Within 30 years and almost, works created on the occasion of an exhibition and of special moments between an artist and a space, become centerpieces.
A choice of works ponctuates the steps of the museum’s and biennale’s founding: Anish Kapoor, Sophie Calle, Carsten Höller, Hiroshi Sugimoto…
By sometimes precursor acquisitions, the collection accumulates the memory of macLYON’s exhibitions.
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On the occasion of the exhibition For the record, five key dates in macLYON’s history have been chosen. These five acquisitions are watershed moments in the museum’s history.
1984: Creation of a contemporary art section (‘Saint Pierre Art Contemporain’) in a hitherto unoccupied wing of the Palais Saint Pierre. It prefigured the macLYON appearance.
1988: Organization by the ‘Saint Pierre Art Contemporain’ of the exhibition La Couleur seule, l’experience du monochrome, curated by Maurice Besset and which was displayed in six different locations in Lyon
1991: After the Couleur Seule’s success, a Contemporary Art Biennial is created. The first edition took place that year and was titled L’amour de l’art, une exposition d’art contemporain en France at the Halle Tony Garnier.
1995: Official opening of the museum of contemporary art conceived by Renzo Piano in the Cité Internationale. The museum opened in December with the 3rd Lyon Biennial,Vidéo, cinéma, image interactive.
2011: The most recent Biennial, titled Une terrible beauté est née…
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1984 - Thomas Schütte
Among the works of Thomas Schütte, Studio in den Bergen is a sequel to the models supported by tables which he created at the beginning of the 80's. These artist's houses are his chosen manner of considering the question of the solitary artist, isolated from the world.
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1988 - Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor modified the parameters of his sculptural work in the mid-1980s. There where his works had primarily affirmed themselves via their exteriority, notably by the presence of pigments with vivid colors which completely covered the volumes, the forms now merged into emptiness, whilst the density of his colors created unfathomable depth. The visitor contemplates these works hoping and expecting to know whether or not the volume being observed is full or not.
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1991 - Sophie Calle
The artist addresses the issue of the perception of color by blind people. In 1991, she asked blind people what they could perceive and she compared their descriptions to writings by renowned artists on the subject of monochrome. The installation she proposed for the L’Amour de l’Art Biennial in 1991 gave form to the results of her research. It consists of ten grey paintings upon which the words of five blind people and five artists have been transcribed.
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The temporality - Jean-Luc Mylayne
The work of Jean-Luc Mylayne is essentially composed of processes and modalities which permit him to
create his portraits of birds. The result is obtained by means of a combination of the special lenses that he invented to obtain multiple points of focus on just one image, the complex installation process for his
camera, and the patient presence before his subjects over days, weeks and even years that is necessary in order for him to capture an image of them in a pre-imagined context.
