MANAGERS DE L'IMMATURITE (“Managers of Immaturity”)
Exhibition conceived by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
17 January–7 February 1999

Zbigniew K. Adach, Cyrille André, Jacques-Olivier André, Alexandra Audry, Nathalie Audry, Matthias Begart, Emmanuelle Bentz, Léonard Bertrand, Maria-Sophia Bettencourt, Mathieu Borodine, Mathilde Boureev, Hervé Burret, Bakhouche Charif, Nicolas Comment, Fred Conté, Chimène Denneulin, Damien Deroubaix, Mathieu Doll, Hélène Emptaz, Géraldine Gallavardin, Agnès Geoffray, Gérald, Olivier Grossetête, Frédéric Héritier, Judith Josso, Matthieu Laurette, Guillaume Leblon, Audrey Marlhens, Céline Martinet, Stéphanie Nava, Robin Nicolas, Pascal Poulain, Bénédicte Roland, Samuel Rousseau, Céline Savoye, Barthélémy Toguo, Elise Touanen, Nicolas Tourette, Michel Vagnon, Estelle Vautaret, Véronique Vernett.

MANAGERS DE L’IMMATURITÉ presents some two score artists from and chosen by art schools in the Rhône-Alpes region (Annecy, Grenoble, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Valence).

The exhibition is laid out around Le Magasin’s “galleries” space in accordance with a choice proposed by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, between three possible worlds:

1. A world regulated from the outside – governed by a set of external decisions which define the hanging, the presentation and the choice of works.

2. A self-managed world, run by the participants, who from the outset take a certain number of decisions concerning the choice of works and mode of presentation.

3. A world without rules, where the choices are made during the week of the hanging, with no prior decisions, with no discussion or interventions from outside.

The three worlds each occupy the same area in the exhibition. Through them are revealed a set of questions, behaviours and tactics which go beyond the choice of a medium or theme. This device of parallel worlds should bring forth a different kind of relation to the exhibition and also underscore the specificity and relevance of each contribution. By playing with a system of rules, the exhibition incites each participant to make their position clear and more radical – in other words, to “manage their immaturity”.