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UNDER
PRESSURE
January
25 - March 3, 2001
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The exhibition
also at the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Tucson,
March
24 - May 6, 2001. Info phone 520 624 5019
Click HERE to watch the Under Pressure video
Click HERE to view the exhibition
images
Long before they
exploded and reduced the population of Gotham City to helplessness, balloons
have always represented the principal expression of every holiday. Brightly
colored, charming, floating freely with the wind, they invoke a feeling
of exhilaration.
Everyone loves inflatables
: they fascinate children and reassure adults. Symbol of comfort (air cushions),
of hip elegance (inflatable dresses) and of safety (airbags), they embody
a vision of an inexhaustible confidence, as well as of a carefree and cheerful
future.
But what happens
when this gentle and magical world threatens to explode at any moment?
The exhibition, UNDER PRESSURE, plays with this uncertain moment, always
filled with tension, of imminent explosion. A moment where our environment
-usually so pretty, so smooth- is suddenly on permanent alert ; a moment
where the feeling of failure lurks, ready to seep into the smallest gap,
the tiniest crack, of a world on the point of bursting into shreds. MOW |
Artists:
Cercle
Ramo Nash (F), Martin Creed (UK), Simone Decker (Lux),
Graham
Durward (US), Fabrice Gygi, Eric Hattan (CH),
Pierre
Joseph (F), Stéphane Magnin (F), Thom Merrick (US),
Takashi
Murakami (J), Philippe Parreno (F), Stefan Pente (CH),
Henrik
Plenge Jakobsen (DK), Pierre Reimer (F),
Roman
Signer (CH), @Home (CH)
Curated
by:
Marc-Olivier
Wahler
in
collaboration with Le 27ème Stratagème
Support:
AFAA,
Association française d'action artistique
Cultural
Services of the French Embassy
DCA,
Danish Contemporary Art Foundation.
Thanks
to:
Frac
Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunquerque
CAN,
Neuchâtel
Transfert,
Biel
Galerie
Art et Public, Genève
Attitudes,
Genève
Galerie
Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Mu.dac,
Lausanne
Galerie
Perrotin, Paris
Greene
Naftali Gallery, New York
Antoine
Vigne, New York
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