Is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. Set up by Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring and (un)usual fascinations at a certain point in time. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between
concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa.
Serious play or playful seriousness.
Schmilblique derived from Schmilblick
The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 1950s. It is absolutely useless, and can therefore be used for anything, being rigorously entire. Pierre Dac himself credits the brothers Jules and Raphaël Fauderche with its invention.
The word quickly became very popular in French language and was sometimes used as a synonym for thing or stuff, or something designating a strange or unknown object. Nowadays, this word is frequently used to refer to some limited help provided by someone to solve a difficult problem. The idiom is actually 'Faire avancer le schmilblick' (To make the schmilblick move/get ahead, literally). Also, advancing a subject.
Ouvroir | Faire avancer le schmilblick
is a space for artistic research, experimentation and imagination. To explore the absurd, bizarre, boring, the (un)usual. To dive into the potential of fragmentary bits an pieces, creating analogies between concepts, questions and ideas. Blurring fiction and reality, where nothing is what it seems and vice versa. Serious play or playful seriousness.
Set up by Karin Bartels in an attempt to articulate and enclose the fringes in the scope of her artistic practice.
Website in Process
#JardessinDuLuxe is an experimental and limited edition of a series of drawings inspired by observations of people using chairs in Jardin du Luxembourg. It was inspired by a chapter that Karin wrote in her thesis “Chance Encounters | a Gesture, an Object, a Décor.”
The series observes and chronicles contemporary life in Jardin du Luxembourg. To capture the human characteristics of the everyday, the “infraordinary” in these public gardens like in Georges Perec’s book An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris. To capture as he puts it “what happens when nothing happens.”
The experimental editions were and will be spread at random moments in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. In the convivial spirit of the garden, visitors can find the editions for free in situ on chairs and benches across the garden.
Ongoing series
#JardessinDuLuxe
• Jardessin Du Luxe • Édition expérimentale d’une série du dessins inspirés par le Jardin du Luxembourg • Édition pour le visiteur du jardin, a trouver in situ • Gratuit • Numéro ... • jardessin.du.luxe@gmail.com
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"Theatre of Life | Paris, the Garden as a Social Public Space."
Jardessin Du Luxe, édition expérimentale, public space,
Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris (FR)
Below the different editions and fragments of the editions in situ.
