Emporte-moi/Sweep me off my feet is an exhibition about love. It may sound slushy or trite but actually Mac/Val, in collaboration with Musée national des beaux-arts in Quebec, have put together a fresh and engaging show.
The exhibition poster shows a photo of a Marina Abromavic performance, entitled Rest Energy, from 1980. With her then partner, [...]
Odile Decq, Plongeon du funambule, installation, 2010
Perspectives is a show of two artists: architect, Odile Decq and prix Marcel Duchamp-nominated artist Camille Henrot. The exhibition opens with Henrot’s Arrivals/Departures, two very ordinary TV screens showing flight times. On closer inspection the “departure” destinations are all places that no longer exist: Carthage, Chipoudie… and the “arrivals” [...]
William Kentridge, drawing for the film Stereoscope (Felix crying), 1998-99
Five Themes is South African artist William Kentridge’s first retrospective in France. Despite the variety of media, the overall aesthetic is black and white - his film, charcoal drawing, animation and miniature theatres are all achromatic. But, weaving literary and theatrical inspiration (The Magic Flute, Ubu [...]
Dynasty, the first exhibition uniting the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’art moderne, brings us the best of the young French contemporary art scene. With 40 artists presenting one work in each wing, there is a lot to see.
The show begins with typically Palais de Tokyo-esque monumental installations. After Robin Meier and Ali Momeni’s [...]
Charles Avery, Place of the Route of the If’en, 2007
Continuing their string of excellent shows, the Plateau brings us Onomatopoeia, part 1 by UK artist, Charles Avery. For his first solo exhibition in France, he brings us a part of ‘The Islanders’, a project he has been working on since 2004 that creates and documents [...]
AVAF, a flexible acronym - short for “Assume Vivid Astro Focus” amongst other things (artistiquement voué au feu, alarmante vision absolument furieuse, aujourd’hui vous aurez faim…) - is a group or artists spearheaded by Brazilian artist Eli Sudbrack. For their (his?) new Paris exhibition they have transformed the whole environment of galerie Hussenot.
alarmante vision absolument [...]
Rirkrit Tiravanija modelling a T-shirt with his own poltical slogan
For his new installation, Asile Flottant, Rirkrit Tiravanija has filled the (not inconsequential) gallery space at Chantal Crousel with a huge wooden boat. The boat is a scaled down model of a Le Courbusier design, which was intended to be a Salvation Army floating refuge for [...]
Prisonniers du soleil (“Prisoners of the Sun”) is the second part of the Erudition Concrète programme at Le Plateau, and is a adventure through time, space and innovative curating.
In two parts, the exhibition leads us from quirky 19th century bourgeoise interior, through what looks like a door from Bilbo Baggins’ Shire, into the dark mystery [...]
If her current show at Galerie Chantal Crousel is anything to go by, it’s not easy to define Mona Hartoum’s oeuvre. This small show of recent works includes furniture, maps, glass and barbed wire as materials. Although the works do not form a coherent aesthetic they are united by their poetic nature. An installation of heavy-looking [...]
Laith Al-Amiri, Symbol of Courage, 2009
Pergola, the Palais de Tokyo’s spring exhibition, unites the work of five artists: Laith Al-Amiri, Valentin Carron, Charlotte Posenenske, Serge Spitzer and Raphäel Zarka. A piece of advice: DO NOT READ THE WALL TEXT. I did and it marred my exhibition experience. While I was looking for “poltergeists” and “the [...]