{"id":4786,"date":"2014-02-08T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:42:21","slug":"at-the-teatrino-of-palazzo-grassi-for-the-art-conversation-programme-philippe-parreno-and-carlos-basualdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/02\/08\/at-the-teatrino-of-palazzo-grassi-for-the-art-conversation-programme-philippe-parreno-and-carlos-basualdo\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi Philippe Parreno reveals his affinity with Philip K. Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4786 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/02\/08\/at-the-teatrino-of-palazzo-grassi-for-the-art-conversation-programme-philippe-parreno-and-carlos-basualdo\/dsc_3559\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_3559.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi, Venice.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4788\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4788'>\n\t\t\t\tTeatrino of Palazzo Grassi, Venice.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/02\/08\/at-the-teatrino-of-palazzo-grassi-for-the-art-conversation-programme-philippe-parreno-and-carlos-basualdo\/dsc_3552\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_3552.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Philippe Parreno in conversation with Carlos Basualdo at the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi, Venice.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4790\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4790'>\n\t\t\t\tPhilippe Parreno in conversation with Carlos Basualdo at the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi, Venice.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/02\/08\/at-the-teatrino-of-palazzo-grassi-for-the-art-conversation-programme-philippe-parreno-and-carlos-basualdo\/pdt-parreno-158\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pdt-parreno-158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Philippe Parreno, exhibition view at the Palais de Tokyo, 2013.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4791\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4791'>\n\t\t\t\tPhilippe Parreno, exhibition view at the Palais de Tokyo, 2013.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/04\/the-third-episode-of-the-trilogy-of-dreams-philippe-parreno-at-the-palais-de-tokyo\/dscn6788\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSCN6788.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3126\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3126'>\n\t\t\t\tPhilippe Parreno, Tv Channel, 2013 (detail)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From our perspective, the essence of the conversation between artist Philippe Parreno and curatorCarlos Basualdo put up last Thursday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palazzograssi.it\/en\/museum\/teatrino\" target=\"_blank\">Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi<\/a> in Venice \u2013 we warmly recommend this art conversation program, out of doubt the best one in Italy at the moment \u2013 lies in the video the artist surprisingly used to introduce himself: a speech given in 1977 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/PhilipKDickSpeechExcerpts\" target=\"_blank\">Philip K. Dick at the Metz SCI-FI Convention<\/a>, France. The problems we had pointed out when we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/11\/04\/the-third-episode-of-the-trilogy-of-dreams-philippe-parreno-at-the-palais-de-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parreno&#8217;s epic retrospective at the Palais de Tokyo<\/a> in Paris seem to have eventually found a valid solution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Introducing his speech, that asserts the real existence of the parallel worlds described in his novels, Dick claims: \u00abit concerns a topic which has been discovered recently and which may not exist at all. I may be talking about something that does not exist, therefore I am free to say everything or nothing\u00bb. Those who have visited the Parreno&#8217;s retrospective \u2013 titled \u201cAnywhere, anywhere, out of the world\u201d \u2013 will immediately find in Dick&#8217;s statement an important key for a better understanding of the role played by the \u201cabsence\u201d in Parreno&#8217;s entire body of works. From the idea of \u201cdispersion\u201d represented by the Palais de Tokyo&#8217;s blurred windows and lamps, to the sound driven environments, or to the \u201cscattered obsession\u201d of the multi-screen video portrait of Zidane: if absence is the first condition for a parallel reality to actually exist, then the material and the immaterial have the same relevance. Hence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/01\/27\/physicist-stephen-hawking-energy-and-information-can-escape-black-holes\/\" target=\"_blank\">information which is the substance of the immaterial<\/a>, becomes as important as the material itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, critics have always appreciated the way Dick puts his writings in a kind of programmed continuity, moving ideas from one novel to another in order to create a unique corpus. In his speech the novelist mentions also this aspect. Therefore it&#8217;s extremely meaningful that Parreno declared to share the same methodology. From this point of view, the 3D model of the Parisian exhibition&#8217;s display shown by Parreno in Venice casts additional light on this \u201cstructural\u201d continuity between his artworks (it may even be considered an artwork in itself). Thus, architecture, and space,were not the occasioning drivers of the exhibition. Thanks to the parallel with Dick, now this \u201ccontinuity\u201d turns out to be a fundamental strategic creative \u201ctool\u201d of the artist&#8217;s art practice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dick makes also an interesting reference to memory, and this is probably the crucial point of the mature poetic universe of Parreno. In effect, memory represents for the novelist the source of his information system, but a mysterious kind of source, which is triggered by dreams. It is indeed the dreamlike element that linked the Parisian Parreno&#8217;s retrospective and the Pierre Huyghe&#8217;s one at the Centre Pompidou to the simultaneous show dedicated to the perception of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/10\/09\/is-a-dream-is-what-the-old-continent-really-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\">dreams during the Renaissance<\/a> (Musee du Luxembourg). Probably it had not been a coincidence that, just a few months before these three shows took place, Surrealism was celebrated by the ultimate exhibition dedicated to Salvador Dal\u00ed at the Centre Pompidou.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, we would like to draw your attention to a further concept that Parreno discussed at the Teatrino. With regards to the big video screen on show at the Palais de Tokyo (TV Channel 2012), the artist asserted that \u201cthe information decreases as you get closer to the screen\u201d. That is to say, from the right distance you are able to decode the image, but the more you walk towards the &#8220;source&#8221;, the more you tend to lose it, thus noticing only the device. While moving towards it, that is a real object, you unconsciously switch from the second dimension to the third one. Hence, it is through this action of moving that we, viewers, create the dimensions that we need to organize our perception of the whole. This is a theoretical assumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From our perspective, the essence of the conversation between artist Philippe Parreno and curatorCarlos Basualdo put up last Thursday at the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi in Venice \u2013 we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[1412],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-philippe-parreno"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}