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, [...]
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 [...]
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Les Inséparables, 2000-2010
Upstairs at the Jeu de Paume is a survey exhibition of Lithuanian born artist, Esther Shalev-Gerz. Unfortunately the projects on show – carried out in Germany, Sweden, France and England – are telling of the dubious nature of publicly commissioned art projects. Each project in the show deals with the appropriate [...]
It’s been a good year for Israeli artist Keren Cytter. As well as appearing in New York’s New Museum exhibition Younger than Jesus, a show of contemporary artists born after 1976, and this year’s Venice Biennale, she also made number 2 on Flashart’s most promising artists list and won the 2009 Absolut Art Award. Her [...]
Transit Systeme, a young collective of dynamic artists, are about to embark on their second major event as a group. The eponymously titled exhibition, Transit Systeme, opening on Saturday, will include works by the artists of the collective: Antoine Alliot, Sophie Boniface, Liz Bullen, Molly SJ Lowe and Marine Nyiri and guest artists: Audrey Anastasy, Blo, Emma [...]
This year’s Jeune Création (“young creation”), an exhibition of young contemporary artists, is held at the 104. The cavernous basement level of this new-ish arts centre provides ample space for the various projects and performances taking place over the next few days.
Enrico Centonze, Everybody wants gold
A couple of projects were attracting attention on the opening [...]
It’s that time of year again, the majestic entrance to the Grand Palais swarming with art enthusiasts, well-heeled art market aficionados and casual onlookers. The Fiac (unimaginatively la Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain – International Contemporary Art Fair) is in its 36th edition and is taking over the Grand Palais, the Tuileries and the Cour Carré [...]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Phantoms of Nabua, 2009
Primitive is the latest project of artist and film maker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Inspired by the discovery of Nabua, a town in north east Thailand, eight short films follow local youth and evoke Nabua’s brutal past as a site of violence against ‘communist insurgents’ (in fact many were just innocent farmers) [...]
Mixed marriages, cohabitation and barbarian weddings is a solo exhibition, at the Abbey of Maubuisson, of new installations by Orlan, feminist hybrid extraordinaire and Grand Dame of French contemporary art.
Orlan with one of her new installations
The abbey, situated in the Val d’Oise region to the north west of Paris, hasn’t been used for religious purposes [...]
After his retrospective, The Air is On Fire, at the Fondation Cartier in 2007, David Lynch returns to Paris to dress up the windows of Galeries Lafayette. The theme is Machines, Abstraction and Women, and the effect is typically Lynchian – strange and surreal, teetering on the fine line that separates enchanting and foreboding.
David Lynch, [...]