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Projections
Carré d'Art - Museum of Contemporary
Art, Nimes France
Exhibition from 13 Oct 2009 - 3 Jan 2010
Artists on show: Daniel Arsham,
Gordon Cheung, Chris Cornish, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Cyprien
Gaillard, Laurent Grasso, Michael Landy, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle,
Tobias Putrih
Projections is to include works by about ten artists whose
approaches have their common denominator
in their interest for manipulations of time, sometimes with
reference to science fiction, sometimes directly driven by
a re-examination of what has been learnt from modernism, particularly
in architecture. Born after decades of video production and
sophisticated images, they go beyond the notion of the show
to enquire into perceptual schemas and the possibility of
inducing a fiction.
“What all the films have in common is being able to
carry perception off elsewhere. As I write this, I’m
trying to remember a film I liked, or even one I didn’t
like. My memory becomes a wilderness of elsewheres.”
A Cinematic Atopia, 1971; Robert Smithson’s description
of this new mental space peopled with images is close to the
imaginary world with its mixed times, virtual and real, that
underlies the works of a whole younger generation. On this
point, the projection of the Chris Marker film The Jetty at
the exhibition entrance in Argos Cinema, a cardboard structure
produced by Tobias Putrih, is programmatic.
Like a utopia, the atopia described by Smithson is a space
with no physical localization. The works on show often take
as their starting point the dross of the day — abandoned
architectures, sidelined hypotheses, scenarios that pull up
short. Some of the selected works show real competence in
the fields of 3D and simulated spaces (Chris Cornish). They
also embrace questions of shifting, of potentialities, induced
by the storage and memory of digital data (Jean-Pascal Flavien),
but can also mark a strong interest in “outmoded”
techniques such as engraving (Cyprien Gaillard) and illustrative
or popular drawing after the style of Gustave Doré
(Daniel Arsham) or Camille Flammarion (Laurent Grasso). Most
have a documentary underlayer, whether it be in the form of
a film theatre (Tobias Putrih), climate data collected by
a weather station (Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle) or an artistic
event like the Homage to New York, a machine programmed by
Jean Tinguely to self-destruct, a recurring theme in science–fiction
and the subject of the H2NY series by the British artist Michael
Landy. Discontinuity, the question of models, experimentation,
the break, the passage, all these are notions that mould the
exhibition itinerary.
The vernissage will be followed by the presentation of a
performance danced by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaert, Judith
Sanchez Ruiz (lasts 45min)
The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of
a trilingual catalogue (French, German, English) including
four essays by Jacqueline Lichtenstein, professor at the Sorbonne,
Claire Brunet, psychoanalyst, Beatrice von Bismarck, teacher
of the history of art and
visual theory at the HGB, Leipzig, Jürgen Harten, honorary
director of the Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf.
Carré
d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain
Open daily except Mondays from 10am to 6pm
Admission: Euro 5; reduced rate: Euro 3.70
www.nimes.fr
Place de la Maison Carrée. 30000 Nîmes. France.
Téléphone : 00 33 4 66 76 35 70. Fax : 00 33
4 66 76 35 85
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Press contact : Delphine Verrières - Carré
d'Art
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E-mail : communication@carreartmusee.com
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