Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine…
Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States brings together the artist’s cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper made over his nearly 50 year career.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz was born in postwar Paris, to a Polish Jewish father and French Catholic mother. The family moved to England when the artist was eight years old and soon settled in London, where he still lives and works. Chaimowicz’s continuous negotiation of two cultures and languages quietly reverberates throughout his pluralistic practice. He embraces both the fine and applied arts and challenges the categorical divisions between masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.
French, Chaimowicz’s first and “interior language, directly associated with creativity,” titles the galleries of Your Place or Mine . . . : L’Entrée (The Entrance), La Bibliothèque (The Library), Ici et Là . . . (Here and There . . .), Le Salon (The Salon), and Le Jardin Publique (The Public Garden). In these places interiority and contemplation are as likely as sociability and distraction. Fittingly, the title Your Place or Mine . . . suggests a double meaning: the exhibition is a rendezvous in a space that is both ours as well as the artist’s. Chaimowicz offers us a temporary connection to his world and the possibility to reimagine our own.
In the Press
“…it’s Chaimowicz’s anarchic lack of distinction between public art and private life that makes him a pioneer and also an enigma.”
— T Magazine
“exploring the overlap of art and décor with enchanting abandon.”
— The New Yorker
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine... is organized by Kelly Taxter, Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum in association with the Serpentine Galleries, London.
The exhibition is designed by New Affiliates (Jaffer Kolb, Ivi Diamantopoulou).
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine... is made possible by Toby Devan Lewis and Étant donnés Contemporary Art, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation, developed in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, with lead funding from the Florence Gould Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture, and Institut Français. Additional support is provided by the Melva Bucksbaum Fund for Contemporary Art and the Barbara Horowitz Contemporary Art Fund.
The audioguide is made possible by:
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Installation view of the exhibition Summer’s Song…, Centre d’art contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, France, July 8 – October 28, 2007. Image courtesy of the artist, Cabinet, London and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Exhibition highlights
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Man Looking Out of Window (for SM), 2006. Black-and-white resin print on aluminum. Image courtesy of the artist, Cabinet, London and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz, A Charged Frivolity (Fading), 1993-94. Oil and charcoal on board and canvas. Collection Charles Asprey, London. Image courtesy of the artist, Cabinet, London and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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Video by SandenWolff
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
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Installation view of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by: Jason Mandella
Audio
The audio guide is made possible by Bloomberg Philanthropies.