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Paris openings this week
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Featuring ten conceptually independent series, the show presents one strand of Joan Fontcuberta’s work, focusing on the idea of camouflage: that of the artist, that of photography, that of reality, and that of truth.
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MEP
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"A pink noise is a noise which isn’t heard. A noise which is seen then, perhaps. It’s pink. Pink is pretty. Lightly absurd. Absurd, yes here you have absurdity. Because absurdity is absurdity and because absurdity is absurd, absurdity’s duty is to be absurd.” — Marie Frampier
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Maison populaire
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As well as being a famous filmmaker, David Lynch is an artist, designer and musician. The Maison Européenne de la Photographie gave him carte blanche for an exhibition, and the result is “Small Stories”, focusing on about 40 black and white photographs made specially for the show.
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MEP
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With a background in photograph essays, Denis Darzacq, who seems to pick away at the abiding question of shared living, patiently sets out a veritable fresco of new urban realities and, yet further, the problems linked to the perception of town spaces by crowds, groups and isolated individuals.
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RX Gallery
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The unsolved mystery surrounding Smithson’s work prompted Ballard to write to Dean, just before his death in 2009, and advised her to “treat it as a mystery that your film will solve”.
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Marian Goodman Gallery
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(French only) La galerie Thaddaeus Ropac présente pour la quatrième fois une exposition personnelle du vidéaste et cinéaste expérimental berlinois Harun Farocki (*1944) dans sa galerie du Marais.
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Thaddaeus Ropac Marais Gallery
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On display are paintings of various sizes, works which plunge the spectator into an imaginary, apparently disordered universe but, at a closer look, full of metaphors of which the purpose consists of a set of references, as in an infinite mirror effect, intended to think about the reality and its traps with fantastic images.
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Pièce Unique Gallery
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Tentation d’Éveil (Wakening Temptation) is a new solo exhibition by Croatian artist Davor Vrankić. More contemplative, the artworks seem peaceful, at least by all appearances. The paradoxical world they picture, suspended somewhere between the real and the unreal, is the stage of a profound metaphysical questioning.
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Da-End Gallery
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Guido Guidi figures prominently in contemporary Italian photography. For the first time in France, the forty years of his career as photographer, pioneer of the resurgence in photography of territory and area, are revisited.
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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Jean-Christophe Bechet’s Accidents are prints coming from all his different works, accidental pictures, technical mistakes, faulty exposures… All of these interesting failures he decided not to throw away, these moments when the photographer has no control on his work anymore, when chance and chemistry play their part.
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Les Douches la Galerie
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(French only) L’exposition présente un ensemble de photographies et dessins liés à l’intervention éphémère qui eut lieu à la prison Saint-Paul à Lyon, où Ernest Pignon-Ernest et d’autres artistes ont été invités à intervenir en 2012.
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Lelong & Co Gallery
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Ali Cherri belongs to a generation of artists who make use of video, of archival images and found footage to counter-act the violence of images distributed through the social and mass media, which in the 21st century, more than ever, construct perceptions, sensibilities and opinions.
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Imane Farès Gallery
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The exhibition titled Le cocon familial allows the public to become acquainted with a slice of contemporary Hungarian photography, not through a theme but via the specificity of the actors in the images: the family members of the photographer.
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Institut Liszt, Centre Culturel Hongrois Paris
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(French only) Suzanne Tarasieve, dans le choix personnel des œuvres de cette exposition, met en lumière les développements du bas-relief au cours des deux derniers siècles. A l’origine réalisé en plâtre, céramique ou matériaux divers, la bas-relief voit très souvent son aboutissement en bronze.
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Suzanne Tarasieve
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7:50 PM
(French only) Présentation du livre et table ronde avec Chantal Pontbriand, Clairefontaine, Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige. Depuis qu’elle a fondé la revue Parachute dans les années ’70, Chantal Pontbriand est à l’avant-plan des débats qui décrivent les mutations qui affectent les espaces et les disciplines de l’art contemporain.
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Meeting
Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard
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In this same environment, which isn’t so dissimilar to those created by Pierre Huyghe and Ph. Parreno, the viewer is invited to listen to a conversation, worthy of Beckett’s play or the exchanges between the dogs in Kafka’s text. Several fake stones and logs gathered here question human behaviour. Yassef suggests we “witness the sculptures” which are “all set to talk”.
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Galerie G-P & N Vallois
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Pierre Seinturier is always on the look-out, a pencil and a drawing book close at hand. He accumulates and records forms, images or even figures fated, most of the time from memory, to be transposed at the superior level of drawing, oil painting on canvas and paper.
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Galerie G-P & N Vallois
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(French only) « Observatory ne se présente pas comme un dispositif mais comme la synthèse naturelle des réflexions de l’artiste autour de la place du spectateur dans son œuvre — et comme l’observation de sa propre évolution dans le temps et les espaces qui l’accueillent. » — Hugo Pernet
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Samy Abraham Gallery
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Tanc explores the aesthetic dimension of writing. Inspired by his high school years, when he took notes and produced pages as illegible as they seemed nice, he develops a system of automatic writing, executed entirely with spray paint, halfway between calligraphy and graffiti.
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Olivier Mosset is a major figure on both the Swiss and international art scene. The Swiss Cultural Center has invited him to imagine a type of exhibition he hasn’t had the opportunity to realize until now. The result is a show comprising works — painting, sculpture, installation, an automobile, performance, film — done in collaboration with other artists.
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CCS — Centre culturel suisse
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Whether collecting sand from UN-recognized countries and samples from the world’s longest rivers, or realizing performances in Ethiopia and Iceland, Julian Charrière plays with geology, science and architecture. At the Swiss Cultural Center the artist has created an installation that is infused with a disturbing poetry that examines the terrestrial globe through its representation, fragility and life expectancy.
