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From Lego Movie set 70821: Creative Ambush
Very busy the past few weeks, so I've started a series of quick Lego Movie minifig portraits. Don't worry — I'll have a new build posted soon!
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
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Miss.Tic, de son vrai nom Radhia Novat, née le 20 février 1956 à Paris, est une artiste plasticienne et poète d'art urbain. Ses œuvres apparaissent dans le paysage pictural et urbain à partir de 1985.
Sommaire
1Biographie
2Principales expositions personnelles[14]
2.1Collections et commandes publiques
2.2Foires d'art contemporain
3Publications
3.1Bibliographie
4Notes et références
4.1Notes
4.2Références
5Annexes
5.1Article connexe
5.2Liens externes
Biographie[modifier | modifier le code]
Née à Paris d’un immigré tunisien, tantôt ouvrier, tantôt fort des Halles, et d’une mère « paysanne éclairée »1,2, Miss.Tic, de son vrai nom Radhia Novat3 grandit sur la Butte Montmartre.
En 1964, sa famille s’installe à la Cité des aviateurs à Orly. En 1966, sa mère, son frère et sa grand-mère meurent dans un accident de voiture ; les séquelles de ce drame feront d’elle une « gauchère obligée »1. En 1972, son père décède d’une crise cardiaque ; elle a seize ans. À la fin de ses études secondaires, elle se forme pendant plusieurs années au gré de travaux d’arts appliqués – décor de théâtre2, maquette, photogravure4 –, puis part s'installer en Californie au début des années 1980.
De retour en France, à la suite d’un dépit amoureux, Miss.Tic décide d’utiliser ce dissentiment comme une pratique artistique, avec le pochoir à la bombe aérosol comme technique, et les murs comme support5. Le pseudonyme qu'elle se choisit, emprunté au personnage de sorcière railleuse Miss Tick1 du Journal de Mickey, est dans l’esprit de ces années-là.
En 1985, Miss.Tic utilise les murs des quartiers de Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil, la Butte-aux-Cailles6, pour raconter sa vie, ses désirs, ses ruptures sentimentales, ses travers, ses fantasmes, comme lieu d’expression directe et synthétique5. Miss.Tic joue sur les stéréotypes de la femme séductrice, notamment le fétichisme. Son œuvre provoque un questionnement, foulant aux pieds les archétypes de la « femme marchandise »1.
Toutefois, en ville, la multiplication des tags et des bombages est perçue par les autorités comme l’une des expressions de l’insécurité. Cette situation génère des complications. En 1997, Miss.Tic est arrêtée. Le procès pour détérioration d’un bien par inscription, signe ou dessin, se conclut, en janvier 2000, devant la cour d’appel de Paris par une amende de 4 500 €5,7.
Au milieu des années 2000, les institutions commencent à reconnaître l'art urbain. Miss.Tic se défait d’une marginalité jusqu'alors inconfortable5, expose dans des galeries. Elle reçoit des commandes publiques5. Des marques s’intéressent à son travail, à son image de Parisienne et de sorcière ludique : loueur automobile, maroquinier, couturier, papetier8. Les expositions dans des galeries de renom se font plus fréquentes. Des foires d'art contemporain l’invitent, à Venise ou à Miami. En 2007, Miss.Tic entre dans la collection du Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres. Le cinéaste Claude Chabrol lui demande de réaliser l’affiche de son film La Fille coupée en deux9.
Le 8 mars 2011, La Poste émet lors de la Journée des femmes des timbres reproduisant des œuvres de Miss.Tic, inspirées de ses pochoirs10,11. Au cours de l'été 2011, l'Institut français de Berlin expose pendant dix semaines, sous le titre « Bomb it », une quarantaine de ses œuvres produites ces dix dernières années12.
Le 18 octobre 2013, l'Agglomération de Montpellier choisit Miss.Tic pour la réalisation du design de la 5e ligne de tramway de son réseau13, prévue en 2017. Elle succède ainsi à Gérard Garouste et Bonetti (design lignes 1 et 2), et à Christian Lacroix (design lignes 3 et 4).
Principales expositions personnelles14[modifier | modifier le code]
1986 : Première exposition, librairie Épigramme, Paris
1989 : « Fragments et Multiples », galerie Couleur, Paris
1990 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Christophe, Paris
1991 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Sanguine, Paris
1994 : « Tout achever sauf le désir », EPITA, Paris
1995 : « Je ferai les trottoirs de l'histoire de l'art », FIAP, Paris
1997 : « L’art me ment », galerie Sacha Tarasoff, Paris
1999 : « Je ne fais que passer », galerie La Pochade, Paris
2000 : « Muses et Hommes », espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2000 : « Dangereuse sous tous rapports », palais de justice, Lyon
2001 : « Les actes gratuits ont-ils un prix ? », galerie Artazart, Paris
2001 : « Je t’aime temps », rétrospective 1985/2001, espace Envie d’art, Paris
2001 : « Héroïne », galerie Bernard Guillon, Paris
2002 : « Miss.Tic Erotic », galerie Artitude, Paris
2003 : « Vain cœur vain cul », galerie Au-dessous du Volcan, Paris
2003 : « Une Nuit avec Miss.Tic », galerie Artazart, Paris
2003 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Papegoyen, Oslo, Norvège
2004 : « Femme mur », Nuts Gallery, Paris
2004 : « Miss.Tic Attak », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2005 : « Maudites sorcières », galerie W, Paris
2005 : « Quand on aime, on a toujours 20 ans », galerie W, Paris
2006 : « Parisienne », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
2006 : « Femmes capitales », mairie du XIIIe, Paris
2007 : « Miss.Tic Présidente », galerie de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris
2007 : « Toi et Moi » (avec Jean Faucheur), galerie Chappe, Paris
2008 : « Je crois en l'éternel féminin », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2008 : « Je prête à rire, mais je donne à penser », galerie W, Paris
2009 : « Go Homme », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
2010 : « Folle à délier », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2010 : « Parisienne », Ion Art Gallery, Singapour
2011 : « Bomb it », Institut français, Berlin
2012 : « Secret d'atelier », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris ;
2014 : « Miss.Tic », Institut français de Barcelone, Espagne
2014 : « Les Uns et les Unes (suite) », galerie L'Œil 0uvert, Paris
2014 : « En cartoon, elles cartonnent », galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris
2015 : « Flashback », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris15
2017 : « Rétrospective », Galerie Berthéas, Vichy16
2017 : « Muses et Hommes », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris17
2018 : « Des Mots Coeurs », galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris18
2018 : « Bombe Textuelle », Art to Be Gallery, Lille19
2019 : « Rock’n’Girls », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris20
Collections et commandes publiques[modifier | modifier le code]
1989 : Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris
2005 : Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres
2007 : Ministère du logement et de la ville, place Bellecour, Lyon. Mairie d'Orly, mur de résidence d'étudiants Léo-Ferré
2013 : Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille. Aménagement intérieur et extérieur du tramway de la ligne no 5 de la ville de Montpellier, France
Foires d'art contemporain[modifier | modifier le code]
2007
Art Miami, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
Palmbeach 2, galerie Leila Mordoch, Palm Beach, USA
Venice international art fair, galerie Leila Mordoch, Venise, Italie
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
Bridge Art art fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
2008
Palmbeach 3, galerie Leila Mordoch, Palm Beach, USA
Slick Art Fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2009
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
Slick Art Fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2010
Art Miami, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2015
Publications[modifier | modifier le code]
Miss.Tic, "re garde moi", Édition Alternatives, Paris février 2003, préface Régine Deforges , (ISBN 978-286-227361-7), 70 pochoirs entre 1986 et 2003. Épuisé.
Miss.Tic Attak, éditions Alternatives, 2004, (ISBN 978-286-227427-0) Épuisé.
Miss.Tic.in Paris, de Miss.Tic, Ed.Paris-Musées et Critères éditions, 2005, (ISBN 978-2-917829-06-6) Épuisé.
Parisienne, 96 p., éditions Alternatives, 2006, (ISBN 978-286-227496-6) Épuisé.
Je prête à rire mais je donne à penser, éditions Grasset, 2008, (ISBN 978-2-246-70821-6)
À la vie, à l'Amor, Critères éditions, collection Opus Délits, Grenoble, 2010, (ISBN 978-2917-829080). Textes et photos Miss.Tic, préface de Pierre-François Moreau.
FLASHBACK, 30 ans de création, Éditions Critères, collection Urbanités, 2015. (ISBN 9782370260239)
Des Mots Cœurs, Éditions Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris, 2018, (ISBN 979-10-95069-06-5). Préface de Pierre-François Moreau.
Miss Tic, Histoires de Rencontres, Éditions Lélia Mordoch, Paris, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-909138-33-6).
Bibliographie[modifier | modifier le code]
Miss.tic, Jean-Marie Lerat (photographies), Je ne fais que passer, Paris, éditions Florent-Massot, mars 1998, 96 p., 21 × 24 cm (ISBN 978-2-908382-79-2)
Christophe Genin, Miss.Tic : Femme de l’être, Paris, Les Impressions Nouvelles, coll. « Réflexions faites », 2008 - réédité en 2014, 192 p., 17 × 24 cm (ISBN 9782874492310)
Miss.Tic is a French artist born in Paris on 20 February 1956. She is known for her stencils of dark haired woman often seen in the streets of Paris and associated with poetry. She has been active as a street artist since 1985.
