The Chalet Society present The Hidden World Jim Shaw / Didactic Art Collection an exhibition extended until January 26, 2014.
im Shaw is exhibiting his personal archives featuring a mind-blowing iconography that has influenced generations of artists. Visitors are invited to dive into an overflowing world of illustrations, books, comics, flyers, T-shirts, vinyls produced for religious movements, political propaganda or scientific popularization. Collected by the artist over the past 40 years, this prolific didactic material reveals a vibrant mix of visual language and the most hallucinating records of contemporary imaginary.
The catalogue designed by the artists collective The Bells Angels will be published in collaboration with the Centre Dürrenmatt in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, that will host the exhibition in 2014.
The Chalet Society is a project founded by Marc-Olivier Wahler, designed to encourage new reflection on the contemporary art institution. Its mobile structure endeavours to develop formats that work on a variety of platforms, similarly to software capable of working with any hardware. The Chalet Society reacts to the boldest artistic settings and acts as a community space for artists, collectors, researchers, and other enthusiasts searching for “poetic consciousness”—an idea developed by Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen, the visionary King of Poland for one night back in 1587.
With this carte blanche to Jim Shaw, the Chalet Society is pursuing the premise of its programming: to play with the boxes which art sometimes gets put in and test its eclecticism, its versatility and its ability to provide unexpected areas of expertise.
The Chalet Society has taken over a unique site in Paris: a 1,000-square-meter abandoned school provided by the Emerige Group, the main partner of the exhibition.
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