Slash Paris — All Events

Opening : Christodoulos Panayiotou — 2. rapporter le monde au monde

Press release — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:26:28 +0200

Opening — CAC Brétigny — Sunday, July 1, 2012

À travers la production de dispositif mêlant toutes sortes de références, Christodoulos Panayiotou nous invite à renégocier le discours politique et historique de nos pratiques sociales. En rendant disponible la double signifcation des objets ou images que convoquent ses œuvres, Christodoulos questionne notre rapport à l’Histoire autant qu’aux histoires.

Christodoulos Panayiotou — 2. rapporter le monde au monde

Press release — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:25:07 +0200

Exhibition — CAC Brétigny — July 1 → 28, 2012

Opening : D’échec en échec sans perdre son enthousiasme

Press release — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:05:10 +0200

Opening — ENSAPC Ygrec — Friday, June 1, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

L’exposition ainsi que la programmation de performances « No Sport », s’attachent à faire de l’échec un principe moteur de la création et de la réception esthétique, et à ne pas distinguer la constitution d’un objet ou d’une exposition de son exécution et de sa perception, conjuguant l’expérience esthétique à celle de la vie.

Performance : No sport — programmation de performances

Press release — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:05:10 +0200

Performance — ENSAPC Ygrec — Friday, June 1, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

Invitation est faite aux artistes d’investir cet espace, abordant les limites de cette notion de résistance, aussi bien dans sa forme sculpturale que politique. Performances d’Alexandre Gérard, Double You, Nicolas Puyjalon

Ciprian Muresan

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:53:41 +0200

Exhibition — Hussenot Gallery — May 12 → June 20, 2012

Ciprian Muresan travaille à partir d’œuvres artistiques et littéraires qu’il s’approprie et inscrit dans une réflexion transversale sur l’histoire récente de la Roumanie et des pays de l’Est, plus généralement sur les réalités du monde contemporain, marqué par la fin des utopies et dominé par le divertissement — une culture globalisée et consensuelle.

Santiago Sierra — Detroyed Word

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:26:10 +0200

Exhibition — CAC Brétigny — May 11 → September 22, 2012

Destroyed Word est une œuvre en progrès réalisée en plusieurs étapes à travers le monde depuis 2010, chacune étant la construction et la destruction d’une lettre qui s’accumulent pour former un mot emblématique dont l’effacement représente la disparition de la culture occidentale.

Thierry Mouillé — Cosmosaïque

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:08:55 +0200

Exhibition — Claudine Papillon Gallery — May 12 → June 23, 2012

Thierry Mouillé fait fi de tous les arraisonnements logiques. Il en fait même son miel, dès que la théorie ou la critique arrête une définition de son travail, il la déplace et la dépasse avec agilité, faisant surgir quelque imprévu qui remet tout en jeu.

Opening : Lollypop

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:59:58 +0200

Opening — 208 Gallery — Thursday, May 31, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

Matteo Negri and Marco Casentini both use a bridge to travel in mixed geometric shapes and colors to invite the viewer to immerse themselves in the heart of their great childhoods or simply to discover a known or unknown land to some people.

Leonor Antunes — the parallel bars

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:54:47 +0200

Exhibition — Air de Paris Gallery — June 1 → July 13, 2012

For her second exhibition at Air de Paris, Leonor Antunes is presenting a series of new sculptures based on the measurements of specific Modernist buildings. Works that are reversals of reversals: nothing less than taking the anti-Modernist gambit.

Mrzyk & Moriceau — Poppies are also Flowers 4/4

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:31:26 +0200

Exhibition — Air de Paris Gallery — June 1 → July 13, 2012

You have to know how to get things over and done with. Bring everything out. Or put everything back in, who knows? For Mrzyk & Moriceau everything starts with the drawing all their three-dimensional works return to. Literally.

Lollypop

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:29:07 +0200

Exhibition — 208 Gallery — May 31 → June 19, 2012

Opening : Soraya Rhofir — Flash-Society — Les courtiers de la lumière

Press release — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:04:19 +0200

Opening — Les églises centre d'art de Chelles — Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Dans Flash-Society — Les courtiers de la lumière, une suite de personnages hybrides extraits de leurs contextes et associés réapparaissent sous la forme d’un panorama. Émancipés de leurs origines, ils prennent place dans une nef moyenâgeuse. Coquillages, poubelle, chiens ou baleine, il s’agit d’une rencontre éclectique aux esthétiques éclatées.

Matt Keegan — = =

Press release — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:45:30 +0200

Exhibition — Mfc – Michèle Didier Gallery — May 12 → June 30, 2012

== features newly commissioned essays, interviews between artists and editioned works. The curious title of this publication refers to html programming and the double equal sign is used to creat equivalent fields. Open to various pronunciations, this symbol points to the plurality of this edition and its future life as a computer file.

D’échec en échec sans perdre son enthousiasme

Press release — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:27:30 +0200

Exhibition — ENSAPC Ygrec — June 1 → July 13, 2012

Nuit

Press release — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:13:57 +0200

Exhibition — Metropolis Gallery — May 12 → July 10, 2012

Dae Jin Choi’s work is on the exact intersection of several realities : the cold war in Korea, the world fights of powers, and that finally the plural artistic breakaway of all the possibles. With the poetic grace that elude the constraint of mediums, the artist’s ready-made, paintings, sculptures, videos invit to crazy adventure games.

Ellsworth Kelly

Press release — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:09:32 +0200

Exhibition — Marian Goodman Gallery — May 16 → July 13, 2012

Ellsworth Kelly has often said he takes inspiration from observing the world around him, distilling to abstraction visual fragments like the shape of a leaf, an architectural vault, the bend of a page or the curve of a body. The exhibition will include an installation of four 2-panel paintings, made this year.

Claire Morel — ISBN 978-2-9540208-8-4

Press release — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:47:48 +0200

Exhibition — Martine Aboucaya Gallery — May 12 → June 30, 2012

For Claire Morel, written is a picture, the book is an item. It isn’t about denying the meaning borne by words but to feel their materiality : a book is a space, an architecture, a surface that writing occupies, transforms and livens up with its attendance and non-attendance.

Laurent Mareschal — Bureau d’échange

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:55:52 +0200

Exhibition — Marie Cini Gallery — May 5 → June 16, 2012

Artist Laurent Mareschal often invites the public to participate, even to transform his work. Apparently in this project one can exchange just about anything, even beyond money for artwork.

Opening : Couleur…dans l’art contemporain

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:49:31 +0200

Opening — Grey Area Multiples — Thursday, May 31, 2012 7 PM → 10 PM

Ryan Boatright, Richard Galpin and Katie Goodwin play with colour. Some works take colour as a conceptual starting point; others just play joyfully with the bright stuff.

Opening : Bzzz! Le son de l’électricité — Sculpture sonore de Cécile Babiole

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:45:10 +0200

Opening — Friday, June 1, 2012 6 PM → 10 PM

By reinventing an obsolete low-tech sound wave generator in this all-digital age, Bzzz ! serves as a commentary on the history of technology and a tribute to unprocessed, unsampled analog sound : in a word, the raw sound of electricity.

Performance of Cécile Babiole and Quentin Aurat

Opening : Halim Al-Karim

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:34:06 +0200

Opening — Imane Farès Gallery — Thursday, May 31, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

To Halim Al Karim, photography is a means to question, analyse, and understand the essence and complexity of the world around him. His artwork therefore lends itself to decipherment and should be read from the perspective of an existential unveiling, confronting the wounded memory and experience of exile with the desire to lift the mask from a dehumanising reality.

Halim Al Karim

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:30:40 +0200

Exhibition — Imane Farès Gallery — May 31 → September 29, 2012

Couleur…dans l’art contemporain

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:11:34 +0200

Exhibition — Grey Area Multiples — June 1 → July 7, 2012

Ryan Boatright, Richard Galpin and Katie Goodwin play with colour. Some works take colour as a conceptual starting point; others just play joyfully with the bright stuff.

Bzzz! Le son de l’électricité — Sculpture sonore de Cécile Babiole

Press release — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:48:43 +0200

Exhibition — Plateforme — June 1 → 17, 2012

Soraya Rhofir — Flash-Society — Les courtiers de la lumière

Press release — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:33:07 +0200

Exhibition — Les églises centre d'art de Chelles — June 2 → July 15, 2012

Antoine Schneck — Photographies

Press release — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:36:02 +0200

Exhibition — Berthet – Aittouarès Gallery — May 31 → July 13, 2012

Il y a dans les photographies d’Antoine Schneck une dimension qui interroge, un questionnement qui peut être aussi fort que celui qui touchait les premiers spectateurs du daguerréotype : ce qu’on y voit semble si présent qu’on oublie l’écran que l’image place devant ce qu’elle entend représenter.

Bernd Lohaus — Carlo Guaita — Antonio Calderara

Press release — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:51:10 +0200

Exhibition — Bernard Bouche Gallery — May 12 → June 2, 2012

Un grand artiste minimaliste Allemand est à l’honneur dans cette exposition collective, Bernd Lohaus — avec une œuvre récemment exposée au S.M.A.K à Gand. En contrepoids, deux artistes Italiens, dont Antonio Calderara avec de rares œuvres des années 60-70 et un jeune artiste Florentin Carlo Guaita.

Opening : Bernard Moninot — Silent — Listen

Press release — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:44:19 +0200

Opening — Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6 PM

The gallery presents Bernard Moninot’s latest work: a set of drawings on silk or organza made from 2010 to 2012 — graphite, acrylic, light and shadow.

