The education team at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève is offering a series of guided tours, in French and English, of the exhibition Enfantillages et bizarreries : vertige d’une collection—on view at L'Arcade from April 29 to June 28.
The exhibition presents a fascinating collection of small objects—trinkets, charms, gadgets, toys, lucky charms, or simple pieces of wood, scraps of cloth, and shards of glass—saved from the banality of the world by the hand of artists who made them into works of art.
Perfume bottles by Sol LeWitt, fans by Gilbert & George, pencils by Jenny Holzer, coat racks by Jonathan Monk, cycling jerseys by Mario Schifano, or stamps by Yoko Ono—the collection constantly oscillates between toy, everyday artifact, and work of art, a constellation of objects that are at once familiar and strangely singular.

• Sunday, May 3 at 4 pm (FR)

• Wednesday, May 13 at 4 pm (FR)

• Sunday, May 17 at 4 pm (EN)

• Thursday, May 21 at 6:30 pm (FR or EN)

• Thursday, May 21 at 7 pm (FR or EN)

• Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 pm (FR or EN)

• Wednesday, May 27 at 5 pm (FR)

• Friday, May 29 at 5 pm (FR)

• Sunday, June 7 at 4 pm (EN)

• Wednesday, June 10 at 4 pm (FR)

• Sunday, June 21 at 4 pm (FR)

Registration required:
For more information, please email publics@centre.ch