Traffic (art exhibition)
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Traffic is the title of a group exhibition of contemporary art that took place at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, through February and March, 1996. The exhibition was selected or "curated" by Nicolas Bourriaud
in order to showcase the tendency that he identified as Relational Aesthetics or Relational Art
.
Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud is a French curator and art critic. He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerôme Sans. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art , and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from...
in order to showcase the tendency that he identified as Relational Aesthetics or Relational Art
Relational Art
Relational art or relational aesthetics is a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud...
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Artists exhibited
- Vanessa BeecroftVanessa BeecroftVanessa Beecroft is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles.-Artistic practice:Beecroft's work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models...
- Henry BondHenry BondHenry Bond is an English writer, photographer curator, and visual artist. In his Lacan at the Scene , Bond made a contribution to theoretical psychoanalysis....
- Jes Brinch and Henrik Plenge JakobsenHenrik Plenge JakobsenHenrik Plenge Jakobsen is a Danish conceptual artist, who works in a variety of media, from sculpture and installation art to performance art and public intervention....
- Angela BullochAngela BullochAngela Bulloch , is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists.-Life and career:...
- Maurizio CattelanMaurizio CattelanMaurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora , depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite....
- Andrea Clavadetscher and Eric Schumacher
- Honoré d'O
- Liam GillickLiam GillickLiam Gillick is a British conceptual artist who lives in New York City. He is often associated with the artists included the 1996 exhibit Traffic, which first introduced the term Relational Art.-Life and career:...
- Dominique Gonzalez-FoersterDominique Gonzalez-FoersterDominique Gonzalez-Foerster, born in 1965 in Strasbourg, is a French artist working with video and installations. Gonzalez-Foerster lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. She won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2002.-Exhibitions:...
- Douglas GordonDouglas GordonDouglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...
- Jens HaaningJens HaaningJens Haaning is an artist living and working in Copenhagen. His work addresses the issue of racism in Scandinavian society.He has exhibited extensively, e.g. Documenta XI, Kassel; the 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul and Traffic at CAPC Museé d'art contemporain, Bordeaux...
- Christine Hill
- Noritoshi HirakawaNoritoshi Hirakawais a Japanese contemporary artist, film maker, and film producer. Hirakawa works in a variety of media including photography, performance and installation. He was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan and now lives and works in New York....
- Carsten HöllerCarsten HöllerCarsten Höller is a German artist. He lives and works in Farsta, Stockholm, in Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.-Early life and education:...
- Pierre HuyghePierre HuyghePierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
- Peter LandPeter LandPeter Land is a New Zealand actor and singer known for his classical acting with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as appearances in many musicals.-Early life:...
- Miltos ManetasMiltos ManetasMiltos Manetas is a Greek painter and multimedia artist. He currently lives and works in HighgateManetas has created Internet Art as well as paintings of cables, computers, video games and Internet websites. His work has been collected by Charles Saatchi...
- Gabriel OrozcoGabriel OrozcoGabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist, who in 1998 was called "one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too." He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984. He then continued his education...
- Jorge Pardo
- Philippe ParrenoPhilippe ParrenoPhilippe Parreno is an Algerian artist and filmmaker, born in Oran, and currently living in Paris, France. Parreno's work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition.-Life and work:...
- Jason RhoadesJason RhoadesJason Rhoades was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation...
- Christopher SperandioChristopher SperandioChristopher Sperandio is an American artist known for his collaborative work with British artist Simon Grennan.- Biography :Sperandio was born in Kingwood, West Virginia, West Virginia and attended West Virginia University, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1987...
and Simon Grennan - Rirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary artist residing in New York. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element...
- Xavier VeilhanXavier VeilhanXavier Veilhan is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. His work consists of photography, sculpture, film, painting and installation art.-Works:...
- Gillian WearingGillian WearingGillian Wearing OBE RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997. On 11 December 2007, Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London....
- Kenji Vanobe