FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The City Museum of Modern Art Paris (located in the Palais de Tokyo) is presenting the exhibition Seconde Main (Second Hand), on view from March 25th to October 24th 2010. The exhibition, curated by Anne Dressen, questions the notions of copy, replica, appropriation and originality, and will present a selection of look-alike pieces from the permanent collection. These pieces are all remakes of earlier modern and contemporary masterpieces created by artists from the late 1960s to present day.

{CTS} creative thriftshop is pleased to announce that Brooklyn-based artist Eric Doeringer has been selected to present the following four works from his Bootleg series in the exhibition: Eric Doeringer, Sherrie Levine (Walker Evans), 2001, Eric Doeringer, Peter Halley, 2001, Eric Doeringer, Keith Haring, 2001, Eric Doeringer, Damien Hirst, 2006, and Eric Doeringer, Jeff Koons, 2005.

Doeringer’s Bootleg series raise crucial issues of visual ownership, as the artist defies the notion by recreating his contemporaries most well-known masterpieces. The end result is neither copycat flattery nor is it mere exploration within another artists iconography and imagery. Doeringers conceptual approach to challenging the idea has defiantly pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable in the face of massive commercial success.

Appropriation has been a constant and inherent component of art history. In the 1960s, several artists challenged the notion of authorship and originality, within the economic system of mass production. Unlike forgers, various strategies of “originality” are revealed through the choices of the copied works, their titles, their signatures, or their technical mediums, all parameters opposing and distinguishing one copy from another.

These differences lead to the emergence of the second ‘I’ or author, gradually identified and integrated within art history. Works borrowing the form of the original were produced with a conceptual approach, or marked by the postmodernism of the 1980s (in particular with appropriationism). These issues are further echoed among today’s artists, when internet connects the global marketplace, and artists often delegate the realization of their work to artisans in China or elsewhere.
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about the artist: Eric Doeringer earned a BA with Honors from the Brown University Department of Visual Art and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1998. In addition to his aforementioned guerilla artwork sales, Doeringer has had solo exhibitions at Apex Art (New York), Katharine Mulherin (Toronto), The Fuel Collection (Philadelphia), and Another Year in LA (Los Angeles). Doeringer was commissioned by The Whitney Museum to create a multiple for their Initial Public Offerings program and has been included in exhibitions at the Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon (MUSAC), The Bruce Museum, The Itami [Japan] Museum of Arts And Crafts, and Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI Miami artist fair.

about the museum: This museum is located in the Palais de Tokyo which was built for the International Exposition of 1937. The museum opened here in 1961. Its collection is mostly due to gifts of donors. It exhibits art from 1901 onward. The works are of Fauvism, Cubism and Post-Cubism as well as Surrealism and New Realism. The interior of the building is large and vacuous. The exhibits are displayed in separate rooms. There are three rooms where the temporary exhibits take place. The rest of the museum holds permanent exhibits.