Exposition - Leipzig HGB x ENSBA

Dans le cadre d'un projet d'échange et exposition soutenu par l'office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse (OFAJ/DFJW), dix étudiant·es en 2^e cycle Art de l'ENSBA Lyon se rendent à l'école partenaire HGB Leipzig (L'école supérieure des beaux-arts de Leipzig, en allemand Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig) avec leur professeur Nick Oberthaler pour travailler et échanger artistiquement sur place avec des étudiant·es de la classe de peinture du professeur Michael Riedel et son assistant Paul Naegele.

L'initiative a été lancée par Esteban Devignaud (étudiant à L’Ensba), qui a effectué son séjour Erasmus à Leipzig l'année dernière.
 

Can we carry art across Europe like we would bring wine for a dinner to a friend's house? United by the cardboard box as a utilitarian material and restrained by the dimensions for luggage in travel and transport, ten students from the ENSBA Lyon/Studio Peinture (Prof. Nick Oberthaler), use these constraints as a base to conceive the works and objects presented in this small exhibition. Starting point was the discussion on the topic of the (sustainable) transport of artworks - and how could the different, heterogeneous artistic practices of all individual artists be realised and brought together for the exhibition in Leipzig under economically and budget-limited parameters? What is logistically possible and are the often restrictive conditions at the beginning perhaps not even the base for artistic exploration and realisation in the end? The mail-art practices of the 1960s or the copy-art project "IMPRINT 93" launched in the 1990s by British curator and artist Matthew Higgs (to name just two examples) already questioned the economic framework conditions of the art field at the time and attempted to break new ground in the distribution and reception of art through their conceptual simplicity. The standard dimensions for a piece of hand luggage (which entails a logistical restriction in the carriage of baggage in passenger transport) and the object in the form of a conventional shipping cardboard-box (as an easily obtainable and everyday object that can be transformed into a painting, a design object, a projection surface or a plinth for example) seemed to be the ideal conceptual framework for this presentation. It takes into account the individual, different artistic approaches and unites the momentum of a (partial) train-journey from Lyon to Leipzig. Intermezzo. Um-zug.