France
November 2004. Angelin Preljocaj's call.
I was curious, I went to see him in Aix, then saw " N " in Marseille.
I thought I would be as sudden as rain, sunstroke, thunderstorm, wind.
My letter on top of his letter.
The time one and the other constructs and undergoes
Meteorology on demand: chaosgraphy.
Fabrice Hyber is an artist who works simultaneously in many genres: painting, drawing, installation, film, video, sculpture.
After taking a university course in mathematics, he entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, where he has been teaching lately.
In 1994, Fabrice Hyber created Unlimited Responsibility (UR) LLC, designed to bring artists and businessmen together, to limit the number of intermediaries between sellers and buyers. "A few years ago, artwork was sold only to the State and almost never to private hands. Artists don't want that. They want to meet people, do commerce, exchange ideas and forms: they can do that. For 20-30 years they were protected from this type of activity, orienting them towards public procurement. But today, an artist can strengthen the potential of a group and an enterprise."
Hyber's "UR" is a reliable springboard for his experiments. This is where the famous POFs (prototypes of objects in action) are created: for example, POF N 2, created in 1989 under the title "Deep Narcissus", which is a diving mask with an inward-facing mirror instead of glass; or Pof N 65: a square ball, POF N 87: a car with two blades. At exhibitions, the public has the opportunity to "play" with the transformed objects and their own perception of the world. Not confining himself to the walls of art galleries, Fabrice Hyber organizes "C' hyber rallies", populating the streets of Tokyo and Paris with POF artifacts. For him, this action has the artistic meaning of creating a strong and dynamic exchange between works of art, the public and the environment.
In 1995, he transformed the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Paris into the Hybermarché and installed a hairdressing salon in the forum of the Centre Georges Pompidou. In 1997 he won the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice Biennale, transforming the French pavilion into a television studio (Eau d'or, eau dort, odor - la danse des cadreurs). As part of the celebration of the beginning of the third millennium, he created a project around the Arc de Triomphe with its tomb of the Unknown Soldier, an internet site intended to be an encyclopedia of the unknown (www.inconnu.net)
Hyber called his concept of sets and costumes for the play The Seasons "chaosgraphy." The intrusion of Hyber's POFs on the stage changed Preljocaj's original drawing of the ballet and his understanding of movement as such. Concurrent with the premiere of the performance in 2005, Villa Arson hosted Hyber's exhibition entitled "Meteorology": some 30 preparatory drawings, installations, set and costume details.
"Seasons" was presented at the First International Theatre Festival "Alexandrinsky" on October 5, 2006.
