Outings is a participatory street art project
created by the French photographer and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca. His work
has always been related to the street, as in his first movie Night after the
rain (2009), written by Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize in Literature.
Outings’ story began in 2014, while he was visiting
the Louvre, there was one lonely girl that caught his eye - Mademoiselle
Rivière - painted by Ingres in 1806. “She was beautiful. She seemed lost
amongst the many large paintings and looked bored,” says Casabianca. “I had a
‘Prince Charming’ impulse to free her from the frame and the museum.” This
first wheat paste on the streets of Paris has since led to hundreds of
portraits from local museums being unleashed in cities around the world.
Julien de Casabianca
aims to do more than select portraits from museums, find interesting walls for
installation, and then photograph the installations for exhibition. He strongly
believes in engaging citizens in the process and has done so thanks to participatory
workshops in cities across the world, encouraging inhabitants to connect to museum
collections in their city.
Thanks to
the support of the National Gallery of Slovenia, the French cultural Institute
in Ljubljana, the City of Ljubljana and the curator Stefani Markovic, Julien de
Casabianca is happy to extend his participatory art project to Ljubljana.
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Exhibition opening, video
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Author of the photographies
Julien de Casabianca
Coordination
Stefani Markovic, Kristina Preininger
The project was supported by
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
French Institute in Slovenia
Artwave Gallery, Paris
5 May – 4 June 2017
National Gallery of Slovenia
Prešernova 24
1000 Ljubljana