CELESTE is a young international family of artists and musicians.
CELESTE was born in Beijing in december 2005
in our studio, in 798 Dashanzi.
The philosophy of Celeste is very simple :
ENERGY and ENERGIES.
Until now we have organised 8 exhibitions in Beijing.
11.12.05 : Rendez-Vous 1 Mirrors
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
On the main wall of the Studio, several small and different mirrors were waiting to be painted by the visitors as self-portraits.
This idea started from a current work of Charlotte Guibé, who is doing a serie of self-portraits curved in little mirrors.
Projections of the film from Charlotte Guibé and Praline Le Moult « Caleïdoscope », and the film from Dominik Schumacher « Schattenschneiden ».
It was the first Rendez-Vous, people were invited to bring something for the event : a friend, or a work, or something to eat or to drink, a play, a music or any funny idea. This habit stayed during the other exhibitions.
18.12.05 : Rendez-Vous 2 Blue, White, Red
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
The entire surface of the studio has been covered by a striped plastic material in blue, white and red.
Installation, wich started from a serie of photos token by Julie Genelin during the autumn in Beijing from the striped plastic material, used and re-used in the city. This plastic blanket takes many different forms : used as a wall, a floor, a roof, or a packagging, it takes many different sharps. Its graphic design is visible and unvisible, with endless different aspects and uses, always in transformation and adaptation, constantly present in the urban landscape of Beijing.
Praline Le Moult designed a serie of dresses made out of this plastic, with Charlotte Guibés painting inside some of them. There were also paitings from Charlotte Guibé on striped canevas.
01.01.06 : Rendez-Vous 3 White Sunday
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
Photgraphs exhibition and installation from A. Qing, the official photographer from 798 Dashanzi.
For the western New Year we decided everything should be white. The visitors were invited to dress white clothes bought for the event and to paint with acrylic colors and red encred stamps from a virtual calendar on them.
Bobo and José brought white balloons, in wich people were invited to put a wish inside. At the end of the event everybody could choose a painted balloon and could discover a wish for the new year.
08.01.06 : Rendez-Vous 4 Game Sunday
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
Exhibition from the full collected playing-cards game and its photographs by Amélie Dubois. During her staying in Beijing, Amélie Dubois visited many destroyed hutongs from the city. Everytime she found some playing cards in the ruins. Before picking them up, she took a photograph. At the moment of the exhibition, she was in possession of 99 cards, within a full game set of the 52 cards, wich were put on a table, inviting the visitors to play with.
Charlotte Guibé made a small serie of domino-paintings on striped canevas for the occasion.
Also many games, like an half ping pong table in front of a big mirror, many different games like the chinese chess, the Go, black board with craies or a marelle on the floor were inviting the visitors to play with each other.
15.01.06 : Rendez-Vous 5 Musical Chairs
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
Exhibition of 40 photographs and installation from Julie Genelin. The images of empty chairs in Beijing were put on one line all around the studio. In front of every picture was a chair at the opening of the event. At the end all the chairs have moved and were displaced. This has been marked on the ground with craies. The rest of the week there were only the marks on the ground to see.
22.01.06 : Rendez-Vous 6 The Wind
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
Paintings from Christian and drawings from Charlotte Guibé.
Performances from Praline Le Moult with a black silk in front of a tall ventilator, inviting the visitros to experiment the all covering dress in front of the wind, and from Julie Genelin, also using the ventilator for some « Baisers volés », dispersing red carbon mouths from upstairs in the wind.
Also many projections of works from the visiting artists.
29.01.06 : Rendez-Vous 7 Dogs
Celeste Studio, jiuxianqiao lu 2, 798 Dashanzi.
Painting and drawings from Charlotte Guibé.
For the chinese New Year of the dog, Praline Le Moult and Charlotte Guibé invited the visitors to make a performance. The visitor was placed in the painting, wich represented a big green-blue dog, with a hole in the head for the visitors head, and was asked to imitate a dog.
They made a soundtrack of belling dogs.
30.03.06 : Connection Celeste
Appartements in Hua Jia Di.
Two appartments in the residence area of Hua Jia Di, close to Dashanzi, were completely emptied for the exhibition. A rickshaw has been rented to make the connection between the two appartments (wich could see each other trough the window) and could be used, but only in self-service.
The principe of the exhibition was simple : the connection. Who ever wanted was invited to exhibit his work, without restriction, it was an open place. More than 20 artists participated.
We made projections on the walls of the buildings, there were performances, photographs, paintings, silkprints, sculptures, video-installations, post cards, poems . . .
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