THE TACTILE EQUATION

LP
Original Artwork
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or043

A thin belly. A belly of fine powder and as in a picture. At the foot of the belly, a burst grenade.
The grenade deploys a flaky circulation which rises in tongues of fire, a cold fire.
The circulation takes the belly and turns it over. But the belly does not rotate.
They are veins of vinous blood, of blood mixed with saffron and sulfur, but of a sulfur sweetened with water.
Above the belly breasts are visible. And higher, and more deep, but on another plane of the mind, a sun burns, but in such a way that it is thought that it is the breast that is burning. And at the foot of the grenade, a bird.
The sun is like a gaze. But a gaze that seems to gaze at the sun. The gaze is a cone that spills over at the sun. And all the air is like frozen music, but vast, profound music, well built and secret, and full of icy ramifications.
And all this, put together with columns, and a kind of architect’s drawing which connects the stomach with reality.
The canvas is hollow and multi-layered. The painting is well enclosed in the canvas. It is like a closed circle, a sort of abyss which turns, and doubles in the middle. It is like a spirit that sees itself and hollows itself out, it is malaxed and worked endlessly by the clenched hands of the spirit. However, the spirit sows its phosphor.
The mind is safe. He stands well with a foot in the world. The pomegranate, the belly, the breasts are like witness testimonies of reality. There is a dead bird, there’s a bud out of columns. The air is full of pencil strokes, pencil strokes like knife strokes, like streaks of a magic nail. The air has returned sufficiently.
And here he disposes himself in cells where grows a seed of unreality. The cells are each placed in their place, spreading
around the belly, in front of the sun, beyond the bird, and around this circulation of sulfur water.
But the architecture is indifferent to the cells, it sustains and does not speak.
Each cell carries an egg, where shines which germ? In each cell an egg is suddenly born. In each there is an inhuman but clear swarming, the stratifications of a fixed universe.
Each cell carries its egg well and offers it to us; but it matters little to the egg to be chosen or rejected.
Not all cells carry eggs. In some, a spiral is born. And in the air a bigger spiral hangs, but as sulfurous as if already of phosphor and enveloped in unreality. And this spiral has all the importance of the most powerful thought.
The belly evokes surgery and the Morgue, building site, public square and operating table. The corpse of the belly appears to be made of granite, or marble, or plaster, but than hardened plaster. There is a case for a mountain. The foam of the sky makes the mountain a ring, translucent and fresh. The air around the mountain is sonorous, pious, legendary, forbidden. Access to the mountain is prohibited. The mountain has its place in the soul. She is the horizon of something that is constantly receding. She gives the sensation of the eternal horizon.
In this, I feel my thought unfold as in an ideal, absolute space, but a space that would have a form which can be introduced into reality.

I fall from the sky.

Listen to full album / Digital download

Hand-etched Cardboard
Hand-etched Drawings on Vinyl
03/25 Sold
03/25 Backside
03/25 Innersleeve
03/25
03/25
10/25
SOLD
Price:
60 euro

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA ~ DE MEREL

LP
Original Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra
Numbered & signed edition of 2 ex.
d’or042
SOLD

De Merel. 14 Expressionist Music Pieces by Raymond Dijkstra

Artwork description: Black thread on Black Cardboard
Artwork on Covers by Raymond Dijkstra

ASRA, LA POUPÉE DILETTANTE… ~ LA POUPÉE DILETTANTE…

LP
Original Artwork by Rayastre
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or041

J’ai oublié que le temps a existé … Il n’a jamais été là … Je n’ai jamais été la … ni suis-je maintenant

Listen to full album / Digital download

Rayastre, Timo van Luijk.

Artwork Description: Artwork by Rayastre. Fire on Cardboard.

1. Sold
2
3 Sold
4
6 Sold
7 Sold
8
9
10 Sold
13 Sold
15 Sold
19 Sold
21 Sold

ORDER BELOW
Price:
80 euro
To buy this, send an email to Astres d’Or Then we’ll send you a Paypal request.

