OVNI – 2016. Event website The event, sponsored by Pascal Neveux, brings together more than a hundred artists.
OVNI – 2016. Event website The event, sponsored by Pascal Neveux, brings together more than a hundred artists. It offers 6 days of discovering video art : through an unprecedented stroll between the rooms of the Hôtel Windsor, the Grand Hôtel Le Florence and some thirty public and private art venues and unusual spaces across the city. As a preview, the MOVIMENTA 2017 biennial presents, on 1 and 2 December in the city, an expert forum in synergy with OVNi and several installations by the biggest names in video art. The Hôtel Windsor reimagines artistic hospitality, hosting prestigious museums from Seoul to Hobart, with Argentina in the spotlight , not forgetting fine regional and national institutions. Marseille is hosted in Nice by the Grand Hôtel Le Florence and presents about ten programmes OVNi offers the chance to discover a still little-known medium in the intimacy of a hotel room. It also allows the experience to continue across the city, through two routes to rediscover the video works of established contemporary artists from the international scene, alongside a younger generation already taking over. With « Chambre en ville » , some venues will play with the concept of the room as a space for showing or producing work; others will take up the carte blanche of the « Satellites » route. OVNi is a collaborative project , in which each guest contributes to the whole. Its playful format encourages festival-goers to visit the city's museums for the occasion and to discover unusual cultural venues, appealing to the general public as much as to connoisseurs. The unique public–private partnership offered by OVNi brings together Nice's hotel world and the players of the contemporary art world in a festive and positive spirit. The gallery takes part in the event with Florian Pugnaire: Agôn, 18 min, 2016, 2K film, A Kyrne production, with the support of the Centre Pompidou, the PACA Region, the DRAC PACA and the FNAGP Agôn (2016) is the sum of all these reflections and the most syncretic of Florian Pugnaire's works. We see two fighters clash, trapped in a timeless loop. The set comes alive and transforms around them until it finally self-destructs: carried along by this constantly shifting staging, the actors seem absorbed by the violence of their own action, almost indifferent to the brutal reactions surrounding them. About the artist Graduating in 2006 from the Villa Arson (Nice), Florian Pugnaire then continued his studies at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing). Alongside his personal practice, he has worked in duo with David Raffini since 2008. He has been a resident of La Station (Nice) since 2010.
