Exhibition from April 9 to June 12, 2004
Opening reception Thursday April 8, 2004, from 6 pm
Since 1999, Mai-Thu Perret invents the story of an utopian and autonomous community, situated in New Mexico, which is strictly made up of women. New Ponderosa Year Zero already exists in different forms, those of a text-manifest, diaries, objects produced by this community : furniture, decorative elements, sculptures, clothes and party’s decor as well as events’ residues which testify the existence and the organization of the everyday life of this microsociety. This imaginary world gives the artist the possibility to invent a society, its story and its organization and to project her fantasies, her comments whether they are of a social or political nature, putting together reality and fiction just as her pleases her. This work’s structure allows Mai-Thu Perret to play different roles : artist, director, novelist. More seriously, this is also maybe a way of thinking about the reconstruction of a ethic, a search for lost idealism or a new form of commitment.
M/M (Paris) Pour hoM/Me, Printemps-Eté 2004, 6 posters, colour silkscreen prints, 120 × 176 cm, edition of 25. Co-edition of the Cneai, Chatou/Paris, and Centre d’édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2004.
OpeningJanuary 29thfrom 18:00at the Centre d’édition contemporaine(cec) Exhibition fromJanuary 30 toMarch 27, 2004 open Tuesdayto Fridayfrom 14h to 18hand Saturdayfrom 14h to 17h
HarutyunSimonian(lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia) will present at the cec,videotestimony of aperformance achievedin camera andpreviouslytransformed intoa private theater, a sort of black boxwhose interiorcoated with vaselineismade impassable. This actionbetweenbody artand dance,putthe artist in aconstantimbalance,always at the limitof the fall.
Thisbodyisloss of balanceHarutyunSimonian use it as a metaphorandcomment on thedisorientationbothpolitical, cultural and identity, consequential moralvacuum left bythe end of theSovietauthoritarian political system.
Mai-Thu Perret, 5 Sculptures Of Pure Self-Expression, edition of a series of five objects (the dead, the spider, the gallow and two cristals), red enamel ceramics, Ø approx 20 cm., edition of 160 from which 10 H.C., 10 A.P., 40 editions reserved for sale and 100 editions offered to the 2003 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2004. The 40 editions reserved for sale, the 10 H.C. and the 10 A.P. are split in 12 sets of the five different ceramics gathered in a cardboard box with red print on top, numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2004.
Edition offered to the 2003 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
NO MORE LIGHTS ON MY STARGUITAR, vinyl, 33 rounds, 12 sound tracks by Albert Angelo (GB), John Armleder (GE), Ana Axpe (GE), Kim Sop Boninsegi (GE), Bruno Dürr (GE), Mossuraya (GE), Yanick Fournier (D), Benoit Guignat (FR), Baron Samedi (Elena Montesinos, C. Daesen at S. Mercier) (CH), Reynolds (AR), SPLITt Jaques Julien & Hugues Reip) (FR), Uusi Fantasia (FI), 1000 copies, edited by Made at home records and the centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2005.
This rather rock’n’roll inspired compilation of musical pieces organised by Bruno Dürr is meant to defy this obsolete but nevertheless reactualised idea about the death of the rock’n’roll music. It will be presented together with its video clip, Glamourama, realised by Corine Stübi.
Edition offered to the 2004 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
Compilation No More Lights On My Starguitar in details
SPLITt (Jacques Julien & Hugues Reip), Melita Singh, 2 :51
Mossuraya, Haine aux maçons (Part 2), 2:08
Reynols, Rohr Caduelo Gasigo Flatdas, 3:38
Uusi Fantasia, Wet Pussy, 1:18
Ana Axpe, 4 ever elvis, 2 :55
Baron Samedi (Elena Montesinos, C.Daesen et S. Mercier), Flaw to fizz , 3 :33
Yanick Fournier, Marco Praz, 3 :18
John Armleder, 4’.33’, 4:33
Benoît Guignat, ##, 3:36
Albert Angelo, Accident Will Happen/A Happy Accident, 5:00
Bonus tracks :
Kim Sop Boninsegni, matter of laughs, 1 :00
Bruno Dürr, I killed my father’s guitar, 1 :07
PACEMAKER #4, free newspaper, fourth number, with Markus Schinwald (cover), Antek Walczak « Out of Bounds », Eric Troncy, « Le facteur cheval », Daniel Baumann, « The Visitor », Ben Kinmont, « Hard core cozy and warm state of mind organic all natural lemonade espresso mate tea chai soy milk apple cider smoothies », Melissa Longenecker, « Love Letter », Carole Sabas, « Le point à jour », Michael Roy, « Roman », Lawrence Weiner & Kathryn Bigelow, « Rationalization », « WSIS », Pablo León de la Barra, « To be political it has to look nice », Noëllie Roussel, « Quousque tandem, dracula, abutere aesthetica nostra ? » and Annie Waterman, « Bles s n°20 », doctor : Pascale Dauman, astrology : Yuki Kimura. Offset on alsaprint 70gm2 paper, A2 format, 148 x 210 cm, folded in three cross fold points, one colour black, edition of 7000, English and French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, graphic de sign : Gilles Poplin, Paris appointed by Sylvia Tournerie, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – produced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, February 2004.
Exhibition from October 31, 2003 to January 17, 2004
Opening Thursday October 30, 2003, from 6 PM
In order to pursue our investigation into the field of the multiple and to consider it as a field of experimentation and test site, this year we have chosen to shift our perspective towards objects that straddle the border between the artistic and commercial systems. Throughout 2003 we have been showcasing publications that operate outside the constraints of traditional channels of distribution and communication, with multiples such as posters and portfolios, fanzines, Xerox books, newspapers and free magazines, distributed – before or after the exhibition – by hand, through the mail, or in public places such as bars, stores, galleries, art centers and museums, … Continue reading “Filière papier – Filière expo“
PACEMAKER #3, free newspaper, third number, with Richard Hertz, « Jack Goldstein and the Calarts Mafia », anthology of discussions with and about Jack Goldstein, Philipe Par reno, « The underground Man (After a short Story by Gabriel Tarde) », Matthieu Orléan, « Grey Gardens », Jean – Michel Wicker, « Horses in my Dreams », Susanne Bürner, « 13 Steps towards the Uncanny », Carissa Rodriguez, « Arts & Leisure », Jacob Fabricius, « Patrick ‘The Critter’ », Olaf Breuning, « Sheep and Sun », Michael Roy, « Roman », Karl Holmqvist, « Sitting position, Basic Positions for sitting on the Ground », doctor : Melvin Moti, horoscope : Petra Mrzyk & Jean – François Moriceau. Offset, A2 format , 148 x 210 cm folded, one colour, edition of 7000, English or French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, graphic design : Sylvia Tournerie – 3 points, Paris, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – prod uced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, October 2003.
