CORBUSIER EXHIBITIONS THE LARGEST SITE IN EUROPE FIRMINY / SAINT-ÉTIENNE MÉTROPOLE 9 MARCH 9 APRIL Programmation IN

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1 LE THE LARGEST SITE IN EUROPE CORBUSIER FIRMINY / SAINT-ÉTIENNE MÉTROPOLE Conception graphique : Kaksi Design, Photographie: Saint Etienne Tourisme Conception, Le Corbusier architecte, José Oubrerie assistant ( ). Réalisation, José Oubrerie architecte ( ) 9 MARCH 9 APRIL 2017 Programmation IN EXHIBITIONS

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS SITE OVERVIEW PROGRAMMATION IN In the Maison de la Culture Performance / Exposition «IN» «LOOPING» The projects The actors The protagonists The programme Working Interior Design Show-office Pierre Guariche Design furniture «La Table» by Féri Novak 11 In the church Saint-Pierre Exposition "IN " «Rituals and Routines» Exhibition route Partners Around the exhibition Concert "IN" «POÈMES ETOILÉS» 15 Cinéma le Majestic Cinéma "IN" 16 INFORMATION AND PRESS CONTACT FLC/ADGP (2016) PRESS CONTACT Géraldine DABRIGEON g.dabrigeon@saint-etiennetourisme.com + 33 (0)

3 3 Arnaud Frich et JJ Gelbart

4 SITE OVERVIEW It is in Firminy, near Saint-Etienne, on the territory of the Communauté Urbaine de Saint- Étienne Métropole (Saint-Étienne Urban area), and in the heart of the new Auvergne-Rhone- Alpes region, that Le Corbusier built one of his major architectural complexes in France and Europe. The site of Firminy-Vert designed by the architect is truly unique. It is home to the largest number of modern architectural works by the master in Europe. With a Maison de la Culture (cultural center), a Unité d Habitation (housing unit), a stadium and a church, Firminy is the ultimate utopia of Le Corbusier. The Maison de la culture is listed as UNESCO World Heritage since July 2016 for its significance in modern architecture, along with 16 other sites built by Le LE CORBUSIER IN FIRMINY: LIVING, WORKING, RECREATING, AND CIRCULATING Corbusier in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, India, Argentina and Japan. The site was made possible by the vision of Eugène Claudius-Petit, mayor of Firminy and Minister of Reconstruction and Urbanism after the war, and the ambition of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier. Together, they decided to give the city a new start and implement the principles of modern architecture. The architectural complex of Firminy built after Le Corbusier s original designs, consists of: The Maison de la Culture (cultural center), built between 1961 and The stadium, built between 1966 and 1969, and only stadium listed as French Historic Monument in France. The Unité d Habitation (housing unit) inaugurated in 1967: a project managed by André Wogenscky, Le Corbusier s executor after the sudden death of the architect in The church inaugurated in The architectural project was a design by Le Corbusier, assisted by José Oubrerie, who oversaw and completed the work. The swimming pool, part of the initial project and built by André Wogenscky. In 1961, the Firminy-Vert district won the Grand Prix d Urbanisme for its avant-garde and innovative remodeling. Built in accordance with the principles of the Athens Charter (1933), the site exemplifies an urban philosophy that answers the needs of the body, the soul and the mind in an environment where sun, space and vegetation prevail. Saint-Étienne Métropole and the city of Firminy conduct an active preservation policy of the site. The Tourism Office of Saint-Étienne is in charge of developing tourism in the area, thus allowing inhabitants and visitors from everywhere to fully appreciate this outstanding architectural heritage. 4 4

5 Programme IN Site Le Corbusier As part of the Biennale Internationale Design 2017, the Site Le Corbusier welcomes two new exhibitions and a whole program around movement, gesture and work in architectural space. 5 Arnaud Frich et JJ Gelbart

6 At Maison de la Culture PERFORMANCE / EXPOSITION IN «LOOPING» WORK IN QUESTION: DIALOG BETWEEN A CHOREOGRAPHER AND A DESIGNER JULIE DESPRAIRIES & DAVID ENON In the middle, work and its mutations. Around, objects that generate gesture that produce objects or gesture that produce objects that generate gestures. A choreographer and a designer capture this Looping. The Site Le Corbusier has welcomed them regularly. They collected dancing or designing behaviours among the Site workers. From this material, they made a hybrid project, half-choreographic, half-designed. With the Biennale visitors, they finally share this experience of danced design or designed dance. They associated to the workers the students of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d Angers (Fine Arts School of Angers) and the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d Angers (National Centre of Contemporary Dance Angers). Theoretically, a choreographer who meets a designer, this produces one show and some objects. But what brings Julie Desprairies and David Enon together is the same attention to the context of production of pieces, dance and design. And the same obsession of necessity: Let's not overwhelm the world with unnecessary objects and dances. Let's practice gesture and material economy, let's draw into what's already there to be useful to the interested people. Movements and infra-ordinary objects; dance and design in situ.

