Book 2008-2009 Leslie Veyrat http://lveyrat.free.fr
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Leslie Veyrat
SYNOPSIS COSTUME DESIGN
Sculpture and costume Costume and cabaret Costume grotesque Costume and disproportion Costume and opera Costume and theater Costume and movement costume and cinema
PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION Mannequin work Soclage of an armure Soclage of a chasuble textile Support Suspensions
A short note of introduction July 2008, this book wants to be like an outline of my various practices. I’m 25 year old and live in Paris and Berlin. In parallel with the visual arts, with the costume or the sculpture, I intervene regularly with various museums on the relative questions with the fixing, the presentation of works, the soclage, the archives and conditioning in reserve… Have fun discovering, Leslie
Costume design
S CULPTURE AND COSTUME
Costume design in paper, between body - mouvement - sculpture and photographie
Costume design
COSTUME AND CABARET Costume design in 1920’ style
Study project - 2004 -
Supervision Patrick Térroitin, first year project DMA (diplomatrade of art) Proposition of a vision, the feeling of the 1920s society . The patterns are used in a comtemporaine way, around influences of the artistic scene of the « années folles ». Principle of superposition of elements, giving an approach of the whole of the disciplines of the costume: kimono (huge volume), A structure on a belt (projected volume), A blouse (haute couture), A pair of pants (tailor work), A swimsuite (haute couture), Painting and textile design (hand made).
Costume design
COSTUME GROTESQUE Creation for dance
Work in progress - 2005 -
This project of costumes proposes a treatment of the characters by the caricature, in reference to the prototypes of the middle of the XIXème century. The grotesque costume exaggerates the body of an interpreter, according to the forms of the time and the spirit of the character. Costumes created and realized with Elodie Sellier
Costume design
COSTUME AND DISPROPORTION Creation of three sculpture - costumes
Théâtre National de Strasboug - 2006 -
Personal diploma project, in collaboration with the students of the National Theater school Strasbourg (TNS) «Calderon» by Pier Paolo Pasolini (creation of Groupe XXXV director : Emilie Rousset). The second episode of Calderon is placed in the painting « Menines » of Velasquez. The setting in abyss: the principle is to use the idea of the frame and the fabric, the recto and the back of the painting; to play with a frontal, two-dimensional vision and the real space in 3D.
The three actors are placed on a revolving plate. When the spinner is activated, faking is discovered. After having impressed by its démesure, the image of Ménines, becomes funny.The actors being naked in their dresses, their nudity appears, as the plate turns. Removable, the dresses are then taken off of each structure, to reveal a metal cage.
Costume design
COSTUME AND THEATER
Creation for «La Douxième bataille d’Isonzo»
Cie Mala Noche - 2005 -
During the « Festival de Caves », Besançon. The spectators are invited to be part of a unique theatrical experiment. In the half-light and the proximity, the text resounds, the spirits are untied. La Douxième Bataille d’Isonzo, by Howard Barker with Pearl Manifold et Christian Pageault Director, Guillaume Dujardin. A very young woman and an old man, Tena and Isonzo, both blind, get married. The spectator assists at their meeting, between life and death.
Costume design
COSTUME AND OPERA Creation for Opera, animalist costumes
Besançon Opera - 2006 -
The young opera company of Besançon, with: Alice Gulipian: Pamina Philippe Talbot: Tamino Christophe Lacassagne: Papageno/ the bird. Elise Gäbele: Queen of the night/ the spider, Papagena/ the flower. Diana Higbee (Soprane): The Dame/ the praying mantis Kyung Il Ko: Zarastro/ the lion Christian Pageault: Narratus Musical advice: Dominique Trottein Choirmaster: Elisabeth Brusselle Director: Guillaume Dujardin
«La Petite Flûte Magique» (The little magic flute),after the Mozart opera, adapted for the young public. The production also turned in the area, to meet the children. This adaptation proposes the mixture between theatre and opera; where comedy, gestual, songs (in German and French) are punctuated by the interventions of an accessory narrator. He orchestrates the staging, the introduction of the characters and the history. The idea was to create animalist costumes, symbolizing the different characters.
Costume of the Queen and the Dame, sketch for the costume of the Dame.
Costume design
COSTUME AND AMBULATION Creation for 4 marionettes on stilts
Cie Planète Pas Net - 2006 -
«Les Mamas » Ambulating marionette show . It is by dance, that these large women approach the spectator. The puppeteer is completely integrated in the puppet, carried on its back like a small child.
Costume design
COSTUME AND CINEMA Creation For a feature-length film
Les Chevaliers Errants au sud de l’Anamour - 2006 -
«Les Chevaliers Errants» by Antoine Fromantal. Oneiric fable, with multiple winks on film noir and the experimental cinema, this film wants to be like a play made up of figures of the genre cinema and pop culture.
Preventive conservation
MANNEQUINAGES
Conception of supports, Historical and contemporaine costumes
Musée de la Mode et du Textile - 2005 -
Interventions for the installation of the exhibition L’Homme Paré. Realization of various mannequinages, according to the scenographic request for fixing and in the respect of deontologic principlesconcerning the preventive conservation of clothing and textiles.
Preparation of the mannequinage
The costume after the intervention
Preventive conservation
S OCLAGE OF AN ARMOUR Creation of a metal structure , covered
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères - 2006 -
Design of a body, made to measure, for the use of the permanent exposure of an armour of the XIXth century, according to the principles of the preventive conservation and according to the preexistent soclage. Creation of a metal structure made of stainless steel for the unity of the complete body and mannequinage. Stuffing, by polyester foam, entirely consolidated by hand, to give volumes able to maintain the armour. Moulding and realization of textile covers (dismountable and washable) for the body and the forearm. The element of the helmet is fixed by a curved stainless steel part.
