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MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ
Born in the aftermath of World War II of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an official art practice which was no longer subversive, Chaimowicz abandoned performance art. From 1975 to 1979, he designed the interior of his Approach Road flat. Wallpapers, curtains, videos he made while performing in his own decor: everything had been tailored-imagined, drawn, and conceived to turn his interior into a room conducive to reverie. From the 1980s onwards, decors and furniture set like in a theatre scenography took their place in museums. Since then, many exhibitions, from London to New York and Basel… have featured the interiors series of this international artist
Marc Camille Chaimowicz is represented by Cabinet Gallery in London, Galerie Neu in Berlin, House of Gaga in Mexico City, and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York.
Source: MAMC – Saint Étienne, 2022
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (25 January 1946 – 23 May 2024) was a French contemporary artist who was based in London. His works are found in the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Victoria and Albert Museum collections. His cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between art and design.
Chaimowicz was born on 25 January 1946 in postwar Paris to a Polish Jewish father and French Catholic mother. The family moved to England when the artist was eight years old and settled in London, where he was still living and working at the time of his death in 2024. His first solo museum exhibition in the United States was held at the Jewish Museum in New York.
Chaimowicz died on 23 May 2024, at the age of 77.
Source: Wikipedia, 2024
BS22 – January/May 1988
pp.A, B, C, D, E
MARC-CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ
ON ORANGE … AS TORTURE
5 A4 sheets – 21 x 29.7 cm. Collages, drawings and typed texts.