Commissioned and produced by chisenhale gallery in partnership with kunsthal. Courtesy kamel mennour, paris and johann konig, berlin. Chisenhale gallery is now temporarily closed to the public and the chisenhale team are working remotely until further notice. The art newspaper is the journal of record for the visual arts world, covering international news and events. She won the silver lion for most promising young artist at venice biennale last year. Archive editions are specially produced limited edition artworks generously donated by the artists. The book follows the 2014 installation the pale fox, shown at chisenhale gallery in london, and the celebrated video grosse fatigue, which won the silver lion at the 20 venice biennale. Henrot will have solo exhibitions at the new orleans museum of art, usa, in october, and at chisenhale gallery, london, in february 2014. Most recently, henrot became the recipient of the nam june paik award, initiated and fully supported by. For this chapter the tracks have been chosen by cura. Betonsalon centre for art and research, paris and westfalischer kunstverein, munster.
Chisenhale gallery supports the production and presentation of new forms of artistic activity and engages diverse audiences, both local and international. Feb 19, 2015 born in 1978, camille henrot lives and works in new york. Currently on display at the chisenhale gallery is camille henrots the pale fox. Camille henrot is a french artist based in new york, usa. The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, events, performances, and talks. More than 400 photographs, sculptures, books and drawings. For henrot, the construction of knowledge is as much a haptic and sensual experience as it is a cerebral one we make sense of the world through interacting with the objects that surround us. The archive editions series celebrates artists who have participated in chisenhale gallery s historic 33year programme. Chisenhale gallery is now temporarily closed to the. The pale fox, first staged in 2014 at chisenhale gallery in london, brings to life these many layers, with more than 400 photographs, sculptures, books and drawings displayed amidst a single yves klein blue room. Fox, shown at chisenhale gallery in london, and the celebrated. Camille henrot describes her latest work the pale fox, on show at the chisenhale gallery in london until april, as a threedimensional counterpart to the video grosse fatigue, a piece shown at the last venice biennale where the french artist won the prestigious silver lion.
Bestknown for her videos and animated films combining drawn art, music and occasionally scratched or reworked cinematic images, camille henrots work blurs the traditionally hierarchical categories of art history. Camille henrot born 1978 is a french artist who lives and works in paris and new york. Camille henrot was born in paris in 1978 and is based in new york. Henrot mostly bought the items for the installation from ebay or borrowed them from museums, while others she produced herself. In 20, her work was included in the 55th venice biennale, where she was awarded the silver lion, and she had solo shows at the new orleans museum of art, usa, and slought foundation, philadelphia, usa. Chisenhale gallery is a nonprofit contemporary art gallery based in londons east end. Camille henrot builds a universe from ebaysourced objects. Chisenhale gallery presents alimited edition artwork by camille henrot, the sixth in our annual series of archive editions.
Untitled, by camille henrot, is a new limited edition artwork, the sixth in chisenhale gallerys annual series of archive editions. Camille henrot is a french artist based in new york. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. When she won the silver lion at the 20 venice biennale for her film grosse fatigue, artist camille henrot was just getting started.
Camille henrot was born in paris in 1978 and lives and works in new york. The pale fox by camille henrot chisenhale gallery, london through april camille henrot, the pale fox, 2014, installation view, chisenhale gallery. This berlin outing is the fifth iteration of the pale fox, first commissioned in 2014 by the chisenhale gallery, london. Camille henrot, the pale fox, 2014, installation view, chisenhale gallery. Based in london and new york, the englishlanguage publication is part of a network of. The archive editions series celebrates artists who have participated in chisenhale gallerys historic 33year programme. Camille henrot prehistoric collections french edition french 1st edition by camille henrot tristan garcia author isbn. Last year she produced a thirteenminute film called grosse fatigue, which attempts to tell the story of the creation of the universe. Among her latest solo exhibitions are presentations at the new museum, new york 2014, the schinkel pavillon, berlin 2014, the new orleans museum of art 20, as well as at the slought foundation, philadelphia 20. Chisenhale gallery commissions and produces contemporary art, supporting international and ukbased artists to pursue new directions and make their most ambitious work to date.
The pale fox elaborates henrots theme in objects and images. Henrot was awarded the prestigious silver lion at the 55th biennale di venezia in 20 and garnered the kunststiftung nrws nam june paik award in november 2014. Chisenhale gallery is pleased to present an ambitious new commission and the first uk solo exhibition by french, new yorkbased artist, camille henrot b. Womens history month announces ambitious art exhibitions. But here, too, is its antidote, in the form of the unformed, curved and chaotic, via ruptures, slippages, disjunctures or stoppages. Camille henrot, the pale fox 2014, installation view, chisenhale gallery.
