“Photographier” is an open and special view of the diverse use of photography in works by contemporary artists in the reserves of the Collection Lambert and works from private collections. This is the first exhibition in a series taking a cross-disciplinary look at the unpublished works in the Collection Lambert, but without placing them in any aesthetic or historical category. The subsequent exhibitions in the series will be To Paint, To Draw and To Film. While the exhibition focuses on the big-name artists who are up-and-coming with Nan Goldin, Andres Serrano and Roni Horn, it also shows the many and varied applications of photography since the birth of minimal and conceptual art with works from Douglas Huebler, Dan Graham or Bernd and Hilla Becher, or Land Art where photography becomes the documentation of a project, through the works of Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Dennis Oppenheim, Hamish Fulton, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierre Huyghe, Bill Owens as well as Peter Fischli & David Weiss. The weight of “reality” is found also in works where photography is used in the same way that the Cubists used newspaper cuttings, like in the work of Lawrence Weiner or Barbara Kruger. Other artists find a source of work for individual or collective, anecdotal or historical memory in photography. That's true for Christian Boltanski, Giulio Paolini, Koo Jeong-a, Mariko Mori or Anselm Kiefer. Although all these artists use photography without actually describing themselves as photographers, others declare this technique to be either for narrative purposes or as part of their stage direction, questioning the body, temporality, intimacy, fixed images and moving images. They are Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Ross Sinclair, Delphine Kreuter, Anna Gaskell, Vanessa Bercroft, Elina Brotherus, Sophie Calle and Cindy Sherman, Slater Bradley, Jo Lansley and Helen Bendon, Vibeke Tandberg and Salla Tykkä, artists who the Collection Lambert presents in large ensembles which give this summer exhibition its coherence. The attic of the Hôtel de Caumont will continue to house the installation by Claude Lévêque : J'ai rêvé d'un autre monde (I dreamed of another world). The installation was especially made for the venue, and it refers to the primary idea of a mental and geological concept where a winding neon light is like a lava flow. In this space, fog combines with earth sound sources which free each visitor as they move around the installation and remove all references connecting them to the outside world.
Distribution
Éric Mézil : exhibition commissioner and director of the Collection Lambert
Production
Du 1er juin à décembre