Systems

systems



arthurfouray.systems is a work with several entrances. Duchamp’s La Boîte verte (1934) offers a point of departure: notes can accompany a work without joining into one continuous explanation. Here I bring together what I have made since childhood, alone and with others, as an artist and curator. The website can be an archive, an interface and a book to navigate—a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total artwork whose parts keep their differences. A painting, a song, a set of cards and an exhibition each ask for a different kind of attention. They can share a title, a colour, an object or a reference without becoming interchangeable. Duchamp, Sturtevant and Warhol are reference points for different operations: choosing and presenting, returning to a recognisable image, putting work into circulation. The site gives these operations particular materials and situations rather than turning them into one inherited style. Chronology is an entrance, not a prescribed route. You can follow a work into another exhibition, move from a painted sentence to a recording, or begin with an image whose title you do not yet know. Text, labels and credits offer ways to continue, without requiring a prior command of art history. Making the process available matters as much as showing a result: changes, unfinished propositions and repeated attempts can remain part of what is encountered. The archive is extensive, but its order is chosen and can be questioned. My logic is irregular.

3567 Images - 65443 Words - 117 Web Pages
Including: 3 Albums - 5 Books - 9 Bowls - 1017 Cards - 203 Collages - 2 Colours - 26 Curated Shows - 7 Decks of Cards - 650 Digital Media - 551 Drawings - 2 Editions - 10 Engravings - 7 Fine Arts School Displays - 9 Group Shows - 9 Illustrations - 5 Installations - 129 Instructions - 9 Interventions - 1 Interview - 9 Masks - 4 Models - 12 Music Release Covers - 1 Music Video - 25 NFTs - 112 Objects - 96 Paintings - 187 Photographs - 12 Plates - 16 Sculptures - 37 Silkscreens - 9 Singles - 26 Sketches - 4 Solo Shows - 30 Songs - 12 Texts - 6 Toy Series - 716 Tumblr Posts - 2 Typefaces - 4 Verbs - 1 Video Game - 5 Videos - 4 Wall Paintings - 9 Websites




P+
2012, 2024-2026
933 Images - 7519 Words - 8 Web Pages
Including: 1017 Cards - 203 Collages - 7 Decks of Cards - 357 Drawings - 129 Instructions - 25 NFTs

P+ is a game of associations. Drawings, images, colours and short propositions can supply conditions for a project, a script or an exhibition. Cards give those possibilities a form that can be shared, selected and rearranged, including when the proposed work has not been realised.




Music
2022-2026
12 Images - 9497 Words - 12 Web Pages
Including: 3 Albums - 1 Music Video - 12 Music Release Covers - 9 Singles - 30 Songs






rt4a
2021-2026
386 Images - 4511 Words - 31 Web Pages
Including: 9 Bowls - 27 Paintings - 12 Plates - 2 Sculptures

rt4a is a code that began with a phone’s transcription of a nickname. It lets paintings, objects and recordings share a signature without requiring them to be recognisable as one style. Individual dates, materials and credits keep the differences available.

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2018-2019
*** Images - ***** Words
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Screen
2017
45 Images - 1756 Words - 1 Web Page
Including: 1 Book - 36 Photographs - 12 Silkscreens - 1 Video

The artist book Screen comes from the 2015 Spectre exhibition research. It follows one cinematic object through flipbook, painting and silkscreen. Handling a sequence as a book and encountering it as an image change how its movement can be understood.






Exhibition Making
2015-2026
708 Images - 18972 Words - 27 Web Pages
Including: 1 Book - 26 Curated Shows - 11 Texts - 1 Website

Making exhibitions with and for other people belongs to my practice. A programme, a room and the information around a work help determine who can encounter it, and under which conditions. Exhibition Making means researching, selecting, arranging and working with others, at Silicon Malley, DOC! and LUMA Arles. These collaborations retain their own artists, authors and production credits. Their organisation is part of the work, rather than a service that disappears when an exhibition opens.






Arthur Fouray
2013-2017
210 Images - 11476 Words - 18 Web Pages
Including: 2 Colours - 5 Drawings - 2 Editions - 2 Fine Arts School Displays - 8 Group Shows - 2 Installations - 44 Paintings - 5 Sculptures - 25 Silkscreens - 4 Solo Shows - 4 Wall Paintings - 3 Websites - 1 Video

brings painting into contact with familiar supports, enclosed objects and screen formats. A pillow gives a surface depth; blackout fabric withholds an object; chroma-key blue supplies a place for another image. Labels make those constructions more precise without resolving everything they allow someone to imagine.






a plus o minus
2013-2015
122 Images - 1098 Words - 3 Web Pages
Including: 9 Interventions - 112 Objects - 1 Website

a plus o minus is made with Nastassia Cougoulat Montel. Found, purchased and leftover objects can work as notes or signs in an arrangement. Photography, collecting, advertising and display become methods for looking at how objects attract attention and acquire value.






mmm
2013-2016
14 Images - 7805 Words - 3 Web Pages
Including: 1 Book - 1 Interview - 9 Photographs - 716 Tumblr Posts - 1 Typeface - 4 Verbs - 1 Website

The project mmm (the inverse of www) moves from online notes to an artist’s book and photographs. Appropriated typefaces locate thoughts within visual languages taken from artists and institutions. The writing and its appearance remain inseparable parts of that passage between formats.






Pre–Natal
2011-2013
751 Images - 2382 Words - 5 Web Pages
Including: 602 Digital Media - 1 Drawing - 5 Fine Arts School Displays - 1 Group Show - 3 Installations - 16 Paintings - 108 Photographs - 1 Text - 1 Video Game - 3 Videos - 3 Websites

Pre-Natal begins with the conditions of art: a support, a label, a screen or the spacing between objects can already participate in a work. The early pieces treat installation as an arrangement that can be continued and changed, leaving the encounter open.






before Arts
1991-2011
386 Images - 427 Words - 1 Web Page
Including: 2 Books - 48 Digital Media - 188 Drawings - 10 Engravings - 9 Illustrations - 9 Masks - 4 Models - 9 Paintings - 34 Photographs - 9 Sculptures - 26 Sketches - 6 Toy Series - 1 Typeface