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FOR LIFE
Champs-Elysées
(in front of the Grand Palais)
Champs-Elysées
(in front of the Grand Palais)
MOVE
on the streets of Paris until 3 April
PARIS. ArtParis, the Paris springtime event for the modern and contemporary art market is ongoing at the Grand Palais until 3 April. For the first time in its history, ArtParis is acting on the urban public scene with Move For Life, a mobile art intervention against poverty, aids, violence, racism and environmental destruction by Littmann Kulturprojekte (Basel).
The aim of Move For Life is to create a dialogue between art and the public through major societal issues… using 13-meter trucks! From the 1st of March, 2011, eight utility vehicles
covered with the artworks crisscross the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France and Italy to converge towards the Grand Palais in Paris for the opening of ArtParis, on March 30.
As an engaged action, Move For Life is involving internationally renowned artistswho produce socio-political “statements” capable of speaking to each and every one of us.
On the occasion of its presentation for ArtParis 2011, works by Damien Deroubaix, Isabel Muñoz, Mark Titchner and Ben Vautier are presented for the first time. These pieces joined those created by Daniele Buetti, Jochen Gerz, Attelier Van Lieshout and Robert Rauschenberg. By raising questions and triggering reflection, their creations, which express active stands, allow for a direct confrontation between art and the public at large, outside the walls of museums and galleries.
Throughout the duration of the art fair, some of the lorries will remain parked in front of the Grand Palais, while others will drive around Paris for the benefit of Parisians and will be located symbolic sites of the French capital.
And starting on 4 April, the Move For Life lorries will resume their travels through Europe making each of them more than 250.000 kilometres per year and reaching more than 25 million spectators, be they art lovers or not…
Move For Life is a project conceptualized, curated and developed by Littmann Kulturprojekte and realized thanks to the partnership with
Prévost and Agence de Fab.
The aim of Move For Life is to create a dialogue between art and the public through major societal issues… using 13-meter trucks! From the 1st of March, 2011, eight utility vehicles
covered with the artworks crisscross the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France and Italy to converge towards the Grand Palais in Paris for the opening of ArtParis, on March 30.
As an engaged action, Move For Life is involving internationally renowned artistswho produce socio-political “statements” capable of speaking to each and every one of us.
On the occasion of its presentation for ArtParis 2011, works by Damien Deroubaix, Isabel Muñoz, Mark Titchner and Ben Vautier are presented for the first time. These pieces joined those created by Daniele Buetti, Jochen Gerz, Attelier Van Lieshout and Robert Rauschenberg. By raising questions and triggering reflection, their creations, which express active stands, allow for a direct confrontation between art and the public at large, outside the walls of museums and galleries.
Throughout the duration of the art fair, some of the lorries will remain parked in front of the Grand Palais, while others will drive around Paris for the benefit of Parisians and will be located symbolic sites of the French capital.
And starting on 4 April, the Move For Life lorries will resume their travels through Europe making each of them more than 250.000 kilometres per year and reaching more than 25 million spectators, be they art lovers or not…
Move For Life is a project conceptualized, curated and developed by Littmann Kulturprojekte and realized thanks to the partnership with
Prévost and Agence de Fab.
Atelier Van Lieshout, 2006 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Ben, 2011 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Damien Deroubaix, 2011 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Daniele Buetti, 2006 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Isabel Munoz, 2011 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Jochen Gerz, 2006 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Mark Titchner, 2011 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
Robert Rauschenberg, 2006 @Littmann Kulturprojekte
About Move For Life
MOVE FOR LIFE is an art-action by LITTMANN
KULTURPROJEKTE, which takes place in public; its fields of action are streets, squares and factory halls. MOVE FOR LIFE leaves the sites originally reserved for art, such as museums, galleries and art halls and is present where people live and work. MOVE FOR LIFE actuates – on trucks, transporters, on the European road network. MOVE FOR LIFE is a socio-political action. MOVE FOR LIFE presents emotional and touching images.
Trucks are a brilliant medium for the spreading of messages created by artists. Trade associations estimate that a truck covers a distance of 250’000 kilometres a year throughout the European road network, thus provoking around 25 million eye-contacts. MOVE FOR LIFE makes use of the exterior of the trucks to present the messages in terms of so-called “Monumental Statements”. The truck becomes a culture-truck, an art-object on wheels.
Famous international artists design these “Monumental Statements” against poverty, violence, Aids, racism and environmental destruction. Trucks designed by Robert Rauschenberg, Jochen Gertz, Danielle Buetti, and Studio Van Lieshout, Franz Burhardt and Xia Zheng are already on the road. A selection of these works will be shown at Art Paris alongside with new ones created by Ben Vautier, Mark Titchner, Damien Deroubaix and Isabel Muñoz.
MOVE FOR LIFE is an art-action by LITTMANN
KULTURPROJEKTE, which takes place in public; its fields of action are streets, squares and factory halls. MOVE FOR LIFE leaves the sites originally reserved for art, such as museums, galleries and art halls and is present where people live and work. MOVE FOR LIFE actuates – on trucks, transporters, on the European road network. MOVE FOR LIFE is a socio-political action. MOVE FOR LIFE presents emotional and touching images.
Trucks are a brilliant medium for the spreading of messages created by artists. Trade associations estimate that a truck covers a distance of 250’000 kilometres a year throughout the European road network, thus provoking around 25 million eye-contacts. MOVE FOR LIFE makes use of the exterior of the trucks to present the messages in terms of so-called “Monumental Statements”. The truck becomes a culture-truck, an art-object on wheels.
Famous international artists design these “Monumental Statements” against poverty, violence, Aids, racism and environmental destruction. Trucks designed by Robert Rauschenberg, Jochen Gertz, Danielle Buetti, and Studio Van Lieshout, Franz Burhardt and Xia Zheng are already on the road. A selection of these works will be shown at Art Paris alongside with new ones created by Ben Vautier, Mark Titchner, Damien Deroubaix and Isabel Muñoz.
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