Art Of The Day Weekly
#400 - from 1 October 2015 to 7 October 2015
Julien Prévieux, Patterns of Life, 2015, video HD/2K, 15’14’’ - Photos from a shooting © Julien Prévieux. Courtesy galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris.
Julien Prévieux, a poet of statistics
What happens if you spend a few days with the special anti-crime police squadron, the BAC and visualize with them the route of pickpockets? This gives an interpretation with an airbrush: an abstract painting but held up by real data. The movements of a young father, with his accelerations and his moments of slowing down? The result is seven multi-faceted blocks, one for each day of the week. To visualize for thirty seconds the look of a spectator on a famous work of art, a Giacometti or Duchamp's Urinoir? This gives a cabalistic grid, as if traced on a magic slate. Julien Prévieux (born in 1974, prix Marcel Duchamp 2014), known for his letters of non-motivation sent to potential employers, continues to explore the movement of modern man and to re-transcribe it in colors, lines, and even ballets. Like poetic charades for a world that is in too much of a hurry…
• Julien Prévieux, des corps schématiques, at the Centre Pompidou (space 315), from 23 September 2015 to 1 February 2016.