Josef Strau, White Nights, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 20 pages including the 4 cover and back pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, English, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
PACEMAKER #2, free newspaper, second number, with Jean – Luc Blanc, « Before and after », paintings, 2003 (cover), Arnaud Maguet, « Pushing Too Hard on Mind, The spatial dynamic trajectory of Sky « Sun light » Saxon », Gardar Eide Einarsson & Matias Faldbakken, « Usk for you », a conversation between Sture Johannesson and Johnny Rotten, « When we are dead », Gigiotto Del Vecchio/Supporticolopez, « Supporticolopez Storyboard », Laetita Raynaud, Aby Warbur g, « Astrologer », excerpt from « A Lecture on Serpent Ritual », 1923, Pascale Cassagnau « Site of the Month », Bennett Simpson, « Letter from Philadelphia », Bernadette Corporation, « Chapters 3 and 1 (excerpts from a collective novel) », Brigitte Bardot vs Marcel Broodthaers, « V, M.B. vs the city of P. and B.B », «Carlos Depot opens in June », Michael Roy, Ed Ruscha, « A Daydream by Ed Ruscha » excerpt from « my books End Up In the Trash », doctor : Jean – Luc Verna, astrology : Sylvie Fleury « Astro signe ». Offset, A2 format, 148 x 210 cm folded, one colour black, 9 edition of 7000, English and French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, artistic director : Valentin Carron, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – produced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, June 2003.
Katie Holten, Procumbent Notions, brochure with a text by James Gleick, « The Butterfly Effect » from Chaos (1988), Xerox photocopies, 26 pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, blue cover, English, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
Céline Duval, Trois bons amis, à vous tous, pour vous mesdames!…, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 20 pages including the 4 cover and back pages, 13.3 × 17.7 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, French, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
Exhibition at the centre d’édition contemporaine (cec), from May 23 to July 19, 2003
Opening Thursday, May 22, 2003, from 6 pm
A collaboration between finger (artist collective based in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) and three graduating students – Aurélien Gamboni, Sloane Huguenin and Marion Ronca – from the CCC critical curatorial cybermedia postgraduate program of the Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts HES-Genève, and the centre d’édition contemporaine.
finger was founded in 1998. The group, composed today of four artists, Martin Brandt, Florian Haas, Claudia Hummel and Andreas Wolf, aims to undertake research in the form of “fieldwork”: mediating actions and alternative realizations which are later regularly documented in their eponymous publication.
A platform for discussion and exchange between artists and authors, finger deals with exhibitions, conferences and publications touching on the new phenomena, whether unconscious, popular, individual or more general which traverse contemporary society, at the level of the everyday, the local and the city, but also through larger economic, social and cultural movements: globalization, immigration, political and social conflicts, new technologies… Continue reading “Finger No. 12 conventions/ Konventionen/ conventions“
PACEMAKER #1, free newspaper, first number, texts by Jens Hoffman, « Plus jamais d’expos emmerdantes », Carissa Rodriguez, «Philippines, Tristes tropiques», Daniel and Alexandre Costanzo, « Charles Bronson&sons », Richard Prince, «Eleven Conversations», Michael Roy, « Roman », Eric Troncy, « la Logique du Projet », Elvis Presley, Bri ce Dellsperger, « Shelley Michelle, Body Double Xtraordinaire », Rob Pruitt & Jonathan Horowitz, « Peacock Hill, haunted mansion for Sale », Theodor W. Adorno, « Astrologie », V/VM, « Bienvenue à l’asile musical », Jonathan Monk, Una Szeeman, « Un plâtre à la mode de Los Angeles. Un témoignage de Joël Rane », Marquis de Bièvre, editorial, «Lettre à la Comtesse Tation», doctor : Bernadette Van – Huy, astrology : Elena Montesinos. Offset on alsaprint 70gm2 paper, open : A2 format, 148 x 210 cm, folded in three cross fold points, one colour black, edition of 7000, English and French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, graphic design : deValence, Paris, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – produced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, May 2003.
