During the Nineties, when Elise was at school in the English countryside, there was a constant flow of UFO sightings and crop circles, in which complicated but harmonious patterns of spiralling orbs would appear cut into wheat fields overnight, and reports of ethereal abductions on lonely country roads. These abductions were usually in the United States, and again happened overnight. Aliens would come down and snatch American men and sodomize them, for their experiments. The Nineties were fantastic, she thought. Now that old sense of excitement about and openness to the cosmos was gone. There were no more lights in the sky, no more encounters of any kind. No more geometry appeared on the farms. Steel monoliths sometimes arrived on Romanian hillsides and deserts. But no one thought about space anymore. What was space good for now?
Monica Bonvicini, Harry Burke, Guillaume Dénervaud, Anne Dressen/Nick Mauss, Liz Craft, Keren Cytter, Mathis Gasser, Katie Holten, Dorothy Iannone, Jakob Kolding, Mads Ranch Kornum, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Victor Man, Paul Paillet, Josef Strau, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Oscar Tuazon, Jeffrey Vallance, Jean-Michel Wicker and Artists’ Voices
Liz Craft, New York & Beyond, 2017 – 2019, publication, digital printing, colours, 40 pages, 15 x 21.2 cm, 500 copies, stapled binding. Text : Paul-Aymar Mourgue d’Algue (English). Graphic design : Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2021. ISBN 978-2-9701369-0-3
Guillaume Dénervaud, Fumées Sombres, Before publication 4, brochure, 20 pages, published in the Before publication collection – single booklets, 17.2 × 23.5 cm, stapled binding, 250 copies – which gathers the pre-publications of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before the final publication, L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Text: Dean Kissick. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2021. ISBN 978-2-9701369-1-0
The images contained in this publication are cutouts from drawings made in graphite on 46 by 61 cm size paper, and which are part of the Fumées Sombres series (2020).
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The images in this publication are details of Guillaume Dénervaud’s graphite drawings from the Fumées Sombres series, presented on the occasion of his exhibition, Surv’Eye, at the Centre d’édition contemporaine, from March 19 to April 23, 2021. A text by Dean Kissick, New York editor of Spike Art Magazine, accompanies the reproductions, adding a textual and narrative dimension to the abstract landscapes imagined by the artist. His drawings, a kind of celestial cartography with an almost digital rendering, are a fictional immersion in a chaotic, hostile world. A work of anticipation, Guillaume Dénervaud’s universe is one that bears the marks of man’s destructive action on his environment.
Anne Dressen/Nick Mauss, Fluidités, Before publication 3, brochure, 36 pages, published in the Before publication collection, which gathers the pre-publications – single booklets, 17.2 × 23.5 cm, offset, black/white, stapled binding, 250 copies – which gathers the pre-publications of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before the final publication, L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Editorial coordination : Eveline Notter. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2021. ISBN 978-2-9701369-2-7
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In a series of conversations conducted between June 2018 and February 2020, Anne Dressen and Nick Mauss exchange about their respective curatorial practices, including questions about the hierarchies established by the museum institution between art and decorative arts. Anne Dressen has often mixed different medium in the exhibitions she has organized at The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris. Nick Mauss, for his part, has often staged multidisciplinary exhibitions for which he has created transhistorical spaces allowing for new associations and questioning, that are an intrinsic part of his research and work.
Guillaume Dénervaud, (Les corps interfaces) altèrent la structure, offset (violet) and typographic (black) print and Les corps interfaces (altèrent la structure), offset (green) and typographic (black) print, diptych, 41,5 x 30 cm, 200 copies, dated and signed. Editions of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2020. Edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2020.
