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Nuit Blanche 2022
1 December 2022This year’s anniversary edition of Nuit Blanche has a special resonance. Organized since 2002, the event allows Parisians, and now Greater Parisians, to wander through the city and admire installations, performances and works by contemporary artists in public spaces, in the open air or in cultural institutions in Paris and Greater Paris.
Orchestrated by artistic director Kitty Hartl, Nuit Blanche pays homage to previous editions, with works that will be exhibited again, while others will be shown to the public for the first time. Nearly 200 artistic projects will be offered to culture lovers, night owls or simply curious Metropolitans. With a promising theme, the “Garden of Delights”, inspired by the work of the Dutch painter Jerome Bosch.
Un Été au Havre 2022
1 December 2022Les Extatiques 2022 – Paris La Défense & La Seine Musicale
1 December 2022A must-attend event for art lovers, Les Extatiques are back this year with a new artistic direction, but with the same ambition of offering a time of wonder and questioning around social issues in an exceptional outdoor setting. With the Seine as a natural link, the esplanade of La Défense and the gardens of La Seine Musicale welcome this year works around the celebration of life that respond to each other to form, over the course of the stroll, a real biotope. The exhibition poster, created by Jean Julien, one of the most sought-after illustrators in the international press, is the perfect representation of this.
David Moinard, curator and artistic director of the exhibition, takes visitors on a whole new journey through lively and generous works, joyfully celebrating life and inviting visitors to marvel at their imagination. An invitation to contemplation that will appeal to their sensitivity to perceive the living in what surrounds them through the different approaches of the 12 artists who have set out to write a desirable future.
Antony Gormley – Witness VIII / Witness VII
11 March 2022As part of the work on the new Ecole du Louvre library designed by architect Heleen Hart (HBAAT agency – Grand Prix du Jury d’Architecture 2021), two sculptures by Antony Gormley were installed: Witness VIII and Witness VII.
We had the honour and pleasure of assisting the Ecole du Louvre with the technical coordination of the installation.
Witness VIII and Witness VII, 2021 © Antony Gormley – Photo Majid Boustany
Fabienne Verdier, Alchimie du vitrail, Musée Camille Claudel
4 March 2022French artist Fabienne Verdier trained in painting with Chinese masters in the 1980s. After a ten-year apprenticeship in China, she returned to France and invented her own pictorial language. On huge colored canvases, she searches for the energy and vibration of signs and simple forms, traced with brushes and custom-made tools that engage her whole body. Her paintings are now part of the collections of the most prestigious museums and her work is regularly exhibited in many countries.
In the spring of 2022, the painter Fabienne Verdier returns to Nogent-sur-Seine for an exhibition at the Camille Claudel Museum. In 2016, she had already created the stained glass windows of the choir of the Saint-Laurent church in collaboration with Flavie Serrière-Vincent-Petit, a master glass artist based in Troyes.
At the Camille Claudel Museum, the exhibition will give a central place to the stained glass windows of the Saint-Laurent church and to the reflection of the two artists. Their experiments will form the heart of the exhibition through a set of glassmaker’s tools, films and photographs showing the realization of the stained glass windows in order to reveal to the public the backstage of this original collaboration. An original variant of the stained glass windows, not chosen for the choir of the church, will be presented exceptionally in the former sculpture gallery in the park of the former Dubois-Boucher museum.
The contemporary aesthetics of the stained glass windows will be illuminated by a set of paintings by Fabienne Verdier, showing the bridges that exist between her pictorial practice and the reflection that she has carried out since the commission for the stained glass windows of the church of Nogent-sur-Seine. In line with this work, Fabienne Verdier and Flavie Serrière-Vincent-Petit have also created a series of paintings on glass, Topographies imaginaires, which will be exhibited for the first time to the public. It will be displayed in the museum’s superb auditorium with its panoramic view of the city.
Pedro Cabrita Reis – Les Trois Grâces
3 March 2022Figure emblématique de la scène artistique portugaise, Pedro Cabrita Reis a acquis une reconnaissance mondiale. Il a notamment participé à la documenta 9 (Kassel, 1992) et a représenté le Portugal à la Biennale de Venise en 2003. Ses œuvres d’art – sculptures, peintures, dessins, photographies – figurent dans les collections des plus grands musées d’art contemporain du monde.
Cabrita aime travailler avec des matériaux utilisés en architecture et apprécie le défi d’adapter ses créations à des sites spécifiques. Dans Les Trois Grâces, il aborde la tradition pour apporter un regard nouveau sur un thème ancien, largement présent dans les collections du Musée du Louvre, notamment dans l’art gréco-romain. Les pièces en marbre et en bronze dans le Jardin des Tuileries – héritages du siècle du roi Louis XIV ou œuvres imprégnées de l’esprit académique du XIXe siècle – ajoutent une touche supplémentaire inattendue à ce dialogue.
Christian Boltanski – 13th Kaunas Biennial, Lituania
3 March 2022Grand Paris Express Artworks
3 March 2022Under the artistic direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès, the Eva Albarran agency is coordinating the technical design and production of the permanent works for the stations of the Grand Paris Express. 41 French and international artists from a wide range of artistic disciplines are already at work on the stations, which are scheduled to open between 2024 and 2030.
Artistic director: José-Manuel Gonçalvès. Associate curators: Bernard Blistène, Fabrice Bousteau, Jean-François Chougnet, Alexia Fabre and Frank Lamy, Charlotte Laubart, Laurent Le Bon and Annabelle Ténèze.
Design and production of the tandem works, belvederes and nomadic works: Agence Eva Albarran. In collaboration with Le CENTQUATRE-Paris for the artistic coordination and production of events on the sites and Manifesto, administrative representative of the consortium.
Christian Boltanski – 4.4. – Busan Museum of Art
3 March 2022Dans le cadre de la troisième exposition de la série Lee Ufan and His Friends, le Busan Museum of Art accueille Christian Boltanski : 4.4.
Il s’agit de la plus grande rétrospective de Boltanski organisée en Corée depuis une exposition individuelle en 1997 au Musée national d’art moderne et contemporain de Corée, ainsi que sa première exposition posthume.
Le titre de l’exposition, 4.4, fait référence à l’année 1944, l’année de sa naissance.