Cellar Door by Loris Greaud :: February 14 - April 27, 2008 :: Opening: February 14, 2008; 8pm - midnight :: Palais De Tokyo, 13 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris.

Cellar Door is an ambitious artistic enterprise: a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time. This mutant form of exhibition is guided in real time by a studio and an engineer located at the heart of the display; they activate the artworks, produce the assemblage of sounds, and prompt its accelerations and retractions.

Loris Gréaud belongs to a young generation of French artists, which has emerged over the last few years. His practice, however, is distinct from that of most of his contemporaries and is not what one would expect to see, hear and feel in an art gallery. Fluctuating between the fields of film, sound and installation, Gréaud was trained in a variety of disciplines while attending the famous Conservertoire de Musique in Paris from which he got expelled after setting up a recording studio: “A studio to stop music.”as the artist once stated. It was here where the artist also launched his own music label, Sibilance Production for the production and distribution of electronic music. Prior to his studies at the conservatory, where he was training to play the flute, Gréaud’s studies included filmmaking and some semesters of graphic design before he finally arrived at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris Cergy.