Paris Calling - Participating Galleries
- ALEXANDRE POLLAZZON LTD
- ANTHONY REYNOLDS GALLERY
- BARBICAN ART GALLERY
- BISCHOFF / WEISS
- BLOOMBERG SPACE
- CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE
- CARTER PRESENTS / HAPTIC
- THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION
- CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN/STEFAN SHANKLAND
- DAVID GILL GALLERIES
- FRIEZE ART FAIR, FRIEZE PROJECTS
- GREAT EASTERN HOTEL
- LE SALON FOR ART COLLECTORS VANESSA SUCHAR
- MODERN ART OXFORD
- MUSEUM 52
- THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY
- SKETCH
- SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
- TATE MODERN
- TIMOTHY TAYLOR
- TURNER CONTEMPORARY
- VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
- WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY
ALEXANDRE POLLAZZON LTD.
VIDYA GASTALDON
8 September to 21 October 2006
Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by French artist, Vidya Gastaldon.
Gastaldon’s pictorial worlds are filled with landscapes, motifs of rainbows, suns and moons, blossoms and eggs, hearts and Smileys. Profoundly inspired by nature, science fiction, eastern religions, philosophies, popular culture, fairytales and myths, white magic and theosophy, Gastaldon embroiders, knits, crochets, sews and composes model worlds made of textiles. Through these objects, some of which can be identified as stones, mushrooms or plants, she touches on the themes of recollection and memories. The effort and tedium involved in the handicraft have a special value for the artist, which gives her objects a positive charge and a fetishlike character that lead directly to mysticism and spirituality.
The exhibition at Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd comprises new sculptures and installations coupled with the premiere of a new animation film (“Nuclearama” made in collaboration with Swiss artist Nathalie Rebholz) and large format drawings.
Biography:
Vidya Gastaldon was born in 1974 in Besançon, France. She lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Kunstmuseum, Thun (2006); ArtConcept, Paris; ArtStatement Basel art fair (2006); Musee d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2005), the Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva (2003, 2001); Biennale de Lyon (2005), the Triennale Vilnius (2005); “Le voyage interieur ParisLondon”, Espace EDF Electra Paris (2005); “Herbstkatalog Lederfransen”, Kunsthalle Basel (2004) and “COMMENT RESTER ZEN”, Centre cultural Suisse, Paris (2003). Forthcoming exhibition: Swiss Institut, New York (2007)
ANTHONY REYNOLDS GALLERY
ERIK DIETMAN
23 November 2006 and 6 January 2007
Dietman made two exhibitions at the gallery, in 1985 and 1990. Dietman usually worked with the most traditional of materials marble, stone, bronze, wood, paper to fabricate creatures that had never before evolved from that tradition. Pataphysics, scatology, and an acute awareness of the grotesque all played a part. Puns and double entendres were always finding their way into the work. But these are also things of sympathy and great beauty. This exhibition will consist of one major sculptural installation, “Prefiguration d’un Pipeline Lingotique”, dating from the year of our last collaboration and a selection of works on paper and other objects from the last ten years of his life.
Biography:
Erik Dietman was born in 1937 in Jönköping, Sweden. He died in 2002 in Paris. Exhibitions include “Eloge de l’envie”, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain, Nice (catalogue) in 2001, “L’ami de personne”, sculpture monumentale, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris in 2000, “För fulla glas”, National Museum, Stockholm (catalogue) in 1999, “Erik Dietman, Sculptor Classicus”, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne (catalogue) in 1997 and “Erik Dietman : Sans titre. pas un mot. Silence”., Galerie Sud, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue) in 1994.
BARBICAN ART GALLERY
FUTURE CITY: EXPERIMENT AND UTOPIA IN ARCHITECTURE 1956 - 2006
15 June to 17 September 2006
From extraordinary houses and incredible towers, to fantasy cityscapes and inhabitable sculptures, Future City showcases the most radical and experimental architecture to have emerged in the past 50 years.
Featuring a who’s who of architecture, the exhibition includes 70 visionary projects by influential and groundbreaking architects who have challenged convention to radically shape and influence the way we live.
From the visionary artistturnedarchitect Constant Nieuwenhuys, to 1960’s giants Archigram and SuperStudio, to deconstructivists Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid and contemporary work by OMA, Nox and FOA, this is the most comprehensive survey of experimental architecture to be held in the UK.
