View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022 | Claude RUTAULT | PERROTIN
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Claude
RUTAULT

View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022

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Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29387

Off Paradise is delighted to present Claude Rutault, A Proposal to Peter Nadin, a project forty-three years in the making, based on a proposal, or “protocol,” given by Rutault, one of the most important French artists of his generation and a pioneer of Conceptualism, to fellow artist Nadin in June 1979.



A Proposal to Peter Nadin is one of the rare, if not unique, occurrences in Rutault’s oeuvre of a protocol being addressed to a specific individual instead of to a nameless “charge-taker.” The protocol begins, “As the person in charge of a space, Peter Nadin will have to make a certain number of decisions, just as for any show.”



The proposal was never realized and has remained a text in Rutault’s archive to this day, more than four decades later.



In a nod to that passage of time, Nadin has made the decision to realize the protocol by painting a single canvas 42 times over, plus one.

Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29388
Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29393
Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29389
Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29390
Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29391
Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29394
Claude RUTAULT  "Claude Rutault, A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022"
Claude RUTAULT "Claude Rutault, A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022"
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29387
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29388
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29393
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29389
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29390
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29391
  • Claude_Rutault_View of the exhibition "A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022" curated by Natacha Polaert  at Off Paradise New York (USA), 2022_29394
  • Claude RUTAULT  "Claude Rutault, A Proposal to Peter Nadin, 1979; realized 2022"

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