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Caroline Busta and Lil Internet on Anne Imhof’s Nature Mortes - Artforum International

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THE TL;DR OF ANNE IMHOF’S monumental “Natures Mortes” exhibition at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo is that it was a requiem for twentieth-century subculture—if not for the twentieth century, full stop. In its institutional grandeur alone, the setup already evoked earlier art systems: Curators Emma Lavigne and Vittoria Matarrese invited Imhof to participate in the Palais’s “Carte Blanche” series (inaugurated by Ugo Rondinone in 2007), offering the German artist open use of Europe’s largest center of contemporary art (236,806 square feet). Imhof asked for no less than stripping the venue down to its

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