For his autumn\u2019s exhibition, CCC has chosen to focus on belgian artist Michel Fran\u00e7ois, one of the leading artists in the French Community of Belgium, which work is now being exhibited throughout the world. This is the first retrospective of the the large\u2010format posters created by the artist since 1994, for each new exhibition. <\/p>\n
This event has been organised and co-produced with the MAC\u2019s \u2013 Mus\u00e9e des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu (Belgique) and brings together for the first time the whole of Miche Fran\u00e7ois\u2019s 45 posters, republished and printed in en edition of 500 copies for the CCC. <\/p>\n
True to the artist\u2019s philosophy, to enable the public to take a poste home with them, the CCC will make them available to visitors for the duration of the exhibition. The photographic framing of his shots, sometimes rigorously constructed, sometimes For his autumn\u2019s exhibition, CCC has chosen to focus on belgian artist Michel Fran\u00e7ois, one of the leading artists in the French Community of Belgium, which work is now being exhibited throughout the world. This is the first retrospective of the the large\u2010format posters created…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[135,445],"class_list":["post-23761","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-exposition","mec_category-michel-francois"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/23761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccod.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
From the manner in which he takes photographs, we might easily guess that Michel Fran\u00e7ois is a sculptor. The tension between the volumes, the contrasts of materials and density, the
rhythm as well as the arrangement of the forms always have a powerful, physical presence
in his pictures. <\/strong><\/p>\n
intuitive and spontaneous, contributes to a particular relationship with space, light and the
body; it involves slicing into the movement of life, extracting blocks of space and time from it
and making the tensions, vibrations and energy flows visible and almost tangible.
Throughout his works, hands knead, blend, grasp, clasp, embrace, mark, constrain and stack.
Michel Fran\u00e7ois identifies or puts together \u201csculptural situations\u201d that are normally not
identified in this genre; working a bar of soap into a lather between one\u2019s hands, biting into
a block of chocolate, putting on a sweater, gripping a stone firmly before breaking it,
squeezing a belt around one\u2019s waist, etc. For him, all of these movements are sculptural
actions and aesthetic gestures.
Michel Fran\u00e7ois\u2019s photographs, and in particular those which he turns into posters
distributed far and wide with no commentary, invite the spectator or passer by to no longer
be satisfied with a vicarious knowledge of life, with bartering images against sensations and
representation against experience, but to pitch into the world and reinvest his images with
their own observation.
A coproduction with the MAC\u2019s \u2013 Site du Grand Hornu , Belgium<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"