2009

Oye life! - November 19 to December 4 Garden room

Salon d'automne

The Garden Room offers its walls to an artist full of talent, Laëtitia Cassan. For his exhibition, Oye life, the artist takes the visitor through great famous games, hopscotch and snakes and ladders. Hopscotch, represents the various stages of life from birth to death, the main symbols are evoked. While the game of the goose, to better understand learning to do to attain knowledge at the end of each stage. These two themes reflect his attraction to these universal symbols and invite the visitor to a reading not only of the given item but the whole table with infinite pleasure and contemplation. Playing with shapes and colors, making each painting a tangle of lines and curves, works Laëtitia Cassan offer a concentrated color and harmony. Working in acrylics in a style between surrealism and illustration, each canvas is sufficient in itself, but not all complement then forming a huge painting. An element begins on a canvas and extends well in the following table as a transmission, sharing, offering a work that is an ode to life da ns all its complexity and richness.

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Opening, Friday, November 19 at 18.30 - Free
city of Albi, Cultural Affairs Department, 05 November 1978 63 49

THE MARELLE

Until the nineteenth century ^e, hopscotch was as much an adult game as a child before becoming a game for boys and girls only. Our days, we do not see much in the course of our schools. Yet it all a symbol of life that allows reflection.

Little girl, I spent hours playing the game of Hopscotch. Without getting tired and with perseverance, I drew his ground track and chose the puck with emotions that I would travel.

Today, I decided to ask a reflection on the game through paintings.

I illustrate the boxes according to my feelings. Boxes that define the important symbols that were seen during this stay on earth. Birth, motor skills, autonomy, learning, acquiring a social identity, intimacy and isolation, stagnation, to arrive at the result of his life.

I'm in the "earth" and gradually force the puck to start jumping on one foot, bend down, turn around, pick up, repeat the circuit up to Section 8 Then I reach the sky. And then last stroke, I exceed.

But be careful not to make mistakes otherwise everything again.

I missed, too bad. I now have to redo them to this land so small. The journey may be long, it is less easy to achieve a small land cover such a large sky.

And when I think of this game, I see my soul in this puck thrown on the course of life. I must avoid the pitfalls, well point, well run, again, learn to accurately anticipate the events that I slowed to a future that is mine and making it a totally complete.

This small puck moving from one stage to another, evokes the spirit shaped the initiatory journey of life.

Jump on one foot, is the difficulty to walk this path chaotic. We must learn to stay balanced as possible between good and evil, pain and happiness ...

Repeat this trip in reverse, to hone his personal journey. Passages are always difficult to predict! Nothing is simple. After several shots, anything can possibly go in order. Go, come, again, exceed, and not fail.

Hopscotch is a game initiatique.Voilà symbolic and perhaps why before, adults are often played.

GAME OF THE GOOSE

Entertaining and symbolic time, the game of the goose is universal. Invented during the Trojan War, it does no strategy, but its rules lend themselves to many historical allusions, mythological, educational, religious, political or otherwise.

I chose to use this game goose steps to evoke eternal and universal of all human existence. It is a further more detailed steps of hopscotch.

I found that a priori very few people even know and have played this beautiful game. I hope to give him his notes of nobility.

course, the chance is there, watch for you. Sometimes lucky, you suddenly advances very quickly but there is always an obstacle somewhere that may surprise you. Life Is not done so? The boxes are just beautiful and there. A spiral of 63 boxes rolled inwards and having a number of obstacles. The idea is to be placed in an initiatory journey with trials, delights, fears and difficulties that will allow you to build your character. Are you ready to win the game?

You can run the 2 dice and good luck!

First stage: The goose turquoise

You births and clear this aqueous medium. Your mom is there, it comfort you, help you often. You need it to grow. His hands and cheering you protect you in your learning steps toward walking. The necessary security blanket is always ready to follow you everywhere, it's a chance! The 2-3years as worst enemies were the big - bad wolves. Anything can become a great - bad wolf, even your anger, so beware and woe to him who opposes your desires to be autonomous. And if you fall on the deck of Block 6, steering box 12! Wow, what do you advance quickly!

Second stage: The goose yellow

You rejoice bowls of air. You observe everything, you want to do everything. Your eye spies, he watches, observes. Now, to you all initiatives and with your bike, your 4-5 years will better watch out. Certainly you would need limits but with them, you'd feel so guilty ... So worse, what's yours is yours. Too stingy to pay, too greedy to share, you keep moving forward. But not in the dark as the ghosts make you a little scared! If you came directly to box 12, what a pity, you will have missed this desire of wanting to do! Is this then an advantage to leapfrog?

Third stage: The goose orange

Box school: you study so much that you must pass a turn. Some would say that you are wasting time. Others think differently and there would be an opportunity to learn useful concepts to life as the desire to know how it works and the opposite feeling, that you never know. Your brain is developing rapidly and thoroughly learn new concepts. The feeling comes from the need to understand the need for an animal companion that allows you to show your superiority over him. Pirate or princess, your camp is quickly chosen. It is a question of identification. Between 6 and 11 years, that's how it works! Afraid of everything, yes! Envy of all, yes! You have answered correctly, so you can roll again.

Fourth stage: The goose red

's it, you have the head on fire, a peach of hell! You feel strong and you assert yourself. And you talk about you because you love, you think you know everything, know everything and you speak, you speak ... Friends, you tell them all through your mobile phone! You talk so much, you're so active that you fall into the well by accident. Really unlucky, you spend 2 turns. And meanwhile, you put yourself in doubt, do not you know where you go or who you are, what are you doing here? ... But all this is normal, you are between 12 and 18. You're the guy with his teen identity crisis! But to get back on foot, nothing like a good party with friends! Here we go again! "Watch as I am beautiful! "This is not pride, it's just the truth. Alcohol, drugs, sex ... not even scared ...

Fifth stage: The goose pink

Let's be realistic and come back down to earth. Seeing as this land is beautiful. Create together and share our lives. Marry us, children do, work! Métro, boulot, dodo ... Need money now? For the car? This does not surprise me ... The car, always the car. One, two and sometimes three! No more teen and adult hello, not easy. Everything is mixed, a true labyrinth. You've really lost in your choice, returns to box 30 and think how to use technology. You find yourself you there anyway? I'm surprised but more power to you. Use of lust but think unemployment, isolation in this abuse is not necessarily a solution ...

Sixth stage: The Purple Goose

Need to travel, to see if it's better elsewhere? Deepen knowledge, compare, criticize, seek the ideal ... It might be that we want? We walk our legs, our legs, we contend, we prevent our legs ... They are so important throughout our lives that we do realize that now. So this concern turns into fear total disease. Age advance and if we had failed to collect all the keys to success? This Mature puts us in a contradiction between ourselves and others. Becoming lazy as opposed to have worked too, shows its face prison and punished by making us wait for deliverance. What issue? Anyone? Something? Echappons rather all that and Name that tune!

seventh and final stage: The goose multicolored

Life is made, the heart beats less cane helps us and death lurks. You die, again and good luck for your new life. Otherwise, you, the ancestor who lived, who gave us life and who now tells us, you need us as much as we needed you at the beginning of our lives. Greedy of all, you do not have much time other than being afraid of hell!