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The Palais de Tokyo is giving carte blanche to La Station, inviting it to occupy the Module 1. For this event the artists’ collective is staging a collective exhibition bringing together nine of its members and issuing an invitation to an artist to collaborate with them for the first time.
Started in 1996 in Nice, La Station offers an experimental platform within which up-and-coming artists can find conditions conducive to initiating projects and participating in the development of their activities.
La Station was originally housed within the walls of a former service station in Nice, then moved on according to the realities of the places that sheltered it.
The relevance of La Station lies in a desire to offer an extra link connecting artists, exhibition spaces and the public as closely as possibly, trying to give added value to the existing cultural panorama.
The Carte Blanche proposed by the Palais de Tokyo is happening at a key moment in the existence of the artists’ collective. For after almost going under several times as a result of the demolition of the buildings that housed it, La Station is currently without any specific premises; in limbo before finding a long-term home in the former slaughterhouses of the city of Nice. Far from putting a strain on the links and the reason for being of such an undertaking by united artists, this suspended state is totally in keeping with the extramural episodes the group has previously been involved in.
For the Module at the Palais de Tokyo, La Station has chosen to occupy the space by exhibiting one work per artist. The practices of each artist remain autonomous, and it is within a shared project and space that they take shape.
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Modules du Palais de Tokyo
Site de création contemporaine
13 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
+33 (0)1 47 23 54 01
info@palaisdetokyo.com
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com
du mardi au dimanche, de midi à minuit
fermeture annuelle les 25 décembre, 1er janvier et 1er mai
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Communication et presse Palais de Tokyo :
+33 (0)1 47 23 52 00
dolores@palaisdetokyo.com
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Pour plus d’informations :
La Station
Contact : Cédric Teisseire
starter@lastation.org
www.lastation.org
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Aux mêmes dates, dans le Module 2 :
carte blanche à 220 Jours.
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La Station est soutenue par le CHU de Nice, la DRAC PACA Ministère de la Culture, le Conseil Régional PACA, la Ville de Nice, le Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes, la Villa Arson, Alphagraf et La Strada. La Station est membre du réseau Botox[s] – http://www.botoxs.fr
Nos vifs remerciements à M-O Wahler, Katell Jaffrès et à toute l'équipe du Palais de Tokyo.
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Fichier joint : Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Sans titre (croquis préparatoire), 2008. Courtesy de l’artiste