Future City is a collaboration between Barbican Art Gallery and FRAC Centre (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain du Centre), Orléans. The exhibition is curated by Jane Alison, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, working in collaboration with MarieAnge Brayer, Director, FRAC Centre.
List of Architects and Practices: Will Alsop, Architecture Principe, Archizoom Associati, Asymptote ,Shigeru Ban, André Bloc, Chanéac, Nigel Coates, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Peter Cook (Archigram), Coop Himmelb(l)au, Guy Ernest Debord, dECOi, Neil Denari, Diller + Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, David Georges Emmerich, EZCT Architecture & Design Research, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Foreign Office Architects ,Yona Friedman, Future Systems, Vittorio Giorgini, David Greene (Archigram), Zaha Hadid, Pascal Häusermann, HausRuckerCo., Ron Herron, Hans Hollein, Eilfried Huth & Günther Domenig, Arata Isozaki, Jakob & MacFarlane, Jones, Partners: Architecture, Kiyonori Kikutake, KOL / MAC Studio, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Daniel Libeskind, C.J. Lim + Studio 8 Architects, Antti Lovag, Gordon MattaClark, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, MVRDV, NATO, NOX, Objectile, OCEAN NORTH, OMA, Claude Parent, Périphériques, Gianni Pettena ,Walter Pichler, Ricardo Porro, Arthur Quarmby, R & Sie…, Dagmar Richter Studio, Michele Saee, Ionel Schein, Alison & Peter Smithson, Graham Stevens, Superstudio, Pierre Székely, Kenzo Tange, Bernard Tschumi, UN Studio, Eisaku Ushida & Kathryn Findlay, Makoto Sei Watanabe, James Wines & SITE, Lebbeus Woods.
www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery
BISCHOFF / WEISS
TATIANA TROUVÉ
20 October to 2 December 2006
When venturing into Trouvé’s world, it is important to bear in mind that “everything is a question of scale and point of view”. A cosmopolitan artist with a unique background, she personifies the cultural crossroads: Italy, Africa, The Netherlands, and France all are “ghosts” that haunt her imagination.
Trouvé creates spaces which help the works emerge; she builds and patches together her installations intuitively. She questions our memory of places and objects, and delights in seeing their meaning waver. Her installations are “mental spaces”, drawings in spaces that change according to their surrounding context.
Her show at BISCHOFF/WEISS will be her first solo show in the UK.
Biography :
Born in Italy in 1968, Tatiana Trouvé lives and works in Paris. A prominent figure in the contemporary art scene, her work has been shown at numerous prestigious institutions including the Palais de Tokyo of Paris (2006 / solo show 2002), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Geneva (2004) and the 50th Venice biennale at the Arsenale (2003). Trouvé has also received solo shows at the CAPC of Bordeaux (2003) and at the Gallery GP & N Vallois Paris (2002 / 2005).
BLOOMBERG SPACE
BERTRAND LAVIER
13 October to 2 December 2006
Bertrand Lavier is one of the most inventive and influential European artists of his generation. Since the early 1970s he has been concerned with identifying the paradoxes between reality in all its manifestations, and the corresponding and various representations that can be produced. Most recently he has focused on the convoluted relationship between art and reality where are the limits of art, and how much the look of art is influenced by our expectations of what it should look like.
The exhibition at Bloomberg SPACE will show Lavier’s continued interest in the play between art, the public perception of art, and reality and will include major works made in neon and video that make explicit reference to American Modernist art.
Biography :
Bertrand Lavier was born in ChâtillonsurSeine, France, 1949. He lives and works in Paris and AignayleDuc, near Dijon. His work has been included in both Documenta 1982 and 1987 in Kassel. Lavier has since shown at the Centre Pompidou, ARC/Musée National de la Ville de Paris, Le Consortium in Dijon and in numerous exhibitions all over the world.
http://about.bloomberg.com/about/ourco/space/index.html
CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE
ARCHIPEINTURE: PAINTERS BUILD ARCHITECTURE
14 July to 17 September 2006
This collaboration with Le Plateau/Frac IledeFrance is a selection of paintings and installations by seventeen international artists including younger and less known artists from Europe, North and South America, many of whom will be showing in the UK for the first time. “Archipeinture” looks at the process we go through when we try to conjure interior and inner spaces of the mind as well as the physical spaces we inhabit. See René Daniëls’ ‘bowtie’ paintings, the ‘exploding’ schematic paintings of Julie Mehretu as well as Franz Ackerman’s kinetic paintings inspired by his travels.
