Le mouton noir

2010 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

6 min

Eric Dizambourg


Eric Dizambourg’s film presents a bucolic and ludicrous world used as a background for a character who is an actor as well as a performer. This character comes and goes throughout the countryside, the barn and an urban setting, a world of odds and ends where objects often seem to be used for other purposes than their original ones.


Working primarily in painting and video, Eric Dizambourg merges the burlesque with the rustic, blurring the boundaries between reality and representation. The fantastical and baroque universe created by Dizambourg offers a glimpse into his personal history, as well as the history of painting. His paintings incorporate the dripping technique of Pollock; the thick gesture of Leroy; the expressionist gesture of Soutine; and the violence of Goya’s black paintings, vaguely tempered by Raysse’s predilection for pop colors. Something of an iconoclast, Dizambourgs work depict art motifs in a comical way – painting becomes autonomous and plays on the freedom of gesture of this libertine artist.


Colors:



Related works sharing similar palette

Days of Our Lives: Playing for Dying Mother
© » KADIST

Wong Hoy Cheong

2009

Created for the tenth Lyon Bienniale, in Days of Our Lives: Playing for Dying Mother, Wong’s ongoing negotiation of postcolonial globalization takes aim at French society...

Inauguration Kadist - San Francisco
© » KADIST

You are kindly invited to celebrate in Paris the opening of Kadist – San Francisco...

Art World Figures Share Their Go-To Miami Spots
© » ARTSY

Art World Figures Share Their Go-To Miami Spots | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market Art World Figures Share Their Go-To Miami Spots Artsy Editorial Dec 2, 2023 12:12AM Interior view of the Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club, Surfside, Florida...

Holiday Magic Is Made By Women. And It's Killing Us.
© » HUFFINGTON POST

The emotional labor women do this time of year threatens our mental health....

How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography
© » LITHUB

How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography ‹ Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads About Log In Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Freeman’s The Virtual Book Channel Lit Hub Radio Behind the Mic Beyond the Page The Cosmic Library The Critic and Her Publics Emergence Magazine Fiction/Non/Fiction First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Future Fables The History of Literature I’m a Writer But Just the Right Book Keen On The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan New Books Network Read Smart Talk Easy Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Write-minded Reading Lists The Best of the Decade Book Marks Best Reviewed Books BookMarks Daily Giveaway CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill CrimeReads Daily Giveaway Log In How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography M...

The Most Influential Artists of 2023
© » ARTSY

The Most Influential Artists of 2023 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement The Year in Art 2023 Art The Most Influential Artists of 2023 Allyssia Alleyne Dec 14, 2023 4:07PM What does it mean to wield influence in 2023? As institutions are questioned, gatekeepers are unseated, and social media is giving a microphone to the masses, it’s clearer than ever that it’s not just about the size and strength of the platform you’ve built, but what you choose to do with it...

10 Art Books to Add to Your Shelf This December
© » HYPERALLERGIC

10 Art Books to Add to Your Shelf This December Skip to content Kareem Khubchandani's Decolonize Drag , Sonya Clark's newest catalogue, and more books we're reading this December (photo Lakshmi Rivera Amin/ Hyperallergic ) If you’re shamefully counting the titles you didn’t get around to reading this year, know that you are not alone...

Georgia Dispatch, in collaboration with Burnaway
© » KADIST

Georgia Dispatch: Living and Making in the American South Suzanne Jackson, Yanique Norman, and Katya Tepper in conversation with Erin Jane Nelson, in collaboration with Burnaway Long before Georgia surprised the world in two recent US elections, the Peach State was a vital cultural and political force, shaping everything from food and music to queer culture and Civil Rights activism...

Lacquerscope #1 and #2 (Palimpsest A-F series)
© » KADIST

Phi Phi Oanh

2011

Palimpsest is a series of what artist Phi Phi Oanh calls “pictorial installations”...

Echoes of Genji: Unraveling Timeless Emotions from Heian Elegance to Modern Reverie at the Guimet Museum till March 25th
© » DIANE PERNET

Echoes of Genji: Unraveling Timeless Emotions from Heian Elegance to Modern Reverie at the Guimet Museum till March 25th – A Shaded View on Fashion Dear Shaded Viewers, What do a beloved 1980s manga series “Asakiyume mishi” and an exquisite 18th-century lacquer box once owned by Marie-Antoinette share in common? At first glance, not much...

In the Artist’s Studio – A Photo Essay
© » ART AND CAKE

In the Artist’s Studio – A Photo Essay – Art and Cake June 20, 2023 June 20, 2023 Author In the Artist’s Studio – A Photo Essay Julie Lipa https://julielipaartist.com/ @julielipaartist My shop only looks this clean and tidy after I’ve finished a piece and I need a clean slate to start something new...

Confronting Mortality: Sophie Calle’s Personal Exhibition at Musée Picasso – till January 7, 2024
© » DIANE PERNET

Confronting Mortality: Sophie Calle’s Personal Exhibition at Musée Picasso – till January 7, 2024 – A Shaded View on Fashion Dear Shaded Viewers, The Musée Picasso in Paris hosts “À toi de faire, ma mignonne,” an exhibition from October 3, 2023, to January 7, 2024, spanning all four floors...

ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Picks of TPAM 2020
© » ARTS EQUATOR

ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Picks of TPAM 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Hideto Maezawa January 17, 2020 The Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama will focus on dance and physical expression this year...

The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2024
© » LONDONIST

Playful Sculpture To Playing Videogames: January's Hottest London Exhibitions | Londonist The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2024 By Tabish Khan Tabish Khan The Top Exhibitions To See In London: January 2024 Looking for an awesome London exhibition this January? Here's our roundup of must-see shows in the capital 1...

Hauser & Wirth’s Paris Location Opens with a Superb Henry Taylor Exhibition
© » ARTNEWS REVIEWS

Hauser & Wirth’s Paris Gallery Opens with a Henry Taylor Exhibition – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Maximilíano Durón Plus Icon Maximilíano Durón Senior Editor, ARTnews View All October 18, 2023 9:56am Installation view of "Henry Taylor: From Sugar to Shit," 2023, at Hauser & Wirth, Paris...

Fragments of History: Loc Vang, the Yellow music singer from Hanoi
© » ARTS EQUATOR

Fragments of History: Loc Vang, the Yellow music singer from Hanoi | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Nguyen Dinh Toan August 3, 2021 By Duong Nguyen Thuy (800 words, 3-minute read) It was perhaps the melancholy of history that was the most palpable presence in the livestream action Fragments of History , which I organised as part of Mekong Cultural Hub’s Mini-Meeting Point held on 17 July 2021...

AI Tattoo Generators Are Coming For Tattoo Artists
© » HUFFINGTON POST

But the professionals aren't as concerned about it as you might think....

An Ode to the Single-Collector, 'Niche' Museum - via Garage
© » LARRY'S LIST

Why brave the chaos of a MoMA or a Met when you can go on a hyper-specific adventure worth traveling for?...

Sketches from train ride Chicago to San Francisco
© » KADIST

Lam Tung Pang

2013

Lam Tung Pang created Sketches from train ride Chicago to San Francisco during his travels through the United States researching American curatorial strategies for representing traditional Chinese painting in museums and cultural institutions...