As at the Secession, however, they may also cover entire walls or feature as components in the artists publications. They are used as patterns for wallpaper, carpets, and textiles. His pattern designs appear rooted in the painterly vocabulary of modernism, especially that of French painting, to whose legacy he feels attached.
In what he terms choreographies, Chaimowicz takes pleasure in breaking down the hierarchy of applied and fine art. This nuanced approach reflects the ambiguity of the artwork, which is always situated somehow in-between. His belief in beauty and lightness, elegance and cultivation is expressed in his preference for graceful curves, delicate forms, and a characteristic palette of pastel shades. Over the past four decades, from performances and installations in the 1970s through designs for furniture, ceramics, and patterns for mass-produced consumer items, Marc Camille Chaimowicz has developed an unmistakable formal idiom and signature style. This environment created especially for the Secession out of primarily new works contains the quintessence of a multi-faceted artistic oeuvre.
A few furniture pieces and a painting in ten parts are scattered within the space. A theater curtain and Curtain (For MvdR) from the last Berlin Biennale (dedicated to Mies van der Rohe, 2008) give the show a vertical dimension. Wall designs which filigree patterns and colour palette indicate the artists style decorate the side walls. A multitude of parasols in variously patterned fabrics are arranged on and beside the carpets. The large-format asymmetric carpets lie on bases of different heights whose vertical and horizontal surfaces are at crooked angles, calling into question the functionality of the tufted carpets at the same time as elevating them to the status of autonomous artworks. VIENNA.- A floorscape of carpets with floral and abstract ornamental patterns in soft pastel shades is spread out in the Secessions light-flooded white cube.
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