Summer in Shanghai with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala
July 8—September 6, 2017
Pond Society, Shanghai

Summer in Shanghai with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala

Philippe Parreno Speech Bubbles (Violet) (on the ceiling) 1,500 mylar balloons, mould of balloons, certificate Philippe Parreno Marquee (suspended) Transparent plexiglas neons and bulbs Anri Sala A Spurious Emission, 2007 (on the wall) Video projection (color, stereo) Duration 07:30 min While driving through a parking lot of a highway rest stop the radio stations on Sala's car radio would automatically fluctuate, caused by radio airwave interference from large transport trucks. He wrote a musical score interpreting this experience which became the subject of the film Air Cushioned Ride (2006). Later, he filmed a group of musicians performing this score, which became this film, A Spurious Emission. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Untitled, 1985/2015 (on the floor; background) Two telephones The work was included in Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s 2014 exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro for which the artist recreated works from her early years. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Untitled, 1987/2015 (on the floor) Plastic red buckets and white architect lamps The unlikely pairing of desk lamps and plastic buckets creates a grouping of luminous objects. Characteristic of her continuous play with temporal displacements and the subjectivity of experience, Untitled, 1987/2015, conflates past and present. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Press Release

New Century Art Foundation is pleased to announce Summer in Shanghai (July 8 – September 6, 2017) at Pond Society, Shanghai, which brings together important works spanning three decades by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala. Summer in Shanghai invokes the spirit of a series of important group exhibitions which in the early 1990s began to radically question the format itself, instead drawing on the relationship between the history of cinema and the altered...
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