EXPOSITIONS / EXHIBITIONS
FORTHCOMING : An Exhibition Happening Everywhere, At All Times, With Everyone, MoMA - NY, 17-19/04/2013 // An Exhibition as a Mental Mandala, MUAC Mexico City, opening 18/08/2013 // 'Suite pour Exposition(s) et Publication(s)', Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, February 2013 - February 2014…
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PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING : ‘Chorégraphier une Exposition / Choreographing an Exhibition’, Novembre 2013. ‘Gustav Metzger – Writings, Letters, Conferences, Interviews… 1952 – 2012’, 2013. ‘Gustav Metzger – Auto-Creative Art', out now. ‘PROCURATION SUBORDONNÉE À UNE CONDITION SUSPENSIVE', out now.
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An Exhibition Happening Everywhere, At All Times, with Everyone A Lecture by Mathieu Copeland
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Artists Experiment is a new initiative in the Department of Education that brings together contemporary artists in dialogue with MoMA educators to conceptualize ideas for developing innovative and experimental public interactions. Curator Mathieu Copeland discusses the poetics of interstitial, neutral and otherwise overlooked off-spaces—and off-times—of museums and galleries. He envisages how they can be activated and seen anew through a variety of perspectives, and thus subvert the traditional role of exhibitions and renew the way they are perceived.
On April 17, 18 and 19, look out for an exhibition of the words in the interstitial spaces of the museum, an art whose cohesion is not so much spatial, but mental, as Textual artworks written by Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, Delphine Coindet, Keren Cytter, Gilles Furtwängler, Nicolas Garait, Goldin + Senneby, Kenneth Goldsmith, Karl Holmqvist, Bethan Huws, Alison Knowles, Benoît Maire, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, David Medalla, Charlotte Moth, Raffaella della Olga, Francesco Pedraglio, Falke Pisano, Aki Sasamoto, Yann Sérandour, Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner, Irena Tomain, and Sue Tompkins, are read from the series of Exhibitions to Hear Read curated by Mathieu Copeland by three readers (Ceel Mogami de Haas, Anne Hildbrand and Daphné Roulin, from the Geneva University of Art and Design HEAD—Genève). Activating the "non-spaces," and offering to Museum visitors the opportunity to experience artworks through the voice, an exhibition to hear read proposes the notion of speech as material gesture, in which both the texture of the word and its spoken quality are inscribed in space and time through the act of reading. The vocal interpretation of these artworks constructs an abstract and ephemeral reality that can be said to sculpt the spaces in which it occurs. This ongoing investigation into the materiality of artwork as a question of word and speech is crystallized through a series of publications that act as both score and memory. April 17, 5–6 p.m.: Cullman mezzanine, 4 W. 54 Street
UNE EXPOSITION SANS TEXTES, Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent sur Marne -FR, 21/03 - 19/05/2013
Une exposition sans textes Avec Vito Acconci, Francis Baudevin, Stefan Brüggemann, Delphine Coindet, Gilles Furtwängler, Matt Golden, Idris Khan, Alison Knowles, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Raffaella della Olga, Francesco Pedraglio, Giandomenico Tonatiuh Pellizzi, Claude Rutault, Aki Sasamoto, Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner, Amikam Toren, Jacques Villeglé, Gil Joseph Wolman… Et pour la publication, franck leibovici. Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland.
Deuxième mouvement de la suite pour exposition(s) et publication(s) proposée par Mathieu Copeland, « Une exposition sans textes» s’offre en écho direct et simultané a « Une exposition parlée », premier mouvement présente au Jeu de Paume à Paris. Si cette dernière questionne la place du mot et de la lecture dans l’exposition, ce deuxième mouvement en prend le contrepoint pour aborder ce moment où le texte fait image, ou l’écriture (dans sa plus large acception) s’efface, générant ainsi une image abstraite et affirmant la disparition du sens au profit d’une autre lecture. -- An Exhibition Without Texts With Vito Acconci, Francis Baudevin, Stefan Brüggemann, Delphine Coindet, Gilles Furtwängler, Matt Golden, Idris Khan, Alison Knowles, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Raffaella della Olga, Francesco Pedraglio, Giandomenico Tonatiuh Pellizzi, Claude Rutault, Aki Sasamoto, Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner, Amikam Toren, Jacques Villeglé, Gil Joseph Wolman… And for the publication, franck leibovici. The second movement of the “Suite for Exhibition(s) and Publication(s)” by Mathieu Copeland, “An Exhibition Without Texts” is a direct, simultaneous echo of the first movement, “A Spoken Word Exhibition,” presented at the Jeu de Paume. Whereas the latter questioned the role of words and reading in the exhibition, the second movement provides a counterpoint by addressing the moment when the text becomes image, when writing (in its widest sense) disappears, thereby generating an abstract image and affirming the disappearance of meaning in favour of a different reading.
Une exposition parlée Avec Vito Acconci, Delphine Coindet, Yona Friedman, Gilles Furtwängler, Matt Golden, Kenneth Goldsmith, Idris Khan, Alison Knowles, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, David Medalla, Gustav Metzger, Raffaella della Olga, Francesco Pedraglio, Aki Sasamoto, Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner... Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland
La première exposition conçue par Mathieu Copeland dans le cadre de la programmation Satellite du Jeu de Paume envisage l’exposition du mot et la diffusion d’une œuvre dans sa globalité par l’oral. Entre écriture et image mentale, lecture et écoute, celle-ci interroge l’unicité de la lecture et de la parole, la place du mot dans l’exposition, la question de l’exposition et du catalogue – ou plutôt de l’exposition du catalogue… -- A Spoken Word Exhibition With Vito Acconci, Delphine Coindet, Yona Friedman, Gilles Furtwängler, Matt Golden, Kenneth Goldsmith, Idris Khan, Alison Knowles, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, David Medalla, Gustav Metzger, Raffaella della Olga, Francesco Pedraglio, Aki Sasamoto, Benjamin Seror, Cally Spooner... The first exhibition conceived by Mathieu Copeland as part of the Jeu de Paume’s Satellite program envisages the exhibition of the word and the diffusion of an entire work orally.
SUPPORTIVE, 1966 - 2011 - auto-creative art by Gustav Metzger
une exposition de Mathieu Copeland au Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon 14.02.2013 – 14.04.2013
L’art auto-créatif est indissolublement lié à ce qui fut son corollaire, l’art auto-destructif, que Gustav Metzger définit dès novembre 1959 dans son premier manifeste auto-publié. Si son œuvre est souvent envisagé à travers le prisme prépondérant de l'auto-destruction, il nous apparaît aujourd’hui nécessaire de considérer l’envers de toute destruction : l’auto-création. -- Auto-creative art is inseparably linked to its corollary, auto-destructive art, which Gustav Metzger defined in November 1959 in his first self-published manifesto. His work is mainly considered through the prism of auto-destruction, yet it appears as necessary to now envisage the opposite of destruction, auto-creation.
NOTHIN' BUT WORKING - Phill Niblock, une retrospective ; Circuit & Musee de l'Elysee de Lausanne - CH, 30/01 - 12/05 2013
NOTHIN' BUT WORKING - Phill Niblock, une retrospective 30.01.2013 – 14.05.2013 Nothin’ but Working Phill Niblock, une rétrospective
une exposition de Mathieu Copeland présentée conjointement à Circuit, centre d’art contemporain et au Musée de l’Elysée Né en 1933, Phill Niblock propose depuis plus de 50 ans au travers d’un « Art Intermedia » une oeuvre pluridisciplinaire. Associant musique minimaliste, art conceptuel, cinéma structurel, art systématique ou encore politique, Niblock s’active à transformer notre perception et notre expérience du temps. -- TEXT IN ENGLISH -- Born in 1933, Phill Niblock has produced, for over more than fifty years, a multidisciplinary work. His “Intermedia Art” features a combination of minimalist music, conceptual art, structural cinema, systematic or even political art, and has actively contributed to transform our perception and experience of time.
50 PARTITIONS 14.12.2012 – 26.01.2013
Avec Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland et Yann Chateigné Une exposition par le mot, à lire et à interpréter. Il est aussi malaisé de cerner avec précision la date de naissance officielle du mouvement Fluxus que de dessiner les contours précis de la constellation d’artistes qui y participe. Par définition, ce groupe d’artistes qui, influencé autant par John Cage, la philosophie orientale que Dada, se rassemble, au début des années 1960, autour des notions de flux et de mouvement, d’interprétation et de circulation. Aujourd’hui, Fluxus se refuse encore aux cadres établis de l’historiographie y préférant l’intelligence partagée de la création collective et de l’interprétation continue d’un répertoire commun. Prenant comme prétexte la date du «Fluxus-Festspiele Neuester Musik» organisé à Wiesbaden en septembre 1962 par George Maciunas, cette exposition célèbre alors un « non-anniversaire », en posant un regard non pas rétrospectif mais prospectif, sur cette expérience. Cinquante « partitions » (events, textes, définitions, poèmes, instructions, pièces) sont réunies avec la complicité de John M Armleder, acteur essentiel de la scène genevoise, et dont le groupe ECART, à la fin des années 1960, peut être considéré comme un écho immédiat de Fluxus en Suisse. Durant cinquante jours, celles-ci sont offertes à l’interprétation de cinquante artistes, qu’ils soient liés au groupe ou directement influencés par Fluxus, qu’ils soient des héritiers possibles de cette famille artistique ou dont le travail entre en résonance avec celui des artistes du mouvement, qu’ils soient en formation dans le cadre de l’école. La forme exposée de ces cinquante partitions est confiée à l’artiste suédois Karl Holmqvist. Le poète et performeur a dessiné une police de caractère basée sur sa propre écriture, mettant ainsi indirectement par écrit ces mots dans l’espace. Sur cette écriture typographiée, il intervient ensuite à la main au travers de notes, textes et dessins, à même les murs de la galerie. Base continue de l’exposition, à partir de laquelle elle s’anime continûment, cette intervention fait écho aux dimensions conceptuelles, performatives, mentales mais aussi musicales, théâtrales, poétiques et vivantes des oeuvres Fluxus. Ce projet active ainsi, en la (re)jouant, une archive potentielle, dont le lieu devient dès lors la chambre d’échos. Cet hommage choral, pris en charge par un réseau d’artistes, accueille en son coeur un groupe d’étudiant-e-s de la Head – Genève, impliqué à divers niveaux du projet: conceptuel, artistique et curatorial. Car ce qui importe ici n’est pas de revivre le passé, mais bien de prolonger cette expérience, voire de la projeter, aujourd’hui, dans le futur. Vernissage & Performances Rencontre Suite à un ennui de santé, John Armleder ne sera pas présent pour cette rencontre qui aura tout de même lieu entre Raimundas Malakauskas et Mathieu Copeland et qui sera suivie d’une projection des films ECART, de la collection du FMAC. Concert LiveInYourHead, Institut curatorial de la Head – Genève, rue du Beulet 4, 1203 Genève
MARRAKECH PRESS - (les halles) espace d'art contemporain, Porrentruy - CH, 01/12/2012 - 20/01 2013 // Vernissage le Samedi 1er Decembre à Partir de 18h00
MARRAKECH PRESS Mathieu Copeland & Philippe Decrauzat
Du 2 décembre au 20 janvier 2013 Heures d’ouverture : Marrakech Press est un label de production et d’expérimentation cofondé par le curateur indépendant franco-britannique Mathieu Copeland et l’artiste suisse Philippe Decrauzat. Actif depuis le 1er Janvier 2011, son champ d’action s’étend à l’édition, les expositions, la publication, les manifestes et les films. FILMS Deux courts-métrages s’articulent et se développent autour du désir de filmer le son et de travailler la superposition et la fragmentation de l’image. Filmés et montés en 16mm, ils suivent à chaque fois la même partition : La surimpression de deux situations dont la première est systématiquement un musicien filmé au moment même où il produit la bande sonore du film. La deuxième, non prédéfinie, est choisie selon les logiques de la dérive et du collage. Le second film a été tourné à la frontière Austro-Allemande et dans les montagnes du haut Atlas marocain. Il présente le musicien et percussionniste Allemand F.M Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubaten – groupe phare de la musique industrielle post punk créée à Berlin en 1980) au travail chez lui, dans son garage, détruisant briques et miroirs, jouant du son des pierres et du sable sur une large plaque en métal amplifiée. F.M Einheit compose et crée une architecture de ruine abstraite et temporaire, qui se voit superposées à des vues de paysages du Sahara et de l’Atlas. MANIFESTES Bruce McClure, Delphine Coindet, David Cunningham, Peter Downsbrough, Gilles Furtwängler, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lionnel Gras, Scott King, François Kohler, MR Lucy, Gustav Metzger, Raffaella della Olga, Loreto Martinez Troncoso, Diego Santomé, Nick Thurston, et Dan Walsh ont tous été invités à composer et rédiger un manifeste publiés par Marrakech Press, et offert à la lecture dans le cadre de l’exposition. Une édition sera produite dans le cadre de l’exposition.
