Tuesday, April 12, 2016

'the family of the invisibles', Seoul Museum of Art, 5 April - 29 May 2016

THE FAMILY OF THE INVISIBLES, Séoul (Corée)
Mardi, 5 avril, 2016 - Dimanche, 29 mai, 2016

Pierre Keller, The Blue Lick, 1981, Collection Frac Aquitaine, © Pierre Keller,
The Family of the Invisibles retrace une histoire de l’émergence de figures invisibles et de leurs revendications identitaires, à travers plus de 200 oeuvres photographiques emblématiques des années 1930 à aujourd’hui, issues des collections du Cnap et du Frac Aquitaine. En savoir +

THE FAMILY OF THE INVISIBLES
LISTE DES ARTISTES
Ilwoo Space
24 artistes / 66 oeuvres
Prologue

Berti Alvise, Tony Armstrong Jones, Eve Arnold, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Werner Bischof, Édouard Boubat, Alfredo Camisa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chim, Bruce Davidson, Robert Doisneau, Nora Dumas,
Eduard van der Elsken, Daniel Frasnay, Mario Giacomelli, Inge Morath, Irving Penn, René-Jacques,George Rodger, Rogi André, Fulvio Roiter, Tadeusz Rolke, Ferdinando Scianna, Dennis Stock.

Seoul Museum of Art - SeMA
89 artistes / 144 oeuvres

Chapitre 1 : Déconstruction des mythes

Leandro Berra, Claude Closky, Robert Doisneau, Parick Faigenbaum, Agnès Geoffray, Ralph Gibson, Laurent Kropf, Karen Knorr, Jeff Koons, Edouard Levé, Robert Mapplethorpe, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Deborah Turbeville.

Chapitre 2 : Vers le neutre

Aziz + Cucher, Eric Baudelaire, Valérie Belin, Marcel Broodthaers, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Danica Dakić, Thomas Demand, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Jan Groover, Roni Horn, Valérie Jouve, David Lamelas,
Charles Mason, Aernout Mik, Adrien Missika, Valérie Mréjen, Roman Opalka, Bruno Peinado, Gianni Pettena, Xavier Ribas, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Otmar Thormann.

Chapitre 3 : Les invisibles

Diane Arbus, Roger Ballen, Philippe Bazin, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier Bresson, Philippe Chancel, Larry Clark, John Coplans, Agnès Geoffray, Cécile Hartmann, John Hilliard, Jian Jiang,
Pierre Keller, William Klein, Helen Levitt, Ariane Lopez-Huici, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nicolas Milhé, Tracey Moffatt, Jean-Luc Moulène, Marc Pataut, Mathieu Pernot, Jean Rault, August Sander, Andres Serrano, Beat Streuli, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Rémy Yadan.

Chapitre 4 : Fictions de soi

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Dieter Appelt, Nobuyoshi Araki, Kader Attia, Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Maurizio Cattelan, Brice Dellsperger, Bernard Faucon, Esther Ferrer, Gilbert & George, Hervé Guibert, Michel Journiac, Duane Michals, Vincent Meessen, Annette Messager, Shana Moulton, ORLAN, Ferhat Özgür, Gina Pane, Pierre et Gilles, Denis Roche, La Toya Ruby Frazier, Hank Willis Thomas, Cindy Sherman, Jean-Luc Verna.

The Family of the Invisibles Collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Frac Aquitaine, France

- 2016-04-05 ~ 2016-05-29
- SeMA Seosomun 2-3F, Ilwoo Space
- Mon-Fri. 10:00-20:00 / Weekends and Holidays: 10:00-19:00
- Free

Additional Events:
Symposium : (de)constructing Barthes / Time: 6th April, 14:00-18:00 / Venue : SeMA Hall

Genre of exhibition and the number of artwork:
photography, video, installation etc. / 145

Attending artists:
Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein), Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Duan Michals, Bernard Faucon, Lee Friedlander, Roman Opalka, Jeff Koons, Thomas Ruff etc.

Organizers and sponsors:
Co-produced by SeMA, Ilwoo Foundation, CNAP, Frac Aquitaine
Co-sponsored by 2015-2016 Korea-France Year, Korean Air, LVMH, Westin Chosun

Seoul Museum of Art has prepared a large-scale photography exhibition The Family of the Invisibles to commemorate 130 years of Korean-French diplomatic ties. Selected from the collections of two globally recognized institutions, the Centre national des arts plastiques(CNAP) and Fonds régional d’art contemporain Aquitaine (Frac Aquitaine), the exhibition presents 210 contemporary photographs taken after the 1950s.

The Family of the Invisibles commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980). The exhibition has its anchor in the theory of photography in Camera Lucida, an iconic book written by Barthes which had a significant influence on photography, contemporary art, cultural discourse, and epistemology. Based on Barthes’ idea which paid attention to invisible and marginalized beings, the exhibition criticizes the notion of an imaginary community of mankind, which was previously presented in The Family of Man held at the MoMA in 1955. The exhibition also deconstructs mythical elements embedded in contemporary society.

The Family of the Invisibles will be hosted at SeMA and Ilwoo Space; the latter is affiliated with the Hanjin Business Group. The exhibition at Ilwoo Space presents black and white photographs taken in the 1950s, which will be the prologue to SeMA’s exhibition, presenting contemporary photographs taken after the 1970s. By presenting the exhibition in two institutions, spectators would be able to explore the interesting intersection between Barthes’ theory and contemporary photographs, as well as grasp the meaning of the photo collections of Cnap and Frac Aquitaine. Above all, I believe the exhibition is significant in that it highlights the role and importance of photography in contemporary art.