Cyprien Gaillard at the Hammer Museum
A three month artist residency starting mid-September 2010
French artist Cyprien Gaillard will be taking part in the Hammer’s Artist Residency Program this fall, sponsored in part by FLAX.
Gaillard will be given the opportunity to dictate the content, format, and direction of his residency. This freedom has been prized by artists and enables them to realize complex or experimental work.
The Hammer’s Artist Residency Program has been instrumental in helping artists from around the world gain greater exposure in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. The program gives artists access to the Museum and Los Angeles’s unique resources—a dynamic environment, vibrant art scene, world-class research university, and diverse metropolis.
Gaillard’s work spans a variety of media and includes performance and large-scale interventions in public space. Born in 1980 in Paris, recent exhibitions include the Tate Modern, London; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY; Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin. For further information, please visit www.hammer.ucla.edu/residencies.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at GLOW
September 25, 2010, Santa Monica, California
Internationally renown French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is creating a new and unique artwork for Glow, a dusk-to-dawn art event on and near the beach in Santa Monica set for September 25, 2010.
Inspired by Paris’ Nuit Blanche, Glow will present 25 art projects that offer the audience an opportunity to engage and participate in the artworks, either directly or indirectly.
Boursier-Mougenot will locate his piece on the beach and through his deft use of advance technology he will link it to several other sites in Santa Monica.
Boursier-Mougenot is a composer and artist who now works primarily in large scale sculptural installations, often including sound. His work is a perfect synthesis of music and art, a perfect form for the 21st century. In 2010 alone, Boursier-Mougenot has shown in such important spaces at the Barbican in London, Le Maison Rouge in Paris and the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.
Boursier-Mougenot’s participation in Glow is made possible through the support of the Flax Foundation and the French Cultural Services. For more information on Glow, please visit http://glowsantamonica.org/.
