Paroles des Images
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© Zoe Leonard.
Photo: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth
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© Zoe Leonard.
Photo: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth
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© Zoe Leonard.
Photo: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth
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© Zoe Leonard.
Photo: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth
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© Zoe Leonard.
Photo: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth
Palazzo Grassi
Curated by
Caroline Bourgeois
Caroline Bourgeois
Caroline Bourgeois curated the exhibition, which took place on two floors of the Palazzo Grassi. It featured works by 25 international video artists, including trailblazer Bill Viola, and Bruce Nauman's masterpiece For Beginners, seen in Europe for the first time. The visitors’ route was designed with the spaces in mind. Contrasts and oppositions showed all of video art’s rich expressiveness, from comical to more serious veins. Some tackled social and geopolitical issues while others were intimate and poetic.
"Paroles des images" (“Words of Images”) was the Pinault Collection’s first show entirely devoted to video, a vital area of contemporary art that François Pinault has been passionate about since the early 1990s.
Artworks in the Paroles des Images exhibition
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Nocturnes
1999
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Bureau augmenté
1998-2000
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Joueur de flûte
1995-1996
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Hunde
2003
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Pierce
2004-2008
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Hall of whispers
1995
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Temps mort
2009
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BB
1998-2000
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Comédie
1964
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Faezeh
2008
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Liu Lan
2003
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Whose Utopia Installation
2006-2007
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Uomo Duomo
2000
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Eyes
2006
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Recessionale I
2008
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A Declaration
2006
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Siraat (The Path)
2007
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The Magic of Things
2010
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Jewel
2010
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Vertical attempt
2009
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Untitled
2011
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Lake
2012
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