In 2008, Andy Warhol would have turned 80 Shadows and other signs of life @ the Chantal Crousel Gallerie

Countless exhibitions have addressed the many facettes of the work of one of the 20th century most genious and influential artists.

For the present exhibition, Chantal Crousel has chosen a specific selection of works, that emphasize the constant presence of the SHADOW, an essential element in the work of Andy Warhol. The shadow that extends the document (subject) into its fiction - that projects the defined into its con-sequence : the infinite. From the start of the artist's process, the shadow is an inseparable actor/factor: the b/w photographs shot in the studio by the artist in search of his model. These still-lives, portraits, will eventually develop into the complex drawings, prints and paintings we know.

The shadow, and other signs of life, are declined here through 96 works:

-b/w composition photographs (Skulls, Hammer and Sickle, Gems, Stuffed Animals, a.o),
Polaroids (Caroline of Monaco) and stitched photographs (Male Nudes),
-stencils, anticipating the "Rorschach" paintings and the "Shadow" paintings and prints,
-graphite drawings (Knittings, Space Fruits, Cells, Hammer and Sickle, a.o.) and eventually their
derivated prints,
-Piss Paintings: urine on gesso on canvas,
-"Shadows II", a set of 6 diamond dust prints (ed. 6/10).

Most of these works have been rarely - if at all - exhibited.!

Chantal Crousel thanks Joel Wachs, Vincent Fremont, Tim Hunt and the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their precious assistance.!

At the occasion of the exhibition, a book documenting the works, accompanied by an essay by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh: "Anniversary Notes for Andy Warhol", will be published by the Galerie Chantal Crousel / Walther König Verlag.

Please note the galley will be open by appointment from to December 26 to January 02, 2008

Andy Warhol, Shadows and other signs of life
December 15, 2007 - January 19, 2008

GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL
http://www.crousel.com
10, rue Charlot, 75003 Paris
Tuesday-Saturday 11am-01pm, 02pm-07pm

T +33 1 42 77 38 87
F +33 1 42 77 59 00
galerie@crousel.com

"STASH ! WHEN ADVERTISING MEETS ART..." until' decembre 22nd

Exhibition until saturday decembre 22nd, 2007
Free entrance


What if, for once, one would give you the urge to watch TV commercials? the "Stash, when advertising meets art" exhibition is holding the bet and presents genuine creative films, art objects miles away from purely commercial advertising productions. Funny or dead serious, baroque or radical, complex or minimalist, every single film selected for the exhibition should be watched as a trule artistic creation, an artwork self-existing apart from the products or brands they're suppose to endorse...


Relationships between advertising and art forever fueled debates, cross-arguments and conflicts. Often criticized, even rejected because of its commercial and mercantile aspect, advertising is nevertheless a ephemeral art form feeding itself from every trends and sociological streams of the society of men.

Brands, for a long time, called for artist to often come up with creative jewels. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Arman or fashion designer John Galliano are example amongst other of artist working for major brands. Directors like Ridley Scott, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Woody Allen, Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze also successfully faced the adverting challenge.


The "Stash!" exhibition invites you to a journey in the best advertising commercials (TV or viral) ever made those past few years. This selection was made collaboratively with the "Stash" DVD magazine, one and only monthly display for commercial animations, shorts, VFX and motion graphics work for design and advertising.


STASH DVD MAGAZINE
Every year, STASH delivers the planet's most innovative and outstanding commercial animation, VFX and motion graphics plus insightful behind-the-scenes extras in a monthly DVD magazine. Also tucked inside the STASH DVD case is a companion book of color stills, details on the featured work, credits and tech notes.

STASH is the essential resource for ad agencies, broadcasters, animation and VFX studios, designers, post houses, production companies and schools.

Exposition realized in partnership with avec Stash DVD Magazine.
Greg Robins (Publication), Steven Price (Edition) and Thomas Pilicer (Marketing)

Contact

stash DVD magazine online

LE CUBE - ART3000
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92130 Issy-les-moulineaux
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Public transports
Metro : Ligne 12 - arrêt « Mairie d’Issy » + bus 123 - Arrêt « Chemin des Vignes »
(5 mn de trajet au départ du métro, bus toutes les 5 mn).
RER C - station « Issy » - sortie « allée des Carrières » puis suivre les indications.
(à 5 mn de la gare)
Tramway : T2 - station « Les Moulineaux » – (à 2 minutes en face de la gare)

By car
From Paris, take the Quai de Stalingrad, Exit La Ferme-Billancourt. after the roundabout, take the Aristide Briand street , then Cours Saint Vincent is the first street on your right.

