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SYLVIE ARLAUD & OTTO MUEHL
THE HUMAN FACTOR

Jan 29 - March
 13  

Download: catalogue "The Human Factor"




Mein Kampf I, 2015
Magazine-page (shredded), on acrylic glass-plate in wooden-frame.
21 x 30 cm

Source: Filmstill, "The Great Dictator", by Charlie Chaplin 1940,
Charlie Chaplin Archives and Taschen editions, Spring-Summer 2015
@Sylvie Arlaud, 2016

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Installation view „The Human Factor“, Viennacontemporary 2015.

Sources: Two children chairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR-Design of the 45-50ies)
& Erste Hilfe (shredded-book), Lehrbuch des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes, 1941
& Mein Kampf accompagné de commentaires (shredded-book),
par E.L. Michel, Paris 1938
& Kochen mit einer Mark (shredded-book), Dachau editions 1916/1929
Installation, Vienna, 9.2015, mixed media, 55 x 48 x 45 cm.

@Sylvie Arlaud, 2015/16

 

Political Objets Trouvés
of the early twenty-one century

Since 2011, Sylvie Arlaud has been increasingly mixing various media, involving collage, assemblage, installation, and photo-performance. In her series Sensual Abstraction (2011) and Feminine (2012), she undertook a very sensitive and humorous introspection of her feminine identity, introducing an autobiographic approach and some strong feminist aspects to her work.

This included work on photo reproductions from material actions by Otto Muehl in the 60s, a
sexual education book from France in the 70s, and a current retrospective photographic volume
by Jeanloup Sieff.

In contrast to these two previous series, in The Human Factor she reduces every aesthetic intervention and focuses on historical investigations. Orchestrating some fragments of controversial realities put in an artistic context, she creates political objet trouvés (found objects).

The title of Sylvie Arlaud´s new eries refers to Graham Greene´s 1978 novel. The story of the book takes place in the context of the Cold War. Being a vehicle for human doubts — between professional duty and human responsibility, conscience and setting aside — it describes a world characterized by a culture of secrecy and manipulation, where people are permanently confronted with disloyalty and the precariousness of peace. It is obvious that the choice of this literary work is not merely a coincidence.

The book is not only very applicable to our present time, it also makes some generally applicable statements about human behaviour and power structures. Above all, it doesn’t damn the individuals, but instead the deprivation of liberty in human societies.

In this way it corresponds perfectly with recurring themes in Sylvie Arlaud´s work, strongly characterized by the mindset of the Age of Enlightenment.
In The Human Factor, Sylvie Arlaud takes an investigative approach, her artistic process approximating a journalistic strategy. For her collage-assemblages, the artist selects original images and texts from original documents, which she applies in original or reproduction on paper or transparent foils. All of her materials are literary finds possessing an intrinsically significant symbolic meaning.

After their montage, they reach a much more emotionally charged content with a stronger force of expression. Giving us indications about some politically charged backgrounds, they emerge to their objective, historical veracities with a provocative value whose relevance is not limited temporally.

Furthermore, as an inherent part of her artistic process and product, she meticulously researches and
mentions every source of the utilized and exhibited documents, which then acts as a form of knowledge transfer that her historical résumés may require. On an interactive level, she exhibits all the associated literature, allowing observers to inform themselves about her chosen themes.

Notions of transparency and freedom of expression also get symbolized. She uses transparent materials such as foils, and mounts her works on transparent acrylic glass or glass plates. She installs everything into vitrines or wooden frames without backgrounds. In this way the works
seem to hang free and the background pages can also give important hints regarding contexts.

After conceiving her collages, she allows inspiration to introduce a sculptural level to her installations. Recycling literary remnants, she installs them together with carefully selected
familiar objects (usually old-fashioned and highly symbolic), which maintain a relationship to
the overall content. Complementary to her more sober and intellectual collage-assemblages, her sculptural installations
elicit strong feelings, such as facing an "Autodafé", entering an area after bomb attacks or an earthquake, or simply entering the flat of a chaotic and intellectual peace activist...

Sylvie Arlaud´s work may not be characterized in a way that reduces it to political art with elements
of visual art, literature, and sculpture. It is a manifest in itself. It is about freedom of expression and
liberty, ephemerality and manipulability of information, the fragility of knowledge and the fragility
of life. And it bases on her thirst for truth that guides her quest for truth.

