Launch of inner GLOw’ replica, a monograph by David Douard (Zzz Publications)
The Guest Program of the Fondation Pernod Ricard is an open and flexible space for programming, serving as both a continuation and an extension of the Foundation’s activities and its Bookshop. Comprising a range of invitations that echo the ideas and forms shaping the current landscape of artistic creation and publishing, it offers diverse and cross-disciplinary proposals: book launches, discussions, and performances alongside more regular gatherings such as thematic workshops focusing on artistic practices, self-publishing, graphic design, and translation.
Conversation between the artist David Douard and Nina Kennel, contributor to the publication. With the presence of Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez, the book’s editors and graphic designers.
A tangle of studio views, recent works, and reassembled fanzines, inner GLOw’ replica delves into the roots of David Douard’s practice. The zines he has been compulsively producing for years converse with his artworks and contaminate them. Pages of collages, drawings, photocopies, bits of tape, shredded magazines, slogans captured from social networks, and smartphone photos reveal the density and formative process of the artist’s language. This flow seeps into and transmutes his sculptures and installations, whose teeming, polymorphic materiality unfolds through a comprehensive set of objective photographs.
Three texts accompany this visual corpus: a phantasmagorical fiction by Charlie Fox, an essay by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, and a poetic enumeration by Nina Kennel. inner GLOw’ replica—the first publication of the Zzz publishing house—is the result of a long-standing collaboration between David Douard and designers Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez.
