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Daniel Caux & Michael Snow: Do You Know Snow?
A tribute to the Canadian artist and filmmaker Michael Snow (1928鈥�2023), who died earlier this year, the exhibition 鈥淒o You Know Snow?鈥� offers a new look at the work of a major 20th-century artist. Based on an eponymous radio program produced by Daniel Caux in 1978 as part of his radio creation workshops, and a slideshow thought to have been lost since it was last shown in 1978, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the nature of the work of art and the document. Combining experimental conceptual and informative practices, this immersive multimedia presentation (text, sound, image) explores the future of works of art in the era of dematerialized media.
A tireless experimenter, Michael Snow always played on retrospection, unhesitatingly producing new works based on his previous production. His interest in transfer or translation from one medium to another lay at the root of several works that allowed him to develop his research into the plastic and conceptual potential inherent in the reproducibility of images. For Snow, each retrospective gesture 鈥� or endeavor 鈥� resulted in the creation of increasingly complex works, which in turn generated the possibility of a revitalized exhibition space, a 鈥楥hinese box,鈥� to use a term dear to the artist, in which the work and its reproduction, the image and its commentary, become conflated.
Drawing on some of the aesthetic and conceptual approaches initiated by Michael Snow, 鈥淒o You Know Snow?鈥� explores the fine line between a work of art and a document in an immersive, multimedia presentation in which the written word, image and sound invite us to reconsider our relationship to the work, but also to screens.
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A tribute to the Canadian artist and filmmaker Michael Snow (1928鈥�2023), who died earlier this year, the exhibition 鈥淒o You Know Snow?鈥� offers a new look at the work of a major 20th-century artist. Based on an eponymous radio program produced by Daniel Caux in 1978 as part of his radio creation workshops, and a slideshow thought to have been lost since it was last shown in 1978, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the nature of the work of art and the document. Combining experimental conceptual and informative practices, this immersive multimedia presentation (text, sound, image) explores the future of works of art in the era of dematerialized media.
A tireless experimenter, Michael Snow always played on retrospection, unhesitatingly producing new works based on his previous production. His interest in transfer or translation from one medium to another lay at the root of several works that allowed him to develop his research into the plastic and conceptual potential inherent in the reproducibility of images. For Snow, each retrospective gesture 鈥� or endeavor 鈥� resulted in the creation of increasingly complex works, which in turn generated the possibility of a revitalized exhibition space, a 鈥楥hinese box,鈥� to use a term dear to the artist, in which the work and its reproduction, the image and its commentary, become conflated.
Drawing on some of the aesthetic and conceptual approaches initiated by Michael Snow, 鈥淒o You Know Snow?鈥� explores the fine line between a work of art and a document in an immersive, multimedia presentation in which the written word, image and sound invite us to reconsider our relationship to the work, but also to screens.
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