For its fifteenth anniversary, the Nice Inharmonic Orchestra organizes a concert featuring students from Villa Arson, the National School of Arts in Paris-Cergy, accompanied by exceptional guests: Danielle de Picciotto (Love Parade) and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), forming the duo Hackedepicciotto.
On this occasion, artist David Ritzinger and a team of students will produce screen-printed posters for the event during a workshop organized 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 store clerk and for Alain Buyse’s gallery (master of art in screen printing). There, he discovered screen printing and met many artists. After finishing his studies, he tried working for regional museums as a curator and began managing the programming of the Frontière$ gallery, which is uniquely located within a psychiatric care facility.
Quickly realizing the impossibility of presenting certain artists in institutional venues (politics, sexuality, money, religion), he decided, along with some close associates, to create the Association La Belle Époque in parallel for the promotion of contemporary artistic practices.
Today, this association occupies him full-time with a gallery (L’isolée, V. d’Ascq) and a publishing workshop/gallery (La Danseuse, Roubaix). Additionally, he creates numerous exhibition scenographies for various venues. For about ten years, he has been practicing publishing in various ways, although screen printing has become his primary medium.
His publishing work unfolds in direct partnership with artists and can take many forms: booklets, artist books, prints, posters, records, objects… He practices screen printing with a technical mindset that he seeks to adapt to each practice and with a political philosophy of autonomous dissemination of singular thoughts. Among the artists he has collaborated with are: 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 duo Hackedepicciotto follows a long list of equally prestigious artists who have, over the years, conducted The Nice Inharmonic Orchestra for a 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.
Finally, The Nice Inharmonic Orchestra benefits from the unwavering support of Philippe Robert, music critic, who has written about The Orchestra (ed. Lenka Lente) and who accompanies each record release with a text, currently two LPs and a double LP, available via the website ldrr.com
