20/1/2006
3 Exhibitions
Magasin, Grenoble
Cinema(s), Michael Craig-Martin: Climate Change, Magasin 1986-2006: by Claude Closky with 60 artists
Michael Craig-Martin
Climate Change
22 January - 3 September 2006
Le MAGASIN invites Michael Craig-Martin to create a monumental ephemeral work in the central space called ‘la Rue’ (the Street), with its surface of over 900 m2 under its glass roof, and approximately 150 linear meters of wall space. His project is a mural painting of 770 m2 printed on vinyl ‘wall paper’ applied to the walls, created from Craig-Martin’s digital drawings. About 60 giant, flattened and simplified objects from everyday life, each one unique, are drawn on a background of bright, gradated color. The selection of these objects, their color, their spatial relationships, and their juxtaposition are what provide the tension and narrative within the work.
Michael CRAIG-MARTIN, preparatory drawing for MAGASIN
Michael Craig-Martin is widely considered an important figure in conceptual art, working especially in the media of drawing and painting. His work has been concerned with fundamental questions about the nature of art, about representation, authorship, and the role of the viewer, explored primarily through commonplace objects both real and as images. Large installations dominate much of his most recent work.
Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin in 1941, raised in the United States and educated at Yale University. He moved to London in 1966, where he continues to live and work, having his first solo exhibition there in 1969. His prestigious teaching career at London’s Goldsmith’s College began in 1974 and his students have included Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Fiona Rae, and Liam Gillick, to name some of the most influential British artists today.
His most recent solo exhibitions include :
ARP-CRAIG-MARTIN-ARP 11 reliefs/11 paintings/11 sculptures, Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany, 2004 ; Michael Craig-Martin: Surfacing, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, England, 2004 ; Eye of the Storm, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2003 ; Living, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Berardo Collection, Portugal, 2001 ; Michael Craig-Martin: And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (site specific installation), 1999
This project is supported by the British Council.
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Cine'ma(s)
Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Pierre Joseph, Ange Leccia,
Christelle Lheureux & Apichatpong Weerasethakul, M/M, Philippe Parreno, Philippe Perrin,
Georges Rey, Thomas Struth
et Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Jean-Luc Godard, Vide'ogazette.
This exhibition brings together artworks, films and documents from the last thirty years.
Their common denominator is a concern with cinema (its technology, modes of production and dissemination, and the world of film) and a geographical connection to Grenoble and its region.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s Grenoble, and in particular the Villeneuve quarter, was a recognised centre of social experiment. The production of filmed images was one practical aspect of this. Out of a concern to democratise the modes and conditions of filmmaking, and in parallel with his pursuit of an aesthetic of the real, Jean-Pierre Beauviala created lenses and cameras for the Nouvelle Vague. A resident of Villeneuve and comrade of Beauviala, Jean-Luc Godard shot Nume'ro 2 in his flat. Impelled by a critical vision of the economy and aesthetics of industrial cinema, local activists created Vide'ogazette (1972-1976), which can be considered as one of the first neighbourhood television channels, while others subsequently became involved with experimental cinema (MTK).
Some fifteen years later, young artists trained at the art school by figures such as Ange Leccia, Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Georges Rey took up the question of cinema, shifting it into the field of art in order to explore such issues as modes of production by organising a series of collaborative and collective undertakings.
This “particularity" is now characteristic of the functioning of the contemporary scene. The Ann Lee project is based on an animated character, whose rights have been bought by the initiating artists, each of whom has created a film that adds to or extends those that already exist.
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MAGASIN
1986-2006
The Book
Exhibition conceived by Claude Closky with 60 artists
From 21 January 2006, the works created by the sixty invited artists for the website homepage will be shown at MAGASIN.
