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blackleopardgirl · 4 years ago

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Show: yanis and jolie

Season 1: yanis and jolie live in Bordeaux France. They’re high school students at a boarding school. Yanis likes her, he skateboards and sees her all the time. They take the bus together, he walks her home. At their school dance he asks her out in winter and they kiss and are together. Season ends with winter in France.

Season 2: yanis and Jolie are together and loving one another. They spend Christmas with her family, she visits his family during summers at homes in southern France and they just have a summer in France together. Grow closer together. Yanis tells her he loves her. She says the same. We learn that Jolie’s father is sick

Season 3: graduation happens and Jolie attends a school for fashion and yanis for business. Jolie goes to school & sadly her dad is getting worse. She becomes more and more distant. and when her dad dies her family moves to Paris and jolie drops out of school to be closer to her family. Yanis is lost for words. The ending of the season cuts to where the end of season 1 was.

Season 4: yanis is living in Bordeaux alone. With new friends, a new girlfriend, and they spend holidays with her family, and go places together. But he can never tell her he loves her. Because he’s always thinking of Jolie. We see yanis search for Jolie online, and check up on her. But she doesn’t post much, except for sometimes with her cousins in Paris. We see yanis see Jolie in winter again together in a crowded city...lock eyes. Her eyes are watering with tears and his are already crying. they’re different people now, with similar memories.

Season 5: memories flash of yanis liking Jolie from across the rooms in lecture halls from season 1. To season 2 of them being happy in the summer, to Christmas with her family. And yanis cries. Jolie breaks down and they’re just staring at each other. They hug it out around the snow falling again. He tells her he never meant to hurt her through letters. This season is us seeing Jolie read his letters. Jolie also says she wasn’t in the right head space to be with him anymore since her dad died and gives an update on how well she’s doing in Paris. and he expressed that above all, he just wanted her to be happy; and that he’ll never love another girl like Jolie. His Cherie amour.

In the end of the season, we see yanis say

“I hope you’re happy. I hope whatever you do Jolie you’re where you want to be. I love you, and I’m so thankful that I had you.” And cuts to them kissing in Bordeaux. with a ring on Jolie’s finger showing they’re married.

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bryonysimcox · 5 years ago

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Wetlands, Dunes, Snow and Sun: Week 3, France/Spain

George, Suzi the van and I have had a jam-packed seven days. Now across the Spanish border, I look back at the diverse landscapes we’ve traversed and the things we’ve been up to.

It’s amazing what you can squeeze into a week when you’re in a van. The freedom afforded by having a home on wheels means that you pass through so many different landscapes in what is often a short amount of time, and this last week has really been a testament to that. From natural to man-made, cold to hot, coastal to mountainous, our surroundings have provided endless new things to see and do. That said, we’re still learning to balance working and doing life admin with exploring, and at times it’s hard to resist the temptation just to spend every day out and about, carefree.

We’ve found that splitting days up so that a portion is spent editing videos and doing ‘housework’ still often means we get time to go and do something fun, whether that be wandering a city, chilling at a cafe, going for a hike or even a swim.

Going through the Pyrenees was definitely a highlight for the two of us this week. It was also symbolic because it marked our crossing into another country, our first since leaving England and hopefully one of many.

That experience of driving across the mountains really got me thinking about borders and how different places transition into one another. We think of different countries such as France and Spain as distinct by the very fact that they’re different countries. And yet, what we observed was an incremental change between major cities, to towns, and then villages at the foot of the mountains - which was mirrored over the border. A border which when crossing it, seems so arbitrary. The French and Spanish villages in the Pyrenees have far more in common with one another than they do with the capital cities of their own countries!

(images) Snowy scenes from Col du Portalet in the Pyrenees.

An overland trip like this couldn’t be more different from a traditional holiday where you fly in and out of the same place, for the very reason that overlanding reveals borders and in-between places, and nuances and incremental changes within a country.

I’m really starting to have to consciously keep tabs of what we’ve been up to in order to write these blog posts. Analysis and list-making have always been my thing, but I sort of combine digital discipline with analogue chaos! So I have a Google MyMaps document where I pin each overnight location we stay at; I add pins to our Polarsteps page in each of the interesting places we visit; I upload photos to both my personal account and our shared account Broaden; I keep my own personal handwritten diary; plus I have a notebook scribbled with lists and bullet points too! So these blog posts are my own way of pulling all those inputs together. Writing a blog has also become a cathartic process for me to review the (sometimes overwhelming) influx of things we’ve seen and done, and to dig deeper into how those experiences made us feel.

