Nuit Blanche 2016

Abraham Poincheval, Vigie/Stylite - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADAGP, Paris 2016 - © Ville de Paris/ Sophie Robichon
Alain Fleischer, Autant en emporte le vent - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris, ©ADAGP, Paris 2016 - © Martin Argyroglo
Alain Séchas, En attendant Poliphile - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADAGP, Paris 2016 - © Ville de Paris / Sophie Robichon
eva-albarran-Alicja-Kwade-Die-bewegte-Leere-des-Moments-Nuit-Blanche-2016-Ville-de-Paris, Alicja Kwade, Die bewegte Leere des Moments - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © Martin Argyroglo
Christian Rizzo, Avant la nuit dernière, Hotel Dieu, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © Genaro Bardy
Emmanuel Trousse, Sirènes - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADAGP, Paris, 2016 - © Martin Argyroglo
Erwin Olaf, L'Eveil, Hotel de Ville, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © Genaro Bardy
Karim Zeriahen, We are Catherine Deneuve - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADAGP, Paris 2016 - © Sophie Robichon / Ville de Paris
Marie-Agnès Gillot & Julie Guibert, TU ES (je suis le corps qui exprime vos peines) - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADGAP, Paris 2016 - © Martin Argyroglo
Marie-Agnès Gillot, Laurent Derobert & Pascal Quignard, Pas de choeur - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADGAP, Paris 2016 - © Martin Argyroglo
Oliver Beer, Live Stream - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © ADAGP, Paris 2016 © Martin Argyroglo
Philippe Quesne avec Dorit Chrysler, Laurent Le Denuff & Virginie Yassef, Welcome to Caveland ! La Parade des taupes - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris - © ADAGP, Paris 2016 - © Martin Argyroglo
Pierre Delavie, Cote 15 28 l'amour déborde, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © ADAGP, Paris 2016 © Sophie Robichon
Rodrigo Braga, Mer intérieure, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © Martin Argyroglo
Stephane Tidet, Sommeil, Parvis Hotel de Ville, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © Genaro Bardy
Tobias Rehberger, Paysage vu à travers un point d'observation, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © ADAGP, Paris 2016 © Martin Argyroglo
Yoann Bourgeois, Hourvari, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © ADAGP, Paris 2016 © Martin Argyroglo
Zad Moultaka, Montée des ombres - Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © ADAGP, Paris 2016 © Martin Argyroglo
Ola Maciejewska, Dancing Dress, ENSBA Beaux Arts, Nuit Blanche 2016, Ville de Paris © Genaro Bardy

Nuit Blanche

Under the direction of Jean de Loisy and the Palais de Tokyo

Sponsor: Ville de Paris

Festina lente

“Hurry up slowly” was the adage that appeared on the Venetian publication of The Poliphilus at the very end of the 15th century.

Along the Seine, from one bank to the other, let us hurry up to pursue beauty and stop to contemplate it. Let’s go from medieval Paris to modern Paris in a journey through time that continues to the first island of tomorrow in Paris, Saint Germain Island.

On this magnificent path, along the water, let us discover the story that today’s artists weave for us from work to work and which finds the great archetypes that have built, with the creators of the past, European culture since antiquity.

Let us take Poliphilus as a guide who leads us from yesterday to tomorrow as in a dream, driven by his desire to reach the nymph with a thousand faces. For some, it is beauty; for others, pleasure; for others, wisdom or knowledge.

Let us think when we cross the river thanks to the magnificent bridges of Paris to those who have to cross obstacles in extreme situations. For the better, they are driven by the challenge, they can be athletes or, each of us, confronted with the need to do better. For the worst, they are exiled by tragedy, violence, poverty, it can be migrants or one day ourselves.

Let us celebrate those who invent, those creators whom Paris has always honoured and who have given it its extraordinary brilliance, as do the institutions of our capital, which, like the Palais de Tokyo, are dedicated to supporting artists and beauty!

Jean de Loisy

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