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May 2, 2011
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Le Balcon 2 - The Upside Down World of Philippe Ramette. Le French May Arts Festival 2011 had a outdoor exhibition (which i found merely by accident) and you have to check him out… :) Philippe Ramette is one of the best known and most original French artists on the contemporary art scene today. His arrival in Hong Kong will have all the fan-fare of an anniversary. When he was invited to Hong Kong by the Alliance Française ten years ago, he created “Le Balcon 2” (The Balcony 2) - an extraordinary performance which was at once unusual, philosophical and highly poetic; an image of which appeared in the world press. Impeccably dressed in a black suit, he crossed the Hong Kong Bay in a wooden balcony that floated horizontally on the South China Sea, giving us a new outlook on the world and an irrational perception of the sky over one ofthe busiest ports on the planet. Philippe Ramette scours the world alone - seas, deserts, mountains, seabed – carefully observing it and placing himself in meditative positions which defy gravity and logic. His work is “an invitation to experiment: with weightlessness, with perception, with falling”. Discreet and seemingly unflappable, he possesses a devastating wit, combining profound thinking on art and the human condition and making him one of the greatest contemporary artists, in the same vein as Duchamp, Dada and Michaux – mixed with a touch of Buster Keaton.Ramette is a meticulous and mischievous thinker who takes language literally and makes us sway from the rational to the irrational. -Le French May Here’s a cool video demonstrating that photoshop is overrated. (I’m sure you know either french or italian, well… i hope you do because I don’t)

Le Balcon 2 - The Upside Down World of Philippe Ramette.

Le French May Arts Festival 2011 had a outdoor exhibition (which i found merely by accident) and you have to check him out… :)

Philippe Ramette is one of the best known and most original French artists on the contemporary art scene today. His arrival in Hong Kong will have all the fan-fare of an anniversary.

When he was invited to Hong Kong by the Alliance Française ten years ago, he created “Le Balcon 2” (The Balcony 2) - an extraordinary performance which was at once unusual, philosophical and highly poetic; an image of which appeared in the world press.

Impeccably dressed in a black suit, he crossed the Hong Kong Bay in a wooden balcony that floated horizontally on the South China Sea, giving us a new outlook on the world and an irrational perception of the sky over one ofthe busiest ports on the planet.

Philippe Ramette scours the world alone - seas, deserts, mountains, seabed – carefully observing it and placing himself in meditative positions which defy gravity and logic. His work is “an invitation to experiment: with weightlessness, with perception, with falling”.

Discreet and seemingly unflappable, he possesses a devastating wit, combining profound thinking on art and the human condition and making him one of the greatest contemporary artists, in the same vein as Duchamp, Dada and Michaux – mixed with a touch of Buster Keaton.Ramette is a meticulous and mischievous thinker who takes language literally and makes us sway from the rational to the irrational.

-Le French May

Here’s a cool video demonstrating that photoshop is overrated. (I’m sure you know either french or italian, well… i hope you do because I don’t)

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