, but inviting us to adopt a necessary line of thinking based on a flawed model which, today, seems to have run out of steam, and which it would be a good idea to break with. A way, too, of underscoring the unusualness of people who do try to escape from these productivist diktats, by developing alternative models outside the predominant system.

This show is part and parcel of the extension of ways of thinking adopted for some years now by Alan Schmalz, seeking to reveal the incoherences and absurdities of our contemporary societies, be it at the architectural, urbanistic, or environmental level… Combining drawings, collages, sculptures and acoustic material, this project presents an unusual narrative form which spreads through the art centre’s different rooms.

Press Release

Alan Schmalz (born in 1987 in Geneva; lives and works in Marseille) graduated from the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva in 2014, and has been showing his work regularly since 202 in venues and institutions such as the Contemporary Art Centre in Geneva, the Art Centre in Neuchâtel, The Box (Los Angeles), Salts, New Jersey (Basel), Forde (Geneva) and La Rada (Locarno). Alan Schmalz recently enjoyed a residency at Astérides in Marseille and at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2017, he was awarded the Prix Kiefer Hablitzel and in 2019 he won the Prix Hirzel.He is represented by the Truth & Consequences gallery (Geneva).

Ahead of the exhibition, a meeting with the artist is scheduled for Wednesday 9 October at 6.15 pm at the Médiathèque Pierre Amalric in Albi.

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Alan Schmalz, Speed Syndrom Society and S*** , Exhibition «Hunter of Worlds », Salts, Bâle, 2018, Photo Gunnar Meier

Alan Schmalz, Exhibition « The Distribution of potatoes (Citizen’s parade) »,Swiss Art awards, Kiefer Hablitzel, Bâle, 2017, Photo Flavio Karrer

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Alan Schmalz, Exhibition « Bezoumni Bratti », Truth and Consequences, Genève, 2016, Photo Annik Wetter

Alan Schmalz, Exhibition « Appareils de récréation », Forde, Genève, 2017, Photo Maria Trofimova

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Alan Schmalz, Exhibition « Ensemble Bobby » (Détail), Grant of the City of Genève, Genève, 2016, Photo Prolson Studio

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Centre d’art Le LAIT, Albi, France Affinities, with Timothée Calame, Weiss Falk, BaselLe Vertige de Maldoc, Salle Crosnier, Société des Arts, Geneva

2017Appareils de récréation, Forde, Geneva

2016 Bezoumni Bratti, Truth and Consequences, Geneva No Appy Polly Loggy, Truth and Consequences, Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019Art Genève, Truth and Consequences, Geneva

2018 Hunter of Worlds, S.A.L.T.S, BaselSpace Invaders, La Rada, LocarnoYou have everything to learn, everything that can not be learned, Truth & Consequences, Geneva

2017Under 30, Musée d’art Suisse, Lugano

Allez, Espace Catherine Bastide, MarseilleSwiss Art Awards : Prix Kiefer Hablitzel 2017, Basel Liste Art Fair 17, Truth & Consequences, Basel

2016Fortune Travaille, with Timothée Calame, CAN, Neuchâtel Ensemble Bobby, Bourses de la ville de Genève, Centre d’art contemporain, GenevaPalazzo Inverno, with Timothée Calame, Forde, Geneva

2015 Mirror Effect, The Box, Los AngelesIf the situation leads to..., Upstate, ZürichPermanence, with Julien Reginato and Timothée Calame, Electron Festival, BAC, Geneva

2014Vital n°2: Essentiels et logique, with Timothée Calame and Julien Reginato, Les Urbaines, LausanneLe salon du sentiment, with Timothée Calame, Costanza Candeloro, Marion Goix, Duplex, GenevaHappybirthday Party, La GAD, MarseilleVital n°1: Order and progress, Espace Labo, Geneva

2013Manuel Final, with Tobby Landei, 6B, Saint-Denis, ParisA la recherche de la bohème perdue, with Tobby Landei, CAN, NeuchâtelHotel Abisso, with Tobby Landei, Centre d’art contemporain, GenevaExist-ils ?, with Manuel Publications, Sunset résidence, LyonTravelling généalogique, Marbriers 4, GenevaIron People, Zabriskie Point, Geneva

2012Love is not in control, New Jerseyy, BaselLumpen Zone N°1, with Timothée Calame, Festival Images, Grand Café des Mouettes, Vevey

2011Guru Guru, with Timothée Calame and Tobby Landei, Espace Labo, Geneva

2010 Tobby Landei keeps on truckin’, with Josse Bailly, Hayan Kam Nakache and Lucas Delmenico, Hard Hat, GenevaSt. Marcellin, Broom social club, GenevaThis...Is...The...Ende, with Alexandre Devaud, Espace Tobby Landei, Geneva

Born in 1987. Lives and works between Geneva and MarseilleRepresented by Gallery truth and consequences, Switzerland

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AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2019Prix Hirzel, Société des Arts, Salle Crosnier, GenevaAteliers de la ville de Marseille, Marseille

2018Résidence Cité des Arts, Paris

2017 Prix Kiefer Hablitzel, BaselRésidence Astérides, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille

CURATING

2012-14 Co-founder of Marbriers 4, in Geneva, with Timothée Calame, Tim Endt, Boris Meister, Nathaniel Montjaret, Guillaume Vogt and Léo Wadimoff FORMATION

EDUCATION

2014 Bachelor of Arts in Fine arts, Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva

Biographie

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Exhibition from 12|10|19 to 26|01|20

Opening on 11 october 2019 at 6.30 pm

Rendez-vous with Alan Schmalz

Wednesday 9 October at 6.15 pm at the Médiathèque Pierre Amalric, 30 av. Général de Gaulle, Albi, Duration : 1 hour / free entrance

Rendez-vous  / Practical Information

Exhibition Partners Institutionnal Partners The Art Centre is part of the DCA networks (French Association for the Development of Art Centres), the Air du midi network(Regional Associations of Midi Pyrénées Art Centres) and the LMAC (Midi-Pyrénées Laboratory of Contemporary Art Mediations)

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Exhibition Place Le Lait centre d’art contemporain 28 rue Rochegude 81000 Albi

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