Reflection enriches experiences.

The week started with a final day in the town of Coutras, as I reflected on in last week’s blog post. Coutras was the ideal place to head into Bordeaux from, as it was less than an hour’s drive away. So we got up nice and early (for once!), with a packed lunch and cameras charged, and drove into Bordeaux. The parking gods smiled down on us that day, as we found a free all-day parking spot in a nice neighbourhood just 30 minutes walk from the city centre. It was also gloriously sunny, which was perfect for what we had planned: filming an introductory video to our documentary channel, Broaden.

Once in Bordeaux, I was really impressed by how much cycling and walking infrastructure there was, and how integrated it seemed to be with public transport. With cars diverted along key routes, streets were generally left feeling spacious and peaceful (at least compared with the UK and Australia), and especially along the waterfront which featured wildflower planting, a wide promenade, and grassy tram track. People sat outside cafes and on benches, other folk walked, jogged and sprinted, others pushed pushchairs, and some rollerbladed and skateboarded too. As Jane Jacobs would call it, the “sidewalk ballet” was on display.

We were really taken by Bordeaux, and happy to have chosen it as the setting for our next video. I’m even getting used to walking around cities with a tripod and big camera bag!

(images, left to right) Grassy tram tracks in Bordeaux, George filming our latest video, and the Glosse Cloche, a 7.75-ton 18th-century bell within Bordeaux’s old city walls.

Filled up with coffee, cake, and cannelés (a local sweet treat), we were happy with the footage we’d shot and said goodbye to Bordeaux. The city’s chilled-out and welcoming vibe did slightly change as we walked back to the van, however. It’s not as though anything explicit happened, but we emerged from the bubble of the central tourist area and were confronted by busier streets with homeless people and rowdy crowds - subtle things which make you scurry along quicker or keep an eye on your belongings. It reminded me that we only ever see a fraction of a place and make our assumptions about it biased by things like the weather and our first experience of it. Perhaps Bordeaux has its darker sides and downsides too…

On the drive out of Bordeaux, we found a service station with free water refills and even free hot showers! We found it via Park4Night, an online community and a resource we literally couldn’t live without. It still feels a bit weird taking free stuff from places, but given that the infrastructure is there, I have to remind myself that attitudes towards campers and caravanners in mainland Europe are different and more welcoming than I’m used to.

Using Park4Night again, we found a spot to stay overnight in La Teich. I didn’t know much about the place, and must admit we didn’t feel completely comfortable as we arrived there in the dark. But our fears were eliminated the next day as the sun rose and we discovered we were basically in the middle of a picturesque nature reserve! We spent the day in Suzi, and I wrote my blog post (I was a bit behind last week) while George edited his mammoth documentary about the Mont Blanc ultramarathon. It was only in the evening when we went for a walk that we realised the scale and beauty of the coastal wetlands that we had parked next to.

(images) Incredible views as we wandered the wetlands of the Réserve Ornithologique Du Teich.

As the sun set over the wetlands, we wandered along sandy paths with grassy embankments, accompanied by the sights and sounds of abundant wildlife - made all the more breathtaking because it was so unexpected.

The next day, after a morning of life admin we visited the Dune du Pilat. I think we both thought that we’d just park up on the side of a road and see a big sand dune next to us, but it was a lot more of a tourist destination than we expected! That said, Europe’s tallest sand dune didn’t disappoint, and at 100m tall and 500m wide, it pretty much came with a free workout just getting up the damn thing. Vast, scaleless, shifting shapes of sand continued as far as the eye could see, stretching up towards the sky and sloping down towards the ocean. Of course, I was desperate for another swim and even convinced George to come in for a sea dip.

(images, left to right) The Dune du Pilat, and an ocean swim in the Bay of Biscay at the bottom of the dune.

Refreshed by an ocean swim and a sandy workout, we drove for two hours southbound, and stayed the night in Pomarez. With free water and electrical hookup, it made for a good spot to do more work, though we were a bit conflicted by the fact we were parked next to the ‘Arena’, basically a bull-fighting ring (shocking that this tradition still continues). That said, the presence of bullfighting in this nondescript French village was a good indication that we were near the Spanish border, and we were pretty excited to be travelling onwards into Spain, a country both George and I are really fond of.

