Curated by Angeline Scherf and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Invited by the Musée d’Art Moderne’s Angeline Scherf and Hans-Ulrich Obrist to mount a first retrospective of his decade-long career, Philippe Parreno opted to go about things backward and start with a catalogue raisonné. Designed by colleagues M/M, the printed chronology freed the artist from the obligation to lay out his oeuvre. Instead Parreno is showcasing works from the last two years and even a few that are still in the pipeline, such as his project with scientist Jaron Lanier. It’s a (paradoxically) signature move for the artist: an anti-monographic way of inventing various new communities, which Parreno has explored in collaborations with, among others, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Liam Gillick.
