(INDEX)

Mai-Thu Perret
Love thy sister like thyself

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Exhibition from April 9 to June 12, 2004
Opening reception Thursday April 8, 2004, from 6 pm
Mai-Thu Perret, vue de l'exposition <em>Love thy sister like thyself</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2004.
Mai-Thu Perret, vue de l’exposition Love thy sister like thyself

Since 1999, Mai-Thu Perret invents the story of an utopian and autonomous community, situated in New Mexico, which is strictly made up of women. New Ponderosa Year Zero already exists in different forms, those of a text-manifest, diaries, objects produced by this community : furniture, decorative elements, sculptures, clothes and party’s decor as well as events’ residues which testify the existence and the organization of the everyday life of this microsociety. This imaginary world gives the artist the possibility to invent a society, its story and its organization and to project her fantasies, her comments whether they are of a social or political nature, putting together reality and fiction just as her pleases her. This work’s structure allows Mai-Thu Perret to play different roles : artist, director, novelist. More seriously, this is also maybe a way of thinking about the reconstruction of a ethic, a search for lost idealism or a new form of commitment.

M/M (Paris)
Pour hoM/Me, Printemps-Eté 2004

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M/M (Paris) Pour hoM/Me, Printemps-Eté 2004, 6 posters, colour silkscreen prints, 120 × 176 cm, edition of 25. Co-edition of the Cneai, Chatou/Paris, and Centre d’édition Contemporaine, Geneva, 2004.
CHF 300.- per poster
CHF 1’600.- 6 posters

Haroutioun Simonian
Performance (à huis clos) & installation vidéo

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Opening January 29th from 18:00 at the Centre d’édition contemporaine(cec)
Exhibition from January 30 to March 27, 2004
open Tuesday to Friday from 14h to 18h and Saturday from 14h to 17h
Haroutioun Simonian, view of the exhibition, cec, 2004
Haroutioun Simonian, view of the exhibition, cec, 2004

Harutyun Simonian (lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia) will present at the cec, video testimony of a performance achieved in camera and previously transformed into a private theater, a sort of black box whose interior coated with vaseline is made impassable. This action between body art and dance, put the artist in a constant imbalance, always at the limit of the fall.

This body is loss of balance Harutyun Simonian use it as a metaphor and comment on the disorientation both political, cultural and identity, consequential moral vacuum left by the end of the Soviet authoritarian political system.

Mai-Thu Perret
5 Sculptures of Pure Self-Expression

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Mai-Thu Perret, 5 Sculptures Of Pure Self-Expression, edition of a series of five objects (the dead, the spider, the gallow and two cristals), red enamel ceramics, Ø approx 20 cm., edition of 160 from which 10 H.C., 10 A.P., 40 editions reserved for sale and 100 editions offered to the 2003 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2004. The 40 editions reserved for sale, the 10 H.C. and the 10 A.P. are split in 12 sets of the five different ceramics gathered in a cardboard box with red print on top, numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2004.
Edition offered to the 2003 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
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NO MORE LIGHTS ON MY STARGUITAR

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NO MORE LIGHTS ON MY STARGUITAR, CEC, 2005
NO MORE LIGHTS ON MY STARGUITAR, vinyl, 33 rounds, 12 sound tracks by Albert Angelo (GB), John Armleder (GE), Ana Axpe (GE), Kim Sop Boninsegi (GE), Bruno Dürr (GE), Mossuraya (GE), Yanick Fournier (D), Benoit Guignat (FR), Baron Samedi (Elena Montesinos, C. Daesen at S. Mercier) (CH), Reynolds (AR), SPLITt Jaques Julien & Hugues Reip) (FR), Uusi Fantasia (FI), 1000 copies, edited by Made at home records and the centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2005.
This rather rock’n’roll inspired compilation of musical pieces organised by Bruno Dürr is meant to defy this obsolete but nevertheless reactualised idea about the death of the rock’n’roll music. It will be presented together with its video clip, Glamourama, realised by Corine Stübi.
Edition offered to the 2004 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
Compilation No More Lights On My Starguitar in details
SPLITt (Jacques Julien & Hugues Reip), Melita Singh, 2 :51
Mossuraya, Haine aux maçons (Part 2), 2:08
Reynols, Rohr Caduelo Gasigo Flatdas, 3:38
Uusi Fantasia, Wet Pussy, 1:18
Ana Axpe, 4 ever elvis, 2 :55
Baron Samedi (Elena Montesinos, C.Daesen et S. Mercier), Flaw to fizz , 3 :33
Yanick Fournier, Marco Praz, 3 :18
John Armleder, 4’.33’, 4:33
Benoît Guignat, ##, 3:36
Albert Angelo, Accident Will Happen/A Happy Accident, 5:00
Bonus tracks :
Kim Sop Boninsegni, matter of laughs, 1 :00
Bruno Dürr, I killed my father’s guitar, 1 :07
CHF 10.-

PACEMAKER #4

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PACEMAKER #4, CEC, 2004
PACEMAKER #4, free newspaper, fourth number, with Markus Schinwald (cover), Antek Walczak « Out of Bounds », Eric Troncy, « Le facteur cheval », Daniel Baumann, « The Visitor », Ben Kinmont, « Hard core cozy and warm state of mind organic all natural lemonade espresso mate tea chai soy milk apple cider smoothies », Melissa Longenecker, « Love Letter », Carole Sabas, « Le point à jour », Michael Roy, « Roman », Lawrence Weiner & Kathryn Bigelow, « Rationalization », « WSIS », Pablo León de la Barra, « To be political it has to look nice », Noëllie Roussel, « Quousque tandem, dracula, abutere aesthetica nostra ? » and Annie Waterman, « Bles s n°20 », doctor : Pascale Dauman, astrology : Yuki Kimura. Offset on alsaprint 70gm2 paper, A2 format, 148 x 210 cm, folded in three cross fold points, one colour black, edition of 7000, English and French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, graphic de sign : Gilles Poplin, Paris appointed by Sylvia Tournerie, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – produced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, February 2004.
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Filière papier – Filière expo

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Exhibition from October 31, 2003 to January 17, 2004
Opening Thursday October 30, 2003, from 6 PM
View of the exhibition <em>Paper field - exhibition Field</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2003
View of the exhibition Paper field – exhibition Field

In order to pursue our investigation into the field of the multiple and to consider it as a field of experimentation and test site, this year we have chosen to shift our perspective towards objects that straddle the border between the artistic and commercial systems. Throughout 2003 we have been showcasing publications that operate outside the constraints of traditional channels of distribution and communication, with multiples such as posters and portfolios, fanzines, Xerox books, newspapers and free magazines, distributed – before or after the exhibition – by hand, through the mail, or in public places such as bars, stores, galleries, art centers and museums, … Continue reading “Filière papier – Filière expo“

PACEMAKER #3

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PACEMAKER #3, CEC, 2003
PACEMAKER #3, free newspaper, third number, with Richard Hertz, « Jack Goldstein and the Calarts Mafia », anthology of discussions with and about Jack Goldstein, Philipe Par reno, « The underground Man (After a short Story by Gabriel Tarde) », Matthieu Orléan, « Grey Gardens », Jean – Michel Wicker, « Horses in my Dreams », Susanne Bürner, « 13 Steps towards the Uncanny », Carissa Rodriguez, « Arts & Leisure », Jacob Fabricius, « Patrick ‘The Critter’ », Olaf Breuning, « Sheep and Sun », Michael Roy, « Roman », Karl Holmqvist, « Sitting position, Basic Positions for sitting on the Ground », doctor : Melvin Moti, horoscope : Petra Mrzyk & Jean – François Moriceau. Offset, A2 format , 148 x 210 cm folded, one colour, edition of 7000, English or French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, graphic design : Sylvia Tournerie – 3 points, Paris, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – prod uced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, October 2003.
Free

