Kirili in Dialogue with
Tom Buckner
Tom Buckner, with Roscoe Mitchell , Concert à L’Orangerie, 2007 (photo©Ariane Lopez-Huici)
“ Être sur scène avec les sculptures d’Alain Kirili est une forte et profonde expérience pour moi.
Je suis obligé de me concentrer sur la sculpture et de traduire cette émotion par des sons et des mouvements. ”
Tom Buckner
Tom Buckner, with Improvisation by Alain Kirili, Atelier New York, 1997
(photo©Ariane Lopez-Huici)
Sculpture & Jazz dialogue
at the Musée de Grenoble, 1999
with baritone Thomas Buckner, saxophonist Joseph Jarman,
dancer Maria Mitchell & sculptor Alain Kirili
excerpt from the film Prière de Toucher by Jean Paul Fargier, 2002
Alain Kirili’s exhibition at the Musée de Grenoble en 1999
with baritone Thomas Buckner, saxophonist Joseph Jarman and dancer Maria Mitchell
Autour des Commandements d’Alain Kirili
Music Album published in the Catalogue made by the Musée de Grenoble, 1999
with the participation of Joseph Jarman, William Parker, Daniel Carter,
Leena Conquest, Roy Campbell Jr, Sabir Mateen, Thomas Buckner
Leroy Jenkins, Tom Buckner, Joseph Jarman
at the White Street Loft, 2004
TOTEM
Jérôme Bourdellon (flutes and shakuhachi), Thomas Buckner (voice), Alain Kirili (sculptures)
2005
In August of 2005, on a visit to Paris to celebrate the birthday of sculptor Alain Kirili, singer Thomas Buckner and flutist Jérôme Bourdellon gathered with Kirili at his studio to record these duo improvisations in the presence of his group of sculptures entitled "Totem". Both musicians are longtime collaborators with Alain Kirili, performing most recently in a concert at the Theatre du Palais Royal in Paris celebrating the opening of an installation of these sculptures in the Jardin du Palais Royal. The music is a spontaneous response to and interaction with the sculpture.
Cover image: Totem, Alain Kirili, bronze, 2004 photo© Ariane Lopez-Huici
Sculpture & jazz dialogue at the
Théâtre du Palais Royal, 2005
In the context of his deep involvement with contemporary music and jazz, Kirili develops «sculpture and jazz» dialogues. On April 18, 2005, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal presents an ensemble of the sculptures with the music of Joseph Jarman, Thomas Buckner, Jérôme Bourdellon, and Dalila Khatir.
Tom Buckner, Dalila Khatir, Jérôme Bourdellon et Joseph Jarman
with Alain Kirili’ sculptures Lévitation & Segou at the Théâtre du Palais Royal, 2005
(photo©Ariane Lopez-Huici )
film Concert au Théâtre du Palais Royal, 2005 by Chrystel Egal
with Jérôme Bourdellon, Joseph Jarman, Dalila Khatir and Tom Buckner
and the sculptures Lévitation & Segou of Alain Kirili
KIRILI ET LES NYMPHEAS
Exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie May-September 2007
“For this Hommage à Monet, I created a sculptural ensemble in consonance with the Les Nymphéas (Water Lilies) : a Commandment, to Claude Monet, in colored cement, an ensemble of intensified signs that echo the impact of the Les Nymphéas. For me, the musical dialogue that took place with the June 21st concert was a powerful evocation of post-Impressionism: Les Nymphéas, Soutine, my sculptures, and this music together became the incarnation of modernity.
The heritage of the dialogue between Debussy and Monet has been renewed in this manner. With a positively magical force, Thomas Buckner invents a dance, a new kinesis, a new relation to the body in the presence of my sculpture and Les Nymphéas. This is not a show or entertainment, but an invocation and communion, as we can see in the photographs of Ariane Lopez-Huici and the video of Jean-Paul Fargier.
Jérôme Bourdellon, Thomas Buckner, Roscoe Mitchell, Dalila Khatir, and my sculpture celebrate an aesthetic of improvisation and spontaneity that unites all of their talents, and all of these arts, all of these generations, in terms of a single imperative: to express the freedom of the unconscious. One conviction emerges as a message to the 21st Century: the modern tradition remains young and very much alive!”
Alain Kirili
New York, June 2008
Tom Buckner et Jérôme Bourdellon
Concert à l’Orangerie, Exposition Kirili et Les Nymphéas 2008
(photo©Ariane Lopez-Huici )
Kirili Et Les Nympheas - Hommage to Claude Monet at the Musée de l’Orangerie
Directed by Jean-Paul Fargier - 2007
with
Jerome Bourdellon: flutes, bass clarinet
Thomas Buckner: baritone
Dalila Khatir: soprano
Roscoe Mitchell: alto & soprano saxophone
KIRILI ET LES NYMPHEAS
Hommage à Monet , Improvised music at the Musée de l'Orangerie
JEROME BOURDELLON flutes, bass clarinet THOMAS BUCKNER baritone
ALAIN KIRILI sculptures DALILA KHATIR soprano ROSCOE MITCHELL alto & soprano saxophones
(Photos: ©Laurent Lecat et Ariane Lopez-Huici )
Sculpture & jazz dialogue at the
Galerie Richard, 2009
Tom Buckner, Jérôme Bourdellon et Laurel Jenkins
Opening of the show Kirili Gorchov, Galerie Richard, Paris, 2009