Edition 2012

Laurent Tixador

Born in 1965 in Colmar. Lives and works in Nantes.

An art adventurer, Laurent Tixador sets up projects about utopian subjects and carries out extreme actions. Hence, he undertook several expeditions to Greenland, before becoming the first artist to reach the North Pole. ‘What interests Tixador is the re-experimentation of pre-technological situations and the research into primordial gestures and materials, while clearly being situated in the context of the beginning of the 21st century. ... A critical vision? More like putting reality and our ways of grasping it to the test. A kind of deceleration manoeuvre, a sideways approach to the contemporary human condition, a very healthy disconnecting of man/modernity, even when this proves to be eminently of today...’ writes Jean-Marc Huitorel. For the Atelier des Ailleurs, Tixador has chosen to put himself at the service of the scientists. By deliberately effacing his own creative output to the benefit of the work carried out by the scientific community on Kerguelen Islands, his desire is to comprehend nature through various specialities, and to live singular experiences so as to conform to specific visions of the landscape.

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