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Born in Nantes, France, in 1959, Gilles Bruni follows agricultural studies in the middle of the 70s, then experiments painting before starting again studies at the university of Rennes 2 in 1986. He obtains a doctorate of Visual arts in 1997. In parallel he abandons its personal practice for a common field of experimentation with Marc Babarit, in the open air, under name "Landscape Installation". This collaboration B/B (Bruni/Babarit - Babarit/Bruni) begins in 1987 and finishes in 2005. Gilles Bruni with or without Marc Babarit conducted its field activities in France like abroad (Germany, the USA, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Venezuela), mainly for residences and orders. Apart from this singular collaboration, Gilles Bruni continues this contextual work, crossing its questionnement around the landscape with that of the ecology of the place, his inhabitants and their history, privileging collaborations and partnerships. In its creations he tries to integrate publications into its practice of the site and photography. *
Artistic step Gilles Bruni focus his practice and his reflexion in several directions from an ecology of the landscape today. They carry him towards areas in waitings or without particular uses, from vacant lots (waste ground, grey areas), these areas able to be an intra or lost-urban, as some years ago for Stuwa in the Village of Bisel in Alsace (East of France, 2016). It defends the position of a job in the crossroad of artistic practices and in forms that can raise gardening, agriculture, architecture or sculpture, crossing field activities, as in the Estate of Chamarande where two perennial and evolutionary artwork come from a collaboratif job with the naturalist and the gardeners (‘’Balance’’, on 2011 and ‘’Le pourrissoir’’, Essonnes, France, 2013). They involve other disciplines on occasion, ecology, sociology, history... Indeed, this job becomes more empirical, in the order of experience, readily in link with populations among which the artist works, as on the City of the Electricians with ‘’Campement’’ (2012-13) in Bruay-la-Buissière (Pas-de-Calais, North of France). Not everything is defined in advance. The meeting with inhabitants is always for him a stake, it is reflected in the course of his work. Reports to others transform him, move it forward so much on intellectual plan which practice. Gilles Bruni constructs with people, it has an impact on produced forms, on the largeness of plans. ‘’Le camp de l’Ermitage’’ in Gorre (North of France), or ‘’Balance’’ in Chamarande do not have existence without the involvement of numerous partners, the work becomes additional and is enriched by the know-how of others. The long time often remains what seems to it the best adapting in its question settings and its plans: need to be present, available, to find how to draw part of places and to work with people. If this time is partly social, it indeed includes a climatic and seasonal time which regulates the life of circles and conditions bets in writings. Gilles Bruni does not cut off from his environment, he drinks it. In return, this time informs plans for which it often uses the vegetable and the cycles of the living being as dynamic trial, a means to work on the question of time. This equipment indeed reintroduces something that avoids our will of workmanship, it takes it as an otherness (of the non-human being) with whom it is very often a question of compromising and of being in forms of correlation (‘’Circum-lacustre’’ and the performance of meeting with ‘’La grande bloute’’, West of France, 2017). Sculptural mode, the architecture or ranked is finally only the realisation of a process. Where from necessity for him to develop a methodology of pre-plan, favouring residences, as with the association l’Esprit du lieu around the lake of Grand-Lieu (West of France, 2016-17), or more recently in the Hestercombe Estate in Somerset (UK, 2018). [ + Read and print the CV in PDF ] This list regroups articles, catalogues of exhibitions, theoretical books treating the question of art in nature, and notably mentioning jobs of Gilles Bruni or of Bruni / Babarit. Books published by Gilles Bruni, regrouped in the part Editions of this site are missing to this list. “Hunting Nature, Cahsing History : Sculpture Sackville 2008”, Tila Kellman, Espace, n° 87, Printemps/Spring 2009. "Land Art, des artistes aux prises avec la nature" in Plantes et Santé n°90, avril 2009. "Chemin faisant", le journal de la Chartreuse des Dames de Gosnay, septembre 2008, n° 3, Artois Comm., Communauté d’agglomération de l’Artois. Gratuit. "Appropriazione temporanea del paesaggio", Luca Barello, in Porti di Magnin, periodico di Arti Scienze e Culutra n°65, aprile 2008 L’artiste contemporain et la nature, Colette Garraud, éd. Hazan, Vanves, octobre 2007 Natural Architecture, by Alessandro Rocca, Published by Princeton Architectural Press, September 2007. "La place de l’écologie dans la pratique d’installation paysagère de Bruni-Babarit", Gilles Bruni, in Esthétique et Espace Public, n° 15 de Cosmopolitiques, éd. Apogées, 2007 Architecture naturelle, Alessandro Rocca, trad. de l’italien par Christine Piot, Actes Sud, Arles, 2006. Architettura naturale, Alessandro Rocca, “22publishing”, Milano, septembre 2006 Art