7 THE PROTAGONISTS Julie Desprairies, choreographer, was born in She lives in Paris and her company is in Lyon (Rhône- Alpes-Auvergne). She creates contextual choreographic projects. By closely studying the sites and their requests, she writes an «applied dance» that implies users and inhabitants. Her creation scale is variable: a building, a district, a city, a landscape. Her goal is to show the movement of a space. She made a radiophonic creation for the French radio station France Culture and three films (Autour du parc in Villeneuve de Grenoble, Cinq points de vue autorisés sur les Courtillières and L Architecte de Saint-Gaudens). She wrote Manuel d entraînement régulier du danseur urbain (Textbook for the urban dancer s regular training) and is currently working on Danser l architecture, to be released in The Compagnie des prairies is accompanied by La Magnanerie. For about twenty years, I have been creating in situ choreographic projects. My work is based on the plastic, architectural, topographic and natural site characteristics and their uses by engaging the local inhabitants, workers, students. I claim an «applied dance». Applied to architecture, to landscapes. A dance depending on its elaboration context. Some say my approach is the one of a designer. I accept it if design is meant as a radical process that is not only attached to form, that does not necessarily add objects to a world that is already overwhelmed, but instead fades behind relationship to others, to environment. An activist design that enlarges its own acceptation, fights against the notion of progress, slows down, accepts a decrease and deframings in the collective construction of lifestyles. In my practice of choreography I use space another way, I transgress the use, I create plastic merging, I decontextualize work gestures, I draw from the place my accessories and my scenography. The body becomes furniture and tools. The landscape, the dancing partition. In Firminy, with David Enon, we met people who are linked to the Site Le Corbusier through their work. We interviewed them on their relations to gestures and objects. We observed situations that are about dancing as well as designing. From this investigation we wrote our Looping. Julie Desprairies 1. Olivier Peyricot, Design : «décadrage et ralentissement à l œuvre dans et autour», revue Cree n 373, oct-nov What are your work gestures? Are there any movements that are specifically linked to this architecture? What solutions, tricks, arrangements to reduce the arduousness of you work? To simplify them, rationalize them, work faster? To get some rest? Will you show us the personal content of your professional equipment? Does your body exist in your work? When and how? Are there any changes between yesterday and today, concerning actions, movements, tools and furniture?

8 David Enon, independant designer, was born in He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle de Paris (National School of Industrial Creation Paris). His work oscillates between: - Commands: exhibition scenography, furniture creation for the industry, interior design or advice for individuals. - Research: He currently works on the production of furniture in artificial reefs with seabed as a new factory. - Teaching: Teacher at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d'angers (Fine Arts School Angers) and regular workshops. His contribution consists of : - creating with an economy of gestures and means, letting things exist, sometimes being against the flow and against time, always with a demanding nature. - Drawing much in order to draw the least possible. Drawing in another place. - Moving, playing, installing and looking where you think there is nothing left, but look anyway. David Enon was edited by the Tools Galerie in Paris and the Galerie MICA in Rennes. His work is part of the FNAC collections (National Foundation for Contemporary Art). When we re interested in design (whether we are producers, amateurs or users) we look at the object, its shape, its material, its lines and we appreciate what it tells us. We often underestimate what is around the object: how it dialogs and interacts with other objects that are around until this creates a system. How it influences the space it s in, the bodies it contacts. The use of objects generates gestures. Gesture of use, stories of use more or less predetermined. The question of gesture is a design matter. This is even truer since objects were produced by gestures. The potter shapes, the smith hammers, the baker kneads The gestures of the «makers» were reproduced, amplified and multiplied by the industry in order to bring comfort and progress for the largest number. But today our environment is overwhelmed by objects. Too many of too much. As a designer my first «gesture» is to un-design, to think backwards. To think of the necessary and just gesture, the one that precisely answers the needs or the problem that was presented to me. My work is based on these requirements in creative gesture (drawing) as well as in the productive gesture (producing). I try to apprehend this environment with mischief and hypothetically think that we can sometimes replace objects with a gesture, favour human, individual, collective and shared implementation. David Enon 8

