A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus. In the span of a short yet exceptionally prolific career, Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002) transgressed the well-worn rules of painting to capture the influence of digital media and pop culture during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Majerus's large-scale paintings and installations--characterized by the artist's "sampling" and collaging of an eclectic repertoire of imagery and text borrowed from art history, video games, commercials, and electronic music--resonate with the rapid expansion of globalized consumer culture and digital technology.
This book collects and preserves the talks and lecture-performances held during a symposium on Majerus at Mudam, the contemporary art museum in Luxembourg. The convening considered the relevance of Majerus's reflections today and discussed the dimensions of his legacy--investigating his influence on the practices of the digitally native artists, curators, and researchers who came after him.
The symposium was the first chapter of a program dedicated to Majerus's work at the museum and was followed by the exhibition SINNMASCHINE, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge. Rather than a retrospective, the exhibition examined Majerus's working methods by displaying never-before-exhibited archival material, including Majerus's drawings and writings from his expansive collection of notebooks. This publication bridges the exhibition and the symposium's reflections, featuring images of Majerus's work and notebooks alongside contributions by Cory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Motoko Ishibashi, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Clémentine Proby, Fabian Schöneich, Stephanie Seidel, Bettina Steinbrügge, and Sarah Johanna Theurer.
what looks good today may not look good tomorrow: The Legacy of Michel Majerus is the first book in the Mudam Series. This series is an edited collection of interventions, symposiums, and lectures by artists, critics, writers, curators, art historians, and thinkers that have taken place at Mudam, the contemporary art museum in Luxembourg. Each volume is dedicated to a specific artist or theme, following the museum's exhibition program. The series is meant as a collection of working documents that open up a dialogue beyond institutional walls--a gentle nod to books still being the greatest of meeting places. Mudam Series is conceived and edited by Bettina Steinbrügge and Mudam's editorial team.
ContributorsCory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Motoko Ishibashi, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Clémentine Proby, Fabian Schöneich, Stephanie Seidel, Bettina Steinbrügge, Sarah Johanna Theurer
Published with MUDAM Luxembourg
《已故盧森堡藝術家米歇爾·馬耶魯斯遺產的研討會紀錄》
在短暫卻極具生產力的職業生涯中，盧森堡藝術家米歇爾·馬耶魯斯（1967-2002）突破了傳統繪畫的規則，捕捉了1990年代和2000年代初數位媒體及流行文化的影響。馬耶魯斯的大型畫作和裝置藝術，以其「取樣」和拼貼來自藝術史、電子遊戲、廣告和電子音樂的多樣影像和文字而著稱，與全球化消費文化和數位科技的迅速擴張相呼應。
本書收錄並保存了在盧森堡當代藝術博物館Mudam舉行的馬耶魯斯研討會期間的演講和講座表演。此次會議考量了馬耶魯斯的反思在當今的相關性，並討論了他的遺產的各個面向，探討了他對後來數位原生藝術家、策展人和研究者的影響。
該研討會是博物館專門為馬耶魯斯的作品所設計的計畫的第一章，隨後舉辦了由貝蒂娜·施泰因布魯格策展的展覽《SINNMASCHINE》。這場展覽並非回顧展，而是通過展示從未展出過的檔案資料，包括馬耶魯斯的素描和他龐大筆記本收藏中的文字，來檢視馬耶魯斯的工作方法。本出版物橋接了展覽和研討會的反思，展示了馬耶魯斯的作品和筆記本的影像，並收錄了科里·阿卡根、凱倫·阿奇、石橋素子、英格麗德·盧凱-加德、克萊門婷·普羅比、法比安·舍內希、史蒂芬妮·賽德爾、貝蒂娜·施泰因布魯格和莎拉·約翰娜·特尤爾的貢獻。
《今天看起來不錯的，明天可能看起來不錯：米歇爾·馬耶魯斯的遺產》是Mudam系列的第一本書。該系列是對在盧森堡當代藝術博物館Mudam舉行的藝術家、評論家、作家、策展人、藝術史學家和思想家的干預、研討會和講座的編輯合集。每一卷都專注於特定的藝術家或主題，遵循博物館的展覽計畫。該系列旨在作為一個工作文件的集合，開啟超越機構牆壁的對話——輕輕地向書籍仍然是最偉大的聚會場所致敬。Mudam系列由貝蒂娜·施泰因布魯格和Mudam的編輯團隊構思和編輯。
貢獻者：
科里·阿卡根、凱倫·阿奇、石橋素子、英格麗德·盧凱-加德、克萊門婷·普羅比、法比安·舍內希、史蒂芬妮·賽德爾、貝蒂娜·施泰因布魯格、莎拉·約翰娜·特尤爾
與MUDAM盧森堡共同出版。
