{"id":1442,"date":"2021-06-06T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bis-art.com\/?page_id=1442"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:31:24","slug":"martine-feipel-jean-bechameil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bis-art.com\/index.php\/martine-feipel-jean-bechameil\/","title":{"rendered":"Martine Feipel Jean Bechameil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Martine Feipel<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

N\u00e9e \u00e0 Luxembourg en 1975<\/p>\n

Jean Bechameil<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris en 1964<\/p>\n

Vivent et travaillent \u00e0 Luxembourg<\/p>\n

Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil travaillent ensemble depuis 2008. N\u00e9e en 1975 \u00e0 Luxembourg, Martine Feipel a \u00e9t\u00e9 dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e en 2002 d\u2019un Master of Fine arts au Central St Martins College of Arts & Design \u00e0 Londres.<\/p>\n

N\u00e9 en 1964 \u00e0 Paris, Jean Bechameil travaille depuis 1990 comme sculpteur ind\u00e9pendant. Il a \u00e9galement travaill\u00e9 sur diff\u00e9rentes sc\u00e9nographies de th\u00e9\u00e2tre et de films et a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 la r\u00e9alisation de d\u00e9cors de plusieurs films de Lars von Trier.<\/p>\n

Martine Feipel et Jean Bechameil r\u00e9alisent en duo des installations o\u00f9 se m\u00ealent l\u2019illusion, l\u2019imaginaire, l\u2019instable et l\u2019illogique, au sein des lieux quadrill\u00e9s et contr\u00f4l\u00e9s du monde contemporain. Sculpteurs mais aussi chercheurs et ing\u00e9nieurs amateurs, habit\u00e9s d\u2019une grande sensibilit\u00e9\u0301 \u00e0 la th\u00e9\u00e2tralit\u00e9\u0301 du monde et ses beaut\u00e9s, ils cr\u00e9ent des \u0153uvres dans une approche socio- historique, esth\u00e9tique, politique et technique.<\/p>\n

Alliant leurs nombreux savoir-faire dans des domaines vari\u00e9s \u2013 le dessin, la sculpture, l\u2019ing\u00e9nierie, la mise en sc\u00e8ne, le son \u2013, Martine Feipel et Jean Bechameil produisent une \u0153uvre aussi formellement aboutie que fortement engag\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

Hackers de la robotique, les artistes se r\u00e9approprient les domaines de la technologie
de mani\u00e8re sensible par un geste \u00e9minemment politique : s\u2019emparer des savoir-faire de la robotique industrielle pour les appliquer \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019\u0153uvres d\u2019art qui racontent autrement notre monde.<\/p>\n

La notion d\u2019espace est centrale dans les travaux de Feipel & Bechameil et avec elle l\u2019interrogation sur la modernit\u00e9 s\u2019impose, \u00e0 savoir comment celle-ci a boulevers\u00e9e notre rapport au monde, \u00e0 l\u2019espace, au temps et \u00e0 l\u2019autre. Ils cherchent \u00e0 travers ses formes, \u00e0 travers ses moyens, \u00e0 r\u00e9-imaginer cet modernit\u00e9 et \u00e0 d\u00e9fier les contraintes de notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 contemporaine. <\/p>\n