Some context, chisenhale gallery, london, 22 september 10 december. Camille henrots new work, untitled 2016, commemorates her 2014 chisenhale gallery commission and first solo exhibition in the uk, the pale fox. In 2014 the chisenhale gallery in london, in partnership with kunsthal charlottenborg, copenhagen. Chisenhale gallery, official artspace partner art for.
Lubaina himid, helen marten, david noonan and caragh thuring 24 september, 2018 lawrence abu hamdan earwitness inventory chisenhale sold. Koenig books, london and inventory press, new york isbn. This was followed up with henrots solo exhibition titled the pale fox at londons chisenhale gallery in 2014 and a survey show of the artists work at the new museum in new york, the restless earth. The pale fox exhibition at chisenhale gallery london. The situation, a book composed of conversations between the artist and her friends about theories of subjectivity and collectivity, provide structure to the assortment of multifarious objects in the exhibition. Camille henrot presented her exhibition the pale fox at the chisenhale gallery in 2014. French artist camille henrots first solo uk exhibition at chisenhale. Her recent work, adapted into the diverse media of sculpture, drawing, photography and, as always, film. Just across the canal from victoria park, the chisenhale gallery made its name when it began exhibiting a range of innovative young artists in the 1990s, including wolfgang tillmans, gillian wearing and.
Archive past exhibitions camille henrot chisenhale gallery is one of londons most innovative galleries for contemporary visual art, promoting national and international developments in visual culture. The book contains an original text by henrot written with clara meister. The guardian ranks the pale fox among the ten best art shows of the year. Chisenhale gallery, chisenhale arts place trust, london, united kingdom. To experience it is a process of constantly shifting and. Camille henrots elephant child by ross simonini cover of camille henrots elephant child, 2016. Commissioned and produced by chisenhale gallery in partnership with kunsthal charlottenborg, copenhagen. Commissioned and produced by chisenhale gallery in partnership with. Henrot s new archive edition for chisenhale gallery builds on her interest in disordered states, examining the cyclical relationship of construction, destruction and reconstruction.
At chisenhale gallery in london camille henrot shows the pale fox, a threedimensional counterpart to the video grosse fatigue with which she won the silver lion at the last venice biennial. Untitled forms part of a series of works that henrot made using water damaged paper stock affected by floods that hit her new york studio in 2014. Originated during an artist research fellowship at the smithsonian institution, which laid the groundwork for her 20 video grosse fatigue and the subsequent installation the pale fox 201415, elephant child represents the culmination of a longterm inquiry into the human effort to make the universe comprehensible. In frenchborn, new yorkbased camille henrots first uk solo exhibition, the pale fox, at chisenhale gallery in london, the installation exemplifies the contemporary attraction to using quasianthropological forms and methods for navigating the cult of information. This new work, the pale fox, brings together so many different images, objects and ideas. Camille henrot edition for chisenhale gallery new art. Camille henrots untitled 2016 commemorates her 2014 chisenhale gallery commission and first solo exhibition in the uk, the pale fox. Although the pale fox sounds like the name of a pub, it actually comes. Grosse fatigue was presented at the 20 venice biennale and was awarded the silver lion.
Her new show, the pale fox, is a vast meditation on where we come from that takes in origin stories from darwinism to aboriginal dream maps, writes adrian searle. Complicated isnt the same as profound, though its often confused as such by artworld gatekeepers, which may explain how camille henrot won the silver lion at the 20 venice biennale. Expanding on this idea, the pale fox exhibition at chisenhale gallery explores the life cycle and evolution of both nature and technology. Born in 1978, camille henrot lives and works in new york. Clara meister, kristina scepanski, michael connor publishers. Chisenhale gallery is pleased to present an ambitious new commission and the first uk solo exhibition by french new yorkbased artist camille. Everywhere in camille henrots impressive installation the pale fox is the frame, the bounded box, the vernacular of the desktop window. She wears denim dungarees as the installation unfolds, nearby around a dozen assistants help to arrange objects in a.
Last year, camille henrot posed this question in her film grosse fatigue, 20, the winner of the silver lion at the venice biennale. Installation view, chisenhale gallery, london camille henrot courtesy the artist, kamel mennour, paris and johann konig, berlin. Chisenhale gallery 64 chisenhale road london e3 5qz. Camille henrot builds a universe from ebaysourced objects artsy editorial by hannah gregory.
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