VALDEZ #5 – Valdez de oro-anthologie des révolutions
Part I ; a flipbook, fragments from the film El Día que me quieras by Leandro Katz, 30 min. colour, Digi Beta, 1998 / Giorgio Agamben, « Frenhofer y su doble » / Pedro Manrique Figueroa , « Cinco collages americanos » / Mauricio Cruz, « La dimensión orname ntal » / Jennifer Gonzalez, « Preliminary problems in constructing a situation » / Alberto Baraya , « Expédition dans l’ancienne Europe » / Katya Sander and Ashley Hunt, « Revolutions pr. Minute » / Dan Graham, « Mis trabajos para páginas de revista: ‘Una historia del Arte Conceptual’ » / Elías Canetti, « ¿Porqué no escribo como Karl Kraus? » / M.I.R., « Entrevista a Pablo León de la Barra » / Gregory Whitehead, « The Bottom of the mind » / « The Best 5000 Colombian Contemporary Artist » / Tanya Leighton, « Tempo – Time » / Alain de Beaufort, « By: Alain de Beaufort » / B.O. , « Lo autobiográfico en Heidegger » / Luis Ospina, « El Crepúsculo de los (a)Dioses » / Saul Anton, « The One and the Other (Ten Chiasmata after Documenta) » / Pablo Batelli, « Contra el a rte mercantil » / Jeffrey Skoller, « Memories of the Revolution » / Jaime Iregui, « Estados Alterados » / Alex Villar, « Freirean Detours » / Juan Manuel Cuartas, « Antonin Artaud, la rebelión, el nervio, la escritura » / Rafael López, « A quien pueda inte resar » / Patricia Aristizábal Montes, « Locura mujer escritura: la locura en tres escritoras colombianas » / Saskia Sassen, « Entrapments Rich Countries cannot escape: Governance Hotspots » / Will Bradley, «‘Ranters’» / Victor Manuel Rodríguez, « On Sta ge: Pedro Manrique Figueroa and the Rethoric of Modernist Art History » / Galia Ospina Villalba, « Born Yesterday » / F.B., « Íconos » / Leandro Katz, « POL: A Different Light on the International Debt Problem » / Camilo Vega, « Pórtico/Cada época tiene s u propio Stalin/Lenin/Principios de la estética proletaria/Tengo Miedo » / F.B., « Contribución a la Antología de Revoluciones » / Victor Manuel Rodríguez, « Entrevista a Antonio Caro » / F.B., « Imagining this piece » / Mariangela Méndez, « vive y trabaja en Bogotà » / Carlos Enrique Lozano, « Brecht para insectos » / François Bucher, « Editorial ». Part II , Christopher Ho and Hilda Daniel, « Orbit 2001 » / José Tomas Giraldo, « Casa en Bogotà » / Véronique Bacchetta, « Jakob Kolding » / Pavel Buchler, « s ans titre » / Pablo Batelli, « Los dados del azar absoluto / Concurso Valdez: I). What is Switzerland? II). Qué es Suiza? » / Angeline Scherf, « Anne Marie Schneider » / Marie Oresanz, « Questo foglio puoi prenderlo e portartelo a casa » / Carlos Basuald o, « To all Art Curators in the World: Our Duty » / Veran Matic and Drazen Pantic « War of Words, When the bombs came, Serbia’s B92 hit the Net. » / Michelle Marchaux « Guerraeterna » / F.B. « La Escuela Manrique/The Manrique School » / Christopher Ho «Reprinted Speech from Saturday 15, 2001 » / F.B. y L.O. « Entrevista » / a conversation between Cédric Price and Hans Ulrich Obrist « Cities, Museums, Cybernetics ».
Mads Ranch Kornum, Dark Matter / Two Great « Works » by Mads Ranch Kornum, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 16 pages including the 4 cover and back pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, English, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
Roman Ondák, Good Feelings in Good Times, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 32 pages including the 4 cover pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
Exhibition from march the 28th to may the 10th, 2003
Opening march the 27th, from 6 pm
Editions Posters, artist’s publication,briefcase with 18 folded prints, streetview photos of the posters, several texts in french/english : an artist’ text, a selection of past projects’ texts, a text of Doreen Massey, geographer, french translations of posters’ texts, 21 x 29,7 cm, offset, black/white, on paper couché demi-mat blanc 115 gm2, briefcase couché semi mat white 300 gr, 22 x 30,5 cm, 700 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2003.
Poster, offset, black/white, on paper affiche couché blanc brillant, 135 gm2, 60 x 84 cm, 700 copies, unnumbered, undated and unfirmed, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2003. Continue reading “Jakob Kolding”
FINGER#12, free issue published by the Centre d’édition contemporaine and the Finger group, in collaboration with Aurélien Gamboni, Sloane Huguenin and M arion Ronca, with French, English and German texts, from Sloane Huguenin «L’histoire d’une brigade, « C’est vrai qu’il déménage souvent… », an interview of Stéphane Monbaron (French, with English summary), Claudia Hummel « The Give – Away Books » (English ), Florian Haas « Lew, ein Spezialist für Monumentalplastik und die Darstellung von Karl Marx » (German, with English summary), Marion Ronca « CIRA , the international center for research on anarchism » (English), Die Sportsfreunde Rüsselsheim « Das Noizemo bil 2000, ein Urlaubsbericht » (German, with English summary), Aurélien Gamboni, « Petit voyage dans le monde des normes » (French, with English summary), Martin Brandt, « Match it if you can » (English), offset, black, on light green paper, 16 stapled pag es, 21 x 29,7 cm, edition of 5000
Presentation of Amy O’Neill’s (US/GE) and Emmanuel Piguet’s (GE) edition: dm-melkenburg (death match-melkenburg) realized within the 2001 Prize of the CEC. This edition is in reality a virtual one, consisting of a computer card with a fighting game to be played in networks or on the internet. The environment of the game reconstitutes the death row of an American prison.
Jakob Kolding, Sans titre, offset poster, black/white, on shiny laid paper 135 g/m2, 60 × 84 cm, edition of 700, not numbered, not dated, not signed. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2003.
Jakob Kolding, Posters, artist’s publication, document file containing 18 folded prints: reproductions of posters, of photographs of in situ posters, several texts in English/French as well as an introduction by the artist, a selection of texts on three previous projects in Denmark, Geneva and Los Angeles, a text by Doreen Massey (geographer), English translations of texts on selected posters, 21 × 29.7 cm, offset print, black/white, on semi-mat laid paper 115 g/m2, document file on mat and laid paper Invercote G-Print 280 g/m2, 21.5 x 30.2 cm, edition of 700. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2003. ISBN 978-2-9701174-1-4.
One video every week, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, visible from the street
With videos by Knut Åsdam (NO), Jonas Dahlberg (SE), Esra Ersen (TR), Vidya
Gastaldon (FR), Tommi Grönlund (FI), Elke Krystufek (AT), Olivier Nottellet
(FR), mvrdv (NL), Amy O’Neill (US), Pia Rönicke (DK), Markus Schinwald (AT),
Mika Taanila (FI), Pablo Vargas Lugo (MX), Paul Viaccoz (CH). Continue reading “Animation: Vidéos“
Karl Holmqvist, CECI N’EST QU’UNE ILLUSION, silkscreen printed plastic bag, black/white, 34.5 × 46.5 cm, unlimited edition. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2002.
Edition offered to the 2002 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
Group exhibition of a collective we are part of, with about 30 independent editors and alternative magazines gathered together by the editor Christoph Keller / Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt.
The Centre d’édition contemporaine presents the Genevan session, after the ones in 2001 in Hamburg, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Berlin, and before the one in Frankfurt for Manifesta 4.
