Maison Auguste Comte — PhotoSaintGermain

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Beaux-Arts de Paris

Groupshow

Maison Auguste Comte

Ange Leccia

Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine

Timothy Prus

Centre Culturel Irlandais

Roseanne Lynch

Centre Tchèque de Paris

Vladimír Birgus

Institut Culturel Italien

Michele Nastasi et Stefano Cerio

Institut Hongrois

Vilmos Zsigmond

La Maison de l'Amérique Latine

Miguel Rothschild

L'Agence à Paris

Johanna Reich

Galerie Alain Le Gaillard

Ilse Bing

Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès

Mario Giacomelli

Galerie Catherine & André Hug

Costanza Gastaldi

Galerie du Crous

Thérèse Verrat et Vincent Toussaint

Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art

Emile Zola

Galerie Folia

Patrick Tourneboeuf

Galerie La Forest Divonne

Lucien Hervé

Galerie Gimpel & Müller

Galerie PhotoSaintGermain

Nicolas Silberfaden

Galerie Ségolène Brossette

Simon Brodbeck & Lucie de Barbuat, Cerise Doucède

Horizon Avenue

Groupshow

IMA - Galerie Nicolas Deman

IMA

Les Bouquinistes #1

Bandini Books × Stephen Dean × Camille Flammarion

Les Bouquinistes #2

Mireille Blanc, Un livre - une image

Les Bouquinistes #3

Thomas Mailaender × Nelson Wilmotte

Les Bouquinistes #4

Valérie Mréjen × Marion Mailaender

N°	Location	Artist	Type	District
1	Beaux-Arts de Paris	Groupshow	Institution	75006
2	Maison Auguste Comte	Ange Leccia	Institution	75006
3	Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine	Timothy Prus	Institution	75006
4	Centre Culturel Irlandais	Roseanne Lynch	Centre Culturel	75005
5	Centre Tchèque de Paris	Vladimír Birgus	Centre Culturel	75006
6	Institut Culturel Italien	Michele Nastasi et Stefano Cerio	Centre Culturel	75007
7	Institut Hongrois	Vilmos Zsigmond	Centre Culturel	75006
8	La Maison de l'Amérique Latine	Miguel Rothschild	Centre Culturel	75007
9	L'Agence à Paris	Johanna Reich	Galerie	75006
10	Galerie Alain Le Gaillard	Ilse Bing	Galerie	75006
11	Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès	Mario Giacomelli	Galerie	75006
12	Galerie Catherine & André Hug	Costanza Gastaldi	Galerie	75006
13	Galerie du Crous	Thérèse Verrat et Vincent Toussaint	Galerie	75006
14	Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art	Emile Zola	Galerie	75006
15	Galerie Folia	Patrick Tourneboeuf	Galerie	75006
16	Galerie La Forest Divonne	Lucien Hervé	Galerie	75006
17	Galerie Gimpel & Müller	Pit Kroke	Galerie	75006
18	Galerie Gradiva	Groupshow	Galerie	75007
19	Galerie l’Inlassable	Marvin Leuvrey	Galerie	75006
20	Galerie Lee	Pierrot Men	Galerie	75006
21	Galerie Madé	Marie Quéau	Galerie	75006
22	Galerie Le Minotaure	Carl Strüwe	Galerie	75006
23	Galerie PhotoSaintGermain	Nicolas Silberfaden	Galerie	75006
24	Galerie Ségolène Brossette	Simon Brodbeck & Lucie de Barbuat, Cerise Doucède	Galerie	75006
25	Horizon Avenue	Groupshow	Galerie	75006
26	IMA - Galerie Nicolas Deman	IMA	Galerie	75006
27	Les Bouquinistes #1	Bandini Books × Stephen Dean × Camille Flammarion	Librairie	75007
28	Les Bouquinistes #2	Mireille Blanc, Un livre - une image	Librairie	75007
29	Les Bouquinistes #3	Thomas Mailaender × Nelson Wilmotte	Librairie	75007
30	Les Bouquinistes #4	Valérie Mréjen × Marion Mailaender	Librairie	75007
31	Librairie des Alpes	Groupshow	Librairie	75006
32	Le Plac’Art Photo	Daisuke Yokota	Librairie	75006

Maison Auguste Comte

Curated by Pascal Beausse

Maison Auguste Comte
10 rue Monsieur Le Prince
75006
01 43 26 08 56
From monday to saturday
2pm to 7pm
augustecomte.org

Ange Leccia

Eblouissements

The art of Ange Leccia originates in a reflection on the image and cinematic material. His arrangements of objects and vehicles, created in the 1980s, were already informed by film. The development of his research in video, throughout the 1990s until today, proceeds from the total continuity of his quest for the modest statement of a non-verbalized emotion. Repeating the motifs from his repertoire, which he constantly enriches, he articulates the images in the exhibition space to suspend time and construct situations which continuously regenerate themselves. If the motifs of repetition and the loop characterize Ange Leccia’s images, we must comprehend this permanent regeneration in the image’s organic dimension, which invites us to an eternal present. In the home of Auguste
Comte he proposes to intervene in situ, in a dialogue with the space and the energies which passed through it. The practice of arrangement is a way for Ange Leccia to truly engage in a conversation with the spirit of the rooms as a way to erase the negative effects of the Denkmalkultus described by Aloïs Riegi : a building steeped in history must not remain frozen in the past, in a conservatory dimension which severs it from the present.
More than anyone, the artist is in a position to set such a space in a current time frame, sharing it with his contemporaries. His method is that of intropathy, in a Baudelarian way. Through this poetic process of communication with the souls of those having lived there, he recreates a link between their temporality and
our own. The video images he will project in different parts of the house - a room inviting a single image, projected directly onto the wall, interspersed with silences comprised of other rooms left in their current state, without the artist’s intervention, intensifying every step of the procession he creates - will invoke the feminine presences surrounding Auguste Comte, notably Clotilde de Vaux, his great love, but also Sophie Bliaux, his maid, the guardian of his home, and Caroline Massin, his wife. In Auguste Comte’s room, the last stage of the exhibition, Ange Leccia will reemploy one of the most important figures of his iconographic repertoire, echoing the gala apparel and top
hat of the great man, which are conserved and displayed next to his bed. The face of Maria Callas will appear on a Trinitron monitor. These mute images, like home invasions, will convey the intensity of art, elevated to its highest level by the Diva. Slow motion photograms, copied several times over, from the TV set to Super 8 then to video, place the dazzling emotion of the opera singer on an extreme crest, suspended.
Pascal Beausse

In collaboration with la galerie Jousse Entreprise

Maison Auguste Comte
Final residence of the philosopher, founder of «Positivism», the House of August Comte is both an apartment-museum and an archive-library centered around the philosopher and nineteenth-century thinking.