We left Pomarez and got to the Pyrenees that night as the light faded. We were both really keen for doing a big hike and so I’d found a 20km loop track online that started near the village of Gabas. However, once there, the access road was closed off due to risk of avalanches so we continued on to Lac du Fabrèges - a slightly less secluded spot than we’d wanted but still a stunning setting next to a huge man-made lake. What’s more, we were surrounded by snow-capped mountains which got George rather excited, especially as we’d aborted our trip to the Alps a fortnight before.

The next morning I got my third wild swim of the trip in the bag, and possibly my most stunning setting to date: icy turquoise waters framed by craggy mountains and snow off in the distance.

(image) An icy wild swim at Lac du Fabrèges.

We passed through Col du Portalet, a ski village on the French-Spanish border where we’d seen there were some walks online. During the ascent, we realised we’d been somewhat naive about the amount of snow there might be - once we got to the top our entire surroundings were blanketed in snow and everyone else in the carpark was putting on skis or cramp-ons! So instead, we visited the duty-free shop and bagged some cheap, cheap wine, before heading down the Spanish side of the mountain and on the hunt for a hike.

The hike we eventually found was exactly what we were looking for. Starting from the town of Escarillas, the steep ascent took us along a rocky path up the side of a valley, at times through wooded patches and other times opening out to vast vistas of the surrounding peaks. We only saw a handful of other walkers and it felt like such an honour to have this majestic setting all to ourselves. Nearing the top, we saw that beyond the lake there was a considerable amount of snow and the path was no longer distinguishable, and although excited by the thought of charging ahead up a snowy mountain, we decided instead to walk the perimeter of the frozen lake before heading back down the way we came.

(images) Our hike from Escarrilla up to Embalse de Escarra.

All in all, it was a brilliant 13km walk, though we were certainly over-prepared in terms of clothing, and didn’t touch the extra jackets, waterproofs and even headtorches that we carried in our bags! In fact, it was so warm for February that the weather felt rather alarming, and it confirmed what we’d seen and heard: we’d seen plenty of ski lifts closed and ski runs with no snow, and been told that climate change is noticeable in the region through this mild winter.

There’s no doubt we’ll continue to see the effects of climate change on our travels. As we observe unusually high temperatures here in Spain whilst watching flooding in Hebden Bridge back home from afar, it’s hard to come to terms with the idea that freak weather events will only continue. I only hope that we can find people and initiatives looking to tackle them, who we can support and celebrate through videography.

Sunday night saw us leave the Pyrnees and head south. Suzi struggled up the highway towards Huesca, which was undoubtedly the longest continuous incline we’ve taken her up. It reaffirmed the importance of getting her engine looked at, and so finding a garage in Spain is now a key priority.

Once in Huesca, we rounded the week off with a really relaxed day in this charming town. The sun was shining, the doors of the van were flung open, and we even befriended another van-dweller, a lovely Scotsman called Dominic and his affectionate Labrador, Bolacha (that’s ‘biscuit’ in Portuguese!). George got some more editing done, whilst I polished our boots, cleaned the van, and even made a collage.

(image) ‘Double Gaze’, my latest collage for Analogue Bryony and the first created in the van.

With one eye on the mountains to the north, and one eye to the rest of Spain to the south, bursting with adventures yet to be had, I am so very grateful.

#Traveldiaries #suzithevan #toyotahiace #overlandadventures #digitalnomads #bryonyandgeorge #vanlife #hiacevan #lifethroughalens #vanliving #consciouscommunity

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baptfrack · 8 years ago

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#drawing #dessin #design #illustration #art #artwork #inspiration #skateboard #skater #graffiti #liberty #paint #painting #model #ink #sketch #handmade #streetart #style #speed #fast #rider #city #cruise #bordeauxtattoo #bordeauxmaville #bordeaux #bfk

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artwalktv · 7 years ago

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"Good Weekend" a short film project, filmed over two days in Leo's hometown of Bordeaux, France. Format: Kodak 16mm Cinematography: Blake Myers Animation: Michael Cukr Editor: Blake Myers Music: "Since I left You" by The Avalanches Special Thanks to DC shoes, Magenta skateboards, Riot skateshop, Thom Pringle & Arc en rêve and the city of Bordeaux. Interview with Leo - http://bit.ly/2EvT8Tw