List of artists:
Franz Ackermann, Phillip Allen, Hurvin Anderson, Yves Bélorgey, Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus, Santiago Cucullu, René Daniëls, Thomas Huber, Andrew Lewis, Julie Mehretu, Alexandre Ovize, Ulf Puder, Silke Schatz, Matthias Weischer, Andro Wekua, Toby Ziegler, Oliver Zwink.
CARTER PRESENTS / HAPTIC
BAD BEUYS ENTERTAINMENT: “BRING THE NOISE”
18 November to 17 December 2006
At Carter Presents, Haptic will be showing a major sound installation from French artists’ collective Bad Beuys Entertainment. “Bring The Noise” is a sound installation of samplers and soundsystems. The sound materials are juxtaposed to evoke the form of suburban towers which produces a repetitive, systematic and polyphonic music. The machines (samplers, amplifiers, loadspeakers) play Public Enemy’s hip hop interludes, which are simultaneously rewritten and replayed on separated canals via a specific protocol.
Biography :
BBE was founded in 1999, at CergyPontoise, in the Parisian suburbs. Stemming from the outskirts of Paris, the different members of this group have in common the knowledge and the practice of the “culture of suburbs”. They produce objects and “repetitions” extracted from urban life, which are conceived as singular forms, for the audience to have a physical, sensitive relation to them.
Note:
Based in Paris, Haptic is a nonprofit exhibition space, which is committed to exhibiting and producing contemporary art.
THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION
PETIT POIS
June to December 2006
A series of performances throughout Paris Calling curated by the Centre of Attention in collaboration with Sophie Kaplan. Artists and events will be announced throughout the season.
“An open letter to the French people of the world The time has come to make a stand, to stop revelling in the past glories and wishing for a return to 1912 or 1968; the time has come to make a new declaration of independence. You the people who gave the world liberté, égalité and fraternité have disappointed in the recent past… We must build on certain aspects of your character, namely I would suggest your audacity, and to restate certain fundamental foundations for a modern, serious and intelligent culture. We must also seek to challenge the French propensity for Idealism in both its senses. The first step is the gesture (as you know the slogan has been le/la gesture du jour), this must occur outside the system, it can not take place within as the system requires clarity; the gesture of the artist is a short cut bypassing clarity…” The Centre of Attention, May 2006
Note:
The Centre of Attention is Pierre Coinde and Gary O’Dwyer. Their experimental approach stems from an ongoing enquiry into the phenomenon of art production, presentation, consumption and heritageization. Recent exhibitions include “Leaving on a flat bed picture plane” (London), “Schwanengesang” (51st Venice Biennale, Mercer Union in Toronto); “Embedded” (Miami); “On Demand” (London). Forthcoming exhibitions at Schauspielhaus Zurich, Istanbul Modern, and Kunsthaus Graz.
CHARING X GALLERY
November 2006
Charing X is a major new independent gallery in the West End. With over 5,000 square feet of space arranged over four floors and an eclectic collection of classic and contemporary art. David Grob, the gallery founder is convinced that this is a unique opportunity: “to bring art to the West End in a big enough way and make a real statement.”
David Grob has a strong track record in the Gallery world, having been a director of the Duke Street Gallery, Pace Wildenstein, Derring Street, and more recently he ran Brit Art.Com.
Featured artists include Araki, Helmut Newton, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Brancusi, Bob Carlos Clarke, John Stoddart and Julia FullertonBatten. Within the gallery is one of the best art, photography and fashion bookshops in the UK, run by Claire de Rouen, the doyenne of special books.
The aim is to make the space vibrant and everchanging, with two to three new exhibitions planned every month. As part of Paris Calling, Charing X is delighted to present an exhibition on French fashion. Full details to be confirmed shortly.
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 287 1779
CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN/STEFAN SHANKLAND
ATELIER TRANS PAL (ATP)
12 October to19 November 2006
Atelier TransPal (ATP) is a mobile, modular and multifunctional space developed by Stefan Shankland. Based on an industrial pallet racking system ATP’s internal spatial organisation and outer shell are modified according to context and collaborators. ATP’s function is to enable and make manifest process in art/cultural practices.
At Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank, London, ATP will be presented in the Parade Ground - a 2500 m2 open public space set between an art education institution and Tate Britain. ATP will be built on site, early October 2006, in a workshop organised with art and design students from Chelsea. The ATP space at Chelsea will be configured as a modular work/show platform with a vertical organisation. For the duration of its presence on the Parade Ground ATP will be housing a programme of mixed use involving workshops, shows and events.
Biography:
Born in Paris in 1967, Stefan Shankland lives and works in Paris and London. He has led a number of projects exploring art in the public domain. He teaches art and carries out research at Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Note:
ATP is a project by Stefan Shankland, developed with the assistance of Pierre Jorge Gonzalez / Judith Haase / Atelier Architecture & Scenography Berlin/Paris, and coordinated by Lieux Communs Production - projects for the European public domain.
DAVID GILL GALLERIES
MARTIN SZEKELY AND PIERRE CHARPIN
November 2006
As participants in Paris Calling, David Gill Galleries will be presenting new work by French designers Martin Szekely and Pierre Charpin which will be exhibited in the UK for the first time. The exhibition will run during the month of November (specific dates to be announced shortly). With our very special thanks to Kreo Gallery, Paris.
Note:
David Gill Galleries were established in 1987 and now encompass two gallery spaces in London. David Gill is a respected designer, collector and pioneer of 20th century decorative and fine arts. The gallery is renowned for showing period classics in combination with collections by leading contemporary artists that are produced in editions by the gallery. David Gill has curated exhibitions with museums and galleries worldwide and has been honoured with the “Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” award by the Republic of France.
Tel +44 (0)207 793 1100
FRIEZE ART FAIR, FRIEZE PROJECTS
12 to 15 October 2006
Frieze Projects is the curatorial programme presented annually at Frieze Art Fair, and comprises Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.
Since the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in 2003, Frieze Projects has pursued an ambitious curatorial programme, inviting a selection of emerging and established artists to produce work responding to the fair context. The commissions are realized in and around the fair’s public areas and many of the projects have been eventbased or involved the audience directly. Artists - including Martha Rosler, Matthieu Laurette, Lawrence Weiner, Andrea Zittel, Paola Pivi, Liam Gillick, Aleksandra Mir, gelitin and Jeremy Deller - have contributed work ranging from sitespecific installations and impromptu performances to 35 mm films and print publications.
This year Frieze Projects are delighted to be working with a French artist, full details of the programme will be announced in June.
GREAT EASTERN HOTEL
PASCAL LIEVRE AND HEHE
October 2006
Since opening in 2000, the Great Eastern has nurtured an association with contemporary art, whether that is through cohosting events with the Whitechapel gallery, or encouraging lesserknown artists to create and hang work within the hotel. Staff and guests alike are inspired and engaged by the art in the hotel and this is a prerequisite for all projects, they must deliver a strong sense of guest experience. The Great Eastern Hotel views itself as a platform from which the art world can show their work, never shying away from profiling the unknown. From Franko B’s Blood Work to Adrienne’s Confessional box in the lobby, the works are always edgy. As part of Paris Calling, the Great Eastern Hotel is delighted to be showing a performance of French artist Pascal Lièvre, as well as work from the Parisbased collective HeHe. Exact dates to be confirmed soon.
LE SALON FOR ART COLLECTORS VANESSA SUCHAR
EMMANUELLE VILLARD
5 October to 5 November 2006
The various attitudes that Emmanuelle Villard sets up in her workshop are connected around the question of "how to paint"; they borrow without complex from history as well as from the present time and put to work the common theme of "what remains of painting".
It is the material itself which is at the centre of her practice: the methodical exploration of its qualities, together with the various postures adopted by her in its connexion, allowing her to make “multireferential” works which play and are played as much of seduction as of strangeness. They generate various allusions, as much to the history of painting as to other fields (decorative arts, design, kitchen, sciences…) and “take care” of the history of their development process.
Biography:
Emmanuelle Villard was born in 1970 in Montpellier. She studied at Villa Arson, Nice. She lives and works in Paris and Brussels. She has exhibited her work in France and in foreign countries, in galleries and art centres. She has had articles in Art Press, BeauxArts, Les Inrockuptibles, L’Oeil… For exact location of exhibition visit Next events on:
MODERN ART OXFORD
DANIEL BUREN 4 November 2006 to 21 January 2007
Daniel Buren is one of France’s most significant living artists. Since he first began working with what has become his signature motif of alternating white and coloured stripes of equal and of nonvariable sizes in 1965, Buren has created dramatic, playful and thoughtprovoking interventions in museums, galleries and public spaces that question the relationship between art and the structures that frame it.
