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Philippe Thomas - Brief Article
ArtForum, Sept, 2000 by Rachel Withers
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Artist, curator, and theorist Philippe Thomas took the principle of deconstructing authorship to heart. In 1987, he renounced his own identity in favor of the agency "Readymades belong to everyone"; three years later, in the catalogue to his epic curatorial project Feux Pales (Pale fire) at Bordeaux's Musee d'Art Contemporain, his name appears just three times--and only in the small print. Five years after Thomas's premature death, independent curator Corinne Diserens tackles the tricky job of organizing a retrospective for the artist who wasn't. Found objects, video documentation, photography, texts, publicity materials, multimedia displays, and installations spanning the years 1978-95 serve to represent Thomas's creative and collaborative projects, in all their self-effacing complexity. Sept. 26-Nov. 26.
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