Event

Book launch / I have a solution for the planet by Anne-James Chaton

Saturday 19 November 2022 at 4 pm

First monograph dedicated to Anne-James Chaton's art works realized between 2003 and 2022, published by Daisy editions.

Anne-James Chaton is a writer. That’s what people say about him most often. He is also a musician and performer, who for several years has been exploring the landscapes of experimental sound poetry. However, Anne-James Chaton is also a visual artist, although his artworks have always been more discreet than his literary work. The fields of experimentation are however the same—it is always about writing.

I have the solution for the planet is dedicated to this specific kind of production and brings together for the first time eighteen series of works created between 2003 and 2022. The series are deliberately scattered throughout the publication, thwarting any attempt at a purely chronological or thematic reading, since each series is linked to another, and the repetition of some of them produces a saturation effect that is essential for immersing oneself in the work. The guiding principle in presenting the works has been to avoid reproducingthem systematically. Even if some of them have a definitive physical materiality, here others find a new form, specific to the printed page.

The works are accompanied by notes written by Anne-James Chaton. Like rules of composition, they explain the appearance and functioning of each series. The book is punctuated by three unpublished texts by the editor and writer Frédéric Boyer, the art historian and critic Jo Melvin, and Emmanuel Tibloux, director of EnsAD (École normale supérieure des arts décoratifs), and concludes with an interview between Carsten Nicolai and Anne-James Chaton conducted in spring 2022.

The book launch will be held by the artist and Emmanuel Tibloux. 

Speakers

Anne-James Chaton

Emmanuel Tibloux

Date
Time
16h00
Location
Fondation Pernod Ricard
1 cours Paul Ricard
75008 Paris
Free entrance
Free admission, without reservation