Yann Toma

Yann Toma (born 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is both an artist and a researcher, the lifelong president of the company Ouest-Lumière and an artist-observer within the UN, where he sits as an entrepreneurial artist.

Yann Toma
Nationality French
Notable work

2011: Dynamo Fukushima, Grand Palais, Paris (17,000 visitors in 2 days)

2014: La Grande Veilleuse ("The Great Wake Light"), light work for the french national memorial for the centennial of the WWI, L'anneau de la mémoire, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, France
Awards

2014 : medal of honor from the city of Montrouge

2004 : FIACRE DAP, France

2002 : Price of "the social work of the year", APC, Lyon

1997 : AFAA/Mairie de Paris, City hall of Paris

1995 : Fondation EDF

Biography

Yann Toma is the son of dancers of the Opera of Paris, Claudette Scouarnec and Jean-Pierre Toma, the grandson of Paulin Toma (ex-partner of Mistinguett, member of the troop of music hall " Les Calvacos " and president of the International attractions of varieties club), the godchild of Daniel Louradour (set decorator and artist).

Style

Toma is a French contemporary artist and a researcher. He positions his work and his reflection on the border of the artistic expression, always involved in political and social events. Toma places the artist as responsible for social debate. As a mediator he can invite people to get involved, to take part of a collaborative energy. Toma collaborates with entreprises, political scientists as well as philosophers. By salvaging material from former electric power company Ouest-Lumière in the early 1990s, he has appropriated a symbolic network, an industrial infrastructure which he turned into his research territory and the very matter of his activity. Toma, president for life of Ouest Lumière, is also an artist-observer within the U.N where he sits as an entrepreneurial artist.

Artistic energy

Toma developed the concept of artistic energy. He appropriated a symbolic network, an infrastructure coming from factories of which he made his territory of research and the subject of his activity. "Ouest-Lumière" is above all about an immaterial network which the artist established patiently, a network of subterranean resistance resting on the notion of memory and report. His personal but collaborative exhibition Dynamo-Fukushima, exhibited at the Grand Palais for the Heritage Days of September 2011, attracted more than 17,000 people in two days. This focus on collective energy and solidarity, after the nuclear disaster of Fukushima in this case, is the tone of Toma's favorite topic.

Career positions

The artist is also a PHD professor and a researcher in University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne where he manages the team of research CNRS (French national center for scientific research), named " Art & Flux " [1] which is as much a look-out post, an observatory of theoretical and critical research, as a laboratory of experiment and artistic production.[2] Art & Flux (Art and Flows) reports in a critical way what connects the art, the economy and the society. He is the author of the collective work Les entreprises critiques (" The critical companies ")[3] and of Artistes & Entreprises (Artists & Companies).

Collections

The artistic work of Toma is part of numerous collections. His work is integrated in particular into the collection of Centre Georges Pompidou[4] and was put in the inventory of the National Art Collection of Contemporary Art in 2007. He is represented by the Bourouina Gallery Germany, in Berlin.[5] A monography, entitled "Yann Toma" (texts, conversations, 700 photos and illustrations), went out to September 2011 which presents the extent of his work and artistic flux of the President for life of Ouest-Lumière [6] · .[7] His personal participative exhibition in the Grand Palais Dynamo-Fukushima (in September 2011) gathered more than 17,000 visitors in two days.[8][9] The French national memorial created for the centennial of the World War I is the last monumental artwork of the artist. At night, the monument called L'Anneau de la mémoire becomes La Grande Veilleuse (“The Great Wake Light”) and the memory of 580,000 soldiers keeps shining when the visitors are gone.

Artistic route

Personal exhibitions

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

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2008

2007

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1997

1992,1994

Collective exhibitions

2015

2014

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2011

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1995

1994

Prizes and awards

Publications

Books by Yann Toma

Books about Yann Toma

References

  1. (French) "Art & Flux". Official website of Art & Flux.
  2. (French) Artiste-chercheur Yann Toma. Official Website of CERAP.
  3. Book Les entreprises critiques, Published by CERAP (Art&Flux) Éditions/Cité du Design Éditions/AdvanciaNegocia, 2008.
  4. (French) "Hors-Série "Machines" : les intervenants, Yann Toma". "Special issue" Machines ": the participants, Yann Toma ". Official Website of the Centre Georges Pompidou.
  5. (English) Yann Toma. Official website of the Bourouina Galery.
  6. (French) "Yann Toma, la monographie". Official Website of the Presses du Réel. Publisher.
  7. (French) "Rencontre Beaux-arts avec l’artiste Yann Toma". " Meet Fine arts (School of Fine Arts) with the artist Yann Toma ". Website of the FNAC.
  8. "Dynamo Fukushima – European Heritage Days (September 17 & 18 2011)". Official website of the Grand Palais.
  9. (French) "Making of : Dynamo - Fukushima installation". French Rmn Grand Palais.
  10. (French) "Journées du Patrimoine - Yann Toma, 17 et 18 septembre 2011". Official Website of the Grand Palais.
  11. (French) "Au Grand Palais, le coup de pédale de Yann Toma pour le Japon". In the Grand Palais, the blow of pedal of Yann Toma for Japan ". Website of the french national newspaper Libération. Article of Vincent Noce, of September 16th, 2011.
  12. (French) "Yann Toma et Ouest Lumière - Dynamo-Fukushima - DONNEZ VOTRE ÉNERGIE POUR LE JAPON !". Give your energy for Japan ! Website of Japonaide.
  13. (French) "Yann Toma, artiste plasticien". Official website of Walls and Bridge.
  14. (French) " Yann Toma exposes its CO's sculptures ² to the hotel Lutetia ". Website of COAL, Coalition pour l'art et le développement durable (Coalition for the art and the sustainable development).
  15. (English) "Incursiòn en la ONU". Official website of Valenzuela Klenner Galeria.
  16. (French) "Wikileaks : Les câbles litigieux Ouest-Lumière". Website La Critique. Article published on Friday, February 4th, 2011, written by Gaétane LAMARCHE-VADEL
  17. (French) "cartons, invitations, affiches, esthétique de Yann Toma, CCC Tours, Ouest-lumière 1905-2005". Cardboards, invitations, posters, aesthetics of Yann Toma. Website Exporevue.
  18. (French) "Lumière Noire". Video "Lumière Noire", French and german, realized by Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
  19. (French) "Éditions Jannink". Official website of the CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques.
  20. (French) "Les entreprises critiques" (The critical companies). Index Form on the work "Les entreprises critiques" by Yann Toma. Official website of the Cité du Design.
  21. (French) "Ouest-Lumière - La Collection". Official website of the Éditions Jannink.
  22. (French) « Yann Toma , Journal-affiche numéro 1 ». Official website of Les Presses du Réel (Press of the Reality).

(French) "Yann Toma" Monography. Official website of Jannink Publishing.

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