To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, the Orchestre Inharmonique de Nice is organizing a concert featuring students from Villa Arson and the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy, accompanied by special guests Danielle de Picciotto (Love Parade) and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), the Hackedepicciotto duo.
To mark the occasion, artist David Ritzinger and a team of students will produce screen-printed posters of the event during a workshop from April 28 to May 2, 2025.
David Ritzinger
David Ritzinger, born in Reims in 1977, lives in Lille.
As a student, he worked both as a record dealer and for the gallery of Alain Buyse (a master silkscreen artist). He discovered silkscreen printing and met many artists. After completing his studies, he tried his hand at working for regional museums as a stage manager and began managing the programming of the Frontière$ gallery, which has the unusual feature of being housed in the heart of a psychiatric ward.
Quickly realizing the impossibility of presenting certain artists in institutional venues (politics, sexuality, money, religion), he and a handful of friends decided to set up the Association La Belle Époque to promote contemporary artistic practices.
Today, this association keeps him busy full-time, with a gallery (L’isolée, V. d’Ascq) and a publishing workshop/gallery (La Danseuse, Roubaix). He has also designed numerous exhibition scenographies for a variety of venues. For the past ten years, he has been publishing in a variety of ways, although silkscreen has become his main medium.
His publishing activities are carried out in direct partnership with artists, and can take many forms: brochures, artists’ books, prints, posters, records, objects… His silk-screening is based on a technical approach that he adapts to each practice, and a political approach to the autonomous dissemination of singular thoughts. Among the artists with whom he has collaborated: Tom de Pekin, Gérard Duchêne, Anne Van der Linden, Charles Pennequin, Joël Hubaut, Benjamin Monti, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, Bertrand Mandico, Jacques Villeglé, Nicolas Tourte, Marc Brunier Mestas…
The Nice Inharmonic Orchestra
The arrival of the Hackedepicciotto duo follows a long list of equally prestigious artists who, over the years, have led the Orchestre Inharmonique de Nice in concert. In no particular order, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Méryll Ampe, Claire Gapenne (aka Terrine), Elodie Lesourd and Lionel Fernandez (Sister Iodine, Contumace), Jean-Marc Foussat, Xavier Boussiron, the Talweg duo, Etienne Jaumet (Zombie-Zombie), Jean-Marc Montera, Pedro Rocha and Charlemagne Palestine.
Last but not least, L’Orchestre Inharmonique de Nice benefits from the unfailing support of music critic Philippe Robert, who has written about L’Orchestre (ed. Lenka Lente) and accompanies each recording release with a text, two LPs and one double LP for the time being, available via the ldrr.com website.