9 THE PARTNERS Production Compagnie des prairies with La Magnanerie. Coproduction Office du Tourisme de Saint-Etienne, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne with the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts TALM - Site d Angers and Ville de Firminy. The artists thank all the inhabitants of Firminy that took part in this project. PROGRAMME Exhibition opening March 31 th, from 12am to 3:30pm. PERFORMANCES WEEKEND March 31 st, from 12am to 3:30pm. April 1 st from 2pm to 6pm Two days during which Looping will propose the visitors to participate a series of SERVICES. Le Corbusier biscuits tasting, guides aerobic, Sweep dance learning, indoor athletic training, testing the Firminy-map-together-folding, Xenakis pans ondulatoires played by the electro-drumming group Humbros (Charles Dubois and Simon Puiroux), sandcastles in the shape of the church Saint-Pierre, physical visits in the exhibition, dance of the masons, making of the first articulated Modulor. Two days during which Looping will propose the visitors to participate a series of SERVICES. Le Corbusier biscuits tasting, guides aerobic, Sweep dance learning, indoor athletic training, testing the Firminy-map-together-folding, Xenakis pans ondulatoires played by the electro-drumming group Humbros (Charles Dubois and Simon Puiroux), sandcastles in the shape of the church Saint-Pierre, physical visits in the exhibition, dance of the masons, making of the first articulated Modulor. Autrement Les étudiants de l Ecole des beaux-arts d Angers testent de nouvelles façons d utiliser l'espace et les objets de l'atelier. 9

10 At Maison de la Culture WORKING INTERIOR DESIGN SHOW-OFFICE BY PIERRE GUARICHE ( ) In this office, the furniture was designed by the interior designer Pierre Guariche ( ), a leading creator in the 50s and 60s. This ensemble shows how the designer cared about how the Modulor-size furniture would blend into the interior design. Le meuble-bureau PRESENTATION OF THE DESIGN FURNITURE «LA TABLE» DE FERI NOVAK ( ) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CONSULATE OF SLOVENIA «The Table» is presented in response to the Pierre Guariche s office, an exceptional design furniture created by the Slovenian architect Feri Novak, Le Corbusier s coworker in Paris in Conference «Le Corbusier and his disciples, the example of Feri Novak and Marko Zupancic, two Slovenian architects» presented by Matej Fisher, architect and teacher, Le Corbusier expert at the European Commission. RDV ON MARCH 10 TH AT 6:30PM Auditorium Maison de la Culture le bureau du dr Samec 10

11 At the church Saint-Pierre EXPOSITION "IN" «RITUALS AND ROUTINES» A HISTORY OF GESTURE[S] Scientific curation by Géraldine Dabrigeon, Director/curatory of the Site Le Corbusier Installation/scenography/logistics : Site Le Corbusier Transportation : Bovis Fine Art Muséographism : Anastasia Margie Communication : Kaksi Design In the middle, work and its mutations. Around, the gesture as a body movement aiming the execution of something. A gesture that is learned, repeated, lost, interiorized, and becomes familiar a nd natural like a ritual, a routine. «Evoking gesture is evoking life» since it separates animated from unanimated, alive from dead. Work is a central part of life to which men and women have been giving most of their time since the beginning of the world. Considering work gestures may lead us to examine all aspects of life, from woman s everyday life to the worker s technical gesture, from the architect s conception gesture to the artist s creative gesture. About thirty modern and contemporary works reveal working gestures, simple gestures of life, productive or not, transforming the reality or responding to simple needs. 11

12 EXHIBITION ROUTE The exhibition route revolves around gesture and its representation or evocation in art from the Neolithic era up to now. This functional gesture aims the execution of a task. It can be efficient, useful, destined to the production of an object, a message, an order, or participate to the transformation of reality. THE LITTLE AUDITORIUM shows work gestures, may they be artistic or productive. Man may have forgotten them, stopped practice them or tried understanding them in order to find them back or still get inspired by them. THE LARGE AUDITORIUM shows the definition of gesture as a body exterior movement seen as an expression of the way someone does or is. It can be essentially seen or read through the hands, the face, the look and the general body attitude. David Philippon, Numeric print Coll.Private Le Corbusier, The Hands Woollen tapestry, 1951, Coll. of the Cité Internationale de la Cité de la tapisserie d Aubusson. THE TRANSITION SPACES focus on productive gesture showing its roots in the local agricultural and industrial history since the Industrial Revolution of the «Glorious Thirty» (1940s 1970s) until the closing of these factories that are now considered as industrial heritage. Armand Bloch, The Miner Bronze, 1905 Coll. Puits Couriot / Parc-Musée de la Mine / Saint-Étienne Métropole.

