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Three atypical places to discover urban art

2021-02-19T19:10:20.496Z


From the Marais to Romainville, artists and gallery owners create surprises by breaking the rules. Outside the traditional white walls, we enter places between bazaar, workshop and post-industrial wasteland.


Galleria Continua is an exhibition space, a grocery store and soon a café.

At the corner of rue du Temple and rue Michel Le Comte, we discover “Truc à faire”, a nonchalant title for the first exhibition of the Galleria Continua, curated by the artist JR.

Its founders, Italian globetrotters who now have seven galleries around the world, have chosen the heart of the French capital to show a stable of high-flying artists, from Daniel Buren to Michelangelo Pistoletto, and from Pascale Marthine Tayou to Leandro Erlich .

Installation by the artist JR at the Galleria Continua (3rd) Sara De Santis

This atypical place of 800 m2 on three levels looks more like a bazaar than a gallery.

On the ground floor, we stroll between the shelves of food products (olive oil, wine, rum, etc.), admiring works and installations.

From piece to piece, from top to bottom, in every corner, painting, sculpture, as if we were visiting the house of a contemporary art collector.

Even if the parts have dimensions which

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Source: lefigaro

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