LE CONFORT MODERNE - Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, du 16 Mai au 19 Août 2012 // Vernissage le Mercredi 16 Mai à Partir de 18h30
LE CONFORT MODERNE Une exposition avec Francis Baudevin / Stefan Brüggemann / Henry Codax / Philippe Decrauzat & Alan Licht / Gaylen Gerber / Kenneth Goldsmith / Marc Hurtado & Sébastien Vitré / Martina Klein / Jutta Koether / Sadie Laska / Franck Leibovici / Olivier Mosset / Charlotte Moth / Mai-Thu Perret & Ik ue Mori / Stephen Prina / Florian & Michael Quistrebert / Claude Rutault / Giorgio Sadotti / Hugo Schüwer-Boss / Susan Stenger & F.M. Einheit / Alan Vega / Jacques Villeglé Commissaire associé : Mathieu Copeland
"Le Confort Moderne" au Confort Moderne parle de soi(lui)-même. Une exposition dont l’intitulé porte l’appellation même de l’espace (autant scène musicale mythique que centre d’art contemporain) ne peut que nous ramener à ses enjeux, ces enjeux, nos enjeux!
L’exposition est née d’une rencontre avec Mathieu Copeland et la lecture ou plutôt l’écoute commune d’un lieu : Le Confort Moderne. A la fois salle de concerts pionnière et centre d’art depuis plus de vingt ans, le lieu agit comme matrice de l’exposition. L’exposition opère un glissement d’objets picturaux ou conceptuels vers des objets praticables ou réceptacles. L’exposition s’organise en cinq sections : les actions, les partitions, les films, les concerts et la peinture. Les peintures deviennent écran, les concerts activent les oeuvres, les films sont réalisés en collaboration entre artistes et musiciens.
-- "Le Confort Moderne" at Le Confort Moderne speaks for itself : an exhibition named after the venue where it takes place (both a mythic music venue and art center) can only bring us back to these issues, its issues, our issues!
Du 16 mai au 19 août 2012 Vernissage mercredi 16 mai à partir de 18h30
An Exhibition to Hear Read
Hear ICA’s interstitial spaces shaped by a polyphony of voices. This spring the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania will host a unique performative event. Penn students will collaborate with students from HEAD - Geneva to continuously read a selection of textual artworks every day for a week in February. This event at the ICA will be the fourth in a series of “volumes,” each presented at a different venue. An exhibition to hear read is curated Mathieu Copeland and is realized in partnership with Kenneth Goldsmith, Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design Genève / Geneva University of Art and Design), and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA. This fourth volume, hosted by the ICA, is the first to be presented in the United States. The first volume was commissioned by the contemporary art center La Synagogue de Delme in France, a second in Geneva by HEAD’s curatorial institute Live In Your Head, and a third by the David Roberts Art Foundation in London. An exhibition to hear read will be performed by students from the yearlong seminar Writing Through Art and Culture at Penn and from the WORK.MASTER at Geneva University of Art and Design. It features textual works by the following Penn students: Yolanda Carney, Ana Maria Gomez Lopez, Alexander Hovnanian, Staci Kaplan, Ellie Levitt, Christina Lisk, Isabel Oliveres, Sarah Richter, Alexander Schwartz, and Naomi Shavin. It also features written works by artists including: Marí Alessandrini, Robert Barry, Sacha Béraud, Emma Bjornesparr, Jérémy Chevalier, Keren Cytter, Chloé Delarue, Amélie Dubois, Jarrod FowlerNicolas Garait, Goldin + Senneby, Kenneth Goldsmith, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Karl Holmqvist, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Bethan Huws, Livia Johann, Tom Johnson, Franck Leibovici, Benoît Maire, David Medalla, Charlotte Moth, Falke Pisano, Véronique Portal, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Tatiana Rihs, Daphné Roulin, Yann Sérandour, Cally Spooner, Irena Tomažin, Sue Tompkins, Anne Le Troter, and Martina-Sofie Wildberger. Timed to coincide with Penn’s conference on abstraction (co-sponsored by ICA and the Department of the History of Art), An exhibition to hear read commences on February 10 and runs through February 19. A Conversation with Mathieu Copeland at the University of Pennsylvania - Kelly Writers House (3805 Locust Walk - Philadelphia, PA 19104) - 02/16/2012 @ 6pm Mathieu Copeland talks at The Curatorial Hub at ICI (401 Broadway, Suite 1620 ; New York, NY 10013) on February 21st @ 7pm
Reprise #1 - Studies for a catalogue / a study for an exhibition on violence in contemporary art (reprise 1964/2011) - Flat Time House, London - Friday 24 June - Sunday 31 July Closing Bbq & Publication Launch - Sunday 31 July, 2-6pm Reprise #1 Studies for a Catalogue: a Study for an Exhibition of Violence in Contemporary Art (Reprise 1964/2011) with Karel APPEL – Jean ARP – Francis BACON – Enrico BAJ – Elena BAJO – Giacomo BALLA – Davide BALULA – BALTHUS – Erica BAUM – Max BECKMANN – Tom BENSON – Hans BELLMER – George BELLOWS – Emma BJORNESPARR – Peter BLAKE – Umberto BOCCIONI – Frank BOWLING – Georges BRAQUE – Victor BRAUNER – Stefan BRÜGGEMANN – Edward BURRA – Alberto BURRI – Reg BUTLER – Alexander CALDER – Guiseppe CAPOGROSSI – Carlo CARRA – CESAR – Paul CEZANNE – Lynn CHADWICK – DADO – Salvador DALI – Alan DAVIE – Giorgio DE CHIRICO – Willem DE KOONING – Niki DE SAINT–PHALLE – Philippe DECRAUZAT – André DERAIN – Otto DIX – Jean DUBUFFET – Marcel DUCHAMP – James ENSOR – Max ERNST – Peter FILLINGHAM & Charlotte MOTH – Lucio FONTANA – Sam FRANCIS – Alberto GIACOMETTI – Juan GRIS – Arshile GORKY – Georg GROSZ – Renato GUTTUSO – Richard HAMILTON – Raoul HAUSMANN – Rudolph HAUSNER – John HEARTFIELD – Erich HECKEL – Anne-Sylvie HENCHOZ – Camille HENROT – Maurice HENRY – Roger HILTON – David HOCKNEY – Hans HOFMANN – Allen JONES – Asger JORN – Frida KAHLO DE RIVERA – Wassily KANDINSKY – Ellsworth KELLY – R.B. KITAJ – Paul KLEE – Oskar KOKOSCHKA – Alfred KUBIN – KUKRYNSKI – Felix LABISSE – Wilfredo LAM – John LATHAM – Fernand LEGER – Pablo LEON DE LA BARRA – Wyndham LEWIS – Roy LICHTENSTEIN – Max LINDNER – Jacques LIPSCHITZ – LUCEBERT – René MAGRITTE – André MASSON – Umberto MASTROIANNI – Georges MATHIEU – Henri MATISSE – Mark MCGOWAN – MATTA – F.E. McWILLIAM – Henri MICHAUX – Manolo MILLARES – Joan MIRO – Piet MONDRIAN – Henry MOORE – Edvard MÜNCH – Antonio MUSIC – R. MUTT (Marcel Duchamp) – Paul NASH – Warren NEIDICH – Sidney NOLAN – José Clemente OROZCO – Eduardo PAOLOZZI – Peter PHILLIPS – Francis PICABIA – Pablo PICASSO – Edouard PIGNON – John PIPER – Philomene PIRECKI – Jackson POLLOCK – POSADA – Mel RAMOS – Man RAY – Odilon REDON – RICHARDS – Germaine RICHIER – Bridget RILEY – Diego RIVERA – RODIN – Theodore ROSZAK – Georges ROUAULT – Henri ROUSSEAU – Antonio SAURA – Giorgio SADOTTI – Gerald SCARFE – Karl SCHMIDT–ROTLUFF – SCHROEDER-SONNENSTERN – Kurt SCHWITTERS – Gino SEVERINI – Ben SHAHN – SINE – David Alfaro – SIQUEIROS – Richard SMITH – Chaim SOUTINE – Saul STEINBERG – Graham SUTHERLAND – Rufino TAMAYO – Yves TANGUY – Dorothea TANNING – Jean TINGUELY – Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC – Clovis TROUILLE – Fritz VAN DEM BERGHE – Victor Vincent VAN GOGH – VASARELY – Renzo VESPIGNANI – Andy WARHOL – Neal WHITE – WOLS and Ossip ZADKINE.
Reprise /ri’pri:z/ n. & v. : n. 1 A repeated passage in music. 2. A repeated item in a musical programme. v.tr. repeat (a performance, song, etc.); restage, rewrite. [French, fem. past part. of reprendre] What remains of an exhibition, once it has run its course, is crystallised in its catalogue, the materials it generated, and the memories of those who experienced it. Yet the exhibition that once was is also a material – equal to any other – and as such can be reprised weeks, months or years later, and in different contexts. A catalogue generally makes available the details of the works that were included in an exhibition. It ‘reproduces’ images of the artefacts that made it be and/or views of the exhibition itself. Catalogues are at best the memory of an exhibition, at worst its checklist. To reprise an exhibition can be seen as an attempt to envisage its memory, to re-insert it in reality, by using its catalogue as a score for another exhibition to be. Past realities are revisited and appropriated by the presentation of an entire ‘bootleg’ of an exhibition. To do so is to curate an exhibition without choosing any of the works. The original artworks are copied, their reproductions insisting on their equivalence to the original. From the catalogue's checklist, an approximation of all the artworks is gathered and united in a format that only has to be printed in order to generate another bootleg ; a distant echo of the original, an exhibition evolving from what once was and in constant expansion. Mathieu Copeland, July 2011
Studies for an Exhibition, David Roberts Art Foundation - London 07/04 - 11/06 2011 Opening: 06/04 @ 18.30 curators’ series # 4 an exhibition by Mathieu Copeland.
