Satyr and Nymph Gerard van Honthorst (signed by artist), 1623 A smiling nymph playfully tugs a satyr towards her by his goatee, clearly asserting control over him. Van Honthorst draws attention to her bare torso; her brightly illuminated white skin contrasts sharply with the satyr’s muscular physique and red head. By portraying the mythological figures up close, Van Honthorst draws us into this intimate scene.
designerdeValence format 190 x 250 mm pages 240 p. ISBN 9782494983397
L’ouvrage est publié en coédition avec le Palais de Tokyo, en parallèle de l’exposition « ECHO DELAY REVERB » visible du 22 octobre 2025 au 15 février 2026.
Tout au long du XXe siècle, des penseur·ses, activistes et poète·sses dans la sphère francophone ont transgressé les genres et modifié les perspectives sur le monde contemporain. Néanmoins, au-delà et parfois avant leur reconnaissance en France, leurs idées ont été traduites aux États-Unis et ont servi à fabriquer des outils pour une vision critique des institutions, de l’art comme de la société, contestant des normes sociales, esthétiques et linguistiques, ouvrant à de nouvelles manières de voir et d’agir. Si le concept phare de French Theory a été défini dans les années 1990 pour évoquer la réception enthousiaste que les États-Unis ont réservé à des auteurs comme Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze ou Jacques Derrida, d’autres figures, telles que Suzanne et Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant ou encore Monique Wittig, ont été déterminantes pour le champ de l’art comme pour les études postcoloniales, féministes et de genre. C’est l’histoire de cette circulation des idées, de leur résonance et appropriation par plusieurs générations d’artistes outre-Atlantique que déploie cet ouvrage qui prolonge l’exposition éponyme conçue par Naomi Beckwith au Palais de Tokyo.
The exhibition Park McArthur. Contact M brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. These artworks and the forms they take are guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.
Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.
Curated by Matthias Michalka, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Titz and Alke Heykes, Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladbach.
March 15, to September 7, 2025.
This audio guide is an artwork. This audio guide is an exhibition. It is titled Contact M and contains artworks made in the 2010s and 2020s by Park McArthur. Contact M was recorded in German and English. Some artworks are only exhibited here, in this audio guide. Some artworks were on view from March to September, 2025 at the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany and mumok in Vienna, Austria. Reading or listening to Contact M keeps it open as an exhibition.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), Marcel Duchamp, 1915-1923. Oil, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass panels. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box), Marcel Duchamp, 1934. Box containing collotype reproductions on various papers. Edition: 112/300 from a deluxe edition of 20 + regular edition of 300. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Artist Stripped Bare. Review of Duchamp’s Leg, exhibition at the Center for the Fine Arts and Neo-Dada: Redefining Art 1958-62, to the Art Museum at FIU, by Judy Cantor-Navas, Miami New Times, February 8, 1996.
The Band Stripped Bare. Article on the C60, grunge band, by Georgina Cardenas. Miami New Times, July 10, 1997.
The Mack, a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Michael Campus, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. Wikipedia. IMDB. Brother’s Gonna Work It Out (The Mack/Soundtrack Version), Willie Hutch.
