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Item: On a eu du Mal
2013
Book, 13 x 18.5 cm, 176 p, language: French, publisher: Editions de l’Olivier, Paris, ISBN: 9782823601756 .
Materials: ink, paper
Collection: collection MHKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2026/63).
Literary synopsis
On a eu du Mal tells five stories about characters that have troubles dealing with their emotions, in very different contexts: two kids in a Canadian campground, a sociopath collecting cone pines in the forests of Switzerland, a ski-resort worker stuck in an avalanche, a jogger in peril and a volunteer for experiments on memory distortions in a summer university.
Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice
On a eu du Mal is the result of an artist residency at the Centre for Affective Sciences and Geneva Neuroscience Centre. It shares influences (Neuroscience, Tourism, Landscape) with other artworks by Jérémie Gindre of the same period.
Authorship: Artist Author.
Creative Strategy: Artwork-Novel Parallel Lives, Publishing House.
Genre: Adventures, Bildungsroman, Plain Fiction.
Theme: Accidents, Childhood, Everyday Life, Freedom, History, Identity, Memory, Mental Illness, Mysticism, Nihilism, Sports, States of the Self.
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Cover, 'On a eu du Mal', 2013
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Malheur des Gros. Acrylic on carved wood 120×160cm. 2013
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Strongmen's Achievement. Slate flour on stone, maple floor, India ink on canvas 60×460×90cm, 160×110. 2008-2010. Collection: Fonds cantonal d
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Feelilng Like This. Series of 24 drawings. India ink and pencil on paper 29.7×42cm, 29.7×21cm. 2012
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