Mathieu Copeland is the fourth guest curator invited by The David Roberts Art Foundation to be part of the Curators’ Series. Studies for an Exhibition, explores how exhibitions are to be envisaged in regard to transient thoughts – an art that reveals itself through time, as movements of transitions, as possible studies giving the feeling of what is, and what can be. Following a desire to not fix in form an exhibition to be, Studies for an Exhibition brings together practices that explore the possibilities of immateriality and the temporal nature of an art object. The question of time and accumulation is adamant to an exhibition that considers a recycling of our current reality as the means to generate transitory new forms. Moments of history are revisited, as with the recreation of Gustav Metzger’s 1956 display/appropriation of the posters advertising the seminal show at the Whitechapel Gallery This Is Tomorrow, which he used to cover the entire shop windows of his then second hand shop/exhibition space 30Queens in Kings Lynn. A means to advertise what was tomorrow then, the posters can be read in parallel to the altered exhibition posters by Niele Toroni, who painted over posters advertising his own exhibitions, thereby blurring the moment of the original shows and when these are painted, and shown. Past realities are again revisited and appropriated when confronted with the entire ‘bootleg’ of a 1964 ICA exhibition entitled Study for an exhibition of violence in contemporary art. In relation to these works of past and present readings, the ‘mailed paintings’ by Karin Sander create in the space of the gallery an unstable hanging as these are being mailed back and forth to the artist in Berlin for the duration of the exhibition. The paintings capture their own reality by acquiring marks as they travel unprotected from one place to the next. As an echo to this reality in motion for an exhibition to be, Emma Bjornesparr addresses the location of the gallery and the habits of consumption. Through a temporary sculpture that frames the entire time of an exhibition in saving the accumulated waste, the artist creates the inversed portrait of the host institution. Since 1972 Roman Opalka marks time through the progressive inscription of numbers painted from one to infinity. The constant evolution of these paintings is accompanied by a tape recording of his own voice saying the numbers out loud as he writes them. By disseminating these recordings in the space of the gallery we are projected into an ephemeral experience of time. Accumulation of knowledge is the focus of Julia Rometti and Victor Costales’ work. Exotismo Ordinario Internacional Neotropical is an archive based on their ongoing research into plants from the neotropical region. As part of this continuous study, a series of booklets will be handed out. Elena Bajo’s commission is to be dreamt, forgotten, drawn on a wall or indeed erased. Showing the process of becoming, it is a piece that is all of its studies, changes and potentialities, echoing the exhibition in becoming a study for all that it can and could be. And as yet another possible study discussing the form of an exhibition, Mathieu Copeland has edited a new publication, the third volume of his series entitled An Exhibition to Hear Read/Une Exposition à être lue. The book will be read out at 2pm every day for the duration of the exhibition. This publication features text based artworks by Robert Barry, Jarrod Fowler, Nicolas Garait, Karl Holmqvist, Bethan Huws, David Medalla, Yann Sérandour, Cally Spooner, and Sue Tompkins. These contributions consider the relation between a text as an art piece to be and its spoken realisation, questioning the ‘performativity’ of the act of reading from a book.
The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the French Institute, London, Swedish Embassy in London and Accion Cultural Espanola, London.
the DAVID ROBERTS ART FOUNDATION -FITZROVIA
Une Chorégraphie Polyphonique & Une exposition à être lue (volume 2), LiveInYourHEAD Genève 13/01/2011 - 29/01/2011 VERNISSAGE: 13/01/2011 @ 18.00 UNE CHOREGRAPHIE POLYPHONIQUE & UNE EXPOSITION A ETRE LUE (VOLUME 2) Avec Marí Alessandrini, Sacha Béraud, Emma Bjornesparr, Jérémy Chevalier, Chloé Delarue, Kenneth Goldsmith, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Livia Johann, Tom Johnson, Franck Leibovici, Véronique Portal, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Tatiana Rihs, Daphné Roulin, Cally Spooner, Irena Tomažin, Anne Le Troter et Martina-Sofie Wildberger Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland Vernissage le jeudi 13 janvier à 18 heures LiveInYourHead
Une Chorégraphie Polyphonique & Une Exposition à Etre Lue (Volume2) est la première d’une série de lab.zones (ateliers) conçues par Mathieu Copeland au sein du programme work.master de la Head – Genève, en collaboration avec un groupe d’étudiant-e-s-artistes et avec les contributions de différentes figures invitées. L’exposition s’articule autour de la question du mot, des mots imprimés dans un livre à être lu aux mots lus dans un mouvement à trois voix, pour former une Chorégraphie Polyphonique. Le pouvoir évocateur des trois mouvements est interprété par la voix, que ce soit à l’unisson, dans la simultanéité, la répétition, ou encore la succession et le geste. L’exposition est uniquement composée d’oeuvres textuelles, écrites par les artistes et conçues pour être lues à trois voix en permanence durant les horaires d’ouverture de l’espace LiveInYourHead. L’exposition est envisagée comme une forme vivante, minimale, continue, vocale autant que mentale, intellectuelle autant que corporelle. Sa réalité textuelle, la texture du mot et sa qualité lue posent les questions de la gestuelle de la parole, du mouvement des mots et celle de l’inscription du geste de lire dans l’espace d’exposition lui-même. L’interprétation des oeuvres écrites révèle autant l’architecture sensible de l’espace qu’une réalité abstraite et éphémère, portée par la voix, une polyphonie constructive et destructive du contenu intelligible, dans l’espace et le temps. Approchant l’oeuvre par sa matérialité, et envisageant par là même la matérialité de l’exposition au travers du mot et de la parole, cette Exposition à être lue se cristallise au sein d’une publication. Celle-ci regroupe des oeuvres – écrites par les étudiant-e-s-artistes et les artistes, musiciens ou encore poètes internationaux invités pour l’occasion – qui constituent autant sa partition que sa mémoire.
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An exhibition of the word(s) on UbuWeb - August 2010 AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORD(S) A. Dziga Vertov Group - Letter to Jane An exhibition of the word(s), Featured Resources for August 2010 selected by Mathieu Copeland for UbuWeb
UNE EXPOSITION (DU) SENSIBLE Avec/With, par ordre d'apparition/in order of appearance, Gustav Metzger, Cildo Meireles, Dexter & Sinister, Franck Leibovici, Kenneth Goldsmith, Cesare Pietroiusti, Benoit Maire, Goldin + Senneby, Keren Cytter, Amélie Dubois, Charlotte Moth, Cally Spooner, Falke Pisano Une exposition de/An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland La synagogue de Delme
Mathieu Copeland s’est précédemment illustré dans la conception d’expositions renégociant le rapport du spectateur aux œuvres, et des œuvres aux lieux censés les rendre visibles. Vides, une rétrospective, au Centre Pompidou à Paris rassemblait ainsi neuf expositions « vides » de l’histoire de l’art. Une Exposition Chorégraphiée, au Centre d’art de la Ferme du Buisson présentait des œuvres conçues pour être dansées par trois performeurs, selon une partition d’enchaînements écrite par le commissaire. Dans Une Exposition Parlée, elles étaient lues et activées par l’équipe du centre d’art Baltic de Newcastle upon Tyne. Évoquons enfin Soundtrack for an exhibition au Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, immense partition musicale étirée sur plusieurs mois, où la musique devenait l’exposition à proprement parler. D’exposition en exposition, Mathieu Copeland dessine une manière de faire et de pousser la forme artistique tout comme l’institution dans leurs retranchements. Qu’elles soient musicales, parlées, chorégraphiées, les œuvres placent le spectateur en position de jouer à son tour sa partie, tout du moins de dépasser le vide apparent pour écouter, se mouvoir, capter de tous ses sens l’air et la réalité qui l’entoure. Marie Cozette
Engaging with a practice that often considers immateriality, Mathieu Copeland proposes exhibitions that renegotiate the relationship between the spectators and the works, and between the works and the venues supposed to give them visibility. “Voids, a Retrospective” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris brought together nine historical “empty” exhibitions; “A Choreographed Exhibition” at the Ferme du Buisson Contemporary Art Centre presented artworks as gestures and movements that were danced by a trio, written in time by the curator; in “A Spoken Word Exhibition” the works were read aloud by the staff of Baltic, Newcastle upon Tyne’s contemporary art centre; or again with “Soundtrack for an Exhibition”, a seemingly timeless score stretched out over several months at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, the music actually becoming the exhibition. Marie Cozette AUTOUR DE L’EXPOSITION INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES POUR SE RENDRE À LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME Visuels disponibles sur demande
"... avant il n'y avait rien, après on va pouvoir faire mieux.", une exposition de motifs et desseins à Circuit, Lausanne 18/06 - 04/09 2010 VERNISSAGE: 18/06 @ 18.30 CIRCUIT
Une exposition de motifs et desseins d’Alan Vega et Antonin Artaud, Kurt Seligmann, Ad Reinhardt, Paul Sharits, Emma Kunz, Glenn Branca, Gustav Metzger, Wallace Berman, Phoebe Unwin, Claude Parent, Jon Savage, Unica Zürn, Madelon Vriesendrop, Charles Burns, Judy Chicago, Brion Gysin, Amélie Dubois, Savage Pencil, Hans Hartung, Asger Jorn, André Masson, Max Kohler, Henri Michaux, Mel Bochner, Steve Albini, Dinos Chapman, Jake Chapman, Jean Tinguely, Max Ernst, Gerhard Rühm, Tadeusz Kantor, NPA, Bruce Conner, Marty Rev, Bob Cobbing, Linder Sterling, Frank Kozik, George Maciunas, Leonora Carrington, Henry Flint, Henri Chopin, Georges Brecht, Le Freistilmuseum, Loulou Picasso, Yoko Ono, Scott King, Rudolph Grey, A.R. Penck, Michael Snow, J.G. Ballard, Salvador Dali, Paul “Cool P” Liebegott, Wyndham Lewis, Jacques Villeglé, Karl Holmqvist, Jacques Bonnard, Ric Ocasek, Marian Zazeela, Delphine Coindet, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Warren Neidich, Hans Bellmer, Natacha Anderes, Peter Fischli, Roland Topor, Virginia Overton, Andrea Merkx, W. C. Westermann, Fabrice Stroun et tant d’autres. un inventaire partiel de Mathieu Copeland et Circuit
* Préambule d’Henri Michaux à son film “Images du monde visionnaire” de 1964
Le dessin, dans toute sa complexité et sa diversité, existe peut-être et avant tout par son apparente économie. La simplicité possible d’une feuille et d’une technique, un moment pris, une surface remplie. Envisageant le motif et son dessein, l’exposition offre une ouverture nécessaire sur l’écriture et l’art imprimé au travers du dessin et de ces formes possibles de diffusion. Cette exposition s’offre au regard d’une large sélection d’œuvres dessinées et imprimées d’Alan Vega (né en 1938 à Brooklyn), et accompagnant la sortie de l’ouvrage rétrospectif sur l’œuvre de cette figure mythique de la scène alternative artistique New Yorkaise et pionner du rock électronique minimal en tant que cofondateur avec Martin Rev du groupe culte Suicide. Sur plus de 40 ans de création et d’intensité, Alan Vega s’est affirmé comme l’un des artistes et musiciens les plus influents, faisant du Punk le manifeste d’une raison de vivre. Cofondateur en 1969 de MUSEUM A Project of Living Artists à New York, un des premiers lieux alternatifs « artist-run spaces » new-yorkais et ouvert 24h/24, MUSEUM était dédié à toutes les formes d’art, aussi bien visuelles que musicales et cinématographiques, devenant rapidement un tremplin pour un grand nombre d’artistes et de musiciens. Vega écrit alors les « Requêtes du Front de Libération du MUSEUM », une série d’injonctions nécessaires et tellement actuelles incluant par exemple ce cri pour que « les systèmes d’exposition, y compris les sélections pour les expositions collectives, soient abolis. » ou encore donnant « le droit à n’importe quel artiste de retirer une œuvre, de modifier une œuvre, de détruire une œuvre de n’importe quel autre artiste présentant son travail dans l’espace » - un texte signé par un Artiste Américain Anonyme du 20e siècle- qui accueille aujourd’hui les visiteurs entrant à CIRCUIT. À la fin des années 50, Alan Vega étudie notamment avec Ad Reinhardt et Kurt Seligmann au Brooklyn College, et se concentre dans un premier temps sur la peinture, puis le dessin. À la fin des années 60, son intérêt se porte sur la lumière : il crée ses premières « light sculptures », des sculptures lumineuses faites d’assemblage d’objets divers composées d’ampoules, de câbles, de télévisions et de néons de toutes formes et couleurs. Anti-esthétique, antiforme, le pendant d’un Arte Povera « Made in USA », son œuvre embrasse la réalité contemporaine dans laquelle il vit. L’exposition se concentre principalement autour de son œuvre graphique. Vega insiste comment « pour (lui), le dessin a toujours été un devoir, (et) la peinture une douleur ». Dessinant quasi uniquement des visages, il déclare avoir toujours « aimé dessiner des personnes âgées. Elles ont l’image de la vie gravée sur leur visage ». Activité parallèle et nécessaire à son travail musical, Vega ne peut écrire sans dessiner : « Tout comme l’écriture, dessiner constitue une obsession quotidienne. Comme pour l’écriture, faire un dessin surgit subitement. Avec le dessin, il faut partir ailleurs, quelque part où je n’en ai rien à foutre. Je m’assois, l’esprit absent et en paix (…). C’est une manière de mettre à plat L’exposition se propose ainsi comme un écho suicidaire au désir d’une exposition qui n’est autre qu’un inventaire morcelé et subjectif. Son agencement reflète le système d’écriture possible d’une exposition entendue comme le manifeste concrétisé d’une poésie qui se montre. Le chant de mille voix entamant un anthem ou le dessin est l’égale de sa reproduction. Envisageant l’ensemble des œuvres présentes ou suggérées comme un environnement sensible, toutes s’écrivent dans l’espace comme une partition à lire abstraitement. Oscillation sensée de pièces ultra-figuratives qui (se) composent de nouvelles figures et identités poétiques, au contrepoids composé d’une large sélection d’œuvre abstraite, toutes s’offrent à être lues comme la « carte mentale d’une exposition ». Cette phrase devient à son tour le titre de l’ouvrage photocopié mis à disposition au public, un recueil ou se retrouve mis au même niveau toutes les œuvres constituant cette exposition. Les rapports, cohésions ou rejections qui s’opèrent entre chacune des parties constituantes de se regroupement temporaire insistent sur la base qui les unies toutes - le dessin, et ses modes possibles de diffusion. D’un médium à l’autre s’affirme une équivalence sur la valeur nécessaire des œuvres présentées. Hasard arrangé par la géométrie, hors d’une utopie moderne, cet agencement éphémère offre un va-et-vient d’objets référencés, et reproduits… Et si ce qui au départ s’offrait comme un vide premier laissant toutes formes de futures possible, permettons nous de conclure avec une autre phrase d’Henri Michaux, une phrase autant tiré de son magnifique ouvrage de 1948 ‘Meidosems’ « Ils ont abouti ici. Et il n’y a rien à ajouter ».
