Philippe Parreno
dal 22/11/2010 al 12/2/2011
Segnalato da
22/11/2010
Philippe Parreno
Serpentine Gallery, London
The show has been conceived as a scripted space in which a series of events unfolds. The visitor will be guided through the galleries by a timeline of orchestrated sound and image. Noise from Kensington Gardens will be heard inside, as though the outside is leaking into the gallery. The window blinds will move automatically to reveal sudden change of weather. The show will feature the UK premiere of Parreno's latest film, 'Invisibleboy' and 'June 8, 1968'.
This autumn the Serpentine Gallery presents Philippe Parreno’s first solo exhibition
in a public institution in the UK. Parreno rose to prominence in the 1990s, earning
critical acclaim for his work, which employs a diversity of media including film,
sculpture, performance and text. Taking the exhibition as a medium, Parreno has
sought to redefine the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities beyond a
collection of individual works.
Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery has been conceived as a scripted
space in which a series of events unfolds. The visitor will be guided through the
Galleries by a timeline of orchestrated sound and image. Noise from Kensington
Gardens will be heard inside, as though the outside is leaking into the Gallery. The
window blinds will move automatically to reveal sudden change of weather.
The show will feature the UK premiere of Parreno’s latest film, Invisibleboy (2010),
the story of an illegal Chinese immigrant boy who sees imaginary monsters, which
are scratched onto the film stock. Fantasy and social realism, fiction and
documentary overlap within the film’s shots. Also included in the exhibition, June 8,
1968 (2009) recalls the train voyage that transported the corpse of assassinated
senator Robert Kennedy from New York to Washington D.C. Kennedy’s body and the
Invisibleboy are characters that float between several layers of reality.
The Serpentine exhibition follows a series of related but distinct retrospectives of
the artist’s work presented at Kunsthalle Zürich, 2009; Centre Pompidou, Paris,
2009; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2009-2010; and the Centre for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2010.
Philippe Parreno was born in 1964 in Oran, Algeria and lives and works in Paris.
Other major exhibitions of the artist’s work include: Center for Contemporary Art,
CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, 2006; Kunsthalle Zürich, 2006; San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, 2003; Musée d’Art Moderne de le Ville de Paris, 2002, and Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, 2001.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue focusing on Parreno’s
work in film and featuring essays by art historian and critic Michael Fried; curator
and critic Nicolas Bourriaud; and art historian, writer and curator Dorothea von
Hantelmann.
Image: Invisibleboy 2010. Film still. Courtesy of Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) © 2010 Philippe Parreno
For press information, contact:
Tom Coupe, 020 7298 1544, tomc@serpentinegallery.org or
Rose Dempsey, 020 7298 1520, rosed@serpentinegallery.org
Opening 23rd november 2010
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA
Open daily, 10am - 6pm
Admission free