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Philippe Parreno is a French artist and filmaker who lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble in 1988 and in 1989 from Institut des Hautes Etudes en arts plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Parreno is the first artist to take over the entire 22,000 square metre gallery space at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris with his exhibition Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World which opened in October 2013. Parreno was awarded the 2016 Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, the title of his commission is ANYWHEN. Major exhibitions of Parreno’s work include: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2017); ACMI, Melbourne (2016); Hyundai Commission 2016, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern (2016); HangarBicocca, Milan (2015), Park Avenue Armory, New York (2015), CAC Malaga (2014), The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2013); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2013); Fondation Beyeler (2012); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2012); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2010); Witte de With (2010); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009); Kunsthalle Zurich (2009); CCA Kitakyoshu, Japan (2006); Kunsthalle Zürich (2006); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2003); Musée D’Art Moderne de le Ville de Paris (2002), and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2001).
The project CHZ, which began with the construction of a black garden in Portugal, is the basis for this volume published by Damiani. The book collects the series of ink drawings of the garden, some frames from the film, a narrative by the artist and an essay written by Nancy Spector, deputy director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim Museum. Published in conjunction with Parreno's exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, 10 June to 30 September 2012.
Publisher: Fondation Beyeler / Damiani
ISBN: 978-88-6208-253-2
Periodically, the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books embarks on a seemingly straightforward project: to present an exhibition reflecting on the state of contemporary printmaking. This catalog shows images from the work in the exhibition as well as several interviews, including Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN: 978-0-87070-825-1
This fully illustrated monograph focuses on Parreno's extensive work in film from his emergence as a major artist in the 1990s to the present day, and features essays by Michael Fried, Nicolas Bourriaud and Dorothea von Hantelmann touching on themes including cinema, authenticity and the everyday. The book is produced in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (25 November - 13 February) presenting a sequence of Parreno's most recent films, including the premiere of InvisibleBoy, 2010.
2010 © Philippe Parreno; Serpentine Gallery, London; Koenig Books, London; and the authors.
Available from Serpentine Gallery