Contre-Histoire de la Séparation Etienne Chambaud
November 14, 2010—February 27, 2011
Centre international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac

Contre-Histoire de la Séparation Etienne Chambaud

Modèle pour l’Hospitalité i.e. Exclusion, [Model for Hospitality i.e Exclusion], 2010 (exterior) Steel, wood and concrete Dimensions variable Photo © Aurélien Mole

Press Release

Between the abolition of the guillotine as a mean of capital punishment and the opening of Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou, Etienne Chambaud develops and questions the concept of the 'beheaded museum'. The artist's thesis is to consider the vertigo as the very condition of the exhibition, the museum thus being seen as both a place to exhibit and to exclude. The exhibition Counter-History of Separation, held at Centre international d'art et du paysage on Vassivière...
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