Curated by Alexis Vaillant
Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s work comes in many guises, from paintings and sculptures to wallpaper designs, furniture, and much else besides, but this exhibition is anything but a one-person show. As its title, “. . . In the Cherished Company of Others . . . (1648–2036),” suggests, Chaimowicz is exhibiting in company with artists whose work he admires, including Tom Burr, James Lee Byars, Michael Krebber, Gerrit Rietveld, Elsa Schiaparelli, and an anonymous seventeenth-century jeweler. His Cocteau Room (Jean Cocteau, 2003–2006), a complex homage involving a dozen other artists and designers, also forms part of the exhibition. Organized with the help of a curator, Alexis Vaillant, described as a moderator of the dialogues that underlie the show, the endeavor promises a conversation of rich and unforeseeable potential. Travels to the PMMK, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium, Sept. 26–Dec. 15.