Although Buren has produced innumerable projects and exhibitions internationally, his work remains little known in Britain. His first exhibition in a public gallery in this country was held at Modern Art Oxford (formerly the Museum of Modern Art Oxford) in 1973, for which he suspended a series of verticallystriped canvases from the superstructure of the main upstairs gallery to create a sequence of flowing vertical planes that cut across the space at right angles to the gallery’s outer walls. In 2006, Buren revisits the Gallery’s spaces with a new intervention.
Exhibition curated by Suzanne Cotter, Senior Curator, Modern Art Oxford.
Biography:
Daniel Buren was born in 1938 in BoulogneBillancourt. He lives and works in situ.
MUSEUM 52
PIERRE ARDOUVIN
9 November 2006 to 15 January 2007
In conjunction with Paris Calling, Museum 52 are delighted to present a new sitespecific installation by Pierre Ardouvin. Ardouvin produces sculptural installations, which regularly incorporate an equal element of sound. He focuses on sound as a material and on its effect on the viewer’s perception of space. Each new piece is planned through a series of watercolours that explore the themes approached by the final installation.
For his exhibition at Museum 52 Ardouvin will produce a series of darkened rooms, the floors strewn with jewellery and chandeliers as if it is the fantastical destruction of a bourgeois party. Gravity seems to have taken its toll; everything has collected on the floor, creating a haunting ambience suggestive of dystopia. This fairy tale gone wrong is emphasised in the rear space by a slowly rotating mirror, no longer reflecting the suggested inhabitants of the space. The last remaining presence of the departed revellers is a multilayered recording of people whispering, the sound so thick it resembles running water. Ardouvin does not recreate a scene, but instead combines a series of juxtaposed elements that decentre reality.
Biography:
Born in 1965, Pierre Ardouvin lives and works in Paris. He has exhibited at the Palais De Tokyo, Paris; SESAC, Turin; Les Revues Parlees, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris and Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris. He was commissioned in 2005 to make a large installation for the courtyard of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris to coincide with the museum’s reopening in January 2006. He has been chosen for Art Statements at Art Basel 2006.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY
The Photographers’ Gallery will collaborate with Christine Van Assche, Chief Curator at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, to present two exhibitions.
ZINEB SEDIRA: SAPHIR
29 September to 26 November 2006
An exhibition of photographs and a new video installation by the Londonbased French/Algerian artist, Zineb Sedira. Sedira’s artistic practice is informed by her French, Algerian and British identities and this display will also be shown alongside a series of photographic works also on the theme of the Port of Algiers. She employs video and photography to investigate issues of representation, language, memory, displacement and landscape to engage with issues of nomadism, migrancy and notions of homeland.
Biography :
Zineb Sedira has exhibited in major international exhibitions. Amongst many, the Venice Biennale (2001), Tate Britain, London (2002), the first ICP Triennial in NY (2003), PhotoEspana in Madrid (2005), “Africa Remix” at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hayward Gallery, London and Mori Museum, Tokyo (20042005), the British Art Show 06, UK touring exhibition (various venues).
CINÉMATHÈQUE DE TANGER: SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
29 September to 26 November 2006
Alongside Sedira’s work will be the exhibition Six Degrees of Separation. This will showcase over 30 films and videos of rare and previously unseen footage from the archive of the Cinémathèque de Tanger. This exhibition will transform the Gallery and cafe space at The Photgraphers’ Gallery into a free “vidéothèque”.
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As an artistrun, notforprofit organisation, the Cinémathèque de Tanger ’s (CDT) mission is to bring the great films of cinema history and new cinema to a local audience, to become Morocco’s premiere venue for world cinema releases, film festivals, as well as an archive for bringing to light the unseen legacy of Moroccan classic and contemporary film, documentary, newsreels, and video art.
SKETCH
ANGE LECCIA
4 November to 23 December 2006
For his new video installation at sketch, Leccia returns to his “Arrangements”, confronting the national icons of the Louvre in Paris with the young Laetitia Casta, actress and icon of L’Oreal, the biggest cosmetics company in the world.
