The art world is wrestling with the question of how to position itself in today’s economy. To take part or not – that is the question. An essay on the production of non-knowledge as a driving force, based on an exceptional exhibition at De Appel in Amsterdam.
The manner in which he interweaves art and life is as unique as it is exemplary. You could call it relational aesthetics avant la lettre. Yet it was not the generation of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Liam Gillick who rediscovered the work of this artist who was already active in the late Sixties. It is the young artists of today who see Marc Camille Chaimowicz as an important predecessor, a recognition that is being translated into a growing number of presentations in Europe and soon in Amsterdam too.
