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Paris openings this week
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Tangling autobiographical elements, compilations of jumbled knowledge and preposterous classifications, Patrick van Caeckenbergh patches together an enormous game of snakes and ladders with neither end nor centre. His work arouses surprise through its capacity to constantly create wonder based on an iconography that is digested, recycled and classified to infinity.
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In Situ Gallery
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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.
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Templon Gallery
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Cragg’s sculptural œuvre was originally motivated by his encounter with English Land Art and Performance, and is still distinguished by an immense wealth of surprising formal inventions and combinations. Cragg sees himself as a materialist, constantly seeking to explore and expand new materials.
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Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Like her photographs, Adelfang’s video work surveys industrial vestiges, bringing to bear a gaze that seems neutral and non-judgemental. The observation and documentation of abandonment invests these vestiges with a poetic power. The absence of human figures highlights the place’s loss of function and the gradual fading of these structures’ reason for existing.
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Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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Ju Ran’s artistic approach is based on the shifting of the aesthetics of violence. The models for his sculptures are consumer products which have been reflected in a distorting mirror. The subjects of his sculptures are stripped of the form necessary to their function so that only the aesthetic remains. The resulting orphaned violence appears absurd.
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A2Z Art Gallery
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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.
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Le Louvre
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute is a collection of short stories by American writer and activist Grace Paley (1922-2007), and the title of one short story in particular. In theory, it does not have much to do with our subject, except for its political commitment.
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Samy Abraham Gallery
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(French only) A la frontière entre sculpture et recherche scientifique, Valentin Ruhry explore les propriétés formelles des objets qu’il crée. La lumière est une composante importante de son travail. Par son volume et sa modulation, elle devient objet sculptural. L’artiste s’intéresse également aux qualités physiques mesurables : tension, force et friction.
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GVQ – Vanessa Quang
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Sylvain Azam creates illusions. If illusion is the charicteristic of art, here this young painter does not need to evoke subjects, nor narratives. On the surface of these canvases, painted with representations of tape and its trancparency, this artist brings a new and exciting method to abstract conceptual painting.…
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Eric Mircher Gallery
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(French only) En présentant des affiches illustrées par Willem, une série de ses dessins récents, ainsi que l’ensemble des planches originales composant son dernier ouvrage, Dégueulasse, la Maison des Arts propose d’apprécier le dernier mouvement de cette œuvre majeure et considérable manière de mettre à l’honneur le célèbre dessinateur.
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La maison des arts, centre d'art contemporain de Malakoff
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7 PM → 9 PM
The Cat Inside is a unique performance yet each time renewed. Ramuntcho Matta, accompanied by Edgar Hemery, uses different layers of materials: soundtracks by Gysin, his own sound creations, projected images, over which he narrates in a hypnotic voice. The viewer loses all sense of time, space even, and the creator’s leadership makes its mark.
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Performance
ENSAPC YGREC
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8:30 PM
A projection of Marie Voignier’s film “Au Travail” followed by a discussion between the artist and the art critic Anaël Pigeat. The film provides an excellent basis for a reflection on the conditions of artwork production in the context of artist residency, to identify its limitations and to question the place of artistic activity within society.
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Screening
CPIF — Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France
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Bianco Italia presents about fifty works of artists who have experienced the purity of this “non-color” and made a real common language out of it. Exhibition curator : Dominique Stella.
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Tornabuoni Art
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There may not yet be a specific space to promote the exercise of art manifestos, literary manifestos or other documents in the same vein, but let’s just say that Degré 48 is a candidate. Every evening a presentation, orally or with whatever varied technical performance approach chosen, of one or two manifestos commissioned from artists, writers, essayists or groups.
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Event
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
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Since Alain Bublex in 2009, the Children’s Gallery regularly invites renowned artists to conceive projects that introduce 6-12 years-old to their worlds or the stages of their creative processes. Navid Nuur presents a series of devices he calls “interimodules”, a neologism that refers to the ephemeral and modular nature of his works.
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Centre Georges Pompidou
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Through drawing, installation and sculpture, the exhibited work of David Miguel questions our world, its actuality, while giving free rein to our imagination. That vision of our time won’t be without making us think to the dark romanticism movement, acting on the “terrifying sublime” as well as the “grotesque cruelty”.
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NextLevel Gallery
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The graphic works, collages and drawings of Céline Nieszawer are a treasure. In Lost Control she leads us through fairytales, fantasies and supernatural stories. Brought to life on her fictional pages are troops of little fingers on a stroll, swarms of trophy breast, couples of ultra-sheathed legs, faces occulted by masks, and numbers and screens on a merry spree.
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NextLevel Gallery
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Lawrence Weiner presents work specially developed for this exhibition titled Une poignée de craie — A handful of Chalk. Distributing words and groups of words referring to the fractionation of described material gives Weiner’s work an allegorical dimension and a poetic reflection of the cycle of nature.
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Yvon Lambert Gallery
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Joan Jonas is one of the pioneers of performance and video. Jonas’s 40-year body of work has been and continues to be internationally influential. This is Joan Jonas’s third solo exhibition at the Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris, following those at Galerie Yvon Lambert New York in 2005, 2007, and 2010.
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Yvon Lambert Gallery
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8 PM
After 20 years in New York, the effervescent filmmaker Marie Losier is returning to Europe and is unpacking her crates at the Fondation Cartier, where she presents first-time screenings of dailies, in the company of her artist-friends from eccentric worlds.
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Closing
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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