Two Private Paris Exhibitions Probe Contemporary Existence

Key facts

• Two exhibitions in Paris: 'Les recherches d'un chien' at Maison Rouge and 'Born in Dystopia' at Rosenblum Collection and Friends.
• 'Les recherches d'un chien' runs from October 23, 2010 to January 16, 2011.
• The exhibition is organized by FACE (Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe), a group of five foundations.
• It travels to DESTE Foundation (Athens), Ellipse Foundation (Cascais), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), and Magasin 3 (Stockholm).
• Title references a Kafka story and Deleuze and Guattari's interpretation.
• Artists in 'Les recherches d'un chien' include Mark Dion, Mircea Cantor, Mark Manders, Vasco Araújo, Urs Fischer, David Hammons, Sherrie Levine.
• 'Born in Dystopia' opened during FIAC at Rosenblum Collection, a private space in the 13th arrondissement.
• Chiara and Steve Rosenblum started collecting five years ago; the space is open by appointment.
• Exhibition references post-9/11 era; first purchase was an exploded luggage container by Christoph Büchel.
• Notable commission: Loris Gréaud's 'Non existence of the past, death of the future, and the infinite possibilities of the present' featuring white rhinoceroses.
• Other artists in 'Born in Dystopia': Matthew Day Jackson, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Allen Ruppersberg, Duane Hanson, Steven Shearer, Rokni Haerizadeh, Mounir Fatmi, Andrei Molodkine.
• Rosenblums inspired by Hoffmann collection (Berlin) and Rubell collection (Miami).