"Before the Storm", an exhibition as an experience
Tacita Dean,
Foreign Policy
, 2016 Fredrik Nilsen
"Before the Storm", curated by Emma Lavigne, General Manager of the Pinault Collection, is an exhibition that will mark a milestone.
Presented at the Bourse de Commerce, it encourages the viewer to change their perspective against a background of climate change.
It is inspired by the concept of "third nature" of the American anthropologist Anna Tsing, for whom making worlds is not reserved for humans.
The hanging shows the works of Icham Berrada, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Diane Thater, Cy Twombly Danh Vo... Man must join forces with other human beings to survive, poles apart from a romantic relationship to nature.
New forms of beauty may exist in this world which must be taken care of with great urgency.
Before the storm?
It's that sky where there are clouds,
there are flashes, there are lights.
An invitation to new modes of consumption.
"Before the Storm", a season around works from the Pinault Collection, until September 11, 2023, pinaultcollection.fr
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Miriam Cahn, serial feminism
Miriam Cahn,
Raum-Ich/ Räumlich-ich: gelblichich
, 2010, oil on canvas, 42 x 31 cm, courtesy of the artist and Jocelyn Wolff and Meyer Riegger galleries.
Francois Doury
The Palais de Tokyo is presenting the first major retrospective in a French institution of Miriam Cahn, an artist whose artistic practice has been nurtured by second-wave feminism.
That is more than 200 works ranging from the 1980s to today, a pictorial work that embraces drawing, photography, films, writing and whose performative dimension is essential.
“An exhibition is a work in itself and I see it as a performance,” she underlines.
Representations of the human body to address metaphysical questions, pornography to denounce the trivialization of obscenity, weapons, tanks, ships and atomic bombs to remember all wars… Miriam Cahn offers a flow of images organized like a story.
A manifest art.
“Miriam Cahn, my serial thought”, from February 17 to May 14, 2023, palaisdetokyo.com
Joanna Piotrowska, photographs between oppression and protection
Joanna Piotrowska,
Untitled
, 2022, 130 x 160 cm, gelatin silver print.
Joanna Piotrowska / Courtesy Phillida Reid, London
Embrace and constraint are words that go well together for Joanna Piotrowska, born in 1985, in Warsaw.
Le Bal presents “Between Us”
,
the first exhibition in France dedicated to the Polish photographer whose universe multiplies cages and huts.
We will also see her series
Frowst
(2014), where she develops a mysterious family album.
In her latest work, she photographs with a telephoto lens negatives of images taken by her father before he was born, magnifying details, even clues, as in Antonioni's masterpiece Blow-Up
.
(1966).
It's all about the framing, seems to say Joanna's work.
An ambiguous work between oppression and protection.
Joanna Piotrowska, “Between us”, until May 21, 2023, le-bal.fr
Sayed Haider Raza, places of abstraction
Breton Church and Calvary, 1956. Oil on canvas.
Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai Adagp, Paris 2022
This is the first monographic presentation of Sayed Haider Reza (1922-2016) in France where he lived, in Paris, for half a century.
Recognized as one of the greatest Indian painters, he was one of the founding members of the Progressive Artists Group (PAG) which embraces a generation of cosmopolitan artists.
In almost 100 works, this exhibition makes a synthesis between the American tradition of abstraction and Indian spirituality.
The Bindu motif (seed, point, drop in Sanskrit) becoming a geometric motif from the 1980s, the use of which culminates in the
Terres
series , a variation on his native country.
Sayed Haider Raza, until May 15, 2023, centrepompidou.fr
Gainsbourg forever
Rebecca Marder and Sébastien Pouderoux in
Les Serge (Gainsbourg point barre).
Designed by Stéphane Varupenne and Sébastien Pouderoux.
Lights: Eric Dumas.
(Paris, May 12, 2019.) Vincent Pontet
This time, it is the Comédie-Française which pays tribute to Serge Gainsbourg.
From the musical show
Les Serge (Gainsbourg point barre)
created at the Studio-Théâtre, the six actors, singers and musicians of the troupe had the idea of making an album.
Either Stéphane Varupenne, Benjamin Lavernhe, Sébastien Pouderoux, Noam Morgensztern, Yohann Gasiorowski and the only girl in the band, the quivering Rebecca Marder, who interpret Le
Poinçonneur des Lilas, La Javanaise
,
I came to tell you that I'm leaving. ..
Giving an important place to emblematic songs that the new generations do not necessarily know, the album privileges the amorous and sensual Gainsbourg.
13 mouth-watering classics!
The Comédie-Française sings Gainsbourg,
Alpha Classics, comediefrancaise.fr