Jakob Gautel

Cogito ergo sum

Jakob Gautel — 2022-02-25T18:23:00Z

“I think, therefore I am.”

Assemblage (digital 3D print of a bust of the French philosopher René Descartes, 1596-1650, pansies, “pensées” = “thoughts” in French).
Photo edition for the collection Figures of Descartes, Châtellerault Artothèque, at the invitation of Gildas Le Reste.

Skull of René Descartes, photo credit: MNHN - Jean-Christophe Domenech.

Paul Richer, bust of René Descartes based on the mould of his skull, 1913, partinated plaster, anatomy collection, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Making-of: trepanation…

Devastating Thought

webmaster — 2021-03-14T10:16:33Z

Devastating Thought

Self portrait in a broken mirror, ancient thermal bath, Loutra, Nisyros, Greece, August 2017

Der Ort des Ich - The Location of the Ego

webmaster — 2021-03-14T10:12:14Z

Der Ort des Ich - The Location of the Ego

Drawing by Jörn Peter Budesheim, 2019

Performance

2019-02-01T09:46:00Z

Cogito, ergo sum
On February 1^st, 2019, performance at the contemporary art centre of Châtellerault during the opening of the exhibition Bizarre, vous avez dit bizarre ? on the invitation of Gildas Le Reste.
Photos Eva Aurich, Hélène Cousseau, Jean-Luc Dedieu, J. G., Gildas Le Reste, Françoise Plaud, Jean-Luc Terradillos, Dominique Truco, Erwan Venn.

Papier peint - Wallpaper
Exhibition at the BOX, La Réunion, curated by Yohann Quëland de Saint-Pern, 2019.

Published in L'actualité Nouvelle-Aquitaine, N° 131 - January, February, March 2021, Edgar Morin's Century, invited by Jean-Luc Terradillos and Dominique Truco.

Performance

2017-12-02T10:01:00Z

On September 2, 2017, invited by Lisa Sartorio to perform Pensée during the art event Passage pas sage Nr. 6 , passage des Gravilliers and 13 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris.
An initiative of the galleries Christian Berst, Sator, Isabelle Gounod, Papillon, Under Construction and the agency Paper! Tiger!
Heartfelt thanks to Charlotte Herben for her presence and her photos, and also to Élisa Berst, Gilles Coudert, Julie Crenn, Chimène Denneulin, Marie-Paule Feiereisen, Mathilde Ferrer, Ursula Kraft, Preun Lee, Fabien Lerat, Anne Rochette, Alexandra Sá, Isabelle Scotta and Yves Trémorin for their pictures !
The performance, scheduled to last several hours, ended with me passing out…

Passage pas sage #6

Performance

webmaster — 2016-04-17T09:03:00Z

Performance, April 17, 2016, invited by Skall during his personal show
Extase et vomissure at the Générateur in Gentilly.
Location and duration variable, ingredients: a human being and thoughts.
(In French, a pansy, or heart's ease, is called “une pensée”, a thought.)

Photos : Bernard Bousquet, Charlotte Herben, Vincent Victor Jouffe and Skall.
Last image of the performance : back to back with François Durif.

Les Vedettes du Pont Neuf
As part of Bertrand Lavier's hommage to Raymond Hains at the Monnaie de Paris, every day, from May 25 until July 17, 2016, a new artist shows a poster at the pier of the Vedettes du Pont Neuf, covered by the next poster 24 hours later.
Pensée - Thought was on display on June 25.