Irmavep Club presents: Livret I
08 Jan - 26 Feb 2011
EXHIBITION VIEW from left to right: DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER "UNTITLED (CRATER)"; MARIA LOBODA "THE TOTALITY OF EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS", MICHAEL PFISTERER "BLUMENSERIE", MAURICE BLAUSSYLD "GRANIT", THOMAS MERRET "FOUND OBJECT"
EXHIBITION VIEW from left to right: MAURICE BLAUSSYLD "GRANIT", MICHAEL PFISTERER "BLUMENSERIE", JORDAN WOLFSON "THE LIGHT SWITCH 27TH FLOOR (1931-2007)"
Group exhibition with: Maurice Blaussyld, Thomas Dupouy, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Maria Loboda, Thomas Merret, Michael Pfisterer, Olve Sande, Jordan Wolfson
curated by: Irmavep Club (www.irmavepclub.com)
For 2011, Irmavep Club is pleased to announce the beginning of a new cycle of exhibitions taking place in several Parisian venues over the course of the year.
LIVRET 1, the first stop of this itinerant program, is hosted by schleicher+lange galerie, Paris.
This first chapter takes as a point of departure a work by Jordan Wolfson entitled The light switch 27th floor (1931-2007) . The particularity of this light switch is to be able to turn the overall exhibition on and off. It also comes from the Empire States Building and recalls the very particular story of the artist's encounter with Mr Tortorelli, the building's chief electrician. The viewer is given the opportunity wether or not to bring light on the exhibition and to reveal its meaning. However, one can also chose to act like Bartleby who endlessly repeats "I would prefer not to"*.
This negative affirmation can be seen as the epigraph of this first Livret.
The works gathered in LIVRET I revolve around a common notion of avoidance. They consciously resist to the viewer's interpretation and confront them to the absence of a singular reading. Rather than being a renunciation, this absence however gives the opportunity to catch a glimpse of an hypothetical origin. The works discretely reveal barely buried archeological traces of meaning.
curated by: Irmavep Club (www.irmavepclub.com)
For 2011, Irmavep Club is pleased to announce the beginning of a new cycle of exhibitions taking place in several Parisian venues over the course of the year.
LIVRET 1, the first stop of this itinerant program, is hosted by schleicher+lange galerie, Paris.
This first chapter takes as a point of departure a work by Jordan Wolfson entitled The light switch 27th floor (1931-2007) . The particularity of this light switch is to be able to turn the overall exhibition on and off. It also comes from the Empire States Building and recalls the very particular story of the artist's encounter with Mr Tortorelli, the building's chief electrician. The viewer is given the opportunity wether or not to bring light on the exhibition and to reveal its meaning. However, one can also chose to act like Bartleby who endlessly repeats "I would prefer not to"*.
This negative affirmation can be seen as the epigraph of this first Livret.
The works gathered in LIVRET I revolve around a common notion of avoidance. They consciously resist to the viewer's interpretation and confront them to the absence of a singular reading. Rather than being a renunciation, this absence however gives the opportunity to catch a glimpse of an hypothetical origin. The works discretely reveal barely buried archeological traces of meaning.