GRAND TOURISME
Patrick Jambon

PICO DEL PAÑUELO NEIGHBOURHOOD
(Yellow houses)
Saturday 24, 12-18h
Sunday 25, 12-18h

GRAND TOURISME

A bicycle with a built-in videogame will circulate in several streets around Madrid’s former slaughterhouse Matadero. People are asked to join the game and to imitate the movements of the bike rider. The artist will try to raise questions about our freedom in using our leisure time.

new game / play / enter / single player mode / practicing a track or trying out a car / time trial / race against the ticking clock / multiplayer mode / duel/ chance to compete with your friends / play cop chase another player / control options/ joystick / steering wheel / sensitivity highest / sound music / loud / screen resolution medium / select a track / madrid / time of the day : night / select your car / accept / score / lives : 3 /speed 200 km/h / nitro / realistic action jumps collisions visual damage curves / settings affecting visibility performance


Patrick Jambon (1966, Lyon) studied at the Fine Art School of Lyon, at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik, at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and at the University of Fine Arts Berlin. Since 1990, he has held exhibitions and actions in different countries of Europe, America and Asia.
“Patrick Jambon examines the connections between imagination and reality. He is aware of the absurdity of existence; with a nonchalant smile he moves in a world of constant (spatial) metamorphoses. The ironic alienation and revaluation of the utensils of everyday life is the artistic foundation for the metamorphosis of the props and attributes used by the artist. The life forms in the utopia seem cloned, products of bio-engineering, extraterrestrial, androgynous and filled with indifferent ecstasy, humanity and home are like failed jokes”.
(Michael Voets, Kunstraum Düsseldorf)

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