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Two exhibitions
dal 2/5/2012 al 5/8/2012

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Anri Sala



 
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2/5/2012

Two exhibitions

Centre Pompidou, Paris

The unprecedented installation by Anri Sala is made up of four recent films - shown in a precise time sequence, forming a loop of one hour - as well as objects and photographs. Creative Multiversities is an exhibition devoted to industrial forecasting and to new territories and creative tools in the fields of architecture, design, new technologies and social innovation.


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Anri Sala

From May 3rd to August 6th 2012, the Centre Pompidou is presenting a monographic exhibition of the artist Anri Sala.
Following Philippe Parreno in 2009, Jean-Michel Othoniel in 2011 and preceding Adel Abdessemed and Mircea Cantor invited in the Fall of 2012, this exhibition is part of the series which the Centre Pompidou is devoting to mid-career artists of the French scene.

Designed for the Galerie Sud of the Centre Pompidou and conceived by the artist, this unprecedented installation is a work in itself, akin to a symphony, made up of four recent films - shown in a precise time sequence, forming a loop of one hour - as well as objects and photographs. The films carry the visitor away to different locations : Sarajevo, in an evocation of the 1992-95 siege (1395 Days without Red, 2011), Berlin, with a Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome (Answer Me, 2008), Bordeaux with a deserted music-hall (Le Clash, 2010) and, finally, the famous Aztec site of Tlatelolco in Mexico City (Tlatelolco Clash, 2011).

Through the films, following an elaborate spatializing of their sound, the Galerie Sud will be turned into a music box, in which a symphony by Tchaikovsky will take turns with an instrumental version of the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” and drum rhythms.

The exhibition also plays with the very space of the Galerie Sud, its location at street level and its visual continuity with the cityscape: standing on the edge between fiction and reality, the visitors of the installation face passers-by strolling past the Centre Pompidou. However, they are constantly brought back to the present by the playing of ten snare drums (Doldrums, 2008) which spring to life periodically. The sculpture No Window No Cry, made up of a small music box set into one of the windows of the exhibition gallery next to a “bubble” blown into the glass, plays, when activated, a simplified version of the song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” (The Clash, 1981), a tune which also resonates throughout Le Clash and Tlatelolco Clash, two of the films being shown. Heard in the three works, this very tune lures the spectator away from reality into fiction.

Title Suspended (2008), one of the two works by the artist in the Centre Pompidou’s collection, completes the installation along with two photographs.

Born in 1974 in Tirana, Albania, Anri Sala creates works combining image, sound and architecture. His works have been shown in monographic exhibitions, in particular at the Serpentine Gallery (London) in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal the same year, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami in 2008, the Arc in Paris in 2004, as well as in numerous group exhibitions, including three participations at the Venice Biennale (2003, 2001, 1999) where he was awarded the young artist’s prize in 2001. Anri Sala will be representing France at the 55th Venice Biennale. He is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris, the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, Hauser & Wirth in London and Zurich, kurimanzutto in Mexico and the Galerie Johnen in Berlin.

For the exhibition, the Centre Pompidou is publishing a 160-page bilingual French/English catalogue, designed by Quentin Walesch, with contributions from Michael Fried, Christine Macel, curator of the exhibition, Philippe Parreno and Jessica Morgan.

Anri Sala talks to American art historian Michael Fried on Thursday 3 May 2012 (Centre Pompidou, 7.00 pm, Petite salle).

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Creative Multiversities

From 3 May to 6 August 2012, the Centre Pompidou is presenting ‘Creative Multiversities’, an exhibition devoted to industrial forecasting and to new territories and creative tools. The exhibition leads visitors down the path of experimentation, research and forward-looking work in the fields of architecture, design, new technologies and social innovation.

The expression ‘multiversity’ originates in the industrial world. Today, it serves as a keyword for a generation of designers with an average age of 35. Their generation is launching itself into an infinity of calculations and networks to provide an aesthetic and human translation. At the crossroads of different disciplines, and through 15 projects designed and produced especially for the occasion, the exhibition gives an account of the current state of their technological and artistic experiments.

These projects illustrate and decipher the contemporary revolution of multiple and constantly changing creative processes. They throw light on the emerging issues in today’s design that renew our everyday, cognitive, imaginary and aesthetic experiences. One of these projects came out of a new innovation space, a Fab Lab (short for ‘laboratoire de fabrication’ – a manufacturing laboratory) organised by the Centre Pompidou in February 2012 with the support of the Fondation Zinsou and the Centre Songhaï in Porto-Novo, Benin. Others are experiments, created especially for the exhibition, from the world’s most highly specialised laboratories: the Media Lab in MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States), the Institute for Computational Design in Stuttgart, and the Institut de recherche sur l’Enseignement des Mathématiques at Paris Diderot University.

By concentrating on three central themes – Generating – Manufacturing – Representing – these projects bring together the proposals of researchers in architecture and design, based on computational design and innovation models, with new processes for creating forms and structures. They show how the Fab Labs are reconfiguring design communities and networks to act on the basis of sustainable development. The visitor is invited to manipulate internet data by visualising it graphically. With their tremendous scale – at once minuscule and immense – these interactive devices suggest completely new horizons of sensitive projections.

The word “multiversité” comes from the industrial world and expresses the notion of creative universes that are both multiple and in transformation. The “Multiversités” exhibition features an unprecedented collection of research and experimentation by young designers. This is a generation that travels into the infinities of networks and computation to represent them with a human dynamism, translating them in a manner that is aesthetically unique.

The fifteen projects on display reveal both the relevance of and the emerging questions in several disciplines connected to Industrial Forecasting: architecture, design, new technologies and social innovation.

The exhibition has three thematic threads:

Generating: Researchers working in architecture and design use the calculation possibilities of computers in tandem with their knowledge of how materials perform to create unexpected and unprecedented works.

Manufacturing: Whether they’re working in the desert, at a Fab Lab, or in an office, designers are transforming and reappropriating how objects are made.

Representing: How data is processed radically reconfigures how we classify and represent knowledge.

Image: Anri Sala, Doldrums, 2008, 10 modified Brady snare drums speakers, stands, pairs of drumsticks. Courtesy: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 75 x 56 x 42 (approx.) View of the installation at the Serpentine Gallery, London © photograph: Sylvain Deleu

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