Mark Godfrey Walkthrough of standard pose
Join curator and critic Mark Godfrey, for an exhibition walkthrough of Christopher Williams: standard pose at David Zwirner Paris. The exhibition spans the artist’s decades-long engagement with public pictures, ordinary pictures, or pictorial types.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
5–6 PM CET
108, rue Vieille du Temple, Paris
No RSVP required
Christopher Williams: standard pose is on view at David Zwirner Paris beginning Saturday, November 27 through January 29, 2022.
Mark Godfrey is a curator and critic based in London. From 2007 to 2021 he was senior curator at Tate Modern, where he curated and cocurated shows including Soul of a Nation and retrospectives of Sigmar Polke, Roni Horn, Franz West, and Gerhard Richter. Outside Tate, he curated Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, a retrospective that debuted at Art Institute of Chicago before traveling to The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He won the Absolut Prize for Art Writing in 2015 and recently coedited the Soul of a Nation Reader. In 2021 his projects included Laura Owens and Vincent Van Gogh at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, Jacqueline Humphries at the Wexner, and Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall project, In Love With The World, at Tate Modern.
Image: Christopher Williams, Model-Nr.: 1740 Rotznasen - Kinder Model Agentur Liesegangstr. 7A 40211 Düsseldorf Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf January 28, 2016, 2016 (detail)
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