encounters with artists

Exhibitions

2014 // Support of Dan Finsel’s and Carter Mull’s exhibition

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Carter Mull puts the visitors face to a dense installation combining paintings, luminous sculptures hanging from the ceiling, a video, a mural drawing 7 metres long and hundreds of pages laid on the floor. Strong couleurs, logos, typefaces and screen shots of online shops for hipsters make up the meticulous pictural matter of the artist, through which he questions the status and the production of consumer goods and art.

More information here

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First personal exhibition in Europe for the American artist Dan Finsel (born in 1982, lives in Los Angeles), Becoming Her, for Him, for Her: Becoming Him, for Her, for She (Becoming Me, for Me, for Me.) lays the radical base for an intense visual and psychological universe that explores in a corrosive and emotional manner family mythologies and frenetic multiple personality troubles in today’s Los Angeles.

More information here
 

2013 // Support of the Markus Schinwald exhibition

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The CAPC’s nave is plunged in darkness. A gigantic brass tubular structure straddles the space. Painted skies and retouched portraits hanging on wires are being as if launched into the void. The walls are covered with Brinjal. Tumblers play chess and children’s puppets bang the metal tips of their shoes on the floor. A spiral Eiffel stairway links the floor and the ceiling, 45 feet high. Large hangings hide the architecture, a double mirror projection of the film Orient spins in a loop and looks at itself from a huge triangular bench which cuts the nave in four. A false ceiling with holes in it lets through a purplish light, while a figure on a suspended diving board vibrates with the variations of light. Welcome inside Markus Schinwald’s mechanical theatre. A space made to measure for the CAPC’s nave, which gropes as much as it traps.

The Friends of the CAPC support this important exhibition.

More information on the exhibition here

 

2013 // Support of the Orientation Table cycle

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The orientation tables are exhibition of young artists over a three-year cycle.
They give an idea of what is currently happening in the artistic field.

The Friends of the CAPC support this cycle all throughout 2013.

Past exhibitions in
Raphael Hefti “Nature More”
Philip Newcombe “Pollen”

David Lieske “Platitude Normale”
Pauline Boudry et Renate Lorenz “Aftershow”

Michael E. Smith

 

TOURS OF EXHBITIONS AND FAIRS

Exposition Jim Shaw, photo Mairie de Bordeaux

The Friends of the CAPC are welcomed personally to the museum:

– private tours of the new exhibitions with the curators and artists, followed by lunches at the Café Andrée Putman in order to continue the discussion

– VIP access to the big contemporary art fairs throughout the world (with also an annual visit to FIAC in the company of someone from the CAPC)

– invitations and private tours for big cultural events (EVENTO, Maison à Bordeaux…) 

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AUTRES EVENEMENTS

2014 // Visit backstage of the TnBA and meeting with the actors of Cyrano de Bergerac, after the show

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Texts Edmond Rostand
Adaptation and direction Dominique Pitoiset

Last year, Dominique Pitoiset signed the foreword of the brochure with a loud “No, thank you!” taken from Cyrano who he had, he says, met. The lines showed all the admiration he had for the work of Edmond Rostand. It will therefore not come as a surprise that he directed the masterpiece. To personify the poet with a long nose, Dominique Pitoiset calls upon the formidable Philippe Torreton.

Evening in collaboration with the TnBA
Tour of the TnBA followed by a cocktail and a meeting with the actors after the show 

2012 // Dinner at Nanashi for the inauguration of the Markus Schinwald exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo

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On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Overture at the Palais de Tokyo, that prefigured the Mechanical Theatre thought up by Markus Schinwald for the nave of the CAPC
Food: Kaorie, Nanashi
Contorsionists: Sandrine, Séverine, Caroline
Music: DJ Clara 3000

 

2011 // Meeting with the artist Philippe Decrauzat

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The Friends of the CAPC were able to have lunch with Philippe Decrauzat on his trip to Bordeaux to finalise the purchase of the work Mirrors that became part of the CAPC’s collection following its donation.
 

2010 // Promesses du Comptoir

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2010 // Charity Brunch, with Jim Shaw

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In order to continue raising funds to support the cultural and educational activities of the CAPC contemporary art museum of Bordeaux, the FRIENDS OF THE CAPC invited their Friends to come to the Charity Brunch that they organised in the museum’s atrium.
> private tour of the exhibition devoted to the American artist Jim Shaw. Tour carried out by Jim Shaw and Charlotte Laubard, director of the CAPC and exhibition curator
> Charity Brunch, with Jim Shaw and Charlotte Laubard, accompanied by wine tasting of grands crus generously given by the members of the association: 
Château Camensac 2003
Château Cantelys 2006 blanc
Château Chasse Spleen 2002
Château Haut Bailly 1999
Château Lynch Bages 2001
Château Smith Haut Lafitte 2003
Château Smith Haut Lafitte 2007 blanc
Domaine de Chevalier 2002

TRIPS

 

2013 // Istambul

With Derya Demir, of the Galeri Non

Istanbul Modern, modern art museum, Istanbul, Marmarameer, Türkei

Programme: the discovery of many galleries (like the Galerie Non, Rampa Istanbul, Rodeo Gallery, Galeri Mana, Galeri Nev Istanbul), but also private collections, alternative venues and important institutions (Salt Online, Arter, Collector’s Space, Masumiyet Muzesi, Istanbul Modern, Nesrine Esirtgen Collection…).

