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15/10/2009

Chasing Napoleon

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler

1977. Theodore Kaczynski – who doesn’t yet answer to the name Unabomber – lives alone in a small cabin in Montana in anticipation of the “collapse of the technological system.”

Paul Laffoley finishes The Renovatio Mundi in the confines of a fifteen square meter atelier, and Dieter Roth works on a long-term project: a photographic inventory of all the streets and houses in Reykjavik (33,000 slides). That same year, the Community Reinvestment Act is passed, an attempt to regulate subprime lending.

A wavering of interpretations, an inversion of values, and a paradox of situations… CHASING NAPOLEON recognizes how a rise and fall can spread to reality itself. On the heels of GAKONA and SPY NUMBERS, the electromagnetic specter and the infra-mince,Marc-Olivier Wahler brings together eighteen artists whose works also read as instruction manuals on how to withdraw into seclusion and take refuge in the limits of the visible.

Dave Allen
Micol Assael
Christoph Buchel
Dora Winter
Gardar Eide Einarsson
David Fincher
Tom Friedman
Ryan Gander
Robert Gober
Robert Kusmirowski
Paul Iaffoley
Tony Matelli
Ola Pehrson
Charlotte Posenenske
Hannah Rickards
Dieter Roth
Tony Smith
John Tremblay

Opening 15 October '09 at 8 pm

Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du President Wilson, Paris
open: noon-midnight
admission 6 Euro

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