Étienne Chambaud, Benoît Maire, Antoine Dorotte: Dual Exhibitions in Bordeaux

Two concurrent exhibitions in Bordeaux feature artists Étienne Chambaud, Benoît Maire, and Antoine Dorotte, each exploring the reappropriation of past experiences and ideas. Chambaud and Maire's collaborative piece "Musique pour un cheval centenaire" references the moment on January 3, 1889, when Friedrich Nietzsche collapsed in Turin after witnessing a horse being beaten. Their work includes a disklavier piano endlessly playing Nietzsche's 1872 composition "Louange de la compassion," originally written for Cosima Wagner, performed by the artists themselves. This formed the basis of their first joint exhibition titled "le Présent," which collapses past, present, and future into a concentrated moment. Meanwhile, Antoine Dorotte presents a series of zinc engravings depicting a battle between insectoid humanoids Cran-Dard and Bomb-X, inspired by the knife fight in "West Side Story." The serpentine arrangement of dozens of plates transforms the cinematic scope into a dynamic drawing, creating a sense of continuity between different temporalities. The exhibitions run from December 20 to February 3 at Galerie Cortex Athletico (Chambaud and Maire) and from January 26 to April 30 at Musée des beaux-arts, Bordeaux (Dorotte).