Chance

An original artwork by Christian Boltanski

Production and installation of the artistic project, research and monitoring of partnerships.

Sponsor: CulturesFrance/CNAP

PERSONNES

MONUMENTA 2010 / Christian Boltanski, Personnes
Curator: Catherine Grenier

Artistic confrontation of great ambition, MONUMENTA invites each year, on the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Communication / Delegation to the plastic arts, a contemporary artist of international renown to invest the 13,500 m2 of the nave of the Grand Palais with a masterpiece specially designed for the occasion.

After the success of the first two editions of MONUMENTA entrusted to Anselm Kiefer, in 2007, and the American sculptor Richard Serra, in 2008, which each attracted more than 140,000 visitors in five weeks, Christian Boltanski, one of the most leading French artists, taking up the challenge in 2010. The exhibition is co-produced by the National Center for Visual Arts, the Grand Palais and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.

NUIT BLANCHE

Under the artistic direction of Gaël Charbau

Sponsor: Ville de Paris

Where will you be tonight at Nuit Blanche? In the subway, on the tramway, in the middle of a jungle of green plants, or near a red mud geyser, in the basins of the Cité des Sciences? Will you attend one of the twelve parades held every hour in the Town Hall’s festival hall? Will you stroll along My Super Kilometre, made pedestrian between the Hôtel des Invalides and the Grand Palais… or will you find yourself lost in the open-air theatre of our lives, which takes over the whole of Île Saint-Louis? Will you give in to the influence of the new magicians at the Théâtre du Rond-Point? We will surely meet each other in the Nelson Mandela gardens, in those of La Villette or in the middle of the Paris Zoological Park, bathed in the sleep of the species. Continue straight ahead, after passing along the twilight banks of Lake Daumesnil, towards the secrets of the Great Rock…

This new edition of Nuit Blanche renews the challenge of bringing together artists and emblematic sites of the capital. Many of these monuments have never been invested by this extraordinary event before – many of these young artists have never been confronted with these scales before. Distributed in four routes, four autonomous “constellations” with very different environments, this 17th edition stages ambitious projects, sometimes a little crazy, following these imaginary lines of our shared stories. Go through these constellations that cross the capital – from medieval Paris to the recent reopening of the zoo – like moles on the skin of the metropolis…. Months of work have been necessary to make these dreams come true and to share with as many people as possible this journey in today’s art: with all the artists and all those who have worked without counting on the success of this crossing of the contemporary imagination, we wish each other a beautiful and infinite night.

Gaël Charbau

Les Extatiques

108 Days of Artistic Journey – 60 Years of Creativity
Esplanade of La Défense from July 5th to October 21st 2018

In 2018, on the occasion of its 60th anniversary, Paris La Défense is offering from July 5th to October 21st, a unique artistic journey: Les Extatiques.
Fabrice Bousteau, artistic director of Les Extatiques, imagined an artistic journey born from the encounter between the territory and the artists. Soundwalk Collective, Lilian Bourgeat, Fanny Bouyagui, Hanif Kureshi, Vincent Lamouroux, Encoreunestp and Pablo Valbuena are invited to invest and reveal spaces through an unusual artistic stroll.

“Les Extatiques” is less an exhibition than an excitement designed by artists to encourage strolls in this place where architecture is confronted and often monumental works of art that make La Defense the largest sculpture park in Europe.”

Fabrice Bousteau

CERCLES CONCENTRIQUES EXCENTRIQUES

Felice Varini, « Cercles concentriques excentriques », Carcassonne 2018, 7th edition of IN SITU Heritage and contemporary art at the castle and ramparts of the city of Carcassonne, Porte d’Aude.

NUIT BLANCHE

Under the artistic direction of Charlotte Laubard

Sponsor: Ville de Paris

More than ever in these times of withdrawal, we need the collective. This Nuit Blanche aims to show artistic projects that combine different modes of collaboration and works that seek to represent the common good or to question the notion of common. From duos to artist collectives, from multidisciplinary groups to public participation devices, she presents projects that seek to move lines, perceptions and representations.

A collective work is always the result of negotiation between different points of view.

Because of this confrontation with the subjectivity of the other, it often assumes a heterogeneity, a hybridity that seems to me to be more in phase with the complexity of the world. The sense of urgency to be heard, the willingness to take action to change the reality around us, are the main drivers and lead individuals to choose to work together.

It is not surprising that the public space is privileged by these artistic projects that question its social substrate. The construction of identity, collective memory, the ways in which we interact, everything that characterizes us as a community (s) are at the heart of the features of this Nuit Blanche. In an emblematic way, I wanted it to take place in places of melting pot and gathering.

Finally, taking note that the notion of public space has considerably evolved with the rise of social networks, several works in this edition have the particularity of being deployed both in the city and on the Internet.

Charlotte Laubard

 

UN CERCLE ET MILLE FRAGMENTS

Un cercle et mille fragments was created as part of the exhibition « Le Partage des Eaux » at the Ardeche hills regional nature park in 2017.
For Mazan Abbey, Felice Varini worked with gold leaf, mineral on mineral, to explore the capabilities of this natural material to capture the variations of light on stone. The work thus created poetically underlines the passage of time on the centenary building.

KADER ATTIA

INTERNATIONAL PAVILION – NARRATIVE VIBRATIONS

Kader Attia presents his work for the International Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. The artist chose the songs of the great voices of the Middle East to vibrate couscous seeds that form geometric figures according to a physical principle discovered in the eighteenth century. Kader Attia uses a very fine semolina to make visible in small terminals the vibrations of the voice of the singers, captured from the recordings that are projected.

Sponsor: Kader Attia

ZAD MOULTAKA

PAVILION OF LEBANON – SAMAS SOLEIL NOIR SOLEIL

The project designed by Zad Moultaka for the Lebanon Pavilion unites a visual architecture and sound composition. The artist combines his musical and visual researches in a synergy of forms, materials and sounds. Zad Moultaka erected in the former Military Arsenal of Venice a plastic and musical monument to Samas the god of sun and justice of the Babylonians.

Sponsor: Zad Moultaka

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

KM1

To mark the launch of the works of the Grand Paris Express and the artistic and cultural programming that accompanies this extraordinary project, the Société du Grand Paris has made an appointment with all those who wished on Saturday, June 4th, 2016, at the foot of the station of Clamart, for an inaugural day on the construction site of the future station Fort of Issy-Vanves-Clamart.

Parade, performances, dance and circus performances, concerts, urban walks, culinary market, worksite meals, visual creations, a popular ball and a DJ set punctuated this festive and open day.

Artists :

Malachi Farrell, Making of

Pablo Valbuena, Gyrotope

Superflex, Alice

Thierry Boutonnier, Appel d’Air