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Ron Mueck
Ends in 4 months: April 16 → September 29
Ron Mueck has his first major exhibition in Europe since the hugely successful exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in 2005. His sculptures — whose subjects otherwise appear so ordinary — radiate a profound humanity. Aiming well beyond the traditions of portraiture, Mueck reveals the uncanny nature of our relationship with body and existence.
Dynamo — Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l’art 1913-2013
Ends in 2 months: April 10 → July 22
Notions of space, vision and light run through abstract art of the 20th century and interest many world renowned contemporary artists such as Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, John Armleder, Carsten Höller, Philippe Decrauzat, Jeppe Hein, Felice Varini and Xavier Veilhan.
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Eileen Gray
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Finishes today: February 20 → May 20
The Centre Pompidou devotes a retrospective to the unique work of Irish designer Eileen Gray. Featuring a selection of works, pieces of furniture, photographs, scale models and documents brought together for the first time, this exhibition pays tribute to a designer of genius, whose work traverses the Art Deco period and the Modern Movement.
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Soleil froid
Evariste Richer
François Curlet
Joachim Koester
And 2 others… Closing Finishes today: February 27 → May 20 After the Imagine the imaginary season which drew visitors along in the very wake of the invention of the work, the new Cold sun season at the Palais de Tokyo explores the surface of a strange world where, as Raymond Roussel talking about writing put it, “nothing real must enter”.
François Curlet
Joachim Koester
And 2 others… Closing Finishes today: February 27 → May 20 After the Imagine the imaginary season which drew visitors along in the very wake of the invention of the work, the new Cold sun season at the Palais de Tokyo explores the surface of a strange world where, as Raymond Roussel talking about writing put it, “nothing real must enter”.
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Uncoupdedés.net — Le magazine en ligne des centres d’art
Ends in 8 months: February 14 → December 31
Every week throughout 2013, 50 contemporary art centres will advance a hypothesis through the online magazine uncoupdedés.net (“un coup de dés” means “a roll of the dice”). The art centres are celebrating 30 years of cultural decentralisation through this online magazine, an open chronicle linked to their respective programmes.
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Uncoupdedés.net — Le CAC Brétigny
Matthieu Saladin
Ends in 9 months: February 14, 2013 → February 19, 2014
The CAC Brétigny is pursuing its own collective experiment guided by the scores of the English composer, after having dedicated a retrospective to the “visionary” musician in 2009, which has since been presented across Europe. Matthew Saladin, in a text that one would like to read with its soundtrack, explains what is at stake in this social composition.
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Uncoupdedés.net — L’Espace de l’Art Concret
Ends in 9 months: February 16, 2013 → February 14, 2014
L’Espace de l’Art Concret welcomed novelist Emmanuelle Pagano, who wrote a text echoing a selection of works. This text offers a fictional vision of the collection as part of a stated commitment to openness and dialogue between different artistic fields and the public.
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Uncoupdedés.net — Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Didier Marcel
Bruno Munari
Bill Owens
And 12 others… Ends in 9 months: February 14, 2013 → February 14, 2014 Since 2010, the Plateau devises each year a new project of a migrant exhibition, for a closeness audience. For “Abitacollection”, the Plateau has invited Hans-Walter Müller, a pioneer since the 1960s of “architecture in motion”, to come up with one of his famous inflatable volumes to accommodate an exhibition of works from the collection.
Bruno Munari
Bill Owens
And 12 others… Ends in 9 months: February 14, 2013 → February 14, 2014 Since 2010, the Plateau devises each year a new project of a migrant exhibition, for a closeness audience. For “Abitacollection”, the Plateau has invited Hans-Walter Müller, a pioneer since the 1960s of “architecture in motion”, to come up with one of his famous inflatable volumes to accommodate an exhibition of works from the collection.
Quel travail ?! — Manières de faire, manières de voir
Ends in about 1 month: April 14 → June 30
Photography was conceived and developed during the industrial movement of the 19th century. A so called mechanical art, photography has helped define our perception of work. Photographers have denounced inhumane work practice just as they have glorified individuals’ bodies in the name of progress.
