MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ

As Ever What? (1972 – 2008)

Alexis Vaillant

French-born artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz was a pioneer in mixing the genres of installation art and performance art. In the 1970s, he distinguished himself with his playful and subtly seductive “environments,” immersive installations that can be read as a consciously messy and ambivalent reaction to the clean concepts of Conceptualist and post-Minimalist tendencies. Edited by curator Alexis Vaillant, this book gathers together the artist’s writings, including interviews, letters, art texts, and criticism. The texts highlight the mental backdrop of an artist known for his idiosyncratic dandyism and reveal that his oeuvre owes as much to glam rock, modern French literature, architecture, and decorative arts as it does to art theory and practice.

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