MILAN.- Following the first special spring edition in May 2017, “La Grande Occasione” comes back to Milan from 4th to 10th October. It comes to a Special Edition of Video Sound Art, festival and contemporary art production centre that promotes ground-breaking languages and contamination ex-periences, promoting research and new technologies in the arts.

Supported by Comune di Milano, Regione Lombardia, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, and a special partnership with lnstitut français Milano, the festival will enliven the gallery space of Institut français.

After hosting Yuri Ancarani, Ugo La Pietra and Bibi Yamamoto, VSA Special Edition curated by Laura Lamonea, brings the eclectic and visionary French artist Hӧel Duret to Milan. Born in 1988, Hӧel Duret has exhibited his work in the most eminent cultural centres in the world, such as: Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Palazzo Strozzi, Opéra Garnier - Opéra de Paris, Seoul Art Museum, Yishu 8 in Beijing, Martos Galery in Los Angeles.

Hӧel Duret, through a plastic examination that intersects cinema, dance, painting, music, design and architecture, presents a composite installation in Milan, “The nymph in the tomato greenhouse”, a hydroponic phantasmagorical greenhouse, entirely produced by Video Sound Art, assembled with plants, irrigation tracks and lighting systems. This installation, together with a new series of oil paintings, will be hosted at the gallery of the Institut français Milano. Moreover, an unpublished video will be projected, both in the space of the gallery and outdoor in the gardens beside the Institute.

The retrospective dedicated to Duret also presents the self-produced editorial project “I can do any-thing badly”, in addition to a cycle of video projections by the French artist in the Cinema Theatre of the lnstitut français Milano.

From the setting up of the landscape, to the construction of an object and modern Makers, the work epitomises the social and aesthetic history of bricolage that goes through the 21st century London middle class, involving the Arts & Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, and United States Craft Movement, until the standardization of tools and counterculture of Do It Yourself.

Video Sound Art will host, in the perspective of a dialogue with the art exposition and of multidisciplinary correspondence, a series of talks held by personalities of the arts, theorists and experts in the relation between art production and landscape, invited to bring their contribution to this topic and present it to the audience.