Michelangelo Pistoletto — Année 1, le paradis sur terre
Ends in 4 months: April 25 → September 2
Spirituality, figuration, the breaking down of boundaries between the arts, social solidarity, and the merging of life and art: these are the themes permeating the thinking of Michelangelo Pistoletto. The exhibition Year 1: Earthly Paradise marks the transition into the new era of human, social, and cultural metamorphosis, celebrated the world over.
Mike Kelley
Ends in 3 months: May 2 → August 5
The Centre Pompidou presents the first French retrospective devoted to the work of Mike Kelley, featuring a sequence of some one hundred works created between 1974 and 2011. The American artist, who died prematurely in January 2012, left a complex, protean and disturbing work, drawing upon both high culture and popular culture.
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Le Cairn
Uncoupdedés.net — Le Cairn, centre d’art
Ends in 9 months: February 13, 2013 → February 14, 2014
The Cairn, a centre d’art located in Digne-les-Bains in the Alps of Haute-Provence invite artists to create perennial works on the protected territory of Europe’s largest geological reserve. These creations are incorporated into the encyclopaedic collections of the Gassendi Museum, itself organised like a huge showcase of curiosities.
Disaster — The End of Days
Gilbert & George
Georg Baselitz
Barry X Ball
And 25 others… Ends in about 1 month: March 3 → June 29 The theme of disaster has a rich iconography and set of interpretations, and continues to fascinate contemporary artists. This exhibition looks at current perceptions of disaster through a dialogue between artists from a variety of cultural and social backgrounds, working in media from painting to photography, video and installation.
Georg Baselitz
Barry X Ball
And 25 others… Ends in about 1 month: March 3 → June 29 The theme of disaster has a rich iconography and set of interpretations, and continues to fascinate contemporary artists. This exhibition looks at current perceptions of disaster through a dialogue between artists from a variety of cultural and social backgrounds, working in media from painting to photography, video and installation.
Iván Navarro — Where is the Next War?
Ends in 13 days: April 25 → June 1
Chilean conceptual artist Iván Navarro uses light as his raw material, turning objects into electric sculptures and transforming the exhibition space by means of visual interplay. His work appropriates the icons of modernism as it deplores the risk of formalism that has been emptied of all forms of engagement.
Louise Bourgeois — Rare and Important Works from a Private Collection
Ends in 13 days: March 23 → June 1
The exhibition unveils an early period in the artist’s creation. These include old works that have rarely been exhibited and that cover an essential role in Louise Bourgeois’ production. Displaying great formal variety, the works presented bear witness to the fundamental subjects addressed by the artist throughout her long, creative and extremely rich career.
Giotto e compagni
Ends in about 1 month: April 18 → July 15
Loué par ses contemporains, admiré et copié, Giotto di Bondone est l’auteur d’une révolution picturale sans précédent. Cette mutation radicale n’est pas seulement d’ordre stylistique, elle s’explique aussi par une attitude différente vis-à-vis du monde sensible que l’artiste entend restituer dans sa diversité et sa réalité tridimensionnelle.
De l’Allemagne, 1800 à 1939 — De Friedrich à Beckmann
Ends in about 1 month: March 28 → June 24
This exhibition, comprising over two hundred works, offers a reflection on the main themes that structured German thinking from 1800 to 1939. It places artworks and their artists in the intellectual context of their time, and confronts them with the writings of great thinkers, chief among whom is Goethe.
L’art du contour — Le dessin dans l’Egypte ancienne
Ends in 2 months: April 19 → July 22
Le dessin est une composante essentielle de l’art dans l’Égypte ancienne. Point de départ dans l’élaboration des autres techniques artistiques comme la peinture, le relief, la ronde-bosse, les arts décoratifs et l’architecture, le dessin est l’art du contour : dessinateurs et peintres sont usuellement désignés comme « ceux qui tracent les formes ».
