Press release: In 1998, Jef Geys travelled to Lisbon, hometown of the legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues (1920–1999), who holds a fascination for him. During his brief «rest and relaxation» stay he took dozens of photographs: not at all your standard tourist stuff, but over and over shadows cast on pavements and walls. The same
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Yves Zurstrassen at Xippas Galleries, Paris
Press release: Xippas Gallery is pleased to present Something Else, a major exhibition of Yves Zurstrassen, that plays out to the rhythm of free jazz and explores the potential of abstract painting. The exhibition reunites, on the both floors of the gallery, a body of work carried out since 2014 till today. Although Yves Zurstrassen’s
Julie Beaufils at Balice Hertling, Paris
Press release: Le Rayon vert (1882) is a romantic novel written by Jules Verne. The two principal characters search for the “green flash”, the last or first ray of sun as it sinks below or rises above the horizon, creating an optical phenomenon in which a green spot or ray is momentarily visible. A film
Anne Neukamp at Valentin, Paris
Press release: Anne Neukamp’s painting is structured around different planes that reveal both a play of motifs and a unique pictorial process. So the temptation arises to conduct a cross-sectional analysis like a geologist, to record the successive strata, or reveal the artist’s various approaches and influences. In the decryption game, the rendering of the
Tarik Kiswanson at Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris
Press release: Tarik Kiswanson’s artistic practice—which encompasses sculpture, performance, and poetry—evinces an engagement with the poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts. This crossroad, as cultural studies scholar Paul Gilroy writes, “is a special location where unforeseen, magical things can happen.” The reduction, refraction, multiplication and disintegration of
Petrit Halilaj at Kamel Mennour, Paris
Press Release: “Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and decisive than one’s mother’s womb.” Italo Calvino, Hermit in Paris Petrit Halilaj’s work is deeply connected with the recent history of his country, Kosovo, and the consequences of the political and cultural tensions in the
Cerith Wyn Evans at Marian Goodman, Paris
Press release: ‘As if perhaps the works are ‘formed’ out of ‘sight’ and ‘without’ mind, somehow? Or perhaps best to invoke the ‘Sonic Aspect’ of the works: Chandeliers are ‘driven’ by signals generated by my piano playing (duet)… The ‘Glass Speaker’ assemblage reflects a fractured text and provides ’accompaniment’… The flutes function as some Orphic
Oscar Murillo at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Press release: Making use of its immediate environment, the work of Oscar Murillo (born in 1986) indexes the quotidian moments of life. Unfolding inside and outside the artist’s studio, the work is formed through the direct actions of drawing, painting, filming and writing. Working across media, Murillo’s practice is often composed of the raw materials
Leonor Antunes at Air de Paris, Paris
Press release: Acrotony is the tendency of most trees and plants to give nutritional priority to the lateral shoots nearest the apex of the main shoot – to put the emphasis on spiritual nourishment, you might say. It also provides Leonor Antunes with an opportunity to reflect on the colonisation of plants: not only directly
Tino Sehgal at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Press Release: Palais de Tokyo presents an exhibition conceived by Tino Sehgal (born in Britain in 1976, lives in Berlin). The second in a series of “carte blanche” shows begun with Philippe Parreno in 2013, Sehgal presents his works alongside works of other artists he has invited in a sprawling mise-en-scene that unfolds through the
Michelangelo Pistoletto at VNH Gallery, Paris
Press release: Organized thematically in three sections representing the three primary areas of the artist’s investigation — Art, Education and Politics — the exhibition presents a selection of Pistoletto’s historical creations in parallel with recent or unpublished works, some of which have been produced specifically for this occasion. At the gallery’s entrance, visitors will be
John Armleder and Denis ColletPark at ColletPark, Paris
The artist John Armleder and Denis ColletPark at ColletPark (1 Rue du Bourg l’Abbé 75002 Paris, France) from february 2 and for two months on show under the title “Divider”. Images courtesy of ColletPark, Paris,France https://www.colletpark.com
Wolfgang Tillmans at Chantal Crousel, Paris
Press release: The title of the exhibition refers to a photograph, presented in the adjacent smaller gallery space, showing a tree split in half after a hurricane. The materiality of the tree is laid open, fibres curling from the cracked wound. The force of the storm has broken down the cohesion of the wood, a
Dorothy Iannone at Air de Paris, Paris
Press release: Air de Paris and Dorothy Iannone are pleased to invite you to the artist’s second solo exhibition at Air de Paris, with works spanning the period 1961–2015: paintings, drawings, films, objects and books, all with a markedly narrative and overtly autobiographical visual feel. An exhilarating ode to an unbridled sexuality and the celebration
Daniel Buren at Kamel Mennour, Paris
Press release: Marble, rock, granite, and graphite are the materials and colors of Daniel Buren’s fourth exhibition at galerie kamel mennour. Bit by Bit: In Situ and Situated Works is the title of this latest showing by the French artist known around the world for his poetic interpretations and architectural subversions – be they ephemeral
Philippe Parreno at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Philippe Parreno, one of the most original figures of the international art world, has radically transformed the monumental space of the Palais de Tokyo. In response to its carte blancheinvitation, Parreno has devised an exhibition driven by his dialogue with architecture and with the notion of the exhibition as a medium in its own right. ANYWHERE,
Pierre Huyghe at Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Centre Pompidou presents the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Pierre Huyghe a major figure in the contemporary art scene both in France and internationally. The exhibition of approximately fifty projects adopts a completely new approach to the artist’s work, and provides a comprehensive panorama of his practice and research which spread over