Marc Camille Chaimowicz
20 Nov 2009 - 24 Jan 2010
© Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Deux coiffeuses (peut-être pour adolescents), l’une habillée, l’une pas (Detail), 2008
wood, mirror and various objects
125 x 143 x 50 cm
Deux coiffeuses (peut-être pour adolescents), l’une habillée, l’une pas (Detail), 2008
wood, mirror and various objects
125 x 143 x 50 cm
MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ
Hauptraum
Nov 20, 2009 – Jan 24, 2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz made his mark in the early 1970s with environments and interactive performances, whose poetic nature sets them distinctly apart from the purist representations of concept art and minimal art. Today, the ambiguity of his interiors and objects between art, design and everyday culture, his sensitivity for profane, everyday rituals, and the interlaced autobiographical comments and updated tradition of dandyism are particularly important references for a younger generation of artists. Driven by the sustained interest in a sophisticated furnishing and lifestyle and the ambition of a total aesthetic, Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s recent artistic production features still-life-like arrangements, furniture sculptures, ornamental drawings and prototypes for decor fabrics, wallpapers and ceramics. His vocabulary of ornamental patterns and motifs refers to a bourgeois, at times old-fashioned finesse and plays with the ambiguity of real furnishings and domestic functional contexts.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, born in post war Paris, lives and works in London and Burgundy.
Hauptraum
Nov 20, 2009 – Jan 24, 2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz made his mark in the early 1970s with environments and interactive performances, whose poetic nature sets them distinctly apart from the purist representations of concept art and minimal art. Today, the ambiguity of his interiors and objects between art, design and everyday culture, his sensitivity for profane, everyday rituals, and the interlaced autobiographical comments and updated tradition of dandyism are particularly important references for a younger generation of artists. Driven by the sustained interest in a sophisticated furnishing and lifestyle and the ambition of a total aesthetic, Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s recent artistic production features still-life-like arrangements, furniture sculptures, ornamental drawings and prototypes for decor fabrics, wallpapers and ceramics. His vocabulary of ornamental patterns and motifs refers to a bourgeois, at times old-fashioned finesse and plays with the ambiguity of real furnishings and domestic functional contexts.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, born in post war Paris, lives and works in London and Burgundy.