Vendredi 1er mars 2024
Billetterie sur place : 5€
Painting – Music – Scoopitones
Since Frasq Safari in 2015 and Melonrama in 2016, Laurent Melon has never stopped inhabiting and enlivening Le Générateur, literally and figuratively.
From mix to brushes, Laurent Melon tackles on March 1er what he doesn’t know how to do. On the walls of the Générateur, what’s striking is the extraordinary visual abundance generated by this self-taught mind when he mixes his brushes. Applying the “I seek I find” policy, his sole means of existence, Laurent Melon opens up his cinema to us and, in a world premiere, presents Scoopitographie.
Realized during a creative residency at Lavoir Numérique in February 2024, this 74th Scoopitone is an opportunity for him to revisit the origins of this 7th art he cherishes and obsesses over. Image by image is a process he has reinvented and mastered with his patient, precise and convoluted way of working, making films solely with Photoshop software; software which, however, was never invented to make films.
In this unprecedented project, drawings, paintings, photograms (photographic images which, put end to end, form a film), a bit of Méliès and a lot of Loïe Fuller, archives and colorized films are all involved, but also soundtracks, great cinema voices, subtitles and, in the end, a digital audiovisual superproduction.
M Le Melon is a nod to the spirit and ghostly melodies present within the walls of Le Générateur, formerly Le Gaîté-Palace, Gentilly’s grand cinema.
With the participation of composer and sound artist Federico Rodrìguez-Jiménez.
In partnership with Le Lavoir Numérique (creative residency February 2024).
Laurent Melon
Laurent Melon
Laurent Melon is a visual artist, punk, disc-jockey and radio host.
This former monk, “Brother of the Year 2000” has been disc-jockey since 1984 on Radio Aligre and then Radio Libertaire, and painter-in-residence at Anis Gras, le lieu de l’autre in Arcueil. He discontinuously captures events, confessions and historical places populated by the carnivalesque figures of an upside-down world, which he illustrates in paint.
Since 2015, Laurent Melon has been working closely with Le Générateur, for whom he has made a significant contribution to building the venue’s visual identity. He has held two solo exhibitions there, including Melonrama; his “scoopitones” are projected there in the collective performances Show your [ frasq ], and he also designed the cover for Le Générateur’s 10th anniversary publication.
As part of the Melonrama exhibition, he is building a program of performances, various DJ sets of his own and artistic actions aimed at a multi-generational audience. In 2020, he participates as a musician and painter in Zoom your [ frasq ], an online performance event presented during the first confinement, and on this occasion creates a new “scoopitone”: And God Whistled Flies.
Melonrama