Biography[edit]
Miss.Tic was born in 1956 in Montmartre from a Tunisian immigrant and a mother from Normandy. She spent her childhood the family moved in Orly, in the southern suburb. When she was ten, she lost her mother and her little brother in a car accident. Then, when she was 16 her father died in turn. She is then raised by her stepmother who is a bar tender but she escapes from this world and quickly starts to work on her stencils and moves to California in the early 1980s.
She went back to Paris after a breakup. She started to express herself on the walls in parts of Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil and la Butte-aux-Cailles In 1985 she signed her first personal exhibition based on her art.[1]
Since then she has kept on spreading her ideas through poems and wordplay on the walls and in books or exhibitions.
In 1985 too, she was on the first meeting of the graffiti and urban art movement in Bondy (France), on the VLP's initiative, with Speedy Graphito, Kim Prisu, Jef Aérosol, SP 38, Epsylon Point, Blek le rat, Futura 2000, Nuklé-Art, Banlieue-Banlieue… In March 2011, a series of stamps were issued for womans'day, inspired by some of her stencils.
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Arles (/ɑːrl(z)/, also US: /ˈɑːrəl/,[2][3][4][5] French: [aʁl]; Provençal: Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Classical Latin: Arelate) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
A large part of the Camargue is located on the territory of the commune, making it the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory (though Maripasoula, French Guiana, is much larger). The city has a long history, and was of considerable importance in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. The Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1981. The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles from 1888 to 1889 and produced over 300 paintings and drawings during his time there. An international photography festival has been held in the city since 1970.
Contents
1Geography
2History
2.1Ancient era
2.2Roman aqueduct and mill
2.3Middle Ages
2.4Modern era
2.5Jewish history
3Climate
4Population
5Main sights
6Archaeology
7Sport
8Culture
8.1European Capital of Culture
9Economy
10Transport
11Notable people
12Twin towns — sister cities
13See also
14References
15External links
Geography
The river Rhône forks into two branches just upstream of Arles, forming the Camargue delta. Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area is 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi), which is more than seven times the area of Paris.
History
Ancient era
Arles Amphitheatre, a Roman arena
Passageway in the Amphitheatre
Church of St. Trophime and its cloister
The Ligurians were in this area from about 800 BC. Later, Celtic influences have been discovered. The city became an important Phoenician trading port, before being taken by the Romans.
The Romans took the town in 123 BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean Sea being constructed in 104 BC. However, it struggled to escape the shadow of Massalia (Marseilles) further along the coast.
Its chance came when it sided with Julius Caesar against Pompey, providing military support. Massalia backed Pompey; when Caesar emerged victorious, Massalia was stripped of its possessions, which were transferred to Arelate as a reward. The town was formally established as a colony for veterans of the Roman legion Legio VI Ferrata, which had its base there. Its full title as a colony was Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelatensium Sextanorum, "the ancestral Julian colony of Arles of the soldiers of the Sixth."
Arelate was a city of considerable importance in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. It covered an area of some 40 hectares (99 acres) and possessed a number of monuments, including an amphitheatre, triumphal arch, Roman circus, theatre, and a full circuit of walls. Ancient Arles was closer to the sea than it is now and served as a major port. It also had (and still has) the southernmost bridge on the Rhône. Very unusually, the Roman bridge was not fixed but consisted of a pontoon-style bridge of boats, with towers and drawbridges at each end. The boats were secured in place by anchors and were tethered to twin towers built just upstream of the bridge. This unusual design was a way of coping with the river's frequent violent floods, which would have made short work of a conventional bridge. Nothing remains of the Roman bridge, which has been replaced by a more modern bridge near the same spot.
The city reached a peak of influence during the 4th and 5th centuries, when Roman Emperors frequently used it as their headquarters during military campaigns. In 395, it became the seat of the Praetorian Prefecture of the Gauls, governing the western part of the Western Empire: Gaul proper plus Hispania (Spain) and Armorica (Brittany). At that time, the city was perhaps home to 75,000–100,000 people.[6][7][8][9]
It became a favorite city of Emperor Constantine I, who built baths there, substantial remains of which are still standing. His son, Constantine II, was born in Arles. Usurper Constantine III declared himself emperor in the West (407–411) and made Arles his capital in 408.
Arles became renowned as a cultural and religious centre during the late Roman Empire. It was the birthplace of the sceptical philosopher Favorinus. It was also a key location for Roman Christianity and an important base for the Christianization of Gaul. The city's bishopric was held by a series of outstanding clerics, beginning with Saint Trophimus around 225 and continuing with Saint Honoratus, then Saint Hilarius in the first half of the 5th century. The political tension between the Catholic bishops of Arles and the Visigothic kings is epitomized in the career of the Frankish St. Caesarius, bishop of Arles 503–542, who was suspected by the Arian Visigoth Alaric II of conspiring with the Burgundians to turn over the Arelate to Burgundy, and was exiled for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitaine. Political tensions were evident again in 512, when Arles held out against Theodoric the Great and Caesarius was imprisoned and sent to Ravenna to explain his actions before the Ostrogothic king.[10]
The friction between the Arian Christianity of the Visigoths and the Catholicism of the bishops sent out from Rome established deep roots for religious heterodoxy, even heresy, in Occitan culture. At Treves in 385, Priscillian achieved the distinction of becoming the first Christian executed for heresy (Manichaean in his case, see also Cathars, Camisards). Despite this tension and the city's decline in the face of barbarian invasions, Arles remained a great religious centre and host of church councils (see Council of Arles), the rival of Vienne, for hundreds of years.
Roman aqueduct and mill
Aqueduct of Arles at Barbegal
The Barbegal aqueduct and mill is a Roman watermill complex located on the territory of the commune of Fontvieille, a few kilometres from Arles. The complex has been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".[11] The remains of the mill streams and buildings which housed the overshot water wheels are still visible at the site, and it is by far the best-preserved of ancient mills. There are two aqueducts which join just north of the mill complex, and a sluice which enabled the operators to control the water supply to the complex. The mill consisted of 16 waterwheels in two separate rows built into a steep hillside. There are substantial masonry remains of the water channels and foundations of the individual mills, together with a staircase rising up the hill upon which the mills are built. The mills apparently operated from the end of the 1st century until about the end of the 3rd century.[12] The capacity of the mills has been estimated at 4.5 tons of flour per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for 6,000 of the 30-40,000 inhabitants of Arelate at that time.[13] A similar mill complex existed also on the Janiculum in Rome. Examination of the mill leat still just visible on one side of the hill shows a substantial accretion of lime in the channel, tending to confirm its long working life.
It is thought that the wheels were overshot water wheels with the outflow from the top driving the next one down and so on, to the base of the hill. Vertical water mills were well known to the Romans, being described by Vitruvius in his De Architectura of 25 BC, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia of 77 AD. There are also later references to floating water mills from Byzantium and to sawmills on the river Moselle by the poet Ausonius. The use of multiple stacked sequences of reverse overshot water-wheels was widespread in Roman mines.
Middle Ages
Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh (September 1888), depicts the warmth of a café in Arles
In 735, after raiding the Lower Rhône, Andalusian Saracens led by Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri moved into the stronghold summoned by Count Maurontus, who feared Charles Martel's expansionist ambitions, though this may have been an excuse to further Moorish expansion beyond Iberia. The next year, Charles campaigned south to Septimania and Provence, attacking and capturing Arles after destroying Avignon. In 739. Charles definitely drove Maurontus to exile, and brought Provence to heel. In 855, it was made the capital of a Frankish Kingdom of Arles, which included Burgundy and part of Provence, but was frequently terrorised by Saracen and Viking raiders. In 888, Rudolph, Count of Auxerre (now in north-western Burgundy), founded the kingdom of Transjuran Burgundy (literally, beyond the Jura mountains), which included western Switzerland as far as the river Reuss, Valais, Geneva, Chablais and Bugey.
In 933, Hugh of Arles ("Hugues de Provence") gave his kingdom up to Rudolph II, who merged the two kingdoms into a new Kingdom of Arles. In 1032, King Rudolph III died, and the kingdom was inherited by Emperor Conrad II the Salic. Though his successors counted themselves kings of Arles, few went to be crowned in the cathedral. Most of the kingdom's territory was progressively incorporated into France. During these troubled times, the amphitheatre was converted into a fortress, with watchtowers built at each of the four quadrants and a minuscule walled town being constructed within. The population was by now only a fraction of what it had been in Roman times, with much of old Arles lying in ruins.
The town regained political and economic prominence in the 12th century, with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa traveling there in 1178 for his coronation. In the 12th century, it became a free city governed by an elected podestat (chief magistrate; literally "power"), who appointed the consuls and other magistrates. It retained this status until the French Revolution of 1789.
Arles joined the countship of Provence in 1239, but, once more, its prominence was eclipsed by Marseilles. In 1378, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV ceded the remnants of the Kingdom of Arles to the Dauphin of France (later King Charles VI of France) and the kingdom ceased to exist even on paper.
Modern era
Arles remained economically important for many years as a major port on the Rhône. In the 19th century, the arrival of the railway diminished river trade, leading to the town becoming something of a backwater.
