"The (untitled) presentation at the Magasin in Grenoble of eighteen important works by Fabrice Gygi represents the first large scale survey of his work. The exhibition takes place in La Rue, an open and undivided space uniquely attuned to Fabrice Gygi's concerns, since, as its name indicates, it is readily identifiable to a public and urban space. Placed at the jointure between public and private, the exhibition proposes two separate zones, the first of which is akin to a “forum” or an unlikely playground, while the second is reminiscent of an “autonomous commune” or a fortified camp. Strucures for catering to the public, which ressemble the equipment used in open air parties, country fests and concerts, can thu be found alongside tents and elements evocative of control and constraint. Screens, stands, terraces, precarious dwellings, nomadic structures and temporary architecture are combined in an ambiguous and disturbing image – the representation of a society which, for each moment of leisure, play and “freedom”, creates new systems of regulation." — Excerpt from the catalog's "Foreword" by Yves Aupetitallot & Lionel Bovier
Co-published by Le Magasin, Grenoble; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Dijon; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich and JRP Editions, Genève on the occasion of Fabrice Gygi's personal exhibition at Le Magasin, May 27 - September 10, 2000.
Editorial conception by Lionel Bovier
Texts by Yves Aupetitallot, Lionel Bovier, Jean-Charles Masséra and Christophe Chérix.
French and English
Softcover, 23,5 x 29 cm, 80 p. (color and b/w ill.)
ISBN : 978-2-940271-07-8