“Future Perfect” Exhibition
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Structured around the themes of retrofuturism, steampunk and archeomodernism, the exhibition FUTURE PERFECT aims to create a dialogue between past cultural output that imagined the future – what is essentially our postmodern era – with work from contemporary artists, which in both form and substance refer to the past by revisiting and reviving certain visions of the future or of modernity, generated mainly between the last third of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
The exhibition takes a transversal approach, intersecting different aesthetic and temporal veins. A selection of work from contemporary artists will be grouped with older work and documents - each giving perspective to the others. The show also features various accessories, devices and artefacts developed by the steampunk community, as well as a retrospective section dedicated to PhototStatic/Retrofuturism, a magazine created in the early 80’s by American artist and editor Lloyd Dunn.
From the way in which we previously imagined the future, and the retrospective gaze that the present era levels at the past - particularly at its vision of modernity and its often naive or fantastical anticipation of the future - come the questions behind the exhibition FUTURE PERFECT. The dynamic explored here rests on a continual shifting back and forth between the past and the future, veritable time travels through creation.
Curator: Jean-François Sanz
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Schedule
from September 14, 2013 to November 10, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-09-14 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Jesse D’Angelo, Charles Barbant, Bob Basset, Emile-Etienne Bayard & Alphonse de Neuville, Adrien Beau, Leon Benett, Franco Brambilla, Matthew Buchholz, Ray Caesar, Bill Domonkos, Lloyd Dunn, Fernand Fau, Hugh Ferriss, Leon Gimpel, Warwick Goble, Didier Graffet, Maurice “Redstar” Grunbaum, Henri Lanos, Élise Leclercq Bérimont, F. Meaulle & Ed.zier, Laurent Montaron, Arnould Moreaux, Plonk & Replonk, Hugues Reip, Franck Rezzak, Albert Robida, Lucien Rudaux, Markus Schinwald, Paul de Semant, F. Strothmann, Tempus Factoris, Keith Thompson, Etienne Leopold Trouvelot, Sam Van Olffen, Xavier Veilhan, Warped