DAVIDE BALULA LE LAC, LE MENSONGE

I sit down in front of my computer, starting to play with the mouse to move the arrow on the screen. It's not working. The arrow doesn't react. But the mouse seems to work; its red light is on. I'm checking the connections between the mouse and the computer, but everything looks ok. I'm stressing out. I hate when computers are not working, and above all when I don't understand why.
It took me 15 minutes losing my nerves on it. Then I turn the mouse over, and what I discover is a note sticked to it signed: "Davide"!

Davide Balula is a funny, malicious, practical joker artist. He reminds me a kind of physicist or chemist apprentice, visionary, overflowed with interesting ideas, playing, performing, testing. He's not only a visual artist but a songwriter, with a delicate voice, reminiscence of Portuguese harmony on a folky atmosphere. His debut album was out on Active Suspension ... already few years ago.

Davide's sliding around on his skateboard. He looks somehow innocent, but he's got a smart fancy stare upon his artistic approach.

Exhibition:LE LAC, LE MENSONGE
Artist: DAVIDE BALULA
From May 16th to August 31st 2008
Entrepôt-Galerie du Confort Moderne

Opening Friday May 16th 2008
Live: Tender Forever

For Le Confort Moderne, Davide Balula is producing a monographical exhibition.
Davide Balula articulates his work around visual, sound, and electronic devices. His practice, somehow experimental, is free from its contingencies. His work is located at the border of art and science, when the sound, the rhythm, the movement are progressing together towards an organic and techonoligical matter. The art and the technology, the sound and the visual, the nature and the science, the sculpture and the organic,
Balula's project brings together contradictory states, places us inside an experience that tends to inflect our relation to the world. A composition that swings in-between sophistication and simplicity, a precise and rigorous writing, a path that delivers a poetic experience. Each work's titles sound like a pop ritornello, and set the exhibition like an album.

June 20th
Monographical Catalogue Release + Davide Balula's live
Artist: Davide Balula
Art Direction: Event10

With contributions of Béatrice Gross, Kathy Alliou, Laetitia Bénat, Julien Berthier, Peter Coffin, Antonio Contador, Olivier Lamm, Stéphane Laporte, Angela Detanico & Raphael Lain, Loris Gréaud, Le Gentil Garçon, Christine Macel, Rui Pombal, Elisa Pône, Lee Ronaldo, Mirjam Schaub, Leah Singer,

le confort moderne association l’oreille est hardie
185, rue du faubourg du pont-neuf
BP 502 – 86012 Poitiers
Tel : +33 (0)5 49 46 08 08
www.confort-moderne.fr