Marc Camille Chaimowicz Exhibition: A Unique Interior Art Experience at the Secession

This exhibition at the Secession presents a specially created interior by artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, featuring carpets, umbrella elements, and wall designs. It showcases the artist's distinct aesthetic of beauty, lightness, and elegant living developed over four decades, blurring lines between applied and fine arts.

The exhibition at the Secession presents a unique interior environment conceived by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, primarily composed of newly produced works. Central to the display are large, asymmetrical carpets with floral and abstract-ornamental patterns laid on tiered pedestals, questioning their function as mere objects and elevating them to autonomous artworks. Fragile umbrella-like elements and wall designs featuring the artist's signature patterns contribute to the space's delicate aesthetic. The exhibition reflects Chaimowicz's diverse artistic practice over four decades, spanning performances, installations, furniture designs, and patterns for functional objects, characterized by a commitment to beauty, lightness, elegance, and refined living, expressed through graceful lines and a palette of soft pastel tones. Chaimowicz playfully dissolves the hierarchical relationship between applied and visual arts in what he terms 'choreographies.' His pattern designs, derived from modern painting and his affinity for French art, are used for wallpapers, carpets, textiles, and wall coverings. His furniture sculptures hover at the indistinct boundary between functional objects and art pieces, exemplified by works like 'Deux coiffeuses' and the versatile 'Dual' piece. The exhibition also consciously references Chaimowicz's extended stay in Vienna in 1982, drawing inspiration from the Wiener Werkstätte and Viennese architecture, as seen in the 'Vienna Tryptich' (1982). Earlier in his career, his 1970s environments combined elements from art history with pop culture, contrasting with conceptual art and positioning him as a key figure of British sub-high culture.

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