This made it an attractive destination for the painter Vincent van Gogh, who arrived there on 21 February 1888. He was fascinated by the Provençal landscapes, producing over 300 paintings and drawings during his time in Arles. Many of his most famous paintings were completed there, including The Night Cafe, the Yellow Room, Starry Night Over the Rhone, and L'Arlésienne. Paul Gauguin visited van Gogh in Arles. However, van Gogh's mental health deteriorated and he became alarmingly eccentric, culminating in the well-known ear-severing incident in December 1888 which resulted in two stays in the Old Hospital of Arles. The concerned Arlesians circulated a petition the following February demanding that van Gogh be confined. In May 1889, he took the hint and left Arles for the Saint-Paul asylum at nearby Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Jewish history
Main article: History of the Jews in Arles
Arles had an important and prominent Jewish community between the Roman era and the end of the 15th century. A local legend describes the first Jews in Arles as exiles from Judaea after Jerusalem fell to the Romans. Nevertheless, the first documented evidence of Jews in Arles is not before the fifth century, when a distinguished community already existed in the town. Arles was an important Jewish crossroads, as a port city and close to Spain and the rest of Europe alike. It served a major role in the work of the Hachmei Provence group of famous Jewish scholars, translators and philosophers, who were most important to Judaism throughout the Middle Ages. In the eighth century, jurisdiction over the Jews of Arles was passed to the local Archbishop, making the Jewish taxes to the clergy somewhat of a shield for the community from mob attacks, most frequent during the Crusades. The community lived relatively peacefully until the last decade of the 15th century, when they were expelled out of the city never to return. Several Jews did live in the city in the centuries after, though no community was found ever after. Nowadays, Jewish archaeological findings and texts from Arles can be found in the local museum.[14]
Climate
Arles has a warm summer mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa)[15] with a mean annual temperature of 14.6 °C (1948–1999). The summers are warm and moderately dry, with seasonal averages between 22 °C and 24 °C, and mild winters with a mean temperature of about 7 °C. The city is constantly, but especially in the winter months, subject to the influence of the mistral, a cold wind which can cause sudden and severe frosts. Rainfall (636 mm per year) is fairly evenly distributed from September to May, with the summer drought being less marked than in other Mediterranean areas.[16]
Main sights
Gallo-Roman theatre.
The Alyscamps.
Arles has important Roman remnants, most of which have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1981 within the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments group. They include:
The Church of St. Trophime (Saint Trophimus), formerly a cathedral, is a major work of Romanesque architecture, and the representation of the Last Judgment on its portal is considered one of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture, as are the columns in the adjacent cloister.
The town also has a museum of ancient history, the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques, with one of the best collections of Roman sarcophagi to be found anywhere outside Rome itself. Other museums include the Musée Réattu and the Museon Arlaten.
The courtyard of the Old Arles hospital, now named "Espace Van Gogh," is a center for Vincent van Gogh's works, several of which are masterpieces.[18] The garden, framed on all four sides by buildings of the complex, is approached through arcades on the first floor. A circulation gallery is located on the first and second floors.[19]
Archaeology
Main article: Arles portrait bust
In September–October 2007, divers led by Luc Long from the French Department of Subaquatic Archaeological Research, headed by Michel L'Hour, discovered a life-sized marble bust of an apparently important Roman person in the Rhône near Arles, together with smaller statues of Marsyas in Hellenistic style and of the god Neptune from the third century AD. The larger bust was tentatively dated to 46 BC. Since the bust displayed several characteristics of an ageing person with wrinkles, deep naso-labial creases and hollows in his face, and since the archaeologists believed that Julius Caesar had founded the colony Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelate Sextanorum in 46 BC, the scientists came to the preliminary conclusion that the bust depicted a life-portrait of the Roman dictator: France's Minister of Culture Christine Albanel reported on May 13, 2008, that the bust would be the oldest representation of Caesar known today.[20] The story was picked up by all larger media outlets.[21][22] The realism of the portrait was said to place it in the tradition of late Republican portrait and genre sculptures. The archaeologists further claimed that a bust of Julius Caesar might have been thrown away or discreetly disposed of, because Caesar's portraits could have been viewed as politically dangerous possessions after the dictator's assassination.
Historians and archaeologists not affiliated with the French administration, among them Paul Zanker, the renowned archaeologist and expert on Caesar and Augustus, were quick to question whether the bust is a portrait of Caesar.[23][24][25] Many noted the lack of resemblances to Caesar's likenesses issued on coins during the last years of the dictator's life, and to the Tusculum bust of Caesar,[26] which depicts Julius Caesar in his lifetime, either as a so-called zeitgesicht or as a direct portrait. After a further stylistic assessment, Zanker dated the Arles-bust to the Augustan period. Elkins argued for the third century AD as the terminus post quem for the deposition of the statues, refuting the claim that the bust was thrown away due to feared repercussions from Caesar's assassination in 44 BC.[27] The main argument by the French archaeologists that Caesar had founded the colony in 46 BC proved to be incorrect, as the colony was founded by Caesar's former quaestor Tiberius Claudius Nero on the dictator's orders in his absence.[28] Mary Beard has accused the persons involved in the find of having willfully invented their claims for publicity reasons. The French ministry of culture has not yet responded to the criticism and negative reviews.
Sport
AC Arles-Avignon is a professional French football team. They currently play in Championnat de France Amateur, the fourth division in French football. They play at the Parc des Sports, which has a capacity of just over 17,000.
Culture
Arles is a cultural hotspot. A well known photography festival, Rencontres d'Arles, takes place in Arles every year, and the French national school of photography is located there.
The major French publishing house Actes Sud is also situated in Arles.
In the past years, several cultural organizations set up a presence in Arles, such as the LUMA Foundation, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation or the Lee Ufan Foundation.[29] On top of that, there are countless galleries scattered throughout the city.
Bullfights are conducted in the amphitheatre, including Provençal-style bullfights (courses camarguaises) in which the bull is not killed, but rather a team of athletic men attempt to remove a tassle from the bull's horn without getting injured. Every Easter and on the first weekend of September, during the feria, Arles also holds Spanish-style corridas (in which the bulls are killed) with an encierro (bull-running in the streets) preceding each fight.
The parts of the films Ronin, At Eternity's Gate and "Taxi 3" were filmed in Arles.
European Capital of Culture
Arles played a major role in Marseille-Provence 2013, the year-long series of cultural events held in the region after it was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2013. The city hosted a segment of the opening ceremony with a pyrotechnical performance by Groupe F on the banks of the Rhône. It also unveiled the new wing of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique as part of Marseille-Provence 2013.
Economy
Arles's open-air street market is a major market in the region. It occurs on Saturday and Wednesday mornings.
Transport
The Gare d'Arles railway station offers connections to Avignon, Nîmes, Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux and several regional destinations.
Arles does not have its own commercial airport, but is served by a number of airports in the region, most notably the major international airport of Marseille Provence approximately an hour's drive away.
The A54 autoroute toll motorway, which locally connects Salon-de-Provence with Nîmes and in a wider sense forms part of European route E80, passes by Arles.
The Rhône, which for navigation purposes is classified as a Class V waterway as far upstream as Lyon, is an historically important transport route connecting the inland Rhône-Alpes region with the Mediterranean Sea. The port of Arles and its adjacent rail and road connections provides a major transshipment node, which in 2013 handled approximately 450,000 tonnes of goods.[30]
Notable people
Genesius of Arles, a notary martyred under Maximianus in 303 or 308
Vincent van Gogh, lived here from February 1888 until May 1889.
Jenny Berthelius (born 1923), Swedish crime novelist and children's writer, lives in Arles[31]
Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), the oldest human being whose age is documented, was born, lived and died, at the age of 122 years and 164 days, in Arles
Lucien Clergue, photographer
Djibril Cissé, footballer
Anne-Marie David, singer (Eurovision winner in 1973)
Home of the Gipsy Kings, a music group from Arles
Gaël Givet, footballer
Luc Hoffmann, ornithologist, conservationist and philanthropist.
Maja Hoffmann, art patron
Juan Bautista (real name Jean-Baptiste Jalabert), matador
Laure Favre-Kahn (born 1976), classical pianist
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, famous Jewish scholar and philosopher, Arles born, active during the Middle Ages.
Christian Lacroix, fashion designer
Blessed Jean Marie du Lau, last Archbishop of Arles, killed by the revolutionary mob in Paris on September 2, 1792
The Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) was born near Arles
Mehdi Savalli, matador
Lloyd Palun, footballer
Major-General Hugh Anthony Prince CBE, Indian Army and British Army officer
The medieval writer Antoine de la Sale was probably born in Arles around 1386
Saint Caesarius of Arles, bishop who lived from the late 5th to the mid 6th century, known for prophecy and writings that would later be used by theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas
Antoine de Seguiran, 18th-century encyclopédiste
Samuel ibn Tibbon, famous Jewish translator and scholar during the Middle Ages.
Fanny Valette, actress
Twin towns — sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France
Arles is twinned with:
Pskov, Russia
Jerez de la Frontera and Cubelles, Spain
Fulda, Germany
York, Pennsylvania, United States
Vercelli, Italy
Sagné, Mauritania
Kalymnos, Greece
Wisbech, United Kingdom
Zhouzhuang, Kunshan, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Verviers, Belgium
George Town, Penang, Malaysia
A collection of my Classic Space style MOCs all build on Juniors vehicle bases mainly from sets 70821 and 60206
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Miss.Tic, de son vrai nom Radhia Novat, née le 20 février 1956 à Paris, est une artiste plasticienne et poète d'art urbain. Ses œuvres apparaissent dans le paysage pictural et urbain à partir de 1985.
