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FACE AU MUR. PAPIERS PEINTS CONTEMPORAINS
03.11.2010 - 13.02.2011
Mudac - Lausanne
Place de la Cathédrale 6
CH-1005 Lausanne
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Musée de Pully
T: +41 21 315 25 30 F: +41 21 315 25 39
info@mudac.ch
http://www.mudac.ch
Mudac
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Musée de Pully
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ONE SHOW, TWO VENUES: MUDAC & MUSEE DE PULLY
Face au mur. Papiers peints contemporains
Contemporary wallpapers made by artists and designers
Preview: Vernissage: 02.11.2010 from 18h at mudac &
Musée de Pully open to visitors from 18h to 21h
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Musée de Pully
Chemin Davel 2
CH-1009 Pully
T +41 21 729 55 81
musees@pully.ch
www.museedepully.ch
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Redoubling the available display wall space, these two institutions invite viewers to make highly innovative discoveries among recent creations by today’s artists and designers. An ethereal scenographic frame devoid of all furnishings or additions to the wallpapers assigns its true status and function to the medium.
Over the last ten years, following upon wallpaper’s gradual loss of popularity in favor of more minimalist decors, wall coverings have made a strong come-back in our homes and on the white walls of art spaces. Artists and designers have regained interest in the medium, reverting to its colors, patterns and even forms of support: their latest creations are highly original, demanding and technological. By focusing on questions of discourse, status and techniques, as brought across by contemporary wallpapers, this exhibition presents a major chapter of the research carried out by visual artists on this support’s formal aspects and its technical constraints.
The exhibition "Face au mur. Papiers peints contemporains" deliberately juxtaposes creations by visual artists with those by designers, in the intention of making viewers aware of the new enthusiasm this medium inspires, as much in its producers, artists and designers, as in its users. The some sixty wallpapers on display in "Face au mur" make of it the most significant show on the subject to date. Moreover, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition represents the first French- language publication on contemporary wallpaper.
The "Face au mur" show is designed by the art historian and independent curator Marco Costantini, a name well known on the artistic scene, notably for the creation of exhibitions. Marco Costantini has addressed the subject of wallpaper for many years. For this exhibition, he has selected pieces worthy of special interest, setting up dialogues between works by respectively visual artists and designers, combined here to give a better picture of the challenges facing the medium today.
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ARTISTS & DESIGNERS BY
MUDAC
Carlos Amorales (MEX) Thomas Bayrle (D) Stéphane Bureaux (F) Claude Closky (F) François Curlet (F) Florence Doléac (F) Parastou Forouhar (IRN) Rudolf Herz (D) Damien Hirst (UK) Jenny Holzer (USA) Udo Koch (D) Sarah Lukas (UK) Virgil Marti (USA) Paul McCarthy (USA) M/M Paris (F) NoDesign.net (F) Mai-Thu Perret (CH) Francesco Simeti (IT) Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger (CH) Studio Job (NL) Timorous Beasties (UK) Andy Warhol (USA) Robert Williams (USA)
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ARTISTS & DESIGNERS BY
MUSEE DE PULLY
5.5 designers (F) ateliergrün (D) Francis Baudevin (CH) Stefan Brüggemann (MEX) Frédéric Cordier (CH) Droog Design (NL) General Idea (CAN) Dan Graham (USA) Rodney Graham (USA) Amy Granat (USA) Kent Henricksen (USA) Damien Hirst (UK) Hanspeter Hofmann (CH) Ich&Kar (F) Lina Jabbour (F) Lene Toni Kjeld (DK) Virgil Marti (USA) Geoff McFetridge (USA) Olivier Mosset (CH) Nice Design(UK) Olaf Nicolai (D) Showroom Dummies (UK) Francesco Simeti (IT) Surrealien (D) Timorous Beasties (UK) Erwan Venn (F) Jenny Wilkinson (UK) Brigitte Zieger (F)
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CATALOGUE
The publication accompanying the "Face au Mur" exhibition is the first to appear on the subject in French. This object-book, akin to a sample catalogue and bound by a screw cover, comprises 6 essays by specialists presenting the history and different challenges of contemporary wallpaper. It features 67 wallpapers—those on display in the show and several complementary samples—in full-page spreads and documented by a short profile of each artist/designer.
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ROUNDTABLE
21.11.2010 at 10h30 am at Musée de Pully
Welcome at 10h30 roundtable at 11h, followed by a brunch courtesy of the museum and a guided tour of the show by its curator.
With GILL SAUNDERS, Senior Curator of Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (UK) // MAI-THU PERRET, Artist, Geneva (CH) and New York (USA). Having created a wallpaper for presentation in our current show // BLANDINE MOREL & DAVID POISSENOT, Wallpaper by Artists, Dijon (F). Having studied at Dijon’s National School of Art, the two founded the Wallpapers by Artists agency in 2006.
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