Exhibition • Bourges
Exhibition at La Box – New Works of V4 Artists
Sucre de l'est / Sugar of the East with Ludovic Bernhardt, Luz Blanco, Graciela Carnevale, Honoré Daumier, Samuel Ferreto, Fokus Grupa, Thibaut Gauthier, Kyo-Hyun Kim, Hanna Kokolo, Matteo Locci, Mariana Lombard, Olivier Marboeuf, Chris Marker, Ilona Németh, Anna Ponchon; Curator Ferenc Gróf. The bittersweet history of an industry which fueled globalisation from the time of the Atlantic trade triangle to the continental blockade of the Napoleonic era and right up to the modern-day neoliberal wars. The collective exhibition "Sucre de l'est » sketches out a hybrid kaleidoscopic panorama with the sugar cane plantations of the former sugar islands, factory ruins of the so called post-socialist zones, green fields of boosted monocultures, picket lines and ziggurats of sugar cubes. The battle of the bloated continental beet and the scrawny colonial cane depicted by Honoré Daumier in 1838 on the pages of the satirical magazine Le Charivari constitutes the starting point of this research stretching through centuries. The works in the exhibition challenge the discordant restraints of imperialism, the "laissez faire" of the mighty and the ideology behind the sweat of sugar. This exhibition is the result of an international collaboration with the Eastern Sugar project, by the artist Ilona Németh and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. V4 artists: Ilona Németh / SK and as part of Ilona Németh´s work: Olja Triaška Stefanović / SK, Marián Ravasz / SK,
Ferenc Gróf / HU / FR; T-Tudok / HU will hold an online workshop for and with students on the exhibition theme in order to better mediate the values and knowledge about Europe and implications of the topic.
http://easternsugar.eu/exhibitions/sucre-de-lest-sugar-of-the-eastla-box-ensa-bourges-fr12-11-12-12-2020