Mathieu Copeland et Philippe Decrauzat
NEWS : SWISS EXHIBITION AWARD 2010 to "…avant il n’y avait rien, après on va pouvoir faire mieux…"
L'exposition Continue
Des peintures de Birgir Andresson, Francis Baudevin, Jean-Sylvain Bieth, Stefan Brüggemann, Michel Castaignet, John Cornu, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Noël Dolla, Olivier Mosset, Christian Robert-Tissot, Josh Smith, Evi Vingerling, Robert Barry, Ditte Ejlerskov (…) repeintes de la même couleur que le mur par Claude Rutault. Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland. Inauguration dimanche 07/02 de 14h à 18h "L’exposition présente des peintures de Birgir Andresson, Francis Baudevin, Jean-Sylvain Bieth, Stefan Brüggemann, Michel Castaignet, John Cornu, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Noël Dolla, Olivier Mosset, Christian Robert-Tissot, Josh Smith, Evi Vingerling, Robert Barry, Ditte Ejlerskov (…) repeintes de la même couleur que le mur par Claude Rutault . Co-production : Circuit & 1m3 – Lausanne Suisse Paintings painted over with the same colour of the wall by Claude Rutault. " The exhibition shows paintings by Birgir Andresson, Francis Baudevin, Jean-Sylvain Bieth, Stefan Brüggemann, Michel Castaignet, John Cornu, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Noël Dolla, Olivier Mosset, Christian Robert-Tissot, Josh Smith, Evi Vingerling, Robert Barry, Ditte Ejlerskov (…) painted over with the same colour of the wall by Claude Rutault. Thought out as a reflexion on the nature of painting, the exhibition is fragmented in a couple of echoing exhibitions. To begin with, there is a classical exhibition of paintings by different artists ; these paintings are, following the fundamental principle of Claude Rutault's work started in 1972, paintd over with the same colour of the wall on which they are hung, affirming thus a second exhibition. Echoing these, a third, fantomatic exhibition is given constituted by monochrome paintings by Claude Rutault of the same formats than the ones painted over inserted within the cneai's architecture. A mirror exhibition, such as an empty echo of the works' present." Mathieu Copeland Co-production : Circuit & 1m3 – Lausanne Suisse Toutes les photographies © CNEAI
Voids, Eine Retrospektive
With VOIDS, EINE RETROSPEKTIVE the Kunsthalle Bern offers an opportunity to explore a crucial chapter in the history of art. Following Yves Klein’s exhibition at the Iris Clert gallery in 1958, the empty space became a recurrent artistic theme. This chronological retrospective exhibition brings together nine empty exhibitions by Yves Klein, Art & Language, Robert Barry, Robert Irwin, Stanley Brouwn, Bethan Huws, Maria Eichhorn, and Roman Ondák. Yves Klein’s 1958 emblematic exhibition ‘The Specialization of Sensibility in Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility’, which was subsequently referred to as The Void, is widely considered as a turning point in modern art history. The empty space exhibited as such thus became, in a way, a classic of radicalism, and would be repeated and remade in other contexts, other places and other times by other artists whose intentions might be similar, different or even opposed to Klein’s. Also, all forms of historical documentation or memorabilia related to the original exhibition (such as posters, photos, invitations, photo-documentation, press reviews, original texts) are excluded from the exhibition; all such elements being included in the exhaustive catalogue published alongside the exhibition, edited by the curators John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, Mai-Thu Perret, Clive Phillpot, Gustav Metzger, together with Laurent Le Bon and Philippe Pirotte. Each void offers a different reading of the empty space, representing, perhaps, a claim, a renunciation, or, indeed, a celebration of the museum or gallery’s space. Contemplating emptiness, one confronts nothingness and absence, the invisible and the ineffable, destruction and negation. VOIDS are offered for what they are, and for what they allow. This accumulation of empty spaces, similar in appearance but radically different in reality, has echoes and implications beyond its walls. More than a radical and conceptual exhibition, the retrospective is an invitation to explore and experience, in a very physical manner, the different texture of each different space. The visitor encounters the empty exhibitions now in 2009, exactly 40 years after ‘When Attitude Become Form’ organised by Harald Szeeman when director of the Kunsthalle Bern. It was such exhibition that enabled this retrospective to be, and one could dream that with the voids, the attitudes, literally, are the forms. This exhibition brings together the work of artists who have attempted this extreme gesture, to exhibit without showing an object, without making any intervention but a single announcement. The exhibition begins with Yves Klein’s 1958 exhibition, and from then on envisages how entirely empty exhibitions have defined different kinds of emptiness, sometimes as a means to signal sensibility as for Klein, sometimes as the peak of a conceptualist or minimalist practice as with Robert Barry’s ‘Some places to which we can come, and for a while “be free to think about what we are going to do (Marcuse)”’ (1970). Sometimes as the desire to explore our understanding of exhibition & exhibition spaces as for Art & Language’s ‘Air Conditioning Show’ (1966-67), or in the case of Robert Irwin’s ‘Experimental Situation’ (1970) as the appraisal of the space, and the affirmation that there is no such thing as nothing. Sometimes as the desire to empty an institution & focus on the experience of walking through it as for Stanley Brouwn, or with Laurie Parsons’ exhibition at the Lorence-Monk Gallery in New York in 1990, announced by a card bearing only an address, with neither dates nor the name of the artist, as a means to announce the artist’s complete withdrawal. Sometimes as the affirmation that there is no need to introduce in a space a work of art as it is already there, as with Bethan Huws’ ‘Haus Esters Piece’ (1993). And again as with Maria Eichhorn’s ‘Money at the Kusnthalle Bern’ who in emptying the Kusnthalle in 2001 worked with the void out of necessity, devoting the exhibition budget to the renovation of the building. And sometimes it is the means to remind us that the most important aspect of any void is the notion of trust and belief, as with Roman Ondak’s ‘More Silent Than Ever (room fitted with eavesdropping devices)’ (2006), a piece that deceives the public in making one believe that there is more when indeed there is nothing. In this respect, from the search for a renewal of perception, through political or ideological statement, to the deconstruction of the very principle of exhibition, these exhibitions pose a range of crucial questions about the role of the institution, and this unprecedented marshalling of eloquent emptiness within the Kunsthalle Bern represents a true challenge to the institution. For an unprecedented exhibition, a unique curatorial team. VOIDS, A RETROSPECTIVE, which is both an exhibition in the most traditional sense and an art event in its own right, has been put together by John Armleder, who has always been interested in nothing; Gustav Metzger, a key figure in auto-destructive art, Mai-Thu Perret, a young conceptual artist, Mathieu Copeland, a curator who explores the limits of the exhibition, Clive Phillpot, a writer; together with Philippe Pirotte, director of the Kunsthalle Bern.
Accompanying and simultaneously to the retrospective at the Kunsthalle Bern, the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, will be entirely empty and open to the public for a week (20th - 27th of September) as an invitation to visit Yves Klein’s ‘Raum der Leere’, a permanent void realized in 1961. Accompanying events will also include an evening of performance by Ben Vautier, a screening of films curated by Stuart Comer, a discussion with Mr Jose Miguel Jimenez from CERN, a listening session by Francis Baudevin, and "Absenz - (k)ein konzert" a concert by Ensemble Neue Horizonte. For more information on dates and locations in Bern on all these events, please refer to www.kunsthalle-bern.ch.
