We wish you a beautiful summer. Next exhibition in September:
\ Périfériks
5.09-11.10.2009
Opening show : Friday 4.09.2009 at 6.30 pm
Guided tours :
On Tuesday, September 8rd at 2 pm
On Saturday, October 3rd at 5 pm
Addressing the notion of 21st century cosmopolitanism, Eternal Tour questions Eurocentrist cultural hegemony. The exhibition at the CAN proposed by Kader Attia – Périfériks – develops a complementary reflection by inviting artists from the artistic periphery… indeed, most of them come from so-called marginal sites of artistic creation, situated outside countries or cities long considered the indisputable locations of emergent contemporary art (New York, Berlin, London, Paris, etc.).
More than a decentralisation that allows a reframing, the exhibition proposes an interrogation of localised and fixed identities. To evoke this new territory, Attia likes to recall the metaphor of concentric circles disturbing a body of water after impact. Indeed, the circles radiate outwards, until they meet and dissolve into a new space, apparently secondary, but potentially creative and of unexpected extent. The artists chosen by Attia are in fact the supporters of a cultural syncretism, less schematic, but more real and future-oriented than the representation of identities proposed by the media. Far from the binary vision thus opposing Oriental and Occidental codes, it is a meeting whose works bear witness to a mixing of mind and culture. Life in the periphery is thus a reinvention: it not only concerns the individual but also touches practical forms of art – reappropriated, recreated and repoliticised.
Artists:
Sammy Baloji
Dario Escobar
Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Nicène Kossentini
Driss Ouadahi
Jean-Michel Pancin
Javier Téllez
Minnette Vári
Curator :
Kader Attia
Javier Téllez, One flew over the Void (Bala perdida), 2005, Single channel video projection. courtesy et copyright, artist and gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zürich.