Moon in the tree<\/em> est une sculpture qui fonctionne \u00e0 la fois comme une \u0153uvre d\u2019art et comme \u0153uvre fonctionnelle qui invite \u00e0 s\u2019asseoir et \u00e0 se r\u00e9unir autour d\u2019elle. Elle nous offre \u00e0 r\u00e9inventer une forme de convivialit\u00e9 et \u00e0 inspirer une vision po\u00e9tique de notre quotidien et du partage. Dans une continuit\u00e9 de la philosophie moderniste qui cr\u00e9e \u2018un art par le peuple pour le peuple\u2019 les artistes poursuivent \u00e0 travers cette sculpture la notion d\u2019usage et de fonction des \u0153uvres, qui participent au quotidien et qui s\u2019articulent autour d\u2019une id\u00e9e sociale et d\u00e9mocratique, d\u2019un art au service de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Inspir\u00e9 par les volumes et la g\u00e9om\u00e9trie des formes modernistes, Moon in the tree<\/em> invente un nouveau vocabulaire qui se d\u00e9ploie ici par une s\u00e9rie de modules qui semblent \u00e9voluer autour d\u2019un arbre imaginaire. L\u2019ensemble tient \u00e0 la fois de la peinture abstraite, du volume minimaliste et de l\u2019architecture modulaire. Les artistes pr\u00e9sentent dans leur travail certaines affinit\u00e9s avec les intentions du minimalisme. La sculpture est constitu\u00e9e d\u2019une multiplicit\u00e9 de formes g\u00e9om\u00e9triques et de couleurs pleines. Le blanc est la couleur dominante, les \u00e9l\u00e9ments color\u00e9s attirent l\u2019attention, guident l\u2019\u0153il et nous font lire les volumes. <\/p>\n

L\u2019\u0153uvre de Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil cherche l\u2019\u00e9quilibre dans l\u2019association d\u2019id\u00e9es apparemment contradictoires avec, d\u2019une part, la simplification, l\u2019abstraction et le langage visuel minimaliste, et, de l\u2019autre, une r\u00e9flexion sur la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de spectacle, technologique et ali\u00e9nante, dans laquelle nous vivons.<\/p>\n

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Born in 1975 and 1964. Live and work in Brussels<\/em><\/p>\n

Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil have been working together since 2008. Born in 1975 in Luxembourg, Martine Feipel graduated in 2002 with a Master of Fine Arts from Central St Martins College of Arts & Design in London. Born in 1964 in Paris, Jean Bechameil has been working as a freelance sculptor since 1990. He has also worked on various theatre and film sets and has helped to create the sets for several films by Lars von Trier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Working as a twosome, Feipel & Bechameil produce installations where there is a mix of illusion, imagination, instability and illogicality within gridded and controlled places in the contemporary world. As sculptors but also amateur researchers and engineers, informed by a great sensibility with regard to the theatricality of the world and its various forms of beauty, they create works within a socio-historical, aesthetic, political and technical approach.<\/em><\/p>\n

In combining their many areas of know-how in various fields – drawing, sculpture, engineering, directing and presentation, and sets -, they are producing an oeuvre that is as formally accomplished as it is powerfully engaged.<\/em><\/p>\n

As robotics hackers Feipel & Bechameil propose a re-appropriation of the realm of technology in a sensitive way, using an eminently political gesture: taking possession of the expertise and know-how of industrial robotics, to apply them to the creation of artworks which describe our world in a different way.<\/em><\/p>\n

The notion of space is central in the work of Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil and with it the interrogation of modernity enforces itself in a reflection on how modernity transformed our relation to the world, to the space, time and to the others. Throughout its own forms and means they try to re-invent this modernity and to challenge the constraints of our contemporary society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Moon in the tree is a sculpture that can be considered as an artwork, but at the same time it is a functional object, a furniture that invites people to sit on it and gather around it. It offers to reinvent a new kind of sociability and to inspire a poetic vision of the conviviality of our everyday life.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a continuity of the modernist thinking which aimed to create \u2018an art by the people for the people\u2019 the artist wish to pursuit through this sculpture the notion of functionality of the artworks, which participate in everyday life and articulate around a strong social and democratic idea of an art dedicated to the society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Inspired by the volumes and by the geometry of the modernist forms, Moon in the tree invents a new vocabulary unfolding in a set of modules that evolve around an imaginary tree. The unit is simultaneously an abstract painting, a minimalist volume and a piece of modular architecture. The artist\u2019s work shows certain affinities with the intentions of minimalism. The sculpture is built up from a multiplicity of geometric forms in solid colors. As white is the principal color, our attention is drawn to the colored elements, directing the eye and making us read the volumes.<\/em><\/p>\n

The work of Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil balances on the combination of seemingly contradictory ideas: stripping down abstraction and minimalist visual language on the one hand, and a reflection on our present technological, alienating society of the spectacle on the other.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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