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...announced her intention to create a new exhibition space in Paris for young artists - modeled on existing centers in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with a proposal teeming with 21st century buzzwords. Their brainchild would be a "living laboratory of contemporary art," a "non-defined space in which different...
...beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper and stuck to untreated concrete pillars with gaffer tape. Using public money and private contributions from sponsors like Pioneer and Bloomberg, Bourriaud and Sans recreated the atmosphere of a seedy Berlin squat in the heart of Paris' opulent 16th arrondissement. But what does all this nouveau squalor have to do with contemporary art? The curators don't explain. Nor do they say why they didn't simply move into one of the many...
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