Courtesy Gwendal Coulon
Courtesy Gwendal Coulon
Concert by Gwendal Coulon
“I’m definitely going to fail, but at least I won’t be alone. You’ll be there to witness the spectacle of our contemporary world music. Guitar, songs, melodies to laugh and cry together. The party will be sad but the moment shared will be happy. I promise to be at the top of my game this time.”
Gwendal Coulon
Born in 1990, lives and works in Marseille.
Gwendal Coulon’s artistic practice – be it performance, painting, text, drawing, sculpture, editorial project, installation or video – is undoubtedly a step aside, or rather a thumbing of the nose. Through shifts, references and diversions, he examines the conditions of the pictorial act and the visibility of painting, while at the same time inscribing poetic elements. His performance practice calls on similar gestures: playback, quotation, theatricalisation and humour are the tools of an investigation into the ‘concert’ event, its codes, aesthetics and context. He develops a reflection on the performative issues that link the spectator and the musician (performer). His work has been presented at the Crédac centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry-sur-Seine, by the CAC Brétigny, at La Compagnie (Marseille), at La galerie Jean Collet (Vitry-sur-Seine), at Nuit Blanche 2016 (Paris), at the CICA Museum (Gimpo, South Korea), the hTh CDN Montpellier, the Tôlerie centre d’art contemporain (Clermont-Ferrand), La Comédie/Frac Champagne Ardenne (Reims), the Axolotl gallery (Toulon) and several festivals and concert halls in France and abroad.