 

2012 // Brussels, Antwerp and Gent

With Sonia Demience and Alberto Garcia del Castillo,of the collective Komplot

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Brussels
Hall Horta at Bozar, Cap d’argent, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Galerie Almine Rech, Galerie Meessen Declercq, Galerie Elaine Levy, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen & Sorry We Are Closed, La Loge, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Charles Riva Collection, Galerie Barbara Gladstone, Argos, Galerie Wolf Vostell, Galerie Dépendance, AliceDay, Vidal Cuglietta, Greta Meert, Motive, Elisa Platteau, Van der Mieden, Collection Vanhaerents, Mot International, Komplot, Fondation A Stichting, Collection Eric Fabre

Gent
Opening of HISK, exhibition by Nicolaus Schafhausen SMAK, KIOSK

Antwerp
MuHKA, Galerie Micheline Sczwajcer, Objectif Exhibitions

 

2011 // Zurich

With Stefan Wagner, art critic and independent curator

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Motto Zurich Store, Corner College, Lehni-Trueb, Les Complices, Volkshaus Art, Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Galerie Francesca Pia, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Promenade in the West district of Zurich, Workshop tour in Leimbach : Sarah Kueng / Lovis Caputo, Raphael Hefti, Karma International, Kunsthalle Zürich, Collection Bosshard, Cabaret Voltaire, Promenade in old Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Kronenhalle Zürich in the Chagall salon, Helmhaus Zürich  

2011 // Bordeaux

A day to discover Bordeaux from another point of view, with Thomas Bernard of the Galerie Cortex Athletico

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Tour of the CAPC’s art storage, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Galerie Eponyme, Galerie Ilka Bree, lunch at the restaurant L’Arc-en-ciel, fabrique POLA, Galerie Arrêt sur l’Image, FRAC Aquitaine 
The day ended with a performance by the artist Gaétan Robillard and the pianist Yvan Ilic entitled “Concert for an image”  

 

2011 // Paris

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Meeting with the artist Thomas Hirschhorn in his studio, Lunch at the  Palais de Tokyo, Guided tour of the exhibition « Haute Culture : General Idea » at the Musée d’art moderne  – first survey devoted to the Canadian collective, General Idea, the exhibition proposes, through a corpus of almost 300 works, a global and dynamic vision of their work, with the shadow of Miss General Idea, fictitious character that was at once muse, object, image and concept. Visit of the Marais galleries: Martine Aboucaya, Chantal Crousel, Nelson Freeman, Yvon Lambert, Almine Rech

 

2010 // Berlin

With Aurélie Voltz, independent curator

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In a city 8 times the size of Paris with more than a million habitants more, the space is there, to live but also to create! That is why the artists love the German capital that has become in ten years a hub for contemporary art. The programme proposes four days rich in discoveries, from must-sees to the more unusual.

From the collection of Christian Boros to that of Erika Hauffmann, via the Sammlung Haubrok, discovery of 3 attitudes and manners of conceiving a collection, in a bunker, private appartments or a space with an East German feel. Without forgetting Friedrich Christian Flick’s gigantic collection presented the contemporary art museum Hamburger Bahnhof. The same museum will also welcome an important personal exhibition by Carsten Höller. Discovering an artist’s studio, seeing project spaces that are part of Berlin’s vitality and watching a performance in the Salon Populaire, new venue with a rich programme, everything is here to favour the new!

A big circuit around Berlin’s different districts will show the recent movement of important galleries towards the West with, of course, the visit of young galleries, that flourish every year. An evening of openings will allow you to see the nocturnal ambiance of the city. Art and the life that goes with it: a diner at the top of the Reichstag with an unforgettable panorama and a dinner at HBC, an old Hungarian cultural centre converted into a project space to be experienced at night, in a sixties concrete atmosphere with a view on Alexanderplatz. And of course, tasting kölsch, the famous beet from Cologne in the unmissable bar 3, the artists’ bar. The next day, finally discovering the secrets of German cooking and, for some souvenirs an exclusive shopping in Mitte, with some addresses for young Berlin-based designers, the best of Scandinavian design, the exceptional vintage clothing shops without forgetting the good bookshops where you may find the catalogue you have been looking for for so long…
 

2009 // Lisbon

With Rita Fabiana, independent curator

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Discovery of the Modern Art Centre of the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Culturgest, the Belem Cultural Centre, but also independent spaces and structures like Zé-dos-Bois and the Plataforma Revolver, as well as the galleries Vera Cortês, Lisboa 20, Caroline Pagès, Filomena Soares and Cristina Guerra.  

 

2008 // Turin

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Opening of the contemporary art fair Artissima, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin Triennial, Casa Mollino, Castello di Rivoli, Fondazione Merz, Collezione La Gaia, nocturnal visit of Turin’s galleries (Franco Noero, Franco Soffiantino, Sonia Rosso…), Museum of Egyptian art, Pinacoteca Agnelli…  

 

2004 // London

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Frieze Art Fair, Tate Modern, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Tate Britain, Gagosian Britannia,  Victoria Miro, Penny Govett’s Tea, White Cube, Artists’ studios: Tracey Emin, Don Brown, Brad Lahore, Whitechapel Gallery,  galleries Tim Taylor, Marcel Dzama, Haunch of Venison , THos, Joshua Cooper…  

 

2003 // Venice

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Muséo Correr, San Gregoire des Armenians, Luxemburg Pavilion, The Biennial – Arsenal (tour with Patricia Falguières), Exposition –Utopia Station (tour with Molly Nesbitt, curator), Collection Attilo Godognato…