PACEMAKER #2

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PACEMAKER #2, CEC, 2003
PACEMAKER #2, free newspaper, second number, with Jean – Luc Blanc, « Before and after », paintings, 2003 (cover), Arnaud Maguet, « Pushing Too Hard on Mind, The spatial dynamic trajectory of Sky « Sun light » Saxon », Gardar Eide Einarsson & Matias Faldbakken, « Usk for you », a conversation between Sture Johannesson and Johnny Rotten, « When we are dead », Gigiotto Del Vecchio/Supporticolopez, « Supporticolopez Storyboard », Laetita Raynaud, Aby Warbur g, « Astrologer », excerpt from « A Lecture on Serpent Ritual », 1923, Pascale Cassagnau « Site of the Month », Bennett Simpson, « Letter from Philadelphia », Bernadette Corporation, « Chapters 3 and 1 (excerpts from a collective novel) », Brigitte Bardot vs Marcel Broodthaers, « V, M.B. vs the city of P. and B.B », «Carlos Depot opens in June », Michael Roy, Ed Ruscha, « A Daydream by Ed Ruscha » excerpt from « my books End Up In the Trash », doctor : Jean – Luc Verna, astrology : Sylvie Fleury « Astro signe ». Offset, A2 format, 148 x 210 cm folded, one colour black, 9 edition of 7000, English and French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, artistic director : Valentin Carron, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – produced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, June 2003.
Free

Katie Holten
Procumbent Notions

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Katie Holten, Procumbent Notions, brochure with a text by James Gleick, « The Butterfly Effect » from Chaos (1988), Xerox photocopies, 26 pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, blue cover, English, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
CHF 15.-

Céline Duval
Trois bons amis, à vous tous, pour vous mesdames!…

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Céline Duval, Trois bons amis, à vous tous, pour vous mesdames!…, CEC, 2003.
Céline Duval, Trois bons amis, à vous tous, pour vous mesdames!…, CEC, 2003.
Céline Duval, Trois bons amis, à vous tous, pour vous mesdames!…, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 20 pages including the 4 cover and back pages, 13.3 × 17.7 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, French, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
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Finger No. 12
conventions/
Konventionen/
conventions

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Exhibition at the centre d’édition contemporaine (cec), from May 23 to July 19, 2003
Opening Thursday, May 22, 2003, from 6 pm
View of the exhibition Finger No. 12 <em>conventions/Konventionen/conventions</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2003
View of the exhibition Finger No. 12 conventions/Konventionen/conventions

A collaboration between finger (artist collective based in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) and three graduating students – Aurélien Gamboni, Sloane Huguenin and Marion Ronca – from the CCC critical curatorial cybermedia postgraduate program of the Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts HES-Genève, and the centre d’édition contemporaine.

finger was founded in 1998. The group, composed today of four artists, Martin Brandt, Florian Haas, Claudia Hummel and Andreas Wolf, aims to undertake research in the form of “fieldwork”: mediating actions and alternative realizations which are later regularly documented in their eponymous publication.
A platform for discussion and exchange between artists and authors, finger deals with exhibitions, conferences and publications touching on the new phenomena, whether unconscious, popular, individual or more general which traverse contemporary society, at the level of the everyday, the local and the city, but also through larger economic, social and cultural movements: globalization, immigration, political and social conflicts, new technologies… Continue reading “Finger No. 12
conventions/
Konventionen/
conventions“

PACEMAKER #1

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PACEMAKER #1, CEC, 2003
PACEMAKER #1, free newspaper, first number, texts by Jens Hoffman, « Plus jamais d’expos emmerdantes », Carissa Rodriguez, «Philippines, Tristes tropiques», Daniel and Alexandre Costanzo, « Charles Bronson&sons », Richard Prince, «Eleven Conversations», Michael Roy, « Roman », Eric Troncy, « la Logique du Projet », Elvis Presley, Bri ce Dellsperger, « Shelley Michelle, Body Double Xtraordinaire », Rob Pruitt & Jonathan Horowitz, « Peacock Hill, haunted mansion for Sale », Theodor W. Adorno, « Astrologie », V/VM, « Bienvenue à l’asile musical », Jonathan Monk, Una Szeeman, « Un plâtre à la mode de Los Angeles. Un témoignage de Joël Rane », Marquis de Bièvre, editorial, «Lettre à la Comtesse Tation», doctor : Bernadette Van – Huy, astrology : Elena Montesinos. Offset on alsaprint 70gm2 paper, open : A2 format, 148 x 210 cm, folded in three cross fold points, one colour black, edition of 7000, English and French, photo – journalist : Bruno Serralongue, graphic design : deValence, Paris, direction of the publication: Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant/Toasting Agency, Paris, co – produced by the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, May 2003.
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VALDEZ #5
Valdez de oro-anthologie des révolutions

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VALDEZ #5 – Valdez de oro-anthologie des révolutions, CEC, 2003
VALDEZ #5 – Valdez de oro-anthologie des révolutions

Part I ; a flipbook, fragments from the film El Día que me quieras by Leandro Katz, 30 min. colour, Digi Beta, 1998 / Giorgio Agamben, « Frenhofer y su doble » / Pedro Manrique Figueroa , « Cinco collages americanos » / Mauricio Cruz, « La dimensión orname ntal » / Jennifer Gonzalez, « Preliminary problems in constructing a situation » / Alberto Baraya , « Expédition dans l’ancienne Europe » / Katya Sander and Ashley Hunt, « Revolutions pr. Minute » / Dan Graham, « Mis trabajos para páginas de revista: ‘Una historia del Arte Conceptual’ » / Elías Canetti, « ¿Porqué no escribo como Karl Kraus? » / M.I.R., « Entrevista a Pablo León de la Barra » / Gregory Whitehead, « The Bottom of the mind » / « The Best 5000 Colombian Contemporary Artist » / Tanya Leighton, « Tempo – Time » / Alain de Beaufort, « By: Alain de Beaufort » / B.O. , « Lo autobiográfico en Heidegger » / Luis Ospina, « El Crepúsculo de los (a)Dioses » / Saul Anton, « The One and the Other (Ten Chiasmata after Documenta) » / Pablo Batelli, « Contra el a rte mercantil » / Jeffrey Skoller, « Memories of the Revolution » / Jaime Iregui, « Estados Alterados » / Alex Villar, « Freirean Detours » / Juan Manuel Cuartas, « Antonin Artaud, la rebelión, el nervio, la escritura » / Rafael López, « A quien pueda inte resar » / Patricia Aristizábal Montes, « Locura mujer escritura: la locura en tres escritoras colombianas » / Saskia Sassen, « Entrapments Rich Countries cannot escape: Governance Hotspots » / Will Bradley, «‘Ranters’» / Victor Manuel Rodríguez, « On Sta ge: Pedro Manrique Figueroa and the Rethoric of Modernist Art History » / Galia Ospina Villalba, « Born Yesterday » / F.B., « Íconos » / Leandro Katz, « POL: A Different Light on the International Debt Problem » / Camilo Vega, « Pórtico/Cada época tiene s u propio Stalin/Lenin/Principios de la estética proletaria/Tengo Miedo » / F.B., « Contribución a la Antología de Revoluciones » / Victor Manuel Rodríguez, « Entrevista a Antonio Caro » / F.B., « Imagining this piece » / Mariangela Méndez, « vive y trabaja en Bogotà » / Carlos Enrique Lozano, « Brecht para insectos » / François Bucher, « Editorial ». Part II , Christopher Ho and Hilda Daniel, « Orbit 2001 » / José Tomas Giraldo, « Casa en Bogotà » / Véronique Bacchetta, « Jakob Kolding » / Pavel Buchler, « s ans titre » / Pablo Batelli, « Los dados del azar absoluto / Concurso Valdez: I). What is Switzerland? II). Qué es Suiza? » / Angeline Scherf, « Anne Marie Schneider » / Marie Oresanz, « Questo foglio puoi prenderlo e portartelo a casa » / Carlos Basuald o, « To all Art Curators in the World: Our Duty » / Veran Matic and Drazen Pantic « War of Words, When the bombs came, Serbia’s B92 hit the Net. » / Michelle Marchaux « Guerraeterna » / F.B. « La Escuela Manrique/The Manrique School » / Christopher Ho «Reprinted Speech from Saturday 15, 2001 » / F.B. y L.O. « Entrevista » / a conversation between Cédric Price and Hans Ulrich Obrist « Cities, Museums, Cybernetics ».