_______________________________________________________________

ASRA, LA POUPÉE DÉLIRANTE… ~ LA POUPÉE DÉLIRANTE…

LP
Original Artwork by Timo van Luijk
Numbered & signed edition of 25 ex.
d’or040
SOLD

Asra, La Poupée Délirante… is the epiphany of Asra, La Poupée Dilettante… while dreaming of existing as La Poupée Vivante… She has never really existed… Nor will she ever… Asra, she lives in a dream, undreamed by no-one. She is the all-forgotten… The non-sensical, incapable of being sensed. She lurks somewhere in lightness. Só light, it can’t be spotted. She radiates a beautiful smell, só nice, it can’t be smelled. That is, here, where you are… Where I am… I have never seen her… But I have met her… In a moment só intense, it can’t be remembered. A moment where I no longer was me. Where there were no memories and which moment could never be remembered. I have forgotten about her.
(Rayastre)

Listen to full album / Digital download

Rayastre, Timo van Luijk

Artwork description:
Artwork on Covers by Timo van Luijk. Front: Black etchings. Back: handstamped letters.
Drawings on Vinyl Records by Rayastre. Some records contain normal handwriting without drawings.

1/25 Sold

3/25 Sold
5/25 Sold
7/25 Sold
9/25 Sold
11/25 Sold
13/25 Sold
15/25 Sold
17/25 Sold
19/25 Sold
21/25 Sold
23/25 Sold
25/25 Sold
1
Asra, La Poupée Délirante… ~ La Poupée Délirante…
LP Original ArtworkSOLD

EDWARD KA-SPEL ~ ON THE REBOUND

LP
Original Artwork by Edward Ka-spel
Numbered edition of 40 ex.
d’or039
SOLD

Edward Ka-Spel (born Edward Francis Sharp, 23 January 1954 in London) is an English singer/songwriter and musician. He is best known for his work with the band The Legendary Pink Dots, which he co-founded in 1980.
He has a discography of over 80 solo-titles and 118 published works with The Legendary Pink Dots, apart from collaborations with the likes of Steven Stapleton, cEvin Key (of Skinny Puppy), Christoph Heemann, Jim O’Rourke and many others . His work spans a wide terrain from psychedelic underground popmusic to more serious electronic music, but always in a highly distinguishable style.

A Spoken Word Piece by Edward Ka-spel.

ON THE REBOUND

I looked in the mirror and saw healthy colour in my cheeks. Even the wrinkles seemed to be disappearing although those laugh lines stuck around for a while.
“It gets better,” they all said. And it did until the first problem appeared in the form of a letter from someone called Rosemary.
This Rosemary accused me of cheating her out of her precious possessions and threatened me with a lawyer.
I would have written her off as a lunatic if the handwriting hadn’t seemed so worryingly familiar. Rosemary….Rosemary….the name nagged me as the letters increased in number and ferocity. Then, one day, Rosemary turned up on the doorstep with suitcases, and scowled at me as she stormed upstairs before emptying her things all over my bed.
I just accepted it too. Wordlessly, like a puppy I moved downstairs and did my best to avoid her, though this became harder and harder as time passed.
Sometimes Jake and a rather beautiful young lady named Amber, who was apparently my daughter, would come to visit.
Jake would talk to me about compromise and communication while Amber tended to ignore me at first, preferring to talk to Rosemary upstairs.
The odd thing is that I began to connect to Rosemary after a while. Her anger seemed to subside, and I began to wish for a surprise meeting in the kitchen.

Listen to full album / Digital download

Edward Ka-spel ~ On The Rebound
SOLD

Artwork Description: Digitally designed Text-Collages by Edward Ka-spel

More Pictures Follow

RAGNAR GRIPPE ~ TAMIS

LP
Gatefold Cover with Artwork by Ragnar Grippe.
Signed by Ragnar Grippe
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or038
SOLD

Ragnar Grippe is a Swedish composer, born October 15, 1951 in Stockholm. He has studied at one of the first electronic music studio’s, the legendary GRM studio’s in Paris in the 1970’s and has worked in other early electronic studio’s where he has composed numerous pioneering works in the avantgarde / electronic domain. Besides his autonomous work he makes music for dance theatre, film and television.

