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Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

Alfredo Jaar. La politique des images
June 1 - September 23, 2007

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Palais de Rumine, place de la Riponne 6 - C.P
1014 Lausanne - Switzerland
Tel : +41 21 316 34 45
Fax : +41 21 316 34 46
e-mail: info.beaux-arts@vd.ch

http://www.beaux-arts.vd.ch

The Fine Arts Museum in Lausanne is proud to present a major retrospective of the work of Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York), including previously unseen pieces and others that are being shown in Europe for the first time.

The exhibition, produced in close collaboration with the artist, offers a vast overview of his work, from documentations of his first public interventions undertaken in Chile (Studies on Happiness, 1979-1981) to his latest installation to date, The Sound of Silence (2006), by way of his works on gold miners in Amazonia (Introduction to a Distant World, 1985; Out of Balance, 1989), works produced following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (Real Pictures, 1995; Field, Road and Cloud, 1997) as well as his last film Muxima (2005), a wonderful piece about Angola. Making use of media as diverse as public interventions, installations, photography and video, Alfredo Jaar’s work questions the nature of images and our relationship to them. The crucial questions that he explores in his work concern the very possibility of producing art based on events that we would prefer to ignore, and of creating images in a context characterized both by their over-abundance and, paradoxically, by their in
visibility. For more than thirty years, he has thus created an extremely powerful body of works of utmost sensitivity, closely linked to current events while taking the opposite stance to sensationalistic reports; on the contrary, he offers a "stand-still", opening up the possibility of registering the density of political aspects in what appeared to be merely an incident or occurrence.

If the artist’s reputation no longer needs to be made on the contemporary art circuit — he has participated in the Venice (1986 and 2007), São Paulo (1987), Sydney (1990), Kwangju (1995), Istanbul (1995), Johannesburg (1997) and Seville (2006) Biennials, as well as at Documenta in Kassel (1987 and 2002), and has had major exhibitions in New York, London, Berlin, Madrid and Santiago — he has never so far enjoyed a solo exhibition in Switzerland or France. The Fine Arts Museum in Lausanne is consequently delighted to be filling an important gap.

Catalogue
The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph in French and English:
Alfredo Jaar. La politique des images
with texts by Georges Didi-Huberman, Griselda Pollock, Jacques Rancière and Nicole Schweizer
168 pages, Editions JRP Ringier, Zurich, 2007.

Public Lecture
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 6:30 pm
By Georges Didi-Huberman, Maître de conférence at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
(admission free)

For further information, please contact Nicole Schweizer, exhibition curator nicole.schweizer@vd.ch or Florence Pittet, press relations florence.pittet@vd.ch

For more information go to: http://www.beaux-arts.vd.ch

Mudam Luxembourg

TOMORROW NOW -
when design meets science fiction
25 May to 24 September 2007

Mudam Luxembourg
3 Park Dräi Eechelen
L-1499 Luxembourg
Tel. +352 45 37 85-1
11am to 6pm, Wednesdays 11am to 8pm, closed on Tuesdays.
info@mudam.lu
Press contact: presse@mudam.lu

http://www.mudam.lu

TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction is the first exhibition devoted to the relationship between design and science fiction. Homage to Luxembourg-born Hugo Gernsback, the inventor of the term "science fiction", it explores the links created between the two disciplines from the beginning of the 20th century until today.

Curated by Alexandra Midal and Björn Dahlström, the exhibition presents the territory covered by both disciplines and the richness of their combination through works created by designers, architects, artists, science fiction authors and film directors on the subject of science fiction. More than 800 pieces by more than 100 artists have been brought together and are the subject of a thematic circuit that develops through the different galleries of the museum. The show design, by Mathieu Lehanneur, is in keeping with the exhibition in that it modifies our perceptions with monumental mobile cubes at the entrance to rooms that decide whether to allow the visitor to enter or not, a mountain of unidentified material which seems to pour towards the visitor and inflatable flying objects in a geostationary state…

A catalogue with essays and interviews with and by various artists, authors and designers
(including Dan Graham, Shane Carruth, Denis Santachiara, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Paul Lesch,
Tim Armstrong, Dunne & Raby, Piero Frassinelli, Paco Rabanne and many more) about design and science fiction in history, literature, cinema, architecture and fashion will be published in autumn 2007. Some of these interviews can already be viewed as short films on http://www.mudam.lu.

The exhibition is a production of Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg.

This project takes place in the framework of Luxembourg and the Greater Region, European Capital of Culture 2007, under the High Patronage of Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess.

With the support of PricewaterhouseCoopers, BUROtrend and Istituto Italiano di Cultura. In collaboration with Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Centre national de littérature Mersch, Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg.

LOGOS: 2007, CARGOLUX, GOVERNMENT, KREDIETBANK, MUDAM

For more information go to: http://www.mudam.lu

CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art

Diego Perrone
David Maljkovic
On Lost Worlds
Showing until the 16th of September

CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art
Entrepôt Lainé
7, rue Ferrère
33000 Bordeaux
+33 (0)5 56 00 81 50
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm, Wednesdays until 8pm
capc@mairie-bordeaux.fr

http://www.bordeaux.fr

The Diego Perrone, David Maljkovic and On Lost Worlds exhibitions are tantamount to extensions of the Grey Flags exhibition, shown at the CAPC from December 2006 to March 2007. The works in these three exhibitions fight shy of delivering messages, and are not easy to pigeonhole. They are evocative and disquieting, weaving a narrative in which the set of references vanishes, to be replaced by a quest into the power of vision. How one can "reload" this strength of representations, after the bankruptcy of modernist utopias, just when digital technologies are imposing on image systems an uninterrupted flow and renewal? The works of Perrone, Maljkovic and the artists alongside them in the Lost Worlds exhibition can thus be read as devices of regurgitation and deceleration. As if certain images and certain forms refused to disappear, and came back to haunt our amnesiac consciousness. So there is a backward-looking dimension inherent in these works. As if it were necessary
to face up to the past, to what has been repressed, in order to have a chance to imagine a future.

Diego Perrone
Boccioni’s Mother in an Ambulance and The Casting of the Bell

David Maljkovic
Days below memory

On Lost Worlds
David Maljkovic and Diego Perrone, with Mario Merz, Laurent Montaron, Paul Pfeiffer, Daniel Roth, Bettina Samson, Simon Starling, and Paul Thek.

For more information go to: http://www.bordeaux.fr