Paul Paillet’s solo exhibition at the Centre d’édition contemporaine was intended to open in March 2020, but was postponed due to lockdown until September 2020. For this exhibition, Paul Paillet has developed a proposal drawing on numerous references that insect and overlap, creating an ensemble of several pieces: sculptures and a mural work in porcelain, a newspaper, a radio and a publication. Each of these elements contains various cultural and personal indices that construct a kind of staged presentation. The theme of fascination for fire is partly autobiographical, linked to a reflection on a return to the artist’s adolescence, his adventures and darker moments in his past, which result in semantic shifts, from the private sphere to more critical and committed societal and political implications. Continue reading “Paul Paillet Fascination for fire“
Paul Paillet, BRUME BOURGEON BRISE SOLEIL, Before publication 2, brochure, 12 pages, published in the Before publication collection – single booklet from 4 to 24 pages, 17.2 × 23.5 cm, offset, black/white, stapled binding, 250 copies – which gathers the pre-publications of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before the final publication, L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2020.
This publication was inspired by the novel Les Météores by Michel Tournier and by the song, Coimbra (1930) by José Galhardo, whose French version, April in Portugal (1947) was written by Jacques Larue and the English version April in Portugal (1947) by Jimmy Kennedy.
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BRUME BOURGEON BRISE SOLEIL has been published as part of the exhibition fascination for fire at the Centre d’édition contemporaine, from September 18 to December 12, 2020. Paul Paillet examines the injunction to happiness, synonymous of absolute love and self-fulfillment, whose obsessive quest has become a consumer good in contemporary society. The artist drew inspiration from Michel Tournier’s novel Les Météores and José Galhardo’s song Coimbra (1930). Some verses from the French version, Avril au Portugal (1947), written by Jacques Larue, and from the English version, April in Portugal (1947), by Jimmy Kennedy, are published in BRUME BOURGEON BRISE SOLEIL.
Fabian Marti, Such a Good Girl, multiple, brass, handprints of the artist and paw prints of his dog, lemon juice concentrate, 1000 × 645 × 6 mm, edition of 8, 1 H.C. 1 special example (E.S.), 1 A.P and a prototype, numbered, dated and initialled FM, punched on the back of the mounting plate. Coedition Wilde and the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2020.
Artists’ Voices, Harry Burke, Timothée Calame, Liz Craft, Keren Cytter, Dorothy Iannone, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Victor Man, Fabian Marti, Jonathan Monk, Susan Te Kahurangi King
Thursday January 30 12PM – 7PM Friday January 31 12PM – 8PM Saturday February 01 12PM – 8PM Sunday February 02 12PM – 7PM
Fabian Marti sees his artistic work as a chance to explore ideas about the place of the artist and the individual in society and in the field of production. This type of questioning, which brings him closer to conceptual art, allows Marti to view his practice as a way of challenging the divides between traditional techniques, conventional modes of creation, customary terms of exchange right through to the artist’s status. He goes back to more archaic technical choices, and the handmade in particular, reappropriating craft skills such as ceramics. As for the shift in the artist’s function, Marti is involved and participates in the creation of exhibition spaces, artists’ studios and publishing houses. The Zurich space Hacienda, TwoHotel, Marti Collection, Marti Ceramics and FM Studio Chairs are simultaneously both art objects and small “companies”, places or structures that facilitate production projects, both for Fabian Marti himself and for invited artists. Continue reading “Fabian Marti Such a Good Girl“
Harry Burke, A diminished poetry. An expanding (and contracting) writerly. Fragments, for Rindon Johnson. Before publication 1, brochure published in the Before Publication collection, which will gather the pre-publications — single booklet of 4 to 24 pages, 17.2 x 23.5 cm, offset, black/white, stapled binding, 250 copies — of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before the final publication, L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, December 2019.
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A diminished poetry. An expanding (and contracting) writerly. Fragments, for Rindon Johnson is a text by Harry Burke about the immersive videos of American artist Rindon Johnson. It combines notes, quotations, recasts and even strikethroughs in a fragmentary, indirect response to Johnson’s work, video production, legacy and position in relation to expanded cinema, multimedia culture, the place of computers in creation and virtual reality. Harry Burke also offers a reflection on the opening up of media in the digital age, while evoking the political and personal aspirations of a new generation of artists and critics.
