(see each caption for the titles of each work in series)
2007
Archival ink on canvas in artist's frame, photograph in artist's frame
Dimensions vary for each diptych, all photographs 32 x 24 cm
Edition of 1 + 1 AP complete installation
Edition of 2 + 1 AP diptychs and individual photographs
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 89 (42,5 x 40,5 cm / 32 x 24 cm)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 71 (57 x 44 cm, 32 x 24 cm)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 61 (40 x 66 cm, 32 x 24 cm)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 64 (80 x 68,5 cm, 32 x 24 cm)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 75 (46,5 x 37,5 cm , 32 x 24 cm)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 54 (38 x 37,5 cm, 32 x 24 cm)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 69 (64 x 99 cm, 32 x 24 cm)
Don't Play the Heartless One and Portrait of Charles Baudelaire
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 73 (34 x 24 cm, 32 x 24)
Itinerary Based on the Footnotes from Baudelaire's Review of the Salon of 1846, Page 57 (45 x 40 cm, 32 x 24 cm)
This is a series of prints on canvas and photographs that propose travel itineraries to see works of art referenced in the footnotes of Charles Baudelaire's review of the Salon of 1846. This salon marked the end of the Romantic movement and the beginning of Decadence which Baudelaire, dandy and Symbolist poet, was a leading figure. All works are derived from Jonathan Mayne’s Art in Paris 1845-1862, Salons and other Exhibitions, Reviewed by Charles Baudelaire, published 1965 by Phaidon Press Limited. The footnotes are a combination of Baudelaire’s and Mayne’s.
The Baudelaire Itineraries, along with works such as The Garden of Earthly Delights, One Night Stand (Paris), and The Seven Year Itch, comprise instances in Lisa Tan’s oeuvre in which a kind of wanderlust by proposal is engaged. In approximating an encounter with any given historical place, event, or object found in her proposals, Tan relies on how any viewer is an individual vessel of image culture. The works consider how representation informs our understanding of the world – or lack thereof – perhaps most so in those cases of which we have no first-hand experience.
Texts
Schum, Courtney. “Distance and Intimacy: The Role of Ekphrasis in Lisa Tan’s The Baudelaire Itineraries”. 2018.link / pdf
Exhibition History
Shiver in the Shift, Parra & Romero, Madrid, 2012Sur le Dandysme, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, 2010
Ambassador Suites, Galerie Lucile Corty, Paris, 2008
The Baudelaire Itineraries, Andreas Grimm München, 2007
Reviews
Smolik, Noemi. “Lisa Tan: The Baudelaire Itineraries.” Artforum. Sept 2007. Print.link / pdf