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CCS — Centre culturel suisse
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“Any urban space, from a village to a megalopolis, furnishes my work with the fictional raw materials for transfiguration. I take a formal approach to photography, based on urban design and architecture. Structuring and disarticulating these elements is the predominant theme of my work.” — Nicolas Ruel
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Seine 51 Gallery
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Friedrich Kunath’s first solo exhibition in France, A Plan to Follow Summer Around the World combines many recent works along with new productions, in an environment specifically conceived for Crédac’s space.
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Le Crédac
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Gregory Cumins studied sculpture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts Paris under English artist Richard Deacon. Deeply affected by this training, his painting tends to merge in one single ground image and space, compressing the volume into one single layer in a way that creates a visual perturbation for the viewer.
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De Roussan Gallery
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8 PM
In a search for ideas and solutions contributing to the process of re-shaping and constructing a common future, Magdalena Chowaniec and Valérie Oberleithner act in the specific local context of the city of Aubervilliers, inviting local children to look for solutions with the artists.
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Performance
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
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Arseniy Zhilyaev creates an anti-utopian museum of contemporary Russian history. The title “mir” means in Russian both “peace” and “world”. Having recourse to parafiction, making art and politics fields in parallel into a museal display, is a way to test these borders between the sovereign and the institutionalized freedom.
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KADIST
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If Ivan Argote makes obelisks go limp, removes the roar out of imperial lions as they play ball (reviving their instincts as funny cats) or warms up Spanish statues with Peruvian ponchos made in China, it’s because in these days where symbols of domination have become roundabout decorations, that monument-fellers must change their methods.
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Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery
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In “Diola”, Bernard Frieze’s gesture is evident. There is a saturation of colour at the top and bottom of the canvas, at the edges of the brushstrokes. Throughout the main field of the painting, colour is also saturated at the edges of the brushstrokes, where the paint became ever so slightly heavier from the friction between the brush and the canvas.
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Emmanuel Perrotin – Saint Claude Gallery
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Family Business, a structure initiated by Maurizio Cattelan & Massimiliano Gioni, with guest (ghost) curator Nadja Argyropoulou, is back at the Chalet Society with the Volume Two of its program. On this special occasion, visiting representatives of ESTAR (SER), Sal Randolph and D. Graham Burnett, will reanimate the eccentric stagecraft of an American original: Inyard Kip Ketchem.
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Event
Chalet Society
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All day
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Event
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It is a unique experience — a device for experimenting with disappearance, proposed to the public by the designers of Diplomates. It is a special box built after the texts and drafts of famous magician Robert Harbin, and “augmented” by new powers. This “service” allows one to experience the passage to the beyond and focus on the space-time.
Chalet Society
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All day
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Exhibition
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Fusion, screening of the new video by Alain della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita, where possessed humans spread their wings and clows, fusionning with their totem animal in a space full of possibilities offered by the green backdrop.
Chalet Society
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“Our work observes and pays attention to relations changing in various times and spaces, and makes efforts to capture them effectively in their works. In particular, we try to probe into diverse relations among individuals and the individuals’ detailed conflicts arising from their roles in the relations.” — RohwaJeong
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Dohyang Lee Gallery
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(French only) Sont exposés à la galerie Zürcher trois artistes de la nouvelle génération emblématique de la création picturale à New York : Brian Belott, Paul DeMuro et Amy Feldman. Ces trois artistes participent aussi à l’exposition « The New York Moment » au musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne.
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Zürcher Gallery
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7:30 PM → 9 PM
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Performance
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Fix Your Eyes Right Here!, a conjuring lecture / performance by ESTAR (SER), the research consortium known as The Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization.
Chalet Society
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(French only) Première exposition personnelle de Zhao Duan en centre d’art, l’exposition présente les diverses composantes du travail de cette jeune artiste chinoise qui opère avec une grande liberté par croisements des médiums. Peinture, volume, dessin, photographie, vidéo, installation, mais aussi danse ou performance sont déployés dans les espaces de la galerie.
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Galerie municipale Jean-Collet
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(French only) L’exposition de la chambre « Antony » de Jean Prouvé à la Galerie Downtown est l’occasion de redécouvrir l’œuvre de cet ingénieur — architecte, ferronnier de formation, qui donna aux réflexions sociales de l’après-guerre une application pratique.
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Downtown Gallery
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8 PM
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Performance
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The Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó reconnects with ancient times, when the combustion of plants and tree resin was seen as a sacred offering. During this evening devoted to incense aromas she reactivates our sense of smell — the most primal — in search of our archaic memory.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Latest news
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L’exposition de Jean Hubert-Martin à la Maison rouge, Théâtre du monde, est prolongée jusqu’au 19 janvier. / Au Palais de Tokyo, la très belle exposition de Philippe Parreno prend fin ce dimanche 12 janvier — La nouvelle programmation accueille deux nouveaux curateurs : Jo-ey Tang, chargé des scènes asiatiques, et Gallien Déjean, chargé du design et des métiers d’art. / A Paris, l’artiste Pierre Huyghe se sépare de Marian Goodman pour être dès lors représenté par la galerie Chantal Crousel. / A l’auditorium du musée du Louvre débutent les VIIè Journées Internationales du Film sur l’Art, avec comme thème « Transmettre : correspondances, formation, filiation » — du 29 janvier au 2 février 2014. / Marseille-Provence 2013 est un succès — pour preuve, la fréquentation du MuCEM, qui à lui seul a déjà attiré 1,5 million de visiteurs. / Le Musée de Valence Art et Archéologie, dont la rénovation et l’extension furent confiées à l’Atelier Jean-Paul Philippon, a réouvert après six années de travaux. / ...
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