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Eppur Si Muove Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere a Collaboration Between Mudam Luxembourg and Musée Des Arts Et Métiers-Cnam, Paris EPPUR SI MUOVE ART AND TECHNOLOGY, A SHARED SPHERE A COLLABORATION BETWEEN MUDAM LUXEMBOURG AND MUSÉE DES ARTS ET MÉTIERS-CNAM, PARIS EXHIBITION FROM 9 JULY 2015 UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2016 Aurora borealis, as observed March 1, 1872 MUDAM Étienne-Léopold Trouvelot, 1881 LUXEMBOURG Astronomical drawing mudaM © Musée des Arts et Métiers-Cnam Photo: Aurélien Mole Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 2 EPPUR SI MUOVE ART AND TECHNOLOGY, A SHARED SPHERE PRESS KIT TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 PRESS RELEASE 4 PARTNERS, SYMPOSIUM, COLLABORATIONS 5 LIST OF ARTISTS 6 AN EXHIBITION IN 3 CHAPTERS 7 CHAPTER 1 : MEASURING THE WORLD 20 CHAPTER 2 : MATTER REVEALED 33 CHAPTER 3 : INVENTIONS APPLIED 52 LIST OF EXHIBITS 65 SPECIFIC PROJECTS 69 MEDIATION PROJECTS 72 SYMPOSIUM 74 PARTNERSHIPS 75 PRACTICAL INFORMATION Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 3 PRESSKIT JULY 2015 EPPUR SI MUOVE ART AND TECHNOLOGY, A SHARED SPHERE A COLLABORATION BETWEEN MUDAM LUXEMBOURG AND MUSÉE DES ARTS ET MÉTIERS-CNAM, PARIS Exhibition From 9 July 2015 Until 17 January 2016 The product of an ambitious partnership with the Musée des Arts et Métiers, the exhibition Eppur si muove . Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere (And yet it turns) focuses on the many links that exist between the fields of the visual arts and technology, as well as the decisive influence that the history of the sciences and technology has exercised on contemporary artists. Filling all the Mudam Luxembourg’s exhibitions spaces, and in a spirit of dialogue, it brings together some 70 pieces dating from the 18th century and the present day from the collections of the prestigious museum in Paris and more than 130 works by artists who through the questions that they engage with, the experiences they offer, and the manner of production and collaboration they employ embrace the themes that have run through the domains of technology and science for several centuries. Opening with a representation of the emblematic pendulum built by Léon Foucault – “the first to physically demonstrate the spinning movement of the Earth”, in the words of artist Piotr Kowalski – the exhibition will be structured in three chapters: “Measuring the World”, “Matter Revealed”, and “Inventions Applied”, each occupying a floor of the museum in several theme – based rooms. Questions tackled vary from celestial mechanics, descriptive geometry, the measurement of time and space, observation of the infinitely large and infinitely small, light, sound and electromagnetic waves, tools, energy, and cybernetics: each a facet of a world that man has always attempted to understand and mould. By means of the dialogue that it stimulates, the exhibition Eppur si muove . Art and Technology, a shared sphere also reassesses the dynamics common to both domains, which are often artificially distanced from one another. Freed of the conception of art being autonomous, the works bear out the importance to the creative process of technical and scientific research, collaboration, experimentation, and instrumentation. In parallel and aside from their undeniable physical beauty, the technical objects from the Musée des Arts et Métiers embody the dimension of intuition and creativity that goes hand – in – hand with all scientific research. This unique exhibition thus draws the contours of a “shared sphere” between artists and engineers, artists and scientists – a place where unique yet complementary gazes on the contemporary world intersect. Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 4 Sphere of Léon Foucault’s pendulum, 1851 © Musée des Arts et Métiers – Cnam, Photo: Studio Cnam PARTNERS The exhibition Eppur si muove . Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere is being organised in collaboration with the Musée des Arts et Métiers – CNAM to mark Luxembourg’s presidency of the European Council for the latter half of 2015. It is under the patronage of Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister. It involves partnerships with Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, The Loo & Lou Foundation, under the aegis de la Fondation Luxembourg et CFL-Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois. SYMPOSIUM The exhibition will be the subject of an international symposium to be held from 15 to17 October 2015 at the Mudam. Titled “Fabrique des sciences – Fabrique des arts”, it will be chaired by Patricia Falguières, professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and is being organised in collaboration with the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers – Lorraine, the École supérieure d’Art de Lorraine, the Université de Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and with the support of Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg. CATALOGUE A Mudam Luxembourg publication is bring together hitherto unpublished essays by, among others, Marie-Sophie Corcy, Patricia Falguières, Arnaud Dejeammes, Vincent Crapon and Christophe Gallois, as well as a major section devoted to the exhibition with background descriptions and visuals of the works on view. CURATORS Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Christophe Gallois, Enrico Lunghi, Clément Minighetti (Mudam Luxembourg), Marie-Sophie Corcy (Musée des Arts et Métiers). ASSOCIATE CURATORS Vincent Crapon (Mudam Luxembourg), Lionel Dufaux, Cyrille Foasso (Musée des Arts et Métiers). WITH THE CONTRIBUTION OF Isabelle Astic, Anne-Laure Carré (Musée des Arts et Métiers). Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 5 LIST OF ARTISTS Dove Allouche Vincent Lamouroux Darren Almond Katie Lewis Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil Jorge Macchi Julien Berthier Daria Martin Michael Beutler Kris Martin Mel Bochner Tatsuo Miyajima Katinka Bock Kazuko Miyamoto Stanley Brouwn Laurent Montaron Chris Burden Gianni Motti Nina Canell Carsten Nicolai Daniel Gustav Cramer Navid Nuur Attila Csörgo� Lisa Oppenheim Björn Dahlem Damián Ortega Edith Dekyndt Adrian Paci Wim Delvoye Trevor Paglen Ólafur Elíasson Nam June Paik Christoph Fink Miguel Palma Gego Panamarenko Jochen Gerner Michel Paysant Marco Godinho Amalia Pica Paul Granjon Julien Prévieux Grönlund-Nisunen Evariste Richer João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva Georges Rousse Wade Guyton Thomas Ruff Rebecca Horn Stéphane Sautour Éric van Hove Lasse Schmidt Hansen Ann Veronica Janssens Conrad Shawcross Véronique Joumard Simon Starling Anne Marie Jugnet + Alain Clairet Stelarc Rolf Julius Thomas Struth On Kawara Takis Paul Kirps Jean Tinguely Piotr Kowalski Francisco Tropa Sophie Krier Guido van der Werve Alicja Kwade George Widener Bertrand Lamarche John Wood & Paul Harrison David Lamelas Raphaël Zarka Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 6 AN EXHIBITION IN 3 CHAPTERS CHAPTER 1 MEASURING THE WORLD Invitation to Experiment Unfurled Forms Seizing Time Surveying Space LEVEL 0 CHAPTER 2 MATTER REVEALED World Scales Optical Games Acoustic Figures Signs of the Invisible LEVEL -1 CHAPTER 3 INVENTIONS APPLIED Production in Question Machines on the March The Electrical Spark Locomotion, Real and Dreamed of Dizzy Numbers LEVEL +1 The Fascination of Living Things Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 7 CHAPTER 1 MEASURING THE WORLD INVITATION TO EXPERIMENT UNFURLED FORMS SEIZING TIME SURVEYING SPACE Mudam Luxembourg page Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 8 CHAPTER 1: MEASURING THE WORLD INVITATION TO EXPERIMENT “As soon as this pendulum starts to move, it belongs in a way to celestial spaces1.” Léon Foucault The experiment which Léon Foucault first presented in February 1851 at the Paris Observatory, and then in the following month at the Pantheon, marked a major moment in the history of sciences: if the idea that the Earth rotates on its own axis was by then accepted, this was the first tangible demonstration of a fact whose hypothesis had been stated since Antiquity, and whose discovery, associated with that of the heliocentric theory and figures as emblematic as Copernicus and Galileo, was punctuated by controversies. “You are invited to come and see the Earth turn2”, read the announcement for the event. The enthusiasm stirred up by the experiment in Paris was such that, in the ensuing months, it was reproduced in dozens of cities all over the world. Symbolically, the presentation of Léon Foucault’s pendulum thus represented one of the high points of the experimental approach, based on the principles of experiment and demonstration, which found its origins in the Renaissance, and played the leading role in the famous physics cabinets of the 18th century, with which the history of the Musée des Arts et Métiers is closely bound up. It is this approach and the technical objects accompanying it which this first section of the exhibition is concerned with, organised around Léon Foucault’s pendulum. It brings together objects and works which explain the laws and physical phenomena which drive the world, the Earth’s diurnal rotation, but also gravity, the communication of motion, levitation, and whirlwinds. Like the “tribute” paid by Piotr Kowalski to Léon Foucault in 1974 in a project for the La Défense site in Paris, this section also underscores the interest shown by certain artists in objects stemming from the history of science and technology: Raphaël Zarka produces a replica of a 19th century instrument directly inspired by an experiment conducted by Galileo; Carsten Nicolai photographs the Astrolabe (17th century) designed by Father Emmanuel Maignan in the cloister of the Trinità dei Monti in Rome; and the Antigravity Model of Grönlund-Nisunen, for its part, borrows the principle of the gyroscope, invented by Foucault
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