Marc Camille Chaimowicz

 
Born in the aftermath of World War II (in 1947 in Paris) of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an official art practice which was no longer subversive, Chaimowicz abandoned performance art. From 1975 to 1979, he designed the interior of his Approach Road flat. Wallpapers, curtains, videos he made while performing in his own decor: everything had been tailored-imagined, drawn, and conceived to turn his interior into a room conducive to reverie. From the 1980s onwards, decors and furniture set like in a theatre scenography took their place in museums. Since then, hundreds of exhibitions have featured the interiors series of this international artist.
 
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Writings and Interviews
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This reference monograph, revisiting the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s, with a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - The World of Interiors
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph and source book on the post-Pop scatter artist.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Marc Camille Chaimowicz à Cluny
2004
French edition
various
10.00 5.00 €
Exhibition catalogue.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Peinture et objets
1995
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Consortium - Monographs
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Chemin de Croix
1988
French edition
Le Consortium - Monographs
sold out
14 drawings.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Genève-Dijon - 1984
1984
French edition
Le Consortium - Monographs
sold out
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