Mike Kelley. Ghost and Spirit
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Pinault Collection. © Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Tous droits réservés.
© Adagp, Paris, 2024. Photo : Andrea Rossetti
Mike Kelley, Kandors Full Set, 2005-2009
Curated by
Jean-Marie Gallais
From October 2023 to February 2024 at the Bourse de Commerce, the Pinault Collection presented a retrospective devoted to the American artist Mike Kelley as part of a series of exhibitions entitled "American Mythologies". This retrospective was organised by the Tate Modern (London), in collaboration with the Pinault Collection, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf) and the Moderna Museet (Stockholm). This exhibition was first shown at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris during the autumn and winter of 2023, before continuing its tour.
Ghost and Spirit presents a sequence of different bodies of work and immersive environments created by the artist, including the spectacular Kandors, futuristic cities under bell jars, which will be featured in the Rotunda. The exhibition will also present the “Minor Histories” of Kelley’s practice, as he called them: drawings, photographs, and preparatory writings that shed light on his thought process.
Mike Kelley’s work always fed on subculture references and a tension between the depth of critical thinking he fostered and the apparent superficiality of a pop aesthetic that toyed with notions ranging from seduction to trash. He also never ceased to point to the role of the artist and how this figure appears or disappears.
Artworks in the Mike Kelley. Ghost and Spirit exhibition
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Kandors Full Set
2005-2009
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Memory Ware Flat #17
2001
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Red Stain
1986
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Feeling Bad
1977-1978
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