Unpublished Work from the 80’s by Ragnar Grippe

Tamis was composed 1980 at the Electronic Music Studio EMS in Stockholm at its
original address Kungsgatan 8 in Stockholm.

The Buchla synthesizer and voice are the only sources to the composition.
EMS had at this time just recently installed a 24 track tape deck and mixing console which allowed the layering of many tracks on top of each other, This new method of work did also change the compositional process; here we can hear a more instrumental approach to the material than in earlier compositions by Grippe.

T A M I S
Choreography S U S AN BUIRGE

Her friend Philip Glass composed for her the music for En allant de l’ouest à l’est (1976). She then commissioned musics from Ragnar Grippe for Lapse (1978), Restes (1979), Tamis (1980) and Des Sites (1983); from Jean-Yves Bosseur for Charge Alaire (1982, presented at the Aix-Les Milles aerodrome); from Luc Ferrari for Les yeux de Mathieu (1984, a film for La Sept); from Steve Lacy and his sextet for Artémis (1988, Grande Halle de la Villette); from Marian S. Kouzan for Grand Exil (1990); from Patrick Marcland for Le jour d’avant(1999) and Le jour d’après (2000), and from Jean-François Laporte (L’œil de la forêt, 2002). She also collaborated with Tomihisa Hida for an adaptation of Gagaku music for the four pieces of Le Cycle des Saisons (1994 to 1998).

Louis Horst, composer who taught dance composition at the Juilliard School, had helped Susan Buirge to make the decision to leave Juilliard and to follow her desire to study with Nikolais by saying, “Do what you have to do and everything will fall into place.”

R A G N A R G R I P P E lives in Stockholm Sweden and lived in Paris between 1972 and 1994.

Works in electronic music, chamber music, instrumental music and film music besides his many collaborations with choreographers.

The interesting part is that Grippe’s electronic music has to a great extent dealt with virtual acoustics in the electronic music, something which was in Buirge’s choreography defined as space, time, shape and motion.

“All pieces we collaborated on were based on a mutual understanding for each other’s work, where the liberty given to me as a composer was essential for the completion of the collaboration.” (Ragnar Grippe)

Ragnar Grippe can be found on
Dais Records
Bis Records
Spotify
Apple Music
Ragnar Grippe Official Page

‘Human beings have a basic need to build , in the same way as birds build nests.
Contemporary dance responds to this need’
Susan Buirge in interview

Listen to full album / Digital download

ORDER BELOW
Sold

Gatefold Cover with Painting by Ragnar Grippe. Signed by Ragnar Grippe. More Pictures follow

09/25

THE RESIDENTS ~ THE HEALER AND THE ARCHER

Onesided LP
Original Paintings by Leigh Barbier
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or037
SOLD

The Residents are an American art collective, active since end 1960’s. Between 1973 and now the group has issued around 140 titles. The group has in their 50 years existence never disclosed their true identities, which has lead to much speculation. Their style of music is perhaps best described as avantgarde rock with a high sense for experiment and a love for the strange. They were pioneers in including art, poetry, theatre performance and music in a truly original form.

A Spoken Word Piece by The Residents.

THE HEALER AND THE ARCHER

A Fable of Love and Loss
by The Residents

Sweet like the smell of honeysuckle in the summer sun… sweet like the taste of rock candy crushed between the teeth… sweet like the touch of a baby’s skin beneath your fingertips. Yes, the Archer’s life was sweet. Never was the aim of his arrow more true, his sense of direction more succinct, his adoration more complete, but… something was missing. An empty spot existing just outside his line of sight, unspoken, intangible and roaming the edges of his essence. Like an itch that wasn’t there, with no specific connection to his otherwise well ordered life, it lingered… always present but never quite real.

