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 [...]
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 [...]
Jeanloup Sieff, Yves Saint Laurent, 1969
The French love Yves Saint Laurent – the man, the legend, the collection, the clothes. Perhaps that’s why the Petit Palais has pulled out all the stops for the first ever major retrospective of his fashion oeuvre. Taking over more than the usual temporary exhibition space, the show includes the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]