#Musee d'Art Moderne

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It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a look at Taschen: Oliver Payne & Nick Relph. This beautifully designed exhibition catalog was printed by Busch Druck Medien Verlag (Bielefeld, Deutschlan) and published by Kerber Verlag in New York in 2004. It accompanied the exhibition Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, which was presented by the National Museum of Art (Oslo) and the Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris) the same year. Designed by graphic designer and artist Halvor Bodin, the text was authored by Payne & Relph in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrea Kroknes (Senior Curator of the National Museum), and Sune Nordgren (director of the National Museum at the time).  

Oliver Payne & Nick Relph are a British artist duo who internationally exhibited film, video, & installation works from 1999 until 2009. Their practice grappled with themes of cultural identity, subcultures (such as skater, gaming, and DIY cultures), and corporate imperialism. This publication is particularly interesting within the context of our collection because it juxtaposes the design language of Fine Press movement forerunners like the Kelmscott Press with the lo-fi aesthetics of early internet & DIY culture and advertising, bringing the principles of the Arts & Crafts movement into critical conversation with the aesthetic and cultural landscape of our time.

In their early video work Driftwood (a "psycho-geographical tour of London"), Payne & Relph call to 'smash the symbols of the Empire in the name of nothing but the heart's longing for grace.' They demonstrate this ethos by gaming information and cataloging systems through their choice of the title Taschen, the moniker of one of the most ubiquitous and celebrated publishers of art books, thereby hacking their way into in a realm where artists working in new media and experimental art were rarely represented.

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Musée national d’Art moderne, centre Georges-Pompidou, collections permanentes, Paris 3e – stylo bille 8 couleurs, carnet n° 139, 22 novembre 2023.

[karmaalwayswins]

Paris, France April 4-8, 2024

Paris International Salsa Congress 2024.

"Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism" exhibit, Musée d'Orsay.

Montmartre.

Basilique du Sacré-Coeur.

Mama's Bowl, Mama Kossa.

"Jean Hélion: The Prose of the World" exhibit, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

"Arab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonization, Paris 1908-1988" exhibit, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

"Past Disquiet" exhibit, Palais de Tokyo.

"Venus de Milo", Musée du Louvre.

Photo Credit: karmaalwayswins

[kopystianskybooks]

Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: Projects

Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: Incidents (1996/7)

Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: The Day Before Tomorrow (1999)

Svetlana Kopystiansky: Works and Projects

Igor Kopystiansky: Works and Projects

Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: Archive Documents

Video Works. Vimeo

Video Works. YouTube

Bibliography

Books by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky

Works by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky are represented in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art  in New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey; Musée National d'Art Moderne Center Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France; Tate Modern, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia; Folkwang Museum in Essen; Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen; Berlinische Galerie; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; MUMOK Vienna, Austria; Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy; Frac Corsica, France; MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Poland;  Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland.

Archives by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky are located at the Centre Pompidou, Kandinsky Library.

Works by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky were exhibited at venues including: Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2017-2018); MFAH Texas (2017); MoMA, New York (2012); Center Pompidou, Paris (2015, 2011, 2010, 2009); Tate Modern London (2010, 2011-2012), Metropolitan Museum, New York (2013-2014, 2010-11, 2001,1997); Center Pompidou Metz (2011-2012); Smithsonian American Art Museum (2015, 2010-11); Art Institute of Chicago, (1996, 1997-1998, 2008); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999); Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (2005); Fine Arts Center UMass, Amherst, Massachusetts (2005); Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France (2010); Tate Liverpool (1999); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1999); MMK Frankfurt/Main (2011, 2010,  1999); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1992, 1994, 1995); Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (2000); Folkwang Museum, Essen (2000); Sprengel Museum Hannover(2002); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2005-2006, 1999); Deichtorhallen Hamburg ( 2011-2012), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2011-12); Kunst-Werke Berlin (1999); Reina Sofia, Madrid (1994-1995); S.M.A.K. Gent (2009); GAMeC, Bergamo (2011);  Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Finland (2007);  AGNSW, Sydney (1992, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009); Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2012); MARCO, Vigo, Spain (2007); MUMOK, Vienna, (1989) and others.

