LIZ DESCHENES, JEAN PROUVÉ AND CHEYNEY THOMPSON

CARTE BLANCHE TO CAMPOLI PRESTI 2 OCTOBER - 10 NOVEMBER 2018 PRESS RELEASE AT GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN, LONDON Campoli Presti is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Liz Deschenes, Jean OPENING 2 OCTOBER, 6 TO 8 PM Prouvé and Cheyney Thompson at Galerie Patrick Seguin, London, as part of the gallery’s series of shows entitled Carte Blanche for which international galleries are invited to intervene in their space. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF LIZ DESCHENES: The exhibition will take three mobile structures (paintings, photographs, and architectural MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York elements) to explore three dimensional volumes suggested by the analytical division of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York light and shadow. From very different, medium-specific standpoints, the works explore Le Centre Pompidou, Paris imperceptible transitions of light to reflect on the materiality and the historical function The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota of the work at play. The Art Institute of Chicago Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C Liz Deschenes’ practice seeks to expand what is usually determined as photographic The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by producing works that stand between image and sculpture. Her work exposes the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C. most basic photographic elements – paper, light, and chemicals – to detach photography CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson from its status as a document and explore its potential as an object closely related to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco the architecture that surrounds it. In her photograms, Deschenes exposes dim night Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York light directly onto photographic paper that is later washed in silver toner. The works The Israel Museum, Jerusalem result in a subtle, continuous light change across the space and into different surfaces, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee activated by the viewer’s movements.

Jean Prouvé progressively used aluminum in accord with his commitment to make of PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF CHEYNEY THOMPSON: architecture a light, mobile structure that could be mass-produced and easily assembled, following the postulate that there is no structural difference between furniture and MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York a building. His African houses, built for extremely high temperatures, were usually The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York surrounded by aluminum frames that assured ventilation. The exhibition will include a Centre Pompidou, Paris Brise-Soleil (shutter) from a housing and commercial building constructed in Conakry, SFMOMA, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Guinea, in 1953. Besides regulating temperature, Prouvé’s shutters dimmed the light from the outside without obstructing the view and created a specific balance between isolation and exposure.

Cheyney Thompson’s Chronochromes track their own time of production through the inscription of Munsell’s colour system onto a calendar. The month, hour, and day of the time of production are indicated by colours on the painting. Each day has a complementary hue pair, each hour changes the colours’ value, and each month the saturation changes, producing a smooth gradient that could represent a continuous flow of time. Noon being absolute white and midnight absolute black, the works show the transition between light and dark, productivity and withdrawal. Liz Deschenes / Gallery 7. Installation view: 22 November 2014 – 18 October 2015 at the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis Photo: ©Walker Art Center Liz Deschenes / XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography. Installation View: 10 May 2013 - 6 January 2014 at MoMA, New York Digital Image © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photographed by Thomas Griesel. Liz Deschenes / XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography. Installation View: 10 May 2013 - 6 January 2014 at MoMA, New York Digital Image © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photographed by Thomas Griesel. Liz Deschenes / Bracket (London). Installation view: 14 October – 14 December 2013 at Campoli Presti, London Liz Deschenes / Shift / Rise. Installation View: 12 November - 18 December 2010 at Sutton Lane (Campoli Presti) Jean Prouvé / BRISE-SOLEIL, 1953 / Aluminium / 260 x 326 x 12 cm / for Conakry, Guinée, Afrique Courtesy of Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris Cheyney Thompson / Chronochrome 15, 2014 / Oil on canvas / 180.3 x 640.1 cm / 71 x 252 inches / Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris Courtesy of the artist and Centre Pompidou, Paris Detail