Bertrand Burgalat présente l’exposition
au Palais des Festivals de Cannes
dans le cadre du Congrès Tricatel
les 2 & 3 février 2019.
7x7 est un collectif associant l’artiste belge Jean Pierre Muller à sept compositeurs de légende (Robert Wyatt, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan, Mulatu Astatke, Kassin, Nile Rodgers et Terry Riley) et travaillant autour d’un système holistique inspiré par la force symbolique du chiffre 7.
Après Edimbourg (Summerhal), New York (WhiteBox) et Londres (FiveYears), le cadre prestigieux du Palais des Festivals à Cannes est l’environnement idéal pour venir découvrir le projet 7x7 dans sa nouvelle mutation, images et sons s’y mêlant aux échos et voix de cette usine à rêves qu’est le cinéma.
À ne pas manquer à cette occasion la performance acoustique de Sean O’Hagan parmi les créations de Jean Pierre Muller, qui sera suivie du concert de Chassol.
The Long March
Hey you up there.
Penny the price for your thoughts.
Hey you down there.
Penny the price for your thoughts.
We dreamed after our travels
Of Kennedy’s Gold
We dreamed after our travels
Of missionaries closed.
We dreamed after our travels
Of King Leopold.
Of missionaries closed.
Of Kennedy’s Gold
Of Kennedy’s Gold
Of Kennedy’s Gold
So please give me your hand
Please give me your hand
We sing, we step,
Our clothes, we kept.
We count, we pray,
We count, the days.
We’re known, but not,
At home, we’re lost.
We sing, we step,
Possessions left .
We sing, we step,
Possessions left.
We sing, we step,
Possessions left .
We sing, we step,
Possessions left .
(Lyrics by Sean O'Hagan)
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Jean Pierre Muller: 13-27 January 2018
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The Long March chronicles the journey of two children on the run. We don’t know what and why they are fleeing, but their voyage sees them cross paths with many other people on the move. They witness the ancestors’ long marches and interact with each of the seven gods of the week; they hear speeches pronounced and secrets whispered; they read the signs on the walls and even find time to play. The Long March has been conceived under the aegis of Jean Pierre Muller’s ongoing 7x7 series in which seven leading musicians – Archie Shepp, Terry Riley, Robert Wyatt, Sean O’Hagan, Kassin, Nile Rodgers and Mulatu Astatke – have each collaborated individually with Muller on themes inspired by the mythical associations of the seven days of the week, the seven notes of the scale and the seven colours of the rainbow. The Long March emerged from conversations both personal and artistic between Muller and Archie Shepp, the celebrated jazz giant. Originally conceived for a stage show, the large prints on fabric, with their subtle transparencies and supple combinations, proved so rich a language that Muller began working with them as compelling installation materials in their own right. Wandering amongst them, the viewer embarks on a perilous voyage. |
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FIVE YEARS
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#makeamericagreatagain
Mac Premo + Duke Riley | Louise Fishman | Regina Jose Galindo
Kyle Goen | Federico Solmi | Ivan Navarro | Cris Gianakos | James Hyde
Jaishri Abichandani | Conrad Atkinson | Isaac Aden
ANVIL Collective | Luis Alonzo Barkigia | Majeed Benteeha
Terry Berkowitz | Hans Breder | The Blue Noses | Alberto Borea
Robert Boyd | Juanli Carrion | Paolo Cirio | Tony Conway | Joseph DeLappe
Dread Scott | Eduardo Gil | Mathew Grenier | Glenn Goldberg
Pablo Helguera | Richard Humann | Samuel Jablon
Juan Lazaro + Jevijoe Vitug | Alexander Kosolapov | Teresa Margolles
Ferran Martin | Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo | Mary Mattingly
Yusef Merhi | Igor Molochevski | Robert Priseman | Fariden Sakhaeifar | PS3*
Joaquin Segura | Vitaly Komar | Edgar Serrano | Elliott Sharp
Wolodymyr Starosolsky | Quintin Rivera Toro | Terreform ONE | Wojtek Ulrich
Ruben Verdu | Roberto Visani | Johan Wahlstrom | Jordan Weber | Roger Welch
Hans Winkler | Irena Lagator Pejovic | Antonio De La Rosa |Micha Das Bach
Luis Alonzo Barkigia | Aliana & Jeff Bliumis | Carla Gannis | Jamie Martinez
Jean Pierre Muller | Ben Sakoguchi | Khaled Jarrar | Lee Wells | Marshall and Ligorano Reese and more
#makeamericagreatagain is a group exhibition of diverse media that will run during February and coincide with the initial Democratic and Republican primaries. The exhibition’s title is culled verbatim from Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Appropriation does not stop there, however, for #makeamericagreatagain thematically rubs up against the demagoguery prevalent in the current American social and political landscape and rhetoric espoused by primary candidates to engender fear in the American public.