13 THE POEM OF THE RIGHT ANGLE ROOM approaches woman s gesture in the everyday life, a technical and ritual gesture that lead designers to the creation of objects and to the development of home economics industry. THE PANURGE ROOM AND THE MODEL ROOM end this route with the evocation of the artist s and the architect/designer s gesture oscillating between technical or crafts savoirfaire, between hand drawing and technology, between concept and production. André Fougeron, Woman peeling vegetables Coll. du Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole Gabriele di Matteo, Il Giardino della pittura, Oil on canvas Collection IAC Rhône-Alpes AROUND THE EXHIBITION Guided Tour Visits in English in the Biennale exhibitions accompanied by a Site Le Corbusier s guide. RDV on Wednesdays March 15 th, 22 nd, 29 th March and April 5 th et 3pm. 3 / 4. LES PARTENAIRES AVEC LE SOUTIEN 13

14 At the church Saint-Pierre CONCERT "IN" «POÈMES ÉTOILÉS» In partnership with FESTYVOCAL Discover the gesture of a choirmaster in a place with a unique acoustic created by the international architect Le Corbusier! Under the direction of Geneviève Dumas, the choir will sing «Poèmes Etoilés». (Starry Poems) creation of Pascal Descamps (opening concert of the first Biennale FestyVocal in 2016) RDV March 25 th 2017 at 5pm (Gate opening at 4:30) Contact for presale : Association FestyVocal : reservation.festyvocal@gmail.com Entrance : 13 On preale : 10 Free under 12 D.Philippon 14

15 CINEMA "IN" In partnership with the theater le MAJESTIC in Firminy, Au cinéma le Majestic A series of films linked with the Biennale theme «work mutations» is proposed by the theater Le Majestic in Firminy every Monday for one month at the unique rate of 4 (All films are in French). Ressources Humaines by Laurent Cantet French-English Drama (realeased in 2000) RDV March 13 th at 8:30pm Merci Patron! by Francois Ruffin Documentary (realesaed in 2016) RDV March 20 th at 8:30pm Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré by Jean-Marc Moutout Comedy drama (realeased in 2004) RDV March 27 th at 8:30pm Ils ne mourraient pas tous, mais tous étaient frappés by Marc Roudil et Sophie Bruneau Documentary (realeased in 2006) RDV April 3 rd at 8:30pm 15

16 USEFULL INFORMATIONS OPENING HOURS Open every day From 10am to 12:30am and 1:30pm to 6pm ACCESS By train : gare SNCF de Firminy By bus : ligne 1 Firminy / Saint-Étienne, arrêt «église Le Corbusier» By car : N88, sortie Firminy-Centre, 2 parkings GPS Adress: Boulevard Périphérique du Stade Firminy GPS Coordinates : Latitude : Longitude : Accompanied disabled access only N88 D201 RATES Site Le Corbusier entrance fee : 5,50 / 6,50 PASS Biennale temporaire : 8 / 12 PASS Biennale permanent : 22 PASS Biennale «Guided tour» : 11 / 15 *All Pass Biennale are sold on site. GUIDED TOURS Guided tours : 4 / 10 + Site entrance Unité d Habitation every Saturday at 2pm and 3:30am Visit of Maison de la Culture and church every Saturday at 10:30am For Groups : Contact our Reservation Service Reservation «Adults and students» : e.cahingt@saint-etiennetourisme.com Reservation «School groups» : m.braquet@saint-etiennetourisme.com D1082 FREE BUS SATURDAY 11 th, 18 th, 25 th March / 1 st, 8 th April SUNDAY 12 th, 19 th, 26 th March / 2 nd, 9 th April Departure at 2pm - Stop TIL rue Javelin Pagnon, Saint-Étienne Return at 4:30pm - in front of the church Saint-Pierre - Firminy PRESS CONTACT Géraldine DABRIGEON g.dabrigeon@saint-etiennetourisme.com +33 (0) (0)