Germain IPIN & Marcan GRANIT
Ipin alias Germain Prévost, was born in 1981 in Reims (France).
Marc-Antoine Granier was born in 1976 in Nevers (France).
Ipin alias Germain Prévost, was born in 1981 in Reims (France).
Associate artist of the Cité des arts de la rue (Marseille), G. alias I. develops work at the crossroads of urban art and contemporary art.
Painter of graphic dystopias, as he calls them, they constitute the essence of a personal philosophy: playing with frames, he works to distort them, open them, even explode them to produce a profoundly social work.
His art is intended to be contextual, to create a work inseparable from its location through its form and the story it unfolds. G. alias I. is inhabited by the meaning of the gesture. The artist's quest to create new urban aesthetics and his desire to move away from the question of beauty also leads him to use constraints: through the summoning of the random (paint cannons, balloons, paint forklift, reinterpretation of municipal erasures, shades of waste, etc.); or through the use of scientific data and spreadsheets as in his “river pulses”. In his projects and in situ works, he offers us a graphic and playful look at the world in which we live.
Using non-figurative vocabulary, he tells us about the city and Man's place in it.
Intrigue the viewer's eye to try to make them change their perspective on a space, on its uses; to claim the magnificent uselessness of art and its inexorable necessity.
- Finalist for the Social Practice Art prize / le 104, Paris 2022
- National prize for the modernization of risk culture / Forum IRISES Montpellier / for the Ruisseau en sursaut project / January 2022
- Artistic Offensive Prize / Paris Biennale / for the collective work carried out at Après M / December 2021
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Marc-Antoine Granier was born in 1976 in Nevers (France).
He has been a sound artist, composer and radio producer for over 20 years.
A self-taught musician, he turns to electronic spheres, sampling and musique concrete. He records and composes with all the sounds that pass through his main instrument: the microphone. He tries to transmit through participatory workshops, meetings, the learning of the long time of listening and sound recording as an act writing. His creations, where intimate stories always resonate with sounds, evolve between documentary, musical narration and sensitive writing. They attempt to reveal the poetic modes of survival of human relationships in environmental sound fields.
He carries out freelance sound tests, he is also a radio producer on France Culture (Ateliers de la Nuit, Sur les Docks, Création on air, L'Expérience), RTBF (Belgium), RTS (Switzerland), or on forms broadcast on the internet (podcast).
A composer since the 2000s, he has also worked for theater and street arts companies (Cie KompleXKapharnaüM, Cie Entre chien et loup, Cie des Lumas, Carole Thibaut, Eric Massé, etc.), which gave him an experience of staging, field meetings and the richness of the collective stories to transmit.
- Ville Souterraine: Phonurgia Award 2019 (category: documentary)
- Total desire Mention at the Phonurgia Awards 2018 (category: fiction)
- Night bird: Short list at the Nova Romania Grand Prix in Bucharest 2021 (category: short forms)
- Freon: Short list at the Sound of the Year Awards 2021/BBC (category: Best designed individual sound)
His radio essays Between Mothers, Total Desire, Magnetic Fragment, Underground City, 23 Nights, were broadcast at festivals:
TyFilm festival, The ADHOC meetings, Festival Rien à voir, Tënk.ca...
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