Released on 25 February 2013

In this issue: Julio Le Parc, New Impressions of Raymond Roussel, François Curlet, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Joachim Koester, Evariste Richer…

Echoing the Palais de Tokyo’s new season, this issue of PALAIS is infused with the poetic genius of Raymond Roussel, great explorer of invented worlds, causing us constantly to topple over into a different mental geometry.

Contents of this issue: essays by Matthieu Poirier on Julio Le Parc, Niklas Maak on François Curlet, Dieter Roelstraete and Yann Chateigné Tytelman on recent works by Joachim Koester, Amélie Lavin on Dewar & Gicquel; visual contributions by Takahiro Iwasaki and Evariste Richer; a focus on seven artists from the emerging contemporary scene (Marcos Avila Forero, Hicham Berrada, Gauthier Leroy, Lars Morell, Jean-Michel Pancin, Pierre Paulin, Clémence Seilles); under the heading “Hell as discussion,” Nadja Argyropoulou, curator, and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, architect, discuss Greece’s “demonization” as a symptom of the European crisis.

PALAIS also invites François Piron, curator of the exhibition “New Impressions of Raymond Roussel,” to create a dossier in dialogue with this venture. In it, he comments on the writer’s whimsical personality and on his mysterious work in which, as Roussel stated, “Nothing real must enter.” Accompanied by historians, by art critics and artists, Piron approaches the topic diagonally to consider the propagation of Roussel’s work through that of many artists.

Bilingual (French & English)

192 pages in colour; Format: 285 x 225 mm

PALAIS No. 16

Release date: September 27, 2012 - Delivery within September 27th 2012

In this new issue: Imagination Adrift, Fabrice Hyber, Neïl Beloufa, Damir Ocko, Markus Schinwald, Ryan Gander, Helen Marten...

Following the development of an artist’s thought, witnessing the circumstances of his creativity, discerning the interval separating an idea from its execution, seeing the artist become accustomed to his own discoveries… Closely following the creative process, this latest issue of PALAIS magazine is given over to the artists’ own words, presented in a variety of formats, echoing the exhibition program of the Palais de Tokyo.

Contents of this issue: Croatian artist Damir Očko speaks to the art historian Daniele Balit; Fabrice Hyber converses with Théo Mercier, Pierre Giquel, Pascal Rousseau and Jacqueline Frydman; a focus on eight artists from the emerging contemporary art scene (Iván Argote, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Jonathan Binet, Maxime Chanson, Mimosa Échard, Thierry Liegeois, Éponine Momenceau and Henrik Potter); an essay on Neïl Beloufa by the art critic Gaël Charbau and on Alexandre Kojève by the art historian Boris Groys; inserts, projects and visuals contributed by Helen Marten, Ryan Gander, Christian Marclay and the artists of the Pavillon; Alexis Vaillant visits Markus Schinwald’s studio. PALAIS has also invited the art critic and theorist Jill Gasparina to create a dossier that enters into dialogue with the exhibition “Imagination Adrift.” Inscribing the modern poetics of chance into a wider history of technologies and rationalization techniques, she outlines a complex history of the taming of chance in which relationships of authority, control procedures and emancipatory tactics combine.

Dossier edited by Jill Gasparina, with texts by Stewart Brand, Dunne & Raby, Éric Duyckaerts, Vilém Flusser, Holis Frampton, Jill Gasparina, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, André Gorz, Adam Greenfield, Boris Groys, Oliver Laric, Nathaniel Mellors, John Miller, Tony Oursler, Eli Pariser, David Robbins, Pierre Vadi, Camiel van Winkel.

Bilingual (French & English)

192 pages in color; Format : 285 x 225 mm

Special issue : the history of the Palais de Tokyo from 1937 to today, and until tomorrow.

Release date: April 12, 2012, on the occasion of the reopening of the Palais de Tokyo

Built for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris to house the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Palais de Tokyo has had a checkered history. Over seven decades of the history of the visual arts in France have come to be written through the openings, multiple renovations, and changing uses of the building. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Site for Contemporary Art has occupied the Palais de Tokyo, left unfinished after the planned Palais du Cinéma was abandoned at the end of the 1990s. In 10 years, under the stewardship of its successive directors, Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, then Marc-Olivier Wahler, it has become an essential actor on the international art scene. In April 2012, an extended Palais de Tokyo will open its doors. With its 22,000 square meters of space renovated by the architects Lacaton & Vassal, it is broadening its mission to display the French scene in an international context. A new Palais de Tokyo, a place to explore, inhabited by artists, where, in the words of Jean de Loisy, its new president, “we do not work on art but with art, and it works on us.”
The magazine PALAIS, in the inaugural issue of its new formula, tells the story of this epic adventure in texts and images. Through several testimonials, interviews and multiple unpublished documents, it invites you to discover over seventy years of artistic life within the Palais de Tokyo.

PALAIS / let people see contemporary art in an up-to-the-minute, complex-free way, as often as possible from the point of view of the artists themselves. Every quarter, PALAIS / outlines the artistic universe of the Palais de Tokyo's program and invites many contributions from diverse fields: it features the artists presented at the Palais de Tokyo, portfolios as well as texts by art critics or philosophers, writers, artists, etc, and a guide section related to the exhibitions.