CAPC Musée d'art contemporain
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Mathieu Tonetti, "Rancho Mirage, RM-144," 2010.Lightbox, print on Ecolatex
180 x 135 cm.© Mathieu Tonetti.
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After 4000 years of sci-fi
DYSTOPIA
Until 28 August 2011
A show written by Mark von Schlegell
curated by Alexis Vaillant
CAPC
musée d'art contemporain
Entrepôt Lainé. 7, rue Ferrère
F-33000 Bordeaux
France
www.capc-bordeaux.fr <http://www.capc-bordeaux.fr>
Opening hours :
Tue, Thur to Sun 11 a.m.7 p.m., Wed 11a.m.8 p.m.
Amid global crisis, contemporary art finds itself confronted by its own
theoretical and practical dissolution within a thoroughly debunked reality.
As
the Tao te Ching advises the mysterious protagonist of Dystopia, the
exhibition, the point is to "neither beat the pot and sing, nor loudly
bewail
the approach of death." Between nihilism and hedonism lie pathways to
failure,
resistance and survival.
The exhibition Dystopia is the offshoot of a fiction written by the American
science fiction novelist and theoretician Mark von Schlegell. Curated by
Alexis Vaillant of the CAPC, the art-works of 46 international artists are
presented within a world turned horror film. Utopia's wretched flipside is
presented not as subject matter but as setting, not as end but as point of
beginning.
According to von Schlegell and Vaillant the enlightenment tradition of
Dystopia&lsqauo;"the imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as
possible"*&lsqauo;offers contemporary art specific pathways (of re-mix,
collaboration
and radical tradition) into present-tense science fictional struggles with
the
disintegrating real past and imaginary future. Immersed in the present,
dystopian art presumes a weakest-possible point of view within an unresolved
fictional narrative presumed to be worsening. As with the theory of black
holes birthing new universes within them, it is within concentrated dystopia
that the actual utopias appear.(*Oxford English Dictionary)
With all the museum's windows covered by blood-red cellophane the visible
outside world is rendered fictional, casting its glow deep into the museum's
nave. Even so, the art works find idiosyncratic function, adapting with
surprising ease to the covering fiction.
Mark von Schlegell's new novel New Dystopia, featuring work by all
participating artists, will be published in English and French by Sternberg
Press as catalog for the exhibition.
Featuring works by:
Wallace Berman, Cosima von Bonin, Brian Calvin, Tony Carter, Marc Camille
Chaimowicz, Peter Coffin, Simon Denny, Andreas Dobler, Roe Ethridge, Keith
Farquhar, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Aurelien Froment, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa
Genzken, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Roger Hiorns,
Ull
Hohn, Des Hughes, Peter Hutchinson, Sergej Jensen, On Kawara, Michael
Krebber,
Jesús Mari Lazkano, Rita Mcbride, John Miller, Pathetic Sympathy Seekers,
Manfred Pernice, Stephen G. Rhodes, Glen Rubsamen, Sterling Ruby, Julia
Scher,
Frances Scholz, Michael Scott, Markus Selg, Reena Spaulings, Michael
Stevenson, Tommy Støckel, Josef Strau, Blair Thurman, Mathieu Tonetti, Oscar
Tuazon, Franz West, Jordan Wolfson
and a catastrophe by Eugene Isabey
Corporate sponsors
Air France, Seg Fayat, Lacoste, Lyonnaise des Eaux, 20 Minutes, Mouvement,
Château Chasse-Spleen
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