Systems

systems



arthurfouray.systems maps ways of experimenting with art. Inspired by Duchamp’s La Boîte verte (1934) and conceived as a dynamic and interface-driven book, this project traces, retraces and contextualises a singular body of work. It constitutes an active archive of an entire production since the age of one, solo or in groups, as an artist or curator. It is a Gesamtkunstwerk, simultaneously exhaustive and discontinuous. The intent is to offer a range of interpretations, envisioning projects and periods as autonomous universes within non-hierarchical chronologies. My logic is irregular.

2654 Images - 142252 Words - 129 Web Pages
Including: 25 Projects - 244 Works - 45 Shows - 4 Albums - 5 Books - 129 Pages - 8314 References - 4 Solo shows - 14 Group shows - 27 Curated shows - 33 Bowls - 776 Cards - 24 Ceramics - 204 Collages - 111 Colors - 9 Decks of cards - 661 Digital Media - 375 Drawings - 10 Engravings - 2 Fine Arts School Displays - 43 Illustrations - 7 Installations - 129 Instructions - 1 Interventions - 1 Interviews - 9 Masks - 4 Models - 12 Music release covers - 1 Music videos - 2 NFTs - 151 Objects - 83 Painting - 347 Photography - 37 Plates - 54 Sculptures - 2 Silkscreens - 9 Singles - 240 Sketches - 39 Songs - 1 Tumblr posts - 2 Typefaces - 1 Verbs - 3 Wall paintings - 1 Websites - 1 Toy Series




P+
2012, 2024-2026
1101 Images - 8617 Words - 10 Web Pages
Including: 3 Projects - 10 Pages - 776 Cards - 204 Collages - 109 Colors - 9 Decks of cards - 165 Drawings - 129 Instructions - 2 NFTs - 161 Photography - 214 Sketches

P+ is a game of associations: a corpus of possibilities in which prospects and projects can form storyboards, narratives, scripts, events and exhibitions. The first deck dates from 2012. Since 2024 I have put drawings, images, colours and propositions on cards, one deck after another. A card does not have to become a work. I keep the proposition.




Music
2022-2026
12 Images - 18333 Words - 13 Web Pages
Including: 1 Projects - 4 Albums - 13 Pages - 12 Music release covers - 1 Music videos - 9 Singles - 39 Songs






rt4a
2021-2026
151 Images - 4870 Words - 33 Web Pages
Including: 1 Projects - 50 Works - 33 Pages - 33 Bowls - 24 Ceramics - 6 Drawings - 27 Objects - 27 Painting - 37 Plates

rt4a began when a phone transcribed a nickname, ‘Arty Fouray’, in the mid-2010s: a more Warholian gesture than I would have thought, and almost Cagean. Since 2021 those four characters have signed my paintings, objects and recordings. The name attributes a work and says little about the person, so one signature can hold several ways of working.

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2018-2019
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Screen
2017
45 Images - 1971 Words - 1 Web Page
Including: 1 Projects - 1 Books - 1 Pages - 36 Photography - 1 Silkscreens

SCREEN (2017) is an artist’s book that came out of the research for the exhibition Spectre (2015). It joins the flipbook, painting and silkscreen in one cinematic object: every page shows a silkscreen on canvas, and the colophon runs like the credits of a film. Silkscreens on cushions and a video carry the same images beyond the book, between painting, print and cinema. The publication acts as an interface.






Exhibition Making
2015-2026
14 Images - 39898 Words - 29 Web Pages
Including: 2 Projects - 27 Shows - 1 Books - 29 Pages - 27 Curated shows - 26 Photography

Making and organising exhibitions for others is essential in the lives of artists. Exhibition Making gathers the solo and group shows I conceived and organised with others, successively as part of the teams at Silicon Malley, DOC! and LUMA Arles. Each page keeps the show as it was made public: its artists, its dates, its texts and their authors.






Arthur Fouray
2013–
58 Images - 26109 Words - 20 Web Pages
Including: 4 Projects - 45 Works - 13 Shows - 20 Pages - 4 Solo shows - 8 Group shows - 2 Colors - 2 Fine Arts School Displays - 1 Objects - 38 Painting - 1 Silkscreens - 3 Wall paintings - 1 Websites

Under my own name, a pillow, a bed base or a ladder could give a painting its shape. In the #aaafff series an object disappears behind a monochrome and comes back in the title; in #000fff a wall painted chroma-key blue always hosts another work. What holds an image up becomes part of what it says.






a plus o minus
2013-2015
112 Images - 1576 Words - 3 Web Pages
Including: 2 Projects - 110 Works - 1 Shows - 3 Pages - 1 Group shows - 1 Interventions - 111 Objects

a plus o minus, written a + o –, was an artistic and curatorial practice I shared with Nastassia Cougoulat Montel from 2013 to 2015. We took objects of pop culture as musical or linguistic signs: clipped pack shots, captioned objects. We looked, selected, extracted, juxtaposed and presented. Entourage II (2014) took place in a nightclub.






mmm
2013-2016
18 Images - 16294 Words - 4 Web Pages
Including: 3 Projects - 13 Works - 1 Books - 4 Pages - 1 Interviews - 9 Photography - 1 Tumblr posts - 1 Typefaces - 1 Verbs

mmm, which I called the inverse of www, began as an online diary: 716 posts from April 2013 to October 2015. It then became an artist’s book, M (2015), and a series of nine photographs, MM (2016). Its typefaces were borrowed from artists and art institutions, so private notes arrived already dressed in someone else’s visual language.






Pre-Natal
2011-2013
757 Images - 4242 Words - 7 Web Pages
Including: 6 Projects - 26 Works - 4 Shows - 7 Pages - 5 Group shows - 607 Digital Media - 7 Drawings - 7 Installations - 12 Objects - 11 Painting - 109 Photography

Pre-Natal gathers my pieces from 2011 to 2013, a playful critique of ‘contemporaryart’ in which installations develop like conversations and labels become soft invitations.






before Arts
1991-2011
386 Images - 447 Words - 1 Web Page
Including: 1 Projects - 2 Books - 1 Pages - 54 Digital Media - 197 Drawings - 10 Engravings - 43 Illustrations - 9 Masks - 4 Models - 7 Painting - 6 Photography - 54 Sculptures - 26 Sketches - 1 Typefaces - 1 Toy Series