Invited artists on the website homepage during MAGASIN’s glass roof renovation works, from September 2004 to January 2006 :
27 Sept-3 Oct 2004 Claude Closky / 4-10 Oct 2004 Aleksandra Mir/ 11-17 Oct 2004 Gerwald Rockenschaub / 18-24 Oct 2004 Nicolas Frespech / 25-31 Oct 2004 Olaf Nicolai / 1-7 Nov 2004 Pierre Denan / 8-14 Nov 2004 Angelo Plessas / 15-21 Nov 2004 Xavier Veilhan / 22-28 Nov 2004 Franck Scurti / 29 Nov-5 Dec 2004 May Ueda / 6-12 Dec 2004 Michael Smith / 13-19 Dec 2004 Kristina Solomoukha / 20-26 Dec 2004 Olaf Breuning / 27 Dec-2 Jan 2005 Hyperbate.com / 3-9 Jan 2005 Thomas Hirschhorn / 10-16 Jan 2005 Rafael Rozendaal / 17-23 Jan 2005 Kristofer Paetau / 24-30 Jan 2005 Yi Zhou / 31-6 Feb 2005 Vale'ry Grancher / 7-13 Feb 2005 Alain Se'chas / 14-20 Feb 2005 Etienne Cliquet / 21-27 Feb 2005 John Armleder / 28-6 March 2005 Ve'ronique Joumard / 7-13 March 2005 Jonathan Monk / 14-20 March 2005 Pierre Huyghe / 21-27 March 2005 Olivier Bardin / 28-3 Apr 2005 Ken Lum / 4-10 Apr 2005 Jean-Luc Moule'ne / 11-17 Apr 2005 Alexandre Perigot / 18-24 Apr 2005 Francois Curlet / 25-1 May 2005 Dr. Brady / 2-8 May 2005 Martin Le Chevallier / 9-15 May 2005 Te'le'fe'rique / 16-22 May 2005 Paul Davis / 23-29 May 2005 Tatiana Trouve' / 30-5 June 2005 Jean-Baptiste Bayle / 6-12 June 2005 Petra Mrzyk & Jean-Francois Moriceau / 13-19 June 2005 Florian Faelbel / 20-26 June 2005 Maryle'ne Negro / 27-3 July 2005 Kenneth Goldsmith / 4-10 July 2005 Koo Jeong-A / 11-17 July 2005 Taroop & Glabel / 12-18 Sept 2005 Mircea Cantor & Gabriela Vanga / 19-25 Sept 2005 Sylvie Fleury / 26-2 Oct 2005 Guillaume Paris / 3-9 Oct 2005 Julian Opie / 10-16 Oct 2005 Maurizio Nannucci / 16-23 Oct 2005 Miltos Manetas / 24-30 Oct 2005 Eric Mayllet / 31-6 Nov 2005 Thomas Le'lu / 7-13 Nov 2005 Vidya Gastaldon / 14-20 Nov 2005 Julien Pre'vieux, 21-27 Nov 2005 YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, 28 Nov-4 Dec 2005 Claude Le've'que, 5-11 Dec 2005 Eric Duyckaerts, 12-18 Dec 2005 Monica Bonvicini, 19-25 Dec 2005 Mathieu Mercier, 26 Dec-1 Jan 2006 Gianni Motti, 2-8 Jan 2006 Antoni Muntadas, 9-15 Jan 2006 Anne Fre'my.
Claude Closky:
Born 1963, lives and works in Paris. Marcel Duchamp Award in 2005.
In 2005, he participated to these exhibitions: Exchange Value of pleasure, Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea; Shortcuts, Bass Museum, Miami; Mouvement, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Prix Marcel Duchamp, Fiac, Paris; Casa de Francia, Mexico; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Roue de la fortune, Edward Mitterrand Gallery, Geneva; Sharjah 7th international Biennial; Zero Interest! - Artistic strategies for an economy in crisis, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento; Plus beau, Ministe're de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris; You want you have, Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin; L’oeuvre en programme, capc Muse'e, Bordeaux.
Opening 21 January at 17:30
21 January 2006 at 7:30 pm
Performance Jonathan Meese
"Noel Coward est Saint Just est Herbert Volkmann (Le Ultimo Tango a' Paris)"
Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain
Site Bouchayer-Viallet - 155 cours Berriat 38028 Grenoble cedex 1 - France
Tuesday - Sunday, 2 to 7pm