Ange Leccia

Even just women's faces, maybe set against the waterline or captured in the street or on television, famous or unknown: to Ange Leccia enchantment is the glance that captures the moment when the real becomes image, is split into two, and becomes other than what it is in reality. The waves of the sea, or the fluttering smoke of a fire shown on two screens set next to each other confound the viewers' perceptive and conceptual habits, and envelop them in a world transformed. For Fotografia Europea, Ange Leccia addresses the theme of enchantment with an edited slide-show of fixed images selected from his entire production and a number of installations of his recent videos.

Ange Leccia (b. Minerviu, Corsica, 1952) lives and works in Paris. From 1972 to 1976, he attended Dominique Noguez's courses on experimental cinema at the University of Paris and started making films from back then. Between 1981 and 1983, he won residency scholarships to study at Villa Medici in Rome and in 1992, to study at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. From 1985 to 1997, he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble and subsequently at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Cergy-Pontoise, going on to become Director of the Pavillon Unité Pédagogique at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In the eighties, he mainly exhibited sculptures and installations, which he called "arrangements", while constantly producing videos and films. In 1992, he made the film Ile de beauté, co-produced with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, an oneiric journey straddling between Corsica and Japan. In the nineties, his programme of video presentations intensified, with frequent screenings at spectacular purpose-built installations. In the late nineties he travelled several times to Egypt, Syria and Morocco in the framework of the Grand Tour project organized by the Musée Nicéphore Niépce of Chalon-sur-Saône.
He has held many solo exhibitions and has taken part in major contemporary art events including the Venice Biennale in 1986, the Skulptur Projekte in Münster in 1987, Documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987, and the Sydney Biennal in 1990. He has held many personal exhibits at private galleries and public venues, including Pacifique at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris in 1997 and Ange Leccia et le Pavillon at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris in 2009. He has also taken part in collective exhibits at public venues, of which the more recent ones include La beauté held at the Palais des Papes in Avignon in 2000 and Airs de Paris at the Centre Pompidou in 2007. Since 2003 he has been exhibiting regularly at the Almine Reich gallery in Paris.

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6.00 – Cinema AlCorso
NUIT BLEUE - Ange Leccia (2010 - 86’) 
Projection in the presence of the author. Presents Elio Grazioli