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 [...]
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 [...]
Marco Decorpeliada, detail from Schizomètres
Out of the three new exhibitions at the Maison Rouge it might be as well to begin at the end, as that’s where you’ll find the best of the bunch – a small exhibition of Marco Decorpeliada’s Schizomètres. Marco Decorpelida fits into the sketchy category of “Outsider Art“, [...]
Reset, a show of young artists curated by Christophe Kihm, aims to begin at the beginning. Instead of bringing together different completed works under one conceptual framework, and potentially limiting the individual expression of each, Reset is more of a starting point from which the art and the artists can interact with the exhibition space.
Bertille [...]
Art Nouveau Revival is an atypical show. It avoids trying to define the nebulous character of the Art Nouveau movement, which was both geographically and conceptually disparate (no manifesto was ever drawn up between the likes of Antoni Gaudi, William Morris, Alfons Mucha, Rennie Mackintosh), and reevaluates reincarnations of the style throughout the 20th century, [...]
Robert Frank, The Americans, first published in Paris by Robert Delpire, 1958
Delpire & Cie is a show dedicated to the career of Robert Delpire. It feels a little disorganised, is due in part to the nature of the exhibition space and in part to the varied nature of Delpire’s career.
Starting out as a publisher he worked [...]
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 [...]
The flagship Galeries Lafayettes store on Boulevard Hausmann is famous for it’s holiday window displays. These twinkly animated scenes are not just there to attract custom but are an entertainment in their own right, with specially constructed platforms for kids to get up close and bask in the reflected warmth of festive consumerism. They are [...]
The dining room of Château Gabriel
Following the incredible exhibition and sale of the contents of Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris apartment back in February, Christie’s is selling another important section of the Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé collection: the contents of their country pad, Chateau Gabriel. The interiors of this neogothic mansion in Normany were designed by Jacques Grange, [...]