Passage du Temps
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Photo : Maxime Dufour /
© Adagp, Paris, 2020
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© ADAGP Paris / Photo : Maxime Dufour
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Curated by
Caroline Bourgeois
The challenge was to make sense from a collection. Thus, from Dan Flavin to Adel Abdessemed, including Gilbert & George, Philippe Parreno or Hiroshi Sugimoto, the exhibition offered a chronological and thematic journey, exploring the notion of astonishment, avant-garde, or identity, from the 1970s to today. Without pretending to be exhaustive, it offered a point of view on contemporary creation, marked by a period which is questioning the nature of work of art and artistic identity. Following the industrial architecture of the place and its constraints, the exhibition layout suggested stories that everyone could interpret according to their feelings.
Starting from the minimal and conceptual art, the notion of object and materials used by artists have been reinvented. Thought became the object of art, be it the thought of the author as well as that of the visitor through the experience of the work. The visitor is no longer a mere spectator, but becomes the actor of the work.
Artworks in the Passage du Temps exhibition
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Untitled
1976/2000
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Untitled
1976-2000
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A Drinking Sculpture
1974
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Talk is Cheap
2006
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Séparation
2006
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Cry
1984
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A Needle Woman
1999-2000
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Nocturnes
1999
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Marie-France
1980
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On and Off
2000
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Piss Christ
1987
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Untitled
2000
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The object of it all
1977
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magicass
1998
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48 Hours
1999
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T.W. (Scream)
1999
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Intériorisme
1999
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Body Press
1970-1972
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Midnight Crossing
1997
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L'Ellipse
1998
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Stereoscope
1999
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Exodus
1992 - 1997
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Rapture
1999
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Anchorage
1996
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No more reality (Twin Peaks) / Ou
1991-1996
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Untitled
1993-2002
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Ice Lady
1994
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Bureau augmenté
1998-2000
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Organic escalator
2000
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Le renard
1999
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Le Pestiféré
2000
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Pine Tree Landscape
2000
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Going Forth By Day
2002
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Forever (version 3)
2001
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Untitled
2003
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Dross
2004
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Le Grand Amour
2004
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Kit
2005
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Black Supper
1991
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Skull
2001
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Birth of Love
2006
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Joueur de flûte
1995-1996
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Happiness in Mitte
2003
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Hunde
2003
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Büsi
2001
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The Last Supper
1999
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