{"product_id":"sherman-messager-kuchar-lenvers-des-choses-centre-pompidou-1993","title":"Cindy Sherman \/ Annette Messager \/ George Kuchar — L'Envers des Choses, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1993","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition booklet published by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, for \u003cem\u003eL'Envers des Choses\u003c\/em\u003e, a five-week group exhibition curated by Catherine Grenier, 8 September–11 October 1993. Collection Traces, no. 4. Softcover, 16 × 19.5 cm, [24] unnumbered pages. Colour and black-and-white illustrations. Text in French. ISBN 2-85850-760-0.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title names the reverse, underside or wrong side of things. Three artists who did not obviously belong in the same room were placed there: Annette Messager's \u003cem\u003eLes Piques\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLes Masques\u003c\/em\u003e, which cut, pin and recombine bodies and images; Cindy Sherman's seven works from the 1992 \u003cem\u003eSex Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e, replacing her familiar performed identities with prostheses, dolls and mannequin fragments; and George Kuchar's bodily comedy—low-budget melodrama, domestic embarrassment and nakedness filmed with the grandeur of a studio production and approximately none of its resources. Photography, installation and underground cinema met around the same unstable body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith hindsight, Kuchar is the catalogue's sharpest curatorial move. Sherman may now be its most immediately recognisable name, but the Pompidou gave the cover to a still from Kuchar's \u003cem\u003eKnocturne\u003c\/em\u003e (1968). The cult filmmaker becomes the visual entrance to the exhibition, scrambling the hierarchy between museum photography, sculptural installation and proudly disreputable cinema. The accompanying programme included a discussion on contemporary art and psychoanalysis. The institution knew what it had assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe booklet is less a conventional three-artist survey than a compact record of a particular 1993 proposition: an image can disclose something precisely by refusing to present itself whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Fair. A pronounced, near-geometric sun mark and tonal fading across the pale pink-grey wrappers, alongside handling and edge wear, small nicks and a barcode label to the rear. The fading is substantial and clearly visible, but has acquired a severe elegance of its own—an accidental second layer of graphic design laid over the original cover. The series was called Collection Traces. This copy has not escaped the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncommon on the market: at the time of cataloguing, we could not locate another copy offered for sale online.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Centre Georges Pompidou","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249309503826,"sku":"SHERMAN-MESSAGER-KUCHAR-POMPIDOU-CAT-1993","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Sherman_Cindy.Messager_Annette.Kuchar_George.Exhibitioncatalogue_collectiontraces_.1993.jpg?v=1786594168","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/sherman-messager-kuchar-lenvers-des-choses-centre-pompidou-1993","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}