VOIDS, EINE RETROSPEKTIVE is coproduced by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Kunsthalle Bern. Toutes les photographies © Céline Bertin EVENTS accompanying VOIDS, EINE RETROSPECTIVE
Friday 11 September 8pm: FLUXUS & NOTHING by Ben Vautier FLUXUS AND NOTHING by Ben Vautier -- Projecting the Void curated by Stuart Comer Projecting the Void curated by Stuart Comer -- Saturday 3rd of October : A discussion with Mr Jose Miguel Jimenez from CERN’s Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings Group (TE/VSC) -- Saturday 3rd of October : There Singularly Nothing by Francis Baudevin Francis Baudevin’s Listening Session : There Singularly Nothing -- Sunday 4th of October : « Absenz - (k)ein konzert » by Ensemble Neue Horizonte « Absenz - (k)ein konzert » is a concert considering the void in music performed by the renowned Ensemble Neue Horizonte, and offers a reflection on what could be ‘silent music’. The concert will include pieces from John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Toshiro Mayutumi, Peter Streiff, Roland Moser, Urs Peter Scheider, and again Mieko Shiomi. -- Accompanying and simultaneously to the retrospective at the Kunsthalle Bern, the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, will be entirely empty and open to the public for a week (20th - 27th of September) as an invitation to visit Yves Klein’s ‘Raum der Leere’, a permanent void realized in 1961. for more information please go to: www.kunstmuseenkrefeld.de
"Infinite Mercy", Alan Vega's Retrospective at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon 15/05 - 02/08 2009 ALAN VEGA
ALAN VEGA, CONNU POUR ÊTRE L’UN DES PIONNIERS DU ROCK ÉLECTRONIQUE MINIMALISTE, COFONDATEUR AVEC MARTIN REV DU GROUPE MYTHIQUE « SUICIDE » AU DÉBUT DES ANNÉES 70, EST AVANT TOUT UN ARTISTE PLASTICIEN ACTIF SUR LA SCÈNE ARTISTIQUE NEW-YORKAISE DÈS LA FIN DES ANNÉES 60. En 1969, Alan Vega (né en 1938 à New York, où il vit et travaille) est l’un des fondateurs du « Projet des Artistes Vivants » (Project of Living Artists), un des premiers lieux alternatifs new-yorkais, tenu par des artistes et ouvert 24h/24. Dédié à toutes les formes d’art, aussi bien à la musique qu’au cinéma, ce lieu devient vite un tremplin pour un grand nombre d’artistes, tels que New York Dolls, Television et Blondie. Dans cet univers saturé, Alan Vega trouve un environnement idéal pour son oeuvre et poursuit simultanément sa carrière musicale et artistique. Il étudie avec Ad Reinhardt au Brooklyn College et se concentredans un premier temps, sur la peinture. À la fin des années 60, son intérêt se porte sur la lumière et il crée ses premières « light sculptures », assemblages d’objets divers composés d’ampoules, de câbles, de télévisions et de néons de toutes formes et couleurs. / LA PREMIÈRE FOIS QUE J’AI RÉALISÉ UNE « SCULPTURE LUMIÈRE » JE TRAVAILLAIS SUR UNE PEINTURE DE GRAND FORMAT DE COULEUR VIOLETTE. UNE SEULE AMPOULE ÉCLAIRAIT LA PIÈCE, ET COMME J’ALLAIS ET VENAIS, J’AI REMARQUÉ QUE LA PEINTURE PRENAIT DIFFÉRENTS ASPECTS. JE N’ARRIVAIS PAS À OBTENIR L’UNITÉ DE COULEUR QUE JE CHERCHAIS […], J’AI DÉCROCHÉ L’AMPOULE DU PLAFOND, ET JE L’AI LITTÉRALEMENT PLANTÉE SUR MA PEINTURE. CELA M’A OUVERT À L’IDÉE MÊME DE COULEUR, ALORS QUE JE VOULAIS LA CONTRÔLER, J’AI COMMENCÉ À VOIR À QUEL POINT LA LUMIÈRE POUVAIT MODIFIER UNE PEINTURE : C’EST LA LUMIÈRE QUI DÉTERMINE LA PEINTURE […]. DÈS QUE J’AI COMMENCÉ À TRAVAILLER AVEC L’ÉCLAIRAGE, J’AI UTILISÉ DE PLUS EN PLUS D’AMPOULES, À LA PLACE DE PIGMENTS. LES AMPOULES DE COULEUR SONT DEVENUES MA PROPRE PALETTE. / Anti-esthétique, anti-formelle, son œuvre embrasse la réalité contemporaine dans laquelle il évolue. Faisant fi de toute préciosité, pour l’une de ses toutes premières expositions à New York en 1972, Alan Vega récupère dans la rue les matériaux qui constitueront des éléments de son oeuvre et les présente dans la galerie. À l’issue de l’exposition, il les rend à leur réalité première, les retournant à la rue. Composée d’un large corpus d’oeuvres créées depuis 1971, cette rétrospective présente un ensemble de sculptures lumineuses, dont les célèbres « crucifix », série initiée au début des années 80. Une version « monumentale » est créée spécifiquement pour l’exposition au Mac LYON.L’exposition présente également un large choix de peintures et plus d’une centaine de dessins exécutés au stylo-bille, totalement inédits : / JE DESSINE EXCLUSIVEMENT DES GENS, LES VISAGES M’INTÉRESSENT PLUS QUE TOUT LE RESTE. JE JETTE LA PLUPART DE MES DESSINS. IL FAUT QUE L’INSPIRATION VIENNE DE FAÇON NATURELLE. ELLE VIENT QUAND J’ÉCRIS DES CHANSONS OU DES POÈMES. IL FAUT JUSTE ESSAYER DE PLONGER AU PLUS PROFOND DE SOI-MÊME. POUR ÊTRE FRANC, JE DÉTESTE ÉCRIRE, ET CURIEUSEMENT, JE NE PEUX M’Y METTRE QU’À CONDITION DE DESSINER UN PORTRAIT. / Dans la logique de son travail de récupération et d’utilisation de matériaux préexistants, l’exposition comme les oeuvres, recycle, réintègre, un grand nombre de « matériaux » des expositions antérieures : verres, murs, structures… / MON ART, C’EST L’ART DE L’OBJET TROUVÉ, ET C’EST AUSSI DE LA RÉCUPÉRATION. / / IL NE S’AGIT PAS D’UN ART LISSÉ ET J’APPRÉCIE LE FAIT QU’ELLES SOIENT COMPOSÉES À PARTIR DE DÉCHETS OU DE REBUTS. / Légendes vivantes de l’histoire du rock et du punk, précurseurs avant-gardistes, avec Suicide, Alan Vega et Martin Rev sont les premiers musiciens rock à introduire systématiquement le beat millimétré de la batterie électronique dans leurs compositions. Alan Vega est cependant beaucoup moins connu comme artiste plasticien, c’est pourquoi, le mac LYON lui consacre ici, sa première grande exposition personnelle rétrospective, présentant plus de 40 ans de création et d’intensité. Mathieu Copeland
ALAN VEGA, KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF MINIMALIST ELECTRONIC ROCK AS THE CO -FOUNDER WITH MARTIN REV OF THE MYTHICAL BAND “SUICIDE”, IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A VISUAL ARTIST ACTIVE ON THE NEW YORK SCENE SINCE THE END OF THE 1960S. In 1969, Alan Vega (born in 1938 in NY, where he still lives & works) was one of the founding members of the “Project of Living Artists”, one of the first alternative artist-run spaces in NY open 24/7. Dedicated to all forms of art, music and cinema, it quickly became a showcase for groups such as the New York Dolls, Television and Blondie. In this saturated universe, Vega found an ideal environment for his work, and pursued his musical and artistic careers in parallel. He studied with Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College, initially focusing on painting. Toward the end of the 1960s, his interests shifted toward light as he created his first “light pieces”— assemblages of diverse objects including bulbs, wires, televisions and neon tubes of every shape and colour. / THE FIRST TIME I DID A LIGHT PIECE WAS WHEN I WAS WORKING ON A VERY BIG PURPLE PAINTING. THERE WAS ONE LIGHT BULB IN THE ROOM, AND AS I WALKED AROUND I NOTICED HOW THE PAINTING ACQUIRED DIFFERENT ASPECTS. I WANTED IT TO BE ONE COLOUR, SO […] I TOOK THE LIGHT OUT OF THE CEILING AND REALLY STUCK IT ON THE PAINTING. THAT STARTED ME WITH THE WHOLE IDEA OF LIGHT BECAUSE I WANTED TO CONTROL THE COLOUR, BUT THEN I SUDDENLY BEGAN TO REALIZE JUST HOW MUCH LIGHT AFFECTS A PAINTING — ALL PAINTING IS ABOUT LIGHT. […] AS I STARTED WORKING WITH LIGHT, I STARTED GETTING MORE AND MORE INTO DIFFERENT COLOURS OF LIGHT INSTEAD OF USING PAINT. I STARTED USING LIGHT BULBS OF COLOUR THAT BECAME MY PAINT. / Anti-aesthetic, anti-formal, Vega’s work embraces the contemporary reality in which he is immersed. For one of his first exhibitions in New York in 1972, eschewing all preciosity, he looked to the streets for the materials that would become the elements of his work, and presented them in the gallery. At the end of the exhibition, he gave them back to their primary reality, returning these to the street. This retrospective comprises a large corpus of works created since 1971. Presenting numerous light pieces from all periods, among them the famous series of “crucifixes” which Vega began in the mid-1980s, and a “monumental” version created specifically for the exhibition at the mac LYON.The retrospective also presents a large body of paintings, and more than a hundred ballpoint drawings that have not previously been exhibited : / I DRAW JUST PEOPLE. TO ME A FACE IS EVERYTHING ANYWAY. MOST OF THE DRAWINGS I THROW OUT. IT JUST HAS TO COME OUT WITHOUT THINKING […] WHEN I WRITE LYRICS, OR POETRY, IT COMES FROM MY MIND. IT’S JUST TRYING TO GET DEEP INTO YOURSELF. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I HATE WRITING, AND IRONICALLY THE ONLY WAY I CAN SIT DOWN AND WRITE IS IF I DRAW A PORTRAIT. / In the logic of Vega’s work, including the retrieval and re-use of pre-existing objects, it is not just the works, but the exhibition format itself, that recycles and reintegrates various “materials” from previous exhibitions : glass, walls, structures, etc. / MY ART IS AN ART OF THE FOUND OBJECT, AND IT’S ALSO THAT OF SALVAGE. / As living legends of rock and punk history, and avant-garde precursors with Suicide, Alan Vega and Martin Rev were the first rock musicians to systematically introduce electronic drums into their compositions. Alan Vega is however less well known as an artist, this is the reason why mac LYON proposes his first major solo retrospective, representing more than 40 years of creativity and intensity. Mathieu Copeland
Dossier de presse Alan Vega - Infinite Mercy // Service presse Élise Vion-Delphin T +33 (0)4 72 69 17 25 // communication@mac-lyon.com ALAN VEGA - INFINITE MERCY. Toutes les photographies © Céline Bertin, 2009
VIDES, Une rétrospective
Manifestation exceptionnelle, « Vides » est une rétrospective des expositions vides depuis celle d'Yves Klein en 1958. Dans une dizaine de salles du Musée national d'art moderne, elle rassemble, de manière inédite, des expositions qui n'ont rigoureusement rien montré, laissant vide l'espace pour lequel elles étaient pensées.
Comité Curatorial : John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, Gustav Metzger, Mai-Thu Perret, Clive Phillpot. VIDES. Une rétrospective. Toutes les photographies © Centre Pompidou, Georges Meguerditchian, 2009
A Spoken Word Exhibition - Baltic, Newcastle Upon Tyne, opening Friday 16/01 A Spoken Word Exhibition A Spoken Word Exhibition is composed of worded artworks (artworks only made of words to be spoken), to be read by BALTIC Crew members to visitors who ask to hear the pieces. Acting as a voice when addressed throughout the building, the Crew repeat the words, sentences or paragraphs, the texts or haikus as written and instructed by the invited artists. Not performing, only using language through the act of reading, the works are available only on demand, initiating an exchange between visitors and BALTIC Crew. The exhibition inhabits the realm of the spoken word, addressing the possibilities of art, memory & exhibition making. The exhibition is constituted of artworks that are to be spoken and exchanged as a verbal gesture from one person to another. Artworks that only last for the time it takes to read them, generating ultimately an exhibition that only lasts for the time it takes to listen. A Spoken Word Exhibition is an exhibition of the same nature & material as that of the artworks that constitutes it, which are words. Contributing artists are Vito Acconci, Fia Backström, Robert Barry, James Lee Byars, Nick Currie (aka Momus), Douglas Coupland, Karl Holmqvist, Maurizio Nannucci, Yoko Ono, Mai-Thu Perret, Emilio Prini, Tomas Vanek, Tris Vonna-Michell, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson. Please ask to hear the artworks. An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland
Une Exposition Chorégraphiée
Une Exposition Chorégraphiée est une exposition composée exclusivement de mouvements. Pendant un mois et demi, six heures par jour, trois danseurs interprètent les partitions écrites par huit artistes. L’ensemble de ces partitions est orchestré par le commissaire d'exposition qui crée le déroulé général, sorte de mouvement chorégraphique ou musical à plusieurs thèmes.
Le geste est notre état d’esprit / A gesture is our state of mind
Centre d'art de la Ferme du Buisson Horaires Accès depuis Paris Le Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson bénéficie du soutien de la Drac Ile-de-France/Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, du SAN Val-Maubuée et du Conseil Général de Seine-et-Marne. Il est membre des réseaux tram et d.c.a. ‘A Choreographed Exhibition’ is an exhibition curated by Mathieu Copeland and co produced by the Kunsthalle St Gallen (http://www.k9000.ch/) and La Ferme du Buisson (http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/).