The CEC at P.A.G.E.S. Salon du livre d’artiste et de l’imprimé contemporain, Genève
Friday December 6, 2019
4 PM – 9 PM
Saturday December 7, 2019
10:30 AM – 7 PM
Sunday December 8, 2019
10:30 AM – 5 PM
HEAD – Genève
Bâtiment H
Av. de Châtelaine 7
1203 Geneva
Timothée Calame, Keren Cytter, Philippe Decrauzat, Jason Dodge, Mathis Gasser, Thomas Hirschhorn, David Hominal, Dorothy Iannone, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Victor Man, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Oscar Tuazon, Jeffrey Vallance, Jean-Michel Wicker
A diminished poetry. An expanding (and contracting) writerly. Fragments, for Rindon Johnson
Before publication 1
Brochure published in the Before publication collection, which will gather the pre-publications – unique notebooks of 4 to 24 pages, 17.2 x 23.5 cm, offset, black/white, stapled binding, 250 copies – of authors’ texts and artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and in preview of their final edition in L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989-2007, the catalog of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008).
Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne
Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, December 2019
OTHER RECENT EDITION
Susan Te Kahurangi King
Selected Works 1965–1980
Offset, colours, 20 pages, 16,5 x 23,6 cm. Coedition innen, Zurich and Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2019.
Edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2019.
Selected Works 1965–1980 from Susan Te Kahurangi King is part of a series of three publications coedited with innen, Zurich of which Eros Paintings by Dorothy Iannone published in Spring 2019 and New York & Beyond 2017–2019 by Liz Craft (forthcoming).
Susan Te Kahurangi King, Selected Works 1965–1980, offset, colours, 20 pages, 16,5 × 23,6 cm. Coedition innen, Zurich and Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2019. ISBN : 978-2-9701174-8-3
Edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2019.
Timothée Calame, En cas de vol, with Alan Schmalz, poster, offset, colours, on Profimat 200g/m2, 50 × 70 cm, edition of 50, 2 E.A and 2 H.C. numbered, dated and signed by Timothée Calame and Alan Schmalz (AS). Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2019.
Timothée Calame, Responsabilité (Pouvoir, Parole), with Léo Bachiri Wadimoff, poster, offset, colours, on Profimat 200g/m2, 50 x 70 cm, edition of 50, 3 E.A and 2 H.C, numbered, dated and signed by Timothée Calame and Léo Bachiri Wadimoff (LBW). Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2019.
Gerard Byrne, Valentin Carron, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Keren Cytter, Philippe Decrauzat, Jason Dodge, Sylvie Fleury, Mathis Gasser, David Hominal, Tobias Kaspar, Jakob Kolding, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Erik van Lieshout, Christian Lindow, David Maljkovic et Konstantin Grcic, Victor Man, Mélanie Matranga, Jonathan Monk, Olivier Mosset, Gianni Motti, Florian Pumhösl, Markus Schinwald, Oscar Tuazon, Jean-Michel Wicker, Heimo Zobernig
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Thursday March 14, 2019, 6-9 PM (Quartier des Bains common openings)
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Saturday May 4 2019, 12-5 PM
January 31-February 3, 2019
Preview: 30 janvier 2019
stand D4, halle 1, Palexpo, Genève
View of the CEC’s installation
View of the CEC’s installation
View of the CEC’s installation
View of the CEC’s installation
ground
(edited and curated by Harry Burke and Marlie Mul)
Khairani Barokka
Simnikiwe Buhlungu
Amy DG & Samantha Dick (Where People Sleep)
Marlie Mul
Precious Okoyomon
Kirsten Pieroth
Linda Stupart
The Gate
WAGES FOR WAGES AGAINST
Jean-Michel Wicker
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Editions of the CEC
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Jean-Michel Wicker
Presentation of the new edition of Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Scrolls in the Wind A collection of scripts and poems by Harry Burke, Cyrus Grace Dunham, Sharon Hayes, James English Leary, Sophy Naess, Amy Sillman and Emily Sundblad
Edited by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
ground
Curators : Harry Burke and Marlie Mul
Presentation of the zine ground – first edition launched in 2018 – edited by Harry Burke (writer, critic, editor, and indepndant curator) amd Marlie Mul (artist, born in 1980 in Utrecht, lives and works in Berlin) with contributions by The Gate, Linda Stupart, Jean-Michel Wicker, Khairani Barokka, Reader’s Digestion, Sorryyoufeeluncomfortable et Marlie Mul.
