Month: September 2024
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea is delighted to announce Mutual Aid – Art in collaboration with nature, a major exhibition dedicated to sustainability curated by Francesco Manacorda and Marianna Vecellio, which opens to the public on Thursday 31 October 2024 until Sunday 23 March 2025.
The exhibition explores the creative collaboration between humans and the non-human world by gathering a selection of artists who have addressed the interdependence between humans and nature from the 1960s to today.
The show profiles different phases of artistic reflection on ecology, culminating in concerns around the current climate crisis and the theoretical developments which put into question the centrality of man in the natural system. The project focuses around the act of sharing the creative process between artists and natural elements (animal, vegetable and inorganic), interpreted by the works of artists such as Maria Thereza Alves, Michel Blazy, Bianca Bondi & Guillaume Bouisset, Caretto/Spagna, Agnes Denes, Hubert Duprat, Henrik Håkansson, Tamara Henderson, Aki Inomata, Renato Leotta, Nicholas Mangan, Yannis Maniatakos, Nour Mobarak, Precious Okoyomon, Giuseppe Penone, Tomás Saraceno, Robert Smithson, Vivian Suter and Natsuko Uchino.
The title of the exhibition is inspired by the concept of mutual support proposed by Russian philosopher and zoologist Piotr Kropotkin (1842-1921) in his book Mutual Aid – A Factor of Evolution, published at the beginning of the last century. Kropotkin claims that the survival of species does not only benefit from competition, as Charles Darwin argued; on the contrary he demonstrates that, when a system has few resources and is unstable, survival is more likely if the elements in play collaborate and share a common plan. This makes ‘mutual aid’ a key factor in evolution, particularly in times of crisis. This attitude is highlighted in the exhibition by a selection of works of art started by humans but ‘finished by nature’ or co-created thanks to the contribution of non-human elements and agents.
Mutual Aid – Art in collaboration with nature invites us to reconsider the validity of the separation between nature and culture, reinterpreting them instead as collaborating elements called upon to support and nourish each other. The exhibition proposes to the public an ecosystemic vision and an innovative and urgent approach to major environmental issues, based on coexistence, sharing and the value of multi-species collective creativity and planning.
Curator : Éric de Chassey
With Adel Abdessemed, Jean-Michel Alberola, Dove Allouche, Arman, Kader Attia, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Romain Bernini, Christian Boltanski, Christian Bonnefoi, Hélène Delprat, Raphaël Denis, Damien Deroubaix, Erik Dietman, Elliot Dubail, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Thomas Hirschhorn, Fabrice Hyber, Alain Jacquet, Dora Jeridi, Annette Messager, Paul Mignard, Celia Muller, Bruno Perramant, Kiki Picasso, Loulou Picasso, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Edgar Sarin, Anne-Marie Schneider, Assan Smati, Daniel Spoerri, Georges Tony Stoll, Claire Tabouret, Djamel Tatah, Agnès Thurnauer, Barthélémy Toguo, Tatiana Trouvé, Ulla von Brandenburg, Rayan Yasmineh.
As part of its programming, MO.CO. continues to explore private collections as an essential stratum of our relationship with artists and their work. Laurent Dumas, collector and passionate advocate of contemporary creation, was invited to present part of his collection through the enlightened eyes of curator Éric de Chassey. The exhibition reflects this shared commitment to creation, as well as the diversity of this collection, which crystallizes the abundance of our artistic scene and its major historical evolutions.
Two group exhibitions from the Frac des Pays de la Loire collection.
A powerful vector of emotions and alliances across centuries and cultures, the kiss changes its meaning according to era and context. Through the filter of the kiss, a plural vision of the body, of desire, of ritual, of courtship or even of care is summoned up. But what about younger generations? In a post-covid world, can we still kiss? What is the durability and topicality of this gesture, whose representation seems as old as art itself?
Taking as its starting point the collection of the Fonds régional d’art contemporain, augmented by loans and previously unseen productions, this exhibition brings together over thirty French and international artists. Sur tes lèvres traces an intimate or societal journey through films, photographs, installations, performances and poetry from the 70s to the present day.
