Imaginez l’Imaginaire (Imagine the Imaginary)
September 28, 2012 – February 11, 2013
Opening: Thursday, September 27
Press Opening: 10–1pm
VIP Preview: 6pm
Public
Opening: 8pm–midnight
Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson
75 116 Paris
www.palaisdetokyo.com
After the success of the Triennial, Intense Proximity
which provided an opportunity to discover the poetic spaces of the new
Palais de Tokyo, this second season allows us to make a new part of the
institution’s remit visible.
The overriding theme of the whole season takes us as close as
possible to the way artists think, to creation as it takes shape,
following in the very wake of the invention of the artwork. Les Dérives
de l’imaginaire [Letting the Imagination Drift] brings together artists
from different generations round this theme (Dove Allouche, Richard
Baquié, Matthew Buckingham, Guy Debord, Fernand Deligny, Trisha
Donnelly, Rodney Graham, Rachel Harrison, William Hogarth, David
Hominal, Douglas Huebler, William E. Jones, Joachim Koester, Oliver
Laric, Mark Leckey, Aristide Maillol, John Miller, Seth Price, Stephen
Prina, Evariste Richer, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Pierre Vadi, Raphaël
Zarka, Bandes lettristes / François Letaillieur), artists whose works
demonstrate and sometimes describe the mental processes involved in
their development.
But it is also the subject of the solo exhibition, Matières premières
[Raw Materials], by Fabrice Hyber who presents both old works and four
landscapes given over to the description of a world in which all the
rules have been reinvented. Or indeed of the installation by Ryan
Gander, a kind of imaginary mental library, an associative rebus
presented to the viewers for them to solve in their wisdom.
Neïl Beloufa transforms his exhibition into a film set; Boris Groys
stages the work of one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century,
Alexandre Kojève, on the basis of his travel photographs; Tjorg Douglas
Beer creates a bar which artists are invited to keep on developing on
an ongoing basis throughout the two months of the exhibition, and Damir
Očko, a young Croat artist, will present his work for the first time in
France, and will undoubtedly be one of the revelations of the autumn.
Markus Schinwald explores the monumental architecture of the Palais de
Tokyo to design a fascinating installation. And also: Ivan Argote,
Bernard Aubertin, Jonathan Binet, Maxime Chanson, Mimosa Echard, John
Giorno, Takahiro Iwasaki, Thierry Liegeois, Helen Marten, Eponine
Momenceau, Henrik Potter, Jon Rafman, Olivier Saillard, Tilda Swinton,
Asim Waqif.
The search for new principles, the attempts to go beyond the language
of the exhibition are thus at the heart of the Palais de Tokyo’s
programming. Oxygenating the ecosystem of art Institutions tend
sometimes to go on reproducing the features typical of their identity
indefinitely. To prevent this from happening, the Palais de Tokyo very
regularly gives a voice to young curators or other more established ones
to bring in new avenues and different artists, and constantly keep our
minds open. This intention will be confirmed in June 2013 by the
invitation issued by the Palais de Tokyo to around fifteen young
international curators to take over the entire building.
Edition 1/7 + 2 APs. Courtesy of the artist and galerie Yvon Lambert,
Paris.
Sursă: http://www.modernism.ro/2012/09/11/imagine-the-imaginary-palais-de-tokyo/