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CAI Guo-Qiang, Cultural Melting Bath, 1997
Vue de la Biennale 2000 Partage d’exotismes
Photo Blaise Adilon
Mel RAMOS, Candy II - Snickers, 2004
©Adagp, Paris 2016
LE BONHEUR DE DEVINER PEU À PEU
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Le bonheur de deviner peu à peu (‘The joy of guessing your way round’), from 30.09.2016 to
15.01.2017, seven works assembled as a puzzle: Eduardo Basualdo, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ilya
Kabakov, ORLAN, Jean-Luc Parant, Mel Ramos, Tavares Strachan.
Eduardo Basualdo’s work was created in 2009 for Argentinian collectors Juan and Patricia
Vergez. It was acquired by the macLYON after a journey round the world. It was made in the
West and came to us from the East.
At Cai Guo-Qiang’s show Cultural Melting Bath in New York, visitors signed a contract
before they were allowed to take a bath in the huge Jacuzzi. In Japan, they just queued up.
In France nothing of that sort is possible.
Ilya Kabakov’s Le Navire was designed in the artist’s Moscow studio, which was reached
by going through the space under the roof of the building. It was a long time before the
opening of the iron curtain and the fall of the Berlin wall. The work was sent to the West by
clandestine means, where it was constructed and acquired.
ORLAN’s installation relates one of her many metamorphoses, in which the scalpel is used
to extend the boundaries of beauty.
Jean-Luc Parant decided that his Éboulement (‘Landslide’) would invade the Museum. Since
1991 he has kept adding to this unfinished work, even though it is listed on the Museum’s
inventory.
The Galerie Hilger donates the works of Mel Ramos; the Museum exhibits them before
accepting the donation.
Tavares Strachan works in collaboration with the Bahamas Space Center. Before leaving
for outer space, he has realized two extremely fragile sculptures.
All these works are held in the collections of macLYON.
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THREE EXHIBITIONS IN MAC 30.09.16 --15.01.17
OPENING : THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBer 2016
LYON
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