On view at the Pola Museum of Art is until December 1, is one of Philippe Parreno’s largest solo exhibitions in Japan, encompassing his diverse practice ranging from early works of the 1990s to an installation unveiled for the first time, with his well-known film Marilyn among the highlights.
While incorporating advanced technologies such as AI and robotics into his works, Parreno also playfully manipulates familiar objects such as pianos, lamps, window blinds and balloons, creating poetic situations in which dynamism and silence, humor and critique intersect. Parreno takes an exhibition itself as a medium, and here he meticulously transforms the space of the Pola Museum of Art into a labyrinth of symbols, where mysterious presences, voices, lights, darkness, and hidden messages configure a dramatic sequence. Stepping into a venue resembling a large-scale theatrical set, we find ourselves immersed in experiences that bring both unprecedented wonder and confusion, as if we were involved in his attempt as performers.
Exhibition views: Philippe Parreno, Places and Spaces, Pola Museum of Art (2024).
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Future is a faded song by Anri Sala, currently on view at the Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama
The work “Future is a faded song” offers an immersive experience where visitors are invited to explore the depths of the Ikurado cave, conducted by the sound and light embodiment of two intertwined breaths.
The cave is illuminated in rhythm with these two circular breaths, casting light onto stalactites and stalagmites whose evolving shapes call to mind the frozen waveforms of sound mutations. Initially, the duration of each breath corresponds to the respective volumes occupied by the bodies of two victims of the Pompeii eruption (79AD), revealed during excavations in 2017.
From the onset, as the visitors enter the Ikurado cave, the breaths start to trigger musical sounds. Initially, they resonate with the notes of a double flute (aulos in Greek), also unearthed during the Pompeii excavations, allowing this foregone instrument that had remained silent for millennia—to echo once again. As the visitors delve further into the cave, the sounds of the aulos give way to the tunes of modern wind instruments, first clarinet and later saxophone, as if the ancient sounds emancipate themselves with each step deeper into the cave.
Closer to the surface, as the journey nears its end, visitors catch sight of a timeworn turntable floating weightlessly in an abandoned space station, shimmering like a buried relic waiting to be uncovered. It is tethered only by its electrical cord, endlessly playing a record of Messiaen’s “Abyss of the Birds” (1941).
In this enigmatic setting, visitors find themselves at the heart of an experience that unites past and future in a sonic and visual transformation, where breath and light serve as interconnected lifelines linking the ancestral depths of the Earth with a prospective post- apocalyptic event, where a vinyl spins eternally above its deserted skies.
Music performed by : Raphaël Sévère & Andre Vida, light and sound
We are thrilled to repost the announcement of our artist Sun Yitian (@taki524) teaming up with Louis Vuitton for @NicolasGhesquiere’s Pre-Fall 2024 Collection, which will be unveiled at the Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai on Thursday, April 18th at 7pm CST. Watch the show live on Instagram or at louisvuitton.com.
Women’s Voyager show, an invitation to embark on an odyssey of artistic expression. ��#SunYitian #LVVOYAGER #LVPREFALL24 #NicolasGhesquiere #LouisVuitton @louisvuitton
On view through April 13 at our gallery in Berlin is a special presentation by Thomias Radin @thomias_r, Hidden in Plain Sight.
The artist has conceived of a site-specific environment to present two sculptures and three paintings in hand-carved artist frames.�
Please note that our gallery in Berlin will be closed for the Easter weekend from Friday, March 29 through Monday, April 1, 2024.
Link in bio for more information!
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Watch now! Liam Gillick discusses his latest exhibition at Esther Schipper, Berlin, open through April 13, 2024.� On view in the niche is a special presentation by Thomias Radin @thomias_r.
Please note that our gallery in Berlin will be closed for the Easter weekend from Friday, March 29 through Monday, April 1, 2024.��
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Liminal, an exhibition created by Pierre Huyghe in close collaboration with curator Anne Stenne, presents major new creations alongside works from the last ten years, particularly from the Pinault Collection.
Pierre Huyghe transforms Punta della Dogana into a dynamic, sensitive milieu perpetually evolving. The exhibition is a transitory state inhabited by human and non-human creatures and becomes the site of formation of subjectivities that are constantly learning, changing, and hybridizing. Their memories are expanding with information captured from events, both perceptible and imperceptible, that permeate the exhibition.
See the exhibition through November 24 at Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection.
Video: Extract from Pierre Huyghe, Camata, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Carousel, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirt, Esther Schipper, and TARO NASU © the artist
Pierre Huyghe, Liminal at Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection
Through November 24, 2024
Curated by Anne Stenne
Dorsoduro, 2, 30123 Venice
In preparation of Liam Gillick’s upcoming exhibition at Esther Schipper Berlin, opening this Friday, March 15, the shown video combines a series of abstract forms derived from advanced production with graphics that reflect upon the legacy of Otto Neurath's (1882-1945) Isotype Picture Language, developed to depict statistical information in an easily comprehensible visual language in the 1920s. Influenced by Yuk Hui’s concepts of technodiversity the exhibition suggests we need to find new forms to represent today's evasive technologies.
Liam Gillick
Esther Schipper Berlin
March 15 – April 13, 2024
Public opening: Friday, March 15, 2024, 6-9pm
Link in bio for more information.
Liam Gillick’s new works draw on the artists long-standing interest in how ideologies find form. Seeking new ways to represent complex interrelations—material and human—his work involves installation, sculptural work, films, graphics, and texts. In the course of recent large-scale institutional projects, in particular Filtered Time at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in 2023, Gillick has developed a new underlying narrative in response to his continued engagement with the history of standardized graphical systems.
Three distinct types of wall-mounted works attempt to find abstraction in the material structures of advanced production. Each work is accompanied by a unique book jacket design. The new body of work draws conceptually on the work of Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz who in the 1920s developed a system to simply represent complex statistical information, known as the Vienna Method or, beginning in 1935, as ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education). This exhibition addresses the elusive visual languages that might represent advanced production today.
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To mark his 10th anniversary at Louis Vuitton, @NicolasGhesquiere unveils the Women’s Fall-Winter 2024 Collection within a mineral garden set designed by Philippe Parreno in collaboration with production designer James Chinlund and a soundscape by Nicolas Becker, at the Cour Carrée du Louvre in Paris. Watch the show at louisvuitton.com
#philippeparreno #estherschipper #LVFW24 #NicolasGhesquiere #LouisVuitton @jchinlund @nicobeck1107