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Mads Ranch Kornum
Dark Matter / Two Great “Works” by Mads Ranch Kornum

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Mads Ranch Kornum, Dark Matter / Two Great « Works » by Mads Ranch Kornum, CEC, 2003
Mads Ranch Kornum, Dark Matter / Two Great « Works » by Mads Ranch Kornum, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 16 pages including the 4 cover and back pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, English, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
CHF 15.-

Roman Ondák
Good Feelings in Good Times

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Roman Ondák, Good Feelings in Good Times, CEC, 2003
Roman Ondák, Good Feelings in Good Times, brochure, Xerox photocopies, 32 pages including the 4 cover pages, 14.8 × 21 cm, photocopy, black/white, both-sided, edition of 200. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, and Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003.
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Jakob Kolding

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Exhibition from march the 28th to may the 10th, 2003
Opening march the 27th, from 6 pm
Jakob Kolding, view of the exhibition, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2003
Jakob Kolding, view of the exhibition

Editions
Posters, artist’s publication,briefcase with 18 folded prints, streetview photos of the posters, several texts in french/english : an artist’ text, a selection of past projects’ texts, a text of Doreen Massey, geographer, french translations of posters’ texts, 21 x 29,7 cm, offset, black/white, on paper couché demi-mat blanc 115 gm2, briefcase couché semi mat white 300 gr, 22 x 30,5 cm, 700 copies, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2003.

Poster, offset, black/white, on paper affiche couché blanc brillant, 135 gm2, 60 x 84 cm, 700 copies, unnumbered, undated and unfirmed, edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2003. Continue reading “Jakob Kolding”

FINGER #12

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<em>FINGER#12</em>
FINGER#12, CEC, 2003
FINGER#12, free issue published by the Centre d’édition contemporaine and the Finger group, in collaboration with Aurélien Gamboni, Sloane Huguenin and M arion Ronca, with French, English and German texts, from Sloane Huguenin «L’histoire d’une brigade, « C’est vrai qu’il déménage souvent… », an interview of Stéphane Monbaron (French, with English summary), Claudia Hummel « The Give – Away Books » (English ), Florian Haas « Lew, ein Spezialist für Monumentalplastik und die Darstellung von Karl Marx » (German, with English summary), Marion Ronca « CIRA , the international center for research on anarchism » (English), Die Sportsfreunde Rüsselsheim « Das Noizemo bil 2000, ein Urlaubsbericht » (German, with English summary), Aurélien Gamboni, « Petit voyage dans le monde des normes » (French, with English summary), Martin Brandt, « Match it if you can » (English), offset, black, on light green paper, 16 stapled pag es, 21 x 29,7 cm, edition of 5000

Amy O’Neill et Emmanuel Piguet
Dm-melkenburg

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From January 30 until March 7, 2003

Presentation of Amy O’Neill’s (US/GE) and Emmanuel Piguet’s (GE) edition: dm-melkenburg (death match-melkenburg) realized within the 2001 Prize of the CEC. This edition is in reality a virtual one, consisting of a computer card with a fighting game to be played in networks or on the internet. The environment of the game reconstitutes the death row of an American prison.

Jakob Kolding
Posters

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Jakob Kolding, Posters, artist’s publication, document file containing 18 folded prints: reproductions of posters, of photographs of in situ posters, several texts in English/French as well as an introduction by the artist, a selection of texts on three previous projects in Denmark, Geneva and Los Angeles, a text by Doreen Massey (geographer), English translations of texts on selected posters, 21 × 29.7 cm, offset print, black/white, on semi-mat laid paper 115 g/m2, document file on mat and laid paper Invercote G-Print 280 g/m2, 21.5 x 30.2 cm, edition of 700. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2003. ISBN 978-2-9701174-1-4.
CHF 28.-

Karl Holmqvist
Soirée tropicale

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2002, november 21
8:00 pm
Centre d’édition contemporaine, 18 st-léger, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Karl Holmqvist, view of the exhibition Soirée tropicale, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, 2002

Karl Homlqvist’s Tropical Evening

for the presentation of his edition, CECI N’EST QU’UNE ILLUSION, offered to the members of the association of the cec and to anybody else.

Videos
WORLDSAVER (Chiang Mai 2002, 15’30’’),
GREEN PARTY (Chiang Mai 2002, 60’),
De Kongelige Elefanter (Copenhague 2002, 23’20)

Posters and publications
Aesthetic movement, REAL Art & Poetry etc.

Music
CHA-BASHIRA L?K?O MusicsystemM,
Greatest Hits ACE OF BASE,
Tigerman TEDDYBEARS STHLM,
Djurens Parad PLUXUS Villa Lecitin
and others

Poetry
SPOKEN WORD: Les Fleurs du Mal Continue reading “Karl Holmqvist
Soirée tropicale“

Animation: Vidéos

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From September 17, 2002 to December 23, 2002
View of the exhibition <em>Animation: vidéos</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2002
View of the exhibition Animation: vidéos

One video every week, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, visible from the street

With videos by Knut Åsdam (NO), Jonas Dahlberg (SE), Esra Ersen (TR), Vidya
Gastaldon (FR), Tommi Grönlund (FI), Elke Krystufek (AT), Olivier Nottellet
(FR), mvrdv (NL), Amy O’Neill (US), Pia Rönicke (DK), Markus Schinwald (AT),
Mika Taanila (FI), Pablo Vargas Lugo (MX), Paul Viaccoz (CH). Continue reading “Animation: Vidéos“

Karl Holmqvist
CECI N’EST QU’UNE ILLUSION

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Karl Holmqvist, CECI N’EST QU’UNE ILLUSION, CEC, 2002
Karl Holmqvist, CECI N’EST QU’UNE ILLUSION, silkscreen printed plastic bag, black/white, 34.5 × 46.5 cm, unlimited edition. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2002.
Edition offered to the 2002 members of the Centre d’édition contemporaine association.
Free

KIOSK (V)

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From April 11 until May 15, 2002
View of the exhibition <em srcset=
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Group exhibition of a collective we are part of, with about 30 independent editors and alternative magazines gathered together by the editor Christoph Keller / Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt.

