Le Printemps de septembre

Within the framework of the festival, you will be able to discover at the Abattoirs :

Jacqueline de Jong
Until January 13, 2019
Les Abattoirs host the first retrospective of the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. Born in 1939, currently living between Amsterdam and Bourbonnais, she is at the turn of the 1960s close to the members of Cobra, before being a member of the Situationist International founded by Guy Debord. In the 1960s she began her career as a painter and was also the editor of the Situationist Times magazine. The exhibition brings together historical works from the 1960s, including posters for May '68, to her most recent creations, including paintings, books and jewelry.

David Claerbout
Until February 9, 2019
The first floor of Les Abattoirs is taken over by Belgian artist David Claerbout (born 1969). Living between Antwerp and Berlin, he has developed over the past twenty years a work that makes in an unprecedented way the synthesis between cinema, painting and photography. His creations become, from the medium of video, large-scale suspended paintings that offer a different experience of landscape, image and time. In an era of rapid image overconsumption, his works invite contemplation.

Béatrice Cussol
Until February 9, 2019
Béatrice Cussol has developed an expressive and engaged drawing practice. She hijacks watercolor, the medium of leisure - of women, Sunday painters, etc. - for the benefit of a committed and feminist work. She borrows from it the lightness of the forms to make an expressive creation, even expressionist and transgressive. The pinkish softness of the watercolor creates a contrast with the crudity of the scenes, becomes elegant and explicit, volatile and deep, light and engaged, funny but disturbing. Deployed around the drawing, her artistic practice also extends to fabric and literature. As a novelist, she has been writing for several years a story in images in her notebooks which gather, cut out from magazines, her influences, her anger, history in motion. The project she is presenting at the Abattoirs media library brings together her different facets for the first time, by intermingling drawings, novels and image books (a series of which has been acquired for the Abattoirs collection) in her architectural intervention.

Details of the program on :
www.printempsdeseptembre.com