Sommaire
1Biographie
2Principales expositions personnelles[14]
2.1Collections et commandes publiques
2.2Foires d'art contemporain
3Publications
3.1Bibliographie
4Notes et références
4.1Notes
4.2Références
5Annexes
5.1Article connexe
5.2Liens externes
Biographie[modifier | modifier le code]
Née à Paris d’un immigré tunisien, tantôt ouvrier, tantôt fort des Halles, et d’une mère « paysanne éclairée »1,2, Miss.Tic, de son vrai nom Radhia Novat3 grandit sur la Butte Montmartre.
En 1964, sa famille s’installe à la Cité des aviateurs à Orly. En 1966, sa mère, son frère et sa grand-mère meurent dans un accident de voiture ; les séquelles de ce drame feront d’elle une « gauchère obligée »1. En 1972, son père décède d’une crise cardiaque ; elle a seize ans. À la fin de ses études secondaires, elle se forme pendant plusieurs années au gré de travaux d’arts appliqués – décor de théâtre2, maquette, photogravure4 –, puis part s'installer en Californie au début des années 1980.
De retour en France, à la suite d’un dépit amoureux, Miss.Tic décide d’utiliser ce dissentiment comme une pratique artistique, avec le pochoir à la bombe aérosol comme technique, et les murs comme support5. Le pseudonyme qu'elle se choisit, emprunté au personnage de sorcière railleuse Miss Tick1 du Journal de Mickey, est dans l’esprit de ces années-là.
En 1985, Miss.Tic utilise les murs des quartiers de Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil, la Butte-aux-Cailles6, pour raconter sa vie, ses désirs, ses ruptures sentimentales, ses travers, ses fantasmes, comme lieu d’expression directe et synthétique5. Miss.Tic joue sur les stéréotypes de la femme séductrice, notamment le fétichisme. Son œuvre provoque un questionnement, foulant aux pieds les archétypes de la « femme marchandise »1.
Toutefois, en ville, la multiplication des tags et des bombages est perçue par les autorités comme l’une des expressions de l’insécurité. Cette situation génère des complications. En 1997, Miss.Tic est arrêtée. Le procès pour détérioration d’un bien par inscription, signe ou dessin, se conclut, en janvier 2000, devant la cour d’appel de Paris par une amende de 4 500 €5,7.
Au milieu des années 2000, les institutions commencent à reconnaître l'art urbain. Miss.Tic se défait d’une marginalité jusqu'alors inconfortable5, expose dans des galeries. Elle reçoit des commandes publiques5. Des marques s’intéressent à son travail, à son image de Parisienne et de sorcière ludique : loueur automobile, maroquinier, couturier, papetier8. Les expositions dans des galeries de renom se font plus fréquentes. Des foires d'art contemporain l’invitent, à Venise ou à Miami. En 2007, Miss.Tic entre dans la collection du Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres. Le cinéaste Claude Chabrol lui demande de réaliser l’affiche de son film La Fille coupée en deux9.
Le 8 mars 2011, La Poste émet lors de la Journée des femmes des timbres reproduisant des œuvres de Miss.Tic, inspirées de ses pochoirs10,11. Au cours de l'été 2011, l'Institut français de Berlin expose pendant dix semaines, sous le titre « Bomb it », une quarantaine de ses œuvres produites ces dix dernières années12.
Le 18 octobre 2013, l'Agglomération de Montpellier choisit Miss.Tic pour la réalisation du design de la 5e ligne de tramway de son réseau13, prévue en 2017. Elle succède ainsi à Gérard Garouste et Bonetti (design lignes 1 et 2), et à Christian Lacroix (design lignes 3 et 4).
Principales expositions personnelles14[modifier | modifier le code]
1986 : Première exposition, librairie Épigramme, Paris
1989 : « Fragments et Multiples », galerie Couleur, Paris
1990 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Christophe, Paris
1991 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Sanguine, Paris
1994 : « Tout achever sauf le désir », EPITA, Paris
1995 : « Je ferai les trottoirs de l'histoire de l'art », FIAP, Paris
1997 : « L’art me ment », galerie Sacha Tarasoff, Paris
1999 : « Je ne fais que passer », galerie La Pochade, Paris
2000 : « Muses et Hommes », espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2000 : « Dangereuse sous tous rapports », palais de justice, Lyon
2001 : « Les actes gratuits ont-ils un prix ? », galerie Artazart, Paris
2001 : « Je t’aime temps », rétrospective 1985/2001, espace Envie d’art, Paris
2001 : « Héroïne », galerie Bernard Guillon, Paris
2002 : « Miss.Tic Erotic », galerie Artitude, Paris
2003 : « Vain cœur vain cul », galerie Au-dessous du Volcan, Paris
2003 : « Une Nuit avec Miss.Tic », galerie Artazart, Paris
2003 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Papegoyen, Oslo, Norvège
2004 : « Femme mur », Nuts Gallery, Paris
2004 : « Miss.Tic Attak », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2005 : « Maudites sorcières », galerie W, Paris
2005 : « Quand on aime, on a toujours 20 ans », galerie W, Paris
2006 : « Parisienne », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
2006 : « Femmes capitales », mairie du XIIIe, Paris
2007 : « Miss.Tic Présidente », galerie de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris
2007 : « Toi et Moi » (avec Jean Faucheur), galerie Chappe, Paris
2008 : « Je crois en l'éternel féminin », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2008 : « Je prête à rire, mais je donne à penser », galerie W, Paris
2009 : « Go Homme », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
2010 : « Folle à délier », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2010 : « Parisienne », Ion Art Gallery, Singapour
2011 : « Bomb it », Institut français, Berlin
2012 : « Secret d'atelier », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris ;
2014 : « Miss.Tic », Institut français de Barcelone, Espagne
2014 : « Les Uns et les Unes (suite) », galerie L'Œil 0uvert, Paris
2014 : « En cartoon, elles cartonnent », galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris
2015 : « Flashback », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris15
2017 : « Rétrospective », Galerie Berthéas, Vichy16
2017 : « Muses et Hommes », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris17
2018 : « Des Mots Coeurs », galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris18
2018 : « Bombe Textuelle », Art to Be Gallery, Lille19
2019 : « Rock’n’Girls », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris20
Collections et commandes publiques[modifier | modifier le code]
1989 : Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris
2005 : Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres
2007 : Ministère du logement et de la ville, place Bellecour, Lyon. Mairie d'Orly, mur de résidence d'étudiants Léo-Ferré
2013 : Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille. Aménagement intérieur et extérieur du tramway de la ligne no 5 de la ville de Montpellier, France
Foires d'art contemporain[modifier | modifier le code]
2007
Art Miami, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
Palmbeach 2, galerie Leila Mordoch, Palm Beach, USA
Venice international art fair, galerie Leila Mordoch, Venise, Italie
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
Bridge Art art fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
2008
Palmbeach 3, galerie Leila Mordoch, Palm Beach, USA
Slick Art Fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2009
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
Slick Art Fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2010
Art Miami, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2015
Publications[modifier | modifier le code]
Miss.Tic, "re garde moi", Édition Alternatives, Paris février 2003, préface Régine Deforges , (ISBN 978-286-227361-7), 70 pochoirs entre 1986 et 2003. Épuisé.
Miss.Tic Attak, éditions Alternatives, 2004, (ISBN 978-286-227427-0) Épuisé.
Miss.Tic.in Paris, de Miss.Tic, Ed.Paris-Musées et Critères éditions, 2005, (ISBN 978-2-917829-06-6) Épuisé.
Parisienne, 96 p., éditions Alternatives, 2006, (ISBN 978-286-227496-6) Épuisé.
Je prête à rire mais je donne à penser, éditions Grasset, 2008, (ISBN 978-2-246-70821-6)
À la vie, à l'Amor, Critères éditions, collection Opus Délits, Grenoble, 2010, (ISBN 978-2917-829080). Textes et photos Miss.Tic, préface de Pierre-François Moreau.
FLASHBACK, 30 ans de création, Éditions Critères, collection Urbanités, 2015. (ISBN 9782370260239)
Des Mots Cœurs, Éditions Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris, 2018, (ISBN 979-10-95069-06-5). Préface de Pierre-François Moreau.
Miss Tic, Histoires de Rencontres, Éditions Lélia Mordoch, Paris, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-909138-33-6).
Bibliographie[modifier | modifier le code]
Miss.tic, Jean-Marie Lerat (photographies), Je ne fais que passer, Paris, éditions Florent-Massot, mars 1998, 96 p., 21 × 24 cm (ISBN 978-2-908382-79-2)
Christophe Genin, Miss.Tic : Femme de l’être, Paris, Les Impressions Nouvelles, coll. « Réflexions faites », 2008 - réédité en 2014, 192 p., 17 × 24 cm (ISBN 9782874492310)
Miss.Tic is a French artist born in Paris on 20 February 1956. She is known for her stencils of dark haired woman often seen in the streets of Paris and associated with poetry. She has been active as a street artist since 1985.
Biography[edit]
Miss.Tic was born in 1956 in Montmartre from a Tunisian immigrant and a mother from Normandy. She spent her childhood the family moved in Orly, in the southern suburb. When she was ten, she lost her mother and her little brother in a car accident. Then, when she was 16 her father died in turn. She is then raised by her stepmother who is a bar tender but she escapes from this world and quickly starts to work on her stencils and moves to California in the early 1980s.
She went back to Paris after a breakup. She started to express herself on the walls in parts of Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil and la Butte-aux-Cailles In 1985 she signed her first personal exhibition based on her art.[1]
Since then she has kept on spreading her ideas through poems and wordplay on the walls and in books or exhibitions.