For the occasion, the CEC becomes a salon for reading, open for every reader, for consultation, with a subjective and instructive selection of independent, alternative and contemporary projects, editions, magazines, video and sound projects
A non-representational and informative selection
of independent publishing projects, alternative magazines,
and audio works on contemporary art,
compiled by Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt,
with the help of many friends. Continue reading “KIOSK (V)“
Exhibition from January 26, 2001 till March 30, 2002
Opening January 25, 2002
Monica Bonvicini (born in 1965 in Venice, lives and works in Berlin)
First presentation of Monica Bonvicini’s new publication, on the occasion of her two shows in Switzerland : bad bed bud pad bet pub at the Kunsthaus Glarus (Summer 2000) and Bonded Eternmale at the Centre d’édition contemporaine. Eternmale, publication with 13 reproductions of collages from the series Drawings for Eternmale (2000) and an interview of Monica Bonvicini by Beatrix Ruf, offset print on white opaque Patinata paper, 200gm2, colour, 14 pages bound together by a metal spiral, 50 x 60 cm (same size as Pirelli calendars), edition of 1000, co-edited by Kunsthaus Glarus and Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2002.
Monica Bonvicini transforms our venue into a living room with brutal design, characterized by virile aesthetics but not lacking critical humour.
Monica Bonvicini, ETERNMALE, publication with 13 reproductions of collages from the series Drawings for Eternmale (2000) and an interview of Monica Bonvicini by Beatrix Ruf, offset print on white opaque Patinata paper 200 g/m2, colours, 14 pages bound together by a metal spiral, 50 × 60 cm (same size as Pirelli calendars), edition of 1000. Coedition of the Kunsthaus Glarus and the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2002.
Posters: Jakob Kolding, Alexandre Bianchini, Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, KLAT, Elke Krystufek, Fabrice Gygi, Claude Lévêque
Books: Elke Krystufek, Alex Baladi, Thomas Hirschhorn, Claude Closky, Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Stephan Landry, Marie Sacconi, Anne Pesce, Emmett Williams
Exhibition from September 13, 2001 till November 11, 2001
Opening September 12, 2001, 6 PM
Two exhibitions on communication and power structures and nine free handouts available to the public in dispensers throughout the city of Geneva.
Artists: Jeremy Deller (GB) / Karl Holmqvist (SE)
Matthieu Laurette (F) / Gunilla Klingberg (SE)
Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger (AT) / Jarno Jokinen & Katja Valanne (FI)
Claude Closky (F) / Tuomo Tammenpää (FI) and KLAT (CH)
Organised by NIFCA, FRAME and the Centre d’édition contemporaine in collaboration with Forde, Geneva. Curated by Cristina Ricupero (NIFCA) andb Paula Toppila (FRAME) Continue reading “Social Hackers“
Jakob Kolding, Sans titre, offset poster, black/white, on satin-finish paper (one side) 135/170 g/m2, 59.3 × 83.5 cm, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2001.
Edition offered to the 2001 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
Opening May 3rd at 6 pm
Exposition from May 4th to June 23rd 2001
Fabrice Gygi is an artist from Geneva who has become increasingly important on the contemporary art scene over the past few years in Switzerland, and more recently, abroad. His work has been shown in various group–Nonchalance, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zurich, Dogdays are Over, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, Xn00, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône–and solo exhibitions–at the Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, and at the Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble. He has also produced works for public spaces on the occasion of Over the Edges in Ghent, in Fribourg at the invitation of the Kunsthalle and in Bienne during Transfer. His pieces are also regularly on view at galleries Bob von Orsouw in Zurich and Chantal Crousel in Paris. Continue reading “Fabrice Gygi VITRINES et PITON UNIVERSEL“
Vidya Gastaldon (born in 1974 in Besançon, lives and works in Geneva)
Jean-Michel Wicker (born in 1970 in Mulhouse, lives and works in London)
Exhibition of a new piece and presentation of the edition Chromolux Landscape, 2000, silkscreen prints
First exhibition in the new venue: Presentation of older and new editions, of which the 2000 editions:
– Alexandre Bianchini
– Laurence Huber and Marie-José Blanquet
– Sidney Stucki
And the older ones: Claude Closky – Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard – Elke Krystufek – Stephan Landry – Elena Montesinos – Giuseppe Penone – Anne Pesce – Marie Sacconi – Roman Signer – Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson – Rosemarie Trockel – …
On May 19, 2000, on the occasion of the opening,ElenaMontesinosaka DJGo Homeand GregorVonSchönbornaka DJCrowdpleaserproposed aperformancefollowed by a partyBackstageon Fire.
TommiGrönlundandPetteriNisunen, MikaVainioandIlpoVäisänen, Carl Michael vonHausswolff On a proposal byCristinaRicupero(curator, Paris)
Beforethe Centremovesand to honorone last timethe villa of17Malagnou, we chose a project thatwould leave only soundsoccupy all thespacesof the house, erasing the distinction betweenshowroomsand the restof the building…
Laurence Huber et Marie-José Blanquet, Replicant, vase in polyester resin, Ø 16 cm, height: 50 cm, edition of 4. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 2000.
Alexandre Bianchini, Sans titre, silkscreen poster, colours, 176 × 120 cm, edition of 100, copyright Alexandre Bianchini and Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 2000.
Edition offered to the 2000 members of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.
Exhibition of the winners of the 1997-99 CGGC Prize
1997: Roland Herzog and Olaf Probst
Olaf Probst (born in 1962, lives and works in Munich)
Roland Herzog (born in 1967, lives and works in Zurich)
1998: Marieke Palocsay-Degaïchia and Tony Morgan
Marieke Palocsay-Degaïchia (born in 1970, lives and works in Geneva)
Tony Morgan (born in 1938, lives and works in Geneva)
1999: Delphine Kreuter
Delphine Kreuter (born in 1973, lives and works in Paris)
Sidney Stucki, Prototype 1, brown tainted plexiglas chair, 79 × 50 × 56 cm, edition of 1. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 2000.
Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Chromolux Landscape, silkscreen prints, two colours (fluorescent pink or silver) and two patterns (landscape or crystals), 100 × 70 cm, on an unlimited series of Chromolux 250 g/m2 papers (Color or Perlmutt Iridescent or Metallic), edition of 174 plus 8 A.P. and 12 H.C., not signed, not numbered, not dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 2000.
On 13 December 1999 in the evening at Forde, space for contemporary art, Geneva.
Concert-installation for the presentation of the edition Evil Talk with organ concerto played by Julien Cupelin and bar where Jägermeister was served .
