Biographie de Louis Alain Bellec, auteur-compositeur-interprète

 

Alain Barrière est le nom de scène de Louis Alain Bellec (1935-2019), auteur-compositeur-interprète de variété française, très célèbre durant les années 60 et 70, notamment avec des très grands succès internationaux comme Ma vie, Tu t’en vas, Elle était si jolie, etc. Natif de La Trinité-sur-Mer dans le Morbihan en Bretagne, il avait suivi un cursus scolaire classique en particulier en intégrant l’École nationale supérieure des Arts et Métiers d’Angers en 1955 et fut résident à la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris en 1958. Il a été extrêmement populaire durant les années d’or de la chanson française, avec toute une génération de grands artistes comme Juliette Greco, Léo Ferré, Charles Aznavour, Georges Brassens, Gilbert Bécaud, et tant d’autres. Ses chansons s’appuient sur une écriture inspirée des poètes du XXe siècle comme Francis Carco, Jacques Prévert ou Robert Desnos, mais très accessible et populaire.

The quote on the chair

A poet is certainly annoying, and never very conventional. At the slightest injustice, they start shouting.

Louis Alain Bellec, author-composer-performer | “A Poet,” lyrics and music by Alain Barrière, 1973, Albatros

A poem-chair

“I adopted the chair, this familiar object, a few decades ago, at a time when I wanted to create art on a human scale in public spaces, while everywhere else people opted for the monumental: it is an object shaped like the body and serves the body. It is difficult to feel exclusive ownership of an object so universally shareable. It is mine when I occupy it, but if I leave it, someone else can claim it as their chair.” Michel Goulet, artist-sculptor

The project Prendre position

A permanent artistic installation

Prendre position is a sculpture-installation project of 47 chair-poems to mark the 100th anniversary of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. They were installed in a flowered meadow created especially for the occasion by the campus estate service.

Meeting the designers

This artistic installation was conceived by the Quebecois artist-sculptor Michel Goulet, in collaboration with François Massut, founding director of the collective Poésie is not dead.

The 47 chairs gallery

Each house on the campus is represented by a chair, thanks to a donation from the Maison des étudiants canadiens and the support of the Labrenne group. Each of the 47 chairs is a unique work.

History and architecture of the house

The house consists of two buildings separated by the périphérique highway. The first pavilion, inaugurated before the construction of the expressway, was funded by a donation from the Alumni Association, supplemented by a grant from the Directorate of Technical Education.

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