Listen to full album / Digital download

The Residents ~ The Healer And The Archer
SOLD

Artwork Description: Two Tableau’s, consisting of a Painting and a Collage. Tableau 1: Acrylic Paint on Cardboard. Tableau 2: Acrylic Paint, Stamps, Stickers, Collage on Cardboard. Size: 31,5-31,5 CM. Back of Tableau 1: Numbered and dated. Signed on Front Tableau 1: LB. (Leigh Barbier)

02/25 Tableau 1 Sold
02/25 Tableau 2 Sold
03/25 Sold
04/25 Sold
05/25 Sold
10/25 Sold
11/25 Sold
12/25 Sold
15/25 Sold
16/25 Sold
17/25 Sold
18/25 Sold
19/25 Sold
20/25 Sold


RAYMOND DIJKSTRA & LOUISE LANDES LEVI ~ IN THE FACE OF FACELESS EYE

LP
Original Artwork by Raymond Dijkstra / Louise Landes Levi
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or036
SOLD.

Photo LLL by Raymond Dijkstra
Photo RD by Jolande des Bouvrie.

Henri Michaux (Namur 1899 – Paris 1984)
The French writer, painter and graphic artist Henri Michaux was born in the Belgian town of Namur in 1899 and spent his childhood in Brussels. He wanted to become a priest, but followed his father’s wish and began to study medicine in 1919, but soon abandoned this plan and signed on as a seaman.
After reading works by Lautréamont he began writing in 1922. His acquaintance with Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico, whom he met in Paris in 1925, inspired him to first painting and drawing attempts. Between 1927 and 1937 he travelled through South America and Asia. Afterwards Michaux sketched and painted his Phantomisms.
He had his first exhibitions in Parisian galleries, followed by important shows abroad. In the mid 1950s Michaux began experimenting with hallucinatory drugs, particularly with mescaline, letting his experiences inspire his writing, painting and drawing. These works were first exhibited in 1956 at the Galerie La Hune in Paris. Then there was a large exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in December 1957 and a retrospective exhibition organised by Daniel Cordier in Frankfurt/Main in March 1959.
His ink drawings evoke scriptural elements and calligraphic symbols which are a seismographic reflection of the artist’s inner emotions. The two systems of word-language and sign-language pervade each other. Henri Michaux’s impressive oeuvre attracted much international recognition. He exhibited works at the “documenta” in Kassel in 1959 and 1964; he was awarded the Einaudi-Prize at the Biennale in Venice in 1960.
Henri Michaux’s paintings always remained figurative, in-spite of all tendency towards abstraction. The artist’s intention was not to flee from the world, but to expand the world by changing the awareness. The real world was to be enhanced by additional levels of perception.
Henri Michaux died in Paris in 1984 at the age of 85.

Louise Landes Levi is a poet/performer-translator/traveler and a founding member of Daniel Moore’s Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company, America’s first fusion orchestra.

Raymond Dijkstra is an artist active since 1987 in music, sculpture, painting, photography, collage and drawing. Since 2023 he works as Rayastre www.rayastre.org

Spoken Word and Music by Raymond Dijkstra (Mellotron, Organ, Gong, Oscillator, Percussion, Mixage, Effects) and Louise Landes Levi (Voice, Sarangi), Somewhere in 2019, Somewhere. Text: Henri Michaux.

Listen to full album / Digital download

Raymond Dijkstra & Louise Landes Levi ~ In The Face Of Faceless Eye
SOLD OUT.

Artwork Description: Photo-collages by Raymond Dijkstra

Text by Henri Michaux

AN INTRODUCTION “La Terre n’est pas ronde, pas encore. Non, il faut la faire ronde” “The world is not yet round, No, not yet ,we must make it round.”

“Dans quelques cents ans, J’ai confiance, le monde sera large Enfin on communiquera avec lec animaux, on leur parlera.” In a hundred years, or so, I am sure, the world will be large. Finally, one will communicate with animals,
one will speak to them:
Épreuves. Exorcisme.