In 1985 too, she was on the first meeting of the graffiti and urban art movement in Bondy (France), on the VLP's initiative, with Speedy Graphito, Kim Prisu, Jef Aérosol, SP 38, Epsylon Point, Blek le rat, Futura 2000, Nuklé-Art, Banlieue-Banlieue… In March 2011, a series of stamps were issued for womans'day, inspired by some of her stencils.
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Arles (/ɑːrl(z)/, also US: /ˈɑːrəl/,[2][3][4][5] French: [aʁl]; Provençal: Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Classical Latin: Arelate) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
A large part of the Camargue is located on the territory of the commune, making it the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory (though Maripasoula, French Guiana, is much larger). The city has a long history, and was of considerable importance in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. The Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1981. The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles from 1888 to 1889 and produced over 300 paintings and drawings during his time there. An international photography festival has been held in the city since 1970.
Contents
1Geography
2History
2.1Ancient era
2.2Roman aqueduct and mill
2.3Middle Ages
2.4Modern era
2.5Jewish history
3Climate
4Population
5Main sights
6Archaeology
7Sport
8Culture
8.1European Capital of Culture
9Economy
10Transport
11Notable people
12Twin towns — sister cities
13See also
14References
15External links
Geography
The river Rhône forks into two branches just upstream of Arles, forming the Camargue delta. Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area is 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi), which is more than seven times the area of Paris.
History
Ancient era
Arles Amphitheatre, a Roman arena
Passageway in the Amphitheatre
Church of St. Trophime and its cloister
The Ligurians were in this area from about 800 BC. Later, Celtic influences have been discovered. The city became an important Phoenician trading port, before being taken by the Romans.
The Romans took the town in 123 BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean Sea being constructed in 104 BC. However, it struggled to escape the shadow of Massalia (Marseilles) further along the coast.
Its chance came when it sided with Julius Caesar against Pompey, providing military support. Massalia backed Pompey; when Caesar emerged victorious, Massalia was stripped of its possessions, which were transferred to Arelate as a reward. The town was formally established as a colony for veterans of the Roman legion Legio VI Ferrata, which had its base there. Its full title as a colony was Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelatensium Sextanorum, "the ancestral Julian colony of Arles of the soldiers of the Sixth."
Arelate was a city of considerable importance in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. It covered an area of some 40 hectares (99 acres) and possessed a number of monuments, including an amphitheatre, triumphal arch, Roman circus, theatre, and a full circuit of walls. Ancient Arles was closer to the sea than it is now and served as a major port. It also had (and still has) the southernmost bridge on the Rhône. Very unusually, the Roman bridge was not fixed but consisted of a pontoon-style bridge of boats, with towers and drawbridges at each end. The boats were secured in place by anchors and were tethered to twin towers built just upstream of the bridge. This unusual design was a way of coping with the river's frequent violent floods, which would have made short work of a conventional bridge. Nothing remains of the Roman bridge, which has been replaced by a more modern bridge near the same spot.
The city reached a peak of influence during the 4th and 5th centuries, when Roman Emperors frequently used it as their headquarters during military campaigns. In 395, it became the seat of the Praetorian Prefecture of the Gauls, governing the western part of the Western Empire: Gaul proper plus Hispania (Spain) and Armorica (Brittany). At that time, the city was perhaps home to 75,000–100,000 people.[6][7][8][9]
It became a favorite city of Emperor Constantine I, who built baths there, substantial remains of which are still standing. His son, Constantine II, was born in Arles. Usurper Constantine III declared himself emperor in the West (407–411) and made Arles his capital in 408.
Arles became renowned as a cultural and religious centre during the late Roman Empire. It was the birthplace of the sceptical philosopher Favorinus. It was also a key location for Roman Christianity and an important base for the Christianization of Gaul. The city's bishopric was held by a series of outstanding clerics, beginning with Saint Trophimus around 225 and continuing with Saint Honoratus, then Saint Hilarius in the first half of the 5th century. The political tension between the Catholic bishops of Arles and the Visigothic kings is epitomized in the career of the Frankish St. Caesarius, bishop of Arles 503–542, who was suspected by the Arian Visigoth Alaric II of conspiring with the Burgundians to turn over the Arelate to Burgundy, and was exiled for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitaine. Political tensions were evident again in 512, when Arles held out against Theodoric the Great and Caesarius was imprisoned and sent to Ravenna to explain his actions before the Ostrogothic king.[10]
The friction between the Arian Christianity of the Visigoths and the Catholicism of the bishops sent out from Rome established deep roots for religious heterodoxy, even heresy, in Occitan culture. At Treves in 385, Priscillian achieved the distinction of becoming the first Christian executed for heresy (Manichaean in his case, see also Cathars, Camisards). Despite this tension and the city's decline in the face of barbarian invasions, Arles remained a great religious centre and host of church councils (see Council of Arles), the rival of Vienne, for hundreds of years.
Roman aqueduct and mill
Aqueduct of Arles at Barbegal
The Barbegal aqueduct and mill is a Roman watermill complex located on the territory of the commune of Fontvieille, a few kilometres from Arles. The complex has been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".[11] The remains of the mill streams and buildings which housed the overshot water wheels are still visible at the site, and it is by far the best-preserved of ancient mills. There are two aqueducts which join just north of the mill complex, and a sluice which enabled the operators to control the water supply to the complex. The mill consisted of 16 waterwheels in two separate rows built into a steep hillside. There are substantial masonry remains of the water channels and foundations of the individual mills, together with a staircase rising up the hill upon which the mills are built. The mills apparently operated from the end of the 1st century until about the end of the 3rd century.[12] The capacity of the mills has been estimated at 4.5 tons of flour per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for 6,000 of the 30-40,000 inhabitants of Arelate at that time.[13] A similar mill complex existed also on the Janiculum in Rome. Examination of the mill leat still just visible on one side of the hill shows a substantial accretion of lime in the channel, tending to confirm its long working life.
It is thought that the wheels were overshot water wheels with the outflow from the top driving the next one down and so on, to the base of the hill. Vertical water mills were well known to the Romans, being described by Vitruvius in his De Architectura of 25 BC, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia of 77 AD. There are also later references to floating water mills from Byzantium and to sawmills on the river Moselle by the poet Ausonius. The use of multiple stacked sequences of reverse overshot water-wheels was widespread in Roman mines.
Middle Ages
Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh (September 1888), depicts the warmth of a café in Arles
In 735, after raiding the Lower Rhône, Andalusian Saracens led by Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri moved into the stronghold summoned by Count Maurontus, who feared Charles Martel's expansionist ambitions, though this may have been an excuse to further Moorish expansion beyond Iberia. The next year, Charles campaigned south to Septimania and Provence, attacking and capturing Arles after destroying Avignon. In 739. Charles definitely drove Maurontus to exile, and brought Provence to heel. In 855, it was made the capital of a Frankish Kingdom of Arles, which included Burgundy and part of Provence, but was frequently terrorised by Saracen and Viking raiders. In 888, Rudolph, Count of Auxerre (now in north-western Burgundy), founded the kingdom of Transjuran Burgundy (literally, beyond the Jura mountains), which included western Switzerland as far as the river Reuss, Valais, Geneva, Chablais and Bugey.
In 933, Hugh of Arles ("Hugues de Provence") gave his kingdom up to Rudolph II, who merged the two kingdoms into a new Kingdom of Arles. In 1032, King Rudolph III died, and the kingdom was inherited by Emperor Conrad II the Salic. Though his successors counted themselves kings of Arles, few went to be crowned in the cathedral. Most of the kingdom's territory was progressively incorporated into France. During these troubled times, the amphitheatre was converted into a fortress, with watchtowers built at each of the four quadrants and a minuscule walled town being constructed within. The population was by now only a fraction of what it had been in Roman times, with much of old Arles lying in ruins.
The town regained political and economic prominence in the 12th century, with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa traveling there in 1178 for his coronation. In the 12th century, it became a free city governed by an elected podestat (chief magistrate; literally "power"), who appointed the consuls and other magistrates. It retained this status until the French Revolution of 1789.
Arles joined the countship of Provence in 1239, but, once more, its prominence was eclipsed by Marseilles. In 1378, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV ceded the remnants of the Kingdom of Arles to the Dauphin of France (later King Charles VI of France) and the kingdom ceased to exist even on paper.
Modern era
Arles remained economically important for many years as a major port on the Rhône. In the 19th century, the arrival of the railway diminished river trade, leading to the town becoming something of a backwater.
