This was presented as part of LA EXISTANCIAL, curated by Marie de Brugerolle at LACE, January 16 - March 3, 2013. LA EXISTANCIAL is an ambitious group exhibition that brings together international artists across generations to explore the legacy of Guy de Cointet. Brugerolle’s project is based on Cointet’s Cizeghoh Tur NDJMB (1973), a portfolio of 12 serigraphs (red letters on white) created in Los Angeles and realized in France. This portfolio, written in a coded language, was the stage-prop of his first performance in 1973 at the Paris Sonnabend Gallery.
LA EXISTANCIAL is a double exploration of Los Angeles as myth as well as a site of cinema and crime. Formally, the works engage multiple aspects of “folding-unfolding” a story, to explore different post-performative possibilities. Like Cointet’s piece, each artist’s respective works have more than one status: a wall drawing is also a poster; a drawing can be also a script; a mailed letter becomes a map; a carpet is a score; and a window blind is a poem that can be sung.
Brugerolle has selected an impressive, multigenerational roster of artists, which includes: John Baldessari (US), Julien Bismuth & Jean-Pascal Flavien (F), Simon Bergala (F), Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet (F), Elsa Bourdot & Clara Gensburger (F), Andrea Fraser (US), Dora Garcia (Spain), Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly (US), Morten Norbye Halvorsen & Jessica Warboys (Norway), Emily Mast (US), Jimmy Robert(F), Mickaël Salvi (F), Benjamin Seror (F), Lucille Uhlrich (F) and Veridiana Zurita (Brazil).
Julien Bismuth & Jean-Pascal Flavien, "A Wake"
Slide projection, poster- text and light. The work was performed on opening night by Elsa Bourdot and Clara Gensburger.