KLAT, EVIL TALK, poster, silkscreen print, black/white phosphorescent on poster paper, 50 × 100 cm, edition of 300. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1999.
Edition offered to the members of 1999 of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.
VideosofIntegratedPresentation at the8th BiennialofMoving Images, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Geneva.
IntegratedVideos, 1995-1999
Compilationof all thevideos embeddedby ThomasHirschhornat its installationsbetween 1995 and 1999, video, VHS PAL, 15 ‘, color, sound, achieved byraising andCoraly Suard-Hirschhorn, producedby the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Geneva in collaboration withthe Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine,published bybdv, Paris, 1999.
Exhibition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine editions 1986 – 1998
The CGGC artistic program reflects the CGGC productions from 1986 to 1998: engraving, lithography, offset, multiple and artist book. Among the artists who previously collaborated with the Centre and whose works were exhibited on this occasion, particularly be mentioned the names of Ian Anüll, John M. Armleder, Alex Baladi, Alexandre Bianchini, Marcel Broodthaers, Stéphane Brunner, Mourad Cheraït, Claude Closky, Philippe Favier, Nicolas Fernandez, Claude Gaçon, Fabrice Gygi, Alex Hanimann, Jérôme Hentsch et Alain Julliard, Thomas Hirschhorn, Andreas Hofer, Karen Kilimnik, Elke Krystufek, Simon Lamunière, Stephan Landry, Claude Lévêque, Christian Lindow, Henri Michaux*, Elena Montesinos, Olivier Mosset, Kristin Oppenheim, Giuseppe Penone, Anne Pesce, Marie Sacconi, Roman Signer, Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Rosemarie Trockel, Emmett Williams, Heimo Zobernig.
Exhibition from 10 to 14 June 1998
Opening June 9, 1998
Collective manifestation – exhibition with works , editions , installations , performances and video screenings or dias from Alex Baladi, Alexandre Bianchini, Cosima von Bonin, Mourad Cheraït, Claude Closky, Adam Dant, Alain Declercq, Jeremy Deller, Andreas Exner, Nicolás Fernández, Claude Gaçon, Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Jakob Gautel, Fabrice Gygi, Mathilde ter Heijne, Thomas Hirschhorn, Laurence Huber, Klat, Koo Jeong-A, Elke Krystufek, Yves Levasseur, Claude Lévêque, Elena Montesinos, Gianni Motti, Honoré d’O, Kristin Oppenheim, Anne Pesce, Christophe Rey, Allen Ruppersberg, Alain Séchas, Luc Tuymans, Heimo Zobernig.
Mourad Cheraït, Sans titre, tablemat, offset print, colours, on white offset paper 80 g/m2, 28 × 42 cm, edition of 1500. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1998.
Elena Montesinos, Sincerely Yours, musical greeting card inside transparent plastic, photographs on thermic paper, music processor, 15.3 × 11.5 cm, edition of 20, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1998.
Presentation of the editions, Love It by Elena Montesinos and FUJI 4 Alexandre Bianchini ( publication edited by Véronique Bacchetta ), subtitle of the event: ” MXP Live electronics, non-stop drinks + noise “. Friday, November 28, 1997, in the evening and during the exhibition Été 97.
Elena Montesinos, Love it, blotting paper, plastic, 8.2 × 12.1 cm, edition of 300, numbered and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1997.
Edition offered to the members of 1997 of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.
Exhibition fromOctober 31 toNovember 30, 1997 OpeningOctober 30, 1997 On 30 October 1997, conference–meeting with VéroniqueBacchetta.
Presentation of the editions of John Armleder, Nicolás Fernández, Thomas Hirschhorn, Karen Kilimnik, Claude Lévêque, Olivier Mosset, Kristin Oppenheim, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Giuseppe Penone, Marie Sacconi, Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Rosemarie Trockel. École des Beaux-Arts de Metz.
Exhibition from September 26 to December 13, 1997
Opening September 26, 27, 28 during the day and evening
Continuously event over three days and exhibition of works, installations, performances and video projections and films. With Alexandre Bianchini, Henry Bond, Mourad Cheraït, Claude Closky, Jeanne Dunning, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Exner, Urs Fischer, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jérôme Hentsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Laurence Huber, Fabio Jaramillo et Sidney Stucki, Karen Kilimnik, Elke Krystufek, Yves Levasseur, Aernout Mik, Kristin Oppenheim, Alix Pearlstein, Lisa May Post, Marie Sacconi, Hinrich Sachs et Marylène Negro (as surprise guest), Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Heimo Zobernig. Video on request : Jeanne Dunning, Nicolás Fernández, Gianni Motti, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Alix Pearlstein, Christophe Rey, B. Toguo Tamokoué, Luc Tuymans, Anne Pesce.
Exhibition from June 16 to July 18, 1997
Opening June 14, 1997
[ … ] Most often, Stan Douglas’s films are shown as installation in which music, text and images cross each other. Each screening mobilizes the entire space, involving the viewer in a subjective scene that immerses it in a historical and cultural universe, where are combined new computer technologies and aesthetic charged with references, often nostalgic. (Véronique Bacchetta , extract from the press release)
Exhibition from April 18 to May 31, 1997
Opening April 17, 1997
The next exhibition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine will be dedicated to two young artists: Toguo Tamokoué (born in 1967 in Cameroon, lives and works in Grenoble, Düsseldorf and Abidjan) and Hinrich Sachs (born in 1962 in Osnabrück, lives and works in Hamburg) who received both the purse of CGGC / 1996, giving them the opportunity to produce an edition in engraving or in any technical feasible in our workshops. This exhibition is the result of several coincidences, among others, the choice of our jury that focused on two artists who wanted to meet and who, further to their meeting, projected a common journey in Ivory Coast. This project was developed on the basis of their respective personal experiences and their linguistic and artistic journey: each of them lived the experience of immigration and had to leave a native language to a foreign language. Thus, their history and their artistic practice led them to end up in Europe today, and maybe tomorrow in Africa.
