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Delphine Reist

in deutsch.

TRINCH
La dégelée Rabelais
Château de Jau
Cases-de-Pène 66
FRANCE

The Frenchmen of the south were always scorned as lazy and thieves who do little more than make up dirty jokes and satires of the Renaissance author François Rabelais.

While in the north where the ’sophisticated ones’ abide, great debates ragged violently over China, media, art, and urban development in Asia etc.

This summer the Languedoc region along with the FRAC organized a large manifestation of 30 exhibitions with reference to François Rabelais.

Recently I visited another of these exhibitions, TRINCH in the Château de Jau in close proximity to Perpignan.
Trinch is an old word that loosely translates into ‘drink first - speak after’, and is dedicated to the search of the heavenly bottle and a higher wisdom, which can be achieved with a good drink.

the exhibition is accommodated in one of the most beautiful wine-growing estates of the region, where one can locate this wisdom (in the wine tasting cellar).

Featuring: Robert Combas, Johan Creten, Erik Dietman, Laurent Duthion, Richard Fauguet, Le Gentil Garçon, Natacha Lesueur, Jonathan Monk, Régis Perray, dolphins travels, Kris Vleeschouwe, along with a collection of bottle openers.

for the last 30 years the owners of the prestigious Château have dedicated themselves to organizing summer exhibitions in the large 350m2 exhibition area of the property. featuring many different collections such as Appel, Arman et César, Tapiès, Combas, Shirley Jaffe, etc. which have been often attended by prominent guests such as Jean Nouvel at the openings.

For the last two years the exhibitions have been curated by Sophie Tourneur Phéline. Sophie is also responsible for the elegant restaurant under the branches of the 300 year old mulberry tree, as well as in charge of the wine tasting.

I was lucky to get her to do an interview (while in her waitresses uniform) for Doc-Art-Net where she explains more about this inspiring exhibition, before the rowdy patrons had gotten too carried away with the wine ‘tasting’.

Delphine Reist

in english.

TRINCH drink trink
La dégelée Rabelais im
Château de Jau
Cases-de-Pène 66
FRANCE

Während im Norden heftig über China subversiv, Medienkunst, wichtige Konferenzen, Kunstmessen, Biennalen,urbane Entwicklung in Asien usw. usw. philosophiert wird,
denken die Südländer hier über Witze und Satiren des Renaissance- Autoren und Trunkenboldes François Rabelais. nach

Zu diesem thema haben die Region Languedoc-Roussillon zusammen mit der
FRAC diesen Sommer eine grosse Manifestation mit etwa 30 Ausstellungen organisiert.

Kürzlich habe ich eine weitere dieser Ausstellungen, TRINCH im Château de Jau in der Nähe von Perpignan besucht. Trinch= prenez-buvez-parlez ist der Suche nach der himmlischen Flasche oder der Suche nach einer höheren Weisheit gewidmet, welche durch einen guten Trunk erreicht werden kann.
Dem Thema typisch ist die Ausstellung in einem der schönsten Weingüter der Region beherbergt , wo man gleich Zugang zu dieser Weisheit im Degustierkeller finden kann.

mit:
Robert Combas, Johan Creten, Erik Dietman, Laurent Duthion, Richard Fauguet, Robert Filliou, Le Gentil Garçon, Natacha Lesueur, Jonathan Monk, Régis Perray, Delphine Reist, Didier Trenet, Wolman et Debord

Schon seit über 30 Jahren widmen sich die Besitzer des prestigiösen Château’s auch der Kunst der Avant-garde und organisieren Sommeraussellungen im 350m2 grossen espace art contemporain des Gutes (Seit 1977 mit Karel Appel, Arman, César, Tapiès, Combas, Shirley Jaffe und vielen anderen) und ist so ein unumgänglicher Ort für die zeitgenössische Kunst im Languedoc Roussillon geworden.

Seit zwei Jahren werden die Ausstellungen von Sophie Tourneur Phéline kuriert,
Sophie kümmert sich auch um das elegante Restaurant, welches unter
den Ästen eines 300 jährigen Maulbeerbaumes zu entdecken ist und natürlich auch um die Weindegustation.
Ich hatte Glück sie im Kellnerinnenkostüm für ein Interview zu erwischen, um mehr über
die Ausstellung zu erfahren:

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“well out of order”

LA DEGELEE RABELAIS

Comme des choses gelées

Abbaye de Lagrasse

21 juin to 28 of september 2008

Earlier this summer I received the invitation of la dégelée Rabelais in the Aude, announcing exhibitions in 3 prestigious places, Lagrasse, Villerouge Termenès and the Cité of Carcassonne.

Exhibitions of what I asked myself, the back of the card pompously showed only names of politicians, are they making art now as well?

On a lovely hot sunday afternoon, we drove to Lagrasse to find the politicians names replaced with the eminent: John Armleder, Michel Blazy, Alain Clairet et Anne-Marie Jugnet, Rémi Dall’Aglio, Emmanuelle Etienne, Le Gentil Garçon, Liliana Moro, Eoin McHugh, Pompom, sculpture africaine, oeuf d’autruche…

… finding our way into the magnificent Dortoire des Moines, we discovered it had been turned into a curiosity museum displaying objects in cheap plastic displays, was the sponsering so bad? Needless to say they contrasted badly with the thousand year old stone.

The white “things” looked like contemporary-art replicas made in china, the shell logo, the vanishing ice bear. According to the accompanying perspectives, the objects appearing in white resemble defrosting elements that can be rediscovered, or will just instead melt away into another dimension.

The scenery was accompanied by the “Gregorian” noises of a non functioning golden ’speaker pump’, though the pump was out of order (by design) much like the well out of order invitation, not likely to be waking any sleeping monks .

This ‘art’ ideal for tourists, was only lacking the little replacers being sold in the shop as I would have liked to take home an Armleder for 2.99. All in all a highly recommended day out.