Air de Paris

Baptiste Pinteaux is an exhibition curator and writer. He co-directs the art journal Octopus notes and the publishing house Daisy. His research and curatorial practice focuses on the works of artists such as Pati Hill, Bruno Pelassy, and the PaJaMa collective.

Rob Pruitt invites Lizzi Bougatsos for a duet at Air de Paris. The exhibition explores themes like friendship, the pleasure of creating simple things, the challenges of navigating contemporary production systems (both objects and images), and the cartoonish melancholy of characters who are taken out of their natural environments.

Rob Pruitt’s work is characterized by a fearless engagement with the present, social responsibility, as well as a versatile and polyvalent attitude. His oeuvre includes glittering panda paintings, 2,922 daily portraits of President Obama made throughout his term, a charitable flea market on eBay, a Hollywood-style art award ceremony, and a daily Instagram calendar documenting personal and public events.

Rob Pruitt (born in Washington D.C., 1964) has been exhibited internationally since the early 1990s, with shows at the Rebuild Foundation, Chicago (2019); Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (2017); the Brant Foundation in Greenwich (2015); Aspen Art Museum (2013); Dallas Contemporary (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2015); Kunstverein Freiburg (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon (2002); and group exhibitions at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2012); Tate Modern (2009); Punta della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2009). In 2011, the Public Art Fund commissioned Pruitt’s Andy Monument, a seven-foot-tall chrome statue of Andy Warhol, at Union Square in New York. He lives and works in New York.

Lizzi Bougatsos (born in 1974, Queens) is an internationally renowned experimental musician, lyricist, and visual artist. She lives and works in Brooklyn. She has exhibited at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Hauser & Wirth, American Fine Arts Co., TRAMPS, The Breeder – Greece, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst – Oslo, Norway, Colonnes Blanches, Performance Space NY, Whitney Museum of American Art. Her performances include “Concert for Yoko Ono, Washington and the World” at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and “I am here, Where are you: On Vocal Performance” at the Bergen Kunsthall, and in 2014, an adaptation of John Cage’s ’33 as part of “John Cage: There Will Never Be Silence” at the Museum of Modern Art. Bougatsos has collaborated with artists such as Lonnie Holley, Kim Gordon, Rita Ackermann, the singers of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s Ashram at the Knockdown Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Bougatsos is a member of the group Gang Gang Dance and one half of the noise punk band I.U.D. with Sadie Laska.