{"id":43,"date":"2010-10-06T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2010-10-06T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T20:29:57","slug":"flauterville-at-sos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"Flauterville at SOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Flatuerville at SOS, London, UK December 2008<br \/>\nLaurent Godard at Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of Smithfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Godard, the imaginary village of Flateurville is a work of artistic obsession where he has created a visceral world of townspeople in a narrative that has no end. From the main protagonist, Marcel Martin, to the mischievous P\u00e2\u20ac\u2122tit Louis on his bicycle, Flateurville is both a reflection of every village and an intimate look into Godard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful imagination. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Smithfield and Halfslant invite you to acquaint yourself with these intriguing portraits which, as you wander through the building, invoke a quiet history of one small French village, and in turn, enter into a dialogue with the history of Smithfield.<\/p>\n<p>The pairing of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Smithfield and the artist Godard stems from their shared appreciation for the history of a particular place. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Smithfield owner, John Torode, prides himself on the dedication to the quality of ingredients featured on his menu, a dedication that begins with understanding the history of the Smithfield meat market. <\/p>\n<p><em>Special Thanks: Daniel Scheffler, Nico Malais\u00c3\u00a9, David Perez, Beatrice Minns, Livi Vaughn, Henry Llewellyn, Katy Ling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatuerville at SOS, London, UK December 2008 Laurent Godard at Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of Smithfield For Godard, the imaginary village of Flateurville is a work of artistic obsession where he has created a visceral world of townspeople in a narrative that has no end. From the main protagonist, Marcel Martin, to the mischievous P\u00e2\u20ac\u2122tit Louis on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfslant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}