March 8–September 22, 2019
Rovesciamento
Site-specific project for the nave of the museum
March 8–May 19, 2019
Anna & the Jester in “Window of Opportunity”
March 8–May 19, 2019
7, rue Ferrère
33000 Bordeaux
France
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm
2019 program of exhibitions at CAPC in Bordeaux
The 2019 exhibition program of the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux wants to celebrate the power of art beyond didactic principles and discursive posturings. Developed under the artistic direction of the museum’s chief curator, Alice Motard, it puts its faith in the exhibition as a special moment that essentially eludes explanation and requires time and genuine involvement to be properly experienced.
The 2019 season kicks off in March with a site-specific installation in the nave of CAPC by the French-Italian artists’ duo Marie Cool Fabio Balducci and an extensive retrospective exhibition of the historic Japanese Fluxus artist Takako Saito.
In June, CAPC will be showing three large-scale projects as part of the City of Bordeaux’s Cultural Season, Liberté! Bordeaux 2019. The nave of the CAPC building will host Back to the Fields by the Scottish artist Ruth Ewan, a life-size version of the French Republican calendar, in which each day was given a name associated with the rural economy. Ewan’s installation will bring together 360 different objects, including numerous plants and trees, each representing one day in the revolutionary year.
The group exhibition Histoire de l’art cherche personnages… in the CAPC’s second-floor galleries is produced in collaboration with the museum of the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image (CIBDI) in Angoulême and Fondation Gandur pour l’Art in Geneva. It will survey the major trends and changes in figurative art since the 1960s through a selection of works from all three collections. Also within the framework of the City’s Cultural Season, CAPC has devised a special exhibition of key works of Jean-Pierre Raynaud from the museum’s collection in three public locations in the city, namely, the Grand Théâtre, the Botanical Gardens, and the former Saint-Rémi Church.
The program will conclude in October with an exhibition by the 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid, centered on the presentation in the nave of her seminal installation Naming the Money. A key work in the oeuvre of this leading figure of the British Black Art movement, it consists of 100 life-size painted cutout silhouettes that bring to life historic depictions of African servants in eighteenth-century European royal courts.
Coinciding with these programmatic highlights, CAPC will show new video works commissioned as part of the Satellite Program co-produced with Jeu de Paume in Paris and Museo Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. The New Sanctuary, the series conceived by this edition’s curator Laura Herman, questions the role of architecture as a shelter or refuge through works by Julie Béna, Ben Thorp Brown, and Daisuke Kosugi.
Finally, CAPC has resumed its popular series of art-history courses, which is run by curator Guillaume Désanges, who agreed to reiterate the series of performance-lectures he has developed over the past decade.
Takako Saito
The monographic exhibition of Takako Saito is presented in partnership with Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany. It gathers more than 400 works by the Düsseldorf-based Japanese Fluxus artist, who began her career in the 1960s alongside George Maciunas, George Brecht, and Robert Filliou. Comprising sculptures, paintings, performances, sound works, and books, the presentation looks back on more than fifty years of Saito’s career, from her first works based on games (most notably chess) to her latest clothing designs. The retrospective, which bears witness to an ongoing interest in everyday objects and audience participation, will be punctuated by three performances by the artist, who turns 90 this year.
The exhibition is accompanied by a trilingual catalogue (German, English, French) published by Snoeck Publishing (Cologne) in November 2018, with essays by Dieter Daniels, Larry List, Marc Schulz, Takako Saito, and Johannes Stahl.
Curators: Alice Motard, Eva Schmidt and Johannes Stahl
This exhibition is generously supported by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci: Rovesciamento
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci’s project for the CAPC consists of a new site-specific work and a series of performed or filmed actions. For more than two decades, the two artists have been developing an unclassifiable body of work between sculpture and performance based on short, often repetitive actions carried out by themselves or by others in confined spaces (studio, exhibition space) using standardized objects from regulated work environments (sheets of A4 paper, Scotch tape, pencils, office tables) and natural elements such as water or sunlight. Rovesciamento, the installation conceived for the CAPC’s central nave, stages situations of reversal or upheaval, both figuratively and literally: a monumental conference table that has been tilted on its side is echoed by less spectacular but equally violent gestures of spilling and diversion. Emphasizing the underlying dichotomy in their work – which has been described as simultaneously ethereal and terrestrial, fictional and functional, transcendent and immanent, or even metaphysical and political – Marie Cool Fabio Balducci harness the architectural partition of the CAPC’s central space to stage a mirror situation of construction and deconstruction, of doing and undoing.
Curator: Alice Motard
Julie Béna: Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity
The opening exhibition of Satellite 2019, The New Sanctuary presents works that, through storytelling and the use of animation, have the stunning ability to bring to life a series of characters that would otherwise remain anonymous and inanimate: Anna & the Jester, Opportunity and three babies on display at the Museo di Palazzo Poggi in Bologna. Comprising a sculpture (Flexibility, 2015) presented alongside a new 3D animated film (Anna & the Jester in “Window of Opportunity”, 2019), the exhibition presents itself as a critique of transparency in the form of an architectural tale.
Curator: Laura Herman
The Satellite Program 2019: The New Sanctuary is co-produced by Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and Museo Amparo, Puebla.
Cultural Season Liberté! Bordeaux 2019
Ruth Ewan
June 20, 2019–September 22, 2019
Opening: June 19, 2019
Curator: Alice Motard
Histoire de l’art cherche personnages…
June 20, 2019–February 2, 2020
Opening: June 19, 2019
Curatorship: a scientific team of representatives from CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image, Angoulême and Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud: Que chacun enchante sa prison
Curator: Anne Cadenet
Works on display in the city:
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
July 12, 2019–September 1, 2019
Opening: July 11, 2019
Espace Saint-Rémi and Jardin Botanique
July 12, 2019–September 22, 2019
The Satellite Program 2019: The New Sanctuary will continue with two other commissions.
Curator: Laura Herman
Ben Thorp Brown
June 20, 2019–September 22, 2019
Opening: June 19, 2019
Daisuke Kosugi
October 31, 2019–February 2020
Opening: October 30, 2019
Lubaina Himid
October 31, 2019–February 2020
Opening: October 30, 2019
Curator: Alice Motard
Guillaume Désanges: Des histoires contre l’Histoire
Art-history classes
January–June 2019
Also on view
Alejandro Cesarco: Learning the Language (Present Continuous I)
Curator: Agnès Violeau
Satellite Program 2018: NEWSPEAK_
Until February 24, 2019
[sic] works from the CAPC Collection
A selection of works by more than 40 artists from the 1960s to the present day
Until April 28, 2019
The CAPC musée d’art contemporain is a museum of the City of Bordeaux.
Museum patrons
Honorary patron: Château Haut-Bailly
Founding patron: Les Amis du CAPC
Leading patron: Lacoste Traiteur
Patrons: SUEZ, Mercure Bordeaux Cité Mondiale, Château Chasse-Spleen, Château Haut Selve
Press
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