LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Marc Hurtado
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or084
Date of Publication: 20 July 2025
Price: 150 euro.
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 26 films including 4 feature films, realised 46 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 and the Transmusicales de Rennes.
He founded the solo project Sol Ixent and collaborated with musicians like Alan Vega, Gabi Delgabo (DAF), Genesis P. Orridge (Pyschic TV, Throbbing Gristle), Michael Gira (Swans), Lydia Lunch, Mark Cunningham (Mars), Z’ev, Craig Walker (Archive), John Duncan, Vomir, The Hacker, Laurent Garnier, Saba Komossa, The Liminanas, 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 and Kassel Documenta
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 the 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.
In 2024, the 300-page book “DE CŒUR A COEUR” was published by Presses du Réel in France. This book was directed by Monica Delgado and José Sarmiento Hinojosa and is composed of 28 texts, poems, and paintings by 23 artists, writers, and journalists including Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, F.J Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Nicolas Ballet, Romain Perrot, Mathieu Dufois, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, Sébastien Vitré and Marie Möör.
ROUGE is the second publication on ASTRES D’OR, the first publication was HURT in 2019.
ROUGE by Marc Hurtado
ROUGE is the color of the rising sun .
ROUGE is the color of the setting sun.
ROUGE is the color of blood.
ROUGE is the color of fire.
The brain is on fire.
The body is on fire.
The sky is on fire.
The Earth is on fire.
Our souls are on fire.
ROUGE is the color of the sound of this album, the sound of the heart and soul exploding and dispersing into space, the sound of star particles bound by liquid roses.
ROUGE is a deafening sound, the silence of the cremation of a disintegrating star, a pulverized white star, torn apart in absolute blackness, a gesture at the speed of light that has neither end nor beginning.
ROUGE is the invisible, static, universal color that hides in the total darkness of white light, it is the cry of the mute, the inner black eye of the blind.
ROUGE is the way of the visible, the voice of the invisible.
Marc Hurtado – June 14 . 2025
Artwork description: White gouache on black cardboard (LP covers) by Marc Hurtado
