Herve Tullet's First New York Exhibition at The Invisible Dog

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) are pleased to present This Isn't Trash, the first New York exhibition of work by Hervé Tullet, the wildly imaginative artist and children's book author, as part of the second annual Tilt Kids Festival. This Isn't Trash is presented and co-commissioned by the Festival and The Invisible Dog Art Center (51 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11201), where and the show will be on view March 4 - April 16.

An opening reception will take place on Saturday, March 4 from 6:00 - 10:00PM. This Isn't Trash will be open to the public Thursday to Saturday from 1 to 7PM, Sunday from 1 to 5PM, and Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment only. The gallery is closed on Monday. School tours of the exhibit will be organized over the course of its run, guided by Teaching Artist Amélie Gaulier who was trained by Tullet.

For This Isn't Trash, Tullet will fill The Invisible Dog Art Center with hundreds of new pieces, some as tall as 8 feet, created at his studio in Harlem and on-site. Colorfully painted, torn, taped, creased and reassembled sheets of paper will be hung from the ceiling. Together, they will assemble into a layered, multi-dimensional forest of artworks. Visitors will meander through, encountering new viewpoints, windows, and surprise compositions.

Lucien Zayan, Director of The Invisible Dog Art Center, said, "This exhibition aligns with the Invisible Dog's mission to support experimental and ambitious projects driven by artists. We are excited to usher in Hervé's expansion into sculpture and three-dimensional installation with this saturated and colorful exhibition."

Hervé Tullet is an artist and performer, as well as a renowned children's book author, whose large-scale interactive workshops, involving up to 1000 people, take place in various libraries, schools, art centers, and museums around the world. A renowned artist of books, including Mix It Up, Let's Play, and Press Here, Tullet is also celebrated for his large-scale art workshops for children and series of games by Phaidon. In September of 2017, Tullet will release OH! Un livre qui fait des sons. Tullet moved to New York City in October 2015. Since then, he has appeared at events, performances, and readings at such prestigious venues as the Guggenheim and MoMA.

About TILT Kids Festival

Tilt Kids Festival invites kids and families to discover, play, imagine, think, and create, with performances and events that challenge the boundaries of art forms. From theater to dance parties, music concerts, innovative workshops, conversations, and visual art installations, Tilt is designed to stimulate and inspire the audiences of today and tomorrow.

Tilt Kids Festival is co-curated by Rima Abdul-Malak, Cultural Attachée of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Lili Chopra, Executive Vice President and Artistic Director of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF); and Violaine Huisman, Director of Humanities at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music.

About The Invisible Dog Art Center

The Invisible Dog Art Center opened in October, 2009, a raw space in a vast converted factory building with a charmed history and an open-ended mission: to create, from the ground up, a new kind of interdisciplinary arts center. Over the last two years, over 50,000 people have attended our events: visual art exhibits; dance, theater, and music performances; film screenings; literary arts and poetry readings; lectures; community events; and more. Long-term collaborations with artists are integral to The Invisible Dog's mission, which is to create not only a new kind of art center, but also a new kind of artistic community. The Invisible Dog brings together artists of all career stages, offering them unique opportunities for involvement. Over the last two years, the art center has evolved organically, developing with and alongside its diverse roster of collaborators. Neither a commercial gallery nor a concept-driven non-profit, The Invisible Dog has a unique role in the New York arts scene. It has become a place where artists working in all media can do things they wouldn't be able to do anywhere else in New York. The Invisible Dog's core values of experimentation and collaboration are kept in view throughout the curatorial process, and as a result, our artists are freer and more autonomous than is typical.

Cultural Services of the French Embassy

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promotes the best of French arts, literature, cinema, digital innovation, language, and higher education across the US. Based in New York City, Washington D.C., and eight other cities across the country, the Cultural Services brings artists, authors, intellectuals and innovators to cities nationwide. It also builds partnerships between French and American artists, institutions and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York, through its bookshop Albertine, it fosters French-American exchange around literature and the arts. www.frenchculture.org

About FIAF

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) is New York's premiere French cultural and language center. FIAF's mission is to create and offer New Yorkers innovative and unique programs in education and the arts that explore the evolving diversity and richness of French cultures. FIAF seeks to generate new ideas and promote cross cultural dialogue through partnerships and new platforms of expression. www.fiaf.org

Merci!

Tilt Kids Festival 2017 is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium, Air France and Delta Air Lines, FACE Foundation, Florence Gould Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Howard Gilman Foundation, Institut français-Paris, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, La Roche Posay, and SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques).