Notes on Baroque Living: Colette and Her Living Environment, 1972–1983
Colette Lumiere
Nov20Feb122022

Curated by Kenta Murakami

Between 1972 and 1983, the artist Colette transformed her Lower Manhattan loft into an immersive, ever-evolving installation and inhabited it as a living sculpture. Covering the ceilings and walls with ruched silks, blush satins, mirrors, cascading ropes and light boxes, Colette obsessively created a complete Living Environment in which every surface was a work of art. Through mixed-media paintings, sculptures, light boxes, costumes, short films, music, performance documentation, and ephemera, the exhibition at Company Gallery reconstructs a portion of this legendary space with a new installation that utilizes the original site’s elements, as well as revisits the prolific period of Colette’s practice during which she called the Living Environment her home.

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Selected Works

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Beautiful Dreamer Uniform Series II,

1980-1984

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Wall Fragment from the Living Environment,

1980

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Off the Wall (As Marat in David's Wraith / PS1 Contemporary Art Center),

1976

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Bed Series II,

1975 - 1976

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Notes on Baroque Living (Installation),

1978 - 1983, Reconstruction 2021

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Model for Sakowitz Window Display,

1979

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Off the Wall / French Consulate, New York (Postcards of The Story of My Life),

1975 - 1977

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Camille II / Museum of Modern Art (Postcards of The Story of My Life),

1976

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Activities and Products / Justine of the Colette is Dead Co.

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'I’m a Work of Art’ T-shirt Dress (Ripping Myself Off),

1978 - 1979

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Justine and the Victorian Punks (Records of the Story of My Life),

1978

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The Modern Bride / Studio 54, New York (Records of the Story of My Life),

1982

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The Messenger,

1978, Reconstruction 2021

Press

Nov 30 2021

Hyperallergic

Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021

Dec 10 2021

4Columns

Colette Lumiere

Dec 14 2021

SSENSE

Eternally Colette

Dec 20 2021

e-flux (Art Agenda)

Colette Lumiere’s “Notes on Baroque Living: Colette and Her Living Environment, 1972–83”

Jan 10 2022

Hyperallergic

The Punk Marie Antoinette of the 1970s New York Art Scene

Feb 3 2022

The Brooklyn Rail

Helène Aylon & Colette Lumiere

Mar 1 2022

ArtForum

Canada Choate on Colette Lumiere

Mar 19 2022

Art news

How I Made This: Reconstructing Colette Lumiere’s “Living Environment”

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