Preventive conservation
S OCLAGE OF A CHASUBLE Creation of a textile structure
Occitan chasuble of the XVIIth century - 2007 -
Design of a textile support on purpose of the exhibition of a very fragile chasuble, according to the principles of the preventive conservation. According to the constraints, the soclage is entirely dismountable and washable. It is composed of a textile base, reinforced with flexible metal bands, of a polyester foam mannequinage, entirely consolidated by hand.
work in progress
interior sight of the support
Preventive conservation
SUPPORTS FOR TEXTILES Design of frames, fixings…
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris - 2007 -
Creation of various supports for textiles and follow-up of the installation of the exhibition Purs Décors. Presentation of textiles on frames, sheathed. Presentation of ethnological clothing on servants. The frames, work in progress
Preventive conservation
SUSPENSIONS design of fixings
Les Arts Décoratifs - 2007 -
Intervention for the preparation and installation of the exhibition Toy Comix, Galerie des Jouets. Creation of the fixings, with the artists Benoit Jacques and Stéphane Blanquet, in the respect of the principles of the preventive conservation. Scenography and soclage of the presented objects in vitrines (toys of the collection and comic strips).
Vitrine of Benoît Jacques
Vitrine of Stéphane Blanquet
Wall vitrine, presentation of the comic strips and suspended toys
Curriculum Vitaë
LESLIE VEYRAT
plasticienne - design textile
Née en 1982, en France Indépendante, Maison des Artistes tel: +0033 (0)6.70.73.83.60
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Conservation préventive, scénographie... 2008: Creations and interventions/Artistic preventive conservation for La Galerie des Jouets «Jeux d’Eau» and for «Rouge» exhibitions, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Creation of mannequinages for «Valentino» exhibition, Musée de la Mode et du Textile. Créations and installation for the Musée Reattu (Arles) for Christian Lacroix and le Musée du Quai Branly. 2007: Creations and interventions/Artistic preventive conservation for La Galerie des Jouets «Toys Comix» and for «Purs Décors» exhibitions
Education
Assistant to exhibition designer Michel Albertini for the exhibitions : «Christian Lacroix Costumier», Centre National du Costume de Scéne « La Duchesse de Berry », Château de Sceaux « J’aime les Militaires », CNCS Moulins and Invalides museum, Paris.
2006 : Complementary degree as Preventive conservation / artistic conservation-archivist.
2006: Creations and mannequinage interventions, «Balenciaga Paris » exhibition, Musée de la Mode et du textile.
2005 : D.M.A (Master in applied Art) Costume designer. With felicitations of the jury, lycée Paul Poiret, Paris.
Installation of first exhibition in La Galerie des Jouets, Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
2002-2003 : D.N.A.P (National degree in Fine Arts) at the University of Fine Arts, Rennes. Specialisation in sculpture- space, video, photography and multimedia.
Creation of a life-size sculpture for the Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Paris. Workshop at the National Center of Costumes in moulins (03), before the openning. archives, preservative conservation of theater and opera costumes
2002 : CEAP ( Certificat degree in Fine Arts), at the University of Fine Arts, Rennes.
2005: Mannequinage of historical and contemporany costumes for «L’Homme Paré» exhibition in the Musée de la Mode et du Textile de Paris.
2000 : Baccalaureat general in French Literature, specialized in Fine Arts.
2004 : Workshop with Joséphine Péllas, in preventive conservation, in the Musée de la mode et du textile de Paris.
Le costume...
Expositions et événements...
2007: Co-realisation of costumes the theater play «Parasites» by Marius von Mayenburg, director: Philippe Lanton, Théâtre Gérard Philipe, Orléans.
2007: Exposition «Les Journées du Patrimoine», au Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
Costume designer for the Planet Pas Net Cie «Sueurs Moites».
2005 : Exposition “Les Métiers d’Art”, au centre culturel de Brie Comte Robert (94), exposition de costumes en papier et costumes grotesques .
2006: Costume designer for «La Petite Flûte Magique», Opera for children, adapted from « The Magic Flute» by Mozart, director Guillaume Dujardin, Besançon Opera. Costume designer for «Les Milles Enfants Meilleurs», by Alexandre Friedrich, Cie Mala Noche, director Guillaume Dujardin the Mala Noche Cie. Création des costumes pour «La Douzième Bataille d’Isonzo», d’Howard Barker, mise en scène par Guillaume Dujardin pour la Cie Mala Noche. 2005: Création de costumes pour le film «Les Chevaliers Errants», long métrage, réalisation Antoine Fromental. Conception et réalisation des costumes «Les Ménines », pour «Calderon» de Pasolini, mise en scène Emilie Rousset, produit par le T.N.S, de Strasbourg. 2003 : Stage à la comédie Française (en tailleur), pour « Les Fables de La Fontaine», mise en scène de Robert Wilson. Assistante de la costumière Gabriel Dalton, pour «Wonderfull Town», m.e.s. Antony Mac Donald, Grange Park Opéra Winchester, Angleterre. 1998-2000 : Stage chez le costumier Anatole Kysk, à Paris. Apprentissage des dessous-dessus, coupes historiques et contemporaines.
Exposition de l’installation “Trans...”, à la Maison Rouge de Montreuil. Présentation de vidéos, exposition «No Vidéo», Galerie du Cloitre,Rennes. 2000 : Création de l’événement «Pas Si Vite, Le Temps Défile…» à Montgeron (91), Les Paris de L’an 2000. 1998 : Projet «Un Défilé Pour Sandaré» , à Montgeron (91), lauréate du «projet Passion» accordé par la Région Ile de France. Organisation d’un défilé de mode au profit d’une association humanitaire et avec la participation de grandes maisons de couture.