Journal, Vol. 65, n°1, CAA, New York, Spring 2006 "Les deux bancs dans la vallée", contribution au bulletin n°3 des Archers de la Nymphe, sous l’égide de Paul-Armand Gette, octobre 2005, éditions joca seria, Nantes. La nature dans l’art, sous le regard de la photographie, textes et choix des images par Gilles Tiberghien, « collection Photopoche » n° 99, Actes Sud, 2005. Diálogos Arte Naturaleza, John K. Grande, Prólogo Edward Luci–Smith, Fundación César Manrique, Teguise, Lanzarote. Islas Canarias, 2005. "Le bâtiment à l’abandon de Bruni & Babarit", Frédéric Emprou, in Archistorm n°15, juillet 2005. Eco-photo : Art as if Nature Mattered, Bruni–Babarit, Christo and Jeanne–Claude, Patrick Dougherty, Chris Drury, Egil Kurdøl, Nils-Udo, Ursula Von Ryndingsvard, Alan Sonfist, curated by John K. Grande, November 21 – January 30, 2005, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York, 2004. Publication sur la Chaîne Entretiens sur Canal-U : Installations Paysagères, un entretien de Anne Kerdraon, professeur à l’université de Rennes 2, avec Gilles Bruni et Marc Babarit, artistes, chaîne Entretiens sur http://www.canal-u.education.fr ou http://www.uhb.fr/crea/brunibabarit/, production Université de Rennes 2, production exécutive CREA–Université de Rennes 2, copyright Université Rennes 2/CREA–ENTRETIENS juillet 2004. "Le jardin industriel : une conception allemande ?", de Sabine Sagorre, Champs Culturels 17, Direction générale de l’enseignement et de la recherche, Paris, juin 2004. Ecological Aethetics. Art in Environmental Design : Theory and Practice, Inintitad by Herman Prigann, edited by Heike Strelow, in co-operation with Vera David, ed. Birkhäuser, 2004, Art Nature Dialogues de John Grande, State University of New York Press, 2004, Shores Lines : responding to place, William Moore et al., catalogue of an outdoor environmental sculpture exhibition, held May 1 – Oct. 30, 2203, at 12 sites around Barrie, OntNational Library if Canada Cataloguing in Publication, Mac Laren Art Centre, 2003. "Arts et techniques paysagères en pays nantais", par Michel Berjon et Gilles Bruni, inChamps Culturels n°16, novembre 2003, Arte sella 2002, Incontri Internazionali Arte Natura, catalogue des réalisations et des manisfestations, Sellla di Borgo Valsugana, Documentazione 2001-2002, Provincia di Trento, Nicolodi editore, Rovereto (TN), 2003. Textbook for the Educational TV program, « About the landscape art », Yoshio Nakamura, professeur émérite de l’université technique de Tokyo, éd. Japan Broadcast Publishing, Tokyo, 2003. Programme diffusé sur la chaîne éducative de la télévision tous les vendredis du 5 février au 2 avril 2003. Aufbruch zu neuen Ufern, Die Goitzsche, Kreissparkasse Bitterfeld, Heinrich Schierz (Hrsg.), Verlag Janos Stekovics (Halle an der Saale), 2001. Œuvres d'Arbres, sous la dir. de Thérèse Vian-Mantovani, éd. Association Materia Priam / Musée des Beaux Arts de Pau, 2001. Nature, Art, Paysage, Gilles A.Tiberghien, éd. Actes Sud / Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage /Centre du Paysage, 2001. Nature Vive, Nathan/HER et Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, 2000. Art et Jardin, "The Garden, Nostalgia and Power" de Catherine Grout, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2000 Land gewinnen, die Goitzsche das weltweit grösste Landschaftskunstpojekt. Expo 2000 Saachsen-Anhalt Gmbh/ Heinrich Schierz (Hrsg), Dessau, mdv Mitteldeutcher Verlag Gmbh, Halle, 2000. Mirare in search of ideas, Perspective, volume 3, issue 2, « The Origin of The Stream Path », a publication for the College of Architecture, Arts & Humanities, Clemson University, spring 1998. Art, nature et société, John K. Grande, traduit de l’anglais par Claude Frappier, éd. Écosociété, Montréal, 1997. Art in nature, sous la dir. de Vittorio Fagone, Mazotta, Milano, 1996. Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art,“ Industial landscapes, disrupted landscapes ” de Udo Weilacher, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1996. Art et nature – Kunst und Natur, catalogue du Symposium du Bic, catalogue des réalisations et des performances, août‑septembre 1995, éd. Interventions, Québec, 1996. Trilogi : Kunst - Natur - Videnskab/Trilogi : Art - Nature - Science, catalogue des expositions et des réalisations, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Botanisk Have, København/Botanical Gardens, Copenhagen, T.I.C.K.O.N., Langeland, éd. Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, TICKON, the authors, Danmark, 1996. Europa-Biennale Niederlausitz II, catalogue des réalisations de septembre 1993, Cottbus, région de Brandebourg, Allemagne, 1995. "Arte nella natura : una nuova “alleanza” tra opera e ambiente" de Vittorio Fagone, in Architectura & natura, Torino, Mole Antonelliana 21 aprile – 3 luglio 1994, Mazotta, Milano, 1994. Arte Sella, International Art Meeting, catalogue des réalisations et des performances, “ Creativita e creato ”, 12‑30 septembre 1992, Sella di Borgo Valsugana, Provincia di Trento, Documentazione 1992, Mazotta, Milano, 1993. Les Grâces de la Nature, catalogue des Sixièmes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire 1989, textes des interviews de Vanina Costa, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Garenne Lemot, Gétigné, 1989. [ Return up ] |
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