Purple Art
[March 10 2014]
Alexis Dahan’s exhibition “If the game is the art, is chance the artists?” at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
“If the game is the art, is chance the artist?” is a public and participatory installation that explores the concept of chance. Alexis Dahan invites onlookers to sit down with him and play “Lewitt Machine”, a game that transforms their dice-generated chance into an abstract drawing. At the end of the 15-20 minute participatory performance, a coin toss determines if the guest or artist keeps the drawing that was created. In addition, the Stephane Mallarmé poem, “A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance”, is featured as a light installation on the studio windows, in which Dahan used chance to change the order of the poem’s original 12 spreads. Alexis Dahan’s “If the game is the art, is chance the artist?” in participation with Art Production Fund, runs until March 16th at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Photo Camilla Oldenkamp