“Je lis surtoute ces textes archaiques,de peuple étrangères ou la poesie n’est pas mise a part, elle vient a l’improvise,
on ne sait comment.”
I read , above all, those archaic texts of foreign peoples
for whom poetry is not something isolated,
it comes spontaneously,
one doesn’t know how.

THE LETTER I am writing to you from a country that was formerly light. I write to you from a country of cloak and shadow. For years we live, we live in the tower of a flag broken by wind. Oh! Summer! Poisoned summer! And ever since it is always the same day, the day of encrusted memory.
The ensnared fish thinks as much as he can of water. As much as he can, isn’t it natural? At the top of a mountain slope one receives a pike-blow. It is then that a whole life changes. One instant breaks down the door to the temple.
We consult each other. We no longer know. Neither one nor the other knows anymore. That one is confused. All are distraught. Calm is no more. Wisdom does not outlast inspiration. Tell me, who having received three arrows in the cheek will present himself in a flippant way?
Death takes some. Prison, exile, famine, misery take the others. Great swords of cold crossed us, then the abject and the sly crossed us.
Who, on our soil, still receives the kiss of joy in the depth of his heart?
The union of myself and wine is a poem. The union of myself and a woman is a poem. The union of the sky and the earth is a poem. But the poem which we have heard has paralyzed our minds…
Our song in the great suffering could not be sung. Art has the mark of arrested jade. The clouds pass, clouds with the contours of rocks, clouds with the contours of sins, and we, like the clouds, we pass, padded with the vain powers of grief.
One no longer likes the day. It shrieks. One no longer likes the night, haunted with worry. A thousand voices in order to deceive. No voice on which to lean. Our skin is tired of our pale face.
The event is great. Night is also great, but what can it do? A thousand stars do not light a single bed. Those who knew no longer know. They leap with the train, the roll with the wheel.
“To live in one’s own skin”. Don’t even think of it. The solitary house does not exist on the island of Parrots. In the fall, the villainess revealed herself. Pure is not pure. It shows its abstinence, its spite. Some manifest in squeaks. Others manifest in escape. Dignity does not manifest.
Ardor in secret, farewell to truth. The silence of the pavement, the cry of the stabbed,
the harmony of frozen repose and feelings which burn was our harmony. The path of the perplexed dog, our path.
We have not recognized ourselves in the silence, we have not recognized ourselves in the screams, nor in our caves nor in the gestures of strangers. All around us the country is indifferent and the sky without purpose.

We have seen ourselves in the mirror of death. We have seen ourselves in the mirror of the outraged seal, of flowing blood, of decapitated rapture, in the charred mirror of insult.

We have returned to the gloucous streams.

*****************************************************

Louise Landes Levi and Henri Michaux were personal friends during the life of Michaux. LLL has translated his work into English with the personal appreciation of Michaux. The texts used on this LP are from these translations.

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA ~ MUSIQUE IRRITANTE (I)

LP
Leather and Paper Collage by Raymond Dijkstra.
Signed by Raymond Dijkstra
Numbered edition of 10 ex.
d’or035
SOLD

Raymond Dijkstra is an artist active since 1987 in music, sculpture, painting, photography, collage and drawing.

Listen to full album / Digital download

“Between 2008 and 2016, I’ve worked on a Series called Catalogue du Bruit / Musique Irritante, which was published in the same period on 3″ and 5” vinyl records on my own imprint Le Souffleur.

The Music was an Attempt to break through certain Types of Self-Confinement, by repetitive Behavior.

As a Child I’ve suffered from Tics and compulsive Behavior, like blinking with my Eyes, making Sounds with Throat and Face Contortions. I also had to repeat certain Kind of Actions- when I had locked the Door, I had to repeat the same Action 3 or 4 Times. It was sometimes very tiring, because I couldn’t stop. I got a Kind of Satisfaction from doing it after a certain prolonged Period, at the same Time it was far from satisfying. Because my Parents and even my Schoolteacher acted as if I did something terribly wrong, I also felt guilty by doing it. This Behavior got less during Adolescence and almost completely left me when I was around 16, although a certain Level of Compulsion has always Kind of stayed with me.

