Anti-Vision — Revues, livres d’artistes et documents imprimés — Escougnou-Cetraro Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: May 17 → July 12, 2014

“Why not reconstruct one’s inability to see?” asks Robert Smithson in his famous article “Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatán”, published by the magazine Artforum in September 1969. The exhibition Anti-vision will use this question as common thread through a selection of publications and artists’ books extracted from the BLOOM collection, founded in 2013.

John Baldessari, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of the Thirty-Six-Atempts) Courtesy of the artist & galerie See studio, Paris

The complete series of Artforum issues where Robert Smithson published eight important articles, before his accidental death in 1973, will introduce the question on the “anti-vision” and the “negative vision” which has guided several different artistic strategies since the late 1960’s. The exhibition presents a collection of artists’ books, posters, printed documents, and exhibitions’ catalogues, including rare pieces sought-after by the bibliophiles.

Mike Kelley, Destroy All Monsters, 0

Artists : John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Robert Cumming, Robert Heineken, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Mike Kelley, Tom Marioni, Robert Morris, Richard Prince, Group Material, Robert Smithson, Philippe Thomas…

BLOOM has been founded in Paris by Guillaume Leingre in 2013. Specialised in books and magazines dedicated to art and photography, BLOOM offers at the same time ancient and contemporary pieces of work as well as a consulting services for collectors and museums.

Curators : Guillaume Leingre and Alexandre Quoi