THE THIRD MIND Carte blanche to Ugo Rondinone until January 3rd

Giving an internationally renowned artist "carte blanche" is a key idea that emanates from the director of the Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler. Placed at the centre of the decision-making process determining the programming of the Palais de Tokyo, the artist is free to concoct an entire exhibition. His or her vision is given an auspicious setting and sufficient time to develop into a visual arts world that is always unique. As well as offering a kind of map of the artist's brain, desires and influences, giving carte blanche to an artist provides an opportunity to approach the processes of creation and aesthetic cross-referencing from a novel angle. Artists are never where we expect them to be. They look at our reality, our everyday life, but also the works of their contemporaries, in a unique and enlightened way.

THE THIRD MIND /

With THE THIRD MIND, Ugo Rondinone offers us a unique journey. An MRI scan of his influences, inclinations and obsessions, the exhibition is constructed as a stroll through a brain in perpetual activity, going straight to the source of the artist's references and discoveries. For the first time his gift for building systems of connections – an aptitude which has made Ugo Rondinone famous – is placed at the service of the works of other artists, not his own. The systems of connections activated as well as the artists and works chosen make THE THIRD MIND an exhibition that no curator/art historian would ever have been able to dream up.

William S. Burroughs, the cult writer of the Beat Generation, and the artist Brion Gysin worked out the cut-up method which consists of cutting up and reassembling various fragments of sentences to give them a completely new and unexpected meaning. The Third Mind is the title of a book they devised together following this method; they were so greatly impressed by its contents that they felt it had been composed by a third person, a third author, a synthesis of their two personalities. 1+1 = 3. In homage to this book which was never published, Ugo Rondinone sets out to cut up and remix the contemporary artistic landscape to allow a new meaning to emerge from it. THE THIRD MIND, composed from the assembled works of thirty-one different artists, constitutes a fully fledged work in its right, a new, spectral work created by a third mind, a third artist, the product of the meeting between Ugo Rondinone and his selections.

Closing our first season which started a year ago, THE THIRD MIND constitutes the final episode in a train of thought exploring territories that are as disconcerting as they are heterogeneous, but are nonetheless united by one and the same idea : getting shot of the "window vision" of art, which regards exhibitions and works as fixed points in time and space. Each episode of this first season integrates the notion of programming conceived of as a cursor, and is set in a scenario based on the multiplication of interpretations, the decompartmentalization of intellectual and aesthetic categories and the constant questioning of the bridges between art and our reality. From an open space (FIVE BILLION YEARS) to a private space (THE THIRD MIND), from a proposal put forward by a curator (Marc-Olivier Wahler) to the visions of an artist (Ugo Rondinone) by way of artist curators (Peter Coffin and Olivier Mosset), from collective exhibitions to solo exhibitions, the year ends with an exhibition where – as in the first episode – every work is inscribed in a whole that is greater than its parts, so contributing towards founding a paradoxical identity that is strong yet elusive. Thus this first season will have seen the very concept of the exhibition – and the entire Palais de Tokyo along with it – slipping, changing, metamorphosing and relentlessly questioning the "schizophrenic quotient" of art.


Artists of the Third Mind:
Ronald Bladen · Lee Bontecou · Martin Boyce · Joe Brainard · Valentin Carron · Vija Celmins · Bruce Conner · Verne Dawson · Jay DEFeo · Trisha Donnelly ·
Urs Fischer · Bruno Gironcoli · Robert Gober · Nancy Grossman · Hans Josephsohn ·
Brion Gysin et William S. Burroughs · Toba Khedoori · Karen Kilimnik · Emma Kunz ·
Andrew Lord · Sarah Lucas · Hugo markl · Cady Noland · Laurie Parsons ·
Jean-Frederic Schnyder · Josh Smith · Paul Thek · Andy Warhol · Rebecca Warren ·
Sue Williams ·


Palais de Tokyo
www.palaisdetokyo.com
site de création contemporaine
13, avenue du Président Wilson à PARIS

Accès
Métro Iéna
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Admission:
Tuesday-Sunday noon to midnight