La Déraison du Louvre has been specially edited for the 12screen setup at sketch and invites the viewer to experience the atmosphere of the museum by night. It follows Casta’s increasingly emotional responses to the artworks she faces as she wanders through the quiet galleries. By revealing her powerful reactions, Leccia reminds the viewer to go beyond tourist passivity to confront the sensual experience of painting. Leccia does not try to approach art from new aesthetic theories or philosophies but prefers to confront the history of conceptual art and formalism from a subjective, emotional standpoint.
Biography:
Ange Leccia was born in 1952 in Corsica. He lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited in key institutions around the world including the Venice Biennial in 1993; Centre Georges Pompidou in 1996 and1997; l’ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; as well as at contemporary art centres in New York, Atlanta, Houston, Tokyo and more.
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
MELIK OHANIAN
16 November - 22 December 2006
The South London Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in the UK by acclaimed emerging artist, Melik Ohanian. Ohanian uses a broad range of media in works that address issues of personal autonomy and identity, territory and conceptions of time in today’s global culture. With a background in documentary filmmaking, his work expands on research into places, people and events to create poetic installations and interventions. For the South London Gallery, Ohanian will create an installation incorporating new and recent works that continue these themes.
Biography:
Melik Ohanian is French-Armenian and based in Paris. Recent exhibitions include “Let’s Turn Turn or Around” at the Institute D’art Contemporain Villeurbanne, 2006 with forthcoming solo shows at Chantal Crousel, Paris, and De Appel, Amsterdam. Ohanian is participating in this year’s Gwangju Biennial having previously represented France at the Sao Paolo Biennial, as well as taking part in the Berlin Biennial 3 and the Pontevedre Biennial, in 2004.
TATE MODERN
PIERRE HUYGHE: CELEBRATION PARK
5 July to 17 Septembre 2006
This will be the first solo Pierre Huyghe exhibition in the UK and wil include several new works.
Celebration Park features objects, texts, architectural features and films, all orchestrated within the exhibition space to create a landscape of discovery. Designed to stimulate ideas and freedom of thought, visitors experience a number of surprising apparitions, such as a set of gigantic doors which dance through the gallery. Huyghe references numerous different cultural forms in this exhibition including puppet shows, community celebrations and natural history films, in order to investigate the relationship between art and society.
Highlights include a filmed puppet musical telling the story of Le Corbusier’s struggle to satisfy a commission from Harvard University and Huyghe’s similar experience at the same institution. The exhibition also premieres a new film "A journey that wasn’t 2006", which was partly shot on location in Antarctica whilst the artist searched for a mythical white creature, and partly shot in New York’s Central Park where Huyghe staged a spectacular operatic recreation of the voyage.
The exhibition has been organised by Tate Modern in association with Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC and ParisMusées.
Biography :
Since the early 1990s, Pierre Huyghe (born 1962 in Paris) has created a variety of artworks and collaborativeprojects,gaininginternational prominence for videos and large scale installations that explore reality and fiction, memory and history. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at international venues including the Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2003), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003), the Dia:Chelsea, New York (2003), the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2002), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2000) and the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998). Pierre Huyghe represented France at the Venice Biennial in 2001.
TIMOTHY TAYLOR
JEANMARC BUSTAMANTE
6 September to 6 October 2006
The Timothy Taylor Gallery is pleased to be staging a solo exhibition by JeanMarc Bustamante.
Biography :
Born in 1952 in Toulouse, JeanMarc Bustamante lives and works in Paris. Over the past twenty years, JeanMarc Bustamante has established an international reputation with numerous major exhibitions at institutions including Kunsthalle Bern, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Stedelijk Museum in Eindhoven, Kunstmuseum Luzern, and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. He drew attention in particular with his contribution to the French pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2003. His most recent exhibition was a major solo show “Beautiful Days” at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, from 29 January to 19 March, 2006.
TURNER CONTEMPORARY
UNITÉ
30 September to 2 December 2006
“Unité” celebrates the work of a new generation of French artists. The invited artists are all wellknown in France, where each have held solo exhibitions at major institutions but have had little or no exposure in Britain. Each utilise a pop aesthetic in various ways and to varying degrees. Their cartoon imagery, primary colour, funfair forms and rock and roll complement Margate’s gaudy seaside signage.
