A CENTURY OF GLORY PASCAL NORDMANN

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SOLO SHOW

25 February – 24 March 2023

OPENING

24 February 2023

PRESSE                  7PM-9PM
PUBLIC                   7PM-9PM
FILM-PROJECTION               8PM

PRÉSENTATION

From 25 February to 24 March 2023

Mémoire de l’Avenir – Humanities, Arts and Society
accueillera une exposition
de Pascal Nordmann
Intitulée

SOLO SHOW –

PRESENTING THE EXHIBITION

From February 25th to March 25th, Mémoire de l’Avenir will host A Century of Glory, a monographic exhibition by the Swiss artist Pascal Nordmann.The first installment of his Trilogy of Glory, this show extends the reflections and commitments that have been dear to Mémoire de l’Avenir since its creation, by offering a visual narrative that invites us to explore the great questions that touch on collective memory, mourning, revolt, and the bridges between the political and the intimate, between the collective and the individual.

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In a celebration of colors, sounds and movements through a series of 156 images paying tribute to Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso or Paul Klee.Pascal Nordmann stages the memory of disasterin order to offer it – in a gesture of defiance – to the proponents of the eternal return, of national glories and old depraved moons.

To speak about the disaster, the greatest catastrophe: gather poor instruments.

These landscapes, these images, are those of Europe of times gone by. A century. Almost nothing. Reuse of postcards, advertising inserts. Photographs of mechanical devices belonging to history. It is the author’s voice that leads us through this device. The animation: it’s almost nothing. No great digital effects. Only what the small basic toolbox of the computer enthusiast allows to do. Nothing more. The collages, animated by the author’s whispers, calculations of a childish simplicity. Characters coming from masters of the 20th century or older. Miro, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Jerome Bosch … The music is born from the mixture of voices. Use of noises. Raindrops. Falling coins. It can also come from the small electronic ritornello box which imitates so well the musical instruments, the small box which one makes sing by poising notes on a range according to a childish arithmetic. But does one know the music?

FREE admission

OPENING

24 02 2023

PRESSE 7PM-9PM

PUBLIC 7PM-9PM

`PERFORMANCE`

8PM

GALLERY VISITS

du FRIDAY
19H-21H

`BY APPOINTMENT`

contact@memoire-a-venir.org

`OFFER`

Group visites
for adults or youth
&
Students

also avialble via
via Pass Culture here

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

Mourning and the arts, Margalit Berriet
essay on the work of Pascal Nordmann by Margalit Berriet available here in French and English

“It’s not about showing the unspeakable or making a documentary. Do not expect to find images of the unspeakable. The aim is to mourn, to meditate, even to pray, everything that, in a work of memory, accompanies the memory to make it bearable or at least to make it seem as if it could be bearable.” – Pascal Nordmann

PASCAL NORMAN

Pascal Nordmann has lived between Geneva, Paris and Detmold, in northern Germany, where, in 1986, he founded a theater company, the “Chairos Theater”, which he directed for ten years and for which he wrote texts, directed and created sets and props. The company toured in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, France, Austria and Holland…

Born in Paris, but of Swiss nationality, he now lives in Geneva. His work embraces expressions in literature, dramatic writing, plastic arts and even computer science, whilst always staying true to the creative spirit which draws upon surrealism, humor, poetry and the strange…

His latest work, Trilogy of Glory, a three-part creation dedicated to the 20th century genocide of the Jewish people, makes use of literature, graphic art and animation.

Click here for the artist’s website

SATELLITE EVENTS

OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24TH at 8PM

FILM PROJECTION – MEET
Un siècle de gloire (animation, 18min)
by Pascal Nordmann

For the opening of the exhibition UN SIECLE DE GLOIRE (CENTURY OF GLORY), Mémoire de l’Avenir will host a projection of the homonymous animation film by Pascal Nordmann which completes the show. In the artist’s presence.

FOR WOMENS’ RIGHTS MONTH
SATURDAY MARCH 11TH
from 6:30PM to 7:30 PM

PUBLIC READING

excerpts from

Les Guetteurs I, by Pascal Nordmann

(French reading by performer Elaura Thomasson)
and
Mater Baltica, by Elena Tognoli
(click here for the author and artist’s website)
(bilingual reading (Italian and French
by Elena Tognoli and Chloé Devis)

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