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Salon de Fleurus

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“At the end of the day the importance of copying is that it compels us to question the importance of authenticity” - Clancy Martin on Salon de Fleurus, Brooklyn Rail, 2014

Salon de Fleurus is an artwork, a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salon that existed at 27 rue de Fleurus from 1904-34. It is a work that displays and references a story of modern art’s beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Stein herself. It was in Stein’s salon that paintings by Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso were seen exhibited together for the first time both by her peers and transatlantic art experts who spread the word back home, eventually creating the American narrative of European modern art familiar today.

Through painted reproductions exhibited within a constructed interior, the Salon de Fleurus questions where, why and how certain narratives of modern art originated through the salon structure that first canonized them. These copies are perhaps more significant and tell us more about history than the original artworks themselves by weaving fiction into history and leaving space to contemplate and reconsider the past. When one looks at Picasso here, they are viewing Picasso through the lens of Stein.

From 1992 to 2014 Salon de Fleurus existed as a semi-private salon in lower Manhattan. Since then, it has appeared in fragments in Beirut, Paris and Los Angeles and will now be touring as a complete project via Independent Curators International (ICI). The exhibition contains painting reproductions as well as a historic timeline of Stein and her circle, and training script for a “doorman” or gallery monitor to best evoke the story of the salon to visitors. Additionally, a broadsheet catalogue designed by Garrick Gott including press and images from the Salon’s twenty-year history and newly commissioned essays and interviews will be available to compliment the exhibition. Art spaces are invited to source local details such as furniture, literature, decorations, and objects that further relate to early modernity, and to organize readings, talks, screenings and events that use the salon as a forum for discussing diverging art historical narratives.

Salon de Fleurus is a traveling exhibition organized by Salon de Fleurus and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. The exhibition and tour are made possible by The Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), and with the generous support from ICI’s International Forum and the ICI Board of Trustees.

updates

Broadsheet Catalogues for Salon de Fleurus

The Salon de Fleurus broadsheet is a unique publication made anew at every site the exhibition is presented.

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Afterall Journal discusses Salon de Fleurus

Afterall Journal’s recent article ‘The Doorman’ by Our Literal Speed discusses the Salon de Fleurus project The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, on view at 41 Spring Street, New York from 1992–2013.

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touring schedule

Telfair Museum of Art
Savannah, GA, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
January 10, 2016 - January 1, 1970

Muzeum Sztuki
?ód?, Poland
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970


Booking Info

Number of works: 31 paintings, educational material, and newsprint catalogue Space required: approximately 1,000 sq ft or a constructed interior space Tour dates: Fall 2015 through December 2019 For additional information, as well as to check specific dates of availability, contact Becky Nahom at 212.254.8200 x 129, or becky@curatorsintl.org.

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