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karoltabis · 6 years ago

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Edouard Depaz is a busy man. We've been trying to catch up for a while now. If you’ve ever met Edouard, you’ll know he’s a humble dude both on and off the board and in recent years, he’s built himself a tidy profile in the European scene. In fact it seems not a month goes by without seeing some new footage, whether it be a Levi’s Berlin mission, the latest Octagon clip or building a DIY spot in Bordeaux with the Rave Skateboards guys. Having crossed paths frequently over the years we always spoke about filming a clip of sorts; whether it be an insight into his hometown of Bordeaux, or a weekend of street missions in Paris where he currently resides. In the end we did both, mainly due to our Bordeaux catch up being rained out and the fact that we love an excuse to skate the French capital. The end result is 'Serene', a raw insight into Edouard's daily vibes and a reflection on the cities that shaped his skateboarding.

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qamopro · 6 years ago

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Good Weekend - "Good Weekend" a short film project, filmed over two days in Leo's hometown of Bordeaux, France. Format: Kodak 16mm Cinematography: Blake Myers Editor: Blake Myers Animation: Michael Cukr Music: "Since I left You" by The Avalanches Special Thanks to DC shoes, Magenta skateboards, Riot skateshop, Thom Pringle & Arc en rêve and the city of Bordeaux. Interview with Leo - http://liveskateboardmedia.com/en/article/meeting-leo-valls

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sujbuff1 · 6 years ago

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juniorformulamotorsport · 6 years ago

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Wednesday, May 9th – Day 5, Bordeaux

I started the day with a run out from the hotel and along the riverside walk that was already busy with other runners, walkers, cyclists and skateboarders. It gave me an opportunity to figure out the lie of the land between the hotel and the river, and provided some lovely views of the Port de la Lune as it is known, being on a crescent shaped part of the Garonne.

And so we had a full day to ourselves to explore Bordeaux. And it would prove to be nowhere near enough! But first, we had breakfast in the hotel. It wasn’t as impressive a spread as at the Chateau d’Etoges, but it was better than French hotel breakfasts used to be, that is for sure. Fortified for the day we decided that our first stop would be the remains of the Roman amphitheatre on the other side of the street from the hotel, a structure that must in its heydey have been quite impressive. To compare it with the amphitheatre at Trier, that seated 20,000 spectators, while the estimate for Bordeaux is that it would have held 15,000, so it cannot have been much smaller.

There is also considerably less of the Bordeaux building left. Apparently the Revolutionaries saw to that, as they considered it to be of no value. As a result there are just a few arches and some wall left, though a chunk of distinctly Roman brickwork is clearly visible in the wall of a nearby house in the rue du Colisee.

You can view the remains from either side, so we made sure we did, encouraged to do so by the fact that it meant we got to wander through the lovely streets of small merchants houses, related to those in the Chartron area of town. There are apparently around 5000 of these still in existence, and now that most of them have been cleaned of the blackness created by exposure to a couple of centuries of rain, they are utterly delightful. I’d love to live in one.

There are restaurants, shops and all sorts of businesses in some of them and the area feels both lived in and loved. You can even purchase all sorts of 1960s tat that you never knew you needed!

After that we headed for the nearby Tourist Information office. I have to say that the Bordeaux Tourist Information website is a fine example of how such sites should be (rather like that other superb offering from VisitCopenhagen), so we had plenty of information in advance. We wanted to buy a Bordeaux City Pass each so we could get into many of the museums and onto public transport for no extra cost, and also into la Cité du Vin provided we got there before midday (after noon it costs a relatively nominal €5 with a City Pass card). In addition, you have a choice of a bus tour, a tourist train tour or a walking tour once you’ve bought your card, and if you opt for the open top bus tour, as we did, you also get priority boarding which means you get to sit on the top deck. There was a bus just about to set off so we got on and nabbed two of the best seats!

The bus sets off and goes past the rather deranged monument of the Girondins, on the edge of the Place des Quinconces, which despite being surrounded by building work, would certainly reward closer inspection later. The bus then runs round the old town area, stopping by a variety of monuments and historic sites, but as this is a get on and stay on rather than a hop-on, hop off tour, we didn’t get to look closer and instead used the tour as an opportunity to get our bearings.

