Abraham Poincheval

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Abraham Poincheval (born 1972 in Alençon ) is a French performance artist . He grew up in Mayenne and studied at the art schools in Le Mans and Nantes . He lives in Marseille today . Abraham Poincheval expands his physical and mental limits in his unusual performances. The experience of being locked in, immobile or sensory impairment is for him a means of exploring the world and human nature.

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In 2014, Poincheval spent thirteen days at the Paris Hunting and Nature Museum , sewn inside a stuffed bear, to explore the connection to the ancestors and the animal world. The supply was based on the eating habits of a bear. Mushrooms, grains, insects and fish were dried and packed in plastic bags and given to the artist.

In another campaign, at the end of July 2015, he drifted down the Rhône in a message in a bottle . The route started in Switzerland and ended in Lyon. Inside the 6 meter long and 2 meter wide glass bottle, temperatures of up to 50 degrees were sometimes found. During the several months' journey, the artist repeatedly made stops to show the population his project and to establish contact. In Villeurbanne , a base camp was set up at the IAC center d'art contemporain , from where conversations via Skype were possible. Both the bear and the glass bottle can be viewed in the museum.

On February 22, 2017, Poincheval had himself locked inside a twelve-ton limestone boulder in the Palais de Tokyo Museum , Paris, for a period of eight days . The experiment ended according to plan on March 1, 2017. As a motive for the action, Poincheval names the desire to explore the mineral world and to experience how far one can change oneself.

As of March 29, 2017, Poincheval hatched about a dozen chicken eggs for 21 to 26 days in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Here he sat wrapped in a blanket, in a plexiglass box on a kind of incubator. There was a lamp above the chair. A few books were used for diversion. The action was over when all the chicks had hatched. After hatching, the chicks were taken to a farm in Normandy. The artist sees the particular difficulty of the action in the fact that during this performance he can be directly observed by the audience for the first time.

On June 2, 2018, Poincheval was locked up for a week in the Museum of Aurignac in a 3.20 m high statue made of larch wood, which is modeled on a famous Paleolithic statue. It is the first known anthropomorphic statue designed as a human-lion. It is 32 cm small and made from a mammoth tusk .

Exhibitions

  • Abraham Poincheval, exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (3.2. – 8.5.2017)

Performances

Poincheval performed the following performances in particular:

2001

  • Total Symbiosis, German "Complete Symbiosis" (Îles du Frioul, Marseille)

2002

  • Total symbiosis (40m3 gallery, Rennes)
  • L'Inconnu des grands horizons (FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen)
  • L'Inconnu des grands horizons (Galerie de l'école des Beaux Arts de Metz, Metz)

2006

  • Horizon moins vingt (Galerie In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc, Paris)

2008

  • La grande symbiose 2 (La station, Nice)
  • Arène (Paris)
  • Horizon moins vingt (Murcia, Spain)

2011/2012

  • 2011–2012: Gyrovague, le voyge invisible (Dignes-les-Bains - Caraglio, Italy)
  • 2012: 604800s (Labo HO galerie librairie, Marseille)

2014

2015

  • La Vigie (La Rhétorique des Marées vol. 1, Esquibien)
  • La Bouteille, German "The Bottle" (Plage Napoléon, Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France)

2016

  • La vigie urbaine (Nuit Blanche 2016, Paris)
  • La vigie urbaine (La Rhétorique des Marées vol. 2, La Criée, Rennes)
  • La Bouteille (Villeurbanne, Arles, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Île de Miribel-Jonage, Andancette, Lausanne / Switzerland)

2017

  • Pierre, German "Stein" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), February 22nd - March 1st, 2017
  • Œuf, English "egg" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), planned from March 29, 2017 for 21 to 26 days

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h together with Laurent Tixador

Works

  • with Laurent Tixador: L'inconnu des grands horizons: journal de bord de Laurent Tixador. M. Baverey, Paris 2003. (Collection Antipodes.)
  • with Laurent Tixador: Horizon moins vingt. Isthme éd., Paris 2006.
  • with Dove Allouche, Simon Boudvin, Tacita Dean, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Joachim Koester, Daniel Roth, Hans Schabus, Laurent Tixador: Expéditions. Gallery, Ville de Noisy-le-Sec, Noisy-le-Sec [2007].
  • with the Ho Gallery (Marseille): Collection Sec au toucher. Editions P, [2012].
  • L'épaisseur de la montagne. Ed. P, Marseille 2013, ISBN 978-2-917768-33-4 , 151 pp.

literature

  • Hortense Soichet: Photography & mobilité: pratiques artistiques contemporaines en déplacement. L'Harmattan, Paris 2013. ( Eidos, Paris, photography series.)
  • Abraham Poincheval: Palais de Tokyo, 03.02. – 08.05.2017. Monograph on the exhibition in the Palais de Tokyo. Éditions Palais de Tokyo / Les presses du réel, Dijon 2017, 96 pages, ISBN 978-2-84066-943-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Performances
  2. ↑ Eight Days in the Rock, Der Spiegel , February 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Palais de Tokyo: Abraham Poincheval, accessed March 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c French artist wants to live in boulders for eight days, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, February 22, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c d Abraham Poincheval seeks borderline experience - survival in the rock ( memento of the original from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Art-Magazin, accessed on March 20, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  6. ↑ Efeu- The Kulturrundschau at Perlentaucher.de
  7. ↑ Abraham Poincheval lives inside bear in Designboom Art, September 4, 2014, accessed April 14, 2017
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ L'autre vision du monde d'Abraham Poincheval dans sa bouteille en verre at Culturebox on June 25, 2016, accessed on April 14, 2017
  10. ↑ Il a vécu dans la peau d'un ours, il habite désormais une bouteille at telerama.fr of July 30, 2015, accessed on April 14, 2017
  11. ^ Yves Jaegle: En images. Palais de Tokyo: Abraham Poincheval sort de sa pierre from March 1, 2017 at leparisien.fr.
  12. ^ French artist Abraham Poincheval emerges after spending week inside a rock on cbcnews of March 1, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2017.
  13. ↑ French artist Poincheval hatches eggs in Tagesspiegel from April 6, 2017, accessed on April 13, 2017
  14. ↑ Artist allows himself to be included in a wooden statue orf.at, June 4, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018.
  15. ^ Exhibitions and performances by Abraham Poincheval at semiose.fr
personal data
SURNAME Poincheval, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Alençon , France