In 2007, the exhibition The Freak Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon was based on «Freak Shows» which showed amazing phenomenal characters. Nearly 50 works interpreted and explored the different types of monstrosity.
N'importe quoi (“anything”) continues in the same vein, this time on the device of showing collections of specimens in the style of museums of natural history.
Artists
Richard Artschwager, B. Wurtz, Olivier Babin, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Philippe Cazal, Claude Closky, Gérard Collin-Thiebaut, Martin Creed, François Curlet, Eric Duyckaerts, Hans Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Bertrand Lavier, Tony Matelli, Paul McCarthy, Matthew McCaslin, Mathieu Mercier, John Miller, Olivier Mosset, Olaf Nicolai, Bruno Peinado, Mick Peter, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Torbjørn Rødland, Ugo Rondinone, Sylvain Rousseau, Peter Saul, Alain Séchas, Haim Steinbach, Jessica Stockholder, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, Wolfgang Tillmans, John Tremblay, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Lily van der Stokker, Xavier Veilhan, Fabio Viscogliosi, Kelley Walker, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West.
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Titre
Zany culture
Modern art and then contemporary art have often been described as “n’importe quoi” because of the introduction into the world of art of new topics considered by many as trivial, vulgar or banal, and deviating enough from approved iconography to appear incongruous, if not completely crazy.