It also takes in both banks of the river, with the new developments taking place on the right bank proving interesting too, especially the Darwin Ecosysteme, which convinces me someone’s been to Copenhagen. There’s been a take over of some disused buildings by people starting small businesses, and lots of new housing is going up along there. At the same time the original railway station is now surrounded by pop-up restaurants and such like, and seems to be thriving.

Prior to 1822 this would have been an unlikely development with the town pretty much confined to the left bank, as there was no bridge, just untrustworthy ferrymen, and Napoleon, having been badly delayed when trying to get his forces across, had decided that a bridge was needed. Ironically perhaps, the bridge, which has 17 arches to match the number of letters in his name, was not opened until after his death. The views are superb!

After the tour concluded we grabbed a quick canelé, the local speciality cakes, a sample of which was included as part of the tour, before setting off on foot to take a closer look at some of what we now knew was out there. First we walked along the riverside part of the old town, having decided we really needed to round up some lunch. We eventually settled on le Gabriel, on the Place de la Bourse (also known as the Place Royale), a magnificent square designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, for whom the restaurant is named. Either way the restaurant provided us a very good veal tartare with fried new potatoes:

And also a very tasty foie gras:

The original plan was to put a statue of King Louis XV in the centre, but the statue was destroyed during the Revolution, and instead a statue of the “Three Graces” was installed in the same location. Local legend has it that the young women who inspired the figures included Queen Victoria, but I can find no verification for that claim.

After lunch we walked along the Rue Sainte Catherine, part of one of the routes of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a network of pilgimage routes which we seem to be encountering on a regular basis now.

There were certainly some pilgrims on the road, but it was also heaving with shoppers so we cast off onto the side roads and found some lovely and intriguing buildings, though we did also manage to get slightly lost.

Once we’d resestablished where we were we made our way to the Musee d’Aquitaine, where we wanted to take a look at the medieval remains on show. We also wanted to try and get a grip on the history of the city, and it certainly provided that in spades.

The thing I probably liked most was the replica effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine (or Alienor as she is known to the locals, her name on everything from a beauticians to a car wash!), a beautiful representation of a recumbent figure reading a book. I must admit I find it hard to imagine Eleanor doing anything as pedestrian as reading. I’m pretty sure she was mostly too busy! I wonder if it was some sort of family joke to portray her in such a way after her death.

The museum also provided an insight into a less savoury aspect of Bordeaux’s past, it’s part in the euphemistically named triangular trade or to be blunt the slave trade, which was briefly banned by the Revolutionary government, but then reinstated by Napoleon. The permanent exhibition on the subject has been in place less than a decade, so the town is late to admit its complicity in the matter, though there is also apparently a plaque in the Chartrons.

After we’d exhausted the museum we pottered gently back to the hotel, via the monument to the Girondins, which on closer inspection was even more demented than it appeared from the bus. The horses in particular are really quite extraordinary, blowing spray from their nostrils.

And so, the day was wearing to an end so we made our way back to the hotel to clean up and get ready for another hopefully wonderful dinner in a city that apparently boasts around 2,000 restaurants!

Travel 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 5, Bordeaux Wednesday, May 9th – Day 5, Bordeaux I started the day with a run out from the hotel and along the riverside walk that was already busy with other runners, walkers, cyclists and skateboarders.

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mundaily · 7 years ago

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September 24, 2017 | 267/365

Sunday. Sunny. Morning photo walk through the city while D went for a run. Endless opportunities for an image. Wandered about again. Took in the Modern Art museum. Skateboarding was the featured exhibit. Even had a couple of mentions of Portland. Small world moment.

Wine back on the plaza of choice. There are many plazas. We really liked this one in particular. Met a couple from Oxford. Retired professor. Purely magical this town of Bordeaux. Dinner on a side street. So good. Time melts away here. Almost can't go wrong with where you stop.

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noemi-jakubowska-blog · 7 years ago

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Bordeaux exhibition

The submission date for the proposals was during my planned trip to France so while in Bordeaux for couple of days, I have visited the local Contemporary Art Museum.

The museum is situated in a very interesting/beautiful historical building that used to be and old warehouse for colonial foodstuff. The first exhibition that was announcing itself on the outside of the building was ‘Skateboarding Is No A Crime’ which relates to the city’s world-wide known skateboarding culture. Even though it was a contemporary art museum I was still surprised to see an exhibition on such topic and I thought it was fantastic that the art that was being shown was something people could easily relate to. It wasn’t the majestic, on pedestal, behind a glass high art, or something incomprehensible to look at. There was no distance between the audience and the art especially that skateboarding, as the name of the exhibition suggest, is publicly marginalised and considered even a crime. I loved the fact that this culture was given such outlet to talk about it’s story and recognising the creative input within the culture.

