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22/3/2012

Locus Solus

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto

curated by: Manuel Borja-Villel, Museo Reina Sofia, João Fernandes, Serralves Museum, François Piron, independent curator, with the collaboration of Guy Schraenen

Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel is an exhibition dedicated to the figure and influence of French writer Raymond Roussel (1877 - 1933), the author of poetic, novelistic and theatrical works without precedent in the history of literature. Locus Solus is one of his most emblematic works. Roussel is known for the singularity and exuberance of his narrative and for the complex methodology he developed.

The show analyses the influence Roussel had on modern and contemporary art, by looking at a broad array of works (more than 300) in a variety of formats (paintings, photos, sculptures, ready-mades, installations, videos...) by about thirty different artists. His influence was recognised by surrealists and other creators linked to the historical avant-garde – including Marcel Duchamp, who went so far as to describe him as "he who points the way" – and since then it has done nothing but grow, with an authentic myth being generated around this artist who, nonetheless, remains quite unknown.

The exhibition shows how Roussel's aesthetic-literary undertakings, so complex and ambitious and with their strange blend of conceptual rigor and linguistic delirium, have been a source of inspiration to visual artists such as Salvador Dalí, Francis Picabia, Allen Ruppersberg, Rodney Graham… And also to authors from other fields, from philosophy, to literature, music and even ethnographic research. The work of Roussel can thus be used as a point of departure for an oblique and transversal reading of 20th century art.

Artists represented in the exhibition:

Vito Acconci
John Ashbery
Jean-Christophe Averty
Denise Bellon
León Benett
Jean-Yves Bosseur / Michel Butor
André Breton / Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Broodthaers
Anne de Brunhoff
Jacques Carelman
Lionel Charbonnier
Giorgio de Chirico
Guy de Cointet
Joseph Cornell
Julio Cortázar
Salvador Dalí
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Öyvind Fahlström
Juan Esteban Fassio
Jean Ferry
Morgan Fisher
Michel Foucault
Terry Fox
Lecreux Fréres
Régent Gil
Rodney Graham
Raymond Hains
Charles Herbert
Rebeca Horn
Cristina Iglesias
Edouard Jouve
André Masson
Harry Mathews
Roberto Matta
Georges Méliès
Pedro Morais
Ree Morton
Alfons Mucha
Félix Nadar (Estudio)
Georges Perec
Francis Picabia
Markus Raetz
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzy)
Jean Rouch
Henri Rousseau
Raymond Roussel
Allen Ruppersberg
Niki de Saint Phalle
Néstor Sanmiguel Diest
Victorien Sardou
John Smith
Jean Tinguely
Francisco Tropa
Julio Verne
Franz Erhard Walther

Inauguration: 23rd March 2012, 22h00
Opening to the public: 24th March 2012, 10h00

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
Rua D. Joao de Castro, 210 - Porto
Admission: Museum and Park – € 7,00
- Park – € 3,00

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