“In collaboration with Centre d’edition contemporaine for artgenève, Harry Burke and Marlie Mul, the editors of ground, will curate a selection of prints and editions by artists featured in both their recently published first zine and in their forthcoming second publication. ground is an independently distributed zine that aims to look beyond institutions, in their current form, as the dominant spaces and frameworks in which to present and deal with artistic production, and instead explore grassroots political and aesthetic alternatives. The presentation at artgenève will highlight the ways that artists are using publishing and printmaking to achieve these aims, and will involve work by artists who are often underrepresented in international commercial presentations such as artgenève.” (Harry Burke)
Talk by Marlie Mul, presentation of the zine ground, art talks & performances, Saturday, February 2, 2019, artgenève 2019
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, What to wear to a concert? Tips for concert outfits: wear your best punk jacket with the right patches! « A patch meant to be fixed to the back of your jacket depicting relevant cultural affiliations »
Silkscreen print on raw cotton, 36 × 48 cm, safety pins, postcard, 150 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2019. Edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2018.
Presentation of the edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2018
Thursday, January 17, 2019, 6 – 9 PM (Common openings of the Quartier des Bains)
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, What to wear to a concert? Tips for concert outfits: wear your best punk jacket with the right patches! « A patch meant to be fixed to the back of your jacket depicting relevant cultural affiliations »
Silkscreen print on raw cotton, 36 × 48 cm, safety pins, postcard, 150 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2019. Edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2018.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Scrolls in the Wind A collection of scripts and poems by Harry Burke, Cyrus Grace Dunham, Sharon Hayes, James English Leary, Sophy Naess, Amy Sillman and Emily Sundblad. Edited by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, edition of twelve color lithographs, on BFK Rives 250g/m2 paper, 42 x 29.7 cm, inside a slip case, BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, contained in a box covered with Wibalin Natural Burnt Orange 115 g/m2 paper.
Edition of 15, 3 A.P. and 2 H.C., each lithograph is numbered from 1 to 12 and signed, the edition is numbered from 1/15 to 15/15, A.P. 1, A.P. 2, A.P. 3 and H.C. I, H.C. II, dated and signed by the artist on the colophon. Printed by Idem, Paris. Box produced by Cartonnages Delavy, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2018.
Jonathan Monk, Directional Advice, one colour silkscreen print, clear varnish coating, Algro Screen cardboard 1260 g/m2, Ø 40 cm, edition of 150, signed and dated on the reverse, printed by Christian Humbert-Droz, Geneva, die-cut by Decoform, Geneva. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2017. Edition offered to the members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association for the year 2017.
Saturday and Sunday November 11 and 12, 2017
11 AM – 6 PM
Thomas Hirschhorn, Flashforward, Saturday November 11, 2017, CEC
Thomas Hirschhorn, Flashforward, Saturday November 11, 2017, CEC
Thomas Hirschhorn, Flashforward, Saturday November 11, 2017, CEC
Itinerant presentation of the facsimile of the publication Les plaintifs, les bêtes, les politiques
Signing session in the presence of Thomas Hirschhorn
Saturday November 11, 2017 from 1 PM
Thomas Hirschhorn, Les plaintifs, les bêtes, les politiques, offset printed brochure, CMYK color model, glossy coated paper, 80 g/m2, 231 × 24 cm, 208 pages. Original edition by Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine/Centre d’édition contemporaine (CEC), Geneva, 1995 and edition of the facsimile, ed. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, 2017.