We look forward to welcoming you to the opening of the exhibition wednesday 23 May 2012 from 6p.m. to 9p.m.

Meeting : Le trouble esprit des formes — Entretiens sur l’Art — Christophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus

Press release — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:32:07 +0200

Meeting — Fondation d’entreprise Ricard — Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Chistophe Berdaguer & Marie Péjus (Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard in 2007) are invited, with Nathalie Ergino, IAC director.

Bernard Moninot — Silent — Listen

Press release — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:04:03 +0200

Exhibition — Baudoin Lebon Gallery — May 24 → July 7, 2012

The gallery presents Bernard Moninot’s latest work: a set of drawings on silk or organza made from 2010 to 2012 — graphite, acrylic, light and shadow.

Michel Loeb — Loebjet Baroque

Press release — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:38:49 +0200

Exhibition — Yu Gallery — May 30 → June 30, 2012

Un toucan sur le dos d’un lion, des rhinocéros aux costumes extravagants, un arbre aux bébés joufflus et plus encore : venez découvrir le merveilleux univers de Michel Loeb. Ses œuvres ont le pouvoir de nous communiquer des moments de petits bonheurs ludiques et pétillants, si rares aujourd’hui.

Grégory Derenne — Sunlights

Press release — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:28:04 +0200

Exhibition — Bertrand Grimont Gallery — May 12 → June 7, 2012

The subtle contrast between light and dark gives birth to chiaroscuro. In order to capture these subtleties, Grégory Derenne slips backstage on TV sets and steps into churches. Investing in these sites as if they were pictoral subjects, he plays with the intensity of light to reveal or not their intrinsic elements. …

Meeting : Ça & là (This & There) — Célébrer les 10 ans du Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Laboratoire de création du Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:35:37 +0200

Meeting — Fondation d’entreprise Ricard — Monday, May 21, 2012 7 PM → 9 PM

I have been invited to realize an exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo Laboratory for Creation by Ange Leccia and Christian Merlhiot, creators and holders of this laboratory and Colette Barbier and the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard that will host this project. — Claude Closky

Tozo Konishi & Taisuke Sato — Céramiques de Bizen

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:35:51 +0200

Exhibition — Yoshii Gallery — June 6 → July 6, 2012

In Japan, where the ceramics have a status of high art, Bizen, south of Kyoto, is particularly famous for its ceramics. Gallery Yhoshii will exhibit Tôzô Konishi et Taisuké Sato, two contemporary artists.

Monstre s’affiche — Les partitions visuelles

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:46:45 +0200

Exhibition — De Roussan Gallery — May 10 → June 16, 2012

How is it possible to set up an exhibition as an act of edition? How to think about an exhibition as an extension of the magazine? To give an answer to these two interrogations, we try to formulate a protocol. Giving the idea that in the magazine only a part of an artwork is shown, we chose to show no entire physical artwork.

Summer Camps — Rêveries américaines sur l’adolescence

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:43:24 +0200

Exhibition — Suzanne Tarasieve — June 2 → July 28, 2012

LʼAmérique regarde toujours devant elle. Ici, pas dʼhistoire, de patrimoine ou de passé qui alourdissent. « Les adolescents représentent le futur », disent les américains. Larry Clark a été lʼun des premiers à être fasciné et à vouloir revivre cette période quʼil lui semblait avoir bâclée. Sur la scène des US, de jeunes artistes regardent toujours cette génération de teenagers.

Opening : Summer Camps — Rêveries américaines sur l’adolescence

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:43:24 +0200

Opening — Suzanne Tarasieve — Saturday, June 2, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

Curated by Marie Martens

Carrie Moyer & Les Rogers

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:30:08 +0200

Exhibition — Suzanne Tarasieve, Marais Gallery — May 12 → June 23, 2012

For her first Parisian exhibition, Carrie Moyer continues her particular blend of hybridized biomorphic abstraction with expansive panache. In a series of works that make the painterʼs careful choreographies look effortless, Moyerʼs deft paint application dazzles in glossy licks and nacreous spills.

Jan Kopp — Constellations ordinaires

Press release — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:41:49 +0200

Exhibition — Marion Meyer Contemporain — May 12 → June 30, 2012

Marion Meyer Contemporain presents for the first time the works of Jan Kopp : the exhibition project will explore the concept of rhythm and measurement of time. By the use of simple and fragile technics, Jan Kopp brings perfectly that paradox between imperceptible fragility and inexorable movement.

Kiki Smith — Catching Shadows

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:41:45 +0200

Exhibition — Lelong Gallery — May 10 → June 30, 2012

Kiki Smith has a very personal take on all art techniques. Through these media she continues to explore the body, its organs, and the animal and plants of the surrounding nature. For this exhibition, she has focused on the theme of eyes both human or animal, and on Vision with all the connotations related to it.

3ème tour — Musiques d’une campagne

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:15:21 +0200

Exhibition — Duboys Gallery — May 10 → June 23, 2012

The teams of the candidates to the 2012 presidential election busy themselves and fight each other; at the same time, the Duboys Gallery gave carte blanche to five artists enabling them to give way to their impressions during this campaign.

Monumenta 2012 — Daniel Buren

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:04:05 +0200

Exhibition — Grand Palais – La nef — May 10 → June 12, 2012

Every year, Monumenta invites an internationally-renowned contemporary artist to produce a monumental work for display in the Grand Palais. Daniel Buren, one of France’s greatest artists, will be rising to this challenge during the fifth Monumenta event.

Météorologies mentales, œuvres et livres de la collection Andreas Züst

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:54:42 +0200

Exhibition — CCS — May 12 → July 15, 2012

Andreas Züst (1947-2000) était collectionneur, bibliophile, mécène, météorologiste, photographe, peintre, créature de la nuit, éditeur, producteur de films… L’exposition du CCS, en plus de regrouper une large sélection d’œuvres réalisées principalement entre 1960 et 2000, a pris parti de montrer cette collection dans sa pluralité.

Stéphane Protic — Heaven’s door

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:46:11 +0200

Exhibition — Le Cabinet — May 10 → June 30, 2012

For his first exhibition in the gallery Le Cabinet, Stéphane Protic, young artist graduated of the Esart in Toulon, shows a hanging articulated in three times where are experimented a lot of mediums.

Gaël Davrinche solo show

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:27:29 +0200

Exhibition — Magda Danysz Gallery — May 5 → June 16, 2012

La galerie Magda Danysz consacre pour la première fois une exposition entièrement dédiée à Gaël Davrinche. L’artiste y présente ses dernières œuvres inédites : de nombreux portraits peint avec humour, une série d’œuvres réinterpétant la Joconde de Léonard de Vinci ainsi que des fleurs fanées, symboles du renouveau.

Fermin Aguayo — Présence habitée — Présence réfléchie

Press release — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:05:44 +0200

Exhibition — Jeanne Bucher Gallery, Jaeger Bucher Gallery — May 11 → July 13, 2012

The gallery presents a retrospective exhibition of the Spanish painter Fermin Aguayo entitled “Inhabited Presence, Reflected Presence” at both the right bank and left bank spaces of the Gallery. This exhibition retraces the itinerary of a great painter who died prematurely in 1977 at the age of 51, and whom the gallery has promoted ever since the 1950s.

La Métropole silencieuse — Antoine Espinasseau & Gaétan Brunet

Press release — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:18:16 +0200

Exhibition — Florence Leoni Gallery — May 5 → June 16, 2012

Antoine Espinasseau & Gaëtan Brunet sont urbanistes et architectes, pour leur première exposition en galerie, ils présenteront une série de photo-montages numériques mixant sur un mode surréaliste l’univers pavillonnaire francilien avec des figures humaines et des formes architecturales empruntées à l’histoire de la création moderne et contemporaine.

Gianni Burattoni — Jardin caché

Press release — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:17:28 +0200

Exhibition — Briobox Gallery — May 11 → June 2, 2012

Le lieu du Jardin caché se trouve en Normandie, au pays de Caux, dans un grand bois aux abords et sur les flancs d’un coteau. Ce territoire a été lourdement bombardé par l’aviation alliée pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. A deux kilomètres de ce lieu était cachée et camouflée une rampe allemande de lancement de V1.

Ever living Ornement — Une exposition consacrée à l’ornement dans la création contemporaine de l’art et de l’architecture

Press release — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:28:02 +0200

Exhibition — La Maréchalerie — April 6 → July 1, 2012

L’exposition aborde l’ornement en tant qu’expérience d’un phénomène toujours actif et vivant. Cette orientation anthropologique met en avant ce qui fait ornement à travers ses significations vécues, les actes qui dévoilent sa présence, ses conditions d’apparition et d’existence dans la société contemporaine.

Wim Delvoye — Au Louvre

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:25:29 +0200

Exhibition — Le Louvre — May 31 → September 17, 2012

The Louvre invites Wim Delvoye to intervene at various locations within the museum and nearby: under the Pyramid, in the Napoleon III apartments, in the Gothic galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts, and in the Tuileries gardens. Wim Delvoye is the second artist, after Tony Cragg in 2011, to create a new, monumental sculpture.

Donatello parmi les fauves

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:12:06 +0200

Exhibition — Olivier Robert Gallery — May 10 → June 16, 2012

With Donatello parmi les fauves, the artists share this complete awareness of a belonging, a fundamental belonging to their time. They express a presence in the world which is neither directed to its disenchantment, or its re-enchantment, but to its exposure. They reveal the voluntary disengagement of the historic fauves.

Guillaume Bresson

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:02:36 +0200

Exhibition — Nathalie Obadia Gallery — May 31 → July 21, 2012

The paintings by Guillaume Bresson combine formal harmony and narrative quirkiness, making the artist a worthy heir of the literary and cinematographic avant-gardes. The exhibition broadens processes and sources of creativity, emphasising friction between the representations and space-time.

Martin Meyenburg — No Place Like Home

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:18:03 +0200

Exhibition — galerie laurent mueller — May 12 → June 2, 2012

The German artist Martin Meyenburg presents a series of new works specially conceived for the space of the galerie laurent mueller. Martin Meyenburg creates paintings and sculptures on the verge between abstraction and still life, where a sense of space collides with improbable lightning or an hermetic viewing field.

Fair : Salon de Montrouge 2012

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:37:18 +0200

Fair — Le Beffroi — May 3 → 30, 2012

Pour sa 57ème édition, le Salon de Montrouge continue de promouvoir la création contemporaine en accompagnant, tout au long de cette année 2012, 80 artistes émergents sélectionnés parmi 2217 candidatures examinées. Créé en 1955, le Salon de Montrouge doit sa pérennité à l’engagement sans faille de la Ville de Montrouge auprès des artistes et de leur œuvre.

Les Nouveaux Mondes et les Anciens — Un territoire sans carte

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:43:38 +0200

Exhibition — Espace Khiasma — May 16 → June 16, 2012

The New Worlds and the Old presents about twenty recent works — mainly art films. The exhibition is conceived as a series of chapters spread over a period of three months. It is part of Interior Empires, a season dedicated to a re-reading of colonial heritage in the present.

Todd Narbey — Half Past No Return

Press release — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:20:44 +0200

Exhibition — 13 Jeanette Mariani Gallery — May 11 → June 9, 2012

With Half Past No Return, Todd Narbey shows unconscious anxieties and fears in our world. The Neo Zealand artist leads us to discover a fragile and fragmented world.

Pour que les murs se souviennent

Press release — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:48:56 +0200

Exhibition — Aline Vidal Gallery — May 10 → June 23, 2012

After 22 years’ work at 70 rue Bonaparte, I’ve decided to move, to change the walls of the gallery. In order to put an end to this amazing adventure I wish to offer an entertaining and atypical exhibition miles away from the commercial and cultural ways for the gallery’s daily activities.

Taroop & Glabel — Ravissements (suite)

Press release — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:46:21 +0200

Exhibition — Semiose Gallery — May 12 → June 16, 2012

Depuis le début des années 1990, le collectif Taroop & Glabel déboulonne le business des croyances fleuri sur la tombe des utopies. Comportementaliste de la soumission volontaire, anthropologue spécialiste de la lobotomie bénévole, il collecte les épiphanies de la bêtise qu’il combat à armes égales.

Société Réaliste — Monotopia

Press release — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:45:08 +0200

Exhibition — Michel Rein Gallery — April 14 → May 26, 2012

Société Réaliste experiments with their typography by presenting ornamental accumulations of Monotopia, reproducing the rythmics of political mantras, mixing the fundamental directions, researching the connections between number and dates, trying to define the shape of any date and any place, registering the common transversality of time and space, or refusing to inscribe the privative u- of Utopia.

Raphaël Zarka — Les Prismatiques

Press release — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:27:17 +0200

Exhibition — Michel Rein Gallery — April 14 → May 26, 2012

A number of themes crucial to Raphaël Zarka’s work come together in the exhibition Les Prismatiques : his interest for geometry, the transposition of elements from the world of painting to the world of sculpture, the construction of a body of forms developed on the model of a collection.

FX Combes — Entre-monde(s)

Press release — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:15:12 +0200

Exhibition — NextLevel Gallery — May 12 → July 21, 2012

For his second solo show, Entre-monde(s) in the gallery NextLevel, F.X. Combes presents a new series of images. Contining his work on the pictorial reflection on the limits of the photographic medium, the artist reconstructs an image: between real and virtual, between painting and photography, between shadow and light.

Rétrospective — Estérisme — 1944/2012

Press release — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:44:24 +0200

Exhibition — Alexandre Cadain Gallery — May 2 → 31, 2012

En hommage à José Parrilla, l’Estérisme s’expose. Pour la première fois au cœur du vieux Paris, l’Estérisme donne à voir des pièces exposées sans gloire et sans gloriole. L’estériste n’est pas un artiste, l’estériste n’est pas un spécialiste, l’estériste est en recherche. L’ensemble de l’exposition dans sa diversité révèle sans conteste une moisson art premier.

Modern World — Olivia Leriche et Vincent Goutal

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:27:55 +0200

Exhibition — Plateforme — May 12 → 27, 2012

Les photos d’Olivia Leriche et de Vincent Goutal puisent leur inspiration dans l’iconographie publicitaire qui frappe notre regard au quotidien. Chaque image implique une mise en scène élaborée avec écriture d’un scénario, création d’un décor, acteurs. Elle révèle la part d’ombre et de rêverie de la modernité.

Opening : Le Mont Fuji n’existe pas

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:52:17 +0200

Opening — Le Plateau — Wednesday, June 6, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

La légende veut que le Mont Fuji soit visible de n’importe quel endroit du Japon. A l’occasion d’une résidence à la Villa Kujoyama de Kyoto, nous avons à plusieurs reprises cherché à vérifier cette hypothèse.

Le Mont Fuji n’existe pas

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:52:17 +0200

Exhibition — Le Plateau — June 7 → July 29, 2012

Vincent Debanne — No exaggeration

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:27:10 +0200

Exhibition — CPIF — April 28 → July 13, 2012

No Exaggeration est un énoncé facétieux, un manifeste paradoxal et l’annonce d’une marque de fabrique : Vincent Debanne use de manière caustique du pastiche, de la parodie voire de la caricature de grands genres picturaux pour mettre en évidence, à la façon des romans d’anticipation, une réalité violente, larvée.

EMOH-revoir Home — Exposition personnelle de Bahareh Navabi

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:04:02 +0200

Exhibition — L MD Gallery — May 5 → 19, 2012

Since her arrival in Paris from Iran in 2005, Bahareh Navabi turned to figuration after several years of abstraction. From 2008 she has built up a portrait gallery of characters in black and white. Her approach is gradual, made through experiments. Bahareh uses Indian ink, creating compositions where thin lines contrast with bold black shapes.

Song Chao — Back and Forth

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:31:47 +0200

Exhibition — Paris-Beijing Gallery — May 3 → June 9, 2012

The work and personal history of Song Chao are atypical background. The young man was a pit worker in Shandong, Northern China, when he realized that photography was his true vocation. He began taking pictures of his workmates during the rare moments of pause.

Matt Bollinger — Between the Days

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:24:07 +0200

Exhibition — Zürcher Gallery — May 12 → June 16, 2012

Bollinger painted pieces of paper that he tore up and successively glued onto the surface, from background to foreground, so that the sense of the color combined with that of the material. These collages, with their indefinable impressions generate a feeling of nostalgia and solitude that relates to lived experience and real events.

Combien ça vaut ?

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:34:59 +0200

Exhibition — Taïss Gallery — May 3 → June 27, 2012

What Is It Worth ? therefore gathers, according to very diverse artistic approaches, creators who attack the current economics of art. In addition to being a turbulent and inventive exhibition, this event aims to hit the conscience and even to submit a fundamental problem to it : what is meant by the value of art ?

The World is not as I see it

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:28:59 +0200

Exhibition — Dominique Fiat Gallery — May 10 → June 23, 2012

Dominique Fiat Gallery presents the exhibition “ The World is not have I see it “. This group show intends to pass behind the mirror of social life. It is based on a sociocultural theme present in works by artists from South to East Mediterannean region, which brings to light the emergence of a harsh sensory movement, connected to the daily reality.

Joris Van de Moortel — Erratum Musicale for 3 guitars and a metronome

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:01:58 +0200

Exhibition — Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery — May 4 → June 16, 2012

Defying artistic categories, Joris van de Moortel’s work can be described as sculptural, architectural, performative, musical, pictorial, or even pertaining to the installation art genre. Similarly, various historical references are encompassed in his practice. But they are portrayed indirectly, through subverted art forms.

Michaële-Andréa Schatt — Paysages — Extérieur Nuit — Seconde partie

Press release — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:49:02 +0200

Exhibition — Isabelle Gounod Gallery — May 3 → 26, 2012

In Michaële-Andréa Schatt’s previous exhibition, “Paysages en ose” (Daring Landscapes) Duchamp’s jingle was seen as an invitation to become engaged in the practice of landscape painting without restraint, painted pink in superposition, masking, misusing, contaminating the landscape being seen. This new “Landscapes …

Déplis, trames et grilles

Press release — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:14:54 +0200

Exhibition — Dohyang Lee Gallery — May 12 → June 30, 2012

Basing itself on actual spaces and territories and borrowing their systems of standardized representation such as maps, patterns and cartography, the often site-specific work of Marie-Jeanne Hoffner broadens these perspectives while maintaining subtle tensions between construction and deconstruction, folding and unfolding, surface and volume, fullness and emptiness.

