Ange Leccia

Ange Leccia (born April 19, 1952 in Minerviu, Barrettali in Corsica ) is a French installation artist , film director , screenwriter , photographer and painter.

life and work

Ange Leccia studied from 1981 to 1983 at the Académie de France à Rome , Villa Medici in Rome. In 1985 Leccia was appointed to the École supérieure d'art de Grenoble . He teaches at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise (ENSAPC) and works at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Leccia's first film was Stridura , in (1980). His film Azé , which he made in 1999, was released in 2004. He made the films Île de Beauté (1996), Gold (2000) and Malus (2001) with the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster . Leccia also worked with the singer Christophe and the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham .

Ange Leccia's work has been shown in internationally renowned museums: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , Center Georges Pompidou , City Art Museum à Hiroshima, 42nd Biennale di Venezia , documenta 8 , Fort von Salses (2015)

Web links

• Ange Leccia in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 148/149; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
2. ↑ le spectacle du monde, Henri Soldani Art et danse ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 25, 2016 (French) 
3. ↑ Center des monuments nationaux Ange Leccia à la forteresse de Salses ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2015 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. accessed on February 25, 2016 (French)