Marc Camille Chaimowicz
08 Apr - 18 Jun 2006
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Zürich Suite...
April 8, 2006 until June 18, 2006
Marc Camille Chaimowicz was born in the post-War years in Paris and today lives in London and Dijon. In 1969 he was one of the first artists to begin working with performances and installations.
The origins of Chaimowicz’s works lie in the intimate and the personal, and in the corresponding life forms. His attempts to come to terms with everyday objects and historical interiors have resulted in stage-like rooms and strange, glamorous still-life tableaux. In opposition to the minimalist neutrality of the time, Chaimowicz had already attempted to create an excessive subjectivity in the 1970s: turning away from the permanent object to a time-dependant process, which also involves the observer, as well as from belief in socio-political work which reduces art to information. For Chaimowicz, sense perception and metaphor are central. Models are also unheroically created from literature, such as Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, nighthawks with a dandy-like attitude, linking them to the French tradition from Baudelaire and Proust through Gide to Genet.
The exhibition displays a selection of the most important works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, who will also give one of his rare performances in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst.
Curator Heike Munder. A comprehensive monograph will be available for the exhibition.
Zürich Suite...
April 8, 2006 until June 18, 2006
Marc Camille Chaimowicz was born in the post-War years in Paris and today lives in London and Dijon. In 1969 he was one of the first artists to begin working with performances and installations.
The origins of Chaimowicz’s works lie in the intimate and the personal, and in the corresponding life forms. His attempts to come to terms with everyday objects and historical interiors have resulted in stage-like rooms and strange, glamorous still-life tableaux. In opposition to the minimalist neutrality of the time, Chaimowicz had already attempted to create an excessive subjectivity in the 1970s: turning away from the permanent object to a time-dependant process, which also involves the observer, as well as from belief in socio-political work which reduces art to information. For Chaimowicz, sense perception and metaphor are central. Models are also unheroically created from literature, such as Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, nighthawks with a dandy-like attitude, linking them to the French tradition from Baudelaire and Proust through Gide to Genet.
The exhibition displays a selection of the most important works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, who will also give one of his rare performances in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst.
Curator Heike Munder. A comprehensive monograph will be available for the exhibition.