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 http://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