After exhibiting at the Jeu de Paume last year, Corsican-born, New York-based artist Agathe Snow returns to Paris for a solo show at Galerie Hussenot. Using a variety of found materials: wood, fabric, masonite, Snow has created colourful patchworks, which are suspended in the gallery space. Each piece is said to represent one of her [...]
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 [...]
South African photographer Pieter Hugo has bagged a section of concept store Colette for his first solo show in France. Three portrait series are represented: Boy Scouts, Orlando Pirates and Catch Congolese Wrestlers. Although differently presented – the wrestlers and pirates posing on a neutral backdrop, the scouts in leafy urban settings, they are united [...]
The Great Exposition has been somewhat slack recently – but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing good to see! Au contraire, there are a couple of things worth catching before they end this weekend.
Les Lalanne, at the Decorative Arts Museum, is the first retrospective of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne’s work. The Lalannes, catapulted to fame by [...]
Accents United and Artspace galleries are proud to present Paris le jour, paris la nuit, an exhibition of contemporary photography. Come on down for the vernissage this Saturday.
How do you photograph the most visited city in the world?
Paris le jour, Paris la nuit brings us the work of nine photographers currently living in Paris. Each [...]
Susan Collis, Love is A Charm of Powerful Trouble, 2008
I don’t love you anymore, Susan Collis’ solo show at Galerie Frank Elbaz, looks like a scattering of debris across the gallery floor. Bent nails poke out of splintered wooden planks, an old broom is propped in the corner, someone even seems to have left a [...]
Jason Dodge, Your death, sub marine, 2009
The work of American artist, Jason Dodge, appears minimalist: a carefully folded length of fabric, a copper pipe, strips of paper spelling out a name, a dead owl… But where Minimalism emphasises interaction with the viewer and the Minimalist object refers to nothing beyond its own materiality, Jason Dodge’s [...]