This made it an attractive destination for the painter Vincent van Gogh, who arrived there on 21 February 1888. He was fascinated by the Provençal landscapes, producing over 300 paintings and drawings during his time in Arles. Many of his most famous paintings were completed there, including The Night Cafe, the Yellow Room, Starry Night Over the Rhone, and L'Arlésienne. Paul Gauguin visited van Gogh in Arles. However, van Gogh's mental health deteriorated and he became alarmingly eccentric, culminating in the well-known ear-severing incident in December 1888 which resulted in two stays in the Old Hospital of Arles. The concerned Arlesians circulated a petition the following February demanding that van Gogh be confined. In May 1889, he took the hint and left Arles for the Saint-Paul asylum at nearby Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Jewish history
Main article: History of the Jews in Arles
Arles had an important and prominent Jewish community between the Roman era and the end of the 15th century. A local legend describes the first Jews in Arles as exiles from Judaea after Jerusalem fell to the Romans. Nevertheless, the first documented evidence of Jews in Arles is not before the fifth century, when a distinguished community already existed in the town. Arles was an important Jewish crossroads, as a port city and close to Spain and the rest of Europe alike. It served a major role in the work of the Hachmei Provence group of famous Jewish scholars, translators and philosophers, who were most important to Judaism throughout the Middle Ages. In the eighth century, jurisdiction over the Jews of Arles was passed to the local Archbishop, making the Jewish taxes to the clergy somewhat of a shield for the community from mob attacks, most frequent during the Crusades. The community lived relatively peacefully until the last decade of the 15th century, when they were expelled out of the city never to return. Several Jews did live in the city in the centuries after, though no community was found ever after. Nowadays, Jewish archaeological findings and texts from Arles can be found in the local museum.[14]
Climate
Arles has a warm summer mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa)[15] with a mean annual temperature of 14.6 °C (1948–1999). The summers are warm and moderately dry, with seasonal averages between 22 °C and 24 °C, and mild winters with a mean temperature of about 7 °C. The city is constantly, but especially in the winter months, subject to the influence of the mistral, a cold wind which can cause sudden and severe frosts. Rainfall (636 mm per year) is fairly evenly distributed from September to May, with the summer drought being less marked than in other Mediterranean areas.[16]
Main sights
Gallo-Roman theatre.
The Alyscamps.
Arles has important Roman remnants, most of which have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1981 within the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments group. They include:
The Church of St. Trophime (Saint Trophimus), formerly a cathedral, is a major work of Romanesque architecture, and the representation of the Last Judgment on its portal is considered one of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture, as are the columns in the adjacent cloister.
The town also has a museum of ancient history, the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques, with one of the best collections of Roman sarcophagi to be found anywhere outside Rome itself. Other museums include the Musée Réattu and the Museon Arlaten.
The courtyard of the Old Arles hospital, now named "Espace Van Gogh," is a center for Vincent van Gogh's works, several of which are masterpieces.[18] The garden, framed on all four sides by buildings of the complex, is approached through arcades on the first floor. A circulation gallery is located on the first and second floors.[19]
Archaeology
Main article: Arles portrait bust
In September–October 2007, divers led by Luc Long from the French Department of Subaquatic Archaeological Research, headed by Michel L'Hour, discovered a life-sized marble bust of an apparently important Roman person in the Rhône near Arles, together with smaller statues of Marsyas in Hellenistic style and of the god Neptune from the third century AD. The larger bust was tentatively dated to 46 BC. Since the bust displayed several characteristics of an ageing person with wrinkles, deep naso-labial creases and hollows in his face, and since the archaeologists believed that Julius Caesar had founded the colony Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelate Sextanorum in 46 BC, the scientists came to the preliminary conclusion that the bust depicted a life-portrait of the Roman dictator: France's Minister of Culture Christine Albanel reported on May 13, 2008, that the bust would be the oldest representation of Caesar known today.[20] The story was picked up by all larger media outlets.[21][22] The realism of the portrait was said to place it in the tradition of late Republican portrait and genre sculptures. The archaeologists further claimed that a bust of Julius Caesar might have been thrown away or discreetly disposed of, because Caesar's portraits could have been viewed as politically dangerous possessions after the dictator's assassination.
Historians and archaeologists not affiliated with the French administration, among them Paul Zanker, the renowned archaeologist and expert on Caesar and Augustus, were quick to question whether the bust is a portrait of Caesar.[23][24][25] Many noted the lack of resemblances to Caesar's likenesses issued on coins during the last years of the dictator's life, and to the Tusculum bust of Caesar,[26] which depicts Julius Caesar in his lifetime, either as a so-called zeitgesicht or as a direct portrait. After a further stylistic assessment, Zanker dated the Arles-bust to the Augustan period. Elkins argued for the third century AD as the terminus post quem for the deposition of the statues, refuting the claim that the bust was thrown away due to feared repercussions from Caesar's assassination in 44 BC.[27] The main argument by the French archaeologists that Caesar had founded the colony in 46 BC proved to be incorrect, as the colony was founded by Caesar's former quaestor Tiberius Claudius Nero on the dictator's orders in his absence.[28] Mary Beard has accused the persons involved in the find of having willfully invented their claims for publicity reasons. The French ministry of culture has not yet responded to the criticism and negative reviews.
Sport
AC Arles-Avignon is a professional French football team. They currently play in Championnat de France Amateur, the fourth division in French football. They play at the Parc des Sports, which has a capacity of just over 17,000.
Culture
Arles is a cultural hotspot. A well known photography festival, Rencontres d'Arles, takes place in Arles every year, and the French national school of photography is located there.
The major French publishing house Actes Sud is also situated in Arles.
In the past years, several cultural organizations set up a presence in Arles, such as the LUMA Foundation, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation or the Lee Ufan Foundation.[29] On top of that, there are countless galleries scattered throughout the city.
Bullfights are conducted in the amphitheatre, including Provençal-style bullfights (courses camarguaises) in which the bull is not killed, but rather a team of athletic men attempt to remove a tassle from the bull's horn without getting injured. Every Easter and on the first weekend of September, during the feria, Arles also holds Spanish-style corridas (in which the bulls are killed) with an encierro (bull-running in the streets) preceding each fight.
The parts of the films Ronin, At Eternity's Gate and "Taxi 3" were filmed in Arles.
European Capital of Culture
Arles played a major role in Marseille-Provence 2013, the year-long series of cultural events held in the region after it was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2013. The city hosted a segment of the opening ceremony with a pyrotechnical performance by Groupe F on the banks of the Rhône. It also unveiled the new wing of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique as part of Marseille-Provence 2013.
Economy
Arles's open-air street market is a major market in the region. It occurs on Saturday and Wednesday mornings.
Transport
The Gare d'Arles railway station offers connections to Avignon, Nîmes, Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux and several regional destinations.
Arles does not have its own commercial airport, but is served by a number of airports in the region, most notably the major international airport of Marseille Provence approximately an hour's drive away.
The A54 autoroute toll motorway, which locally connects Salon-de-Provence with Nîmes and in a wider sense forms part of European route E80, passes by Arles.
The Rhône, which for navigation purposes is classified as a Class V waterway as far upstream as Lyon, is an historically important transport route connecting the inland Rhône-Alpes region with the Mediterranean Sea. The port of Arles and its adjacent rail and road connections provides a major transshipment node, which in 2013 handled approximately 450,000 tonnes of goods.[30]
Notable people
Genesius of Arles, a notary martyred under Maximianus in 303 or 308
Vincent van Gogh, lived here from February 1888 until May 1889.
Jenny Berthelius (born 1923), Swedish crime novelist and children's writer, lives in Arles[31]
Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), the oldest human being whose age is documented, was born, lived and died, at the age of 122 years and 164 days, in Arles
Lucien Clergue, photographer
Djibril Cissé, footballer
Anne-Marie David, singer (Eurovision winner in 1973)
Home of the Gipsy Kings, a music group from Arles
Gaël Givet, footballer
Luc Hoffmann, ornithologist, conservationist and philanthropist.
Maja Hoffmann, art patron
Juan Bautista (real name Jean-Baptiste Jalabert), matador
Laure Favre-Kahn (born 1976), classical pianist
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, famous Jewish scholar and philosopher, Arles born, active during the Middle Ages.
Christian Lacroix, fashion designer
Blessed Jean Marie du Lau, last Archbishop of Arles, killed by the revolutionary mob in Paris on September 2, 1792
The Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) was born near Arles
Mehdi Savalli, matador
Lloyd Palun, footballer
Major-General Hugh Anthony Prince CBE, Indian Army and British Army officer
The medieval writer Antoine de la Sale was probably born in Arles around 1386
Saint Caesarius of Arles, bishop who lived from the late 5th to the mid 6th century, known for prophecy and writings that would later be used by theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas
Antoine de Seguiran, 18th-century encyclopédiste
Samuel ibn Tibbon, famous Jewish translator and scholar during the Middle Ages.
Fanny Valette, actress
Twin towns — sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France
Arles is twinned with:
Pskov, Russia
Jerez de la Frontera and Cubelles, Spain
Fulda, Germany
York, Pennsylvania, United States
Vercelli, Italy
Sagné, Mauritania
Kalymnos, Greece
Wisbech, United Kingdom
Zhouzhuang, Kunshan, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Verviers, Belgium
George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
After looking at the alternate builds on the back of the LL-918 box I thought that the ship in the Lego Movie build and fix workshop looked very similar.
This redux of Starfleet Voyager was built with 3x 70821 and 3x 70841. I think I was able to recreate most of the features of the original.
At first I planned to use all 3 windscreens to go for an enclosed cockpit but I ended up liking the convertible look better.
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Miss.Tic est une artiste plasticienne et poète d'art urbain née le 20 février 1956 à Paris. Ses œuvres apparaissent dans le paysage pictural et urbain à partir de 1985.
Sommaire
1 Biographie
1.1 Ses débuts
1.2 Jouer avec les stéréotypes
1.3 Revoir ses classiques
1.4 Incarner la femme libre
2 Principales expositions personnelles
2.1 Collections et commandes publiques
2.2 Foires d'art contemporain
3 Publications
3.1 Ouvrages sur Miss.Tic
4 Notes et références
4.1 Notes
4.2 Références
5 Voir aussi
5.1 Article connexe
5.2 Liens externes
Biographie
Née à Paris d’un immigré tunisien, tantôt ouvrier, tantôt fort des Halles, et d’une mère « paysanne éclairée »1, Miss.Tic grandit sur la Butte Montmartre, le quartier des poètes, des peintres et des prostituées ; plus tard, devenue une figure de l'art de la rue, elle utilisera souvent la référence à ce quartier dans ses œuvres et ses performances.