As a supervised museum since 1984, then given the Musée de France label in 2003, the CAPC musée d’art contemporain has put together a collection of 1,299 works by 189 artists, including, on the one hand, acquisitions and purchases , and, on the other, works on permanent loan from the MNAM (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou), by the FNAC (Fonds National d’Art Comtemporain), plus those from the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, as well as loans from artists and collectors. They attest to meetings and exchanges between artists, the venue, and the museum’s different directors.

Since Octobre 2016, a permanent exhibition entitled [sic] works from the CAPC Collection presents a selection of some hundred works of the Collection displayed across the second floor galleries. 7 site-specific works are also permanently on view around the building.

----History of the collection

With acquisitions and gifts they have at times strengthened the historical and quintessential themes of this collection (the last great avant-gardes: Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Supports/Surfaces…) and at others encouraged a new generation of artists whose works renew the praxis of art while questioning various aspects of the societal model. Let us mention, for example, the gallery owner Jean Fournier who gave several major works, including a Simon Hantaï and a Joan Mitchell painting. The history of the museum’s collection thus illustrates what was and what is currently happening in the emerging art scene.

The collection’s major historical works come for the most part from the CAPC’s ground-breaking shows. They show a preference for research undertaken by artists from the late 1960s and the early 1970s (Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Serra) and are marked by a development of thinking about art, pointing to a challenge raised in relation to art praxes and the very status of the artwork (Joseph Kosuth, On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Long). Bruce Nauman’s works test the body and introduce the issue of boundaries, and of video and works as activity.

The context of the contemporary art market crisis in France in the late 1960s encouraged the emergence of groups like BMPT (Buren, Mosset, Parmentier, Toroni) and Supports/Surfaces, represented in the collection by Bioulés, Dezeuze, Viallat, and Pagès. They were all involved in a problem set aimed at “dismantling the mechanism of the act of painting as a strict act of laying paint on a surface”.

On the other hand, with Figuration libre in France, very well represented as it is in the museum’s collections (François Boisrond, Robert Combas, Jean Charles Blais and Hervé Di Rosa), and Spanish artists like José Maria Sicilia and Miquel Barcelo, the 1980s saw a return to the pleasure of painting on grand format surfaces.

Nicolas Bourriaud’s exhibition Traffic, held in 1996, steered acquisitions towards young artists with a preference for relational aesthetics and user-friendly systems (Andrea Zittel, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, Liam Gillick). Other more intimist works coming from a generation of artists marked by Aids, railed against and attested, through photographic recording of privacy and otherness, to a life on the sidelines of the model (Nan Goldin, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Jack Pierson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Absalon…).

For the past three years, the CAPC collection has also been tantamount to a rereading of modernity and the avant-garde movements of the 1970s, through a new generation of artists, with the collections taking in works by Guillaume Leblon, Diego Perrone, Vincent Lamoureux and Vittorio Santoro…

Recent shows highlighting the articulation between art and popular culture are triggering a new area of collection enrichment, forming a coherent selection of works either acquired or on permanent loan (Stéphane Dafflon, Olaf Breuning, Bruno Peinado, Dewar&Gicquel…)

The history of the CAPC collection is also that of the links which unite the place to the Bordeaux art scene, by helping with the production of artists living in the region (Buy-Sellf, Laurent Le Deunff, Benoît Maire, Damien Mazières, Perav Prod, Présence Panchounette, Chantal Raguet, Jean Sabrier and Jean-Paul Thibeau).

From: http://www.capc-bordeaux.fr/en/collection

This was a site specific piece of work and the only access was through the little window in the door. That was very interesting experience how such way of looking at the work affected it perception and made me think about ways of showing/exhibiting ones work. I like the fact that there was a limitation, that you had to push yourself on that little window and be like a little nosy kid but still, not everything was within the reach of your eyes. I like that you had to make an effort, not just as usual passively walk past looking at work. I know that it’s quite typical for Boltanski’s conceptual work.

Richard Long- also site specific work. ‘Garrone Mud Cirles, Garrone Black Mud Circle’ and ‘White Rock Line’ 1990,

‘Private property’

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