The appropriated hashtag also serves as curatorial device to further expand the exhibition into social media. The exhibition-viewing public and those not physically present to see the show, will be asked to upload images or texts with the hashtag of #makamericagreatgain onto Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. These contributions will become part of the exhibition and will be interventions into existing social media sites with the same hashtag.
Curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes / Co-curated by Blanca de la Torre
More information forth coming
whitebownyc.org
February 28th to March 27th 2016
Opening Reception Sunday March 6th | 6 – 8pm
ColorBox and A Red Show in A are the latest works to emerge from Jean Pierre Muller’s innovative 7×7 project. 7×7 is an inter-disciplinary collaboration between Belgian artist Muller and seven musical luminaries from a variety of contemporary genres; Nile Rodgers, Robert Wyatt, Mulatu Astatke, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan, Kassin and Terry Riley. 7×7 is based on the simple principle that the seven colors of the rainbow correspond to the seven notes of the scale, the seven days of the week (and deities and planets associated with those days) and the seven chakras. Seven sound altarpieces have been created, in an edition of seven, each housing an original music by one of the seven composers. A is Red is Monday, Day of the Moon and of Diana (Robert Wyatt), B is Orange is Tuesday, Day of Mars (Archie Shepp), and so on.
In the summer of 2012, Muller created a full site-specific set for 7×7 at Edinburgh’s Summerhall: 7x7th Street. As its name suggests, this was actually a real street with billboards, signs, small houses, …
A year later, Jean Pierre Muller and Nile Rodgers created An Indigo Night in F at the same venue, an amazing show combining music, live painting and theatre. This acclaimed event was inspired by their collaboration on the 7×7-F-Indigo sound altarpiece.
For WhiteBox, Jean Pierre Muller will present two original shows related to 7×7: Spectrum on the main level and A Red show in A on the lower level.
ColorBox
Isaac Newton divided his color wheel in seven parts: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. White is in the central part of the diagram, because all colors of light mixed together produce white. 7×7 at WhiteBox makes complete sense.
How can we embrace diversity in a world torn by the conflict between standardization and obsession for identity? Muller wishes to pen the color box and celebrate the full spectrum of our lives in their many contradictions. Rather than taking the stance of the artist as a moralist, he embarks us on a journey through the seas of complexity and the skies of hybridity.
Sometimes taking a sound panoramic view on things – drawing lessons from past history, digging into the origins of words, the meaning of symbols – sometimes zooming into our most intimate obsessions, Muller utters a multi-layered cry for life, plural yet deeply personal.
As much a painter as a printmaker, Jean Pierre Muller also uses light, sound and interactivity to make us feel the beat of the world, the rhythm of life. The elements that Jean Pierre uses in his art reflect processes of urban evolution and the way people become connected to each other through common experiences and references. Like streets grown organically over time, these elements interact through juxtaposition and ever increasing layers of complexity and history. They also tell many intertwined stories, much like the intertwined stories of people in a street, who may not know each other but are linked through commonality of space and time.
A Red Show in A
Jean Pierre, together with Robert Wyatt, one of music’s greatest shamans, has expanded and deepened the rich material used for their 7×7-Red-A sound altarpiece. It is a nostalgic salute to Al-Andalusia, when Spain was under Moorish rule and religions coexisted peacefully (at least, this is the way one can dream of it today, when everything concurs to convince us we’re at war with the others). The most powerful symbol of this period is the Alhambra palace in Granada. This golden age ended in 1492 with the Alhambra Decree and the expulsion of all the Jews from Spain. Al-Hamra means the Red one, in Arabic…
For WhiteBox, the artist has built his own Alhambra, a red temple to house the 7×7-Red-A sound altarpiece, with meaningful columns and whispering walls (with voices by Robert Wyatt, but also Terry Riley, Archie Shepp and Nile Rodgers). Muller has adapted Kazimir Malevich’s emblematic paintings of the Black Square, the Black Circle and the Black Cross into a Red Star of David, a Red Crescent and a Red Cross. These are powerful symbols to initiate a new reflection on hybridity, coexistence, expulsion… and the power of symbols.
Following on from the success of 7x7th Street and An Indigo Night in F with Nile Rodgers, Spectrum and A Red Show in A represent the next stage in a truly international project of ever-growing artistic ambition and cultural resonance.
whiteboxnyc.org/event/color-box-a-red-show-in-a/
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Nile Rodgers and Jean Pierre Muller talk about 7x7, Indigo and how to Get Lucky, in a Fascinating BBC program: |
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01br4x4
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This Midsummer's Eve at Summerhall, music legend Nile Rodgers launches the first of the 7x7 series of art and music events with Indigo Night, an insider's tribute to Harlem.