En 1964, changement de décor, sa famille s’installe à la Cité des aviateurs à Orly. En 1966, sa mère, son frère et sa grand-mère meurent dans un accident de voiture ; les séquelles de ce drame feront d’elle une « gauchère obligée »2. En réalité c'est plus que "gauchère contrariée". En 1972, son père décède d’une crise cardiaque ; elle a seize ans. À la fin de ses études secondaires, elle se forme pendant plusieurs années au gré de travaux d’arts appliqués – décor de théâtre3, maquette, photogravure4 –, puis part s'installer en Californie au début des années 1980.
Ses débuts
De retour en France , à la suite d’un dépit amoureux, Miss.Tic décide d’utiliser ce dissentiment comme une pratique artistique, avec le pochoir à la bombe aérosol comme technique, et les murs comme support5. Bien que n’ayant suivi aucune formation en école d’art, cette aventurière en poésie ne manque pas de prétentions plastiques. Ses autoportraits, encore sommaires, sont rehaussés d’épigrammes à base de jeu de mots, de calembours, qui composent une chronique de son existence.
Le pseudonyme qu'elle se choisit, emprunté au personnage de sorcière railleuse Miss Tick2 du Journal de Mickey, est dans l’esprit de ces années-là. Beaucoup de jeunes peintres s’affublent en effet de surnoms puisés dans les bandes dessinées, tels Placid et Muzo, les frères Ripoulin, les Musulmans fumants, Blek le rat, Speedy Graphito ou encore Paëlla Chimicos. Cette tendance « gros bêta » et irrévérencieuse est en rupture avec l’intellectualisme abstrait ou métaphysique des décennies précédentes[travail inédit ?].
En 1985, Miss.Tic a donc trouvé son style mais aussi ses lieux d’intervention : les quartiers de Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil, la Butte-aux-Cailles6. Elle est surtout la première à utiliser les murs pour raconter sa vie, ses désirs, ses ruptures sentimentales, ses travers, ses fantasmes, comme lieu d’expression directe et synthétique5.
Cette année-là, elle participe au premier rassemblement du mouvement graffiti et d'art urbain à Bondy (Île-de-France), à l'initiative des VLP, avec Speedy Graphito, SP 38, Epsylon Point, Blek le rat, Futura 2000, Nuklé-Art, Jef Aérosol, Banlieue-Banlieue…
Bien que repérée pour sa singularité, Miss.Tic reste en marge du milieu de l’art. Le pochoir est alors perçu comme un mode mineur ; au mieux une œuvre éphémère, au pire une dégradation de bâtiments. Mais Miss.Tic n’est pas la seule à rester en marge, les jeunes graffitistes sortis des années 1980, comme leurs prédécesseurs que sont Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Ben, ou encore des artistes classés dans le Nouveau Réalisme tels Jacques Villeglé ou Raymond Hains, sont encore méconsidérés. Il faudra longtemps avant que ce préjugé du milieu de l’art ne s’inversen 1.
Jouer avec les stéréotypes
Miss-Tic: Street Art à Paris 2008 "Quand le vain est tiré il faut le boire"
Miss.Tic affirme une déclinaison bien à elle, en jouant sur les stéréotypes de la femme séductrice : le fétichisme, où se croisent la robe fourreau, le décolleté, les porte-jarretelles, les bas, les lanières, le fouet, les gants montants, vient percuter ses épigrammes poétiques. Ce contraste fait imploser l’expression aguicheuse du dessin. Son œuvre provoque un questionnement, foulant aux pieds les archétypes de la « femme marchandise »2.
Déjouant la fausse perfection de la publicité et les redondances du slogan, Miss.Tic interpelle le regard du public, ce qui est l’essence même d’une œuvre : « Les images de femmes que je représente sont issues des magazines féminins, je les détourne. Je développe une certaine image de la femme non pour la promouvoir mais pour la questionner. Je fais une sorte d’inventaire des positions féminines. Quelles postures choisissons-nous dans l’existence ? »5.
En 1992, un incendie ravage son atelier, détruisant les matrices des années 1980. Miss.Tic n’en poursuit pas moins son activité, avec sa charte noire et rouge, ses silhouettes et ses phrases. C’est aussi le temps des premières expositions régulières. Au cours des années 1990, on en dénombre une vingtaine, personnelles ou collectives, dans de petites galeries parisiennes ; des expositions associées parfois à des performances déclamatives, qu’il s’agisse de ses propres textes, de mémoires de prostituées, ou de poésies de Jacques Prévert… Cette décennie se conclut par l’édition d’un premier livre, Je ne fais que passer, édité en 1998.
Toutefois, en ville, la multiplication des tags et des bombages est perçue par les autorités comme l’une des expressions de l’insécurité. Cette situation génère des complications : « Dire que la poésie est un sport dangereux est tout sauf accessoire »5. En 1997, Miss.Tic n’échappe pas à une arrestation et à un procès pour détérioration d’un bien par inscription, signe ou dessin, qui se conclut, en janvier 2000, devant la cour d’appel de Paris5 par une amende de 4 500 €.
Revoir ses classiques
La fin de la décennie 1990 et le début des années 2000 sont marqués par la suprématie de l’art conceptuel, de l’installation, du land art, de la vidéo et du multimédia. Miss.Tic subit toujours, comme les autres figures de l’art mural, le scepticisme des marchands et des musées. En 1999, elle se retrouve sur presque tous les murs de France en signant l'affiche de la Fête de l'Humanité ce qui gonfle conséquemment sa notoriété. Cependant, en 2002, son exposition à la fondation Paul Ricard, « Muses et Hommes », amorce un nouvel élan. Avec un brin d’arrogance et comme pour signifier une continuité avec les maîtres de la peinture, elle y réinterprète un certain nombre d’œuvres de maîtres anciens (Le Caravage, Rubens, Raphaël, Delacroix, David, Gauguin, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustave Moreau4…), rehaussées de charges critiques, de jeux de mots scabreux, « Femme au bord d’elle même » qui rappellent Marcel Duchamp[Quoi ?].
Miss.Tic l’artiste éphémère démontre qu’elle est devenue une authentique artiste plastique, maîtresse de son trait et de son style. Le graphisme de la signature a aussi évolué : « l’ensemble combine obliques dynamiques, ondulations variables et équilibre global »5. En 2003, un nouveau livre aux éditions Alternatives, avec une préface de Régine Deforges, vient confirmer la persévérance, sinon la maturité, de « femme mur »2.
Incarner la femme libre
Ce n’est qu’à partir du milieu des années 2000 que Miss.Tic se défait d’une marginalité jusqu'alors inconfortable : « Ce qui était dans les années 1980 de la culture underground ou de la contre-culture est devenu une référence socioculturelle. Miss.Tic et la génération d’artistes qui l’accompagnent ayant modifié peu ou prou nos repères esthétiques et moraux (p. 1575) ». Les institutions commencent donc à accréditer certains artistes de ce mouvement, essentiellement masculin, dans lequel Miss.Tic incarne la femme libre et indépendante, (ceci est contradictoire avec les contes sur la Californie et la "gaucherie contrariée) en syntonie avec l’évolution des mœurs. « Contrairement à beaucoup d'artistes qui viennent de la rue, Miss.Tic a su créer un langage et le faire évoluer », remarque le commissaire-priseur Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyrn 2,3.
La presse nationale se met à lui consacrer de longs articles7. Un fan-club8 est créé et soutient sa campagne « Miss.Tic Présidente » où elle aborde la politiquen 3 par anti-slogans.
Des marques s’intéressent à son travail, à son image de Parisienne et de sorcière ludique : loueur automobile, maroquinier, couturier, papetier9…
Les expositions dans des galeries de renom se font plus fréquentes. Des foires d'art contemporain l’invitent, à Venise ou à Miami. En 2007, Miss.Tic entre dans la collection du Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres. Le cinéaste Claude Chabrol lui demande de réaliser l’affiche de son film La Fille coupée en deux.
Des commandes publiques surviennent : à Lyon, le ministère du Logement et de la Ville; sous la tutelle de Christine Boutin; lui commande plusieurs pochoirs en 2007, sous l'intitulé Réunions de chantier. La même année, la ville d’Orly5 lui commande une œuvre pour la façade de la résidence d’étudiants Léo Ferré ; une consécration, en même temps qu’un émouvant retour aux sources.
Si son travail présenté en galerie évolue, les couleurs et les supports aussi : toiles, plaques d’acier rouillé, parpaings, papiers déchirés et collés donnent une nouvelle dimension plastique à son œuvre. Ses compositions comme son trait affichent une pleine maîtrise.
Les éditions Grasset publient, en novembre 2008, un recueil de ses phrases et de ses dessins, sous le titre Je prête à rire mais je donne à penser. En mai 2010, une rétrospective de son œuvre est organisée à Singapourn 4 avec le soutien de l’Alliance française. Fin 2010, a lieu à Parisn 5 une grande exposition dans laquelle l'artiste présente, sur de nouveaux supports d'affiches lacérées et de palissades de bois blanc, une variation sur le thème de l'amour, entre passion et illusion. Parallèlement, est publié un livre d'images et de textes personnelsn 6, parfois intimes, écrits par Miss.tic.
Le 8 mars 2011, La Poste émet lors de la Journée des femmes des timbres reproduisant des œuvres de Miss.Tic, inspirées de ses pochoirs10,11. Au cours de l'été 2011, l'Institut français de Berlin expose pendant dix semaines, sous le titre « Bomb it », une quarantaine de ses œuvres produites ces dix dernières années12.
