Pierre-Etienne MorelleDocumentation 2014

Passage Wanderlust - 2014 - asphalt and stainless steel, 9,5m x 9,5m x -70cm, Architect : Grzeszczak Rigaud, Contracting authority : Syndicat scolaire du Tardenois - France

Plastic Bertha 2014, in collaboration with Yann Leguay, Cultural center Pekarna, Maribor/Slovenia - tarps, fans, tape, 375m2 (variable dimensions), production : Otto-prod

the black stripes - 2014in collaboration with Louise Drubigny & Yann Leguayinner tubes, iron oxyde, electric guitar, amplified speaker, triggersat Cultural center Pekarna, Maribor/Sloveniaproduction : Otto-prod

shiner 2014, in collaboration with Louise Drubigny, Cultural center Pekarna, Maribor/Slovenia, inner tubes, iron oxyde, triggers, variable dimensions, production : Otto-prod

Performance L´Heure Bleue 2013Le Cyclop de Jean Tinguely, Milly-la-Forêttarps, rubber, pulleys, rope (variable dimensions)

from a serie of 6 project drawings - Ink and collage on paper30 x 40 cm

SPLIT 2012Kunstraum enblanco, Berlininner tubes, wire, modified wooden sticks, ropes, puleys, 35m2 (variable dimensions)

lino-prints on japanese paper 35 prints + 5 AP - 30x45 cm

Detail during the performance

Burst 2011Performance, 75m2 (variable dimensions)tente, saw dust , inner tubes, rope, nailKunstraum Ozean (Atelierhof Kreuzberg) Berlin

Sonic Weapon 2011Collaborative work with Yann Leguayvidéo HDV 2 min. Production : les Instants Chavirés (Montreuil)

Speakers are catapulted in the Beauce desert while they are diffusing a white noise.

Support sur-Farce 2010 - inner tubes, steel 22 m2 (variable dimensions) - Kunstraum PMgalerie, Berlin

GROW 2008/2011 - inner tubes, sphere : Ø110cm (1000kg) + all over : 200m2 (variable dimensions), 49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE, METZ

EP 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, inner tube, brass EP extended 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, inner tube, brass Packed 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, inner tube, brass

Tight frame 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, inner tube, brass remains I 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, ratchet strap, brass remains II 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, inner tube

Bivouac - in Search of the Mount Analogue 2013Performance : 20 min. Preparation: 24 H.Chalk line, bolts, chain links, 7m 50 x 3m 40 In a long-term and constraining process, Pierre-Étienne Morelle drilled a drawing into the highest space of the gallery that permits him to climb the wall. Suspended in between its two floors, the artist installed a bivouac including objects essential for his survival (water, camping stove, noodles...) in order to prepare for his rise to the top : a physical endurance test related to the inaccessible rise of a moun-tain ridge, referencing the unfinished book of René Daumal, ‘Le Mont Analogue’, (1944).Galerie L´Atelier KSR, Berlin

Inside-out, study for Bivouac, 50 x 50 cm, oak, glass, rubber

Packed 2014 , 40 x 40 cm, inner tube, brass

987,73 (variable title) 2011inner tubes - 3,50 x 0,55 x 0,55m (variable height)

How to make one kilometer fit into 3,50m.GIZ Haus, Berlin

Double 2011/2012performance 11 modified cardboard boxes - 2,80 x 0,60 x 0,50m

Kassel (2012) & GIZ Haus Berlin (2011)

woody 2010performancecardboard tube (H: 380cm Ø:11 cm), steel stakes, hammer, greaserise of a cardboard tube

Kunstraum MainzerStraße, Berlin

Illusory dizziness 2008 video - 7 min.23co-production : Le Parc Saint Léger - centre d’art contemporain, DRAC Champagne Ardenne & La Box_Bourges

video project defying gravity

Screen Puppet 2007 video - 6 min.10co-production & co-publication : FRAC Bourgogne & ENSA DijonDVD edition of 1000 copies

I am trying to move on a fictive staircase drawn on the studio wall.

EMPTY SET 2010performance cardboard boxes, PVC tubes, wood, rollers, glue 26m x 2,70m in 380m2 This project has been conceived as a dialogue with the already existing Patrick Bouchain’s architecture. Walls are moving thanks to nine articulated units in perpetual motion, that force the viewer to move over the course of figures and trajectories of the walls.La Condition Publique, Roubaix

la cage aux fioles 2010wood, vodka, sparkling water, bourbon, still water, lemon & ice240 x 275 cm (variable dimensions)

the forgotten bar - galerie im regierungsviertel, Berlin

Following in Roman Signer’s footsteps, Pierre-Étienne Morelle invents absurd situations whose subject and purpose are their own failure. Using his own body as an instrument, Morelle tries out the scenarios by putting his physical resistance to the test. Each scenario is driven by a different constraint. In Woody (2010), he transformed a flimsy cardboard tube (previously used to support a roll of carpeting) and started to climb it by means of steel-spikes used as ma-ke-shift rungs. In Body Constrictor (2005), he wore a body suit made of inflatable cushions, which gradually expanded to the point of disturbing his equilibrium and nearly suffocating him.Once the performance is over, the objects which remain sometimes take on a new physical and narrative dimension. [...]Greek mythology teaches us that there is no more terrible punishmentthan laboring in vain, forever starting anew. Artwork afterartwork, Pierre-Étienne Morelle encourages us to think otherwise.Perhaps inspired by Machiguengas, the Indians of PeruvianAmazonia, who walk in order to prevent the Sun from setting.1

Eléonore Jacquiau Chamska

1- Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller, Picador: New York, 2001.