Exhibition from January 25 to March 29, 1997
Opening January 25, 1997
Presentation of the editions of Alexandre Bianchini, Claude Closky , Nicolás Fernández, Fabrice Gygi , Alex Hanimann Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard, Thomas Hirschhorn, Karen Kilimnik , Stephan Landry, Claude Leveque, Olivier Mosset , Kristin Oppenheim, Jean- Michel Othoniel , Giuseppe Penone Anne Pesce , Marie Sacconi, Roman Signer , Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson , Rosemarie Trockel , Luc Tuymans , Emmett Williams.
Exhibition from November 7 to December 21, 1996
Opening November 6, 1996
With objects that one hesitates to describe as artistic or utilities, Heimo Zobernig questions both the places of art (the exhibition, the catalog) and the everyday environment (a bar, a facade). (Véronique Bacchetta , extract from the press release)
Heimo Zobernig, Sans titre, 15 lithographs, black, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 80 × 65 cm, edition of 4 plus 1 A.P. and 1 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Exhibition from June 21 to September 21, 1996
On 20 June 1996 , on the occasion of the opening,
projection of super 8 film of Alexander Bianchini, Detroit is Circle in one of artist workshops of the Centre.
If Alexandre Bianchini, Nicolás Fernández, Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard are not part of a group, they participate in a joint discussion where the questioning of art and function play an important part. (Véronique Bacchetta , extract from the press release)
Alexandre Bianchini, Le Théâtre de la nature d’Oklahoma, installation.
Nicolás Fernández, Ils nous ont vendu,Table, Tu es entré et tu es sorti. Maman, Ils nous ont vendu, Ils nous ont acheté, Ils nous ont donné, Tu m’as donné, Je t’ai donné, Vos mères se souviendront de vous, Banc, Embrasure and Ils nous ont écrit, installation with woodcuts, cardboard and other materials.
Jérôme Hentsch et Alain Julliard, Conte d’auteurs, two projections Super 8 films ,facing and show on a loop in a specially space made for that purpose, objects and text.
On the occasion of this exhibition, each artist has produced an edition :
Alexandre Bianchini, Detroit on Circle, super 8 mm films, colour, 3’, 24 im/sec, edition of 12 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered. Sound: Minus, Robert Hood / Maurizio 05, basic channel / Vertical, Jeff Mills, Axis 008 / Growth, Jeff Mills, Axis 10 / Detroit on circle, Robert Hood / Internal empire, Robert Hood / Mike Inke, Studio 1 / Version, Hubert Mean / DJ Sid, MG 004 / (excerpts). Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Nicolás Fernández, Tu es entré et tu es sorti. Maman, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Ils nous ont donné, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Ils nous ont vendu, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Ils nous ont acheté, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Vos mères se souviendront de vous, woodcut, protection paper, 101 × 76 cm, edition of 6 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Je t’ai donné, woodcut, protection paper, 96 × 73 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Tu m’as donné, woodcut, protection paper, 96 × 73 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard, Un bateau en papier, offset print on Zerkall-Bütten Ingres champagne vergé 90 g/m2 paper, 29.7 × 21 cm, in a cardboard jacket Invercote GX white 340 g/m2, 29.8 × 21.1 cm, edition of 60, numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Alain Julliard and Jérôme Hentsch, Fond de commerce, silkscreen print on acetate, 45.5 × 21 cm, in a cardboard jacket Invercote GX blanc 340 g/m2, 46.5 × 42.4 cm, edition of 60, numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Exhibition from May 4 to 15 June 1996
Opening May 3, 1996
Her artistic practice situates it-self in an infra-thin area where each act, minimized – sounds, line, light – is repeated endlessly. Repetition insinuates a reseach for a breaking point where the mastery yields to the humanity of the gesture and the voice. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
Kristin Oppenheim, Slip, six lithographs, black/white, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 80 × 60 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Presentation of various editions (1992-1994) and etchings published by the Centre.
For the edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Rosemarie Trockel incorporates elements that have traveled through his work. If, in her “paintings”, electric hob stove or knitted patterns replace in a trivial and playful way the forms of minimalism, for this serie of engravings long woolen thread blocked in the varnish organize the networks of clumsy and trembling lines – line networks that transform a grid or decorative designs repeated several times in a stylized writing. This distance towards abstract painting codes is recovered in a very pragmatic and immediate approach of the engraving where an object is reproduced literally in its texture. Again, artisanal qualities of the technique are used not for their material effects, but with objectivity and amused detachment that often characterize the works of Rosemarie Trockel. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
Rosemarie Trockel, Sans titre, 3 etchings (3 patterns: grid, loops, balloons), soft wax, colour, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 120 × 90 cm, printed in 9 copies (of which: 3 blue copies, 3 red copies and 3 green copies, signed and dated), edition of 27 plus 9 A.P. and 11 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Rosemarie Trockel, Sans titre, 3 etchings (3 patterns: grid, loops, balloons), soft wax, colours, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 120 × 90 cm, printed in 9 copies (of which: 3 blue copies, 3 red copies and 3 green copies, signed and dated), edition of 27 plus 9 A.P. and 11 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Exhibition from November 30 to January 27, 1996 Opening November 29, 1995
One of the rooms will be occupied by a huge “stand” (Les Plaintifs, les Bêtes, les Politiques). […] The other rooms will be crossed by a cardboard box wall where Thomas Hirschhorn will intervene by collages of photographs, newspaper clippings and pages from his previous catalogs. The comments he will add will enable him to act again and document his exhibitions again. This kind of presentation gives the opportunity not only to re-expose his work but to subject it to self-criticism, justifying itself again and again, breaking the classification of genres – exhibitions, videos, catalogs, texts, editions – to defer the closure of his work. The works are reused and re-discussed, like the cardboard box constituent material, revealing an artistic practice that also announces itself on the mode of recovery and recycling. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
From October 12 toNovember 18, 1995 OpeningOctober 11, 1995
[…] Karen Kilimnik appropriates love affairs and escapades of media personalities: stars, supermodels and princesses, from Elizabeth Taylor to Michael Jackson via Caroline of Monaco or Kate Moss. […] She transposes her fascinations and schizophrenic fantasies that range between freshness, innocence and violence, the horror of thriller, the famous tragic event, whether the Manson family crimes, the murder of John Kennedy, the occupation of Paris … Some of its “decorations” overloaded with a multitude of objects and images seem to emerge from a disaster, close to the results of an action or a happening, remembering the hazard game of Fluxus or of art in progress. But this research for identity and the fascination for dated and glamor can switch very quickly into drama when Karen Kilimnik goes to spray with bullets her hanging just finished with a machine gun. The seven black and white lithographs are collected in a luxury and flashy box, covered with fake tiger fur and lined with shiny satin. This box contains seven subjects partially copied or inspired of celebrity pages of magazines. […] These lithographs, will find their readability thanks to a mirror slipped into a pocket crafted in the same fake fur than the box. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
Karen Kilimnik, Tiger, 7 lithographs, black/white, on Velin BFK Rives 250 g/m2 paper, white, 70 × 50 cm, one silkscreen print on Pop’set Californie 240 g/m2 paper, 35 × 49.5 cm, a plastic mirror and a plexiglas plate used as impressum, in a box covered in fake fur and lined with satin, 54 × 74 cm, edition of 10 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
Présentation of the éditions of John Armleder, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, Claude Closky, Alex Hanimann, Stephan Landry, Claude Lévêque, Christian Lindow, Olivier Mosset, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Giuseppe Penone, Marie Sacconi, Sigurdur A. Sigurdsson, Emmett Williams. Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu, Lyon.