Because of my History with Tourette, I found out that making Music in a repetitive Manner eased my Senses, by forgetting the Self. There was a certain Level of Compulsion in it as well, which was warmly familiar.

I see the Music as Expressionist Music. More than Musique Brut. I’ve made the Music to come to my Self and also always as a Way to connect with a different Level of / in Reality. In that Perspective it has been my personal Connection to Surrealism. The Sounds are not simply Sounds for the Sake of making Sounds. Or experimenting with Sound. Far from, even. I’ve never been interested in making experimental Music. The Sounds were solely a logical Outcome of my personal Preferences and Taste. Much more important is the emotional Load of the Sounds, transferred by the Movements of my Body. The Sounds were not created by my Head (Logic) or Feeling. It wasn’t a conscious Attempt to making Music / Sound before or during the Making of the Sound. In Fact it was made with an entirely empty Head and Mind, allowing my Body to move in the most possible free Way, without wanting to gain any Control over it, basically a Form of Automatic Writing, connecting a direct Link with my Subconsciousness. Body-Spasms as a Way to express. But always within the Confinement of a limited Time-Frame (1 to 2,5 minutes- with Clockalarm) and a relatively narrow Pallet of Sounds- my German Harmonium, A table of Glass and another frictional Object. These three Elements were always the Same, because these Elements allowed me to connect with my Self and lead to ease the Mind. The Music was made at once, spontaneously, without After-editing or any use of Electronics.

Between 2008 and 2016 a Series of 58 tiny Vinyl Records were produced on 3 Inch Format and 5 Inch Format. They were published together with my own handmade Collages on self-made hardcover Boxes in mostly black Linen. An Exception was the Work ‘De Slaap’ which was covered in dried Fishskin. All Titles were published in limited Editions between 1 and 10 Copies. This is the first Time these Noise Miniatures of 1 to 2,5 minutes will be published together on one LP. This LP contains the first Ten Titles from the entire Series with new original Artwork.”

“My music is made in an abstract process of self-detachment. While detaching myself from myself, I connect with my Self. My expressionistic music should be regarded more as a physical act, more than music. It’s a constant training in opening up my mind, removing obstacles with violence, and seeing a different reality through the debris.” “The final result is a pile of fragments, but I guess something of the initial light still shimmers through.” “The publication is simply a registration of a physical event, and should be left untouched. Any changing of the initial energy is a weakening.”

Links to the original Works on Le Souffleur:

De Zee (The Sea) (2008)(5 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Luis (The Louse) (2008) (5 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Droom (The Dream) (2008) (5 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Herinnering (The Memory) (2008) (5 inch record) (box)(Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Zon (The Sun) (2008) (5 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Wil (The Will) (2008) (5 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Tegel (The Tile) (2008) (5 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Slaap (The Sleep) (2008) (3 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Varen (The Fern) (2008) (3 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Vijl (The File Tool) (2008) (3 inch record)(box) (Le Souffleur)(NL)
More Information here
De Luis A Side
De Luis B Side Excerpt
De Droom A Side excerpt
De Droom B Side Excerpt
De Zon B Side Excerpt
De Herinnering A Side Excerpt
De Herinnering B Side Excerpt
De Slaap A Side
De Tegel A Side Excerpt
De Wil A Side
De Wil B Side Excerpt
De Zon A Side Excerpt

Raymond Dijkstra ~ Musique Irritante
LP Original Artwork Raymond DijkstraSOLD OUT

Artwork Description: Cut’ and glued Strips of Leather and Paper on Cardboard LP Cover

01/10 Front
01/10 Back

MARC HURTADO ~ HURT

LP
Diptych consisting of two Paintings by Marc Hurtado.
Signed by Marc Hurtado
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or034

Marc Hurtado

Leading figure of the international experimental film and music scene, co-founder of the duo Etant Donnés with his brother Éric in 1977, Marc Hurtado has since then followed a polymorphous career of musician, performer, poet, visual artist, film music composer and filmmaker. He directed 23 films including 3 feature films, realised thirty albums and more than 500 concerts / performances in venues like the New York Kitchen ,Matresss Factory Pittsburg, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Newcastle, Kassel Documenta, Foundation Cartier Paris, Centre Beaubourg Paris, Collège des Bernardins Paris, Sonar Festival Barcelona, ​​Etrange Festival de Paris , Atonal Berlin Festival, Click Festival Copenhagen, Luff Festival Lausanne or the Transmusicales de Rennes.

