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 [...]
Rose, c’est Paris is a photography, film and story-telling project by photographer, Bettina Rheims and writer, Serge Bramly. The series follows a young woman’s search for her lost sister, the action taking place against the sumptous backdrop of oldy-worldy Paris. In addition to the main protagonists, there are cameos by Naomi Campbell, Monica Belluci and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Fondation Cartier is exhibiting Beat Takeshi Kitano’s work in an exclusive exhibition Gosse de Peintre (“Painter’s kid”). Kitano – best known for his arthouse films or cult TV show Takeshi’s castle – is a filmmaker, actor, comedian, presenter, and now artist. This is his first solo show in a gallery [...]
The Razzle Dazzle of thinking presents the work of American conceptual artist Elaine Sturtevant. Sturtevant has built a career around appropriation – copying Warhol’s Flowers in the 1960s and continuing with duplicates of, or references to, some of the major figures in contemporary art.
As a whole this show is slightly incoherent, mixing references to modern [...]
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 [...]