Lee Jin Woo — Mur, Wall

Press release — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:32:20 +0200

Exhibition — Maria Lund Gallery — May 5 → June 23, 2012

Confronted with the wall erected in front of him Lee Jin Woo has chosen to grow grass. During the winter he has sown seeds on a huge taught canvas, on layers of Hanji paper and lawns grew in his workshop. He continued watering whilst taking on painting and constructing with charcoal on the surfaces: The cultivated nature and the artistic process have met.

Virya Chotpanyavisut — Urban Microscope

Press release — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:29:35 +0200

Exhibition — Galerie de Multiples — April 28 → June 16, 2012

Je m’intéresse à la frontière entre le monde réel et le royaume de l’imagination et de l’insolite. J’observe et j’explore les changements de l’atmosphère autour de nous, afin de souligner notre proximité à l’environnement, aux objets, et aux structures de la ville. Il est important pour moi de prêter attention aux traces ignorées. — Virya Chotpanyavisut

Miguel Rothschild — Images de la Mélancolie

Press release — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:13:00 +0200

Exhibition — Bendana-Pinel Gallery — May 12 → June 23, 2012

In continuation with his metaphorical creation, fruit of an obsessive work, Miguel Rothschild punches one by one the emblematic landscapes in the painting of Paul Signac, he perforates photographs revealing new spaces. He wants to reach the bottom of things and see what there is on the other side … as far as the other side exists.

Ismaïl Bahri — Précipités

Press release — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:14:18 +0200

Exhibition — Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery — May 4 → June 16, 2012

His polymorphous art passes by way of photography, video, drawing and installation, as so many ways of re-enacting the act of “withdrawal”, of bringing about, if not an event, then at the very least an opposite posture. And if the artist’s approach seems elusive, mistrusting codes and representation, it is in no way an evasion.

Screening : Ananas Connection

Press release — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:02:15 +0200

Screening — Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle — Grande galerie de l’évolution — Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 2 PM

Ananas addresses and untangles the various strands of the global spider web that makes up a multinational fruit company. Taking Ananas as a starting point, a number of specialists have been invited to give a history of these well-travelled plants and to comment on the various issues of their industrial production.

Lothar Hempel — The Story of The Old New Girls

Press release — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:28:02 +0200

Exhibition — Art : Concept Gallery — May 12 → June 23, 2012

For his fourth solo exhibition at Art: Concept, Lothar Hempel presents a brand new series of intriguing paintings which are filled with unintentional signs that result from the multiplicity of the layers applied by the artist, who wants to take us on an adventure in an unknown story: The Story of The Old New Girls.

Crisis ? What Crisis ?

Press release — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:52:35 +0200

Exhibition — Nivet Carzon Gallery — May 4 → June 9, 2012

Crisis ? What Crisis ? presents pieces dealing with the relation between personnal and political desire. What is the crisis ? The artists are questionning the position of the individual desire inside public context and the passionate relationship that can occur between these two spheres.

Opening : ULRICH LAMSFUSS — Afternoons in Utopia

Press release — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:13:33 +0200

Opening — Daniel Templon Gallery — Saturday, June 9, 2012

After a five-year absence from France, young Berlin-based painter Ulrich Lamsfuss returns to Galerie Daniel Templon with a new series of hyperreal paintings: off-beat and unsettling, they challenge concepts of originality. For this exhibition, the artist has chosen to construct a journey with the portrait as its theme.

Art Saint Germain des Prés — Cent Galeries, Cent Regards

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:55:25 +0200

Exhibition — Multiple venues — May 31 → June 3, 2012

L’association Art-Saint-Germain-des-Prés a, depuis sa création en 1999, la volonté de donner un nouveau souffle au quartier en fédérant les galeries autour d’un projet commun. Les manifestations, parcours à ciel ouvert, ont su s’imposer au fil du temps comme un événement incontournable de la vie parisienne.

Event : Le théâtre agricole — savoirs vernaculaires, développement durable et impérialisme vert

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:25:36 +0200

Event — Musée du Quai Branly — Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 10 AM

The agricultural theatre is a study day organised by Betonsalon and dedicated to exploring the political, socio-economic and ecological stakes of the production, transformation and distribution of agriculture, historically and today.

Opening : Le Concorde : Paris — New York

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:17:17 +0200

Opening — Esther Woerdehoff Gallery — Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

The Esther Woerdehoff Gallery presents the works by the American photographer, Frank Schramm. He obsessively devoted his photographic technique and his perseverance to his passion for the aeronautic to finally give us genuine black and white portraits of those steel birds, whose graphic lines and precision can only contrast with our own fragility.

Le Concorde : Paris — New York

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:49:56 +0200

Exhibition — Esther Woerdehoff Gallery — May 23 → July 14, 2012

Chen Hangfeng — 禄 Prospérité

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:28:08 +0200

Exhibition — 22,48 m² Gallery — May 11 → July 21, 2012

Chen’s compositions bring together elements of the Far-Eastern tradition with symbols of 21st century Western consumer society, worlds that are frequently compartmentalized. In effect, he uses the language of contemporary art and references of his time to save the most ancient roots of his own culture.

Ulrich Lamsfuss — Afternoons in Utopia

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:20:46 +0200

Exhibition — Daniel Templon Gallery — June 9 → July 21, 2012

Wim Delvoye Rorschach

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:51:07 +0200

Exhibition — Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery — May 12 → June 16, 2012

Galerie Perrotin presents Wim Delvoye’s third solo show entitled Rorschach. The artist has developed an art that offers a reinterpretation of artworks of the past while laying down a lucid and amused glance at contemporary society. Between homage and irreverence, he appropriates and deforms the motifs that inspire him.

Histoires de voir — Show and Tell

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:50:31 +0200

Exhibition — Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain — May 15 → October 21, 2012

Histoires de voir — Show and Tell presents the works and narratives of over 40 artists. The exhibition arose from a desire to explore the meaning of the terms “naïve” “primitive” and “self-taught” art, to meet artists who pursue paths outside the norm of conventional visual codes, and to examine the relationships between contemporary art and folk art.

Yutaka Takanashi

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:13:50 +0200

Exhibition — Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson — May 10 → July 29, 2012

For the first time in France, Fondation HCB will be showing the emblematic series of Yutaka Takanashi, one of the great master of Japanese photography. Yutaka Takanashi has always photographed the city, sometimes on the lookout for an image charged with poetry, sometimes ‘picking up’ a scrap of reality.

Kick out the jams, motherfuckers ! — Punk Rock 1969-1978

Press release — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:54:19 +0200

Exhibition — Point Ephémère — May 15 → 28, 2012

Il y a 35 ans, un mouvement underground nommé Punk Rock accédait à la reconnaissance médiatique. Il allait choquer, déranger et provoquer le monde des plus de trente ans. Fidèle à l’esprit de ce mouvement, l’exposition réunit le travail de photographes professionnels et amateurs.

Opening : Métamorphoses — Bertrand Gadenne — Résidence Ecritures de Lumière

Press release — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:55:18 +0200

Opening — Galerie municipale de Vitry — Thursday, May 24, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

Le photographe Bertrand Gadenne a questionné les élèves du Lycée professionnel Camille Claudel de Vitry-sur-Seine sur leur regard artistique au monde tout en jouant avec leur capacité d’évocation autour de la notion de transformation. L’artiste, tel un chef d’orchestre, a traité sous la forme de mises en scène collectives et individuelles cette expérience.

Opening : Gare du Nord — Photographes néerlandais à Paris 1900-1968

Press release — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:49:01 +0200

Opening — Institut néerlandais — Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 9 PM

Paris was where it was at. It was the place to be. For decades the sparkling nightlife and intellectual ferment of the French capital attracted writers and artists from around the world. Among them were Dutch photographers, who flocked to Paris to capture romantic images of life in the city’s streets. In this exhibiti…

Visit : Carole Manaranche & Laurence Papouin — Lauréates 2011 Novembre à vitry

Press release — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:40:42 +0200

Visit — Galerie municipale de Vitry — Thursday, May 31, 2012 12 PM → 2 PM

Deux artistes primées en novembre 2011 lors du prix de peinture « Novembre à Vitry », deux propositions artistiques qui mettent la peinture à l’honneur tout en la rapprochant de la sculpture. Ambigüité, trompe-l’œil, combinaison, confrontation, les œuvres de Carole Manaranche et de Laurence Papouin se rejoignent par la recherche de la forme.

Déjeuner sur l’art (visite commentée + repas)

Meeting : Carole Manaranche & Laurence Papouin — Lauréates 2011 Novembre à vitry

Press release — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:39:32 +0200

Meeting — Galerie municipale de Vitry — Sunday, June 3, 2012 4 PM → 6 PM

Rencontre avec les artistes

Opening : Carole Manaranche & Laurence Papouin — Lauréates 2011 Novembre à vitry

Press release — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:38:13 +0200

Opening — Galerie municipale de Vitry — Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6 PM → 9 PM

Gare du Nord — Photographes néerlandais à Paris 1900-1968

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:42:59 +0200

Exhibition — Institut néerlandais — May 24 → July 29, 2012

When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling (An Exhibition That Thinks About Edification)

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:03:04 +0200

Exhibition — Kadist Art Foundation — June 12 → July 29, 2012

In present times, some are calling for the invention of new terminologies that can more accurately discern phenomena affecting our lives, culturally, socially, and politically. Sometimes, the terms that we need are not to be reinvented but merely excavated and given new meaning. Edification is perhaps one such term.