Exhibition October 13 – November 25, 2017
Opening October 12, 2017 from 2:30 PM
Editions by Valentin Carron, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, François Curlet, Philippe Decrauzat, Jason Dodge, Sylvie Fleury, Mathis Gasser, David Hominal, Tobias Kaspar, Jakob Kolding, Mélanie Matranga, Giuseppe Penone, Oscar Tuazon, Oriol Vilanova, Jean-Michel Wicker, Susanne M. Winterling, Heimo Zobernig
Focus: Mélanie Matranga
View of the exhibition Edited by the CEC! Focus: Mélanie Matranga, CEC, 2017
View of the exhibition Edited by the CEC! Focus: Mélanie Matranga, CEC, 2017
View of the exhibition Edited by the CEC! Focus: Mélanie Matranga, CEC, 2017
Mélanie Matranga’s artistic approach is crossed by stories that infiltrate a production of objects, installations, films, and even pieces of furniture and reconstructions of interiors that are loaded with signifying signs, texts and images: drawings, photographs, prints, projections. These combined elements propose “situations” that interrogate intimacy and seem to be filled with sensations and residual feelings, receptacles where real life experience and imagination, the document and the scenario meet. Continue reading “Edited by the CEC! Focus: Mélanie Matranga“
Jean-Michel Wicker’s exhibition BBiblioteca ffanafffantastica brings together several works involving the medium of print for which the artist has worked out a number of iterations, including fanzines, scrapbooks, antibooks, book-objects, and flyers. The display will also feature supports, both literal and figurative, that have something to do with books, and other elements that extend the gesture of consultation, reading and writing, even the function of storage. This includes bookcases, display stands, showcases, tables and chairs. Other objects or useful ordinary materials like electric wires, clothing, key rings, neon lights, lamps and tarps will be transformed, cobbled together, and combined with a wide range of supports in their usual and unsurprising form or reappropriated and put to other uses. Those supports include paper, cardboard, plastic, papier-mâché, and shells. Continue reading “Jean-Michel Wicker BBiblioteca ffanafffantastica“
Centre d’édition contemporaine at artgenève
International art fair
Inside the Bubble-Booth
With Timothée Calame, Valentin Carron, Jakob Kolding, Matthew Langan-Peck, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Mélanie Matranga
For artgenève 2017 the CEC proposes a group show, Inside the Bubble-Booth, that evolves around the idea of organs and the corps morcelé. The booth of the CEC will be transformed this year into an intimate and organic space. This proposition is also a pretext for improvising on a proposed theme such as desire, intuition or a lead for a work. Each invited artist was chosen on the base of this postulate, without their works being literally an illustration of this theme, they suggest or make allusion to it.
Jean-Michel Wicker, Belle étiquette, woven flyer taking the form of a mini carpet functioning as an advertisement object, polyester, black and white, high definition weaving, heat cut with fray out edges, 92 × 140 mm, edition of 1000, unsigned, weaving Bornemann-Etiketten GmbH, Wuppertal. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2016.
This edition is accompanied by a publication bearing the same title, Belle étiquette, publication, 16 pages, black/white, colours, offset on Magno Satin 130 g/m2 paper, 26,8 × 20,5 cm, 250 copies. Graphic design : Marietta Eugster and Jean-Michel Wicker. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2016.
Edition offered to the 2016 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
Mathis Gasser, In the Museum 1 2 (3), Regulators 1 2 n, artists’s book, 448 pages in black and 128 pages in colour, 17 × 22,8 × 3,5 cm, offset, on Arctic Volume White 1.12 paper 100 g/m2, cover in Arctic Volume White 1.2 paper 300 g/m2, 300 copies. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne with Mathis Gasser. Print : La Buona Stampa, Lugano. Binding: Schumacher AG, Schmitten. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2016.
ISBN 978-2-8399-1979-1.
David Knuckey, Crest, 2016. John M Armleder, Sans titre, 1992. Rosemarie Trockel, Sans titre, 1996.
David Hominal, Through the Windows, 2013. David Knuckey, Crest, 2016. Andreas Dobler, Under Fire, 2007.
