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Lafayette Anticipations Press Kit EN 030318 PRINT.Key LAFAY ETTE Cappelletti Marco and Legnani Sisto ©Delfino ANTI CIPA TIONS Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette Press Kit Opening March 10, 2018 9 rue du Plâtre F-75004 Paris 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS A production catalyst I at the service of artists IV Lutz Bacher, The Silence of the Sea P.5 P.23 a. Press Release P.6 a. Inaugural Exhibition P.24 b. “Anticipations”, by Guillaume Houzé P.7 b. Biography P.25 c. Lafayette Anticipations Mission Statement P.8 II 9 rue du Plâtre V Discover P.9 P.27 a. A Curatorial Machine P.10 a. The first event cycle P.28 b. Rem Koolhaas P.15 b. Publishing and Information Technology P.30 c. Words from the Architect P.16 c. Outreach P.32 2014 - 2017 : three years Pre-launch III of construction VI programme P.17 P.33 a. Construction and Heritage P.18 a. 2013 - 2017 P.34 b. Materials P.19 b. Joining Forces with the Unknown P.37 c. A Conjonction of Know-How P.20 c. Mutant Stage P.38 d. Acknowledgments P.21 d. Editathon Art+Feminisms P.39 e. Composer les mesures de son espace P.40 VIIAppendix P.41 a. The Curatorial Team P.42 b. The Collection P.45 c. Creation and the Galeries Lafayette Group P.46 d. The Board of Directors P.47 e. Lafayette Anticipations Team P.48 f. The Store and Café-Restaurant P.49 g. Practical Information P.51 DE LA3 4 CATA LCYST 5 PRESS RELEASE Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d’entreprise A laboratory of anticipation and production open Galeries Lafayette is opening on March 10, 2018 in to all audiences the 9 rue du Plâtre building, revealing its inaugural programme. Lafayette Anticipations was created in October Until April 30, American artist Lutz Bacher will 2013 by the Galeries Lafayette Group and at the present her first exhibition in France, The Silence of initiative of Guillaume Houzé, who serves as its the Sea. President. The mission of this general interest foundation entails providing international creators With this inaugural programme, Lafayette – stemming from the fields of contemporary art, Anticipations wishes to highlight Lutz Bacher’s design and fashion – resources to produce, significant work, whose recognition was experiment and present new pieces, while focusing constructed in several waves as of the 1970s, on the collective dimension of the creative between California, New York and Europe. For process. Three to four annual exhibits, but also The Silence of the Sea, the artist provides a deft performance and workshop series, punctuate the response that reflects the 9 rue du Plâtre building’s Fondation’s artistic programme, open to the symbolic power. Bacher confronts the edifice with public. This programme is conceived by the stigmas of history, inviting the viewer to embark François Quintin, the Fondation’s Managing on an introspective visit. Director, and by a curatorial collective composed of Charles Aubin, Anna Colin and Hicham Khalidi. 9 rue du Plâtre: Rem Koolhaas’s first building in As a place of production, the Fondation also Paris wishes to host exchanges, encounters and public debates around societal issues that artists never The Fondation is settling into a 19th century fail to question. Infused with this mission and its industrial building located in the heart of the unique identity, the Fondation d’entreprise Marais, in Paris, and renovated by Rem Koolhaas Galeries Lafayette is the first multidisciplinary and OMA, his architectural firm. The architect centre of this kind in France. This new institution is conceived the 2, 200 m2 space as a curatorial conceived as a place of constant support to artists machine and introduced in its central courtyard a and their projects, as “only creation can consider steel and glass “exhibition tower” composed of the movement of an era in its diversity and thus four mobile platforms. An innovative play of the carry us continually to new horizons” platforms allows the space to be rearranged in (Guillaume Houzé). over forty different configurations. The 9 rue du Plâtre building thus instils flexibility and Press tools: adaptability, as required by numerous future projects. After three years of construction, this The press kit, as well as images of the structure features 875 m2 of exhibition space, Fondation’s building and inaugural exhibition are production workshops, an area dedicated to available on the Fondation’s website: artistic practices for all visitors, a café-restaurant and a store. These spaces’ original offer reflect the https://www.lafayetteanticipations.com/fr/ Fondation’s pioneering nature. espace-presse Media partners: 6 ANTICIPATIONS by Guillaume Houzé For over 120 years, the Galeries Lafayette To anchor our project in the heart of the has developed as a family business, by city, we asked OMA, the architectural firm cultivating values that were present from its directed by Rem Koolhaas, to transform our inception and which now provide a solid building located 9 rue du Plâtre into a place foundation on which to build: “the unique of production situated in a globalized world. encounter of creativity and commerce, Lafayette Anticipations, will open on accessible to all”. Deriving the full