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Catalogue de l'exposition tenue au capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux.
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May 2004, Bordeaux
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Hans Haacke
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Born in Cologne in 1936 and based in New York since 1965, Haacke’s strong political, cultural and social concerns are reflected in his installations, texts and sculptures. Throughout his fifty-year career Haacke has frequently changed the presentation of his art to get his message across. Often borrowing from non-art sources such as corporate advertising,(...)
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May 2004, London
Hans Haacke
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Born in Cologne in 1936 and based in New York since 1965, Haacke’s strong political, cultural and social concerns are reflected in his installations, texts and sculptures. Throughout his fifty-year career Haacke has frequently changed the presentation of his art to get his message across. Often borrowing from non-art sources such as corporate advertising, questionnaires or scientific experimentation, Haacke is probably the most successful and best-known late twentieth-century artist to create a political art that manages to hit its mark with succinct elegance. Haacke sometimes works almost as a sleuth-like reporter, uncovering museum politics in his art. This practice has famously led on occasion to museum officials cancelling his exhibitions. For example, his 1971 one-person show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was cancelled in response to his proposal to present the questionable real estate dealings of several New York companies. Haacke is a unique figure in post-war art, and his work has touched on such diverse movements as Conceptual, Pop, Minimal and Land art. His integrity as well as the formal innovations of his art have proven hugely influential for many generations of contemporary artists.
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May 2004, London
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In late 1960 Michael Snow made several naturalistic flat cut-out cardboard figures which used the/a wall as their background. In early 1961, to make one of these, he drew—then cut out with a matte knife—a side view of a female figure walking, 152 cm tall, within a drawn rectangle on a piece of cardboard. All his work between 1961 and 1967 used the outline or silhouette of(...)
May 2004, Brussels
Michael Snow : Biographie of the walking woman / de la femme qui marche 1961 - 1967 (2004)
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In late 1960 Michael Snow made several naturalistic flat cut-out cardboard figures which used the/a wall as their background. In early 1961, to make one of these, he drew—then cut out with a matte knife—a side view of a female figure walking, 152 cm tall, within a drawn rectangle on a piece of cardboard. All his work between 1961 and 1967 used the outline or silhouette of the original cut-out as both tool and subject. "Biographie" is a 2004 The Walking Woman work which consists of the juxtaposition and the many-sided sequential ordering of a selection from these deliberate, inadvertent, and by-chance photographic documents. It is a Finnegan’s Wake, non-chronological biography. / À la fin des années 1960, Michael Snow réalisa plusieurs découpages naturalistes de figurines en carton en utilisant le mur comme arrière plan. Au début de 1961, il dessina, puis découpa la silhouette de profil d’une femme marchant, haute de 152 cm, dans un morceau de carton.Tout son travail, entre 1961 et 1967, utilise le profil ou la silhouette de la découpe originale aussi bien comme outil que comme sujet. Le livre "Biographie" est un livre d’artiste qui consiste en la juxtaposition et l’ordonnancement séquentiel de documents photographiques délibérés, inopinés ou aléatoires, conjuguant les apparitions ordinaires et sublimes de La femme qui marche. C’est une biographie non chronologique à la Finnegan’s Wake.
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Livret accompagnant une exposition ayant eu lieu au Nouveau Musée de Villeurbanne, France, du 5 mars - 15 mai 1988.
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December 2001, Villeurbanne
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In "The World as I Found It" Alain Paiement revisits his photographic mapping of the building at 5012 Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montréal, the building where he has lived and worked for over ten years. Entitled "Parages(Vicinity) 2002", this work was originally presented as an installation of multiple suspended banners, first at Galerie de l'UQAM in Montréal, and later at(...)
January 2003, New York
Alain Paiement : the world as I found it
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In "The World as I Found It" Alain Paiement revisits his photographic mapping of the building at 5012 Boulevard Saint-Laurent in Montréal, the building where he has lived and worked for over ten years. Entitled "Parages(Vicinity) 2002", this work was originally presented as an installation of multiple suspended banners, first at Galerie de l'UQAM in Montréal, and later at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York. The book is formatted like a travel guide. The images presented are signposts to "Parages", marking a number of points of interest. Included with the book is a map that presents "Parages" in its entirety.
