Félicien Marboeuf (1852 - 1924)
June 3 - July 11, 2009
Curated by Jean-Yves Jouannais
With Luc Andrié, Gilles Barbier, Alain Bublex, Isabelle Cornaro, Nicolas Darrot, Olivier Dollinger, Christophe Duchatelet, Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Dora Garcia, Franck Gérard, Guy Girard, Jakob+MacFarlane, Christian Lacroix, Perrine Lievens, Pascal Martinez, Nora Martirosyan, Antoine Poncet, Pascal Quignard, Alain Rivière, Antoine Roegiers, Denis Savary.
Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
12 rue Boissy D'anglas
75 008 Paris
Félicien Marbœuf, a writer known during his lifetime as "the greatest writer never to have published," was imagined by Jean-Yves Jouannais in his essay Artistes sans œuvres, I Would Prefer Not To ["Artists without Works, I Would Prefer Not To"]. The exhibition is a commemorative project around the figure of Marbœuf, and brings together art works from all disciplines (plastic arts, literature, fashion, music, architecture...), thus giving shape to the imaginary existence of the character.
In 1997, Editions Hazan published an essay by Jean-Yves Jouannais titled Artistes sans œuvres, I Would Prefer Not To ["Artists without Works, I Would Prefer Not To"]. Re-edited in April 2009 by Editions Verticales, the book tells the apparent paradox of artists who produced little to nothing, from Félix Fénéon to Jacques Vaché to Jacques Rigaut to the representatives of conceptual art, from Joseph Joubert's intuitions to Marcel Duchamp's principles... (continue reading on fondation-entreprise-ricard.com)
In 1997, Editions Hazan published an essay by Jean-Yves Jouannais titled Artistes sans œuvres, I Would Prefer Not To ["Artists without Works, I Would Prefer Not To"]. Re-edited in April 2009 by Editions Verticales, the book tells the apparent paradox of artists who produced little to nothing, from Félix Fénéon to Jacques Vaché to Jacques Rigaut to the representatives of conceptual art, from Joseph Joubert's intuitions to Marcel Duchamp's principles... (continue reading on fondation-entreprise-ricard.com)
pascal martinez: composition(s) de f.m. [2009]
dora garcia: 100 works of art impossible [2001]
christian lacroix: untitled [2009]
