Société Anonyme
24 Jan - 16 Mar 2008
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME
24 January – 16 March 2008
The exhibition “Société Anonyme” at Kadist Art Foundation is the continuation of the eponymous show that took place at the contemporary art center Le Plateau in Paris between March 14 and May 13, 2007. This second stage of the project will present a number of works and developments produced by the various artists and protagonists of “Société Anonyme,” following the research and discussions conducted during the first exhibition.
Kadist Art Foundation thus offers to go on and further with the reflection initiated by the curators of “Société Anonyme,” Thomas Boutoux, Natasa Petresin and François Piron, on how to make an exhibition/institution both a pertinent and productive context for the artists to develop new research and works, and a situation that promotes discussion and the inauguration of new communities of interests and aspirations among its audience.
For “Société Anonyme,” part of the exhibition space of the Kadist Art Foundation will be converted into a bookstore: Section 7 Books, a new infrastructure created by Thomas Boutoux and François Piron with artist Oscar Tuazon and art critic Benjamin Thorel, and that was inspired by b_books, the cooperative Berlin bookstore and participant in Société Anonyme’s first phase. Section 7 Books offers a selection of magazines and books rarely visible in the French artistic context, and is an attempt to play an active role in the circulation of knowledge, debates, and writings on art, elaborated here or elsewhere in the world.
24 January – 16 March 2008
The exhibition “Société Anonyme” at Kadist Art Foundation is the continuation of the eponymous show that took place at the contemporary art center Le Plateau in Paris between March 14 and May 13, 2007. This second stage of the project will present a number of works and developments produced by the various artists and protagonists of “Société Anonyme,” following the research and discussions conducted during the first exhibition.
Kadist Art Foundation thus offers to go on and further with the reflection initiated by the curators of “Société Anonyme,” Thomas Boutoux, Natasa Petresin and François Piron, on how to make an exhibition/institution both a pertinent and productive context for the artists to develop new research and works, and a situation that promotes discussion and the inauguration of new communities of interests and aspirations among its audience.
For “Société Anonyme,” part of the exhibition space of the Kadist Art Foundation will be converted into a bookstore: Section 7 Books, a new infrastructure created by Thomas Boutoux and François Piron with artist Oscar Tuazon and art critic Benjamin Thorel, and that was inspired by b_books, the cooperative Berlin bookstore and participant in Société Anonyme’s first phase. Section 7 Books offers a selection of magazines and books rarely visible in the French artistic context, and is an attempt to play an active role in the circulation of knowledge, debates, and writings on art, elaborated here or elsewhere in the world.