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BigMinisFetishes of Crisis

BigMinis  - BigMinis
This mini, compact catalogue, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux.
After incarnating the “boom object” of the industrialized nations in the 1950s and 1960s, unaided, the compact object is nowadays regarded at once as cute (minority, superfluous) and disquieting (metaphysical, critical, and mutinous). We hate to love it and love to hate it. The contemporary mini has sex appeal. Even when multiplied, it remains one-off.
This mini, compact catalogue, written in both French and English and available in six different colors (randomly distributed), accompanies the exhibition “BigMinis,” at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux. Both explore the fascination that things “scaled down” wield these days, afflicted by the crisis as we all are. If it is possible to see in the mini a harbinger of crisis, as well as a reflection and a critical consequence of this latter, we must also not overlook the fact that it usually represents an unexpected and off-kilter response to the recession. Because a reduction in size conveys the idea of a reduction in cost, space, and time, it likens the production of the compact to an intelligent, reactive production, adapted to its economic and cultural context. A control-production.
The exhibition “BigMinis” is a dialectical show which brings together 182 works by seventy-two contemporary artists, enhanced by several emblematic historical works all coming from French and foreign public collections, private foundations, private collections, galleries, and artists. It has come into being in the current economic climate, with the aim of questioning the fascinating attraction with what we might call “fetishes of crisis.”
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition é suite à l'exposition éponyme at CAPC, Bordeaux, from November 2010 to February 2011.
Works by Julieta Aranda, Carl Andre, Dan Attoe, Gianfranco Baruchello, Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin Creed, William Daniels, Marcel Duchamp, Gabi Dziuba, Michaela Eichwald, Cédric Eisenring, Michael Fullerton, John Giorno, Ellen Gronemeyer, David Hammons, Richard Hawkins, Karl Holmqvist, David Hominal, Jonathan Horowitz, Dean Hughes, Des Hughes, Patrick Jackson, Paul Johnson, Thomas Julier, Dorota Jurczak, Edward Kay, Klat, John Kleckner, Terence Koh, Elad Lassry, Laurent Le Deunff, Delaine Le Bas, Manuela Leinhoss, Kalup Linzy, Anissa Mack, Daniel McDonald, Roberto Matta, Jason Meadows, Alan Michael, John Miller, Futoshi Miyagi, Katy Moran, Jeanette Mundt, David Musgrave, Philip Newcombe, Rupert Norfolk, Yoko Ono, Catherine Opie, Christopher Orr, Richard Pettibone, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Paola Pivi, Aida Ruilova, Ed Ruscha, Pamela Rosenkranz, Laurie Simmons, Jim Shaw, Glenn Sorensen, Martín Soto Climént, Tomoaki Suzuki, Akiko & Masako Takada, Yves Tanguy, Tetrapak, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jacques Vaché, Erika Verzutti, Richard Wathen, Eric Wesley, Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz.
Edité par Alexis Vaillant.
Texts by Bruce Hainley, Jennifer Higgie, David Musgrave, Aaron Schuster, Claire Moulène, Alexis Vaillant.

Design by Bertrand Bordier.

Published with Sternberg Press.
 
published in April 2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
7 x 10,5 cm (softcover)
416 pages (180 color ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-1-934105-25-2
EAN : 9781934105252
 
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