Philippe Parreno

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Philippe Pareno (2015)

Philippe Parreno (* 1964 in Oran , Algeria ) is a French artist and filmmaker. He creates installations, films, drawings and texts that are mostly designed depending on the context and location of their presentation. Parreno lives in Paris .

Life and works

Philippe Parreno was born in Oran , Algeria and grew up in Grenoble , France . He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble (1983–1988) and at the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Palais de Tokyo in Paris (1988–1989). He became known in the 1990s through collaborations with other artists and through a creative approach that was directed against the production of objects without context and turned to the exhibition as an artistic medium. He conceived this as a temporary, multi-stage event, comparable to a film or a piece of music. To date, the specific, i.e. H. site-specific and context-related exhibition, the leitmotif of his work.

His works revolve mainly around the nature of an image and the way his exhibitions are presented. Parreno had exhibitions at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the Kunstverein Munich , the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Irish Museum of Modern Art . His works belong to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMA), the Walker Art Center (USA), the Center Georges Pompidou (France), the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (France), des Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Japanese Museum of the 21st Century.

In June 2006, Universal International released a full- length documentary entitled " Zidane, " directed by Parreno and Scottish art filmmaker Douglas Gordon , which premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival . The film was inspired by Hellmuth Costard's 1970 film, Football Like Never Before. This was about the Manchester United player George Best . During the shooting of this film, Costard used eight 16 mm cameras in order to be able to follow Georg Best over the entire season. His film was broadcast on the German broadcaster ARD in 1971 .

Philippe Parreno worked with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster , Pierre Huyghe , Tino Sehgal , Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Simon Critchley , among others . He also contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (MIT Press, 2008), edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky . He also wrote an article for the first edition of "Above Magazine".

Exhibitions

• 2013: Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World , Palais de Tokyo , Paris
• 2016: Anywhen . Tate Modern , London.
• 2018: Philippe Parreno , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jennifer Higgie: Philippe Parreno: My Influences. Jennifer Higgie interviews the artist at his Paris studio . In: Frieze . No. 158 , October 2013 ( frieze.com ).
2. ^ Tom Eccles: Philippe Parreno. Interview by Tom Eccles . In: ArtReview . October 2015, p. 78-85 ( gladstonegallery.com [PDF]).
3. ^ ^{A b} Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe. "No Ghost Just a Shell". Exhibition. December 14, 2002 - March 16, 2003 ( English ) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . Retrieved December 24, 2010.
4. ^ Philippe Parreno. "May". Exhibition. May 9 - August 16, 2009 ( English ) Kunsthalle Zürich . Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 24, 2010. 
5. ^ Philippe Parreno. "November" . ( English ) Irish Museum of Modern Art . Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 24, 2010. 
6. ^ Philippe Parreno. Collections and Resources. ( English ) Walker Art Center . Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 24, 2010. 
7. ^ Philippe Parreno. A journey through time. A retrospective at the Center Georges Pompidou. ( English ) Saatchi Gallery . Retrieved December 24, 2010.
8. ^ Philippe Parreno. Collections. ( English ) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum . Retrieved December 24, 2010.

Web links

• Philippe Parreno. Air de Paris. Pictures and exhibitions.
• Philippe Parreno on kunstaspekte.de