PHILIPPE PARRENO
NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER 4, 2009 – JANUARY 24, 2010
IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, DUBLIN
PHILIPPE PARRENO
NOVEMBER
Philippe Parreno: November is a major solo exhibition comprising some 15 mixedmedia works ranging from such seminal films as The Boy from Mars to installations
such as Speech Bubbles. This exhibition is not merely a survey of previous works but
is seen by Parreno as an opportunity to revisit and even refabricate older works in
order to transform the gallery spaces at IMMA. The title November is a starting point
for injecting life and energy into the exhibition as the newly adapted works are exhibited
from the month of November. As part of the Irish Film Institute programme a new film
by Philippe Parreno, 8 June 1968, 2009, will be screened for the first time in Ireland,
along with his ground-breaking earlier film, Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, 2006, made
in collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, creates a real-time portrait of the
soccer star Zinédine Zidane. Filmed during the course of a match between Real Madrid
and Villareal on 25 April 2005 and using 17 cameras all trained on the title character,
the film documents literally every movement Zidane makes for 90 minutes, resulting in
an unique and immersive portrait of an athlete in action.
For his exhibition at IMMA Parreno has adapted existing works such as Orange Bay
(After Gabriel Tarde’s Frag- ment of Future History), 2002, in which orange plexiglas is
placed in the windows of the galleries creating an orange glow that bathes the space
in a surreal light, transforming the way we see the exhibition spaces. While in Speech
Bubbles, 2009, an installation of helium balloons, Parreno has changed the colour
of the original work Speech Bubbles, 1997, from white to gold. The cartoon shaped
speech bubbles, which where originally created to carry trade union slogans during
a demonstration, appear in this installation as a cloud of bubbles, empty of words,
collecting on the ceiling suggesting a potential or suspended discourse which may or
may not occur.
Philippe Parreno: November questions notions of time, reality and representation, as
well as exhibition-making and performance. Parreno’s work develops from different
sources ranging across art theory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture and film,
adopting many different forms such as installation, performance, photography, drawing,
sculpture and film. His practice is rooted in Conceptual Art and is highly experimental,
dealing with issues surrounding the presentation of art, and also its interpretation and
meaning. Parreno questions the concept of authorship and has worked in collaboration
with many artists. He belongs to a generation of highly influential artists from the
1990s, including Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon and Carsten Höller. In 2006 he co-curated the
experimental exhibition all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae at IMMA with Rachael
Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA.
The exhibition is an international collaboration between Kunsthalle, Zürich; Centre
Pompidou, Paris, and Bard College, New York, where it will be shown in Spring 2010.
For each venue Parreno created different exhibitions in close dialogue with the curator.
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Speech Bubbles (gold), 2009
Gold “Mylar”-foil (PET-foil out of biaxiallyoriented polyethylene terephthalate), helium
(PP 097)
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Atlas Of Clouds, 2005
Neon light, transformers, switchers
99,1 x 154,9 cm
Ed. 4/4 + 1 AP
(PP 042)
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Atlas Of Clouds, 2005
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Atlas Of Clouds, 2005
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Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno
The Bird, the Dog, the Cat, November, 2009
3 PVC expanded foam shells, glass, light bulbs and electrical system:
1 PVC molded shell lamp with glass, pedestal and sodium light
1 PVC molded shell lamp with pedestal and Incandescent light bulb
1 PVC molded shell lamp with led system
(PPJP001)
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The Bird, the Dog, the Cat, November, 2009
PVC molded shell lamp with glass, pedestal and sodium light
30 x 20 x 30 cm
(PPJP001)
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The Bird, the Dog, the Cat, November, 2009
1 PVC molded shell lamp with pedestal and Incandescent
light bulb
80 x 40 x 30 cm
(PPJP001)
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The Bird, the Dog, the Cat, November, 2009
1 PVC molded shell lamp with led system
10 x 40 x 30 cm
(PPJP001)
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AC/DC snakes November, 1995/2009
Adapters, electrical plugs, electric light
bulbs, connecting wire
Variable
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ac/dc snakes November, 1995/2009
Adapters, electrical plugs, electric light
bulbs, connecting wire
Variable
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Fraught times, for eleven months of the year
it’s an artwork and in December it’s Christmas,
(November), 2009
Cast painted aluminium, brass
(PP 103)
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Fraught times, for eleven months of the year
it’s an artwork and in December it’s Christmas,
(November), 2009
(Detail)
(PP 103)
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The Boy From Mars, 2005
Neon tubes, metal, transparent Plexiglas,
transformer, cables
148 x 90,2 x 41,9 cm
(PP 039)
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The Boy From Mars, 2003
10:39 min, 35 mm film transferred to video HD
(PP 035)
Anywhere Out Of The World, 2000
DVD projected via video beamer, loudspeaker, light
Variabel
(PP 028)
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Speaking to the penguins, 2009
Silver gelatin photograph
68 x 93 x 3 cm (framed)
(PP 102)
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