Julian Charrière - an invitation to disappear
By: editor and curator of the exhibition at the dam of Mauvoisin and at the Musée de Bagnes: Jean-Paul Felley ; co-autor and curator of the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mainz: Stefanie Böttcher ; texts: Dehlia Hannah, Stefanie Böttcher
Contributors: Felley, Jean-Paul, editor, curator; Böttcher, Stefanie, editor, curator, writer of added commentary; Kunsthalle Mainz; Musée de Bagnes (Le Châble, Switzerland)
Series: Roma Publication -- 327; ROMA publication -- 327.
Publisher: Roma Publication
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam]
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9789492811264
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Environmental degradation in art; Climatic changes in art; Deforestation in art; Conceptual art
Other titles: Invitation to disappear
Description: Conceptual artist Julian Charrière bridges the realms of environmental science and cultural history. His projects often stem from fieldwork in remote locations with acute geophysical identities. Charrière's new work traces the historical and geographical path between Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which erupted in 1815, and the Alps. It follows the entangled threads of climate devastation, monocultural farming, and an imaginary in which apocalyptic ecological threats find poetic utterance in the aesthetic of the sublime. The book documenting the work is published with the dystopic installations of the work at Kunsthalle Mainz, on Mauvoisin Dam, and at Musée de Bagnes.
Notes: "Julian Charrière - 'An invitation to disappear' is published ... on the occasion of the exhibition by Julian Charrière at the Kunsthalle Mainz from April 14 to July 8, 2018, and at the dam of Mauvoisin and the Musée de Bagnes from June 17 to September 30, 2018. It brings together a documentation of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Mainz and all photographs presented at the dam of Mauvoisin." - Colophon

Text in English and French.