Uriel Orlow — Unmade Film
Ends in about 1 month: May 3 → July 14
Uriel Orlow makes modular and multimedia installations which reactivate the hidden memory of historically prominent places. His new project, Unmade Film, centres around the idea of an impossible film presented in fragments. The starting point is an old Palestinian town which has been transformed into a psychiatric hospital in Jerusalem.
Claudia Comte — Summer Villa Extension
Ends in 14 days: May 3 → June 2
Claudia Comte draws from different creative disciplines: design, theatre, interior design, fashion and fine art. Each project reflects in its own way on the current challenges in sculpture and painting, 50 years after Frank Stella’s famous statement “what you see is what you see”.
Philippines, archipel des échanges
Ends in about 1 month: April 9 → July 14
The exhibition brings together a selection of unique works of art from the Philippines, chosen from public collections in the Philippines, America and Europe as well as from private collections. This exhibition, containing more than 300 works, is the first major exhibition in France in the last twenty years devoted to the archipelago of the Philippine.
Cinéastes en correspondance — Albert Serra / Lisandro Alonso
Ends in about 1 month: April 17 → June 29
Après Jonas Mekas et José Luis Guerin, c’est au tour d’Albert Serra et de Lisandro Alonso de se prêter au jeu de la lettre filmée dans le cadre du cycle « Cinéastes en correspondance ». Brève mais radicalement libre, la correspondance que les deux cinéastes ont entretenue a pris la forme de deux films qui seront présentés aux spectateurs lors des deux rétrospectives.
Keith Haring — The political Line
Ends in 3 months: April 19 → August 18
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in association with Le Centquatre, is devoting a wide-ranging retrospective to American artist Keith Haring (1958-1990). The exhibition bears witness to the importance of Haring’s work, in particular its profoundly “political” content, apparent in his work throughout his career.
Royal Garden 4 — Rivières
Dove Allouche
Jérémie Gindre
François Kohler
And 15 others… Ongoing exhibition Crédac’s internet site Royal Garden is a virtual multidisciplinary multimedia review that has been online since 2008. A virtual-world extension of Crédac’s mission as an art venue, Royal Garden is a critical, theoretical and artistic exquisite corpse. This fourth installment has been entrusted to Didier Rittener, who invited Federica Martini to join him.
Jérémie Gindre
François Kohler
And 15 others… Ongoing exhibition Crédac’s internet site Royal Garden is a virtual multidisciplinary multimedia review that has been online since 2008. A virtual-world extension of Crédac’s mission as an art venue, Royal Garden is a critical, theoretical and artistic exquisite corpse. This fourth installment has been entrusted to Didier Rittener, who invited Federica Martini to join him.
Les Frères Chapuisat — Le Buisson Maudit
Ends in 6 months: March 20 → November 3
The Chapuisat brothers construct environmentally complex works, often taking the form of labyrinths, tunnels, burrows, cavities, mountains or spheres that the viewer discovers in all kinds of positions and often struggles to enter.
Félix Ziem — J’ai rêvé le beau
Ends in 3 months: February 14 → August 4
Painter from the Orient of a thousand and one nights, Félix Ziem was a nomadic artist, indefinable and eccentric. This great traveller occupies an original place in the art of the 19th Century. After the successful retrospectives in Marseille, Martigues and Beaune, the Petit Palais presents around a hundred works from the Ziem donation.
Nostalgie du réel — Hugo Arcier
Ends in 2 months: February 8 → July 27
The Cube presents Hugo Arcier’s first personal exhibition with a selection of films, 3D sculptures and prints. Already a noted artist on the digital scene, Hugo Arcier has in this exhibition developed a scenario which leads the spectator to reflect on reality, through universal and metaphysical themes.
Jennifer Caubet — La mécanique des interstices
Ends in 27 days: April 19 → June 15
Avec l’exposition La mécanique des interstices, Jennifer Caubet conquiert l’espace de La Maréchalerie et transgresse les échelles. Ses œuvres sont une référence permanente à l’architecture tant par l’utilisation de matériaux de construction — bois, métal, béton — que par ses formes et les espaces qu’elles occupent.