The Centre d’édition contemporaine presents the Genevan session, after the ones in 2001 in Hamburg, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Berlin, and before the one in Frankfurt for Manifesta 4.
For the occasion, the CEC becomes a salon for reading, open for every reader, for consultation, with a subjective and instructive selection of independent, alternative and contemporary projects, editions, magazines, video and sound projects

A non-representational and informative selection
of independent publishing projects, alternative magazines,
and audio works on contemporary art,
compiled by Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt,
with the help of many friends. Continue reading “KIOSK (V)“

Monica Bonvicini
Bonded Eternmale

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Exhibition from January 26, 2001 till March 30, 2002
Opening January 25, 2002
Monica Bonvicini, view of the exhibition <em>Bonded Eternmale</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2002
Monica Bonvicini, view of the exhibition Bonded Eternmale

Monica Bonvicini (born in 1965 in Venice, lives and works in Berlin)
First presentation of Monica Bonvicini’s new publication, on the occasion of her two shows in Switzerland : bad bed bud pad bet pub at the Kunsthaus Glarus (Summer 2000) and Bonded Eternmale at the Centre d’édition contemporaine.
Eternmale, publication with 13 reproductions of collages from the series Drawings for Eternmale (2000) and an interview of Monica Bonvicini by Beatrix Ruf, offset print on white opaque Patinata paper, 200gm2, colour, 14 pages bound together by a metal spiral, 50 x 60 cm (same size as Pirelli calendars), edition of 1000, co-edited by Kunsthaus Glarus and Centre d’édition contemporaine, 2002.

Monica Bonvicini transforms our venue into a living room with brutal design, characterized by virile aesthetics but not lacking critical humour.

Monica Bonvicini
ETERNMALE

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Monica Bonvicini, ETERNMALE, publication with 13 reproductions of collages from the series Drawings for Eternmale (2000) and an interview of Monica Bonvicini by Beatrix Ruf, offset print on white opaque Patinata paper 200 g/m2, colours, 14 pages bound together by a metal spiral, 50 × 60 cm (same size as Pirelli calendars), edition of 1000. Coedition of the Kunsthaus Glarus and the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2002.
CHF 150.-

Affiches/Livres

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From November 20, 2001 until January 12, 2002
View of the exhibition <em>Affiches/Livres</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2001
View of the exhibition Affiches/Livres

Posters: Jakob Kolding, Alexandre Bianchini, Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, KLAT, Elke Krystufek, Fabrice Gygi, Claude Lévêque
Books: Elke Krystufek, Alex Baladi, Thomas Hirschhorn, Claude Closky, Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Stephan Landry, Marie Sacconi, Anne Pesce, Emmett Williams

Social Hackers

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Exhibition from September 13, 2001 till November 11, 2001
Opening September 12, 2001, 6 PM
View of the exhibition <em>Social Hackers</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2001.
View of the exhibition Social Hackers

Two exhibitions on communication and power structures and nine free handouts available to the public in dispensers throughout the city of Geneva.

Artists: Jeremy Deller (GB) / Karl Holmqvist (SE)
Matthieu Laurette (F) / Gunilla Klingberg (SE)
Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger (AT) / Jarno Jokinen & Katja Valanne (FI)
Claude Closky (F) / Tuomo Tammenpää (FI) and KLAT (CH)

Organised by NIFCA, FRAME and the Centre d’édition contemporaine in collaboration with Forde, Geneva. Curated by Cristina Ricupero (NIFCA) andb Paula Toppila (FRAME) Continue reading “Social Hackers“

Fabrice Gygi
VITRINES et PITON UNIVERSEL

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Opening May 3rd at 6 pm
Exposition from May 4th to June 23rd 2001
Fabrice Gygi, outside view of the exhibition <em>VITRINES</em> et <em>PITON UNIVERSEL</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2001.
Fabrice Gygi, outside view of the exhibition VITRINES et PITON UNIVERSEL

Fabrice Gygi is an artist from Geneva who has become increasingly important on the contemporary art scene over the past few years in Switzerland, and more recently, abroad. His work has been shown in various group–Nonchalance, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zurich, Dogdays are Over, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, Xn00, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône–and solo exhibitions–at the Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, and at the Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble. He has also produced works for public spaces on the occasion of Over the Edges in Ghent, in Fribourg at the invitation of the Kunsthalle and in Bienne during Transfer. His pieces are also regularly on view at galleries Bob von Orsouw in Zurich and Chantal Crousel in Paris. Continue reading “Fabrice Gygi
VITRINES et PITON UNIVERSEL“

Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker

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From February 15 until April 21, 2001
Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Chromolux Landscape, 2000
Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Chromolux Landscape, 2000

Vidya Gastaldon (born in 1974 in Besançon, lives and works in Geneva)
Jean-Michel Wicker (born in 1970 in Mulhouse, lives and works in London)
Exhibition of a new piece and presentation of the edition Chromolux Landscape, 2000, silkscreen prints

Editions 2000

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From September 28 until December 23, 2000
Sidney Stucki, Prototype 1, 2000
Sidney Stucki, Prototype 1

First exhibition in the new venue: Presentation of older and new editions, of which the 2000 editions:
– Alexandre Bianchini
– Laurence Huber and Marie-José Blanquet
– Sidney Stucki
And the older ones: Claude Closky – Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard – Elke Krystufek – Stephan Landry – Elena Montesinos – Giuseppe Penone – Anne Pesce – Marie Sacconi – Roman Signer – Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson – Rosemarie Trockel – …

Bring the Noise

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From May 20 to june 16, 2000
View of the exhibition, cec, 2000
View of the exhibition, cec, 2000

On May 19, 2000, on the occasion of the opening, Elena Montesinos aka DJ Go Home and Gregor Von Schönborn aka DJ Crowdpleaser proposed a performance followed by a party Backstage on Fire.

Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen, Carl Michael von Hausswolff
On a proposal by Cristina Ricupero (curator, Paris)

Before the Centre moves and to honor one last time the villa of 17 Malagnou, we chose a project that would leave only sounds occupy all the spaces of the house, erasing the distinction between showrooms and the rest of the building …

Alexandre Bianchini
Sans titre

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Alexandre Bianchini, Sans titre, CEC, 2000
Alexandre Bianchini, Sans titre, silkscreen poster, colours, 176 × 120 cm, edition of 100, copyright Alexandre Bianchini and Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 2000.
Edition offered to the 2000 members of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.
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Bourse du CGGC 1997-1999

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From February 3 until March 31, 2000
View of the exhibition <em>Bourse du CGGC 1997-1999</em>, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, 2000
View of the exhibition Bourse du CGGC 1997-1999

Exhibition of the winners of the 1997-99 CGGC Prize

1997: Roland Herzog and Olaf Probst
Olaf Probst (born in 1962, lives and works in Munich)
Roland Herzog (born in 1967, lives and works in Zurich)

1998: Marieke Palocsay-Degaïchia and Tony Morgan
Marieke Palocsay-Degaïchia (born in 1970, lives and works in Geneva)
Tony Morgan (born in 1938, lives and works in Geneva)

1999: Delphine Kreuter
Delphine Kreuter (born in 1973, lives and works in Paris)

Vidya Gastaldon
&
Jean-Michel Wicker
Chromolux Landscape

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Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Chromolux Landscape, silkscreen prints, two colours (fluorescent pink or silver) and two patterns (landscape or crystals), 100 × 70 cm, on an unlimited series of Chromolux 250 g/m2 papers (Color or Perlmutt Iridescent or Metallic), edition of 174 plus 8 A.P. and 12 H.C., not signed, not numbered, not dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 2000.
CHF 250.- one print
CHF 450.- two prints

KLAT
Evil Talk: Beyond the pleasure principle

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 On 13 December 1999 in the evening at Forde, space for contemporary art, Geneva.
Klat, <em>Evil Talk: Beyond the pleasure principle</em>, 1999
Klat, Evil Talk: Beyond the pleasure principle, 1999

Concert-installation for the presentation of the edition Evil Talk with organ concerto played by Julien Cupelin and bar where Jägermeister was served .