Ivan Moudov — The Glory Hole

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:43:48 +0200

Exhibition — Alberta Pane Gallery — May 5 → June 16, 2012

For his second exhibition at Alberta Pane Gallery, Ivan Moudov presents a project in two parts, “The Glory Hole”, a title inspired by a device born in the 1970s in porno culture. The gallery will be split in two by a wall made specifically for the exhibition, interrupted at its centre by an empty circle of 8 cm.

Moussa Sarr — J’accuse

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:26:43 +0200

Exhibition — Martine et Thibault de la Châtre Gallery — May 26 → June 23, 2012

Si il est effectivement le sujet de ses photographies et de ses vidéos, Moussa Sarr dépasse largement les problématiques généralement associées à la pratique de l’autoportrait pour aborder un questionnement sur les stéréotypes et les préjugés raciaux, sociaux ou sexuels, l’exercice du pouvoir et les discriminations qu’ils supposent.

Opening : Moussa Sarr — J’accuse

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:26:43 +0200

Opening — Martine et Thibault de la Châtre Gallery — Friday, May 25, 2012 at 4 PM

Du champ de vision périphérique

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:17:34 +0200

Exhibition — Jean Brolly Gallery — May 5 → June 9, 2012

Filip Francis pushes the limit of the human field of vision in his painting. While his early works largely look at the themes of time and space, chance, and chain reaction, he soon chose to focus on image production values, such as vision, movement, knowledge, and memory. The exhibition shows the recent and some older works by Filip Francis.

Mitosis

Press release — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:55:31 +0200

Exhibition — White Project Gallery — April 26 → June 2, 2012

L’œuvre de Jonny Briggs est une expérience cathartique. L’artiste invite ses parents à évoluer en dehors de la réalité afin de participer au spectacle des inquiétudes de son enfance. Il construit des mises en scène des plus alambiquées qui traduisent l’inquiétante étrangeté de sa relation au géniteur.

Élodie Seguin — Gestes et mesures à l’horizon des surfaces

Press release — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:16:27 +0200

Exhibition — Jocelyn Wolff Gallery — March 22 → May 26, 2012

Il y a des natures purement contemplatives et tout à fait impropres à l’action, qui cependant, sous une impulsion mystérieuse et inconnue, agissent quelquefois avec une rapidité dont elles se seraient crues elles-mêmes incapables. — Charles Baudelaire, « Le Mauvais Vitrier » in Le Spleen de Paris.

Studiolo #4 — Yann Bagot — Chaos #4

Press release — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:58:21 +0200

Exhibition — Less is More Projects — May 5 → June 2, 2012

Studiolo is a year long programme of one work, one artist, small scale curated exhibitions presented as every month event online and in our small entrance gallery space in complement of our exhibitions programme. The work presented in May is Chaos #4 of the artist Yann Bagot.

Killoffer + Ruppert & Mulot — Houille !

Press release — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:41:47 +0200

Exhibition — Anne Barrault Gallery — May 5 → June 16, 2012

Following his late exhibition in Abbaye Sainte Croix museum in Les Sables d’Olonne, and the publication of his new book, Killoffer shows, in gallery Anne Barrault, a series of drawings on paper and on canvas, made in 2011 and 2012. He has wished Ruppert and Mulot to be invited, who will show, for the first time, a film entitled The Rite of Spring.

Métamorphoses — Bertrand Gadenne — Résidence Ecritures de Lumière

Press release — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:23:43 +0200

Exhibition — Galerie municipale de Vitry — May 24 → June 3, 2012

Carole Manaranche & Laurence Papouin — Lauréates 2011 Novembre à vitry

Press release — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:20:06 +0200

Exhibition — Galerie municipale de Vitry — May 24 → July 1, 2012

Michel François — Le Trait commun

Press release — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:10:28 +0200

Exhibition — École nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris — Cabinet des dessins — May 22 → July 20, 2012

Artiste inclassable, Michel François associe sculptures, installations, vidéos, photographies, afin d’explorer les thèmes du corps, du voyage, de l’habitat. A travers sa production multidisciplinaire il développe un système de recyclage qui questionne la pérennité de l’œuvre, donnant à chacune de ses interventions artistiques un caractère rétrospectif à sa production.

Niels Trannois — Above sea level kind of things

Press release — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:34:25 +0200

Exhibition — Chez Valentin Gallery — April 26 → June 2, 2012

For his first solo exhibition, Niels Trannois explores the notion of the apparition and diffraction of pictorial images. The spatial staging of the works presents itself as a possible snapshot of a mental landscape immersed in a stream of immediate sensations; the body is “bathed” in the image gradually surfacing above the level of the sea, of reality, of the visible.

Joel Fisher — New Sculptures, Ceramics & Papier Maché

Press release — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:21:33 +0200

Exhibition — Farideh Cadot Gallery — May 5 → July 13, 2012

Cette exposition présente de nouvelles pièces de l’artiste, toutes inédites et exposées à Paris pour la première fois. Elle sera composée de matériaux modestes et simples dont Fisher a fait sa spécialité dans le passé étant un des premiers artistes post arte povera à utiliser des vêtements, cheveux, papier fait main, et tant d’autres, avant de passer au bronze.

Pauline Cummins & Sandra Vida — Between One and Another

Press release — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:15:36 +0200

Exhibition — Centre culturel irlandais — May 11 → June 22, 2012

A two-person exhibition of performative video installations by Irish artist Pauline Cummins and her Canadian collaborator, Sandra Vida, Between One and Another gathers key works selected from over thirty years of art production including significant statements on feminist issues evolving through that time period.

The Buried Works — Davide Balula

Press release — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:01:45 +0200

Exhibition — Frank Elbaz Gallery — April 21 → June 16, 2012

Within the same field of research as Davide Balula’s recent paintings (River Paintings, Burnt Paintings, Artificially Aged Paintings…), the artist modifies the architecture of the gallery and installs an incubator for the creation of new paintings, a vivarium where canvases are naturally picking up pigmentation underground.

streaming

Press release — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:56:32 +0200

Exhibition — Jean Fournier Gallery — April 5 → May 19, 2012

Les fascinantes œuvres sur papier de Gilgian Gelzer, où le tracé dessine et révèle un espace, offrent une superposition dense de lignes qui se déroulent, s’égarent, s’éparpillent et s’enroulent. Des circulations sont créées et permettent de se déplacer, de parcourir la feuille dont on perçoit le blanc à travers ces flux.

Quelqu’un m’a dit que le merveilleux était révolu…

Press release — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:55:34 +0200

Exhibition — Dix9 Gallery — May 10 → June 23, 2012

  For his second solo show at Galerie Dix9, the artist presents his last self-portraits in the form of sculptures and photographs. He still plays on ambiguity through displacements that he operates with great talent. Swinging over prejudices, the artist stands beyond the cultural borders which hold back our societies.

Régressions & retrouvailles — Peintures de Vincent Ruffin

Press release — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:42:49 +0200

Exhibition — School Gallery / Olivier Castaing — March 21 → May 26, 2012

Vincent Ruffin is having fun. And on his immense canvases the models seem to find peace and quiet, a place to connect to a distant and subconscious childhood without embarrassment, a phase before the serious times and the good manners, a place where one can let oneself go a little. To regress and escape, from the reasonable and all the guilt.

Jacques André — Vendu !

Press release — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:31:59 +0200

Exhibition — Emmanuel Hervé Gallery — May 3 → June 1, 2012

Depuis le début des années quatre-vingt dix, Jacques André élabore une œuvre de type conceptuel interrogeant nos habitudes de consommation, notre relation aux biens matériels, à la propriété. Pour ce faire, il adopte des méthodes de travail qui se distinguent des pratiques artistiques traditionnelles.

Matt W. Moore — Gravity

Press release — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:30:02 +0200

Exhibition — Since Gallery — April 27 → June 16, 2012

Matt W. Moore, 32 years old, based in Portland (Maine, USA). He is the founder of MWM Graphics. He practices different artistic disciplines : colourful graphic artwork — he is the originator of Vectorfunk — painting, watercolours, and of course aerosol, which remains his favourite technic, especially for big mural surface.

Event : Silicate Workday — Workshop et concerts du label de musique Silicate

Press release — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:19:59 +0200

Event — ENSAPC Ygrec — Saturday, May 26, 2012

A l’origine pensé comme un net-label, Silicate est un aujourd’hui un label de musique électronique structuré en association culturelle avec pour ambition d’encourager une production musicale inventive et hors marché.

Jean-Luc Moulène — Fénautrigues

Press release — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:07:23 +0200

Exhibition — Chantal Crousel Gallery — April 26 → June 16, 2012

Jean-Luc Moulène’s latest exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel offers a selection of photographs of the landscapes of Fénautrigues, a small village in the department of Lot and the cradle of the artist’s family. During fifteen years between 1991 and 2006, as seasons went by, Jean-Luc Moulène paced up and down the tracks of this small territory of 5 km2.

Matthew Darbyshire — Solo show

Press release — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:01:13 +0200

Exhibition — Jousse Entreprise Gallery — May 12 → June 30, 2012

Likened to a more devilish Pierre Bourdieu, in Daryshires works taste is the bait and class the snare. By adding no more material to the world other than a call for observation, Darbyshires works turn shop-bought domestic comfort into fertile seeds of doubt and discontent, suggesting dissensus might in fact be a more productive register than consensus.

Living Room — Solo Show Michaël Cros

Press release — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:33:36 +0200

Exhibition — GVQ – Vanessa Quang — May 12 → June 16, 2012

La galerie Vanessa Quang, dans la lignée de son engagement pour la promotion de la scène artistique française, vous invite à la première exposition personnelle de l’artiste marseillais Michaël Cros. A cette occasion l’artiste présentera ses récents travaux témoignant de sa recherche d’une esthétique post humaniste.