“Edition-exhibition” from June 1 to July 15, 1995 Opening May 31, 1995
LucTuymans asks throught the representation, the question ofthe statusof paintingin the current fieldof art.Inspired as much by thecinemaand photography, he reflects the world ofresurgencesandfantasies, intimateand disenchanted, relatedto the collective memoryandpersonal recollections. Theseimages are oftenmangled bysomespecifictreatment that givesan impressionof bothblurand immediat. (VéroniqueBacchetta, extract from thepress release)
Luc Tuymans, Le Verdict, 11 colour lithographs, printed on 7 strips of blotting paper, 50 × 590 cm, 50 × 569 cm, 50 × 506 cm, 50 × 210 cm, 50 × 195 cm and 50 × 200 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
Strip No 1: Strip with 3 lithographs, 50 × 569 cm.
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Strip No 2: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 590 cm.
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Strip No 3: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 506 cm.
Luc Tuymans, Le Verdict, 11 colour lithographs, printed on 7 strips of blotting paper, 50 × 590 cm, 50 × 569 cm, 50 × 506 cm, 50 × 210 cm, 50 × 195 cm and 50 × 200 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
Strip No 1: Strip with 3 lithographs, 50 × 569 cm.
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Strip No 2: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 590 cm.
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Strip No 3: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 506 cm.
Karen Kilimnik, Tiger, 7 lithographs, black/white, on Velin BFK Rives 250 g/m2 paper, white, 70 × 50 cm, one silkscreen print on Pop’set Californie 240 g/m2 paper, 35 × 49.5 cm, a plastic mirror and a plexiglas plate used as impressum, in a box covered in fake fur and lined with satin, 54 × 74 cm, edition of 10 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
Presentationof works byJean-Marc Bustamante, Photographs1977-1982, 1993; RodneyGrahamInteriors.The BerlinStudies ofJacob andWilhelm Grimm, 1993; Thomas Schütte, United Enemies:APlay intenscenes, 1994;Jan Vercruysse, Neuf projets pour la couverture d’une revue en huit plus une livraison, 1991.
L’exposition n’aura pas lieu du 27 janvier au 26 mars 1994. Le vernissage ne sera pas le 26 janvier avant 18h. Il n’y aura pas d’édition de huit séries de 20 livres d’artiste intitulés « 1440 nombres qui servent à donner l’heure ». Fermé le dimanche, fermé le samedi avant 14h et après 17h, du lundi au vendredi avant 14h et après 18h. Édition de deux séries de 80 livres d’artiste intitulés « 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure ». Du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 18h, le samedi de 14h à 17h et sur rendez-vous. (Invitation double-sided written by Claude Closky)
Each of the80booksreproducedon216 pages, a non-existentminutefigurescopied toa digital clock.(Véronique Bacchetta, extract from thepress release)
Claude Closky, 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure, 2 series of 80 books of 214 pages, on Data Copy Coated 100 g/m2 paper, 21 × 15 cm, one separable series and one inseparable series. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.
Claude Closky, 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure, 2 series of 80 books of 214 pages, on Data Copy Coated 100 g/m2 paper, 21 × 15 cm, one separable series and one inseparable series. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.
Presentation of the edition offered to the members of 1994 of the Centre, Version #1 (performance, music, decor andbar)
Alexandre Bianchini – Huber Mean, Vinyl, Version # 1, 12’’ maxi record, A and B side, sound mixing of a text and of various styles of music (jazz and acid jazz), edition of 300. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.
Edition offered to the members of 1994 of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.
Exhibitionand edition of abookobject, 235.604-1789. The textsor fragments oftexts used byAlexHanimannare oftenindifferentlyextracted from manuals, philosophical maximsorpolitical slogans.
Alex Hanimann, 235.604 – 1789, 112 lino engravings on ivory satin cardboard 240 g/m2, black and red, presented in a black box, 32.5 × 24 cm, edition of 20 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.
The editionImages de pierresproduced bythe Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine andco-publishedwith the Schoolof Fine Artsof Annecy,is made up of fiveprintsdrawn on the basisoflithographyfrom fivemarble slabs, chosenand reworkedbyGiuseppe Penone. This particularexperimental technique, very empirical, allows to findand print thenaturalveinsof the marblethat constitutethe matrixand the patternof this series. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
Giuseppe Penone, Image de pierres, lithograph from a marble slab, 85 × 63 cm, edition of 19 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
Exhibitionfrom 17 June to30 July 1993 OpeningJune 16, 1993
Joint presentationof paintings,drawingsand edition of theCentre(book and portfolio).
SigurdurArniSigurdsson, Icelandicyoungpainter,tacklesfigurative paintingwithout previousspeeches,nor on the“painting–painting” nor on aso-calledreturnto representation.His subjects areextremelysimplifiedarchetypes(lakes, clouds, animals) orabstract forms(balls, circles, ovals). […]These simplified objects floaton amonochromesurface, oftencoldandbright, suggesting a borealatmosphere, that they penetrate, creating a confrontation betweenflat spaceandthe illusionistspace.Theschizophrenicspace andshapes in suspensionarising fromthese pureandtransparent surfacestransport us toimaginarytalesand legends. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from thepress release)
Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Corrections, series of 6 collotypes, black/white, on collotype paper, 30 × 30 cm, edition of 60 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Réserve, artist’s book, 6 double pages, etching on BFK Rives and japanese style paper, 22 × 17 cm, edition of 60 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
Presentation offilms shot byGerrySchumunderitsFernsehundVideogalerie. In collaboration withSimonLamunière, artist and curator, Geneva.