*The series "The Human Factor" is an homage to the artist Mark Lombardi, (1951-2000) and a
reference to his highly explosive sociograms.

Sylvie Arlaud, February/March 2016
& Ambacher Contemporary Munich-Paris



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- 211 shows till 2004 in Munich,
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ones & internaional fairs
in america, asia, europe

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- Second half year exhibition - Corona long term exhibition








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Guest: Andreea Faciu

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PAST

Investigative Elements 
11/12/13.9.2020

Sylvie Arlaud, Thomas Kvam, Mark Lombardi and Andreea Faciu

32. OPEN ART MUNICH

 

 

 

 

PAST

Primordial Synthetic
12.9. - 8.2.2020

Alina Birkner
Mateusz von Motz
Tomislav Nikolic


 




LAST FAIRS

 


BARCELONA

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CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
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Glut Data III
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ALINA BIRKNER
MEVLANA LIPP
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TOMISLAV NIKOLIC


17. - 20.10.2019

 

 




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LAST SHOW / PERFORMANCE
PARIS

 

 

SYLVIE ARLAUD
19.10.2018

FAITES L´AMOUR,
PAS LA GUERRE
MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR
MACHT LIEBE,
KEINEN KRIEG


2 Square des Combattants
d´Afrique du Nord,
92120 Paris-Montrouge


Anti-war demonstrations,
April 27, 1968 The largest
demonstration took place in
New York City, where more than
100,000 people marched in four
separate parades into Central Park’s
Sheep Meadow to listen to speeches
by Mrs. Martin Luther King, draft resister Michael Ferber, Dave Dellinger, and Mayor
John V. Lindsay.

 


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Booth D3


30.3. -  2.4.2017

Sylvie Arlaud - Ernesto Cánovas
John Giorno - La Fratrie (Luc and Karim Berchiche) - Tom Hackney
Frank Maier - Armin Mühsam
Tomislav Nikolic - Inge Pries
Daniel Schüßler - Edwart Vignot

 




From left to right:
Maier, Hackney, Arlaud



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PLATEAU münchen

2016

Fr. 28.10., 18-21h
Sa. 29.10., 11-18h

LIGHTBOX
"I´m so bored with this place"
TIMOTHÉE TALARD

9.9. - 5.11.2016

Timothée Talard, Lightboxes
small, 50 x 100 x 12 cm
big, 150 x 125 x 12 cm



PARIS

OPENING NEW GALLERY SPACE
during Fiac Art Week/Fiac Gallery Night, 20.10.2016
26.10.2016 - 15.04.2017

19, Passage du Ponceau
119, Boulevard de Sébastopol
Marais/Sentier - 75002 Paris

Groupshow, 'Liquidation totale'
Sylvie Arlaud, Sabrina Belouaar, Hugo Bonamin & Samuel Theis, Ernesto Cánovas & Gracjana Rejmer Cánovas, John Giorno, Thomas Draschan, Tom Hackney, La Fratrie (Luc & Karim Berchiche), Frank Maier, Otto Muehl, Armin Mühsam, Tomislav Nikolic, Inge Pries, Daniel Schüßler, Timothée Talard and Edwart Vignot.



Gallery Space until
April 2018
@ Passage
du Ponceau in Paris





YIA ART FAIR

Ernesto Cánovas, Gracjana Rejmer-Cánovas and Tomislav Nikolic
21.-23.10.2016
Le Carreau du Temple - Marais

4, rue Eugène Spuller - 75003 Paris



BERLIN


'Service compris'

A joined exhibition with
Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst
during Berlin Art Week

Sylvie Arlaud, Ernesto Cánovas,
Thomas Draschan, Tom Hackney,
Jan Holthoff, Birgit Jensen,
Frank Maier, Otto Muehl, Armin
Mühsam, Tomislav Nikolic,
Inge Pries, Daniel Schüßler,
Edwart Vignot, Christopher
Winter, Andreas Zimmermann.
16.09.-29.10.2016
extended until 22.12.2016

AMBACHER CONTEMPORARY &
LEHR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST

Großbeerenstraße 16 - 10963 Berlin


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