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Art + Space

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"Splendide Hotel”, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Museo Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid,  2013. Repetition, iteration, constants & variables…

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“15 Rooms”, iterative performance art show, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Long Museum West Bound, Shanghai, 2015. 

Repetition, iteration, constants & variables…

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Johannes Vermeer, The Art of painting (Allegory of Painting), 1665-68.

The « atelier » as an explicit thematic, literally standing at the edge of an endless metaphorical, metaphysical and spatial loop…

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Les Époux Arnolfini, Jan van Eyck, 1434.

The « atelier » as an (explicit) thematic, literally standing at the edge of an endless metaphorical, metaphysical and spatial loop…

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L’Atelier du peintre. Allégorie Réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique (et morale), The Painter's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic (and moral life), Gustave Courbet, Paris, 1855.

The « atelier » as an explicit thematic, literally standing at the edge of an endless metaphorical, metaphysical and spatial loop…

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After the Party, Belgian pavilion, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Venice Biennale, 2008. Context as content. To enclose…

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Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art and Wrapped Floor and Stairway, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Chicago, 1968. Context as content. To wrap…

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Le Plein, Arman, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, 1960. Context as content. To fill…

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La Spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Yves Klein, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, 1958. Context as content. To empty…

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Rope drawing No 19, Patrick Ireland in Rooms at PS1, 1976. Context as content. Alternative spaces as a reaction to the values carried by art institutions, including the message of space, its materiality and its contextual potential in itself…

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Moving Out – Moving In = A Statement About People, Place and Energy, Tina Girouard in Rooms at P.S.1, 1976. Context as content. Alternative spaces as a reaction to the values carried by art institutions, including the message of space, its materiality and its contextual potential in itself…

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Artforum cover, on P.S.1. Rooms, October issue, 1976.

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Floor plan of P.S. 1, showing Rooms installation locations, New-York, 1976. 78 artists invited to create site-specific installations throughout the building. Alternative spaces as a reaction to the values carried by art institutions, including the message of space, its materiality and its contextual potential in itself…

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Poster for PS1 inaugural exhibition, Rooms, 1976. 78 artists invited to create site-specific installations throughout the building. Alternative spaces as a reaction to the values carried by art institutions, including the message of space, its materiality and its contextual potential in itself…

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Detail of annotated flyer for The Brooklyn Bridge Event, New York, 1971. Alternative spaces as a reaction to the values carried by art institutions, including the message of space and its materiality itself…

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Installation beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, Richard Nonas, The Brooklyn Bridge Event, New York, May 24, 1971. Alternative spaces as a reaction to the values carried by art institutions, including the message of space and its materiality itself…

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Sixteen Miles of String, for the exhibition First Papers of Surrealism, organized by Andre Breton and "his twine" Marcel Duchamp, Council of French Relief Societies, New York, 1942. Aggression towards art (itself but also the artists and the art space) disguised as aggression towards the public/audience…