From 6 PM Presentation of Mathis Gasser’s book In the Museum 1 2 (3), Regulators 1 2 n, artist’s book, 448 pages in black and 128 pages in colour, 17 × 22,8 × 3,5 cm, offset, on Arctic Volume White 1.12 paper 100 g/m2, cover in Arctic Volume White 1.2 paper 300 g/m2, 300 copies. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne with Mathis Gasser. Print: La Buona Stampa, Lugano. Binding: Schumacher AG, Schmitten. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2016.
David Knuckey, Crest, 2016
From 7 PM Readings by Marie Angeletti, Samuel Luterbacher, Marta Riniker-Radich and Angharad Williams
Until March 11, 2017 John M Armleder, Valentin Carron, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Claude Closky, Andreas Dobler, David Hominal, Rosemarie Trockel and Heimo Zobernig (editions CEC), Giulia Essyad, Sabrina Röthlisberger, Solar Lice (double LP, Power Station, Dallas, 2013)
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Artists’ Voices
Triple LP with sound pieces by Rita Ackermann, Gerard Byrne, Valentin Carron, Claire Fontaine, Jason Dodge, Giulia Essyad, Sylvie Fleury, Gilles Furtwängler, Mathis Gasser, Marcus Geiger / Heimo Zobernig, Vivienne Griffin & Kaspars Groshevs, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tobias Kaspar and Jan Vorisek, Anne Le Troter, Beat Lippert, Tobias Madison, Fabian Marti, Jonathan Monk, Damián Navarro, James Richards, Emanuel Rossetti, Ryan Conrad Sawyer, Ramaya Tegegne and Ricardo Valentim, 3 picture discs in a two-piece box, 310 × 310 × 15/15 mm, 350 copies. Sound engineer: Ladislav Agabekov, Caduceus Mastering, Geneva. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition du Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2016.
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John M Armleder, Valentin Carron, Marc Camille Chaimovicz, Claude Closky, Andreas Dobler, David Hominal, Rosemarie Trockel and Heimo Zobernig (editions CEC), Giulia Essyad (ceramic) and Sabrina Röthlisberger (bench and book), Solar Lice (double LP, Power Station, Dallas, 2013) and David Knuckey (sculptures)
From 6 PM Presentation of the sound edition Artists’ Voices, with Rita Ackermann, Gerard Byrne, Valentin Carron, Claire Fontaine, Jason Dodge, Giulia Essyad, Sylvie Fleury, Gilles Furtwängler, Mathis Gasser, Marcus Geiger / Heimo Zobernig, Vivienne Griffin & Kaspars Groshevs, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tobias Kaspar and Jan Vorisek, Anne Le Troter, Beat Lippert, Tobias Madison, Fabian Marti, Jonathan Monk, Damián Navarro, James Richards, Emanuel Rossetti, Ryan Conrad Sawyer, Ramaya Tegegne and Ricardo Valentim (triple LP, ed. CEC, 2016)
7 PMRamaya Tegegne, Version #19: Judy Chicago, 2016 (reading/performance)
7:30 PMGiulia Essyad, Poetry ReadingDecember 2016 (reading) et Salamander Said, 2016 (ceramics) with Sabrina Röthlisberger, En Attendant Antarah, guerrier poète, 2015, (bench)
8 PMHAGGARD CARAVAN, composed by Stefan Tcherepnin, with recordings by Solar Lice (Jeanne Graff, Tobias Madison, Flavio Merlo, Emanuel Rossetti, Gregory Ruppe, William Z. Saunders & Stefan Tcherepnin), mixed in York House Hotel, Wakefield, 2014 (sound installation, 44’30’’)
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John M Armleder, Valentin Carron, Marc Camille Chaimovicz, Claude Closky, Andreas Dobler, David Hominal, Rosemarie Trockel and Heimo Zobernig (editions CEC)
Artists’ Voices, triple LP with sound pieces by Rita Ackermann, Gerard Byrne, Valentin Carron, Claire Fontaine, Jason Dodge, Giulia Essyad, Sylvie Fleury, Gilles Furtwängler, Mathis Gasser, Marcus Geiger / Heimo Zobernig, Vivienne Griffin & Kaspars Groshevs, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tobias Kaspar and Jan Vorisek, Anne Le Troter, Beat Lippert, Tobias Madison, Fabian Marti, Jonathan Monk, Damián Navarro, James Richards, Emanuel Rossetti, Ryan Conrad Sawyer, Ramaya Tegegne and Ricardo Valentim, 3 picture discs in a two-piece box, 310 x 310 x 15/15 mm, 350 copies. Sound engineer: Ladislav Agabekov, Caduceus Mastering, Geneva. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2016. ISBN 978-2-9701174-6-9.
