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Chalet Society Extends The Museum of Everything // Exhibition #1.1

The Chalet Society has extended The Museum of Everything // Exhibition to Sunday 31st March, 2013, due to popular demand. at 14 boulevard Raspail, 75007 Paris. The exhibition has welcomed over 40,000 visitors to date.

An alternative history of 19th, 20th and 21st Century art, Exhibition #1.1 embraces artists who function without art education, theory or society. For them, as for The Museum of Everything, the act of creation and the impulse to make do not depend on destination or definition.

To illustrate this philosophy, Exhibition #1.1 incorporates essays by leading artists, curators, writers and thinkers, including David Byrne, Ed Ruscha, Marlene Dumas, Carsten Höller, Maurizio Cattelan, Nick Cave, Annette Messager, John Baldessari, Paula Rego and Christian Boltanski.

Highlights include the panoramic adult fairytale of Chicago janitor Henry Darger, the towering spirit scrolls of Chinese factory worker Guo Fengyi, the mystic constructions of French miniature architect ACM and the dense tramways of Dutch self-appointed naive Willem van Genk.

Entrance to The Museum of Everything in Paris is by invitation only. To receive your official invitation visit http://musevery.com/site/

For more information, visit www.chaletsociety.com.