KLAT, EVIL TALK, poster, silkscreen print, black/white phosphorescent on poster paper, 50 × 100 cm, edition of 300. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1999.
Edition offered to the members of 1999 of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.

Thomas Hirschhorn

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Exhibition from November 5 to December 12, 1999

Videos of Integrated Presentation at the 8th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Geneva.

Integrated Videos, 1995-1999

Compilation of all the videos embedded by Thomas Hirschhorn at its installations between 1995 and 1999, video, VHS PAL, 15 ‘, color, sound, achieved by raising and Coraly Suard-Hirschhorn, produced by the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Geneva in collaboration with the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, published by bdv, Paris, 1999.

Editions

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Exhibition from May 3 to September 3, 1999

Exhibition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine editions 1986 – 1998

The CGGC artistic program reflects the CGGC productions from 1986 to 1998: engraving, lithography, offset, multiple and artist book. Among the artists who previously collaborated with the Centre and whose works were exhibited on this occasion, particularly be mentioned the names of Ian Anüll, John M. Armleder, Alex Baladi, Alexandre Bianchini, Marcel Broodthaers, Stéphane Brunner, Mourad Cheraït, Claude Closky, Philippe Favier, Nicolas Fernandez, Claude Gaçon, Fabrice Gygi, Alex Hanimann, Jérôme Hentsch et Alain Julliard, Thomas Hirschhorn, Andreas Hofer, Karen Kilimnik, Elke Krystufek, Simon Lamunière, Stephan Landry, Claude Lévêque, Christian Lindow, Henri Michaux*, Elena Montesinos, Olivier Mosset, Kristin Oppenheim, Giuseppe Penone, Anne Pesce, Marie Sacconi, Roman Signer, Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Rosemarie Trockel, Emmett Williams, Heimo Zobernig.

 

One Step Backwards: Books,
prints, videos, 1998
LISTE 98, The Young Art Fair,
Usine Warteck, Bâle

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Exhibition from 10 to 14 June 1998
Opening June 9, 1998

Collective manifestation – exhibition with works , editions , installations , performances and video screenings or dias from Alex Baladi, Alexandre Bianchini, Cosima von Bonin, Mourad Cheraït, Claude Closky, Adam Dant, Alain Declercq, Jeremy Deller, Andreas Exner, Nicolás Fernández, Claude Gaçon, Vidya Gastaldon & Jean-Michel Wicker, Jakob Gautel, Fabrice Gygi, Mathilde ter Heijne, Thomas Hirschhorn, Laurence Huber, Klat, Koo Jeong-A, Elke Krystufek, Yves Levasseur, Claude Lévêque, Elena Montesinos, Gianni Motti, Honoré d’O, Kristin Oppenheim, Anne Pesce, Christophe Rey, Allen Ruppersberg, Alain Séchas, Luc Tuymans, Heimo Zobernig.

Elena Montesinos
Tune out, Turn off, Drop in

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Friday, November 28, 1997
Elena Montesinos, <em>Tune out, Turn off, Drop in</em>, 1997
Elena Montesinos, Tune out, Turn off, Drop in, 1997

Presentation of the editions, Love It by Elena Montesinos and FUJI 4 Alexandre Bianchini ( publication edited by Véronique Bacchetta ), subtitle of the event: ” MXP Live electronics, non-stop drinks + noise “. Friday, November 28, 1997, in the evening and during the exhibition Été 97.

Elena Montesinos, Love it, blotting paper, plastic, 8.2 × 12.1 cm, edition of 300, numbered and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1997.
Edition offered to the members of 1997 of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.

Multiples of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine

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Exhibition from October 31 to November 30, 1997
Opening October 30, 1997
On 30 October 1997, conference–meeting with Véronique Bacchetta.

Presentation of the editions of John Armleder, Nicolás Fernández, Thomas Hirschhorn, Karen Kilimnik, Claude Lévêque, Olivier Mosset, Kristin Oppenheim, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Giuseppe Penone, Marie Sacconi, Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Rosemarie Trockel. École des Beaux-Arts de Metz.

 

Eté 97

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Exhibition from September 26 to December 13, 1997
Opening September 26, 27, 28 during the day and evening

Continuously event over three days and exhibition of works, installations, performances and video projections and films. With Alexandre Bianchini, Henry Bond, Mourad Cheraït, Claude Closky, Jeanne Dunning, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Exner, Urs Fischer, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jérôme Hentsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Laurence Huber, Fabio Jaramillo et Sidney Stucki, Karen Kilimnik, Elke Krystufek, Yves Levasseur, Aernout Mik, Kristin Oppenheim, Alix Pearlstein, Lisa May Post, Marie Sacconi, Hinrich Sachs et Marylène Negro (as surprise guest), Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Heimo Zobernig. Video on request : Jeanne Dunning, Nicolás Fernández, Gianni Motti, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Alix Pearlstein, Christophe Rey, B. Toguo Tamokoué, Luc Tuymans, Anne Pesce.

Stan Douglas
Photographies

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Exhibition from June 16 to July 18, 1997
Opening June 14, 1997
Stan Douglas, <em srcset=
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[ … ] Most often, Stan Douglas’s films are shown as installation in which music, text and images cross each other. Each screening mobilizes the entire space, involving the viewer in a subjective scene that immerses it in a historical and cultural universe, where are combined new computer technologies and aesthetic charged with references, often nostalgic. (Véronique Bacchetta , extract from the press release)

Hinrich Sachs
–
B. Toguo Tamokoué

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Exhibition from April 18 to May 31, 1997
Opening April 17, 1997

Hinrich Sachs – B. Toguo Tamokoué, vue de l’exposition, 1997
Hinrich Sachs – B. Toguo Tamokoué, view of the exhibition, 1997

The next exhibition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine will be dedicated to two young artists: Toguo Tamokoué (born in 1967 in Cameroon, lives and works in Grenoble, Düsseldorf and Abidjan) and Hinrich Sachs (born in 1962 in Osnabrück, lives and works in Hamburg) who received both the purse of CGGC / 1996, giving them the opportunity to produce an edition in engraving or in any technical feasible in our workshops. This exhibition is the result of several coincidences, among others, the choice of our jury that focused on two artists who wanted to meet and who, further to their meeting, projected a common journey in Ivory Coast. This project was developed on the basis of their respective personal experiences and their linguistic and artistic journey: each of them lived the experience of immigration and had to leave a native language to a foreign language. Thus, their history and their artistic practice led them to end up in Europe today, and maybe tomorrow in Africa.

