The Use of Form
Craftsmen and artists

Curated by Gallien Déjean
https://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/lusage-des-formes
March 20 – May 17, 2015

WITH: Abdou Fataï ABIOLA, Georges ALLORO, Jean-Marie APPRIOU, Jean-Michel APPRIOU, ARCA, Marc AUREL, Bernard et François BASCHET, Eric BENQUÉ, Berger&Berger, Camille BLATRIX, BLESS, Gérard BORDE, Bruno BOTELLA, Linda BROTHWELL, Jacques CARELMAN, Nicolas CECCALDI, Giorgio DE CHIRICO, Gérard DESQUAND,  Aleksandra DOMANOVIC, Charles EAMES, Alexandre ECHASSERIAU, Pierre EMM & Johan DA SILVEIRA & Piotr WIDELKA, Nicolas FARINOTTI, Pierre FAVRE, GLASS FABRIK, GRAMAZIO KOHLER RESEARCH- ETH Zurich, Constance GUISSET, Frédéric HAMEL, Michael HANSMEYER, Bernard HEIDSIECK, Yngve HOLEN, Franck JALLEAU, Thomas JAMES, Emmanuel JOUSSOT, François JUNOD, Gaël LANGEVIN, Nathanaël LE BERRE, Guillaume LEBLON, Xavier LE NORMAND, LEZARD GRAPHIQUE, Emmanuelle LAINÉ, Marie LUND, Jean-Paul MAHÉ, Benoît MAIRE, Christophe MANKA, Maurice MARINOT, Kristin MCKIRDY, Christophe MICHEL, Christian MORETTI, Jean-Luc MOULÈNE, Sébastien NEDJAR, André NICOLAS, Jean Antoine NOLLET, Giuseppe PENONE, Daniel POMMEREULLE, François-Xavier RICHARD, Frédéric RICHARD, David ROSENBLUM, Bernard SOLON, Ettore SOTTSASS, Robert STADLER, SYNDICAT, Richard TUTTLE

 The visit begins with an invitation to plunge into the world of the workshop. At the heart of this factory, the tool shows itself as an incarnation of History, in that it fundamentally corresponds to the transmission or recasting of the practice with which it is associated.
The exhibition then goes on to touch on the notion of taking the tool in hand. The technical object is the instrument of this prehensile faculty that puts man in contact with the world. READ MORE