Le Magasin

Pierre Ardouvin, Matthew Brandt, Antoine Catala, Heather Cook, Philippe Decrauzat, Sam Durant, Eric Bell & Kristoffer Frick, Chris Hood, Dan Levenson, Nathan Mabry, John Miller, Adi Nes, Joe Reihsen, Ry Rocklen, Amanda Ross-Ho, Analia Saban, Jim Shaw, Augustus Thompson, Sergio Verastegui, Guy Yanai, Jwan Yosef

Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles is pleased to present Le Magasin, an exhibition of works presented in their temporal state.

Some years ago in Amsterdam I read about an art space in Italy active around the 60s, adjacent to the Arte Povera movement, in which a group of artists had a ‘warehouse’ or ‘magazzino’ space where they made and exhibited work, in-situ. Visitors could come into the space and see the work 'in ‘storage’ which was constantly changing and in flux. I always liked this idea for exhibiting work in a temporal way, bringing it back to a human level of some sort and experiencing it candidly I could never find the name of this space but while researching in depth, I learned a few other things about museums, their storages and exhibitions that investigate said storages. For example, the exhibition Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol was developed out of a visit to the RISD Museum’s collection by Jean and Dominique de Menil. They employed Andy Warhol to curate a staged storage display of a traveling exhibition that would explore otherwise unseen objects and works of art—which would later lay the groundwork for artist-curated museum exhibitions.