L'exposition Continue David Cunningham, vernissage le vendredi 3 octobre à 18h
Lausanne, Switzerland www.galerie1m3.com & http://www.circuit.li/
The Saints, and Music & Films by Amy Granat With Fia Backström, Jutta Koether, Amy O’Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Emily Sundblad, Stefan Tcherepnin, Angel Turner
Opening the 26th of April, at 14.00, with ‘Emotional Music’ a performance with Amy Granat, Emily Sundblad and Stefan Tcherepnin. An exhibition curated by Mathieu Copeland 26 April to 14 June 2008 Sketch Gallery, London
Le Dojo, La Villa Arson et le laboratoire de mémoires présentent
vernissage vendredi 2 mai à 18h Exposition collective de & avec BENJAMIN BICHARD, ANNA BYSKOV, ZORA CAHUSAC, MARION CHARLET, CAMILLE DEBRAY, ALYS DEMEURE, MAILYS D.PERRET, LOUP GANGLOFF, SOPHIE GRANIOU, LAURIE GERARDO, YASMINA HATEM, CINDY LELAURIN, SANDRA LORENZI, AURELIE MENALDO, MARYLINE M'GAIDES, STEPHANIE RAIMONDI, COLINE VECTEN, sur une proposition de MATHIEU COPELAND, avec NOËL DOLLA & PASCAL PINAUD
LE DOJO
A Spoken Word Exhibition / Mluvené slovo - TranzitDisplay Prague 18th of March - 20th of April 2008 A Spoken Word Exhibition - Tranzit/Display - 18th of March - 20th of April 2008 tranzitdisplay
Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, James Lee Byars, Nick Currrie, Douglas Coupland, Karl Holmqvist, Maurizio Nannucci, Yoko Ono, Mai-Thu Perret, Emilio Prini, Tomáš Vaněk, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson a Series of Spoken Word Events will take place during the course of the exhibition Spoken Word Events by King Mob (17. 4.), Susan Stenger (18. 4.), Karl Holmqvist (19. 4.) and Fia Backström (20. 4.)
Exhibitions view - far right still of INSTANT EXTRA+, a spoken word event by Fia Backström
A Choreographed Exhibition / Eine Choreographierte Ausstellung
‘A Choreographed Exhibition’ is an exhibition only composed of movements. For over a month and a half, three dancers from the Tanzkompanie Theater St. Gallen are present in the kunsthalle during the opening hours to perform in space the choreography of movements, patterns and choreographed gestures, following the scores and instructions as provided by the invited artists, dancers, and choreographers.
Le geste est notre état d’esprit / A gesture is our state of mind
Kunsthalle St Gallen, Davidstrasse 40, CH-9000 St. Gallen
‘A Choreographed Exhibition’ is an exhibition curated by Mathieu Copeland and co produced by the Kunsthalle St Gallen (http://www.k9000.ch/) and La Ferme du Buisson (http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/).
A Spoken Word Exhibition & A Series of Spoken Word Retrospectives 1st / 7th of November 2007 A Spoken Word Exhibition, and a Series of Spoken Word Retrospectives Guest curator Mathieu Copeland presents “A Spoken Word Exhibition” at the Swiss Institute - NY. The exhibition consists of artworks repeated by the Institute‘s staff. By leaving the gallery space empty and making works available only on demand, an exchange is initiated between spectators and the gallery staff. An exhibition of the same nature & material as that of the artworks that it is constituted of, which are words. Artworks only spoken, exchanged as a verbal gesture from one person to another, generating ultimately an exhibition that only last the time it takes to hear it. Artists contributing to “A Spoken Words Exhibition” include Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, James Lee Byars, Nick Currie (aka Momus), Douglas Coupland, Karl Holmqvist, Maurizio Nannucci, Yoko Ono, Mai-Thu Perret, Emilio Prini, Tomas Vanek, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson. Through the artist’s voice and words, The Spoken Word Retrospectives present us with the whole of an artist’s career, generating a mental retrospective in the mind of the one who hears it, as said & seen by the artist. A spoken word retrospective begins with everything, and produces nothing more, only everything. Artists contributing to “A Series of Spoken Words Retrospectives” include David Medalla and Gustav Metzger.
Swiss Institute [SI] - 495 Broadway 3rd Floor - New York NY 10012
Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, 19 septembre 2007- 6 Janvier 2008- artiste invitée Mai-Thu Perret avec 'An Evening of the Book' www.biennale-de-lyon.org/bac2007/fran/
L’œuvre pensée pour la biennale par Mai-Thu Perret se trame avec en toile de fond ‘An Evening of the Book (une Soirée pour le Livre)’ (1924), une pièce de théâtre agit-prop. Mis en scène par Vitalii Zhemchuzhnyi, cette propagande pour le livre aux décors et costumes conçus par Varvara Stepanova s’organisait comme une expérimentation dans l’agitation artistique pour les masses par le livre avec des étudiants de l’Académie de l’Education Communiste. De plus, il est à noter le parallèle entre cette histoire et le présent livre d’histoire, autant formellement de par l’importance de leurs graphismes que dans cette volonté d’écrire au présent une histoire en cours. Tout comme ‘An Evening of the Book’ présente le conflit entre les héros des livres pré-révolutionnaire et ceux de la nouvelle révolution, les personnages sortant tous au fur et à mesure des pages d’un livre géant présent sur scène ; Cette biennale se matérialise dans un livre ou l’histoire de l’exposition devient l’histoire d’un livre d’histoire (d’histoires ?). Il nous reste à espérer que tout comme dans cette pièce des années vingt, l’écriture en cours voit la victoire revenir aux héros révolutionnaires.
Filmstills "An Evening Of The Book", © Mai-Thu Perret, 2007
Mai-Thu Perret’s installation ‘An Evening of the Book’ finds its origins in the agit-prop theatre piece ‘An Evening of the Book’ from 1924. Directed by Vitalii Zhemchuzhnyi, this propaganda for the book whose costume and set was designed by Varvara Stepanova was organised as an experimentation on mass artistic agitation through the book, with the students from the Communist Education Academy.
An exhibition with Loris Gréaud and Arnaud Michniak, by Mathieu Copeland Hong Kong, Hong Kong City Hall, 14th of May - 27th of May 2007 - Launch : Sunday the 13th of May, 7.15, Agnes b Cinema / Hong Kong Arts Centre - Screening followed by a public discussion
exhibition views / vues d'exposition
The exhibition appears as a moment frozen in time. A place where the viewers constantly celebrate the opening of an exhibition in a gallery whose size is gradually reduced, and that in turn reduces the view over the city. The first movement of the exhibition comes with the present DVD that acts as a catalogue. Widely available, it features two new-commissioned films by Loris Gréaud and Arnaud Michniak both filmed in Hong Kong. The film ‘Celador, un goût d’illusion’ by Loris Gréaud is an advertising for a candy that taste of illusion. The film by Arnaud Michniak “Sound take in a hospital” focuses on arrested moments in the midst of a city in constant movement. The exhibition at the Hong Kong City Hall appears minimal, if not empty. The films realised for the exhibition are shown sporadically throughout the exhibition. Our experience in the gallery is somehow what we are told of these works. There, everything remains, but nothing is left. Nothing seems to happen. The only element that evolves throughout the exhibition is, paradoxically, the space itself. The art is simply everything else.
Film Stills
« Exhibitions’ Ruins / Emotional Landscapes » With / Sýningin er unnin á grunni verka frá eftirfarandi listamönnum An exhibition by / Sýningarstjóri Mathieu Copeland. At the SAFN Collection / Í Safni; samtímalistasafni, Reykjavik, 17/03 – 12/05/2007 « Exhibitions’ ruins / Emotional Landscapes » is a discursive exhibition on the nature of exhibitions, or rather on what remains of exhibitions; Somehow a necrophagous & cannibal exhibition – not only is this exhibition composed of remains, or fragments, of exhibitions, but it feeds itself from these. The artworks are as many autonomous elements that articulate themselves around their past histories, past moments of exhibitions. Assembled, they generate an exhibition constituted of elements that fundamentally belongs to itself, literally creating its support structure. To use a common analogy, as opposed to the idea of a ghost, here we only deal with a shell, the rests of a decomposing corpse. Here the exhibition is constituted of remains, here only the exhibition remains. An exhibition that becomes the shadow of a corpse, the corpse becoming its form. Similar to a constant expectation, this temporary recreation of diverse exhibitions uses bribes of the past as as-many fundamental elements for an exhibition to come. Similarly to decomposition being an active process, the artworks that compose the exhibition are as many invitations to engage with the landscape they contributed, and contribute, to form. These emotional landscapes, these artworks are somehow referent to imaginary (or extinguished) landscapes. These environments emotionally charged refer to the creation of abstract environments, landscapes that reveals themselves as we are presented with them. Illusory as they are personal and mental, these moments characterise all the reactions that we experience when confronted to this temporary grouping of art works (an exhibition) – artworks that constitute an exhibition that embodies itself in the mind of the one who sees it. Each artwork draws a part of the environment of an exhibition, and further more offers an environment in itself.
“The Movement of People Working”
Images © Phill Niblock AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILL NIBLOCK (22/11/2006) The opening on January 20th featured flautist/bassist Susan Stenger (Band Of Susans/Big Bottom) and guitarist Robert Poss (Band Of Susans), long-time performers of Niblock's music, playing 4 pieces (some of which were composed especially for them). Sketch Gallery, London, 20th of January until the 10th of March 2007.
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The title as the curator's art piece* A summer Show by Mathieu Copeland A painting exhibition with Jaroslaw Flicinski & Claude Rutault A spoken word exhibition with Douglas Coupland, Nick Currie (aka Momus), Karl Holmqvist, Tomas Vanek, Lawrence Weiner & Ian Wilson *Show title #347, by Stefan Brüggemann Exhibition running from the 21st of June until the 2nd of September Blow de la Barra, 35 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BP Tel + 44 (0) 2077347477 info@blowdelabarra.com
A publication accompanies the exhibition featuring discussions with artist and musician Nick Currie (aka Momus), curator Raimundas Malasauskas, and artist Claude Rutault.
