Jeremy Deller's new "carte blanche" exhibit at Palais de Tokyo is rich with promise

It is pretty obvious that TI is very fascinated by the contemporary French art scene, primarily because it is so very good at distilling popular culture with an analytic framework that feels neither forced or insincere. The flagship platform for that ideal for me is very much Palais de Tokyo and as fate would have it, they open a new exhibition, "From One Revolution To Another", right on the brink of the SS 09 Paris shows. That means a glorious afternoon drifting through another carte blanche exhibit by a contempoarry artist. This season Jeremy Deller does the honors and his premise is rich with possibilities for both rapture and disaster. Here's a synopsis of the Palais de Tokyo press release

FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER
Carte blanche to Jeremy Deller with Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King,
Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns.

From the Industrial Revolution to the appearance of glam rock
in England, by way of the electronic music in Soviet Union, the
emergence of rock in France, the union banners of Ed Hall and
the personal fictions of William Scott, the exhibition FROM ONE
REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER explores fields in the margins of
contemporary art and questions possible relationships between
industrial and cultural revolutions. At the boundaries of history,
anthropology and contemporary art, the exhibition mingles
collective and personal histories in a unique way.
Every year the Palais de Tokyo invites an artist to take on the role of curator and
come up with an out-of-the-ordinary project. Enlisting the help of
quite a few collaborators, Jeremy Deller, a winner of the prestigious
Turner Prize, has devised an exhibition that defies categorization
where the protagonists can escape being defined as artists and the
objects presented are not always apprehended as works of art.

FROM ONE REVOLUTION TO ANOTHER
25th Sept 2009 till 04 Jan 2009