Patrick Bouchain /
Nicole Concordet
Architects
Yann Kersalé
Lighting artist
Patrick Bouchain is an architect and scenographer born in 1945. His many projects include the rehabilitation of former industrial sites as cultural venues. He has collaborated with numerous artists including Daniel Buren, Ange Leccia, and Jean-Luc Vilmouth.
Patrick Bouchain: 'I am a creative artist who listens to the users' needs, conveys their meaning, and gives instructions,
like a director with actors.
It's not form that gives a building its meaning,
but meaning that gives it form.'
| | Nicole Concordet was born in Chicago (USA) in 1967, and lives and works in Paris. She graduated in architecture and interior design from the Ecole de Camondo (1991), and the Ecole d’Architecture
de la Ville et des Territoires in Marne-la-Vallée (2003). She has been an associate with Patrick Bouchain for the past ten years.
Projects by Patrick Bouchain in association with Nicole Concordet: Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (2000);
La Condition Publique, Roubaix (2004); the Théâtre Gérard Philipe (2005); the municipal swimming pool at Bègles (2006). | | Born in Paris in 1955, lighting designer Yann Kersalé graduated in creative design from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Quimper in 1978. Using light just as other artists use clay or paint, he chooses the dark – that favourite haunt of sensitive souls – as his experimental location.
Lighting at the théâtre2gennevilliers
changes to reflect what's on: a slow, generalised pulse when a show is in progress, and an undulating, rotating pulse for rehearsals. When the theatre is closed, the lighting fades to a faint, filtered sleep. | | Yann Kersalé :
'My father worked for
thirty-five years at the Chausson factory in ennevilliers.
The red lighting of the immense
stage-house at the
théâtre2gennevilliers is my tribute to
my father, and all the working-class people
of Gennevilliers.'
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