Rodrigo Almeida — Entre nous

Press release — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:57:30 +0200

Exhibition — Patricia Dorfmann Gallery — April 24 → May 26, 2012

Autodidacte, Rodrigo Almeida, cet admirateur d’Andrea Branzi, d’Ettore Sottsass, de Sergio Rodrigues et de Jean Prouvé se dit inspiré de manière plus générale et plus quotidienne par les objets indigènes et primitifs. C’est dans l’exploration de la culture elle-même que l’artiste s’immerge pour refaire surface avec de nouvelles intentions.

Plus ou moins sorcières 2/3 — Épreuves ritualisées

Press release — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:35:34 +0200

Exhibition — Maison populaire de Montreuil — May 9 → June 29, 2012

Après Ambivalence d’une figure qui s’intéressait à la résistance à la norme genrée, notamment par la convocation de personnages historiques marginaux, Épreuves ritualisées interroge les pratiques contemporaines qui s’emparent du geste rituel pour revendiquer la souveraineté du corps ou proposer des politiques et formes d’éducation alternatives.

Opening : Antoine Schneck — Photographies

Press release — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:32:03 +0200

Opening — Berthet – Aittouarès Gallery — Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 6 PM

Natures — Mayumi Hosokura et Yumiko Utsu

Press release — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:02:37 +0200

Exhibition — LWS Gallery — April 19 → May 19, 2012

The research of the two artists is far removed from documentation, for their photography does not record reality, but is instead a means of creating and relating. On the one hand, as in Utsu’s case, it circumscribes new worlds, guaranteeing their existence and permanence; on the other, as with Hosokura, it is the prolonging of the senses, a means of dialogue with the world.

Tim Maul — Looks Matter

Press release — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:54:56 +0200

Exhibition — Florence Loewy — April 20 → May 31, 2012

Tim Maul is an artist and critic living and working in New York City. In his essay, which is the starting point of this show, he explains his fascination with the artists’ books he discovered in the streets, galleries, bookshops and through exhibitions in 70’s New York.

De chair et de marbre

Press release — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:08:44 +0200

Exhibition — Musée Rodin — June 8, 2012 → March 3, 2013

Contrary to common assumption, Rodin’s marble sculptures, far from being conventional, give life and form to the modern soul. Not content merely to call upon his sense of plastic synthesis, the sculptor is adept at bring life to a classical material that is, a priori, given to immobility, and his contemporaries saw him as a “dominator of stone”.

Si je dis la verité personne ne me croira — Ghazel et les étudiants de l’ENSAPC

Press release — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:07:05 +0200

Exhibition — ENSAPC Ygrec — May 4 → 19, 2012

D’origine iranienne, Ghazel a très vite « été amenée » à aborder des sujets sociaux et politiques. Or, demande-t-elle, « qu’est-ce au juste que l’art politique et social au sens large du terme ? ». Usant de l’humour comme d’une soupape pour soulever avec légèreté les interrogations liées à l’immigration et à l’exil, elle piétine au passage les clichés.

Boris Achour — Séances

Press release — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:34:03 +0200

Exhibition — Le Crédac — April 13 → June 3, 2012

Séances is a new addition to the Conatus series that Achour began back in 2006. Plunged in partial darkness, a range of elements form a setting/ landscape that visitors are meant to wander around for 45 minutes. Films, sculptures, sounds… yet not a single actor or live event: the combination of formal elements makes this art piece more akin to a show or spectacle.

Imagetexte 2

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:29:38 +0200

Exhibition — Topographie de l’art — April 22 → June 22, 2012

« Certes les moyens idéals ne sont pas dépourvus de matière, sinon on ne pourrait pas « écrire ». Quand j’écris le mot vin avec de l’encre, celle-ci ne tient pas le rôle principal mais permet la fixation durable de l’idée de vin. L’encre contribue ainsi à nous assurer du vin en permanence. Ecrire et dessiner sont identiques en leur fond » — P. Klee

Tom Sheehan — Croquis et Collaborations

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:24:20 +0200

Exhibition — La Galerie d’Architecture — April 20 → May 19, 2012

Excerpts of his sketchbooks, Tom Sheehan exhibits a selection of drawings. Sketches as notes, as research or as a condition, are the datum of the carrier of a Parisian creator open to the world. “ The sketch is the irreducible instrument of communication for an architect. It resists the test of time and technological progress, it is light, portable and speaks all languages.”

Opening : TGTFP — 5 aspects

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:43:12 +0200

Opening — Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:30 PM → 9 PM

5 aspects presents the work of TGTFP’s five partners, five personalities driven by the same passion for cities, for constructing the fabric of neighborhoods and for shaping public spaces — all essential factors in the durability of social ties. The five also share a rational conception of architecture in which edifices are designed to meet the needs of the greatest number.

Ça & là (This & There) — Exposition à la Fondation d’entreprise Ricard et au-delà

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:32:33 +0200

Exhibition — Fondation d’entreprise Ricard — April 11 → May 21, 2012

I suggested the artists to choose a media on their own, so that space fully becomes an element of their work. The title of the exhibition focuses on the pair, object (or action) and place, as a pun on two common expressions, “This and that” and “Here and there”, the intention being at the same time to question and prompt connections with the environment.

Closed because of the goings-on

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:16:33 +0200

Exhibition — Dukan Hourdequin Gallery — May 12 → June 16, 2012

Galerie Dukan Hourdequin presents “Closed because of the goings-on” curated by Narcisse Tordoir (Belgian artist represented by the gallery and advisor at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam for 25 years). Narcisse Tordoir has chosen for this exhibition to gather five artists in residence at Rijksakademie between 2010 and 2012.

Haim Steinbach — Navy legacy

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:57:16 +0200

Exhibition — Laurent Godin Gallery — April 14 → May 26, 2012

“Navy Legacy” conjures images of an expansive blue plane of ocean and the streamlined vessels that travel across these surfaces. Legacy is defined as thing handed down by a predecessor, that prevails and continues, as an object, an original idea or vision. Steinbach employs art historical references and builds new roles into a host of objects.

TGTFP — 5 aspects

Press release — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:52:35 +0200

Exhibition — La Galerie d’Architecture — May 25 → June 23, 2012

Improvisations & Compositions

Press release — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:52:30 +0200

Exhibition — Hélène Bailly Gallery — May 31 → July 28, 2012

La Galerie Hélène Bailly présente l’exposition collective intitulée Improvisations & Compositions et confronte la nouvelle génération d’artistes de l’abstraction américaine tels que Matthew Chambers, Ry Rocklen et Phil Wagner à deux peintres de l’abstraction lyrique française que sont Camille Bryen et Georges Mathieu.

Anne Cindric — Missing in Action

Press release — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:33:14 +0200

Exhibition — Laure Roynette Gallery — May 5 → June 23, 2012

The Laure Roynette Gallery is displaying new paintings by Anne Cindric in a private exhibition: Missing in Action. The artist gives a female look on male universes and on various objects of power. She seeks to represent a world devoid of seriousness where the mixing of constraints and genres prevails.

Tropicomania : la vie sociale des plantes

Press release — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:18:33 +0200

Exhibition — Bétonsalon — April 20 → July 21, 2012

The exhibition recounts the trajectory of tropical plants such as the banana, the pineapple and the rubber tree, from their place of origin to our grocery store; it sets out to map the economic, cultural and political implications behind their circulation since the 17th century, and the expansion of their cultivation and consumption to the entire planet.

Mrzyk & Moriceau — Poppies are also Flowers 3/4

Press release — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:15:31 +0200

Exhibition — Air de Paris Gallery — April 20 → May 26, 2012

We do not always know what the consequences of our actions are, and it seems easier to predict more ordinary everyday cause/consequences effects. The drawings and sculptures by MRZYK & MORICEAU are based on a refutation of these two preconceptions.

Thomas Bayrle

Press release — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:12:20 +0200

Exhibition — Air de Paris Gallery — April 20 → May 26, 2012

Thomas Bayrle Thomas Bayrle has always cited his time working in a weaving plant as the formal trigger for his practice as an artist. For him the traceries of thread and the assembly line motif tie in with mass communication, the industrialisation of Europe in the 1960s and the similar process China is now under…

Genêt Mayor — Tempo Giusto

Press release — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:45:33 +0200

Exhibition — Samy Abraham Gallery — April 13 → June 2, 2012

Avec « Tempo giusto », Genêt Mayor inscrit son œuvre à la croisée de la productivité et du rythme, de la cadence et de l’art, de la technique et de la créativité. Son usage de la peinture se déploie de manière modulaire, sérielle et géométrique, mais le dessin « à main levée » l’affranchit de tout héritage historique comme l’Art concret ou le Neo-Geo.

Fabien Mérelle

Press release — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:28:25 +0200

Exhibition — Praz-Delavallade Gallery — March 31 → May 26, 2012

“My life follows the course it has been assigned from above”. These words pronounced by Albrecht Durer on the eve of his own wedding could well apply to the youthful Fabien Mérelle who recently became a father. Do we read there a special correspondence between the two artists, separated otherwise by five centuries?

