PRESS RELEASE TAKE ME (I’M YOURS) FROM 16 SEPTEMBER TO 8 NOVEMBER 2015 From 16 September to 8 November 2015, Monnaie de Paris presents Take Me (I'm Yours), a collective and interactive exhibition which brings together the work of fortyforty----fourfour international artists under the curatorship ofof Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Chiara Parisi. Take Me (I’m Yours) at Monnaie de Paris Transformed into Paul McCarthyMcCarthy's Chocolate Factory for its reopening in October 15 september 2015 2014, then into Marcel Broodthaers' Musée d’Art Moderne ––– Département des MONNAIE DE PARIS Aigles Monnaie de Paris is once again inviting visitors to rediscover its spaces 11, Quai de Conti through an unusual artistic project: Take Me (I’m Yours) will turn the Quai de 75006 Paris Conti’s 18th-century rooms into a venue for free and creative exchange, designed to unsettle the conventional relationship between a work of art and its viewer. Communications Director Visitors are invited, even encouraged, to touch, use and take away the invited Guillaume Robic artists’ projects and ideas. tel: + 33 (0)1 40 46 58 18
[email protected] The exhibition curators, Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich ObristObrist, have taken the original principle which motivated them in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery and Claudine Colin Communication brought it up to date. They are joined by Chiara ParisiParisi,Parisi director of Monnaie de Paris Avril Boisneault cultural programmes, who brings a fresh perspective. With more than forty tel: + 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01
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