Extract from the catalogue a Serpentine gesture and other prophecies

transitory units 2009installation - cardboard, video projection ( slideshow 14 min. ), color tapes, 8 drawings (21x29,7 cm each)A primer of architectural forms is stimulated by the imagination of young students during a weeks workshop in high school. It is about trying to make clear a movement in space by a set of construction, deconstruc-tion and reconstruction through evolutive accumulation. The exhibition is the result of the workshop. A slideshow of the workshop is projected in a room built with the stock boxes.

Galerie FRAC du lycée Jean de la Fontaine, Château Thierry

GRAVITY III 2012aluminum, cardboard sheets & tubes, rubber, neons20 sqm2 (variable dimensions)There’s only one thing to be afraid of: the sky falling on our heads! (Gallic´s proverb)co-production : Backjumps & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/BethanienGalerie Knoth & Krüger during «rock the block» festival, Berlin

From the point of making a sound piece to cover the noise of engines 2010steel, rivets, rubber, 12 volts engines, wood, battery charger.20m2 (variable dimensions)A fake ceiling, made out of steel leaves, shakes violently every 10 minutes during 15 minutes.The noise makes any discussion underneath impossible.

Co-production : PMgalerie, la Région Picardie & Schilerkiez Neukölln.Kunstraum PMgalerie, Berlin

Platform 2010wood25m2 (variable dimensions)Co-production : PMgalerie, la Région Picardie & Schilerkiez Neukölln.

Kunstraum PMgalerie, Berlin

Chiche! 2010Steel, wood, hinges, 12 volts engine, battery charger5,40 m (variable dimensions)

Kunstraum Limbus Europae, Berlin

Body Constricteur 2005performanceinner tubes, clamps, high pressure pipe, industrial air compressor

A parodie of bodybuilding turned into a monstruous-anatomic de-monstration. The character´s silhouette quickly evolves in an extreme way, crea-ting a double contraint: this second skin suffocates and perturbes the movements of the carrier.

Museum of modern & contemporary art - MMSU Rijeka& Festival Images au Centre

project drawing 32x120 cm, ink on paper.

Faire monter la pression (Stepping up the pressure) 2005 video DV N/B 2 min. 20collection Images au Centreproduction : Images au Centre

Parodic tribute to Jules Etienne Marey’s scientific photographs as an hydro-flight

Castle of Azay-le-Rideau

project drawing 33 x 95 cm, ink on paper

cocon de sûreté 2005inner tubes, straps, low voltage electric motor, 80m cable, counterweight 150x150x150cmThe cocoon was moving during 30 seconds every 2 minutes

Castle of Azay-le-Rideau

Born in 1980 in Château-Thierry (Fr.)Lives and works in Berlin

EducationPost-Diploma - Erban Nantes DNSEP - (Master of Fine Art) ENSA Bourges (Jury Mention)DNAP - (Bachelor of Fine Art) ESAD Reims

Solo showsL´heure bleue - Le Cyclop de Jean Tinguely - Milly-la-ForêtGravity III - festival rock the block - BerlinSplit - enblanco - BerlinBurst - Ozean (Atelierhof Kreuzberg) - BerlinSTOCKS - Maison Folie Villeneuve d´Ascq (la ferme d´en haut)Empty Set - La Condition Publique - RoubaixPLAYGROUND - PMgalerie - BerlinModules transitoires Galerie FRAC du lycée Jean de la Fontaine - Château-ThierryNothing But Hanging Up (Gravity I) - SDW/Nothing but printing - BerlinGROW Galerie FRAC in High school Jean de la Fontaine - Château-ThierryFaire monter la pression Castle of Azay le Rideau - Festival Images Au Centre

