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SILENT WRITINGS
27 March – 23 August 2009
Espace Culturel Louis Vuitoon
60, rue de Bassano / 101 avenue des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris
http://www.louisvuitton.com/espaceculturel

Ecritures Silencieuses or Silent Writings, a strikingly enchanting and meditative encounter between ancient writings and contemporary artistic creativity, is on show in Espace Louis Vuitton till 23 August. An exhibit too beautiful to be missed.

The inspiration comes from three mysterious tablets. They are silent because their glyphic writing - in Rongo Rongo, the dialect of the aboriginal people of the Easter Islands (a tiny island off South-America), the Rapa Nui - has yet to be decoded. The tablets, presented for the first time outside the Vatican Museum, serve as the inspiration for 15 contemporary artists whose works propose different perspectives on the themes of Impression, Trace, Symbol and Writing.

Curator
Hervé Mikaeloff

Artists
Claude Closky / Tracey Emin / Ni Haifeng / Jenny Holzer / Idris Khan / Joseph Kosuth / Barbara Kruger / Ernesto Neto / Giuseppe Penone / Robin Rhode / Marco Nereo Rotelli / Charles Sandison / Lawrence Weiner / Guyton\Walker / Sun7

Save the Poetry, Marco Nereo Rotelli, Courtesy Centro Italiano per le Arti e la Cultura, Photo © Marco Zanella

Charles Sandison creates a both primitive and futuristic world through the projection of word combinations within a dedicated space

Catalogue 819 © Courtesy Lawrence Weiner & Marion Goodman Gallery

Barbara Kruger- Untitled (Semi-Silent) 2009 part 2. © Louis Vuitton /Mazen Saggar

Giuseppe Penone - Scrigno (front view). © Louis Vuitton /Mazen Saggar

Ni Haifeng confronts the composition of a writing system from elsewhere with the writings of a predominantly western thinking. Xeno-Writings © Courtesy Ni Haifeng & Arario. Beijing Gallery

The censored letters from Guantanamo prisoners put together by Jenny Holzer. Jenny Holzer- My Government. © Louis Vuitton_Mazen Saggar 4

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