Nile Rodgers' reputation as a producer, songwriter and performer is second-to-none. He currently has the biggest selling record in the world with Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams and has been an artist of global standing for the past thirty years.
Indigo Night will feature Rodgers singing, talking and acting his way through an account of the cultural and social life of Harlem from the time of the Harlem Renaissance in the Twenties to the present day. In addition to his musical talents, Rodgers is a consumate raconteur. He will interweave tales from his own life as told in his best-selling autobiography Le Freak and, in a pioneering duet of sound and scenography, Belgian artist Jean Pierre Muller will create a constructivist-inspired stage set during the perfomance.
As Rodgers develops his theme through characteristically wry observation and innate musicality, Indigo Night will recreate the heady atmosphere of Harlem's glory days when song and dance continued well into the night.
Indeed, this is a rare opportunity to see a stadium-filling superstar within the intimate setting of Summerhall's Dissection Room.
Nile himself says of Indigo Night, 'This is my favourite project. I want us to create something unique.'
7x7 is an inter-disciplinary collaboration between neo-pop artist Muller and seven musical luminaries from a variety of contemporary genres; Nile Rodgers, Robert Wyatt, Mulatu Astatke, Archie Shepp, Sean O'Hagan, Kassin and Terry Riley. Following on from the success of last year's 7x7 exhibition of Muller's sound sculptures at Summerhall, Indigo Night represents the next stage in a truly international project of evergrowing artistic ambition and cultural resonance. |
D - MULATU - GREEN - THURSDAY - JUPITER - ANAHATA
Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian Jazz and one of the
Magnificent Seven Music Geniuses involved in the 7x7 adventure
comes to Brussels for what promises to be an extraordinary concert
on the eve of his 70th Birthday.
Friday November 16th at 20.00
AB, 110 boulevard Anspach, 1000 Brussels
Tickets & Info:
http://www.abconcerts.be/en/
Click on the link to see the project :
http://jpmuller.be/SP7x7
http://www.summerhall.co.uk
http://www.summerhall.co.uk/2012/archie-shepp-in-concert/
2011-11-07 | Up and Coming Events
Seduced by the city, Jean Pierre Muller offers us a vision of urban life as a myriad of colour and a multitude of characters, interweaved with the lines of the cityscape. His infatuation is not to do with architecture, more “the intense congregation of human beings and their vibrancy: the one million novels that could be written; the one euro coin that has passed through a million pairs of hands”.
Clearly a lover of narrative, his show comprises, for the first time ever, an introspective look into the story of his own practice. Preparatory drawings have been uncovered, sketchbooks of newspaper clippings opened, and unseen works exposed. Along with the works and styles we know him so well for – silk-screen cities on paper, metal silhouette portraits, printed palisades – Jean Pierre will also present his latest body of work, Ulysses and the Sirens, based upon the story of Homer’s poem The Odyssey.
This show is a prelude to an upcoming solo exhibition in the UK. Furthermore, following on from his collaboration with artist Sean O’Hagan on the project Musical Paintings, Jean Pierre has worked with seven of the world’s most renowned musicians to develop his combined interests in music and painting through a series of interactive sound sculptures titled 7×7 to be launched in the UK in the summer of 2012.
Zedes Art Gallery
Rue Paul Lauters, 36
1050 Brussels
+32 2 646 00 04
Exhibition:
November 25th – December 24th 2011
January 4th – 14th 2012
Wednesday to Saturday: 12 – 6 pm
Private View: Thursday November 24th at 7 pm
2011-10-07 | 7x7
How to create a real dialogue between the artworks and the audience? How can we ask the viewer to experience the work on several levels?
This exchange of experience will have a chance to evolve in the 7×7 Pavilion.
The central circle will hold an installation comprised of objects, drawings and items belonging to each of the contributing artists, giving visitors to 7×7 the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the themes and narrative of the project.
From there, seven hallways will lead to seven rooms which hold each of the sound sculptures – each a secluded space so that the viewer can have an intimate relationship with the work.
