Robert Barry, On Kawara, Allan McCollum, Claude Rutault & Allan McCollum - FIAC - Art fairmfc-michèle didier | Paris - Brussels -
FIAC 2016
October 20-23, 2016
Paris, France
«?How doing art when we do not know what to make???»
To this question asked by Mel Bochner in 1967, mfc-michèle didier gallery answered with a stand proposition specially thought for the FIAC 2016.
Robert Barry, Allan McCollum, Claude Rutault, On Kawara. Four artists who have set up specific methods that they are continuously enriching with new statements.
Robert Barry, Allan McCollum, Claude Rutault, On Kawara. Four artworks produced by mfc-michèle didier that return to the respective founding artworks of these artists from the same generation.
You could discover Robert Barry's new art piece entitled Somethings that? Following his own compositing method, the artist conceived a system of 24 three-folded sets, on which 3 sentences are written. The two first sentences are identical, whereas the third one offers a variety of 24 different statements producing as much original propositions.
Responding to the 24 folds of Robert Barry's artwork, a selection of two series of 12 framed silhouettes entitled The Shapes Project: Shapes From Maine Shapes Silhouettes (n°73-84 and 109-120) were highlight Allan McCollum's colossal Shapes Project, that consists of a system generating more than 31 billions different shapes ? each one intended to one particular individual ? composed from various combinations of 6 standard elements. These two series came with the two book volumes, The Book of Shapes, that take over the entire «?pattern?» and the instructions.
Placing Allan McCollum's Collection of Four Perfect Vehicles on a pile of 43 prepared canvas from Claude Rutault, the two artists settle a new statement on the « definitions/methods » set up by Rutault, questioning the collaborative artwork boundaries and jeopardising the paternity concept to reopen the scope of possibilities.
As for the famous On Kawara's One Million Years, opened at the current date, it offered the results of the daily ritual the artist forced himself to obey from 1969, rituals that have become a true work method, consisting on typing the past million years and then the one to come.
FIAC 2016
October 20-23, 2016
Paris, France
«?How doing art when we do not know what to make???»
To this question asked by Mel Bochner in 1967, mfc-michèle didier gallery answered with a stand proposition specially thought for the FIAC 2016.
Robert Barry, Allan McCollum, Claude Rutault, On Kawara. Four artists who have set up specific methods that they are continuously enriching with new statements.
Robert Barry, Allan McCollum, Claude Rutault, On Kawara. Four artworks produced by mfc-michèle didier that return to the respective founding artworks of these artists from the same generation.
You could discover Robert Barry's new art piece entitled Somethings that? Following his own compositing method, the artist conceived a system of 24 three-folded sets, on which 3 sentences are written. The two first sentences are identical, whereas the third one offers a variety of 24 different statements producing as much original propositions.
Responding to the 24 folds of Robert Barry's artwork, a selection of two series of 12 framed silhouettes entitled The Shapes Project: Shapes From Maine Shapes Silhouettes (n°73-84 and 109-120) were highlight Allan McCollum's colossal Shapes Project, that consists of a system generating more than 31 billions different shapes ? each one intended to one particular individual ? composed from various combinations of 6 standard elements. These two series came with the two book volumes, The Book of Shapes, that take over the entire «?pattern?» and the instructions.
Placing Allan McCollum's Collection of Four Perfect Vehicles on a pile of 43 prepared canvas from Claude Rutault, the two artists settle a new statement on the « definitions/methods » set up by Rutault, questioning the collaborative artwork boundaries and jeopardising the paternity concept to reopen the scope of possibilities.
As for the famous On Kawara's One Million Years, opened at the current date, it offered the results of the daily ritual the artist forced himself to obey from 1969, rituals that have become a true work method, consisting on typing the past million years and then the one to come.
Exposed artworks
2 volumes, 632 pages and 360 pages
10.63 x 8.27 in ( 27,9 x 21,6 cm )
Sculpture, Mixed material
57.09 x 22.83 x 22.05 in ( 145 x 58 x 56 cm )
Set of three sheets of paper in its portfolio
11.02 x 8.27 in ( 28 x 21,5 x 0,6 cm )
Black slipcase. Contains 2 volumes, 14.4 cm x 10.5 cm
6.3 x 4.33 x 3.54 in ( 16,2 x 11,5 x 9,2 cm )