potential March 10, 2018, creating a place of welcome of living in the present means accepting the for artists and citizens to participate in the radicalism of the new. This also entails taking transformation of shapes and ideas. the initiative to surprise, to amaze, and to disrupt, which is what we expect from art. Creators in fashion, design, visual arts, as well as performers, will work in this space, To satisfy our thirst for creativity, we must exchanging their practices and ideas with drink from its source—close to the artists. those of a diverse audience. Thus, Lafayette Their work pushes us to exercise freely our Anticipations - Fondation d’entreprise judgment, and to forever alter our view of Galeries Lafayette will attempt to sharpen the world and of our lives. It is by our understanding of contemporary times, collaborating with artists that the Fondation fueled by the dynamism of modernity which is able to define its identity, commitments has nourished the Galeries Lafayette since and responsibilities. its inception. No one knows what the future holds; however, I believe that collective support of creation will contribute to its invention. Guillaume Houzé President of Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette 7 MISSION Barret © Émile STATEMENT Lafayette Anticipations oversees initiatives for the support of contemporary creation led by two general interest organisms, the Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette and the Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, established by the Galeries Lafayette Group Studio Brynjar & Veronika, The Circle Flute, 2016 and its stakeholder family. Lafayette Anticipations is a general interest foundation structured around its production activities and support provided to A PRODUCTION contemporary creation. The Fondation acts as a catalyser, providing artists unique, CATALYST made-to-measure conditions in which to produce, experiment and exhibit. As of its opening on March 10, 2018, the Fondation will become the first This pre-launch programme was marked multidisciplinary centre of its kind in France. by numerous events organised by Lafayette In its 19th century building situated in the Anticipations, namely Les Prolégomènes, heart of the Marais and renovated by OMA, Venir Voir Venir, Joining Forces with Rem Koolhaas’s architecture firm, the public the Unknown and Composer les mesures de will soon discover a curatorial machine in son espaces, as well as by projects led with which new pieces produced by international partner institutions, including the Centre creators – stemming from the fields of Pompidou, the Archives nationales, the contemporary art, design and fashion – will Kunsthalle Basel, MoMA PS1, Performa and be presented. the New Museum. Throughout the building’s renovation from Lafayette Anticipations also supports 2014 to 2017, Lafayette Anticipations contemporary creation through the Fonds explored the Fondation’s evolving identity de dotation Famille Moulin. Established in during artist-in-residence programmes, 2013, this endowment fund implements workshops, partnerships and direct support initiatives to support general interest artistic for the production of pieces. projects, while pursuing a policy of acquisition and enhancement of its art collection. 8 9 RUE DU P9LÂTRE 9 A CURATORIAL MACHINE 9 rue du Plâtre A Curatorial Machine OMA and Machines Located in a 19th century An “exhibition tower” equipped In the past, OMA has developed industrial building of 2, 200 m2, with four mobile platforms is machines whose operation Lafayette Anticipations is, as of inserted into the building’s is the core of the building March 10, 2018, a place for courtyard. These motorized housing them. In the Maison creation, innovation and research. platforms can move Lemoine in Bordeaux, The renovation project is led by independently along rails and a hydraulic platform moves architect Rem Koolhaas and his align with the existing floors. freely between floors, firm, OMA. and becomes a room within With each exhibit, these itself. The Wyly Theater in Dallas The seven story industrial innovative platforms will allow is constructed around building, characteristic of the end the space to be reconfigured retractable mobile platforms of the 19th century, is structured in 49 different ways. which have as many in a U-shape around a courtyard. These multiple arrangements configurations as possible uses The building can be crossed will instil verticality, flexibility for the scenic space. freely, thus leading to the rue and adaptability, as required by Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie numerous future projects. The 19th Century Heritage via a covered passage. The building will offer 875 m2 of architectural intervention exhibition space. This curatorial Built for François-Xavier Ruel’s manages to articulate two machine completes another BHV in 1891 by architect seemingly contradictory fundamental component of the Samuel Mejot de Dammartin, conditions: the desire for Fondation: its production the 9 rue du Plâtre is programmatic flexibility and the workshop situated in the an industrial building with respect of strict and mandatory building’s basement.
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