Le 18 octobre 2013, l'Agglomération de Montpellier choisit Miss. Tic pour la réalisation du design de la 5e ligne de tramway de son réseau13, prévue en 2017. Elle succède ainsi à Gérard Garouste et Bonetti (design lignes 1 et 2), et à Christian Lacroix (design lignes 3 et 4).
Principales expositions personnelles
1986 : Première exposition, librairie Épigramme, Paris
1987 : « Miss.Tic au Marienbad », Saint-Étienne
1989 : « Fragments et Multiples », galerie Couleur, Paris
1990 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Christophe, Paris
1991 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Sanguine, Paris
1994 : « Tout achever sauf le désir », EPITA, Paris
1995 : « Je ferai les trottoirs de l'histoire de l'art », FIAP, Paris
1997 : « L’art me ment », galerie Sacha Tarasoff, Paris
1999 : « Je ne fais que passer », galerie La Pochade, Paris
2000 : « Muses et Hommes », espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2000 : « Dangereuse sous tous rapports », palais de justice, Lyon
2001 : « Les actes gratuits ont-ils un prix ? », galerie Artazart, Paris
2001 : « Je t’aime temps », rétrospective 1985/2001, espace Envie d’art, Paris
2001 : « Héroïne », galerie Bernard Guillon, Paris
2002 : « Muses et Hommes », château de Cadillac, monuments nationaux, Cadillac
2002 : « Miss.Tic Erotic », galerie Artitude, Paris
2003 : « Vain cœur vain cul », galerie Au-dessous du Volcan, Paris
2003 : « Une Nuit avec Miss.Tic », galerie Artazart, Paris
2003 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Papegoyen, Oslo, Norvège
2004 : « Femme mur », Nuts Gallery, Paris
2004 : « Miss.Tic Attak », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2005 : « Maudites sorcières », galerie W, Paris
2005 : « Quand on aime, on a toujours 20 ans », galerie W, Paris
2006 : « Parisienne », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
2006 : « Femmes capitales », mairie du XIIIe, Paris
2007 : « Miss.Tic Présidente », galerie de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris
2007 : « Toi et Moi » (avec Jean Faucheur), galerie Chappe, Paris
2008 : « Je crois en l'éternel féminin », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2008 : « Je t'ai fait marcher. Je t'ai fait courir. Je te ferai tomber », Le M.U.R.
2008 : « Je prête à rire, mais je donne à penser », galerie W, Paris
2009 : « Go Homme », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
2010 : « Folle à délier », galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
2010 : « Parisienne », Ion Art Gallery, Singapour
2011 : « À la Vie A l'Amor », galerie W, Paris
2011 : « Bomb it », Institut français, Berlin
2012 : « Secret d'atelier », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris ;
2012 : « L'Étoffe des Eros », livre d'artiste numéroté, joint aux trente tableaux de « Secret d'atelier »
2013 : « Les Uns et les Unes », galerie W, Paris
2014 : « Miss.Tic », Institut français de Barcelone, Espagne
2014 : « Miss.Tic », galerie Bertheas Les Tournesols, Saint-Étienne
2014 : « Les Uns et les Unes (suite) », galerie L'Œil 0uvert, Paris
2014 : « En cartoon, elles cartonnent », galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris
2015 : « Flashback », galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris
Collections et commandes publiques
1989 : Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris
2005 : Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres
2007 : Ministère du logement et de la ville, place Bellecour, Lyon. Mairie d'Orly, mur de résidence d'étudiants Léo-Ferré
2013 : MUCEM Marseille. Aménagement intérieur et extérieur du tramway de la ligne no 5 de la ville de Montpellier, France
Foires d'art contemporain
2007
Art Miami, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
Palmbeach 2, galerie Leila Mordoch, Palm Beach, USA
Venice international art fair, galerie Leila Mordoch, Venise, Italie
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
Bridge Art art fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
2008
Palmbeach 3, galerie Leila Mordoch, Palm Beach, USA
Slick Art Fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2009
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
Slick Art Fair, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2010
Art Miami, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Miami, USA
Les Élysées de l'art, galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2015
Publications
Miss.Tic, "re garde moi", Édition Alternatives, Paris février 2003, préface Régine Deforges , (ISBN 978-286-227361-7), 70 pochoirs entre 1986 et 2003. Épuisé.
Miss.Tic Attak, éditions Alternatives, 2004, (ISBN 978-286-227427-0) Épuisé.
Miss.Tic.in Paris, de Miss.Tic, Ed.Paris-Musées et Critères éditions, 2005, (ISBN 978-2-917829-06-6) Épuisé.
Parisienne, 96 p., éditions Alternatives, 2006, (ISBN 978-286-227496-6) Épuisé.
Je prête à rire mais je donne à penser, éditions Grasset, 2008, (ISBN 978-2-246-70821-6)
À la vie, à l'Amor, Critères éditions, collection Opus Délits, Grenoble, 2010, (ISBN 978-2917-829080). Textes et photos Miss.Tic, préface de Pierre-François Moreau
FLASHBACK, 30 ans de création, Éditions Critères, collection Urbanités, 2015. (ISBN 9782370260239)
Ouvrages sur Miss.Tic
Miss.tic, Jean-Marie Lerat (photographies), Je ne fais que passer, Paris, éditions Florent-Massot, mars 1998, 96 p., 21 × 24 cm (ISBN 978-2-908382-79-2)
Christophe Genin, Miss.Tic : Femme de l’être, Paris, Les Impressions
Le 18.08.2023 à 21h54 voici le couplage de G1206 N°12 et 19 sur le 70821 Valenton 20h24 > St Varent 3h02 à Tivernon dans la Beauce.
Just a little showing off on how good those ball joint parts on the Exo Suit are. It can hold the space cruiser from 70821-1 Emmett and Benny's Build & Fix Workshop above its head without any external support! (It looks like the antenna on its back is providing some of the support, but I promise you that no weight is on it and it's just a clearance thing!)
Benny, of course, is mortified. "Don't drop Jenny and my sibling!" he cries out. Yvenny's doing too good a job to care, though.
The Mobile Exploration Rover, meanwhile, is a fairly simple modification of existing set 60225-1 Rover Testing Drive.
By replacing the gunmetal Mars Mission-style wheels with rubber-tyred ones from two copies of 70821-1 Emmett and Benny's Build & Fix Workshop, and systematically stripping away anachronistic Pearl Gold and Trans-Black parts, I've made a pretty coherent homage to the latter-day "white vehicle" aesthetic first appearing in 1983 but taking center-stage in '87. To that end, it's being driven around by a blue Spacer minifig, which is associated with that era through sets like 6972 Polaris I Space Lab!
It's not a perfect encapsulation of the design sensibilities - especially with the claw arm in orange instead of blue, due to the new clamp-half piece only being available in Bright Orange - but I feel like it doesn't look completely out-of-place amongst those builds. It's definitely super fun to drive it around and have the arm pick up random parts to place in its truck bed, at least!
Two extra 13-long technic beams were requisitioned from my pile of parts in order to mount the wheels the desired width away from the body. I do not know the set these came from, but it would not surprise me if it was a BIONICLE set from the mid-2000's.
Despite being about thirty years too young, Classic Space has always been one of my favourite LEGO themes.
Thanks to the LEGO Movie 2's toyline, I am now capable of owning a bunch of Classic Space themed builds and minifigs for cheap!
I've also taken the liberty of adding some extra builds, too...
Modified official sets:
70841-1 Benny's Space Squad
70821-1 Emmett and Benny's Build & Fix Workshop
70816-1 Benny's Spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP!
924 redux built on 2 spaceship bases from 70821. Cockpit module copied from my 928 redux. Forklift modded and recolored from 60052. Previous version deleted because 70821 base module was wrong. Not sure whether to keep trans-yellow cheese slopes on aft end, or make them blue instead.
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
Naziaufmarsch in Demmin in der Mecklenburger Provinz.Iregendeinen total bescheuerten Grund finden diese Vollspaten ja immer.Total gruselige Vorstellung.Bilder unterliegen dem Copyright.
Naziaufmarsch in Demmin in der Mecklenburger Provinz.Iregendeinen total bescheuerten Grund finden diese Vollspaten ja immer.Total gruselige Vorstellung.Bilder unterliegen dem Copyright.
This vessel was inspired by the look of upcoming set 70821 (Emmett and Benny's Build & Fix Workshop), which I was able to reverse engineer / guess / improve upon for most of the Classic Space ship model. As you may have guessed, all five of the 4 x 2 slopes except for the two right / left flanking ones on this smaller ship should be printed with this print: www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=30363pb02...
With this Opel Patent Motorwagen System Lutzmann car manufacturing at Opel has started in 1899.
In the driver's seat: Matthias Decher of hr-INFO who has hosted this event and did a live broadcast to the radio station shortly after the photo was taken. You were also able to hear the engine of the 3,5hp car in the radio!
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
924 redux built on 2 spaceship bases from 70821. Cockpit module copied from my 928 redux. Forklift modded and recolored from 60052. Previous version deleted because 70821 base module was wrong. Not sure whether to keep trans-yellow cheese slopes on aft end, or make them blue instead.
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop
Classic Space LL43979
This built for www.newelementary.com
a Classic Space ship.
Adjustable wings utilising the spaceship hull piece 43979 from 70821 Benny's workshop