What happens when a work of art also presents a functional purpose, when a sculpture serves as a piece of furniture, when a picture is painted, not on canvas, but on a curtain or carpet?

The exhibition Dans un intérieur puts into perspective the way in which many artists eschew categories and question the porous boundary that is meant to separate fine art from the decorative arts by reintroducing the notion of domesticity in their reflection.

These works – often considered as belonging in the margins of artistic practice – reveal other stakes, however. The most obvious of these consists in attributing to the object a function that goes beyond beauty or content.

With John Armleder, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Matthias Bitzer, John Currin, Ayan Farah, Mark Hagen, Max Lamb, Peter Peri, Christopher Schanck, Francesco Vezzoli, Brent Wadden, Franz West and Japanese Boros.

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DANS UN INTERIEUR
Oeuvres murales, textiles et meubles d'artistes
September 6 — October 11, 2014 / Paris
Opening on Saturday, September 6th, 2014
5.30 - 8.30 pm

Galerie Almine Rech -
64 Rue de Turenne
F-75003 Paris
T +33 (0)1 45 83 71 90
F +33 (0)1 45 70 91 30