Artist biographies:
Saâdane Afif (b.1970) lives and works in Berlin and Paris. He has held solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2004); Villa Arson, Nice (2003) and the FRAC ChampagneArdenne, Reims (2001). Major group exhibitions include “Notre Histoire” at the Palais de Tokyo (2006); the Lyon Biennial; Biennale de Tirana and the Moscow Biennial (all 2005). Represented by Galerie Michel Rein (Paris).
Delphine Coindet (b.1969) lives and works in Paris. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the FRAC BasseNormandie, and she has had solo exhibitions at CREDAC, IvrysurSeine (2004); Synagogue de Delme; Le Hall de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon (both 2003); La Salle de Bains, Lyon (2002) and Le Parvis, Pau (1999). Major group exhibitions include the Seoul Biennial (2002). Represented by Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris) and Galerie Evergreene (Geneva).
JeanFrançois Moriceau (b.1974) and Petra Mrzyk (b.1973) live and work together in ChâtillonsurIndre. They have held solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2005); MAMCO, Geneva; the Villa Arson, Nice (both 2004). Major group exhibitions include “Notre Histoire”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006); the Baltic Triennal, CAC Vilnius (2005); “Populism”, CAC Vilnius, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo and the Franfurter Kunstverein (all 2005) and the Prague Biennale (2003). Represented by Air de Paris (Paris), Ritter/Zamet (London) and Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels).
Bruno Peinado (b.1970) lives and works in Douarnenez, Brittany and New York. He has held solo exhibitions at the Swiss Institute, New York (2005); the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2005) and the FRAC BasseNormandie, Caen (2003). Major group exhibitions include “Notre Histoire” at the Palais de Tokyo (2006) and “Nuit Blanche” and Paris; the São Paulo Biennale (both 2005). Represented by Galerie Hervé Loevenbruck (Paris) Galerià ADN ( Barcelona) Parker’s Box (New York) and Galleria Continua (San Gimignano).
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
M/M (PARIS): ANTIGONE UNDER HYPNOSIS
31 October 2006 and 14 January 2007
The installation is inspired by their black and white film “Antigone Under Hypnosis”. Based on their collaboration with the theatre director Eric Vigner and the conductor Christophe Rousset, the film documents their maverick restaging of Tommaso Traetta’s 1722 opera of the Greek myth “Antigone”. The display will explore M/M (Paris)’s specific visual vocabulary. The V&A will show a series of screenings of their film, “Antigone Under Hypnosis”, throughout the evening during Friday Late on 24 November.
Biography:
Michael Amzalag (b. 1968, Paris) Mathias Auhystyniak (b. 1967, Cavaillon) M/M (Paris) established in 1992.
WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY
PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI
18 September to 19 November 2006, Upper Galleries
Pierre Klossowski (19052001) was a philosopher, writer, translator and artist who befriended Georges Bataille and formulated an original stance on many theological issues and the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade. He produced lifesize drawings of erotic scenes imbued with mythological, allegorical and philosphical connotations. The Whitechapel presents 40 largescale drawings from 1952 1988, 3 lifesize resin sculptures from 1990, several films, interviews, production stills and printed material. Curated by Sarah Wilson, Pierre Klossowski is originated by the Whitechapel and tours to the Ludwig Museum, Cologne and the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris.
HANS BELLMER
18 September to 19 November 2006, Lower Galleries
Germanborn French Surrealist Hans Bellmer (19021975) became known for the “degenerate” poses of the lifesized female dolls he made in direct protest to the Aryan ideals promoted by the Nazis. As well as handcoloured photographs of the dolls, Bellmer produced hundreds of intricate drawings informed by readings of Sigmund Freud and driven by his opposition to the rational, bourgeois world. This exhibition of over 150 photographs, drawings, sketchbooks, objects and sculptures forms the first UK retrospective of his work. The exhibition is originated by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris curated by Agnès de la Beaumelle & Alain Sayag, & tours to the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich.
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
18 September and 19 November 2006, Upper Galleries
Taking Klossowski’s 1969 book Nieztsche et le Cercle Vicieux as its title, this cabinet of curiosities including drawings, photographs, etchings, books and manuscripts by Balthus, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Maccheroni, Pierre Molinier and Unica Zurn explores the overlapping themes of the shows. Curated by Sarah Wilson.