We meet Cold at the LaNature Festival in Vielsalm, Belgium.
We immediately fall in love with his performance ‘Sans Titre‘ a work about the obsession with weather, changing climate…
it has been raining for two days, all around is an enchantment of nature and mud.
It is 8.30 in the morning.
There is magic and beauty.
(Ple)

COLD COLD lives and works in the Paris area, France.

Video artist and painter, sometimes (often) involved in performance art and artists’ books, which get published every 2 years or so – Having worked as a video artist for several years, his works are a show of force between fiction, the documentary, serious prank and frequently involve family members or other such-like idols of his. The audience is baffled, constantly
(Cecile Benoiton)

Public collections – Unwanted Exhibition For Jennifer Flay, French National Library

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WORKS

Row House Sumiyoshi

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Gift

What I don’t understand is how it is possible for an art collector to give one of his works to a museum and thesaid museum buys it at the same time. This was found as such in San Diego Museum Of Contemporary Art – Selections From The Permanent Collection (1990), pp. 84-5
When such a thing happens, the gift is commonly said to be ‘partial’, at least. But not here. This work, is it given to us, or not ?

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The Break

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To play Composition 1960 #13
by La Monte Young

one should perform as well as one can any composition that one has prepared
Any composition except Composition 1960 #13, of course

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Untitled (for Anne Bravy) II

performance, The Punk Paradise, Paris (F), 21/ 12/ 23

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2024     Charleston Zine Fest 6, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston (USA) / La Nature Festival – Mycelium, Baraque de Fraiture, Vielsalm (Belgium) / International Pynchon Week, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade (Serbia) / The Abyss And The Foreshore, Abstract Project Gallery, Paris (F) / With Everything, With Any Thing, With Almost Nothing, With Nothing, Florence Loewy Gallery, Paris

2023     L’Escamoteur At The Punk Paradise, The Punk Paradise, Paris (F) / Well, Well, Well,…, Comfort Blanket, Paris (F), Coef180, Saint Malo (F) & Tokyo (Japan) (+ co-curating with Yukari Hara) / Clearance Sale !, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F) / MAD, Fiminco Foundation, Romainville (F) / A Brand New Summer, Arte radio (F)

Residencies
2022 – Keravel Estate, Plouha (F)     2020 – he Generator, Gentilly (F) [ with the Performing Arts Laboratory] / Michel Journiac Gallery, Paris (F) [with the PAL]

Published
2024 – Row House Sumiyoshi, The Empty Chair Publishing     2023 – Miss Drew / Performance Sources, The Generator

Also
2024 – Days Of Laziness Days #3, with the Lazyboratory, Uttarkashi, India     2022 – To Tell, with the PAL & Luca Giacomoni, Labo de l’Édition, Paris (F)     2021 – Interview Across Artists’ Books (with The Local History Club), La Mezzanine, Paris (F) / Working Hours, Seattle Art Book Fair (USA) / LAP-CAC Session, Contemporary Art Centre, Alfortville (F) [with the PAL] 

Distinctions
2024 – ADAGP/ (Made Anywhere) Best Artist’s Book Award: nominee     2021 – ADAGP/ MAD Best Artist’s Book Award: nominee