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Charles Avery – It Means It Means! – Gallery Perrotin
22/06/2013 @ 8:00 pm - 27/07/2013 @ 5:00 pm
freeKicking off the summer with a group exhibition in the Parisian centre, starting this weekend ‘It Means It Means!’ proposes a drawn group expo which will be staged in 2 locations simultaneously, once as a fiction, once as a fact. The first location is the Museum of Art Onomatopoeia on ‘The Island’, a fictional realm that has provided the backdrop to Charles Avery’s artistic and philosophical investigations since 2005. The second location is Galerie Perrotin, Paris.
Curator Tom Morton has been given plans of The Island’s Museum, for which he has devised a show of real works by real artists, from Antoine Watteau to Tino Sehgal, which may only be witnessed through a series of drawings made by Charles Avery and presented at Galerie Perrotin. An example of what André Malraux termed a ‘Musée Imaginaire’, ‘It Means it Means!’ explores what constitutes a site for artistic/curatorial production, and the artist/curator relationship. It is an exhibition that contains an exhibition, and a series of artworks that contains a series of artworks.
The exhibition’s title offers a response to a question often asked of unfamiliar artworks: ‘But what does it mean?’ To state that ‘It Means It Means!’ is to point to art’s primary property, the fact that it ‘means’ before it ‘denotes X’ or ‘connotes Y’. Perhaps it is only when works from our own world travel to another that this property comes into focus. ‘It Means It Means!’ is, after all, a showcase of exotica, of foreign art made after a very foreign Enlightenment.
An expo that has been organized on the occasion of the summery The Nouvelles Vagues season at the Palais de Tokyo with the support of the Comité professional des galeries d’art.