Soundtrack composed by/composée par Susan Stenger [Band of Susans] with contributions by/avec des contributions de Robert Poss [Band of Susans] , Alan Vega [Suicide], Alexander Hacke [Einstürzende Neubaten], F.M. Einheit [ex Einstürzende Neubaten], Kim Gordon [Sonic Youth], Mika Vainio [Pan Sonic], Bruce Gilbert [Wire], Ulrich Krieger, Warren Ellis [The Dirty Three, The Bad Seeds], Jim White [The Dirty Three], Jennifer Hoyston [Erase Errata], Andria Degens (Pantaleimon), Spider Stacy [Pogues] Paintings by/Peintures par John Armleder, Steven Parrino Feature film by/Film par Kristian Levring An exhibition by/Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland
Exhibition View / Vues d'exposition : Soundtrack for an Exhibition comprises three main elements: a specially commissioned sound The sound piece, composed by Susan Stenger and featuring contributions from a stellar list of During this period a feature film [The King Is Alive, by Danish filmmaker and Dogme95 signatory It is in the confrontation of these exhibition components with the soundtrack and with each soundtrack for an Exhibition (fr - eng) - 8th March until 11th June 2006 - Musée Art Contemporain Lyon
EA C / Expat Art Centre is an ongoing exhibition that takes place when the art centre, the museum... is closed, inserting itself between two exhibitions. With Brian Eno, Pierre Huyghe, Ben Kinmont, Claude Leveque, Didier Marcel, Olivier Mosset, Shimabuku, Dan Walsh, Ian Wilson. An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland Exhibitions Views / Vues d'expositions : Exhibitions Views: ICA London, Musée Art Contemporain Lyon, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, CAC Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Kunstihoone Tallinn. © The Artists & Mathieu Copeland. Expat-art Centre / EA C Expat-Art Centre / EA C is an exhibition that takes place when the galleries of an art institution, i.e. a museum or an art centre are closed. It takes place in the time that follows the closure of an exhibition leading to the installation of the following one, or during those moments of inaction dictated by financial circumstances, refurbishment or other reasons. EA C bears all the constitutive parameters that define an exhibition, yet altering only one when in switching the context of space to non space. This curatorial model simultaneously becomes both an exhibition in a moment of time and an exhibition of a moment of time, situated in the in-between; the in-between of times, of spaces as well as the in-between of exhibitions and venues. Ian Wilson's work, 'There was a discussion' (2004), could literally signify this schism - the interstice between time and exhibition - as a result of passing discussions, encompassing several continuums such as the discussion between two exhibitions within this momentary pause, and the passing discussions throughout Wilson's career who in 1968 hailed discussion as his art form. This inbetween becomes the social and democratic interstice of art production and the reintroduction of a moment of conviviality in a cold economic factor. EA C does not only take the usual and pre-formatted exhibition calendar of an exhibition venue (inward look) into consideration, but the entire system that is created by the multitude of institutions (outward look). EA C is both the negative of the exhibition calendars and schedules as well as the exponential accumulation of previously unused time. 'Exhibition like Moon' (2004), to borrow the title of Shimabuku's contribution to the exhibition, EA C is an exhibition whose path mirrors that of the moon. In the empirical believe that we will see the moon the following night, this exhibition has the potential to simultaneously be everywhere, travelling the globe, becoming an exhibition happening everywhere, at all times, with all people. This in turns echoes beautifully with how Brian Eno envisaged his piece for EA C, 'a self generative art work travelling the globe'. Since EA C is self contained and generative, portraying the model of an exponential exhibition, the outcome is easily identifiable. Since this is an exhibition that happens when the art institution is closed, as such it only exists in this form through the work of the artists, and only the ignition of the process will enable its permanent movement. An exhibition of time with no date, of place with no space. Artist Pierre Huyghe reintroduces the notion of time and locality, characterising the moment in which this exhibition takes shape. In each of the subsequent venues, a local newspaper cover will be stripped bare of its entire contents, with only the dates of the exhibition remaining, and an indication of the idea of the location through the name of the newspaper. While Huyghe models the remaining shred that defines this exhibition (time and location), in his work 'This isn't it' (2004), the artist Ben Kinmont leaves the art institution with only a trace of evidence that an event has taken place. Visitors are then invited to sign up to a subscription of photographs taken of each occurrence of the same event in subsequent venues. Ultimately only the accumulation of Pierre Huyghe's newspaper front covers, and the cumulative publication co-ordinated by Kinmont, will reveal the time and place that constitute the exhibition. In equally considering the monochrome, the sign and the motif, Olivier Mosset considers painting in an environment denying paint. In stacking two model chairs one on top of the other in an environment denying space, Didier Marcel has created both an abstract drawing and a model that reflects the status of the closed art institution. Claude Lévêque, in his piece 'Elise Van Elise' (2004), has conceived the 'unifying factor' of an exhibition. Through an economy of means, Lévêque presents us with the artificial recreation of a space. Dan Walsh's glass panel will gradually crack and break over time though its longevity will be sustained, as through each presentation it will decay and disappear, enabling its permanent existence. This combined with its inherent transparency offers a beautiful parallel to the thinness and fragility of an exhibition simply defined by two moments in time. By Mathieu Copeland
PDF Leaflet of the exhibition ICA London - English Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon - Francais Muzeum Sztuki - Polish CAC - Lithuanian Kunstihoone - Estonian Bizart - Chinese
David Cunningham / Sebastien Roux
Wall paper music - Sebastien Roux (LOT Bristol)
Exterior - David Cunningham (AA London)
Meanwhile... across town - Cerith Wyn Evans Meanwhile... across town - Cerith Wyn Evans (Centre Point London) "Meanwhile…across town", by Cerith Wyn Evans, permeated the centre of London with a Morse code message transmitted from the neon signs of the landmark Centre Point Tower on Oxford Street. Produced by Forma and curated by Mathieu Copeland, witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who see the Centre Point Tower from across London every day, Wyn Evans used the letters 'o' and 'i' from Centre Point's signs to transmit an extract from The Visible and the Invisible, an unfinished book by the French existentialist philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty [1908-1961]. The building may be seen as a host organism infected with a virus - the code of a dying language that has taken up temporary residence. The text became buried in the urban landscape, where the pulsating narrative of the Morse code signal might even suggest that every other flashing light might be beaming out its own story. This invasion of the social fabric of the City was at the core of the artist's intentions. "Meanwhile…across town" appeared as an elegant and subtly perverse way of pointing to no more than the communication itself; through the archaic communication tool of Morse code, broadcasted across town, its message became, ultimately, temporarily, an intrinsic part of the cityscape. 14 Feb – 31 Mar 2004 | Centre Point Tower, London, UK An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland
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ON KAWARA : ONE MILLION YEARS [PAST AND FUTURE] No. 69 & 70 It is with great proud that Mathieu Copeland Presents the release of On Kawara : One Million Years [Past and Future] No. 69 & 70. This edition of 4 audio CDs in a wooden case, realised at 250 copies, comprise of the reading of On Kawara’s One Million Years [Past and Future] covering 969 611 BC to 967 811 BC & 33 411 AD to 34 450 AD.
Partons de Zéro (EMPECEMOS DE CERO) A publication curated by Mathieu Copeland & Philippe Decrauzat as the score for a future exhibition.
Available / Disponible via Parra & Romero
Reprise #1 - Studies for a catalogue / a study for an exhibition on violence in contemporary art (reprise 1964/2011)
Reprise #1 Studies for a Catalogue: a Study for an Exhibition of Violence in Contemporary Art (Reprise 1964/2011) The exhibition at Flat Time House of curator Mathieu Copeland’s ‘bootleg’ of the ICA show, and the very lack of an extensive catalogue of the original show, prompted this publication, Study for a Catalogue. It is an imagined version of what that catalogue might have been; and also of what the exhibition might be, if curated anew in 2011. It comprises photocopied reproductions of all the works from the show (with some free replacements where works were not identifiable from the original catalogue, or have not been readily available in reproduction); a text on the violence of curation by artist Warren Neidich; a downloadable screening programme, again liberally expanded from events that took place in 1964; and pages specially produced for the catalogue in the summer of 2011 by artists including Elena Bajo, Neal White, Davide Ballula, Erica Baum, Tom Benson, Emma Bjornesparr, Stefan Brüggemann, Philippe Decrauzat, Peter Fillingham & Charlotte Moth, Mark McGowan, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Camille Henrot, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Warren Neidich, Philomene Pirecki, and Giorgio Sadotti. The catalogue, in B&W and A4 format, can be downloaded from http://www.flattimeho.org.uk or http://www.reprise.me ready to be printed. A page template will be freely available so that new pages and chapters can be added with the intention that these Studies for both an Exhibition and a Catalogue of Violence in Contemporary Art can extend the debate, begun in 1964, about the good and bad in violence and about the very image of violence itself. Elisa Kay
UNE CARTE MENTALE POUR UNE EXPOSITION Edited to accompany the exhibition "...avant il n'y avait rien, après on va pouvoir faire mieux (…before there was nothing, after we can only do better…)", co-curated by Mathieu Copeland & Philippe Decrauzat for Circuit - Lausanne, Switzerland, “a mental map for an exhibition (une carte mentale pour une exposition)” is both the catalogue for an exhibition and a statement on the ad-equation between the original and its copy, and their inherent equality. This ‘photocopy book’ (another Xerox book so to say) reproduces all the artefacts featured in the exhibition, cataloguing these quite literally as all are photocopied and reproduced at scale 1: by Nicolas Eigenheer. A mental map for an exhibition is akin to laying out a territory of thoughts, a cosmology of connections, attractions, or and again repulsions. Equally to how an exhibition ultimately exists through knowledge, in a mental space, a mental territory is thus to be mapped out. This publication includes art works, drawing or again printed matters by artists including Alan Vega and Antonin Artaud, Kurt Seligmann, Ad Reinhardt, Paul Sharits, Emma Kunz, Glenn Branca, Gustav Metzger, Wallace Berman, Phoebe Unwin, Claude Parent, Jon Savage, Unica Zürn, Madelon Vriesendrop, Charles Burns, Judy Chicago, Brion Gysin, Amélie Dubois, Savage Pencil, Hans Hartung, Asger Jorn, André Masson, Max Kohler, Henri Michaux, Mel Bochner, Steve Albini, Dinos Chapman, Jake Chapman, Jean Tinguely, Max Ernst, Gerhard Rühm, Tadeusz Kantor, NPA, Bruce Conner, Marty Rev, Bob Cobbing, Linder Sterling, Frank Kozik, George Maciunas, Leonora Carrington, Henry Flint, Henri Chopin, Georges Brecht, Le Freistilmuseum, Loulou Picasso, Yoko Ono, Scott King, Rudolph Grey, A.R. Penck, Michael Snow, J.G. Ballard, Salvador Dali, Paul “Cool P” Liebegott, Wyndham Lewis, Jacques Villeglé, Karl Holmqvist, Jacques Bonnard, Ric Ocasek, Marian Zazeela, Delphine Coindet, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Warren Neidich, Hans Bellmer, Natacha Anderes, Peter Fischli, Roland Topor, Virginia Overton, Andrea Merkx, W. C. Westermann, Fabrice Stroun (…).
UNE EXPOSITION A ETRE LUE/AN EXHIBITION TO HEAR READ (VOLUME 3) Avec/With, Robert Barry, Jarrod Fowler, Nicolas Garait, Karl Holmqvist, Bethan Huws, David Medalla, Yann Sérandour, Cally Spooner, et/and Sue Tompkins. Une exposition de/An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland
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UNE EXPOSITION A ETRE LUE/AN EXHIBITION TO HEAR READ (VOLUME 2) Avec Marí Alessandrini, Sacha Béraud, Emma Bjornesparr, Jérémy Chevalier, Chloé Delarue, Kenneth Goldsmith, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Livia Johann, Tom Johnson, Franck Leibovici, Véronique Portal, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Tatiana Rihs, Daphné Roulin, Cally Spooner, Irena Tomažin, Anne Le Troter et Martina-Sofie Wildberger Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland
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UNE EXPOSITION A ETRE LUE/AN EXHIBITION TO HEAR READ (VOLUME 1) Avec/With, Benoit Maire, Goldin + Senneby, Keren Cytter, Amélie Dubois, Charlotte Moth, Cally Spooner, Falke Pisano Une exposition de/An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland
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ALAN SUICIDE VEGA - INFINITE MERCY Cette première monographie consacrée à l'œuvre plastique d'Alan Vega retrace, à travers une riche iconographie, un parcours artistique radical et sans compromis sur quarante ans. Le livre s'ouvre par la reproduction dans son intégralité en fac-similé du célèbre magazine Art Rite #13 élaboré par l'artiste en 1977, et se conclut par une nouvelle œuvre inédite de 16 pages réalisée spécialement pour le projet. L'ouvrage s'articule autour d'un long entretien réalisé avec Alan Vega et de contributions et discussions avec, entre autres, Edit Deak, Martin Rev, Ric Ocasek, Marc Hurtado, Philippe Grandrieux ou Henry Rollins. Figure mythique de la scène alternative artistique new-yorkaise, pionnier du rock électronique minimal et cofondateur, avec Martin Rev, du groupe culte Suicide, Alan Vega (né en 1938 à Brooklyn) fut également l'un des fondateurs, à la fin des années 1960, du Project of Living Artists à New York, lieu pluridisciplinaire tenu par des artistes et ouvert en continu qui accueillera les New York Dolls, Television ou Blondie. Depuis, Alan Vega développe, parallèlement à ses activités musicales qu'il poursuit en solo avec une vingtaine d'albums réalisés depuis les années 1980, une œuvre plastique anti-esthétique et anti-formaliste, assemblage d'objets divers récupérés dans la rue (ampoules, câbles, télévisions, néons...) qui embrasse la réalité contemporaine dans laquelle il évolue.
A seminal figure of the New York alternative art scene and a pioneer of minimalist electronic rock as the cofounder of the mythical band Suicide, Alan Vega has been since the late 60’s one of the most influential artist and musician, turning Punk into the manifesto of a reason to live. Anti-aesthetic, anti-formalist, his work embraces the contemporary reality in which he is immersed. Published on the occasion of Alan Vega’s retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, this publication offers, through a rich iconography, a unique look on his artistic life from 1969 to 2009. This book opens on the complete reproduction as a facsimile of the iconic magazine ArtRite #13 created by the artist in 1977, and is concluded with a new 16 pages piece created exclusively for this publication. Edited by Mathieu Copeland, this first monograph consists of a long interview with Alan Vega and discussions and contributions with among others Edit DeAk, Marty Rev, Ric Ocasek, Marc Hurtado, Philippe Grandrieux or again Henry Rollins. These 144 pages offer the rare opportunity to envisage a radical and uncompromising commitment, envisaging more than 40 years of creation and intensity.
