
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display
This reference monograph revisits the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s. With a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, the publication, written in close collaboration with Chaimowicz between late 2016 and 2020, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet. A ribbon drawn by the artist is inserted as a bookmark. Born in the aftermath of World War II (in 1947 in Paris) of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an o