Gravures et Multiples

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 Exhibition from January 25 to March 29, 1997
Opening January 25, 1997

Presentation of the editions of Alexandre Bianchini, Claude Closky , Nicolás Fernández, Fabrice Gygi , Alex Hanimann Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard, Thomas Hirschhorn, Karen Kilimnik , Stephan Landry, Claude Leveque, Olivier Mosset , Kristin Oppenheim, Jean- Michel Othoniel , Giuseppe Penone Anne Pesce , Marie Sacconi, Roman Signer , Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson , Rosemarie Trockel , Luc Tuymans , Emmett Williams.

Heimo Zobernig

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 Exhibition from November 7 to December 21, 1996
Opening November 6, 1996

Heimo Zobernig, <em srcset=
Sans titre, 1996″ width=”912″ height=”1200″> Heimo Zobernig, Sans titre, 1996

With objects that one hesitates to describe as artistic or utilities, Heimo Zobernig questions both the places of art (the exhibition, the catalog) and the everyday environment (a bar, a facade). (Véronique Bacchetta , extract from the press release)

Heimo Zobernig, Sans titre, 15 lithographs, black, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 80 × 65 cm, edition of 4 plus 1 A.P. and 1 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.

Alexandre Bianchini,
Nicolás Fernández,
Jérôme Hentsch
et
Alain Julliard

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Exhibition from June 21 to September 21, 1996
On 20 June 1996 , on the occasion of the opening,
projection of super 8 film of Alexander Bianchini,
Detroit is Circle in one of artist workshops of the Centre.

If Alexandre Bianchini, Nicolás Fernández, Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard are not part of a group, they participate in a joint discussion where the questioning of art and function play an important part. (Véronique Bacchetta , extract from the press release)

Alexandre Bianchini, Le Théâtre de la nature d’Oklahoma, installation.

Nicolás Fernández, Ils nous ont vendu,Table, Tu es entré et tu es sorti. Maman, Ils nous ont vendu, Ils nous ont acheté, Ils nous ont donné, Tu m’as donné, Je t’ai donné, Vos mères se souviendront de vous, Banc, Embrasure and Ils nous ont écrit, installation with woodcuts, cardboard and other materials.

Jérôme Hentsch et Alain Julliard, Conte d’auteurs, two projections Super 8 films ,facing and show on a loop in a specially space made ​​for that purpose, objects and text.

On the occasion of this exhibition, each artist has produced an edition :
Alexandre Bianchini, Detroit on Circle, super 8 mm films, colour, 3’, 24 im/sec, edition of 12 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered. Sound: Minus, Robert Hood / Maurizio 05, basic channel / Vertical, Jeff Mills, Axis 008 / Growth, Jeff Mills, Axis 10 / Detroit on circle, Robert Hood / Internal empire, Robert Hood / Mike Inke, Studio 1 / Version, Hubert Mean / DJ Sid, MG 004 / (excerpts). Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Nicolás Fernández, Tu es entré et tu es sorti. Maman, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Ils nous ont donné, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Ils nous ont vendu, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Ils nous ont acheté, woodcut, protection paper, 240 × 150 cm, edition of 4 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Vos mères se souviendront de vous, woodcut, protection paper, 101 × 76 cm, edition of 6 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Je t’ai donné, woodcut, protection paper, 96 × 73 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Tu m’as donné, woodcut, protection paper, 96 × 73 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed.
Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Jérôme Hentsch and Alain Julliard, Un bateau en papier, offset print on Zerkall-Bütten Ingres champagne vergé 90 g/m2 paper, 29.7 × 21 cm, in a cardboard jacket Invercote GX white 340 g/m2, 29.8 × 21.1 cm, edition of 60, numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
Alain Julliard and Jérôme Hentsch, Fond de commerce, silkscreen print on acetate, 45.5 × 21 cm, in a cardboard jacket Invercote GX blanc 340 g/m2, 46.5 × 42.4 cm, edition of 60, numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.

Kristin Oppenheim

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 Exhibition from May 4 to 15 June 1996
Opening May 3, 1996

Kristin Oppenheim, view of the exhibition, 1996
Kristin Oppenheim, view of the exhibition, 1996

Her artistic practice situates it-self in an infra-thin area where each act, minimized – sounds, line, light – is repeated endlessly. Repetition insinuates a reseach for a breaking point where the mastery yields to the humanity of the gesture and the voice. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Kristin Oppenheim, Slip, six lithographs, black/white, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 80 × 60 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.

Rosemarie Trockel

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Exhibition from February 29 to April 20, 1996
Opening February 28, 1996

Presentation of various editions (1992-1994) and etchings published by the Centre.

For the edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Rosemarie Trockel incorporates elements that have traveled through his work. If, in her “paintings”, electric hob stove or knitted patterns replace in a trivial and playful way the forms of minimalism, for this serie of engravings long woolen thread blocked in the varnish organize the networks of clumsy and trembling lines – line networks that transform a grid or decorative designs repeated several times in a stylized writing. This distance towards abstract painting codes is recovered in a very pragmatic and immediate approach of the engraving where an object is reproduced literally in its texture. Again, artisanal qualities of the technique are used not for their material effects, but with objectivity and amused detachment that often characterize the works of Rosemarie Trockel. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Rosemarie Trockel, Sans titre, 3 etchings (3 patterns: grid, loops, balloons), soft wax, colour, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 120 × 90 cm, printed in 9 copies (of which: 3 blue copies, 3 red copies and 3 green copies, signed and dated), edition of 27 plus 9 A.P. and 11 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.

Rosemarie Trockel
Sans titre

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Rosemarie Trockel, Sans titre, 3 etchings (3 patterns: grid, loops, balloons), soft wax, colours, on BFK Rives 300 g/m2 paper, 120 × 90 cm, printed in 9 copies (of which: 3 blue copies, 3 red copies and 3 green copies, signed and dated), edition of 27 plus 9 A.P. and 11 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1996.
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Thomas Hirschhorn
Les Plaintifs, les Bêtes, les Politiques

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Exhibition from November 30 to January 27, 1996
Opening November 29, 1995

One of the rooms will be occupied by a huge “stand” (Les Plaintifs, les Bêtes, les Politiques). […] The other rooms will be crossed by a cardboard box wall where Thomas Hirschhorn will intervene by collages of photographs, newspaper clippings and pages from his previous catalogs. The comments he will add will enable him to act again and document his exhibitions again. This kind of presentation gives the opportunity not only to re-expose his work but to subject it to self-criticism, justifying itself again and again, breaking the classification of genres – exhibitions, videos, catalogs, texts, editions – to defer the closure of his work. The works are reused and re-discussed, like the cardboard box constituent material, revealing an artistic practice that also announces itself on the mode of recovery and recycling. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Karen Kilimnik
Tiger

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From October 12 to November 18, 1995
Opening October 11, 1995

[…] Karen Kilimnik appropriates love affairs and escapades of media personalities: stars, supermodels and princesses, from Elizabeth Taylor to Michael Jackson via Caroline of Monaco or Kate Moss. […] She transposes her fascinations and schizophrenic fantasies that range between freshness, innocence and violence, the horror of thriller, the famous tragic event, whether the Manson family crimes, the murder of John Kennedy, the occupation of Paris … Some of its “decorations” overloaded with a multitude of objects and images seem to emerge from a disaster, close to the results of an action or a happening, remembering the hazard game of Fluxus or of art in progress. But this research for identity and the fascination for dated and glamor can switch very quickly into drama when Karen Kilimnik goes to spray with bullets her hanging just finished with a machine gun. The seven black and white lithographs are collected in a luxury and flashy box, covered with fake tiger fur and lined with shiny satin. This box contains seven subjects partially copied or inspired of celebrity pages of magazines. […] These lithographs, will find their readability thanks to a mirror slipped into a pocket crafted in the same fake fur than the box. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Karen Kilimnik, Tiger, 7 lithographs, black/white, on Velin BFK Rives 250 g/m2 paper, white, 70 × 50 cm, one silkscreen print on Pop’set Californie 240 g/m2 paper, 35 × 49.5 cm, a plastic mirror and a plexiglas plate used as impressum, in a box covered in fake fur and lined with satin, 54 × 74 cm, edition of 10 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.