Sountrack for an Exhibition A full colour, hardback publication that includes essays and discussions with participating artists and guest contributors. The catalogue reproduces the entire score of the soundtrack, includes film stills, installation shots and includes an audio DVD of excerpts of the soundtrack. Texts include an essay by Mathieu Copeland, curator of the exhibition; a discussion with Susan Stenger and Tony Conrad (composer, filmmaker and musician, co-founder of The Dream Syndicate with John Cale and La Monte Young); a discussion with Gustav Metzger (influential artist born in 1936 in Germany, lives and works in London, leading figure of Auto-Destructive-Art), John Armleder (painter born in 1948, influential Swiss artist and founder of Ecart, associated with Neo–Geo movement in the ’80s), and Mathieu Copeland; and a discussion with the filmmaker, Kristian Levring. (to order: www.forma.org.uk)
Soundtrack for an Exhibition - links to the exhibition information (eng) - Musée Art Contemporain Lyon L'exposition Soundtrack for an Exhibition s'articule autour de trois éléments principaux : une bande-son, une exposition de peintures et un film. La bande-son est diffusée dans l'espace d'exposition ainsi qu'en différents endroits du musée et se poursuit un mois après la fermeture de l'exposition. Changeant de nature en fonction de l'environnent qu'elle qualifie, elle devient tour à tour la bande-son de peintures, d'un film ou d'un espace vide. Soundtrack composed by/composée par Susan Stenger with contributions by/avec des contributions de Robert Poss, Alan Vega, Alexander Hacke, F.M. Einheit, Kim Gordon, Mika Vainio, Bruce Gilbert, Ulrich Krieger, Warren Ellis, Jim White, Jennifer Hoyston, Andria Degens, Spider Stacy Paintings by/Peintures par John Armleder, Steven Parrino Feature film by/Film par Kristian Levring An exhibition by/Une exposition de Mathieu Copeland
VIDES Vides. Une rétrospective est une exposition paradoxale : à travers la réactualisation de neuf «expositions vides», elle apparaît simultanément comme un projet expérimental qui refuse les règles classiques des arts visuels et comme un objet historique qui confronte les réalisations de Art & Language, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Maria Eichhorn, Bethan Huws, Robert Irwin, Yves Klein, Roman Ondák et Laurie Parsons. Support et prolongement de la manifestation, cet ouvrage dessine les contours du concept de «vide» dans l'art, l'esthétique, la philosophie, la religion, les sciences, la culture populaire, l'architecture et la musique, en abordant les problématiques du rien, de la vacuité, de l'invisible et de l'ineffable, du rejet et de la destruction. S'ouvrant sur un catalogue qui documente les neuf expositions historiques et contemporaines retenues, le livre comporte également une anthologie d'une quarantaine de textes, souvent inédits, ainsi que des contributions d'artistes spécialement réalisées pour l'ouvrage. Les essais de Benjamin Buchloh, Jean- François Chevrier, Henry Flynt, Lucy Lippard, Bernard Marcadé, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Brian O'Doherty, Sadie Plant, Didier Semin, David Toop ou Sarah Wilson s'entrecroisent ainsi avec des entretiens réalisés avec Robert Barry, Ben, Morgan Fisher, Claude Parent ou Jacques Villeglé, et les propositions de Peter Downsbrough, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Wade Guyton, Hans Haacke, Sherrie Levine, Malcolm McLaren, Olivier Mosset, Sturtevant ou Lawrence Weiner. Edité par Mathieu Copeland avec John Armleder, Laurent Le Bon, Gustav Metzger, Mai-Thu Perret, Clive Phillpot. Publié avec le Centre Pompidou, Paris, et la Kunsthalle Bern.
Voids. A Retrospective Voids. A Retrospective is a paradoxical exhibition: by re-actualizing nine “empty exhibitions,” it is simultaneously an experimental project that refuses the classic rules of the visual arts and an historical object which confronts the projects of Art & Language, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Maria Eichhorn, Bethan Huws, Robert Irwin, Yves Klein, Roman Ondák, and Laurie Parsons. At once the support and an extension of the event, this publication outlines the concept of the void in art, aesthetics, philosophy, religion, science, popular culture, architecture, and music, and broaches the subject of nothing, of vacuity, of the invisible and the ineffable, of rejection and destruction. Edited by Mathieu Copeland with John Armleder, Laurent Le Bon, Gustav Metzger, Mai-Thu Perret, Clive Phillpot and Philippe Pirotte. Publié avec le Centre Pompidou, Paris, et la Kunsthalle Bern. 2009
Michael Parsons, "Piano Music 1993 - 2007", played by John Tilbury, audio CD - released on the 7th of December 2008 // Launch from 1pm, at the Warehouse, 13 Theed Street - London
Michael Parsons: Piano Music 1993 – 2007 Michael Parsons (b. 1938 - Happy 70th!) has been active as a composer, performer, writer and lecturer since the 1960s. He belongs to the generation of English experimentalists who have explored a wide range of radical alternatives to prevailing traditional and mainstream tendencies in new music. In 1969 he was co-founder with Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton of the Scratch Orchestra, and during the 1970s he was closely associated with visual artists of the Systems group. In common with the work of other English and American experimentalists, his music exemplifies an economical use of material, clarity of structure and an objective and exploratory approach to the actualities of sound and performance. Produced, designed and published in 2008 by Mathieu Copeland with support by Culture House
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The Saints, 6 Films by Amy Granat MATHIEU COPELAND PRESENTS The Saints, 6 films by Amy Granat on DVD, Launch at the Swiss Institute NY on Wednesday 29th of October 2008 THE SAINTS
ST LUCIA ST AGATHA ST TERESA DE AVILA ST CECILIA ST TWEETY ST LOUISE THE SAINTS Produced, designed and published in 2008 by Mathieu Copeland
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It is with great proud that we announce the release of the DVD 'AN EVENING OF THE BOOK', featuring 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret. Originally produced for The Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art and filmed on location at the Kitchen NY, Evening was conceived as a ‘remake’ of the 1924 agit prop play of the same title that was conceived as an experiment in mass artistic agitation for the book, and dramatized the conflict between old pre-revolutionary and new revolutionary books. Using actors from the academy of communist education, in a set & with costumes designed by Varvara Stepanova, it was a pantomime that culminated in the victory of the revolutionary heroes and a parade of libraries and new editions. This performance, in which books and letters are actors in their own right, seemed a suitable starting point for the artist’s first array into moving images. Using props sometimes inspired by those of the original evenings, such as the books or the sports costume, sometimes unrelated such as the fluorescent tubes, the cut out from the banner, or the commas, Mai-Thu Perret devised the outline of a choreography which was performed for the camera by a team composed of artist friends such as Amy Granat or Fia Backström, and professional dancers.
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A signed limited edition of 30 copies comes with samples of two signed & numbered wall papers cuts screenprinted for the exhibitions. For more information please visit the webpage or contact info@mathieucopeland.net Produced, designed and published in 2008 by Mathieu Copeland
APPEL çA COMME TU VEUX
Un film d'Arnaud Michniak - DVD Disponible maintenant (communiqué de presse)
“Appelle ça comme tu veux” est le premier long métrage d’Arnaud Michniak. Un film sans appel dont la violence sociale est d’une rare actualité. Sans ménagement que ce soit pour les sujets filmés ou l’objet film, “Appelle ça comme tu veux” est direct comme un slam et efficace comme de la télé réalité. “Appelle ça comme tu veux” utilise la caméra comme un esclave. Tout débute avec le vol d’une caméra. Tout s’articule autour de l’outil qui permet sa réalisation et de ceux qui en croisent la cellule, qu’il s’agisse d’inconnus, de manutentionnaires, de paumés, d’acteurs dont Jean-Pierre Mocky, de proches comme Nonstop, ou plus généralement de tous ceux qui font notre réalité, qui créent notre paysage. “Appelle ça comme tu veux” ça veut dire : on se fout de ce que tu penses, non pas parce qu’on se fout de toi, ni parce que ce que tu penses est nul, mais simplement parce que ça ne change rien, c’est déjà trop tard, c’est déjà fini. Comme annonçant un programme, on retiendra cette phrase entendue au court du film, “On est historien, on filme la fin du monde”.
APPEL çA COMME TU VEUX, un film d’Arnaud Michniak
Produced, designed and published in 2007 by Mathieu Copeland
Anna Sanders Films - The In Between The In-Between – Anna Sanders Films The In-Between, the key book about French production company Anna Sanders Films, is now available. This company has blazed a trail for a new breed of cinema – one that is made by visual artists and shown most often in galleries, but increasingly is finding its way into cinemas and film festivals. Anna Sanders - Films The In-Between
Perfect Magazine is a magazine printed with white ink on white paper, the pages of this first and last issue are curated and published by Mathieu Copeland. Perfect Magazine features exclusive contributions by Gilbert and George - Yoko Ono - Cerith Wyn Evans - Lawrence Weiner - Liam Gillick - Martin Creed - Eva & Adele - Christian Boltanski - Hans Ulrich Obrist - Niele Toroni - Art & Language – Simon Patterson - Graham Gussin - Vuk Cosic - Lev Manovich - Sam Samore - Polly Staple - Matthew Higgs - 360 corp - Nick Crowe - Mike Dawson - Steven Parrino - Phoebe Unwin - Jemima Stehli - bank - Guy Brett - Susie Green - Helianthe Bourdeaux Maurin - Christophe Kirsch - Erna Rijsdijk - Emilie Renard - Mark Borthwick - The Wrong Gallery - Tom Morton - Elena Filipovic - Swetlana Heger - Didier Marcel - Eric Troncy – M/M (Paris) - Carine Boyadjan - Tim Albertsen - David Medalla - Angela Bulloch - Daniel Buren – Roman Opalka - Michael Craig-Martin
Available at the ICA in London, or via in les presses du réel in France To order via the website: Selling price: £8 (€13) + £2 (€3)
Produced, designed and published in 2003 by Mathieu Copeland
ECHO PIECE (CANARY WARHF) by Michael Parsons // Saturday 20th of June 2009
ECHO PIECE (CANARY WHARF) 2009 by Michael Parsons Saturday 20th June 2009 A one hour walk through Canary Wharf with live brass accompaniment of a sound composition written by Michael Parsons and site specific to Canary Wharf. Echo Piece is an environmental sound work to be performed by a number of musicians, moving around and exploring the acoustic properties of an open-air space. Players with trumpets, horns and trombones will play short single notes, interspersed with silences, evoking echoes from reflective surfaces, in a variable, open-form, sparse and pointillistic texture of discrete sounds. Echo Piece creates a spatial polyphony of multiple echoes, activating the sound-reflecting surfaces of buildings at different distances, revealing the elasticity of the surrounding medium. Canary Wharf is an ideal urban location for this event, having a series of open spaces surrounded by sound-reflecting surfaces, and being relatively free of traffic noise. Echo Piece will change the way these spaces are perceived and experienced, by exposing their latent acoustic potential.
“The space between buildings is also part of their architecture. Volumes, masses and voids ‘transmit’ and ‘receive’ messages from one another.”
Curated by Mathieu Copeland Commissioned by Culture House at Arts and Business
WALKING IN THE CITY, by MICHAEL PARSONS on Sunday October 12th 2008 at 11.00am
WALKING IN THE CITY
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Sunday October 12th 2008 at 11.00am Finsbury Avenue Square London EC2 (west side of Liverpool Street station) Michael Parsons Walking Piece*** Michael Parsons will create a new version of his experimental classic Walk, originally written for the Scratch Orchestra in 1969. The performance will take place between 11.00am and 12 o’clock. To participate, meet in the Octagon next to the Richard Serra sculpture at the west entrance to Liverpool Street station at 10.30am. The work by Philip Corner will be performed inside the Richard Serra sculpture at exactly 12 o’clock. «The architecture geometrically defined by urban planning is transformed into a space by walkers. Space is articulated by the operations that take place within it. It is composed of intersections of mobile elements; it exists when one takes into account vectors of direction, velocities and time variables». A Culture House commission curated by Mathieu Copeland, media partners Resonnance FM |