PARALLEL PROGRAM / Low mountains – Dar al-Ma’mûn invites Marc-Olivier Wahler

Date: Exhibition from Thursday 1st March 2012 to April 15, 2012
Opening: Thursday March 1, 19:00-21:00
Location: Dar Bellarj

To mark the occasion of the Marrakech Biennale, Dar al-Ma’mûn is pleased to invite Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of the Palais de Tokyo – National contemporary art center in Paris, France. The Palais de Tokyo is an art center created in the early 2000s, which rapidly established itself on the international scene. Since 2006, under the leadership of its director, Marc-Olivier Wahler, previously director of the New York Swiss Institute, its dynamic has continued to increase through major exhibitions (“Mille milliards d’années,” personal exhibitions of Ugo Rondinone and Jeremy Deller, or work of recognition from artists such as Charlotte Posenenske, not to mention the permanent work to support emerging scenes with space dedicated “modules”). In addition, Marc-Olivier Wahler has developed an « outdoor » program called “Chalets de Tokyo” to multiple collaborations around the world.
The exhibition “Low mountains” brings together works by Tony Matelli, Gianni Motti, Michel Blazy, Bertrand Dezoteux, Alex Israel, Vincent Ganivet, Katinka Bock , Philippe Mayaux and is significant of the program set up by Marc-Olvier Wahler over the past 6 years: the artists presented have all collaborated with the Parisian institution. The change of context, in Dar Bellarj, outside the normative references of the art center, seeks otherness beyond the walls: the exhibition will benefit from a specific public support, including a proposal for further activities for the public, adults and children of Dar Bellarj, making the exhibition fully accessible to all.

On the occasion of the Marrakech Biennale, “Low mountains” makes a modest but energetic contribution to what creation can mean.
Finally, “Low mountains” is the first exhibition of a series to come to Dar al Ma’mûn: by proposing « Carte Blanche » exhibitions here in Marrakech to major international art centers, current international creation thereby becomes accessible to Morocco.
Supported by the Dar Bellarj Foundation and the Palais de Tokyo.

Curator: Marc-Olivier Wahler