Igor and Svetlana participated in international exhibitions including Sculpture Projects Münster 1997 (Svetlana), Documenta 11 (2002) and biennials in Venice 1988 (Aperto curated by Dan Cameron), Sydney 1992 (curated by Anthony Bond), Sao Paulo1994, (curated by Nelson Aguilar), Istanbul  1995 (curated by René Block), Johannesburg 1997 (curated by Okwui Enwezor), Lyon 1997 (curated by Harald Szeemann), Liverpool  1999, Triennial of Small Sculpture” Fellbach, Germany 2004 (curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann), Triennial of Small Sculpture Stuttgart 1998 and others.

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Raoul Dufy (French 1877-1953), Electricity Fairy, 1937, Oil on 250 panels, Paris Musee National d'Art de Moderne (Originally exhibited in the Electricity Pavilion for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair)

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"Never kneel except to smell a flower"

Written on a wall inside the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris

[arthistoryanimalia]

Paul Gauguin was born #OTD (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903). The lower right corner of his 1902 painting Le Sorcier d'Hiva Oa depicts a dog seizing a bird which may be a Marquesan Swamphen (Porphyrio paepae), a now presumed extinct species with no other images or skins known to exist:

Le sorcier d���Hiva Oa, ou Le Marquisien à la cape rouge (The Wizard of Hiva Oa, or The Marquisian in the Red Cloak) 1902 oil on canvas Musee d'art moderne et d'art contemporai

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3 paintings & an etching by František Kupka, Czech artist 1871-1957. ~ "Trait austere (Austere trait)", 1925. Oil on canvas. Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris. Photo by R.M.Lenox. ~ "The Yellow Scale", circa 1907. Oil on canvas. Via Gandalf's Gallery. ~ "View from a Carriage Window", circa 1901. Gouache & watercolour on paper with cutout cardboard overlay. ~ "La principe du vie (The Beginning of Life)", 1900. Etching - colour print on paper.

[artlimited]

Joan Miró | Les Collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/joan-miro-les-collection-du-musee-national-d-art-moderne-expostion-grenoable/fr/7585697

[indyflanery]

Room x 2, one for home at the Jones house and one for his apartment in Paris :)

Send me Room and I will give you a detail about my muse's room. Home at the Jones house

Indy's desk at home in Princeton is very chaotic - haphazard piles of books, a stray baseball, stray photos from his travels with his father when he was a kid, a few scattered baseball cards and trinkets. The only thing that's not chaotic his the dedicated place he keeps a picture of his mother taken when he was younger.

For his apartment in Paris

Oddly enough, pending on how one looks at it, Indy's apartment in Paris is a small flat somewhere along the Bd Saint-Michel - near the Sorbonne (and the future site of the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie) but far enough away he still has to walk a bit to get there. It's basically one room, small but big enough that somewhere he can live for a few years.

(I can't remember if it was detailed anywhere about where Indy lived when studying in Paris, so if I find it at some point, I'll update the details. For now I have a modern approximation of what we're looking at.)

[joealwyndaily]

Joe was in Paris!

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

i know the pic is kinda dark lol but it looks like the outfit he wore to the Dunhill Paris show in 2019!

[fleurcareil]

East Quebec: Quebec City and West Gaspesie

I left Mont-Tremblant reenergized and with a plan not to get so much bitten; so far 4 days later I've succeeded! :)

On my way to Quebec City, I paid a visit to my ex-colleague Allen and his wife who live since his retirement off the beaten track at the end of an unpaved road in the municipality of Gore, an hour northwest of Montreal. Winters are harsh in Quebec but with a floor-heated solarium surrounded by forest I can imagine it being the perfect retreat from busy life 😎.

After a long & boring drive to the city (I might have gotten a speed ticket?!?), I checked in at the HI hostel smack in Vieux Quebec. For those who don't know HI hostels, they provide quality accommodation (in my case a private bedroom with table & chair) with clean, shared washrooms in well-maintained and noise-free facilities... I've stayed there several times before as it's perfectly located, safe (with your personal entry card) and even includes breakfast at a fraction of a hotel cost. HI is more expensive than "backpacker" hostels (and without parties) so the typical guests are older long-term travellers or families as you can often cook dinner as well. 

It was very windy in Quebec so I only went to see my two favourites; the Fairmont terrace with view of the river, and the massive trompe l'oeil mural depicting famous Quebecois, near the oldest stone church in Canada (which is always closed when I'm there).

Despite the cold, I sat like many other tourists on a patio for dinner which was luckily worth it; delicious cheese fondue, rabbit and rhubarb pie... Quebecois (and I) know how to eat well! 😊 The next morning I went to another favourite; the Musee des Beaux Arts, which has among others a rooftop with mathematically designed sculptures that align with the nearby church spires, an exhibit of Quebec designers (anyone interested in the 1994 workstation capsule?), and a modern art exhibit where the wooden BMW on top of little grass blocks is a statement about the uselessness of consumerism.

