Pierre Leguillon
dal 8/1/2015 al 21/2/2015
Segnalato da
8/1/2015
Pierre Leguillon
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle. The project brings together works that he has created over the last 15 years out of reproduced images. These are taylor-made displays that bring together photographs, film extracts, advertisements, postcards, posters, slides, record sleeves, magazines, and other types of mass media.
Curator Devrim Bayar
Assistant Curator: Marwann Frikach
Conceived by the French artist Pierre Leguillon, The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle brings together works that he has created over the last fifteen years out of reproduced images. These are taylor-made displays that bring together photographs, film extracts, advertisements, postcards, posters, slides, record sleeves, magazines, and other types of mass media. But these works evade solidifiying into fixed forms. Each one is intimately informed by a principle of movement, or, indeed, of reversibility, and they are deployed on mobile, light, or transportable structures. Thanks to its economy of means and the autonomy of its presentation displays, The Museum of Mistakes proposes an exhibition model that attempts to foil, or “de-class-ify”—to reprise the exhibition’s title—the hierarchies of art. In decompartmentalizing identity, whether it is a matter of the artist’s, the visitor’s, or those of the exhibited images, The Museum of Mistakes invites us to rethink the conditions of the reception of art, depicted here first of all as an activity. In so doing, Leguillon inquires into the political function of art within society, wherein each individual is in a perpetual process of emitting and receiving information.
With the participation of Sébastien Capouet, Nicolas Chardon, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, documentation céline duval, Sylvie Eyberg, Adrien Faucheux, Yves Godin, Ana Jotta, Aglaïa Konrad, Valérie Mannaerts, Delphine Merabet, Willem Oorebeek, Conny Purtill, Clément Rodzielski, (SIC), Marthe Wéry.
Pierre Leguillon, born in Nogent-sur-Marne, France, in 1969, lives and works in Brussels. His works, performances, and projections have been the subject of many monographic presentations, notably at Raven Row (London, 2011), Mamco (Geneva, Switzerland, 2010), Moderna Museet (Malmö, Sweden, 2010), the Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2009), and Artists Space (New York, 2009). Recently, the artist presented two installations at the Carnegie International, held in Pittsburgh in 2013: A Vivarium for George E. Ohr and Dubuffet Typographer the latter being accompanied by a book published by (SIC) in Brussels. A laureate of the Villa Médicis in 2003, Leguillon teaches at HEAD (Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design) in Geneva.
With the support of Ambassade de France, Chasse-Spleen, Maison Dandoy, Duvel, Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Hotel Le Berger, Institut Français, Thalys.
Press & communication
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Opening / Vernissage: 09.01.2015, 18:30
WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Brussels
Hours
Wednesday – Sunday: 11.00 – 18.00
Nocturne: every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month: 11.00 – 21.00
Closed: Monday – Tuesday
Tickets
8 € Individual visitor
5 € Students (+18), teachers, seniors (+60), groups (> 10 pers)
3 € Students (12–18), schoolgroups, unemployed
1,25 € Ticket ‘Article 27’
0 € Children (12 years old), accompanied by their parents
0 € Every first Wednesday of the month