Philippe parreno biography books
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Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno is a catalogue that accompanies the fourth exhibition that makes up a retrospective of Parreno's work. Starting at Kunsthalle Zürich, it has since traveled to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. This publication focuses on "Philippe Parreno," an exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Curated bygd Maria Lind, the exhibition consists of a selection of Parreno's films and collaborative projects, such as June 8, 1968 (2009), which reinterprets Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train procession; Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait (2006), a full-length portrait of a soccer player, made in collaboration with Douglas Gordon; Anywhere Out of the World (2000); and No Ghost, Just a Shell (1999-2002), a project by Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, in which they purchased the rights to a Japanese manga character named Annlee. During the exhibition, Annlee's rights will be reconsidered in an imagina
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ARTIST MONOGRAPHS
| FORTHCOMING & NEW RELEASES Shimabuku: Octopus, Citrus, Human | Best known for his installation work encompassing sculpture, video and soundscapes, Philippe Parreno (born 1964) started making delicate, detailed drawings of fireflies in 2011 when he was taken ill with cancer. While his work has long focused on ideas of time and duration, narration and representation, and the boundaries between fiction and reality, in this series a new intimacy and obsessiveness is revealed. The dozens of pen-on-paper drawings, made over the next few years and collected here for the first time, show how Parreno worked and reworked his subject, finding drawing an invaluable creative refuge during his convalescence. |