Then off to the Gaspesie, which initially seems to be a very long road to nowhere, but once you get closer to the St Lawrence River it's pretty to look out over the water to the mountains on the north side. After having set up the tent at park du Bic, I go to possibly one of the strangest art installations you'll ever see; a group of over 100 concrete statues that are standing on the beach and on the rocks into the sea. "Le Grand Rassemblement" at the Centre D'art Marcel Gagnon is meant to represent the human condition of being alone with our individual emotions while still bonded to others as we all experience the same.

I came here first in 2010 at high tide so most figures were in the water then, whereas now it was low tide so I could walk out to them.  There's something poetic about these statues just standing there in the sea and I'm really impressed by it. I stayed for dinner (pear-shrimp appetizer was a great combo!) so by the time I was done, the tide had come up halfway and the sun started setting, which made it even more special. On the way back, I also stopped at the lighthouse at Rimouski, a rare, buttressed structure that at 28m high is one of the tallest in Canada. Driving along the sea with the red sun beside me was magical!

Having had the first cold night since I started the trip (wearing hat & mittens in my sleeping bag!), it was hard to get out of bed in the morning so it took me a while to get going. I try to cook most of dinner in the mornings (as I can't be bothered in the evening) so now made a couscous salad with merguez sausages so that I only had to add the spinach & fresh tomatoes later. First hike was at the Canyon des Portes de L'Enfer (the doors of hell) where the Rimouski river goes through a series of waterfalls. I tried to make a video which didn't work out, but the pic is still impressive. There's also a really high suspension bridge over the valley which made for great views, luckily I've never been afraid of heights 😁.

Drove back to the park du Bic in time to do one of the coolest hikes in my life; scrambling across rocks at low tide around the park's buff Cap d'Orginal. You need to start 2 hours before the low tide to leave enough time to make the entire loop before the water comes up again, and there's basically no path so it's up to you to find the way over the cliffs.

The first part was quite hard pulling yourself up & over the rocks, but luckily I was not the only one on the "trail" so I could look ahead at what others were doing. Mid-way was a long beach that is fully submerged at high tide and then there was more, but slightly less extreme scrambling. Being relieved that I had made it in one piece to the other side, I was less happy when I realized there was still another 3k to hike partially uphill through the forest to come back. I did see a fox on my return at the parking lot which made me smile 😍. Spent the evening eating dinner overlooking the bay at sunset, life is good!

Slept like a baby and woke up warm but wide awake at 4:30am so it made for a very long day, which was mostly spent driving from the Gaspesie north coast to the New Brunswick south coast near Saint John, 604 km away. Before taking off however, I first went to check the seals lookout in the park, which didn't deliver any seals (I had seen one the day before on my hike) however a quintet of great herons and many eider ducks, which are the largest sea-ducks in Canada. A quick stop at a beautiful viewpoint (at 9am Monday when everyone else starts working 😜) was all I needed to get in the car and say au revoir to Quebec and hello to New Brunswick! 

Wildlife: 1 turkey (along the road), 20+ eider duck, 1 seal, 1 fox, 5 great blue heron and 2 deer (all at du Bic)

SUPs: none

Hikes: two small ones at the canyon and a 9k one at du Bic

PS: I had wanted to post a few days earlier but did not have any internet... still trying to post every 3-4 days when I can!

[karmaalwayswins]

Paris, France April 6-10, 2023

1. Paris International Salsa Congress 2023. 

2. Yayoi Kusama storefront for Louis Vuitton. 

3. “Anna-Eva Bergman: Voyage Vers L’Intérieur” exhibit at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. 

4.  “1997 Fashion Big Bang” exhibit at Palais Galliera. 

5. “Miriam Cahn: Ma Pensée Sérielle” exhibit at Palais de Tokyo. 

