The Third Mind. Group Show
dal 26/9/2007 al 2/1/2008
Segnalato da
Ugo Rondinon
Ronald Bladen
Lee Bontecou
Martin Boyce
Joe Brainard
Valentin Carron
Vija Celmins
Bruce Conner
Verne Dawson
Jay Defeo
Trisha Donnelly
Urs Fischer
Bruno GironcoIi
Robert Gober
Nancy Grossman
Hans Josephsohn
Brion Gysin
William S.Burroughs
Toba Khedoori
Karen Kilimnik
Emma Kunz
Andrew Lord
Sarah Lucas
Hugo Markl
Cady Noland
Laurie Parsons
Jean-Frederic Schnyder
Josh Smith
Paul Thek
Andy Warhol
Rebecca Warren
Sue Williams
26/9/2007
The Third Mind. Group Show
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Placed at the centre of the decision-making process determining the programming of the Palais, the artist is free to concoct an entire exhibition. Ugo Rondinone presents works by artists from the 1960s to the present, devoting a room, for example, to the monumental sculptures of Ronald Bladen, which he connects with Cady Noland's silkscreens on aluminium and Nancy Grossmann's disturbing masks.
Charte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone
An innovative Carte Blanche
Giving an internationally renowned artist carte blanche is a key idea that emanates
from the director of the Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Wahler. Placed at the centre
of the decision-making process determining the programming of the Palais de Tokyo,
the artist is free to concoct an entire exhibition. His or her vision is given an
auspicious setting and sufficient time to develop into a visual arts world that is
always unique. As well as offering a kind of map of the artist’s brain, desires and
influences, giving carte blanche to an artist provides an opportunity to approach
the processes of creation and aesthetic cross-referencing from a novel angle.
Artists are never where we expect them to be. They look at our reality, our everyday
life, but also the works of their contemporaries, in a unique and enlightened way.
A unique artistic gesture
With THE THIRD MIND, Ugo Rondinone offers us a unique journey. An MRI scan of his
influences, inclinations and obsessions, the exhibition is constructed as a stroll
through a brain in perpetual activity, going straight to the source of the artist’s
references and discoveries. For the first time his gift for building systems of
connections -- an aptitude which has made Ugo Rondinone famous -- is placed at the
service of the works of other artists, not his own. The systems of connections
activated as well as the artists and works chosen make THE THIRD MIND an exhibition
that no curator/art historian would ever have been able to dream up.
UGO RONDINONE presents works by artists from the 1960s to the present, devoting a
room, for example, to the monumental sculptures of Ronald Bladen, which he connects
with Cady Noland's silkscreens on aluminium and Nancy Grossmann's disturbing masks.
Image by Sarah Lucas
Opening 27 september 2007 6 p.m. to midnight
Opening night musical selection by Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashi.
Palais de Tokyo
avenue du President Wilson, 13 Paris
Free admission