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Challenging European cultural conventions, the work of Swiss-Bolivian artist Carmen Perrin is infused with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots. In her preference for industrial mass-produced materials she transposes electric wire, cables and building materials into a subtle, ambiguous imagery and sculptures which activate the surrounding space.(...)
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August 2004, Basel
Carmen Perrin : contexts public situations
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Challenging European cultural conventions, the work of Swiss-Bolivian artist Carmen Perrin is infused with fine undertones and references to her Latin American roots. In her preference for industrial mass-produced materials she transposes electric wire, cables and building materials into a subtle, ambiguous imagery and sculptures which activate the surrounding space. This publication presents 15 of her most important art-in-architecture interventions: in the Zurich headquarters of the Swiss National Bank, the Dock Midfield Terminal of Zurich-Kloten Airport, Lucerne's Gynaecological Hospital and further projects in France, Brazil, USA (New York) and Switzerland. Carmen Perrin, born in Bolivia in 1953,immigrated to Switzerland in 1960.She now lives in France and teaches at Geneva's École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
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August 2004, Basel
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A fully illustrated 200- page book produced by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, New York. The publication includes essays by the organizing curators Grant Arnold (Vancouver), Connie Butler (Los Angeles) and Jessica Bradley (Toronto), and guest writers Lynne Cooke (New York), Diedrich Diederichsen (Berlin), Sara(...)
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January 1900, Toronto
Rodney Graham : a little thought
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A fully illustrated 200- page book produced by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, New York. The publication includes essays by the organizing curators Grant Arnold (Vancouver), Connie Butler (Los Angeles) and Jessica Bradley (Toronto), and guest writers Lynne Cooke (New York), Diedrich Diederichsen (Berlin), Sara Krajewski (Seattle) and Shepherd Steiner (Vancouver).
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January 1900, Toronto
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Peu importe de statuer sur la relation de Rita McBride au minimalisme, ou de constater qu'elle flirte avec le design ou l'architecture, l'intérêt de son travail réside dans ce que Jean-Marc Huitorel nomme "la richesse sémantique" de l'œuvre, dans le questionnement sur le statut des objets, le statut des œuvres dialectiques plus qu'ambigu auquel elle nous invite,(...)
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May 2004, Villeurbanne
Rita McBride : croissance générale / general growth
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Peu importe de statuer sur la relation de Rita McBride au minimalisme, ou de constater qu'elle flirte avec le design ou l'architecture, l'intérêt de son travail réside dans ce que Jean-Marc Huitorel nomme "la richesse sémantique" de l'œuvre, dans le questionnement sur le statut des objets, le statut des œuvres dialectiques plus qu'ambigu auquel elle nous invite, bousculant tranquillement nos certitudes d'héritiers de la croissance générale, de la société industrielle du XXe siècle.
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This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The(...)
April 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Guy Debord and the situationist international
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This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI’s profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957–1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Guy Debord and the Situationist International supplements both sections. It reprints important, hard to find essays by Giorgio Agamben, Libero Andreotti, Jonathan Crary, Thomas Y. Levin, Greil Marcus, and Tom McDonough and doubles the number of translations of primary texts, which now encompass a broader and more representative range of the SI’s writings on culture and language. In a field still dominated by hagiography, the critical texts were selected for their willingness to confront critically the history and legacy of the SI. They examine the group within the broader framework of the historical and neo-avant-gardes and, beyond that, the postwar world in general. The translations trace the SI’s reflections on the legacy of the avant-garde in art and architecture, particularly on the linguistic and spatial significance of montage aesthetics. Many of the translated works are by Guy Debord (1932–1994), the impresario of the SI, especially known for his book "The Society of the Spectacle".
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In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its(...)
Chronophobia : on time in the art of the 1960's
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In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiveness, the subject of time and 1960s art has gone largely unexamined in historical accounts of the period. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology. Lee discusses the chronophobia of art relative to the emergence of the Information Age in postwar culture. The accompanying rapid technological transformations, including the advent of computers and automation processes, produced for many an acute sense of historical unknowing; the seemingly accelerated pace of life began to outstrip any attempts to make sense of the present. Lee sees the attitude of 1960s art to time as a historical prelude to our current fixation on time and speed within digital culture. Reflecting upon the 1960s cultural anxiety about temporality, she argues, helps us historicize our current relation to technology and time.
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