Editions of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine

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  Exhibition from June 9 to August 25, 1995
Opening June 8, 1995

Présentation of the éditions of John Armleder, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, Claude Closky, Alex Hanimann, Stephan Landry, Claude Lévêque, Christian Lindow, Olivier Mosset, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Giuseppe Penone, Marie Sacconi, Sigurdur A. Sigurdsson, Emmett Williams. Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu, Lyon.

Luc Tuymans
Le Verdict

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“Edition-exhibition” from June 1 to July 15, 1995
Opening May 31, 1995

Luc Tuymans asks throught the representation, the question of the status of painting in the current field of art. Inspired as much by the cinema and photography, he reflects the world of resurgences and fantasies, intimate and disenchanted, related to the collective memory and personal recollections. These images are often mangled by some specific treatment that gives an impression of both blur and immediat. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Luc Tuymans, Le Verdict, 11 colour lithographs, printed on 7 strips of blotting paper, 50 × 590 cm, 50 × 569 cm, 50 × 506 cm, 50 × 210 cm, 50 × 195 cm and 50 × 200 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
Strip No 1: Strip with 3 lithographs, 50 × 569 cm.
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Strip No 2: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 590 cm.
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Strip No 3: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 506 cm.
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Strip No 4: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 380 cm.
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Strip No 5: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 210 cm.
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Strip No 6: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 195 cm.
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Strip No 7: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 200 cm.
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Luc Tuymans
Le Verdict

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Luc Tuymans, Le Verdict, 11 colour lithographs, printed on 7 strips of blotting paper, 50 × 590 cm, 50 × 569 cm, 50 × 506 cm, 50 × 210 cm, 50 × 195 cm and 50 × 200 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
Strip No 1: Strip with 3 lithographs, 50 × 569 cm.
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Strip No 2: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 590 cm.
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Strip No 3: Strip with 2 lithographs, 50 × 506 cm.
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Strip No 4: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 380 cm.
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Strip No 5: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 210 cm.
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Strip No 6: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 195 cm.
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Strip No 7: Strip with 1 lithograph, 50 × 200 cm.
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Karen Kilimnik
Tiger

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Karen Kilimnik, Tiger, 7 lithographs, black/white, on Velin BFK Rives 250 g/m2 paper, white, 70 × 50 cm, one silkscreen print on Pop’set Californie 240 g/m2 paper, 35 × 49.5 cm, a plastic mirror and a plexiglas plate used as impressum, in a box covered in fake fur and lined with satin, 54 × 74 cm, edition of 10 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1995.
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Estampes et photographies
Yves Gevaert éditeur, Bruxelles

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Exhibition from January 26 to March 11, 1995
Opening January 25, 1995

View of the exhibition, 1995
View of the exhibition, 1995

Presentation of works by Jean-Marc Bustamante, Photographs 1977-1982, 1993; Rodney Graham Interiors. The Berlin Studies of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1993; Thomas Schütte, United Enemies: A Play in ten scenes, 1994; Jan Vercruysse, Neuf projets pour la couverture d’une revue en huit plus une livraison, 1991.

Prints and photographs published by Yves Gevaert, editor, Brussels

Claude Closky

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Exhibition from May 19 to July 9, 1994
Opening May 18, 1994 from 18h

L’exposition n’aura pas lieu du 27 janvier au 26 mars 1994. Le vernissage ne sera pas le 26 janvier avant 18h. Il n’y aura pas d’édition de huit séries de 20 livres d’artiste intitulés « 1440 nombres qui servent à donner l’heure ». Fermé le dimanche, fermé le samedi avant 14h et après 17h, du lundi au vendredi avant 14h et après 18h.  Édition de deux séries de 80 livres d’artiste intitulés « 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure ». Du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 18h, le samedi de 14h à 17h et sur rendez-vous. (Invitation double-sided written by Claude Closky)

Each of the 80 books reproduced on 216 pages, a non-existent minute figures copied to a digital clock. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Claude Closky, 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure, 2 series of 80 books of 214 pages, on Data Copy Coated 100 g/m2 paper, 21 × 15 cm, one separable series and one inseparable series. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.

Claude Closky
8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure

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Claude Closky, <em>8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure</em>, 1994
Claude Closky, 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure, 1994

Claude Closky, 8560 nombres qui ne servent pas à donner l’heure, 2 series of 80 books of 214 pages, on Data Copy Coated 100 g/m2 paper, 21 × 15 cm, one separable series and one inseparable series. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.
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Alexandre Bianchini
–
Hubert Mean

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13 May 1994 in the evening

Alexandre BianchiniI – Huber Mean, Version # 1
Alexandre Bianchini – Huber Mean, Version # 1, 1994

Presentation of the edition offered to the members of 1994 of the Centre, Version #1 (performance, music, decor and bar)

Alexandre Bianchini – Huber Mean, Vinyl, Version # 1, 12’’ maxi record, A and B side, sound mixing of a text and of various styles of music (jazz and acid jazz), edition of 300. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.
Edition offered to the members of 1994 of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine association.

Alex Hanimann
Peintures, édition

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Exhibition from January 27 to March 26, 1994
Opening January 26, 1994

Alex Hanimann, <em>235.604 – 1789</em>, 1994
Alex Hanimann, 235.604 – 1789, 1994

Exhibition and edition of a book object, 235.604-1789.
The texts or fragments of texts used by Alex Hanimann are often indifferently extracted from manuals, philosophical maxims or political slogans.

Alex Hanimann, 235.604 – 1789, 112 lino engravings on ivory satin cardboard 240 g/m2, black and red, presented in a black box, 32.5 × 24 cm, edition of 20 plus 2 A.P. and 2 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1994.

Giuseppe Penone
Images de pierres

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Exhibition from October 15 to December 18, 1993
Opening October 14, 1993

Giuseppe Penone, <em>Images de pierres</em>, 1993
Giuseppe Penone, view of the exhibition, 1993

The edition Images de pierres produced by the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine and co-published with the School of Fine Arts of Annecy, is made up of five prints drawn on the basis of lithography from five marble slabs, chosen and reworked by Giuseppe Penone. This particular experimental technique, very empirical, allows to find and print the natural veins of the marble that constitute the matrix and the pattern of this series. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Giuseppe Penone, Image de pierres, lithograph from a marble slab, 85 × 63 cm, edition of 19 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.

Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson
Peintures, dessins

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Exhibition from 17 June to 30 July 1993
Opening June 16, 1993

Joint presentation of paintings, drawings and edition of the Centre (book and portfolio).

Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Icelandic young painter, tackles figurative painting without previous speeches, nor on the “painting–painting” nor on a so-called return to representation. His subjects are extremely simplified archetypes (lakes, clouds, animals) or abstract forms (balls, circles, ovals). […] These simplified objects float on a monochrome surface, often cold and bright, suggesting a boreal atmosphere, that they penetrate, creating a confrontation between flat space and the illusionist space. The schizophrenic space and shapes in suspension arising from these pure and transparent surfaces transport us to imaginary tales and legends. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Corrections, series of 6 collotypes, black/white, on collotype paper, 30 × 30 cm, edition of 60 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.
Sigurdur Arni Sigurdsson, Réserve, artist’s book, 6 double pages, etching on BFK Rives and japanese style paper, 22 × 17 cm, edition of 60 plus 2 A.P. and 4 H.C., numbered, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.

 

Gerry Schum
Fernseh und Videogalerie

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Presentation 24, 25 and 26 May 1993 at 20:30

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Presentation of films shot by Gerry Schum under its Fernseh und Videogalerie. In collaboration with Simon Lamunière, artist and curator, Geneva.

Gerry Schum has made several series of films as part of its project Fernseh Gallery / Television Gallery, which aimed to create links between the confined space of the art gallery and television. From 1969, Gerry Schum shot several short films with major artists affiliated to Land Art, to Arte Povera or to conceptual art. These films are not documentaries on the work of these artists, but autonomous works. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Ian Anüll
Dessins, sérigraphies et éditions

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Opening April 2, 1993
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For Ian Anüll, art is an integral part of society, it is not an alternative to reality or to the banality of the world nor a subject of mystification. His work always oscillates between right and wrong, the message and the irony, art and non-art. […] Ian Anüll rather cultivates independence and impertinence that enable him to collect and update them with quick thinking and foresight the nonsense and pitfalls of the artistic conformism and also of the society. Posted in Exhibition, Solo showsTagged

Claude Gaçon

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Exhibition from February 12 to March 27, 1993
Opening February 11, 1993

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 Installations, drawings, sculptures, objects and editions.

Since 1985, Claude Gaçon constitutes a collection of balls. He produces and recovers an infinity of spherical objects, composed of such diverse and strange as unexpected materials: paper, marble, lava, wire, plastic, crystal, fur, etc. This accumulation built a non exhaustif catalog of all possible and imaginable formal combinations between full and empty, the heavy and the light, the precious and commonplace. The pure shape is also the starting point for conceptual games and investigation, between inside and outside, content and container, order and disorder, purity and impurity, dispersion and concentration … […] In an aesthetics close of scientific and biological performances – viruses, atoms, anatomical plates, maps and world maps – Claude Gaçon seeks endlessly to imagine, to simplify, to understand and master the elusive three-dimensional shape. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Claude Gaçon, Sans cible, series of 6 engravings, etching and offset, black/white, on Vélin BFK Rives 280 g/m2, 50 × 50 cm, edition of 8 plus 2 H.C., numbered, signed and dated. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1993.

Éditions, 1986-1992

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Exhibition of 20 November 1992 to 16 January 1993
Opening November 19, 1992

Presentation of the editions of Ian Anüll, John Armleder, Françoise Bridel, Stéphane Brunner, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Philippe Favier, Andreas Hofer, Stephan Landry, Christian Lindow, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Anne Pesce, Laurence Pittet, Marie Sacconi, Roman Signer, Jean Stern, Emmett Williams.

John M Armleder

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Exhibition from June 11 to July 18, 1992
Opening June 10, 1992

John M Armleder, view of the exhibition, 1992
John M Armleder, view of the exhibition, 1992

Presentation of a series of twenty-one unique engravings.

The work of John Armleder has long been as close to the neo-Fluxus as the geometric painting. His pictorial references are numerous: Picabia and El Lissitzky to Blinky Palermo, Helmut Federle and Olivier Mosset through Sigmar Polke. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

John M Armleder, Sans titre, 21 unique engravings (etchings and monotypes), colour, on Arches paper, 200 × 100 cm, dated and signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1992.

Stephan Landry

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Exhibition from 14 February to 7 March 1992
Opening February 13, 1992

Stephane Landry, view of the exhibition, 1992
Stephane Landry, view of the exhibition, 1992

Drawings, wall interventions and artist book.

Lithographs printed at the Centre by Laurent Mathelin, typography of the first cover, title page and colophon conducted by the Imprimerie des Arts, Geneva, bound by Craftsman Bookbinder, Jean-Pierre Netz, Geneva. Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, 1991.

Laurence Pittet

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Exhibition of 6 December 1991 to 11 January 1992
Opening December 5, 1991

Laurence Pittet, <em>Sans titre</em>, 1991
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, 1991

Lithographs and paintings. 1991
Lithographs printed by the Centre Laurent Mathelin. Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, 1991.

Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 black, 1 red, 1 blue), on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 1 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow), on newspaper, 64.5 × 94 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 3 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, colour lithography on Arches paper, 38 × 46.5 cm, edition of 20 plus 1 H.C., signed and numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 100.– per lithograph

Suzanne Lafont
Photographies

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Exhibition from October 11 to November 23, 1991
Opening October 10, 1991

Suzanne Lafont, view of the exhibition, 1991
Suzanne Lafont, view of the exhibition, 1991


[…] An almost cinematic continuity is woven between these portraits. Her work is based on an opposition between the snapshot and the pose. The model laying six to seven seconds, while the image remainsthat of a fragment of a glance, a fleeting nod, barely sketched. Suzanne Lafont moves the meaning of her images between “taken from life” and set design, between the sole and the series between the pictorial and cinematic. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)

Laurence Pittet
Sans titre

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Laurence Pittet, <em>Sans titre</em>, 1991
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, 1991

Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 black, 1 red, 1 blue), on Arches paper, 50 × 65 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 1 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, series of 3 lithographs, colour (1 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow), on newspaper, 64.5 × 94 cm, edition of 9 for each colour plus 3 H.C., numbered, signed. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 200.– per lithograph
Laurence Pittet, Sans titre, colour lithography on Arches paper, 38 × 46.5 cm, edition of 20 plus 1 H.C., signed and numbered. Edition of the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, Geneva, 1991.
CHF 100.– per lithograph

Jean-Michel Othoniel
¡ Capotes !

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Exhibition from February 15 to April 6, 1991
Opening February 14, 1991

Jean-Michel Othoniel, view of his exhibition at the Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine, 1991.
Jean-Michel Othoniel, view of the exhibition, 1991.

Presentation of the five framed prints and a molded object with sulfur bull eyes, Histoire d’yeux.

[…] Without wishing to return to archaic or some nostalgia too often attached to traditional printmaking techniques (as it happens the technical copper occurrence in flowers of sulfur dating from the eighteenth century), the features offered by the direct attack of the copper by the sulfur (without acid interference) fit perfectly to the work of Jean-Michel Othoniel and his research for this edition. The artist seeks to reproduce trademarks, ghosts of objects: clothing, fabrics.

 

Roman Signer
Installation hélicoptère, 1990

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Exhibition from October 26 to December 8, 1990
Opening October 25, 1990

Roman Signer, <em>Installation hélicoptère, 1990</em>, 1990
Roman Signer, Installation hélicoptère, 1990, 1990

[…] Roman Signer works on natural elements – water, fire, air, earth – and sometimes industrialized or manufactured objects such as boxes, cans, balloons or furniture, making them fly, fall, explode, filling, emptying, etc., like Richard Serra when he proposed, in 1967-1968, his famous list of action verbs “roll, fold, bend, twist, split, cut …” Roman Signer prefers the progress, the process and the idea of moving sculpture.(Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)