Paris / Design en mutation showcases the work of eleven contemporary French designers. From the utilitarian to the more fantastical, all of the designers in the show engage with ecological concerns and energy saving techniques as well as aesthetic value.
Highlights include Jean Marie Massaud’s Manned Cloud, a flying hotel which looks like a cross between [...]
Laurent Grasso, winner of the ‘prix Marcel Duchamp’, an annual contemporary art prize for French contemporary art, occupies the ‘espace 315′ of the Pompidou Centre with a dimly lit installation. The Horn Perspective is a combination of Grasso’s trademark eerie videos and large scale retro-technological sculptures. It is typical of the artist’s explorations of sci-fi [...]
Cris et Chuchotments, or ‘Crys and Whispers’ shows the work of twenty-three women artists focusing on the themes of intimacy and identity. Highlights include work by Sophie Calle, Annette Messager and Ana Mendieta amongst others.
Sophie Calle, The Bronx, book-installation, 2002
Taken from Bergman’s eponymous 1972 film, the title ‘Crys and Whispers’ is meant to suggest [...]
Dans l’oeil du critique – Bernard Lamarche-Vadel et les artistes is a fresh concept for an exhibition – a number of artists brought together neither by theme nor by movement but by the essays and criticisms of Bernard Lamarche-Vadel (1949 – 2000), art critic and cult intellectual.
The difficult with this exhibition concept is its wordiness. [...]
Hommages à Toulouse-Lautrec affichiste is a comprehensive show of Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic posters (the decorative arts museum has 26 out of the 31 posters he designed), created in the last decade of the 19th century and steeped in the fabulous, absinthe-tinged, flavour of la Belle Époque. Some of the artist’s sketches and a couple of examples [...]
Tray with photo, from the Parr collection, courtesy of the Jeu de Paume
As well as being a display of one man’s fantastic collection of vintage trays, Planète Parr (‘Parr World’) is also a wonderful insight into the interests and inspirations of Martin Parr, Magnum photographer and visual commentator on modern life.
The show juxtaposes photographs, [...]
Gilbert & George, Toynbee Street, 2008, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac
It has been all quiet on the Gilbert and George front since their major retrospective in 2007. The couple, who have been “living sculptures” since the late 1960s – their life a piece of performance art – are back with their latest series The Jack Freak [...]
The Freedom Tower/MDC Gallery in Miami will be hosting, Not Welcome, a performance and exhibition by Pablo Gonzales-Trejo from the 10th July. It’s a little bit further afield than the usual Paris exhibitions but thegreatexposition.com wrote the English preface to the catalogue. Pablo Gonzales-Trejo has exhibited in Barcelona and Paris, Not Welcome will be the [...]