Icar Foundation - Art/Research 2000

ABOUT ART/RESEARCH 2000: JANUARY 2000 - APRIL 2002

Between January 2000 and April 2002 ICAR-Paris presented a six-part Art/Research 2000 Program at its Paris space on the Canal St. Martin..

After opening with photographs by John Coplans, the program continued in 2000-2001 with the exhibitions of sculptures by Dennis Oppenheim, installations by William De Lottie, architectural models by Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio, and paintings of Akira Arita. The Program concluded in 2002 with JCJ Vanderheyden's site-specific installation of his work.

Created to interact with ICAR's multidimensional site, Art/Research 2000 combined single-artist visual arts projects with an ongoing series of music events and lectures on art and science. It made use of new technical media and new concepts in architecture and theory to develop its research thematic.

The open architectural format of the ICAR-Paris space invites both artists and visitors to "inhabit" it as their own, or as Vito Acconci would have it, "in the company of other people."

Click to read about the ICAR-Paris space
on the Canal St. Martin
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To see the exhibitions:
     Icar-Paris
     159, Quai de Valmy
     75010 Paris
     (33) 01 53 26 36 61
     Métro Chateau Landon

Rens Lipsius
From the series of Large Standing
Figures and Abstract Panels,
1999 – 2002
244 x 122 cm each panel

At the core of Art/Research 2000 was the ICAR-Paris space on the Canal St. Martin, conceived by painter Rens Lipsius, who designed the space, as "an ideal artist's studio" - a workplace in a state of change.

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English / Français
Click to see Rens Lipsius' work