Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

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Artist's Name:

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Preferred medium:

multimedia

birth year:

1965

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City:

Paris

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13.02.07 - 06.05.07 Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris MAM - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 11 Avenue du Président Wilson 75016 Paris Frankreich fon 33 (0)1 5367 4000 homepage Dominique Gonzales-Foerster & Cie Expodrome Kuratoren: Angeline Scherf, Emilie Renard Pressetext: This is ARC's first major solo exhibition of the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. In preference to the more conventional retrospective mode, the artist has opted for presenting an ensemble of works created in collaboration with an "exhibition team" - her version of a film crew. Embodying the notions of "shared space" and "playground", the exhibition puts the viewer at the heart of the set. Since the early 1990s, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been pursuing a thoroughly independent line, never hesitating to move beyond the art field, push back its frontiers and explore its relationship with such other domains as cinema, architecture, fashion, music and literature. She has built her oeuvre around "space", beginning with the intimacy of Chambres and working through films and environments to her extreme urban situations and landscapes. In ARC's modernist architectural setting Expodrome brings together a number of "space-times" that trigger singular experiences: Solarium, La Fée Electricité, La Jetée, Promenade, Panorama, Cosmodrome and Cinéma. These environments - visual, sound-based, physical - make up an exploratory journey "on the edge of the exhibition". The exhibition is the medium for the artist: designing potential spaces and exploring limitations are ways of producing situations a little like staged scenes with which viewers can engage as they move through the exhibition. The first such situation - created with Nicolas Ghesquière - is the environment/projection Solarium on the great staircase leading to the Salle Dufy. Then, integrated into the exhibition, comes Dufy's panoramic La Fée Électricité, accompanied by an instrumental montage by Alain Bashung. On the ARC floor itself La Jetée, another joint creation with Nicolas Ghesquière, slows visitors' progress down with an artificial landscape, an accumulation of sombre blocks and modules. The large space opens out onto Promenade, created with Christophe Van Huffel: an invisible work whose cinema-inspired use of sound turns this into a radically tropicalised zone. Panorama, created with Benoît Lalloz and Martial Galfione, presents, in the curved area, a contemporary version of 19th century panoramas, a luminously nocturnal vision of our planet's great metropolises. Tapis de lecture is an invitation to leaf through piles of paperbacks: these are the artist's "reservoir of possibilities", the source material for her fictions. Next, an outdoor walkway takes the visitor into Cosmodrome (2001), a launch pad with sound by Jay-Jay Johanson. Lastly, Cinéma is a selection of Gonzalez-Foerster's films - some made with Ange Leccia - since 1996. Every Sunday at 3 pm a guest will offer a special cinema programme that ties in with the exhibition. The written and visual collaborations making up the catalogue played a large part in the genesis of Expodrome. Among the contributors are Jean-Max Colard, Nicolas Ghesquière, Francesca Grassi, Lisette Lagnado, Ange Leccia, Hans Ulrich Obrist , Philippe Rahm and Angeline Scherf. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has already shown several times at ARC, with Numéro Bleu (1991), L'hiver de l'amour (1994), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno (1998) and Voilà (2000); at many international biennials and film festivals; and more recently at the 27th São Paulo biennial (2006). She was invited at Documenta XI in Kassel (2002) and will be taking part in the next Skulptur Project in Münster this year. Director of the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris : Fabrice Hergott Head of ARC : Laurence Bossé Curated by : Angeline Scherf with Emilie Renard

important exhibitions from Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster	Tate Modern	London	GB	01.03.2009

Christian Holstad / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster	Kunsthalle Zürich	Zürich	CH	12.06.2004

KW69 #1 Molecular Etwas von Angela Bulloch	KW Institute for Contemporary Art	Berlin	DE	27.10.2010

The World as a Stage	Tate Modern	London	GB	24.10.2007

Big Picture I (Locations/Projections)	K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus	Düsseldorf	DE	19.03.2011

Pareno - Huyghes - Dg Foerster - "Ann Lee"	les Abattoirs de Toulouse	Toulouse	FR	18.11.2005

KW69 #1 Molecular Etwas von Angela Bulloch		Berlin	DE	28.10.2010

e-flux video rental	Portikus	Frankfurt	DE	04.09.2005

The Spiral and the Square. Exercises on translatability.	Bonniers Konsthall	Stockholm	SE	24.08.2011