6. Art by Derek Jarman, part of the “Exposé-es” exhibit at Palais de Tokyo. 

7. Soupe Oignon at Le Kléber Brasserie.

8. Obligatory Eiffel Tower picture. 

Photo Credit: karmaalwayswins

[kopystianskybooks]

"Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky". The Lithuanian National Museum of Art. 2023. Foreword: Arūnas Gelūnas. Texts by Michel Gauthier, John G. Hahnhardt. Quotations from texts about Kopystiansky’s by Kai-Uwe Hemken, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Anthony Spira, Adam D. Weinberg. (Lithuanian, English, French) ISBN 9786094261824

Available at Printed Matter

The catalog does contain a documentation about exhibitions at the MoMA, Metropolitan, Tate, Centre Pompidou, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Reina Sofia, Henry Art Gallery, about installation work The Day Before Tomorrow from the Whitney collection, video installation work at the Documenta 11 and installations at the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Radvilai Palace Art Museum in Vilnius.

Regarding the purchase and shipping of the publication abroad, please contact us by e-mail dovile.zubaviciute@lndm.lt

[desn512charlotteharris]

Successful Poster 3 - TDC

( Week 1 )

I am not typically a fan of geometric shapes, yet I like this poster and think it is successful. It has been designed for the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire museum which was built in the early 1900’s. Therefore this modern visitor guide, displaying the map, is such a fun contrast to the old architecture. I also love the use of two colours, allowing for the green to stand out. 

References -

The Type Directors Club. (n.d.). Communication Design Winners 2022 - The Type Directors Club. https://tdc.org/competitions/communication-design-winners-2022/

Museums.EU. (n.d.). Museum of art and history.  https://museums.eu/museum/details/743/museum-of-art-and-history

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L'art du nettoyage : comment la meilleure entreprise de Paris garde la ville belle

Au cœur de Paris, ville réputée pour son flair artistique et sa sensibilité esthétique, un chef-d'œuvre caché se déploie quotidiennement. "The Art of Cleaning" dévoile la symphonie des coulisses orchestrée par la meilleure entreprise de nettoyage de Paris pour maintenir la beauté intemporelle de la ville. Avec précision, soin et compréhension du charme unique de Paris, cette entreprise élève le nettoyage à une forme d'art qui préserve la splendeur de la ville.

Une symphonie de techniques : Tout comme un artiste sélectionne intentionnellement des pinceaux et des couleurs, les experts en nettoyage emploient une gamme de techniques spécialisées pour nettoyer les divers espaces de Paris. Des allées pavées à l'architecture ornée, chaque surface exige une touche différente, et les professionnels de l'entreprise allient magistralement la science du nettoyage à l'art de la préservation.

Gardiens du patrimoine : Paris est une toile vivante de l'histoire, ses rues faisant écho aux contes du passé. La plus belle entreprise de nettoyage assume le rôle de gardienne, chargée de préserver ce patrimoine. Avec la précision d'un artiste, ils nettoient les œuvres d'art délicates, les détails complexes et les façades historiques, garantissant que le temps reste doux.

Préserver l'élégance : L'élégance de Paris réside dans sa simplicité et sa sophistication. Les experts de l'entreprise de nettoyage comprennent cette essence et s'assurent que chaque espace reste vierge tout en se fondant parfaitement dans le tissu esthétique de la ville. Des grands boulevards aux bistrots intimistes, leur travail sublime l'environnement sans en rompre l'équilibre harmonieux.

Élever la modernité : "L'art du nettoyage" ne se limite pas aux méthodes traditionnelles, il englobe l'innovation. La meilleure entreprise de nettoyage utilise des équipements de pointe, des produits respectueux de l'environnement et des techniques modernes, conformément à l'engagement de Paris en faveur de la durabilité et de la vie urbaine responsable.

Créer des expériences immersives : la beauté de Paris ne réside pas seulement dans ses visuels ; c'est une expérience qui touche tous les sens. Le nettoyage méticuleux de l'entreprise crée un environnement immersif où les images, les sons et même les parfums s'alignent, invitant les résidents et les visiteurs à se livrer pleinement au charme de la ville.

Un travail d'amour : "L'art de nettoyer" à Paris va au-delà d'une corvée routinière ; c'est un travail d'amour et de dévouement. Les professionnels derrière cette entreprise deviennent les gardiens de l'âme de la ville, veillant à ce que son esprit reste sans tache pour les générations à venir.

Alors que le soleil baigne la Seine d'une nettoyage paris dorée, "l'Art de nettoyer" prend vie à Paris. Ce chef-d'œuvre caché, soigneusement organisé par la meilleure entreprise de nettoyage de la ville, devient un témoignage de l'harmonie entre le soin méticuleux et l'appréciation artistique. À chaque coup de leurs prouesses de nettoyage, ces experts insufflent vie à la beauté de la ville, rappelant au monde pourquoi Paris est une muse depuis des siècles.