{"title":"Philippe Mayaux","description":"\u003cp\u003ePHILIPPE MAYAUX (born 1961, Lille) is a French artist whose work operates across painting, sculpture and installation, combining surrealist imagery, dark humour and an interest in the grotesque with a highly controlled technical practice. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille and has exhibited widely in France and internationally. Mayaux participated in \u003cem\u003eFiasco\u003c\/em\u003e, the 1992 exhibition at Art : Concept, Nice, proposed by JEAN-YVES JOUANNAIS and dedicated to Jacques Lizène. This collection gathers exhibition catalogues, publications and printed ephemera produced in connection with his work.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jouannais-fiasco-art-concept-nice-1992","title":"JEAN-YVES JOUANNAIS — Fiasco — Art : Concept, Nice — 1992","description":"\u003cp\u003eGroup exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003eFiasco\u003c\/em\u003e, an exhibition proposed by JEAN-YVES JOUANNAIS and dedicated to Jacques Lizène. Art : Concept, Nice, July–August 1992. Artists: MICHEL BLAZY, ERIK DIETMAN, MIKE KELLEY, PHILIPPE MAYAUX, JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE, GUILLAUME PARIS and GILLES TOUYARD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOUANNAIS’s accompanying text, \u003cem\u003eDébandade\u003c\/em\u003e, considers error, incompletion, awkwardness and the deliberate withdrawal of mastery as ways of escaping the expectation that an artwork should resolve itself successfully. Failure here is not an unintended result but an artistic procedure — a position staked against the fantasy of perfection that JOUANNAIS identifies as the shared pressure of both iconoclasm and iconolatry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection moves between BLAZY’s unstable materials, DIETMAN’s resistant humour, KELLEY’s collapsed stuffed forms and PARIS’s arrangement of milk and coffee as a fragile modernist grid. Rather than illustrating a single style, the catalogue records different ways of allowing an object, image or system to misbehave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition belongs to an early phase of JOUANNAIS’s sustained writing on fiasco, idiocy and artistic failure — a project that would extend through his later books and public lectures. Art : Concept records the original Nice exhibition in July and August 1992; the Bibliothèque Kandinsky retains the catalogue in the research collection of the Musée national d’art moderne. Its premise was revisited more than thirty years later through \u003cem\u003eLe retour du Fiasco\u003c\/em\u003e, described as a historical reactivation of the original exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlain wrappers, modest scale and lightly distributed images give the publication the provisional appearance of the position it documents: a catalogue organised around the possibility that completion may be the least interesting outcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaddle-stitched catalogue in unprinted textured wrappers; French text, colour illustrations and exhibition views. 15 × 21 cm, 26 pages. Condition: very good; light handling and age toning, minor creasing and edge wear to wrappers; interior clean and well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art : Concept","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54058914021714,"sku":"KELLEY-ARTCONCEPT-CAT-1992","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kelley_Mike._Dietman_Erik._Blazy_Michel._Fiasco_show_catalogue._1992_inside_4.jpg?v=1784653962"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/philippe-mayaux.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}