Philippe Parreno is included in the forthcoming exhibition, Solaris Chronicles, presented by the LUMA Foundation celebrating the groundbreaking of a new building designed by Frank Gehry within the Parc des Ateliers in Arles, France. Curated by Parreno, Liam Gillick, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, with the support of the LUMA Arles core group, the exhibition brings together models of Gehry’s seminal projects, selected by Maja Hoffmann and Frank Gehry, including the Loyola Law School and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao and Abu Dhabi, the Brooklyn-Atlantic Yards, the National Art Museum of China, and the forthcoming Facebook Headquarters in London and Dublin.
These large-scale models will be situated within a changing mise-en-scene created by artists, presenting an exhibition in constant motion. Over the course of six months interventions will also be made by leading practitioners in the areas of music, architecture, choreography and theory. These and other artistic gestures are conceived as homages, extensions, and revisions. The exhibition aims to transform the usual relation between an architect and artists, offering other possibilities for collaboration between practitioners of the two fields. It also reflects Gehry’s own cross-disciplinary range, and his collaborations with musicians, filmmakers, and writers.
Participating artists include: Frank Gehry, John Baldessari, Nicolas Becker and Djengo Hartlap, Pierre Boulez, Lucinda Childs, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Cai Guo Qiang, David Lynch, Greg Lynn, Philippe Parreno, Asad Raza, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Tino Sehgal
Solaris Chronicles
5 April – 26 October 2014
Atelier de la Mécanique, Parc des Ateliers
Arles, France