Newsletter July 2020

NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION PROGRAM

FOCUS: STANLEY WHITNEY

Stanley Whitney, Untitled, 2006. Photo: Julien Gremaud

Amidst navigating today’s new normal, Marc Jancou Contemporary has created a new way of sharing our passion for art with our clientele. We are pleased to announce our new and carefully curated Online Exhibition Program, designed to allow our audience the enjoyment of viewing current contemporary artworks.

Every month, we will be presenting new exhibitions on our updated website, featuring a wide variety of mediums and artists, as well as different angles of interpretation:

FOCUS: A body of work by a single artist.

ECHOES: Bringing back the best of our past exhibitions.

ON APPROPRIATION: Reflecting on this technique and the meaning of authorship in contemporaneity.

DIALOGUES: Carefully curated works by different artists, put together to reflect on unexpected connections between different methodologies of work.

SOLO: A single work of an artist because sometimes less is more.

FOCUS: SIMONE FATTAL

Detail: Simone Fattal, Sans titre (Variation en noir et blanc, l’etat du ciel), 2013

ECHOES: ANDY WARHOL – VANISHING ANIMALS

Detail: Andy Warhol, Vanishing Animals: Douc Langur, 1986

ON APPROPRIATION: ALEX BROWN – WORKS ON PAPER

Alex Brown, C23, 2017

DIALOGUES WITH ROSEMARIE TROCKEL AND:
LOUISE LAWLER, MARGRIT LINCK, MERET OPPENHEIM, MAN RAY, BRIDGET RILEY

Rosemarie Trockel, Untitled, 2006 and Man Ray, Le Cadeau/Gift – Series II, 1921 – 1970

SOLO: SIMONE FATTAL – L’ARBRE ROUGE

Detail:  Simone Fattal, L’Arbre rouge, 1971

CONTENTS

Visit our PUBLICATIONS section for our exquisite artist books, catalogues and more, or WRITINGS, to read the selected texts we have made available on Rosemarie Trockel (by Andrea Applebee and Lisa Zeiger), Alex Brown (by Rachel Kuchner and Bob Nickas), Andy Warhol (by Fergus McCaffrey) and others.

NEWS
 

ALBRECHT SCHNIDER: DOCUMENTARY ON DVD

«Albrecht Schnider – Alles Was Bleibt», 2019 by Rita Ziegler is now available on DVD.

The DVD can be ordered through pointdevue for orders in Switzerland or on mindjazz-pictures for the international distribution.
You can find the TRAILER here.

TRIX AND ROBERT HAUSSMANN AT GENEVA BIENNALE

Trix and Robert Haussmann’s new creation, Enigma, can be seen at Parc La Grange as part of Geneva Biennale’s Sculpture [removed];

With their legendary sense of humour, the Swiss duo reinterpreted a monolith using mirrored surfaces. For more informations, go to Sculpture Garden – Geneva Biennale website.

NEW BOOK BY KEN LUM

Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991–2018, by Canadian artist Ken Lum, brings together essays, articles, diary entries, letters, and more. This book, published by Concordia University Press, reflects not only about Lum’s practice and contemporary art, but on society itself.

‘Lum is a keen and prescient observer of the art world and of global society more broadly. He is one of the most significant art writers of our [removed]#8217;
-Mark A. Cheetham, University of Toronto; author of Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60s

Geneva / New York / Porto