Marc Camille Chaimowicz
” …In The Cherished Company of Others… “
A collaborative project between the artist and Alexis Vaillant
July 5 – September 7, 2008
de Appel arts centre
www.dappel.nl
September 27 – December 15, 2008
PMMK
www.pmmk.be
Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a pioneer in mixing artistic installation and performance. In the 1970s, he distinguished himself with his playful and subtly seductive ‘environments’, immersive installations that can be read as a consciously messy and ambivalent reaction to the clean concepts of Conceptualist and post-Minimalist tendencies. With the complicity of the curator Alexis Vaillant, it has been decided to combine a broad range of works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz with notably numerous architectural models and artworks by a select group of international artists whom Marc Camille Chaimowicz feels empathy with. Conceived in the spirit of a playful inquiry and ‘flânerie’ – characteristic of the perception of the artist’s idiosyncratic dandyism, this ‘collective retrospective’ highlights the idea that an artistic production can function on a parallel level to its mental ‘backdrop’.
The exhibition will be shown in PMMK in Oostende (Belgium) in a mutated form.
With
- Anonymous
- Atelier
- Richard Artschwager
- Nairy Baghramian
- Joseph Beuys
- Tom Burr
- James Lee Byars
- Enrico David
- Emile Guy
- Michael Krebber
- Jason Meadows
- Clémence Meunier
- Jozef Peeters
- Loïc Raguénès
- Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
- Elsa Schiaparelli
- Lilly van der Stokker
- Amikam Toren
And featuring “Jean Cocteau” (2003-2008)
An anthology of writings by the artist is co-published on this occasion:
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Forever What? (1972-2008), Alexis Vaillant (ed.), Sternberg Press, Berlin / Les presses du réel, Dijon / de Appel & PMMK, 2008.
Book available as of September 26, 2008. See www.sternberg-press.com or mail ednavanduyn@deappel.nl
For press inquiries or more information please contact:
Hiske Zomer (de Appel): Hzomer@deappel.nl + 31 (0) 20 6255651 or
Marianne Brusselle (PMMK): Marianne.Brusselle@west-vlaanderen.be T + 32 (0) 59 564591
