Philippe Thomas - Brief Article

MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI

Artist, curator, and theorist Philippe Thomas took the principle of deconstructing authorship to heart. In 1987, he renounced his own identity in favor of the agency "Readymades belong to everyone"; three years later, in the catalogue to his epic curatorial project Feux Pales (Pale fire) at Bordeaux's Musee d'Art Contemporain, his name appears just three times--and only in the small print. Five years after Thomas's premature death, independent curator Corinne Diserens tackles the tricky job of organizing a retrospective for the artist who wasn't. Found objects, video documentation, photography, texts, publicity materials, multimedia displays, and installations spanning the years 1978-95 serve to represent Thomas's creative and collaborative projects, in all their self-effacing complexity. Sept. 26-Nov. 26.

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