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22/5/2008

The Store

Tulips & Roses, Vilnius

Curated by Adam Carr

With works by:
Saâdane Afif, Stella Capes, Tomas Chaffe, Jason Dodge, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Claire Fontaine, Liam
Gillick, Loris Gréaud, Arunas Gudaitis, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Gabriel Kuri, Matthieu Laurette,
Juozas Laivys, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Darius Mikšys, Jonathan Monk, Paola Pivi, Dan Rees, Hannah
Rickards, Yann Sérandour, Dexter Sinister, Andreas Slominski, Superflex, Ron Terada, Mungo Thomson,
Mario Garcia Torres, Tris Vonna-Michell

And other people's projects:
‘Top 100’ by Davide Bertocchi; 'Dot Dot Dot' by Dexter Sinister; 'Lester & Malasauskas' by Raimundas
Malasauskas & Gabriel Lester; 'Old News' by Jacob Fabricius; 'Pin-Up Badges' by Pierre Beloüin
& Nicolas Simonin

Tulips & Roses, Vilnius is extremely delighted to announce its inaugural exhibition, THE STORE,
curated by Adam Carr.

THE STORE takes as its starting point the location of the gallery––Vilnius, a place in which the art
market has just begun––and its occasion––the galleries inaugural exhibition––to form a celebration of
the art object while aspiring to provide critical reflection on the manner by which it operates in the eyes
of the art market.

All of the artists included in THE STORE have been invited to participate with works that will available
to the general public. The result is an inventory comprising artwork by over 25 international artists,
as well as projects curated by other people, all of which can be purchased at relatively small prices
or be taken away for free. THE STORE therefore offers artworks to a mass audience usually conserved
in a private gallery context for a selective few, and in doing so aims to offer a new experience not only
within private commercial galleries but for exhibition going entirely. Interestingly, by making purchases
from the goods on offer––selecting a pair of keys, a poster and not say a slice of a cake and/or a
napkin, for example––viewers will in effect be curating their own shows for which can taken away with
them. This shifts the role of the spectator into consumer and active participant, and in response to their
activity, the exhibition will be subjected to perpetual change, order and reorder–– altering both its form
and meaning.

Adam Carr is an independent curator and writer currently based in London.

Image: Davide Bertocchi, Top 100, 2003-2004. Courtesy Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Opening 23 May 7 PM

Tulips & Roses
Gaono g. 10, LT-01131 Vilnius

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