Image: Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Le baiser, 2000 (Sculptures-Peintures). Acrylique sur toile / Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 167 cm. Courtesy the Artist Estate and Art : Concept, Paris.
Is this title a nominal proposition, which one imagines could constitute a kind of description of what is, if not any exhibition, at least this one, specifically? A place capable of being open to the breath of the winds, yet welcoming to those who come to visit it, an exploded but engaging house, gracious and hospitable? Or should we read this title as a paradoxical injunction, an almost brutal, pocket philosophical precept, urging us to free ourselves from what encloses us? Wouldn’t it be more simply a gentle, vibrant invitation to be whispered or sung over and over again, a mini-poem of just four feet, which manages to create a musicality through the subtle play of repetition, and slight variation, which phonetically brings together the syllables [mœʁ]” and [myʁ]?
If the title of this exhibition by Vidya Gastaldon can teach us anything about her work, it’s that here, as elsewhere, there’s no need to choose between different interpretations, that they’re all valid at the same time, and that the serpentine forms of the question mark are always better than that little black hole that is the dot. Demeure sans murs is thus an invitation, an injunction and a description, a simple and beautiful title, perfectly open, from which it becomes possible to unfold and understand some of the laws that govern this highly visual and spiritually rich work.
Excerpt from the tex by Jill Gasparina
10/10 : 10 artists for 10 designs on Sèvres porcelain. Sèvres showroom.
With Ulla von Brandenburg, Philippe Cognée, Lionel Estève, Monique Frydman, Fabrice Hyber, Myriam Mechita, Françoise Pétrovitch, Nathalie Talec, Barthélémy Toguo, Thu-Van Tran
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles illuminates the diverse roles textiles play in artistic practice.
The exhibition brings together artists who take the intimate and domestic quality of textiles and transform them into theatrical, bold, unsettling and humorous artworks that inspire, challenge and offer new ways of thinking.
Featuring work created predominantly over the last decade by 15 UK-based artists, Material Worlds highlights their deep awareness of textiles’ cultural history and a shared desire to challenge its traditional associations, testing the material’s expansive and subversive potential.
The familiar fabric of everyday life is reimagined into the unexpected – the ordinary made extraordinary – to reflect on ideas of gender, identity, community, race, technology, and myth; demonstrating the medium’s potential to transform in the hands of different artists.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Caroline Achaintre, Jonathan Baldock, Phyllida Barlow, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Alexandre da Cunha, Holly Hendry, Tonico Lemos Auad, Paul Maheke, Anna Perach, Yelena Popova, Paloma Proudfoot, Yinka Shonibare, Rae-Yen Song, Tenant of Culture and Zadie Xa.
Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles is curated by Caroline Achaintre with Hayward Gallery Touring, in partnership with Mead Gallery, Djanogly Gallery, The Wilson Gallery and Pitzhanger Gallery.
Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson.
Program Fall 2024
La Chambre à échos is a group show with Nina Childress, Didier Marcel et Franck Scurti. In partnership with MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine/FR.
Curator : Thomas Conchou
Image: Nina Childress, Stage, 2012, courtesy Collection MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, vue de l’exposition Chambre à échos, La Ferme du Buisson, 2024, © Les artistes et Adagp – Paris | © photo Émile Ouroumov
Group show at the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation, Arles, from October 5, 2024 to February 9, 2025
with Richard Artschwager, Paul Blanchet dit Le Sauvage, Louise Bourgeois, Vittorio Brodmann, Claude Cahun, Martin Disler, Valie Export, Markus Gadient, Bruno Jakob, Asger Jorn, Martha Jungwirth, Karen Kilimnik, Verena Loewensberg, Albert Oehlen, Thomias Radin, Pipilotti Rist, Klaudia Schifferle, Pierre Schwerzmann, Hyun-Sook Song, Vincent Van Gogh, Dominique White
The “high yellow note” sought by Vincent Van Gogh and so many artists in his wake explores the limits of expressivity and attempts to go beyond them – whether formally or emotionally.