December 13 - February 21, 2004
"CHALET LOST HISTORY"
With integrated texts by Manuel Joseph
The "Chalet Lost History" aims to completely wrap the gallery, transforming it into a chalet. The "Chalet Lost History" is equiped with texts integrated in the art work itself. The texts by Manuel Joseph will be enlarged, cut, scaled down, transformed, glued so that texts and walls become one. "Lost History" is the name of this chalet, and it is also the true program of this project. History is lost. History has always been robbed, looted, wrecked. Thomas Hirschhorn still has before his eyes these images of looting in Bagdad, with people getting out of the Archeologic Museum with refrigerators, air conditioning devices, furniture, plants, and also ancient, historical and archeological objects. The texts by an author are also lost, looted, stolen texts. They are free texts, accepting to be looted, stolen, wrecked, lost. Manuel Joseph and Thomas Hirschhorn's approaches are parallel, like the refrigerator thief and the statuette thief. The artist wants that there will be a lot to read in "Chalet Lost History", that there will be isolated words, amputated sentences, scattered bits of text. Just like the statuette or refrigerator thief who only takes with him a fragment of history, the chalet visitor will only take small pieces of texts.
Extracts from Thomas Hirschhorn's presentation of the " Chalet Lost History " project
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March 20 - May 29, 2004
Ciclonismo
The work of this artist duo - combining both an artistic and a scientific background - is an attempt to disrupt urban, political, economical, perception and communication systems. In so doing, they unravel and reformulate them in the exhibition space, often using technical devices, on a human and performative scale. This allows the spectator to question his own context at different levels with both judicious and humorous interaction.
Two parts exhibition :
June 7 - July 2, 2004
July 7 - September 11, 2004
OEUVRES : drawings, sculptures, photographs
We are delighted to announce Jean-Luc Moulène's first solo exhibition at the Galerie Chantal Crousel. The exhibition presents an ensemble of works that embraces twenty years of creativity, as well as several new sculptures, made for this exhibition. The show will evolve in time, and is articulated in two
parts. Part 1, starting on Monday, June 7, will move over in an uninterrupted way in part 2 - coinciding with the opening on Friday July 2nd, thus leading to a progression of the viewer's experience in the work.
The exhibition displays a diversity of media: photographs (the medium most currently used by the artist), sculptures ( i.e.. the sculptures presented in the exhibition "The Altered Everyday" at the Venice Biennial 2003) and drawings - expressions of mental cartography outlining the movements and process of experience. This wide scale provides several threads in Jean-Luc Moulène's thinking and perceiving. It also reveals works seldom or even never shown before.
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September 18 - October 30, 2004
The Chantal Crousel Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo gallery exhibition of Hassan Khan.
The work of Hassan Khan is nourished by the urban reality of Cairo, a city of 16 million inhabitants. Both lascivious and oversurveilled, this gigantic metropolis, drained by various ideological networks, manages the individual and the society in a constant friction of competing matrices. Television and religion, tablas and electric guitars, kitsch beauty and promiscuity, everything mixes and problematizes in an acceleration of contemporary data characterising the actual Middle East, and - by extension and translation - any mega city in the world.
November 19 - December 23, 2004
Chantal Crousel gallery is delighted to present the second solo show of Sean Snyder (1972. Lives and works in Berlin). Using photography, video and text elements, Sean Snyder's (1972) installations explore aspects of urban space and architecture as signs of economic and political structures as well as media and cultural domination. Through various modes of representation whether producing material, reprocessing existing material or archival research his work traces the visual codes that effect the built environment. Snyder's research picks up where other sources of information leave off, engaging the viewer in an interconnected narrative of seemly fictional facts and coincidences posed to the viewer to interpret the specific history or circumstance. Opening on Friday November 19th, 6-9 PM A detailed documentation on the works presented in the exhibition will be available to the public at the gallery.
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