Philippe Parreno

This summer, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents Philippe Parreno, the fourth exhibition in a series of retrospectives of the French artist's work that have taken place at the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

Curated by Maria Lind, Philippe Parreno at CCS Bard explores the artist's work with moving images, focusing on two later pieces, June 8, 1968 (2009) and Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait (2006), and an early work, Anywhere Out of the World (2000). June 8, 1968, which is being shown in the United States for the first time as part of this exhibition, takes us back to 1968 and the funeral train of Robert F. Kennedy. Parreno draws openly on documentary photographer Paul Fusco's famous footage from the event as he reenacts parts of the journey in a stunningly beautiful West Coast landscape. Anywhere Out of the World is Parreno's contribution to the intensively collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell, which started when he and the artist Pierre Huyghe purchased a manga character, AnnLee, who was "animated" by themselves and a dozen other artists including Liam Gillick and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait, made in collaboration with Douglas Gordon, is simultaneously a feature film-length portrait of a football player and a film that engages exclusively with its main protagonist without having a traditional narrative. The single-channel version of Zidane: A XXIst Century Portrait will be screened on Sunday, June 27, at noon at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, New York, and again in September on the Bard College Campus.

Philippe Parreno
Kurator: Maria Lind