Musée sans bâtiment — Yona Friedman — Balades en Yvelines

Press release — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:20:51 +0200

Exhibition — Cneai = — May 13 → September 30, 2012

For the third time in a row, Cneai will be a part of the Balades en Yvelines — Contemporary art around the corner — event, whose main purpose is to showcase outdoor artworks. By inviting the artist Yona Friedman, Cneai welcomes all the public to a truly exceptional journey.

Bernard Moninot — Prosopopée

Press release — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:55:13 +0200

Exhibition — Catherine Putman Gallery — May 5 → June 16, 2012

Après « Ombres croisées » en 2009, Bernard Moninot investit à nouveau l’espace de la galerie Catherine Putman. Figure de rhétorique consistant a faire parler une abstraction, un mort, une chose personnifiée, « Prosopopée » est le titre donné par l’artiste aux deux séries de dessins sur soie sur lesquelles s’ouvre l’exposition.

Performance : Performance Remy Héritier

Press release — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:10:22 +0200

Performance — Friday, May 25, 2012 7:30 PM → 9 PM

Written like a score, Raymond Gervais’ installation places Debussy and Beckett in dialogue, re-staging them towards the end of their creative process, when they were respectively wondering about the possible failure of their production, asking themselves how they should finish, “how” and “what to do” — because finishing still entails doing something.

L’art en guerre — France 1938/1947 — De Picasso à Dubuffet

Press release — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:52:15 +0200

Exhibition — Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris — October 12, 2012 → February 13, 2013

Avec plus de 300 œuvres de 80 artistes, et une dizaine de séquences fortes complétées par de nombreux points documentaires inédits, cette exposition montrera comment, dans un contexte de pénurie et d’oppression, les artistes ont proposé des réponses nouvelles qui modifieront en profondeur le contenu et la forme de l’art jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

Victor Baltard (1805 — 1874) — Le Fer et le pinceau

Press release — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:23:19 +0200

Exhibition — Musée d’Orsay — October 16, 2012 → January 13, 2013

An ambivalent character, Baltard was constantly torn between the artistic nature of his work and his thirst for technical innovation. With various artworks (architectural drawings, models, old photographs, paintings, furniture, stained glass, etc.), the exhibition will demonstrate the part both of these preoccupations played in nourishing his creativity.

Félix Thiollier Photographe (1842 — 1914)

Press release — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:47:37 +0200

Exhibition — Musée d’Orsay — November 13, 2012 → February 10, 2013

Remaining resolutely on the fringes of the photographic circles of his time, Thiollier turned out to have created an original body of work which varied between picturesque, post-Romantic rural landscapes and a starkly lyrical view of an industrial world largely ignored by the artistic French photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Rochers de lettrés — Itinéraires de l’art en Chine

Press release — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:57:50 +0200

Exhibition — Musée Guimet — March 28 → June 25, 2012

The Musée Guimet presents an international exhibition around the theme of chinese scholars’ rocks. Lovingly gathered and placed in their studios, these scholars’ stones constituted miniature mountains, microcosms, which colors or texture would evoke that of an actual mountain, landscape or rocky path, as an open door to daydreams.

d’Urs Fischer — Schmutz schmutz

Press release — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:07:55 +0200

Exhibition — Gagosian Gallery — April 5 → May 26, 2012

Fischer produces objects on the brink of falling apart or undergoing transformation, which results in sculptures in a bewildering variety of materials, including unstable substances such as melting wax and rotting vegetables. Compacting the real with the mimetic, he dares formal adventures in space, scale, and material with a mordant sense of humor.

Raymond Gervais — Finir

Press release — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:17:52 +0200

Exhibition — Rosascape — April 11 → May 25, 2012

Play dice would be nice — Cluj-Paris — Sabot at Gaudel de Stampa

Press release — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:00:10 +0200

Exhibition — Gaudel de Stampa Gallery — April 13 → June 16, 2012

"My dear Sir, A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is accidental. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one."

Comme un ananas — Une carte blanche de Philippe Katerine

Press release — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:40:37 +0200

Exhibition — La Galerie des Galeries — April 4 → July 7, 2012

While known especially as a singer, Katerine also works in other domains : film, dance, the visual arts… For this aspect of his career and for the total artist that he is, the Galerie des Galeries invited him present his first art show, in a kind of journey of initiation, through which the visitor passes as through a mental, sensory and musical world.

Exposition Les orphelins de Ceausescu — 20 ans après

Press release — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:27:03 +0200

Exhibition — Institut culturel roumain — April 4 → May 31, 2012

We recall the shocking images of the fall of communism in Romania … Among them, abandoned children in orphanages staring But 23 years have passed since … Elisabeth Blanchet, a freelance photographer working in London, got the chance to know them back in 1989. She returned to Romania after 20 years to find them i…

John Crash Matos — Study in Watercolors

Press release — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:24:39 +0200

Exhibition — Addict Gallery — April 14 → June 2, 2012

Do we still have to present John Crash Matos, this street artist pioneer born in Bronx in 1961 ? Addict Galerie presents “Study in Watercolors”, a selection of preliminary studies, and brings to light the sketch work of graffiti, often relegated to the background to a mode of expression sometimes assimilated to a spontaneous blowout of the imagination.

George Tony Stoll — Exposition personnelle

Press release — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:52:48 +0200

Exhibition — Poggi & Bertoux associés Gallery — April 11 → June 2, 2012

Artiste iconoclaste et singulier, Georges Tony Stoll marque son entrée dans la galerie Jérôme Poggi, en réunissant un ensemble important d’œuvres anciennes et nouvelles (vidéo, sculpture, photographies, dessins…) témoignant de la diversité de moyens avec lesquels cet artiste explore ce qu’il nomme lui-même le « territoire de l’abstraction ».

Mimmo Rotella

Press release — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:21:37 +0200

Exhibition — Tornabuoni Art — March 30 → June 9, 2012

Tornabuoni Art Gallery is presenting the largest retrospective on Mimmo Rotella ever assembled in Paris. About fifty artworks of the golden period of the artist will be on display. Mimmo Rotella has been one of the artists, during the fifties, who deeply transformed the language of art through materials taken from the urban landscape.

La Triennale

Press release — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:13:16 +0200

Exhibition — Multiple venues — April 20 → August 26, 2012

As a large contemporary art event whose goal is to highlight current creation in the visual arts in France, La Triennale has become an incontrovertibly essential gathering, actively contributing to reinforce Paris’ position on the international art stage. In 2012, La Triennale constitutes the first major exhibition of the renovated Palais de Tokyo.

Vous arrivez trop tard, cérémonie

Press release — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:47:12 +0200

Exhibition — Les églises centre d'art de Chelles — April 1 → May 20, 2012

[…] des circonstances énigmatiques. […] doute […] Selon quel scénario […] ? […] Un narrateur obstiné essaie de reconstituer ce qui s’est passé ce soir-là […] spectacle […]

Peter Callesen — La vie en papier

Press release — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:35:13 +0200

Exhibition — Maison du Danemark — May 11 → June 17, 2012

Lately Peter Callesen has worked almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. A large part of his work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today.

Philippe Pasqua — Peintures récentes

Press release — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:08:35 +0100

Exhibition — RX Gallery — March 23 → May 25, 2012

Après ses expositions au MMOMA de Moscou et à la Fondation Ahlers à Hanovre, Philippe Pasqua présente, pour sa 4ème exposition personnelle à la Galerie RX, une sélection d’une dizaine de peintures et dessins récents et inédits. Autodidacte, sa peinture essentiellement figurative est axée sur le corps, la figure humaine étant son leitmotiv.

Huang Yu-Xing — Jardin des révolutionnaires

Press release — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:44:39 +0100

Exhibition — Paul Frèches Gallery — April 1 → May 26, 2012

Huang Yu-Xing’s paintings atract us beyond the visible in a strong magnetic universe, which unwind us from any known mark. This loss of spatial marks distils an anxiety in almost all of the paintings. The paintings also unveil a feeling of depth and mystery.

Dans la couleur de Garache

Press release — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:54:08 +0100

Exhibition — Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris — March 30 → June 24, 2012

À l’occasion de l’acquisition récente d’Yvie et Sauve, tableau de grand format de Claude Garache, le musée d’Art moderne a invité l’artiste à accompagner cette toile d’un ensemble de douze peintures. Cet accrochage permet de rendre compte de la cohérence de l’art de Garache qui poursuit le sujet unique du nu féminin au seul moyen de la couleur rouge.

Forever Young — Claude Gassian / Abetz&Drescher

Press release — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:20:35 +0100

Exhibition — Suzanne Tarasieve — March 21 → May 26, 2012

Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève presents its new exhibition Forever Young. Photographer Claude Gassian and the German painters Abetz&Drescher will be showing portraits of rock stars such as Iggy Pop, The Doors, The Who. Referencing a song recorded by Bob Dylan in 1974, the title evokes these personalities whose image and songs have defied the years.

Performance : Ailanthus altissima — Conférence — diaporama de Simon Boudvin

Press release — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:20:54 +0100

Performance — Sunday, June 17, 2012 3 PM → 9 PM

In the midst of a worldwide economic and ecological crisis, can we still believe in unlimited growth? From the perspective of modernity, it is generally associated with prosperity and progress. But as the world shifted towards a system founded on excess, many artists investigate the idea of growth and endorse an altogether different creed: less is more.

Chronique en images d’une plante exotique dans un quartier familier, dont le développement naturel verdit la ville et inspire aux défenseurs de la biodiversité des propos xénophobes. Un travail photographique à la recherche du singulier dans un milieu commun.

Plus de croissance — Un capitalisme idéal...