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David d’Angers — Dessins des musées d’Angers
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Finishes today: February 28 → May 20
The sculptor David d’Angers, a major figure of French Romanticism, left a great many drawings which afford insight into the evolution of his art and his connections with the literary and artistic circles of his day. The drawings of David d’Angers reflect the intensity of the preparatory work he did to create a bas-relief that could convey a life story.
Le Mexique au Louvre — Chefs-d’œuvre de la Nouvelle Espagne XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Ends in 15 days: March 7 → June 3
Among others, the monumental Zurbaranesque work of José Juárez, the Baroque dynamism of Cristóbal Villalpando and the softness and delicacy of Rodríguez Juárez introduce visitors to the many facets of New World art during this period and give them an understanding of its close yet independent relationship with Spanish art.
Claude Lévêque — Un instant de rêve
Ends in 28 days: April 17 → June 16
Claude Lévêque n’est pas un photographe mais un artiste qui photographie tout le temps, plus que les photographes peut-être, plus que les peintres-photographes certainement. Ce qu’il enregistre est à la fois drôle et terrible, aigu et poétique.
André Morain — Photographies 1961-2012
Ends in 28 days: April 17 → June 16
Si André Morain est au service de l’art, il est aussi et surtout au service de la photographie. Son oeil aux aguets, furtif et incisif, saisit à la volée les moments forts d’une scène artistique qu’il immortalise et nous restitue. Il est la mémoire virevoltante d’une époque à laquelle l’humour et parfois l’impertinence donnent le « la ».
Philippe Favier — Noir ...
Ends in 28 days: April 17 → June 16
Ce qui caractérise l’œuvre de Favier est sans doute la permanence de son inventivité et la liberté qu’il s’accorde à casser les images qu’il initie. Depuis plus de trente ans et après trois rétrospectives, Philippe Favier a réussi avec une indéniable cohérence à créer une des œuvres les plus foisonnante et des plus originale de sa génération.
Ma Sibo — There will be light
Ends in about 1 month: May 17 → June 22
Ma Sibo’s canvases show us fragments of intimate landscapes, like windows into the soul. In places, purged of all human presence, sensations are elicited by things and colors. Indeed, Ma Sibo’s brushes envelope inert objects with an emotional aura, awakening distant memories and a vague nostalgia.
Ex Situ
Ends in 28 days: April 13 → June 16
Premier espace dédié aux adolescents dans une grande institution culturelle, Le Studio 13 /16 présente « Ex Situ », une nouvelle programmation consacrée à l’art urbain. Au fil des résidences les artistes invitent les adolescents à partager leurs processus créatifs et les différentes techniques de l’art urbain en prenant pour support l’espace lui-même.
Trésor du Saint-Sépulcre — Présents des cours royales européennes à Jérusalem
Ends in about 1 month: April 16 → July 14
The exhibition presents 250 unknown masterpieces from one of the last treasures of the Occident. Sent to the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem by the principal European rulers, some of these extraordinay works of art are revealed for the first time to the public in the Hall of Crusades of the Palace of Versailles whose paintings have recently been restored.
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Erik Samakh — Entre nature et sculpture, matérialité et présence impalpable
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Ends in 4 months: May 18 → September 29
Erik Samakh describes himself as a “hunter-gatherer” of images and sounds, which he has captured, recorded and exhibited in natural settings. The Musée Rodin invites the artist to occupy and exhibit his works in the museum garden. Between nature and sculpture, materiality and impalpability, he designs a one-of-a-kind outdoor exhibition in the garden.
L’ange du bizarre — Le romantisme noir de Goya à Max Ernst
Ends in 21 days: March 5 → June 9
Dark Romanticism is a vast swathe of artistic creation, which from the 1760s onwards exploited the shadows, excesses and irrational elements that lurked behind the apparent triumph of enlightened Reason. The Musée d’Orsay plans to present the many different expressions of Dark Romanticism, from Goya to Max Ernst and the Expressionist films of the 1920s.