GerrySchumhas madeseveral series offilms as partof its projectFernsehGallery/Television Gallery, which aimed tocreate links betweenthe confined spaceof theartgalleryand television. From1969,GerrySchumshotseveral short films withmajor artistsaffiliated toLand Art, to Arte Poveraor toconceptual art.These films arenot documentaries onthe work of theseartists, butautonomous works. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from thepress release)
Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Réserve, artist’s book, 6 double pages, etching on BFK Rives and japanese style paper, 22 × 17 cm, edition of 60 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
For Ian Anüll, art is an integral part of society, it is not an alternative to reality or to the banality of the world nor a subject of mystification. His work always oscillates between right and wrong, the message and the irony, art and non-art. […] Ian Anüll rather cultivates independence and impertinence that enable him to collect and update them with quick thinking and foresight the nonsense and pitfalls of the artistic conformism and also of the society. Posted in Exhibition, Solo showsTagged Ian Anüll
Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Corrections, series of 6 collotypes, black/white, on collotype paper, 30 × 30 cm, edition of 60 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
Exhibition from February 12 to March 27, 1993 Opening February 11, 1993
Installations, drawings, sculptures, objects and editions.
Since 1985, Claude Gaçon constitutes a collection of balls. He produces and recovers an infinity of spherical objects, composed of such diverse and strange as unexpected materials: paper, marble, lava, wire, plastic, crystal, fur, etc. This accumulation built a non exhaustif catalog of all possible and imaginable formal combinations between full and empty, the heavy and the light, the precious and commonplace. The pure shape is also the starting point for conceptual games and investigation, between inside and outside, content and container, order and disorder, purity and impurity, dispersion and concentration … […] In an aesthetics close of scientific and biological performances – viruses, atoms, anatomical plates, maps and world maps – Claude Gaçon seeks endlessly to imagine, to simplify, to understand and master the elusive three-dimensional shape. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
Claude Gaçon, Sans cible, series of 6 engravings, etching and offset, black/white, on Vélin BFK Rives 280 g/m2, 50 × 50 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
Presentation of aseries of twenty-one uniqueengravings.
The work ofJohn Armlederhas long beenas close totheneo-Fluxus as the geometric painting. Hispictorial referencesare numerous:PicabiaandEl LissitzkytoBlinky Palermo,HelmutFederleand OlivierMossetthroughSigmar Polke. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
John M Armleder, Sans titre, 21 unique engravings (etchings and monotypes), colour, on Arches paper, 200 × 100 cm, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1992.
Stephan Landry, Esquive, artist’s book made up of 14 colour lithographs on Vélin BFK Rives 250 g/m2 paper, 14.5 × 24 cm, edition of 50 plus 3 A.P. and 3 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1992.
John M Armleder, Sans titre, 21 unique engravings (etchings and monotypes), colour, on Arches paper, 200 × 100 cm, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1992.
Exhibitionfrom 14 February to7 March 1992 OpeningFebruary 13, 1992
Drawings, wallinterventions andartist book.
Lithographsprintedat the Centre byLaurentMathelin, typography of the firstcover,title pageandcolophonconducted bythe Imprimerie des Arts, Geneva, boundbyCraftsmanBookbinder, Jean-PierreNetz, Geneva.Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, 1991.
Exhibitionof 6 December1991 to11 January 1992 OpeningDecember 5, 1991
Lithographs andpaintings. 1991 Lithographsprintedbythe CentreLaurentMathelin. Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, 1991.
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 black, 1 red, 1 blue), on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 1 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow), on newspaper, 64.5 × 94 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 3 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, colour lithography on Arches paper, 38 × 46.5 cm, edition of 20 plus 1 H.C., signed and numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
[…]Analmost cinematiccontinuityis woven betweenthese portraits. Her work is basedon an oppositionbetweenthe snapshot andthe pose.The modellayingsix to sevenseconds, whilethe image remainsthat of a fragmentof a glance,afleetingnod, barely sketched. SuzanneLafontmoves themeaningof her imagesbetween “taken from life” andset design,between the soleand the seriesbetweenthe pictorialandcinematic.(VéroniqueBacchetta, extract from thepress release)
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 black, 1 red, 1 blue), on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 1 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow), on newspaper, 64.5 × 94 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 3 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, colour lithography on Arches paper, 38 × 46.5 cm, edition of 20 plus 1 H.C., signed and numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
Marie Sacconi, Madame B. a ri, artist’s book, offset, 96 pages, on Bible paper 40 g/m2, 15.2 × 11.4 cm, edition of 150 plus 20 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
Presentation of thefiveframed printsanda moldedobject withsulfurbulleyes, Histoire d’yeux.
[…]Without wishing toreturn toarchaicorsome nostalgiatoo oftenattachedto traditionalprintmakingtechniques (as it happens thetechnicalcopperoccurrenceinflowers of sulfurdating from theeighteenth century), the featuresoffered by the direct attack of the copper by the sulfur(withoutacidinterference) fit perfectlyto the work ofJean-Michel Othoniel andhis researchfor this edition.The artist seeks toreproducetrademarks,ghostsof objects: clothing, fabrics.
Marie Sacconi, Sans titre, 3 embossed patterns on Arches and Rives paper, 180 × 110 cm, edition of 3 for each pattern plus 1 H.C., numbered, signed and dated on the back. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
[…]Roman Signerworks onnatural elements–water, fire, air, earth –and sometimesindustrializedormanufacturedobjects such asboxes, cans, balloons or furniture, making themfly,fall, explode,filling, emptying, etc., like Richard Serrawhen he proposed, in 1967-1968, hisfamous listofaction verbs “roll, fold, bend, twist, split, cut …”Roman Signerprefersthe progress, the processand the idea ofmoving sculpture.(Véronique Bacchetta, extract from thepress release)