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You are warmly invited to a talk with Alexis Vaillant at Bromley House Library in the Thoroton Room on Tuesday 15th January at 7pm
CCAN would like to invite you to an informal talk with Paris-based Alexis Vaillant, levitra one of the most audacious curators at work today. Besides extraordinary exhibitions in conventional art institutions across Europe, treatment Vaillant has curated in a hair salon, on a flight from Lyon to Vilnius, in a ruined theme park in Bilbao, and in various locations for fifteen minutes only over the course of a day in Amsterdam ( e.g. a leather bar, a brothel, a motorbike shop).
Alexis is in Nottingham for a very short curator’s residency to inform CCAN’s pre-opening programme of exhibitions and events in 2008. He will be in conversation about his curatorial work, illustrated by images, with Alex Farquharson, CCAN Director, with whom he curated ‘Le Voyage Interieur’ in Paris in 2005. The talk is part of an ongoing series of events CCAN is hosting about curatorial practices inside and outside art institutions before and after its opening in early 2009.
The talk is free, with refreshments included, but booking is essential to avoid disappointment as places are limited. Please contact jennie@ccan.org.uk to book your place.
Bromley House Library is a private library located on Angel Row in the centre of Nottingham, near the Market Square next door to Barnardo’s. The talk will take place in the Thoroton Room upstairs.
Bromley House
Angel Row
Nottingham
NG1 6HL
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Alexis Vaillant is a freelance curator, art critic, publisher and co-founder, with Eva Svennung, of Toasting, a curating and publishing agency in Paris, which published Pacemaker, a free art magazine from 2002 – 2006. Exhibitions he has curated or co-curated include “Camoshow (Museum Wiesbaden), “BMW” (IX Baltic Triennial, CAC Vilnius, ICA London), “The Fifteen Minute Show” (Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam), “Woodfire” (Frac Des Pays de la Loire), “The Fishshow” (KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen), “Raw, Among the Ruins” (Marres, Maastricht) and “Le Truc” (Project Arts Centre, Dublin).
He is currently preparing the exhibitions “Legend” (Domaine of Chamarande, Paris), “… Within the Cherished Company of Others… 1648-2036”, a collective retrospective by Marc Camille Chaimowicz at De Appel, Amsterdam, PMMK Oostende and Art Sonje in Seoul, and “Jean-Luc Blanc: Opera Rock” for CAPC, Bordeaux for 2008, which will all be accompanied by books published by Sternberg Press.
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