He collaborated with musicians like Alan Vega and Martin Rev (Suicide), Gabi Delgabo (DAF), Genesis P. Orridge (Pyschic TV, Throbbing Gristle), Michael Gira (Swans), Lydia Lunch, Mark Cunningham (Mars), Z’ev, Vomir, The Hacker, Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka , Pascal Comelade and Christophe.

He made film soundtracks for the filmmakers Philippe Grandrieux, Pierre -Luc Vaillancourt, Jessica Hausner, Mathieu Dufois and Philippe Roche.

Marc Hurtado has exhibited his paintings , installations , films and videos in La Galerie du Jour in Paris, Le  Confort Moderne in Poitiers, the Microscope Gallery  in New York, Laurent Godin Gallerie in Paris, Centre d’Art De Lausanne, Deitch Gallery New York, Malba Buenos Aires, Palacio de bellas artes Mexico, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zagreb, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, London Gallery, Withechapel Gallery of London, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zagreb, Stededelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Cultural Arts Council of Houston , The Empty Gallery in Hong Kong, Centre national d’art contemporain de Grenoble ( Le Magasin), Galerie Aorta , Amsterdam , Espace Lyonnais d’art Contemporain de Lyon, University of Rome, Museum of Grenoble, Kassel Documenta or the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York.

Retrospectives of his films were organized at the Cinéma du Réel Festival at the Beaubourg Center, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn , Luff Festival , the Film Mutations Festival in Zagreb and BAFICI in Buenos Aires
Screenings of his films were made at numerous festivals, galleries and museum such as the Fid de Marseille, Locarno Festival, Belfort Interviews Festival, Cinémed de Montpellier, Distrito de Mexico Festival, Doc Festival of Buenos Aires, Fronteira Goiânia Festival in Brazil, London Gallery, Withechapel Gallery of London, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zagreb, Stededelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Cultural Arts Council of Houston , or the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York.
His films were bought by the Centre Beaubourg Paris , the Museum of Modern Art in Villeurbanne, the Magasin / Cnac in Grenoble, the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and his latest feature film “Jajouka, something good comes to you” ( co-directed with his brother Eric) was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York

Words about HURT by Marc Hurtado

HURT is a musical and artwork project realized by Des Astres d’Or .

I made 4 tracks for the vinyl named HURT .

Names of the tracks are HURT 1 , HURT 2, HURT 3 and HURT 4. These 4 tracks are united by the chaos and the energy of the music and the voice screaming, whispering , singing poems in the center of a whirlwind of light and sound.

Each track is reflecting in the mirror of the other tracks like 4 stars dancing in an infinite violent circle circus isolated in an empty space.

I painted 25 diptychs for the 25 vinyls, all named HURT .

Each diptych is composed of one black oil paint on canvas representing infinite black crosses cut in the center with a knife and one white oil paint on canvas representing 3 or 4 black crosses surrounding a big black cross cut with in the center with a knife.
The crosses seems to move like shooting stars trapped in the infinite darkness of white light.

Light is the key of this work. Light is the key of life , love, dreams and death.

Between 4 walls

Between 4 doors

Between 4 senses

Between 4 stars

4 . 4 .4 . 4

( Marc Hurtado)

Listen to full album / Digital download

ORDER BELOW
Price:
Sold

Artwork Description: Diptych of two Paintings in Oilpaint and Knife-tear on Canvas. Each Painting measures 40-40 Cm. Signed by Marc Hurtado “MH”.