Group showsObjects in a Room - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien - Berlin - De.Plastic Bertha - with Yann Leguay GALERIE HLADILNICA, PEKARNA, MARIBOR (SI)Meet the artists - with Louise Drubigny & Yann Leguay GALERIE HLADILNICA, MARIBOR (SI)Episode 2: sabotage - Insitu - BerlinDisplaying the Instant One Month of Performance Art - L´Atelier - BerlinHome in Crisis invited by association Temporary Home - KasselSolos - Ozean (Atelierhof Kreuzberg) - BerlinZizania - LAGE EGAL, Berlin a serpentine gesture and other prophecies - 49 Nord 6 Est - FRAC Lorraine - MetzStraight to the unknown - Galerie im Regierungsviertel_The Forgotten Bar - BerlinDial#41 - Limbus Europae - BerlinGet a move on ! - Aqua Carré - BerlinC’est comme ça ! - Festival of contemporary dance of l’Échangeur - Ch.Thierry Happy endless - WIR gallery - BerlinRésidence secondaire, le Parc Saint Léger, contemporary art center - Pougues les EauxABW Warnant, Architecture & town planning agency - Nevers Body as spectacle, collections without border VII – MMSU RijekaPark in Progress - Marly le Roi Diabolo Nantes Le Lieu Unique - NantesMulhouse 004 Parc des expositions - MulhousePremière Abbaye Saint André - MeymacTous à table ! Galerie du musée vivant de la porcelaine, Philippe Desouilières - FoëcyRetour au vestiaire La galerie du Haïdouc (association Bandits-Mages) - Bourges

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Grants and ResidenciesResidence Working Holiday, invited by Otto-prod, Maribor - Si.Résidence CLEA, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d´Asq, Wattrelos Grant from Schillerkiez - Berlin-NeuköllnIndividual grant for creation (Aide à la création), Regional Council of PicardieRésidence secondaire, le Parc Saint Léger, contemporary art center - Pougues les EauxGrant La Box (ENSA Bourges)Individual grant for creation (Aide individuelle à la création) - DRAC Champagne ArdenneCritique of pure Raisin – artist´s résidence programme introduced by the Eastern FRACs - ENSA Dijon Residence combined with FRAC Champagne Ardenne - technical & professional high school Val de Murigny, Reims Laureate grant Images Au Centre - Paris

Video programsVertiges ou visions d’écarts, CAC Fri-Art Fribourg avec Asso. Trafic Videox - N’à qu’un œil - collectif la mobylette, BordeauxGood Games - festival Gamerz 06 - Cité du Livre - Aix en ProvenceCinémas - video marathon in the public studio of MAC/VAL Vitry-sur-Seine Étrangement familier MAC/VAL Vitry-sur-SeinePing Pong Vidéo #1 Chapelle des réparatrices - Pôle culturel intercommunal - PauMay of video art ReimsAttention à la marche ! MAC/VAL Vitry-sur-SeineSublimes objets, collections sans frontières VI Institut Culturel Français – BucarestFestival des cinemas différents - cinéma la clef - ParisFestival bandits-mages - Bourges

InterventionsArtist talk « APRÈS L’ÉCOLE # 1» ENSA NancyWorkshops in schools during a 4 months residency in Lille (CLEA) Workshop «Modules transitoires» high school Jean De La Fontaine, Château ThierryWorkshop «camisoles volontaire» with le social center «accords de loire» at CAC le Parc Saint LégerWorkshop «des sisyphes» high school Jean De La Fontaine, Château ThierryArtist talk for the Univercity of cultural action agency of the city of Reims (invitation association 2303)Artist talk - Ecole Nationale Supérieure D’Art de DijonWorkshop «espace vital» during «aux arts lycéens» program, high schools of Descartes & Grandmont, Tours Artist talk - Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts de Nantes

Public collection / Public artPassage Wanderlust , sculpture in public space - Elementary school of Fère-en-TardenoisEther video DV (14min.) & 5 dessins (30x40cm) - collection Frac Champagne Ardennes Faire monter la pression - video DV-pal B&W (2,20 min.) – collection Images au Centre

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PublicationsLa Belle Revue - Revue d’art contemporain en Centre - published by In extenso, Clermont-Ferrand3 Years Enblanco Projektraum Catalogue published by enblancoDératisme (Web revue) Issue # 26 Dimension– March 2012, Feb. 2012a serpentine gesture and other prophecies, 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine, Metz, exhibition’s catalogueAUSSTELLUNG 4 Berlin Art Junction im 5. OG des GIZ-Hauses, Berlin, exhibition’s catalogueScreen Puppet DVD monographique co-published by Frac Bourgogne et l’Ensa Dijon - texte : Guillaume Mansart Images au centre 05 - photography, video & patrimony, Le Point du Jour Editeur - interview with Lise Viseux

Presse- Numéro, Issue Mars 2011, by Sean Rose- France 24, March 21, 2011, chronicle by Sean Rose- l´Humanité, February 02, 2011, by Maurice Ulrich- Le Monde.fr, February 19-20, 2011- France Culture, broadcast la vignette, January 28, 2011, interview with Aude Lavigne- L´Œil, Issue February 2011, by Bénédicte Ramade- Mouvement, Issue February 2011, by Pascaline Vallée- France Culture, broadcast La Grande Table, February 11 2011- Fluctuatnet, (Web revue) January 26, 2011, by Magali Lesauvage- Inrockuptibles, Issue 727, November 2009, by Philippe Noisette - Photos nouvelles Issue 35, September/October 2005 - page 47- Le point issue #1727, October 20, 2005 - page 137

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