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2011-06-23 | 7x7 • F :: NILE RODGERS |
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2011-06-17 | 7x7 • E :: KASSIN |
E is KASSIN
in Rio de Janeiro
rhapsody in blue
friday the 13th
venus in furs
navy
blue squadra
azzurra
the blues
krishna
blue mitchell
viagra
freya
blue velvet
friday on my mind
kind of blue
le lotus bleu
his girl friday
azzurro
one touch of venus
kind of blue
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2011-06-13 | 7x7 • F :: NILE RODGERS |
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Just yesterday, at the studio Nile and Jean Pierre were finalizing the letter F together in preparation for the CHIC concert to be held tonight at the Ancienne Belgique; it will be preceded by the presentation of the sound sculpture to the public. About this moving moment Nile has published , a nice text on his blog, Walking on Planet C : “… We Posed in Front Of The sculpture today. It was amazing to see and hear it completed. |
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2011-06-10 | B :: ARCHIE SHEPP |
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2011-06-09 | 7x7 • D :: MULATU ASTATKE |
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2011-06-08 | 7x7 • F :: NILE RODGERS |
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Nile Rodgers, Mr Hit Machine, plays live with CHIC on Monday June 13th at 8PM. |
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Nile Rodgers? ‘Le Freak’, of course! But Chic is sooooo many more immortal disco hits: ‘Good Times’, ‘I Want Your Love’, ‘My Forbidden Lover’, ‘Dance Dance Dance’… Add to that the hits of Sister Sledge: ‘We Are Family’, ‘Lost In Music’, ‘The Greatest Dancer’… Diana Ross’ ‘Coming Out’, ‘Upside Down’ and Sheila’s ‘Spacer’: it’s CHIC too…. Many have called Nile the world’s most successful producer of the XXth Century: ‘Let’s Dance’ by David Bowie, ‘Like A Virgin’ by Madonna, ‘The Reflex’ by Duran Duran or ‘Original Sin’ by INXS. It’s impossible to name everyone here, but the list of his productions include hits for the B-52′s, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Grace Jones, Eric Clapton, Cheb Mami…. |
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2011-06-01 | 7x7 • B :: ARCHIE SHEPP |
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Meeting the great Archie Shepp, last month at Jean-Pierre’s studio in Brussels, was one of those rare moments when you know that magic is a part of our lives. The world “privilege” was particularly appropriate. |
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Here are two extracts of Archie’s concert (many thanks to Annick): |
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Here is the photo album of the evening (many thanks to Frédérique, Katia et Paolo): |
| 2011-06-01 | 7x7 • G :: TERRY RILEY |
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2011-05-31 | 7x7 • G :: TERRY RILEY |
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2011-05-30 | 7x7 • G :: TERRY RILEY
Dear Jean Pierre I have begun some work on your project in a special non western tuning. How important to you is the actual G placement in terms of A 40-444 standard? I think my G in the non western tuning is closer to a western F# but that is where this music I am working on sounds best. When i tried to transpose it there was a loss in character. My G in this tuning is derived from a 5/4 relationship to B which is the actual fundamental tone of the system I am using. I am using a very unusual scale I designed which I call “the dream” tuning which does not use all 12 notes but in some cases there are two different versions of some of the tones. Anyway since my work will represent the realm of the 7th Chakra, this tuning best serves the mystery and non definitive nature of reality. Terry |
2010-11-30 | F :: NILE RODGERS
This is about a special Blue So Blue
it’s almost Purple or Violet
And when I hear the Blues
The colour I hear is Indigo
HARLEM LIGHTS
HARLEM NIGHTS
FINGER SNAPPING,
SOUL CLAPPING
JAZZ, FUNK, R’N’B
NEW JACKERS RAPPIN’
PEOPLE CALL IT CASH FLOW, HI-DEE-HO, AFRO, BUT DON’T YOU KNOW
I CALL IT INDIGO
Nile Rodgers
2010-09-30 | B :: ARCHIE SHEPP
Ain’t no need
Goin’ in town
Lookin’ for a job
I’m so tired of being turned down
Boy! Time is on…
I’m sleepin’ on the subway
All night long
Sometimes on the floor
And sometimes oh baby
Ain’t got nowhere to go
But one of these days
Gonna rise up strong
And I’m goin’ to sing
My freedom song
You and me - I have a dream….
2010-09-30 | C :: SEAN O'HAGAN
YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW,
YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW,
Shiny yellow star, never pushed too far
Sweet soul afternoon, sweet Chicago tune,
This cassette in hand, some sub label brand.
And this small cassette, breaks your heart and yet,
Curtis in the sun, reaches everyone.
Shiny yellow star, never pushed too far
Hangalang angadang din don,
angadang din don .
YELLOW, YELLOW
2010-09-30 | E :: KASSIN
Azul celeste
Azul Marinho
Os dois se encontram em Copacabana
Ceu e Mar de outono azul
Voce caminha
Na areia suja
O azul emana
Amarelinha
Dias de outono azuis
Cores complementares
Amarelo encontra o azul
Coisas fora dos lugares
Juntas formam luz
2010-03-16 | A :: ROBERT WYATT
2010-02-10 | A :: ROBERT WYATT
I chose Red for the Al- Hambra. nostalgic salute to the glory days of Al- Andalus :
before El-Cid - the role model for all fascists- launched the massive pogrom from which disaster
pseudo-Christian –”Vaticanazi Europe” emerged , going on to drown the Americas in blood.
Robert Wyatt
2010-01-30 | A :: ROBERT WYATT
