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The American impressionists, Chirico, Koudelka ... Exhibitions not to be missed

2020-09-27T06:14:55.875Z


Museums, art galleries, monuments ... Find out every week the tips for going out from the Culture department of Le Figaro.


In this fall, new exhibitions are flourishing in the capital as well in major museums such as the Orangery or galleries (Templon, Galerie XXI ...) Impressionism, modern or contemporary art, there is something for everyone.

Mark your calendars!

American impressionists in Giverny

There are not only the loops of the Seine or the coast of the Channel.

Poppies, millstones or water lilies also grow in Newport, Long Island, Boston… Between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, other impressionists - Americans inspired by Monet, Sisley or Renoir - delivered their impressions in front of a rising sun.

The Terra Foundation of Chicago presents a selection of their landscapes.

Outdoor work along the Hudson or the Mississippi, colors applied in large strokes, primacy in capturing the changing effects of shadow and light: this walk in thirty painters from Whistler to Homer is as rustic as it is exotic.

The Nature Workshop, 1860-1910,

at the Museum of Impressionisms.

9, rue Claude-Monet, Giverny (27), until January 3.

Chirico, metaphysics at the Orangery

It is an exhibition well in the spirit of the Musée de l'Orangerie, which combines the history of art with the most cutting-edge and public demonstration through the power of art.

Its "trademark", underlines its director, Cécile Debray.

Giving to see De Chirico's rarest and most popular, his metaphysical period, through a walk through the heart of masterpieces, this is the bet that has succeeded, despite the global crisis.

From late German romanticism to Parisian modernism, from the philosophy of Nietzsche to the poetry of Apollinaire, this learned painter, complex, borrows, settles, combines, composes mystery paintings.

Decoded by the cartels, this rebus game is jubilant.


Giorgio De Chirico.

Metaphysical painting.

Until December 14 at the Musée de l'Orangerie.

Place de la Concorde (1st).

Read also: The disturbing strangeness of Chirico

Josef Koudelka's eye at the BnF

You don't need to be good at archeology, or for that matter a pro at photography, to delve into the stone world of Josef Koudelka.

Beauty is enough in itself, which plunges you, thanks to a full and simple scenography, into this motionless moment of contemplation.

Some 200 sites have been surveyed, auscultated and experienced by this traveler of the image.

The panoramic format restores their grandiose.

The detail, the foreground, the shadow place you, like him, in front of this story of the men that he tells without a single character.

To experience like an odyssey.

Then read in the beautiful catalog of Éditions Xavier Barral.

A classic dramaturgy in two acts.

Ruins

of Josef Koudelka.

Until December 16 at the BnF, François-Mitterrand site (13th).

David Cohen at the XXI Gallery

The gaze changes when one is, by profession, a child psychiatrist.

By dint of exploring the human psyche, the eye seems to come back to basics.

At least that is what one feels in front of the work of David Cohen, where, from the games of matter, a raw and tribal art emerge.

Minimalist faces, sculpted in terracotta, bronze or leather, alloys of elements married to striking colors, evoke for everyone the need for art as therapy.

In your head,

until October 31 at Galerie XXI.

268, boulevard Raspail (14th).

David Cohen at the XXI gallery.

David Cohen Gallery XXI

French design in the spotlight

Pascal Cuisinier, dealer and expert in French furniture from the 1950s, presents in his gallery some fifty emblematic and rare pieces (mainly furniture and four tapestries by Mathieu Mategot).

This set, which he should have shown at the Basel fair last June, reveals some treasures.

There is a very beautiful brass and yellow lacquered metal luminaire by Robert Mathieu (1955) and a walnut chest of drawers with 13 drawers and ivory buttons by Joseph-André Motte (1959).

Without forgetting, the very iconic Sun armchair by Abraham and Rol, which won the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Brussels in 1958 and seduced Jean Royère, who had twelve examples fitted to the Shah of Iran's palace.

Until October 17 at Galerie Pascal Cuisinier.

13, rue de Seine (6th).

Edward & Nancy Kienholz at Templon

With twenty works ranging from 1978 to 1994, the date of the death of Edward Kienholz (born in Fairfield, Washington), this is a shocking exhibition in Paris by this historic American artist who worked in duet with his wife, Nancy, to radically denounce all the excesses of America: consumerist outrage, racism, sexism, violence, religious hypocrisy.

Their commitment resonates while our world is in the grip of the same abuses.

Shown by major institutions from Paris to New York in the years 1970-1990, these life-size installations, three-dimensional paintings or assemblages of everyday objects are an artistic feat.

The message is clear, direct, sometimes very sneaky violence, like that of this little girl clinging to the fence that her parents in their big car abandoned on their way.

Edward & Nancy Kienholz.

Until October 31 at Galerie Templon.

28, rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazare (3rd).

Farah Atassi, "Paintings"

Model in studio 6, 2020. Matt Bohli courtesy of the Artist and Almin Rech.

After several years with Renos Xippas, who was the first to believe it, and a stint with Michel Rein, the French artist of Syrian origin Farah Atassi, 37, joined Almine Rech two years ago.

It had initially seduced by its large format architectures playing on the scholarly perspectives of rectangles.

His empty interiors with geometric constructions inspired by Malevich had become his trademark.

For this second exhibition at Almine Rech (after a premiere in New York), here she is fully launched into still lifes and portraits, without complex revisiting the abstraction of the masters of the twentieth century.

In these twelve XXL canvases (the majority is 2 meters by 2 meters) designed as mosaics, she takes on multiple influences with panache: from Mondrian to Matisse, from Picasso to Léger.

In addition to carrying a real message, they are above all hypnotic by their patterns, colors and small diverted details full of humor.


His brightly colored paintings contrast with the whiteness of the picture rails with perfectly assembled compositions where the patterns jostle.

They are fashionable, easy to understand, perhaps too much, at prices varying between 35,000 and 65,000 dollars.

Sold-out for this maestro hanging which appealed to French collectors, and now international collectors, as well as to institutions that came during this last “Sunday at the gallery” in the Marais district, starting with Alfred Pacquement, former director of the Musée d ' modern art, which unleashed a small smile in front of the reclining nude Lying Women With Red Hair.

This latest geometric and flashy work draws on textile patterns (notably from the Pucci brand) and from the aesthetics of the Memphis group worn by designer Ettore Sottsass among others.

A monograph on his work has just been published by Presses du Réel.

Noticed in 2010 at the Palais de Tokyo, in the “Dynasty” exhibition, Farah Atassi was nominated for the Marcel-Duchamp prize in 2013. We can feel the intense life of this artist who is expecting a baby with a famous country musician from Nashville .

Paintings

until October 3 at the Almine Rech gallery, 64, rue de Turenne (3rd).

Source: lefigaro

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