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"Announcement that work has commenced will be made by three short
blasts on an air horn—drawing people to the Amphitheatre. This is an
exhibition about work, production, and change—ideas in constant
motion. A moonscape will be created around which artists will develop new
ideas. Everything will be visible—no difference between production,
presentation, and exchange."
–Liam Gillick and Philippe
Parreno, 2012
Uri Aran, Daniel
Buren, Elvire Bonduelle, Lili
Reynaud-Dewar, Loretta Fahrenholz,
Fischli & Weiss, Jef Geys, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster/Ari Benjamin Meyers/Tristan Bera,
Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Klara
Lidén, Renata Lucas, Benoît
Maire, Oscar Murillo, Anri
Sala, Pilvi Takala, Rirkrit
Tiravanija, Tris Vonna-Michell, Lawrence
Weiner
At the invitation of the LUMA Foundation,
this summer twenty internationally recognised artists will come to Arles to
work in its Roman Amphitheatre. This important historical site, a major
tourist attraction often used for bullfighting and festivals, will host an
exhibition under constant transformation. The title reflects its shifting
nature and offers the promise of a journey: To the Moon via the
Beach. At the start of the exhibition, visitors will encounter an
arena covered in tons of sand. Over the course of the exhibition, the
terrain will slowly be transformed from a beach to a moonscape by a team of
world-class sand sculptors led by Wilfred Stijger. This site under constant
motion will act as a backdrop to a series of interventions from the artists
who will produce works in and around the arena.
This unusual
exhibition offers a foretaste of the future programme of the new centre for
production of art and exhibitions that the LUMA Foundation will build at
the Parc des Ateliers. This connection is also manifested in the re-use of
the sand brought into Arles to create this shifting landscape. After the
exhibition, all the sand will be moved to the Parc des Ateliers, becoming a
temporary public playground imagined by landscape architect Bas Smets,
before being re-used once again in the foundations for the main building
designed by Frank Gehry within the new cultural complex.
For
this new collaboration Philippe Parreno and Liam Gillick (artists) together
with Tom Eccles (Bard College, New York), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine
Gallery, London), Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich), and Maja Hoffmann
(LUMA Foundation)—who form the LUMA Core Group—have conceived
an exhibition for Arles that takes visitors to the moon, via the beach.
Conceived by Philippe Parreno and Liam Gillick.
Curated by Tom
Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, and Beatrix
Ruf.
Commissioned and produced by the LUMA Foundation for the
Parc des Ateliers in Arles.
For all press information,
images, and interview requests please contact:
Leslie Compan
T +33 (0)6 84 51 62 14
lcompan@brunswickgroup.com
Mustapha Bouhayati
+33 (0)6 10 57 38 99
mbouhayati@brunswickgroup.com
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