The publication Cinéma Cinéma puts on show eleven young artists who make use of the cinematic experience in the formulation of their own ideas. They make references to famous films, use specific film techniques and reflect on an already developed vocabulary of film. The interest in cinema in art is no new thing. In the sixties in particular, in the wake of an interest in popular culture, film was able to bask in the interest of artists such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari. The second half of the nineties saw renewed interest on the part of artists for everything in any way connected with moving pictures, with video, film, and television providing the most important frames of reference. The work shown in Cinéma Cinéma includes combinations of several projection screens, spatial objects, sound, slide projections, props and performances suggesting film sets.
Eight pages are reserved for each artist, each set containing extensive images and an article by an appropriate critic analysing the work and putting it in context. Two pieces introduce the book: Jaap Guldemond (conservator of the Van Abbemuseum) explains his choice and the principles on which it was based and Jean-Christophe Royoux (a French critic) goes into the different styles of approach adopted within this so-called 'cinéma d'exposition'.
The book includes work by Pierre Huyghe (F), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Fin), Fiona Banner (UK), Christoph Draeger (CH), Douglas Gordon (UK), Joachim Koester (DK), Julie Becker (USA), Pierre Bismuth (F), Mark Lewis (Can), Sharon Lockhart (USA) and Christoph Girardet (D).
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