Press release — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:39:06 +0100

Exhibition — La Ferme du Buisson — March 24 → July 22, 2012

Henri Foucault — L’Espace entre Nous

Press release — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:28:59 +0100

Exhibition — Pièce Unique Gallery — March 8 → May 26, 2012

At the Gallery Piece Unique is shown a new large sized sculpture named L’Espace entre Nous by Henri Foucault. The artist has always been a sculptor. He reinvented new forms of perception where sculpture and photography closely mix by playing, in particular, on the medium of the photo paper.

Luis Rodrigo — An Invisible Orchestra

Press release — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:21:59 +0100

Exhibition — Hélène Bailly Gallery — April 20 → May 26, 2012

The Bailly gallery present our new exhibition about neon, an artistic medium invented in 1912, which will celebrate its 100th birthday.

Les arcs en ciel du noir — invitation à Annie Le Brun

Press release — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:59:05 +0100

Exhibition — Maison de Victor Hugo — March 15 → August 19, 2012

Annie Le Brun a effectué un important choix d’œuvres dans les collections du musée, pour signifier le sens du « Noir » chez Hugo. Cette invitation répond, avec un fort sentiment d’admiration, à l’une des missions que le musée s’est donnée dès son origine : enregistrer les échos contemporains suscités par l’œuvre de Victor Hugo.

Dan Miller — graphein

Press release — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:36:13 +0100

Exhibition — Christian Berst Gallery — March 22 → May 19, 2012

Dan Miller’s creativity in superimposing layers of writing to the point of illegibility has proved such a source of fascination for audiences that his art has now reached beyond the sphere of Art Brut to enter the permanent collection at the MoMA. Formally contemporary, Miller’s work nonetheless invents his expression outside the mainstream debate.

Screening : Trois Fragments de Fuir — Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Press release — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:06:58 +0100

Screening — Le Louvre — March 3 → June 11, 2012

A three-part cinematographic voyage, featuring Dolores Chaplin and filmed specifically for the exhibition “Livre/Louvre” by Jean- Philippe Toussaint, adapted from his novel Fuir, published by Editions de Minuit, winner of the 2005 Prix Médicis.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint — Livre/Louvre

Press release — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:01:09 +0100

Exhibition — Le Louvre — March 8 → June 11, 2012

As part of the series of events dedicated to the arts of the book, the Louvre has extended an invitation to the Belgian writer and filmmaker Jean-Philippe Toussaint, who has devised an exhibition entitled “Livre/Louvre” bringing together photographs, videos, installations and performance pieces to “explore the theme of the book without focusing on writing.”

Resisting the present — Mexico 2000/2012

Press release — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:55:59 +0100

Exhibition — Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris — March 9 → July 8, 2012

Marquée par l’évolution politique et économique du Mexique au cours des 20 dernières années, la scène artistique mexicaine manifeste un dynamisme à résonance internationale. Héritiers des années 90, les artistes présentés dans cette exposition traduisent le climat d’inquiétude et la prise de conscience que traverse aujourd’hui la société en crise.

Manon De Pauw. Intrigues

Press release — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:40:10 +0100

Exhibition — Centre culturel canadien — April 4 → September 8, 2012

The exhibition describes the path the artist has taken since the beginning of this decade. Photograms, performative set-ups, single and multi-channel video installations investigate light and images variedly and poetically. She explores the appearing of the image with its measure of unpredictability, suspended materiality, narrative potential and motion.

Eko Nugroho — Témoin Hybride

Press release — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:02:46 +0100

Exhibition — Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris — January 13 → June 10, 2012

Eko Nugroho criss-crosses Paris like he does in Yogyakarta, the cultural capital of the island of Java. Deeply anchored in the urban environment, his work tranlates the noise and frenzy of the street, the eye-contacts and attitudes in his drawings and patterns : all the means of creation are used to translate these meetings between Indonesia and the West.

Christopher Wool

Press release — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:49:50 +0100

Exhibition — Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris — March 30 → August 29, 2012

Christopher Wool has been exploring the complexities of abstract painting by constantly questioning the medium with ever fresh means. The exhibition focuses on about 30 large-format works painted between 2000 and 2011. Exposing a hard-earned freedom, his most recent paintings combine silkscreen printing techniques with hand-painted passages.

Ne pas effacer

Press release — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:59:31 +0100

Exhibition — Wallworks Gallery — March 9 → May 30, 2012

Pour célébrer le premier anniversaire de la galerie Wallworks, Claude Kunetz présente une exposition collective de graffiti sur mobilier urbain avec 19 street artistes. Jouant avec les interdits et les autorisations, l’exposition questionne avant tout la notion de valeur qu’il s’agisse de l’intérêt de l’industrie du luxe pour le street art, ou du montant des amendes encourues.

Un Univers Intime — Tableaux de la collection Frits Lugt

Press release — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:30:49 +0100

Exhibition — Institut néerlandais — February 29 → May 27, 2012

Un Univers intime presents 115 paintings of the Frits Lugt Collection. Created with great discernment, it comprises masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, together with Flemish, Italian, French and Danish paintings (Maes, Teniers, Guardi, Largillière, Isabey, Bonington…), and sketches acquired in the past 2 years through a dynamic acquisition policy.

Berthe Morisot

Press release — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:03:23 +0100

Exhibition — Musée Marmottan Monet — March 8 → July 1, 2012

Sister-in-law of Edouard Manet and close friend of Degas, Renoir, Monet, and Stéphane Mallarmé, Berthe Morisot became one of the Impressionists most innovative, least dogmatic artists. From early portraits to landscapes bordering on abstraction,150 paintings, watercolours and drawings illustrate the rich diversity of her artistic experimentations.

Li Wei — Photographies géantes en plein air

Press release — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:10:08 +0100

Exhibition — Le Parc de la Villette — March 20 → August 19, 2012

True to certain of his native cultural values, particularly the link between mankind and the environment, Li Wei has proved himself a shrewd observer of contemporary mores, both in China and abroad. He demonstrates this in his creations and his risk-taking performances that give rise to images which he then revisits digitally.

Sigurdur Gudmundsson — Petite rétro

Press release — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:49:22 +0100

Exhibition — Martine et Thibault de la Châtre Gallery — March 24 → May 19, 2012

Sigurdur Gudmundsson’s works are timeless: they make fundamental statements about the human condition, and contain what survivors call humor. This exhibition gathers photos, videos and objects from 1970 until 2011, showing everyday situations in which we intentionally put ourselves without understanding the potential implications on our very existence.

Helmut Newton

Press release — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:16:27 +0100

Exhibition — Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais — March 24 → June 17, 2012

The exhibition explores the sometimes secret fields of Newton’s provocative work, that tried to capture the beauty, eroticism and humour — even the violence — that he sensed in the social interaction within his familiar worlds. Designed by June Newton and punctuated by quotations from the photographer, it will be on both counts “Newton by Newton”.

Rêves de Laque — Le Japon de Shibata Zeshin

Press release — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:41:37 +0100

Exhibition — Musée Cernuschi — April 6 → July 15, 2012

Shibata Zeshin’s career bridged two great periods in the history of Japan: the Japan of the Samurais and the Japan of Modernity. His extremely concise paintings and lacquerware played an important role in the development of tastes in the West.

No Limit — une œuvre / un artiste

Press release — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:08:21 +0100

Exhibition — Imane Farès Gallery — March 10 → May 19, 2012

For “No Limit, One Artist / One work”, Ninar Esber, Gérard Quenum and Younès Rahmoun have each been invited to present one work. As a symbol of life and sustenance, whether it is the central subject of a process of sorting or of a journey in search of a place to grow and blossom, the seed as a theme is the thread that runs through the three works on show.

Théâtres romantiques à Paris — Collections du musée Carnavalet

Press release — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:27:16 +0100

Exhibition — Musée de la Vie Romantique — March 13 → July 15, 2012

In the first half of the 19th century, Paris was the international capital for theatre; all genres, from Vaudeville to opera seria and from melodrama to pantomime flourished in the highest concentration of theatres in Europe at the time: Comédie-Française, Ambigu, Porte Saint-Martin, Théâtre-Italien, and also Funambules, Gaîté, Variétés and Gymnase…

La Sainte Anne, l’ultime chef-d’œuvre de Léonard de Vinci

Press release — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:59:15 +0100

Exhibition — Le Louvre — March 29 → June 25, 2012

The exhibition retraces the slow, deliberate and complex genesis of Leonardo’s Saint Anne, left unfinished at the artist’s death in 1519, by bringing together for the first time archival documents, composition sketches, landscape studies and studio versions showing the various formal and iconographic solutions successively imagined by the master.

Le Théâtron des nuages — Une exposition d’Information Fiction Publicité

Press release — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:50:41 +0100

Exhibition — MAC/VAL — March 10 → June 3, 2012

MAC/VAL is presenting a group of works by the group Information Fiction Publicité (IFP) ; three letters for three notions to define a new theoretical territory for thinking about art and the state of the world. The exhibition will highlight the ways in which, beginning in the 1980s, IFP anticipated and questioned the domain of the possible in art.

José María Sert — Le Titan à l’œuvre (1874-1945)

Press release — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:42 +0100

Exhibition — Petit Palais — March 8 → August 5, 2012

José María Sert, a scenic artist, was constantly looking for commissions and worked for personalities from the economic and political world, firstly in Paris and then in Europe and America. This proximity confronted him with the complexities of his era and he made some controversial political choices.

Screening : Cycle de cinéma