Valentin Carron explores the principle of reality through acts of appropriation, replicating almost identically elements from popular culture, the practice of monument-making, daily life and his immediate environment. The shift in meaning is probably due more to the choice of referents than to their mere displacement in the field of art. Carron conceals the function, blunts the decorative aspect and revisits the craftsmanship-like manufacturing of these objects that oscillate between irony, affection and fascination and seem to densify as entering in contact with art, endorsing themselves with a common acknowledgement and with the nostalgia of a forgotten story. Continue reading “Valentin Carron Deux épaisseurs un coin“
Valentin Carron, Sunset Punta Cana, edition of a print, inkjet, colours, on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 g/m2 paper, 105,4 × 80,3 cm, an edition of 12 copies, 1 H.C. and 2 A.P., framed, numbered, dated and signed on the back. Printed by Nicolas Pirolet, Bex. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2016.
Mathis Gasser draws upon and combines thousands of images that he patiently gathered and arranged in a personal archive. Their references come from the arts, architecture, cinema, comics, science fiction, magazines or from current events. In a very elaborated practice of collage, thousands of signs collide and are multiplied in an explosive combination, in a mirror or imbricating effect, diffracted by the immateriality of the digital world and by the invasion of information. The impact that Gasser seeks for through this body of reappropriated, reassociated images that are frequently reworked through drawing and painting, and caught in a sustained and invasive turnover. They oscillate between a nihilistic vision and an interrogation of the limits of a world undermined by temptations of archaism and the resurgence of primal fears, sectarian deliriums, theories of conspiracy and hyper technological and futuristic extravaganzas and other prophecies. Continue reading “Mathis Gasser Sept sont tombés vers le ciel Works on paper”
Artists’ Voices assembles a group of sound pieces linked to the theme of the voice. The voice considered as a strong marker on the unconscious, a pre-language primal expression that is directly connected to emotions and is identifiable by a body of signs: tone, vibration, timbre, rhythm. The sound pieces are songs, declamations, monologues, a reading, a discourse, a dialogue, an echo, a whisper, a noise, a scream or breathing, up to the point of rupture, dysphonia, aphonia, silence, or even the return of sound and music. Continue reading “Artists’ Voices Prolongation”
Tobias Kaspar, Heart-Bite Valentine’s Day Teddy, a box containing a teddy bear and an LP featuring a poem printed on the tag attached to the bear read by Karl Holmqvist on the occasion of a reception at Stefan Kalmár’s on February 14th, 2015 in New York City. Additionally a unique photograph and an invitation to the reception are included in the box. An edition of 10, 3 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Coedition Tobias Kaspar and the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2015.
Jason Dodge, David Hominal, Raphaël Julliard, David Maljkovic with Konstantin Grcic, Victor Man
With the new editions offered to the members of the CEC association:
David Hominal, Détail, silk screen print, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2015 (edition offered to the 2014 members )
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Jason Dodge, edition of 120 (edition offered to the 2015 members)
Thomas Hirschhorn, Les plaintifs, les bêtes, les politiques, offset printed brochure, CMYK color model, glossy coated paper, 80 g/m2, 231 × 24 cm, 208 pages. Original edition by Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine/Centre d’édition contemporaine (CEC), Geneva, 1995 and edition of the facsimile, ed. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, 2017.
Sold out (Original edition by the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995)
CHF 55.- (facsimile edited by the Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, 2017)
